Last cruise of the year for us. December 11th, GMR!

Always a good time

The meet point will be at a Kohl's in Upland with a very large parking lot. The address for Kohl's is:

1923 N Campus Ave
Upland, CA 91784

This puts us only about 5 miles or so from the beginning of the run. The total distance for the entire cruise is 43.3 miles. It should last about an hour and a half total. Once we finish the run the meeting point will be at a restaurant called La Tolteca (EXCELLENT Mexican food with a large parking lot and plenty of room for all of us inside). The restaurant is less than 5 miles from the end of the run, so again it should be a lot easier to keep together. The address for La Tolteca is:

429 N Azusa Ave
Azusa, CA 91702

I am going to shoot for a meet time at the Kohl's in Upland at 2:45p.m. We will leave the lot at 3:30p.m. With any luck, we should arrive for dinner between 5 and 5:30p.m.

Here is the route we are taking. I have gone through and cleaned it up by hand (don't trust google maps completely) and it should be simple. I will have directions for everyone at the Kohl's and will hand them out before we leave. The drive is a lot of fun and the views are pretty incredible. Here are the pics and vids from last time - well over 30 of us went! See you all the 11th!!!

Also, there is a hangover run planned for January 1st that got posted on our board. It looks like a lot of fun and a bunch of us are planning on going if anyone wants to join us!

 

I'll make it this time.

 

^ With what car?

 

The race car!!!

 

I will try to make it too this time with my pos.

 

Back from Florida bump. I'm watching the weather and it's supposed to be nice next weekend. Here is our facebook page with a link to the event if anyone wants to invite friends that way. I'd say we're looking at 25-30 cars already for those wondering. See you all on the 11th!

 

Hey Sean, this is Mike with a silver rx-7. My car is not running right now (ls1 swap), but I may be able to get Fisa's yellow FD out, last hurrah for the year. Hope all is well.

 

Hey Mike! How's the swap going? Tell Fisa I said hello and definitely come out if you can!

 

Going pretty well, have 99% of the parts, motor was just treated to a lot of nifty upgrades (rocker arms, rod bolts, oil pan baffle, hardened pushrods), gonna mate the trans up and drop it in next week. Gotta run some fuel lines, install radiator, fill up with fluids, do a little wiring and will be able to fire that sucker... I'm 90% sure I can have it running by Xmas. After that get exhaust welded up, break the motor in, and go to town.

 

wow Rob is the car really going to a GMR drive? i am shocked! lol,
oh yeah New Hampshire sucks it's ******* cold here at night.

 

Bump. Weather is supposed to be perfect! We're really going to try to stay on schedule so we make it off the mountain by dark (sunset is 4:42), and so everyone can get home to watch the UFC fight. See you all Saturday!

 

i might be there

 

I definitely won't be there. Maybe next time.

 

I'll be there.

 

Sounds good guys - see you all there

 

Directions printed and ready to go. Turnout looks great. I'm expecting at least 30 cars. See everyone tomorrow!

 

Ill be there for sure byt w/ my dad in his car because my seats are getting reupholstered

 

what no pictures?

 

What? No California .

 

ouch that hurt coming from the garage queen hehe.

 

Lol!

 

Awesome run everyone. We had over 50 cars (I think we had about 60 before a couple broke down).

A short list:
-MkIV Supra
-Evo's
-Subie's
-SRT4's
-CobaltSS
-Mustangs/Mach 1/Cobras/Bullitt/Fox Body
-Corvettes
-S2000
-GTO's
-4th/5th Gen Camaros
-Lightning
-Porsche Boxster
-1st gen Talon
-350z/370z Nismo
-RX8
-240SX
-240Z with an LS1
-Genesis Coupe
-BMW
-G8
-Solstice
-Charger SRT8
-Nissan Altima Coupe
-CTS-V
and a freakin' DeLorean.

It was a great run (besides our lead car semi side-swiping a bike in the middle of the road...) with almost no traffic. Thanks to everyone for coming!

We're still determining the time and date of next run, but it will probably be the 2nd week of January on either Saturday or Sunday. I'm hearing a lot of feedback that Sunday runs may be better. Does anyone have any input on that?

Here are some pictures and a video. More media to come. Thanks again everyone!

 

No 7s?

 

Awesome turnout, great photos! Some sweet cars showed up. A Delorean... wow, can't remember last time I saw one of those.

 

The last of the video is here and here.

After taking some feedback it sounds like Sundays are preferable for most people. We're looking at moving the events to the 2nd Sunday of each month.

The next possible event date would be January 9th, although I'm not positive on that yet. Looking at maybe doing Mulholland, Palomar, or Angeles Crest. I'm still in the planning stage because of the way the weather is this time of year. Ortega might end up being a backup...

Happy Holidays to everyone and Happy New Year. Be safe out there!