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Hello everyone

i just came back from DGRR. For those who missed it, or never been to DGRR, they really dont know what they are missing. If it wasnt for Rich, (GoodfellaFD3S) i wouldnt had gone because from the pics or at least i was under the impression that it was a boring event. It sure wasnt though.

I got the chance to meet a lot of people there and a put a face on the name. it was surely one of the best events i have attended ( even though my car wasn't there)

here are a few pictures http://picasaweb.google.com/Rx7costa...taryRally2010#

i have also recorded the whole run from the passenger side and its currently being uploaded(2 whole gbs) so once its done i will post a link to that too.

Rich's hobo beard tasted like chocolate. I was in heaven :drool: It was a nice time, and I too enjoyed meeting everyone

Nice pics

Costa,

Great meeting you in person and thank you so much for coming out! You gave me some insight about the event and hope you could make it out again.

Phil

It was nice to finally put names to faces. :)

http://pbckt.com/sm.N3xO

Heres my few pics.. Taken with my camera phone.... HD cam fell of the car right before i left for the gap... sad face...lol

Rich's tranny apon out

lol chudson. it was funny reading name tags and staring at each other for a sec.

I had a blast. I didnt know RedR1 was there!

Whats weird is meeting you all in person and having a pretty accurate idea of your personality 5 seconds into the first impression.

BTW R-R-Rx7, you and i talked right before the raffle. Pictures 8 and 9 in your album are proof i was there. I couldnt wash my car, there was always something going on haha

Had a fun time. It was great seeing old friends, meeting alot of people I've known on the forum for years but never met in person, as well as meeting new people in general. I see there were more people I didn't even realize were there.

Big thanks to Phil and Stephen as well as all the rest of the staff for a great weekend.

Definitely had a great time, will begin work on my MotorMavens article tomorrow for coverage.

Same here Phil, i surely enjoyed every second of the event. As for making it out again, i will see what kind of options i have to ship my car over, but you ll be certainly seeing me again :)


rdahm

now i recognize the username and the turborx7.com website. hehe

Hi,

Just wanted to say I had a great time at DGRR-X! This was the first year I was able to make the event, and it exceeded my expectations in every way - will definitely find a way to attend next year!

Kudos to Phil Sohn, the sponsors, and all the guys & gals that volunteered to help out - you did a fine job putting this together and your efforts were greatly appreciated.

It was a pleasure meeting so many like minded rotor-heads, and meeting lots of folks for the first time that I knew from way back in the FC3S email listserver days! All in all, a great weekend -- I had a good taste of the dragon, my '7 performed flawlessly, including the round trip to MD, and none of her parts ended up on the "tree of shame" :-) The icing on the cake was winning the 1st place 2nd gen RX-7 award in the show - something I NEVER expected in a million years! Coming from this group, I am truly humbled & honored!

Pete,
'89T2

Thanks for sharing the pics guys for those of us couldn't make it down.

Costas,
It was a pleasure meeting you and thanks a bunch for the thermostat support! This was my 5th year to DGRR and despite my car being a bit moody it was awesome once again. Between the ignition switch , thermostat and ticket I still had great time! Glad Phil made it! Thanks to cabin 53 for the bunk. Ray and M T for the parts and troubleshoot support. Its the true rotary passion and support that makes this community special. Had a great time time hanging w/ the NE crew as well. Always a good time. Hope Rich got back ok. I'm glad I have the will power to stay away from bad trannys :lol: . Congrats to Dan (scrub) for winning best of show! Well deserved!! All the familiar faces from previous years were there and a pleasure to chat once again. I am sure there are going to be plenty of pics. to come. The dragon runs were awesome w/ it being shut down to through traffic! Thanks to the J-ville caravan for a good run there and back ( Dave and Mark). The only real let down was someone that keyed Mark's beautiful M3 at the lodge. Hopefully it wasnt one of us. Truly a piston head like manuever! I know Phil will not tolerate this type of behavior and would make an example out of this person:nono: !! Hope to see everyone next year!! Thanks to all again !! APON OUT ME TRANNY IS BENDED (SLIGHT A LY ). G

I did not hear about this... This is quite upsetting to me and I will make sure no one does something like this in the future.

