Wanted to give a internet shout out thank you from the west side for pulling off another Sevenstock!

 

Thanks Fisa!!

It was an awesome turnout! Thank you to the supporters, vendors, participants, and most importantly OUR CREW AND VOLUNTEERS!! much rotary ove!

 

gotta keep this going. heres to next year *cheers*

 

this venue was pretty nice

 

yes had a blast again this year. Keep it going! Long live rotary!

 

Great turnout! Thanks to all who made it possible!

 

Mega thanks to the volunteers, and all of the crap you had to put up with. I know it takes a lot of effort from many people to make something like this happen. Good job. Only problem I had was the price of the food, paid almost 8 bux for a kids sized pollo bowl lol.

 

That was quite interesting to see sevenstock at a non-mazda venue. I've been going to sevenstock since when it was at Bonelli park, missed maybe 1 or 2 of them. Glad to see a few old and new faces.

 

It was definitely awesome. Surprised I didn't get a damn cold or nasty germ while selling the admission tickets... Huge line at the gate.

 

yeah that line was huge. i felt bad for them waiting an hour and a half to get in
they were getting mad at me and i was like im a volunteer i dont know

 

Maybe Bern or one of the guys can tell us what the final turnout numbers were? Both how many cars got 'in,' as well as tix sold at the gate?

Curiosity.

 

We also had a great time. Super fun talking to all the enthusiast.

Hey DK, how far did you tow that tan FC? You had a trailer in the parking lot right? XD

 

The easy answer is 300+ with the vendor display cars. There were folks signed up for the indoors spots that didn't show, or call to say they weren't coming... we where expecting only 200-250 this year due to all the challenges and adversities we faced this year... but as we all saw... everyone stepped it up! Thanks to all who came out this year!

-Bern

 

The venue did not tell us before hand that all the cars had to be parked and stationary before we could open the general admission gate, 'til the morning of, due to safety rules... they would not let us open til they said so... we've never dealt with this issue in the past, so it was one of those things that came up as a consquence of the new venue.

HUGE APOLOGIES TO THOSE WHO HAD TO WAIT!! WE FELT TERRIBLE!! WE DO APPRECIATE THE PATIENCE AND UNDERSTANDING!!


-Bern

 

Great job as always Berny. Especially for being so far away from the norm.

 

Yeah, definitely a few growing pains on the new venue. Mostly getting in and out. Folks running the gate had no idea where to send vendors and we got caught up in a non-moving line for almost half an hour. Also heard from several of the folks who were supposed to in the "inside area" and weren't let in and/or directed to the wrong line so by the time they were through it was too late.

I'm torn whether the "inside area" is a good idea or not. It's definitely exclusive, still I think I preferred having the organizers pass out passes the morning of based on who actually showed not just the pictures they submitted in advance. Maybe you could do a blend of the two (does make the 1/4 tank of gas harder to enforce though). I did like having a variety of areas to walk around and things to check out.

We were right next to Atkin's (sp?) rotary and I though a live rotary build demo was a great idea. Food for thought for other vendors in the future that's for sure. The show itself was at least as much fun as any SS I've been to, maybe even the best yet. I know the herculian effort it takes to pull off an event this large so massive thank you's to Bern, Andy and all who helped.

FWIW I liked having it slightly later in the year as the weather was much nicer than several past events.

 

It was my 1st time and was def a good time. I wish you guys have more spots for cars cuz apparently capacity was a lil over 300. There were a whole lot of rx7's in the parking lot that got turned away that were super nice. We had a lil mini car show in the parking lot before the gates opened lol.

 

As an annual volunteer, I've almost never seen any cars show up before typical 6AM volunteer arrival time. This year I arrived at 6AM sharp, and there were already 20+ cars in line. 6:15 the line was backed up past the entry gates. This year was definitely a last one at the dinner table was unfortunately left out.

Side benefit of paying the extra for inside parking, and having a car deemed worthy, was getting to drop off the car the night before. You miss out being an active participant in the "pre-party" staging (almost as fun as the show itself), but did allow for avoiding a measure of the first-time-venue growing pains.

By the way, I'm not sure many realize that Bernie and the key organizers got maybe 3 hours sleep what with all the goings on. These guys sacrific a lot to make this happen, so extra appreciation/props to the boys.

 

A good lesson here is that, the RX8 guys are prompt and organized. If you want space get to the venue EARLY.

Mike and I rolled in at 5:45 to about nine other cars. At 6 am sharp I think about 20-30 cars rolled in from the Rx8 caravan. I don't understand why they can roll up before time and people are complaining about not being allowed in late? We got a big brother with bigger numbers. I think people do not realize how big that scene has become, and it makes our scene in total super huge!

 

definitely thanks to EVERYONE that made this happen. can't thank you guys enough for what you guys do for us!

 

Thanks for coming out Kent! I said Hi right?

just a lil busy that day...

 

we try our hardest to keep thing organized because 6 years ago when I started doing the caravan, the RX8 guys had the opposite problem, there were SOOO many sweet RX7's at the event that if the 8's didn't show up super early, we wouldn't get in.

Since then the 8 numbers have steadily climbed and it was quite a sight watching 68 RX-8's following me down the 10 freeway to the Fairplex.

^^^ this.
our little community has grown quite a bit over the years and even though there are still times of the "us" and "them", when we all get together, it's one HELL of a turnout.
Thanks again to all who made it out on Saturday, definitely great times.

 

I also thought it was funny that for the photo shot of the billboard contest, the only people turning in legit photos were from the Rx8 board. everybody here was photochopping jokesters. :p

 

haha, yeah...buncha cheaters!

 

Fisa you are right, I led the San Diego crew up we had about 15 cars. We met at our spot at 4am and left early to make it before everyone just in case.

Over all thanks Berny for everything and we should talk about some Ideas I have for next years.

OHH one last thing a public apoligy for you bro for saving the parking spots for me. With the mix up and vendor booth, your phone and mines blowing up I should of left a text message instead.