Woo-hoo!! I'll wake up early to wash the car and then I'm off. See you all tomorrow.

 

8:49am: I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready-eady-eady-eady!

 

Well, Bill Jr and I just got back from the meet. It was really great to see all the different rides and meet the different people. Unfortunately, I did not get alot of names to go with cars. By the way, I am the one with the red 85 GS. There were some really nice cars there, and one really interesting Eclipse(?) that had alot of customising (read--$$$$$).

But it was a blast and my son and I both had a great time meeting all the people. And.... he won one of the 'coveted' engraved rotor shot glass's. He will keep it on his shelf along with his little "Initial D" 2nd gen Rx7 model.

We went on a cruise towards the end of the meet but we ended up getting seperated from the rest of the group as we were driving a little slow to wait up for the stragglers who got caught at red lights. By the time we got to 3rd street in Jax Beach, the rest of the group was out of sight. We were tired so we called it a day and came back to the west side of town.

Aaron, I'll call you about when the best time is to pick up those parts. I don't know that I will use the fender, but I'll take it out of your way, maybe someone I know can use it.

I'll post a couple of pics when I get them uploaded from the camera.

THanks again for the food and drink and the whole deal. We had a good time.

Later,
Bill

 

Here are a couple of pics. My son was in charge of the camera, so I checked through all the engine pics and came up with these, which kinda show the atmosphere of the event. Enjoy.

 

had a blast! great cruse! sorry we lost you guys... guess it was the part where we were doing 120 across the intercoastal bridge. GREAT FOOD! thank you all for putting it togeather! and thank you brian for the SUBAGE! and tom bush. Great meeting you all and to all of the old friends nice seeing you again. in my own opinion the beeter:rotory powered cars wasnt that good!
aaron
call me about that widebody front end and fender. Bill.

 

I had a nice ride back to Tampa with the windows down and the sunroof open the whole way down US 301. I didn't even bother turning on the AC when I got to I-75.

It was great seeing everybody again - Brian, Wayne, Jack, Dan, Fritz, Dale, etc, and meeting a few new people. The food was great, so many thanks to Brian and Tom Bush Mazda. I ate so much I don't think I'll need to eat again tonight.

And after all the hype, yes, those brownies are damned good.

 

I actually kept up with you guys over the bridge (barely) but lost you at the red lights on Atlantic just before 3rd st. One moment you were there and then we were like- where did they go. Some guy in a new style celica was driving at a snails pace and we couldn't get by, so we decided to slow down and wait for the rest. I don't know what happened to them. Great time though.
Aaron, I'll call ya.

later,
Bill

 

Had a great time! Nice to finally meet some of you guys...Unfortunately after the last of us left target my car died just before jeremy and I got onto 95.. At first glance I thoght it may be the alternator...But now I am thinking a computer prob..Well its late just got back to daytona.. Despitethe the little glitch I still had a great time will be trying to figure prob. out in the morning.. Garret...

 

WooooooHoooooo another sucessful Jax BBQ. Thanks to Tom Bush for sponsoring the food and drinks, Brian, Pete, LeAnn for the work and effort, yep dem brownies is da shiznit fo shore. Enjoyed see old friends again and meeting some new folks, Garret sorry to hear about your ride craping out on ya. How'd you get it back ? ? ?Looking forward to the deals gap thing in Sept. working on getting the right time off before it gets here and hope to see allot of you guy's there as well. Guess G'ville will need to put up something in the future. We'll see. thanks again, Jack

 

Got back by tow truck.. I wish I would have grabbed a few #'s from some local people.. Stupid me.. Thank God for Triple A.. I am going to start searching for prob. this morning.. Almost sure microtech is fouled. Still had a great time.. Yes thanks Tom Bush for the food...

 

Patrick (gold fc), Edna (blue vert), and myself had a great time. Thanks to the Jax folks for hosting, nice location, thanks for da food. Unfortunately we got separated very early from the cruise and I couldn't remember the directions. Pete, Leann, Brian, Dan, Jack, Jerry, Bill, Randy, great seeing you again. Randy, thanks for the awesome shotglass and the other prizes. Thanks to Sam again. Inspirational as always to see Carlos' car.
Greg, nice meeting you, your car's awesome and I took way too many pics of it, lol. Garret nice meeting you, great car as well, sorry to read about your problems above.
I didn't meet everyone, it would be nice if you posted your name and which car was yours. I was sure my red fd would be lost in the usual flock of red fd's but it turned out to be the only one there until mr. fancy-shmancy lambo-doors fd rolled in, lol. I'm not bitter!!
If anyone ever rolls through Tallahassee, give me, Pat or Edna a holler.

fritz

 

I had a great time, tons of fun meeting soem new people and seeing some old faces. Thanks for the good food brian. I can't wait for the next meet.

 

My ol' lady and I had a GREAT time...

Thanks to everyone that helped make this happen!


For what it's worth, she was SERIOUSLY considering trading in her '05 Audi A4 1.8T Quattro (which is alreayd paid off) for a silver or blue RX-8. She said, verbatim, "I really like the lines of it... it's a sexy car, and I'd love driving it... do they make it in a stick? I hate this tiptronic thing I have on my car... I never use it. If I got it, would you show me how to work on it to make it faster?"

I think I'm gonna marry that girl! I've corrupted another one! ROTARY POWAH OWNZ j00!

 

I'm glad everyone had a good time. Thanks to all who helped--especially the work bound Dean Murray at Tom Bush Mazda (a rotorhead). I SWEAR I WILL HAVE MY CAR READY FOR THE NEXT MEET!

B

 

yikes... she needs to keep the audi.. that's a pimp car. as much as i hate to say it, fast and rx8 don't go together.

 

I had a good time, It was good to see everybody again- Jack, Wayne, Adam, Jerry, Fritz, Brian, Brian (sp?), Aaron, Pete, Sorsha, etc...(sorry if I forgot anybody). It was nice to meet some new people as well.

Thanks to all of those who made the trip to make it another good turnout for a Jacksonville meet. Gainesville...your turn.

Thanks, Brian, for mooching off of Tom Bush for us!

Tom- Get well soon!! We missed you.

Yeah, me too! HAHA!

Dan

 

That was a great rx7 meet. Thanks for the food and just a great turn out.....its not often there are rx7 meets in the p-cola area. Oh by the way we were the guys that showed up late w/ the red rx7 with lambo doors, silver rx7 in stock trim, and the crazy green eclipse with all the speakers and tv,s. I wish we could have gotten there earlier....but we will be there next time.

 

make that 3 of us....

 

It was great to see everyone again! Im glad everyone enjoyed the brownies

Sorry I missed those who came late though

Thanks again to everyone for helping out and for showing up!

Tom~ I hope you get well soon! *hug*

 

Just out of curiosity, who owns the blue early 1st gen that was sittiing there? I wanted to get a better look at it, but no one seemed to be around it..

Later, Bill

 

That's Wayne Smith's 1980 SA22c

 

Link to picture page

 

Had a great time, that freeway run was a rush heh. Hope ya get the car up and runnin soon Garett, i felt bad leavin ya there like that.

 

I'm sure he will knowing there is a hug waiting in the wings for him ! ! ! !

 

"..I'm..not..leaving..my wingman.."

just kidding