Raleigh Rotary Drive-Ins for April
 

There will be the usual Drive-Ins on April 9th and 23rd. But we're also scheduling a special drive-in tonight, April 2 for anyone interested and especially for those going to the Deals Gap Rally on April 9th.

April 8th a group from Raleigh will be leaving at 0930 AM for the 350 mile trip to Deals Gap for the rotary rally on Saturday, April 9th. There will be a scheduled Drive-In on that Saturday for those that couldn't make the trip. Then we'll all be together again on the 23rd for the second Drive-In date and talk about the upcoming Downeast Drive-In scheduled for May 7-8.

Spring is here and all rotary owners need to get their cars out on the roads and shake the cob webs and critters out of them. Come join us for some great times, great fellowship, and great adventures this year at the Raleigh Rotary Drive-Ins.

I'll be there tonight.

Here is the First of april meets pictures, and as you can see it was a small turnout, only being greg, steve, me, and the new guy ( sorry i forgot your name)

but did anyone else make it out last night? if so i can just draw them in;)

4 cars...thats it
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This is gregs convertable that he is taking to TOTD
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And the new guy's "rare" sunroof-less FC
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That's OK, I forgot your name as well, my name is Tate.
Thanks to Turbo II for the push, looks like I'll need to give the fuel shutoff switch a try.

We ended up with 5 FCs and 1 FD, 3 burgers and 5 cokes... Tate, was great to meet you and your son and your welcome on the push, it happens.

Thanks Greg for handling the drive-in. Is that vert ready to roll for Deals Gap? We can always use another beautiful FC amongst us. Hate I missed meeting another FC owner but if y'all behaved he and his son will be back. I guess Ray didn't show up with his newly painted and road worthy FC?

Sorry to hear the bad news Josh, I was really hoping that you'd have your car ready for the trip. Let me see if I understand this, you won't drive the car because you're not sure it will make the trip? Josh, its a 3rd gen, an FD model RX7, it is supposed to break down, that is why we had to rent the tow truck for the whole weekend! it is supposed to look good, sound awesome, and put up some serious HP numbers; you want a dependable rotary, buy an FC. According to capn you can get two beautiful FCs for less than your turbo cost. FD = Fabulous Design FC = Forever Cruising. Let's get with the program.

Seriously, after all the time, effort, and money you've put into your car you don't want to do something stupid like take it on a long trip before you're sure its truly road worthy. I'm sure we can find a empty seat for you.

its good to see another sunroof-less gold fc out. i will try and make it to another drive in with mine. i work from 9-9 most saturdays hope to see yall again sometime. eric

Bert, can we start a persons lists with names and pictures, sorta like a reference for us all. we can have a picture of the owner next to thier car so everyone can recognize everyone better. and i dunno make the thread SE owners reference or something so we can remember everyone. cause i really hate seeing everyone talking up a storm and totally forgetting thier names

Geeze...excuses. ;) With the time change we'll be staying later as it gets warmer and darker later so we expect you to make it out, we'll wait for you if we have to! Have to get you and Tate out at the same time, would be a trip to see two at once.

Greg

I like that idea. :bigthumb:

Heres the exciting pictures from the last meet

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that was about it...

Thanks for the pics, pretty sorry turnout huh? Glad to see you, Bobby and Taylor came out though. Y'all missed the greatest rotary event in the history of rotary events. My wife, Diane, even drove the Tail of the Dragon, she spit in its eye and kicked it in the butt. Everyone had a great time and those that didn't go need to plan on the trip next year! It is something not to be missed. Here are just a few photos from Saturday. I got over 100 to post or print and show for the next drive-in. This is at the car wash Saturday morning. Everyone's car was pretty dirty from the drive up in the rain on Friday, so we had an improvised car wash thanks to the Texaco station manager: Here is the Levrette wing of the RRDI-
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This is Pinky Clean, Dexter and his dad joined the RRDI caravan to Deals Gap just west of Winston-Salem-
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Here are a couple of car show pics from Saturday morning, the turnout was great we had mostly FCs and FDs but a couple of FBs and RX8s did make it to Fontana Village. A nice FD, Josh is just our of the picture cryin' and cussin' as he is admiring this 3rd gen-
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Here are a few of the FCs that made it out -
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Man i wish i would have gone:( sorry i missed it. but im going up there with my friend once i clean my 10th AE up a bit more we're gonna camp and take the tail

it is definitely worth it. of course, you can also come with us next year too. i am sure there will be a repeat.

Just wanted to remind everyone that this Saturday we'll be driving in to Deals Gap, sorry, I meant the Char Grill for the 4th Saturday Rotary Drive-In. I've seen several FCs around the triangle that I've not seen before.

If you are in the Raleigh area and enjoy driving and working on your rotary powered wonder then you need to be at the Strickland Road Char Grill this Saturday. The drive-ins start at 6:30 PM with an FD parade usually between 7:00 and 7:30.

hehe, won't you be surprised when i show up at 6:30. hell i would be too. :D

bttt, I'll be there with the new paint job

me toooooooo

Yeah I surely would. If you get there on time I'll take you're picture with a time stamp on it and post it for everyone to see. I'll never make another joke about FD owners and their need to parade.

You did notice what time the FDs, with the exception of Rick and Jeremy, arrived in Robbinsville on Friday night?

Uniform Of The Day
 

The uniform of the day will be your US 129 Mazda T-Shirts or some other Tail of the Dragon shirt, whatever you have. Next year I'll bring along a DVD for the Friday night movie, how does Reign of Fire sound?

The wife and I will be in our MAZDa pit crew shirts

That's very appropriate considering the "pit stop" we had to make around Burlington on Friday morning. See y'all tomorrow.

RRDI, 4/23/2005 Photos
 

We had a great turnout last night and 4 new rotary owners were present. We even had the youngest rotary driver to show up at a Drive-In:

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Josh showed up promplty at 6:30 PM, another first for the RRDI. I promised if this happened, he got his FD there at 6:30 I'd never say another word about the FD parades or the habitual tardiness of their owners.

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Infact we had a second FC there as well, in fact he beat me to the Char Grill, a beautiful MB FD that had belonged to his dad:

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Johny & Karen brought the redone Tiffany down to let us all see how beautiful she is:

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Here is a shot of her nice, clean, tight little rearend:

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Here is what a clean, newly repainted engine bay looks like with the new turbo back at home:

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RRDI, 4/23/2005 Photos, cont'd
 

We all marvelled not only at Josh's promptness but at the workmanship of his car and that it was finally back on the road again:

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Here is a rearend shot of Josh's car as well. It was so good to have it back and there were guite a few RRDI members who had never seen it at a meet, it really is real!

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and he even took people for rides in it, here Diane, the TOTD warrior comes back after riding in style:

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Speaking of new rotary owners here are pics of their rides. A new black vert joins the group:

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and Tate brought his golden girl to the Drive-In, she'll be celebrating her 19th B'day soon:

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RRDI, 4/23/2005 Photos, cont'd
 

We continue with the new rotary theme, here is a beautiful black 8 Kevin drove in:

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While technically not new Ray was still justifiably proud of his FC recently out of JB's paint booth and body shop:

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Here is the early line up showing some of the cars that made it out on a windy but beautiful day, anytime you have over a dozen rotaries gathered together it is a beautiful day:

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Sir Gregory of Turboland came in his vert, a beautiful lady, I think he thought it was gonna be raining:

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And a parting shot from last night, Johny Zoom couldn't take his eyes of that beautful car. He is as proud of tiffany as we all are of our cars, Great job on the restoration Johny - I call this one "Can't Take My Eyes off of YOU!

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