I'm also going to send an email out to find out who did this.. If its done by one of the rotary guys, I'm going to make sure he/she will never attend DGRR and also make sure they will pay for such act.

If anyone knows anything about this, please PM me!

Also, if you have a picture of the damage, please send it to me: herblenny@gmail.com

congratulations to the retard who did such a thing. this is very disturbing.

Garet, it sure was a pleasure to meet you dude. we had a good time. As for the support, if theres something i can do i will sure do it. I called Rich yesterday and he said that despite the noise the car was moving so im assuming he made it

Also, for the past 16hours the video i recorded in your car is being uploaded ( its HUGE!!! lol) it should be on shortly

Sweet! As for the keying incident. I dont want to fill this thread w/ negativity. Hopefully it will be resolved. G

youtube is retarded. I waited 16hours for it to upload and they rejected it because it was over than 10 mins . (22mins in total) anyway, i guess i will be posting the link by tonight

Costas, is the video you are talking about a recording of the last run when we got pulled over? If so that stinks because everyone will see how slow I am haha.

actually yeah thats the video. you werent that slow man. just that PITA Suv in front of rich was making things 10x worse. that d**khead wouldnt let us overtake. Besides, everything looks slow on the video :)

AWESOME time at the Gap, loved meeting everyone! Wish I had more time to talk with everybody, this could have been a month long event and I'd still wish for more time to meet and talk to everybody!

Rest assured I'll be back next year!

Dale

Ya. It wasn't decided until like a few nights before that I could actually make it. A lot of things fell together at the last minute, and I made it. I wish I knew you were there, i would have definitely bought a beer for ya!! Are you going next year?

i'm on the left. . . . Rich's delicious man-beard on the right (blushing with thoswe rosey red cheeks):

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...Picture528.jpg

i hate my boss so much for making me work after i told him i need the weekend off 5 months ago.

Holy crap. I saw you walking around but never saw the name tag. lol

I'm definitely sponsoring the event next year as well.

I skipped the second dam event because white water rafting was at the same time. I didn't get to chit chat with the Saturday only crowd as much.

I can honestly say if you Internet douche bags lived closer to me, we would all be good friends. Never would have thought that it was more than just a common passion for rotaries. Dale, you especially.

I tried to explain to my brothers how knowledgable Chuck Westbrook is. Their heads were spinning after dinner at Anthonys pizza. lol

Oh, that sucks dude :(

Ya, my name tag was on my crotch zipper. . . . I had the worlds worst headache, and had troubles attaching it to my jacket, so i just clipped it to my pants zipper via muscle memory. . . :rofl: :lol: It wasn't until about noon that my headache subsided, and i regained motor skills.

Next year, we'll definitely have to hook up, if not for a beer, at least for a burger or something. We ended up grilling ribeye's, new york strips, chicken breasts, hot dogs and countless other things at the village. So much food, that all the people in the cabin ate well, and we still had excess. Next year i'm going to prep better and bring steaks as well to add in for the awesome eating that went on this year.

I met a lot of people this year that I didn't at previous DGRR's or Sevenstock's. . . . everyone is wicked cool, and am glad to know the ones i've met (dunno if others feel the same way about me. . . . :rofl: . . . ), but just flat out ran out of time and didn't meet everyone. Everyone that I met is very down to earth (with a few being just about as odd as me at times) :icon_tup:

Yea, I got in to Nantahala Village at 3am friday night/sat morning. . . went to bed at about 4am, woke up at 5am, 6am, 7am, 8am. . . . got no sleep all weekend, but it was all worth it. Many awesome memories!

yeah this event exceed all of my expectations. everyone was super cool. great to meet everyone and like many others have said before me, put a face with a name. my brain was on over-load trying to remember everyone's real name, screen names and avatars!!! of course with the exception of some of us that were smart enough to make our screen names the same as our real names (not me of course), thanks dale. anyways, i will be back next year and won't miss it ever again.

simon

Remind me to change my screen name to Mel Gibson

Damn!! I feel like I missed out on my own event... I was so out of it at all because I came in at 4AM saturday morning (also only slept for 3 hours day before), slept for 2 hours, and left at midnight.. I talked to very few people and those I talked to, I can't even remember who they were :)

rdahm, I'm sorry I forgot to introduce you at the award banquet.. I think I forgot to introduce 2-3 other vendors... Sorry!

heres the first part of the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OElxYn07Iok
it shows that we were going slow but you guys know we werent:)

Nice Video!

Also, tonight at 10 CST, we'll be broadcasting some videos ZGN took on RCC video site. ZGN was using the new Go Pro HD cam mounted high on his FD... following David Hayes' 20B. I saw a glimpse of it and looked great! Also, ZGN is selling those camera cheaper than Go Pro at DGRRX group buy. I bought one after seeing the video.

http://rotarycarclub.com/index.php/?pageid=Live_video

So, if you want to check that out, meet us at 10PM CST.. there is a chat box so you could actually talk to other people watching... its pretty entertaining as we did this at 7stock.

We made sure Rich got any and all the help he needed.....

http://i723.photobucket.com/albums/w...e/IMG_0981.jpg


more pics to come. There should probably be a DGRR PICTURE thread.....

awesome event. was great to see everyone i already knew, and meet those who i did not yet know in person.

and yes, the drive back was fun..."GRRRGHGHASH BHHKJASDHLJKLFLKAJKLSDUE" to quote Rich's transmission. :D

get those pics up from the event guys!

DEAR GOD

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxqGlbROAQ PART 2

Garret's car sounds good in the video but the part w/ the trooper is not there where was he? waiting or driving? I had just went through and saw the black FD w/stripes and also kentsu's red FB on my trip and I am curious how we sqeezed though the troopers unseen because I know 1 of them was at the other end when I arrived there and you found the other one.

Ahahahahahahahaha :rofl: :lol: :rlaugh: RedR1 nipple tweak FTW!!!!

Ah it was awesome times meeting you, Supernaut, you were Cool as frikkin ice :cool: You going again next year?

MROW!?

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...7/IMG_5123.jpg

good footage costas!

Great event. Nice too finally meet Simon, Costos, Phil, John, Stephen, etc... lol..

Hahaha yea man you know I'll be there, maybe even with my FD!!! It was nice to meet a lounge rat of your caliber. I hope you go next year dude.

more footage on the way. i just wish this stupid youtube upload thingy didnt take forever ( and cancel my uploads a few times )

Next year i promise not to be so hung over at the event. I wasn't as talkative bc of it :( Seriously, i couldn't even see straight. . . and like. . i should have, since i'm naturally always squinting. . . :squint: . . . :asian: . . . :rofl: :lol:

even though i didnt know you before the event (or even after basically) next time i see you i will say hi :P

and finally part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usfWp9AfP38

WoW...you guys all got pulled over at the same time? Wtf?!? Hope it wasn't too bad of a hit.

Did he end up giving you guys a ticket? It didnt even seem like you guys were speeding.

I am not going to admit how fast we were going. We were blipping the throttle in short spurts due to traffic. It just so happens it was at the wrong time.

Hmm, my computer must be running slow today, because that sure looks slow to me! :)

Definitely a great time. This was my 2nd year attending, and I will certainly be back again.

A highly recommended event :)



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I saw one trooper as I came ripping around a corner, he was just parked on the side of the road. I hit the brakes and rolled on by him, then he hit me with the radar which was good for a laugh. The next one was also sitting in a tight section, so I got the impression they weren't really looking for speeders.

But on the way back out, one had moved to the end of one of the straights, definitely looking to nail someone for speeding.

The attitude of the cops seemed to be a bit more aggressive this time around. Last year it seemed like as long as you were in your lane and under control, it didn't really matter how fast you were going.

I'm just glad that they seemed to have a taste for the high dollar cars, and left us poor fb owners alone. :)