In order to try and promote member bonding (lol), I came up with a idea. I have never gone on a real road trip before. And with cruising season just around the corner, I'm itchin to do some driving.
Here we go:
Would there be any interest in having a large meet-up, even including members of SCCoA, at the birthplace of our MN-12's; the Lorain, Ohio plant. I was reading the thread were somebody here, went down there and took some cool looking pictures.
I know its a long shot, but It sounds like fun.
I believe the SC/XR7 shootout is like the 2nd week in October. Maybe we can organize this to happen sometime in the summer months.
It's a great idea and I'd be interested but I'm only allowed two Tbird meets a year (per the wife :tongue: and my schedule). So I go to Summer blast and meet with the Carolina Crew after Thanksgiving for our annual Carolina Shoot out / T&T.
I'd suggest you try to make it to the Joel Bender Summer Blast meet in Martinsburg, West VA. in late August. It's an established MN12 meet and it's about the same distance from you as Lorain, OH is.
Summer Blast is alread scheduled for the weekend of August 22-24, 2014. I plan on going again this year and hope to see as many of you there as possible.
It's a great idea and I'd be interested but I'm only allowed two Tbird meets a year (per the wife :tongue: and my schedule). So I go to Summer blast and meet with the Carolina Crew after Thanksgiving for our annual Carolina Shoot out / T&T.
I'd suggest you try to make it to the Joel Bender Summer Blast meet in Martinsburg, West VA. in late August. It's an established MN12 meet and it's about the same distance from you as Lorain, OH is.
Summer Blast is alread scheduled for the weekend of August 22-24, 2014. I plan on going again this year and hope to see as many of you there as possible.
In order to try and promote member bonding (lol), I came up with a idea. I have never gone on a real road trip before. And with cruising season just around the corner, I'm itchin to do some driving.
Here we go:
Would there be any interest in having a large meet-up, even including members of SCCoA, at the birthplace of our MN-12's; the Lorain, Ohio plant. I was reading the thread were somebody here, went down there and took some cool looking pictures.
I know its a long shot, but It sounds like fun.
I believe the SC/XR7 shootout is like the 2nd week in October. Maybe we can organize this to happen sometime in the summer months.
I'd be game (well duh, it's a 20 minute drive from my house ) but we'd need to contact the current plant manager to determine if having all of us there would be permitted. Last year when I went there to take pics they were in a "transition state" where I got the impression they were trying to sell off another section of the old plant.
If enough people express serious interest, I can drive down and see if I can get the plant manager's number (again) from the security guard and run the idea past him.
There's enough area around the plant to drive past, look at stuff etc. and the parking lot in front of the main doors where I was taking some of the pictures is not fenced and is accessible from Baumhart Rd. There's also a dragstrip in Norwalk which is probably a 45-60 minute drive from Lorain.
For those interested, the "approximate" location you can Google for the plant is 5405 Baumhart Rd, Lorain, OH.
Even if we can only get half a dozen cars to meet up here, I think it would be a lot of fun - whether the plant manager lets us in or not. I've seen old threads talk about doing this but to my knowledge nobody has.
Sounds pretty great, no way I could make it though. Not sure if my car would make it even.
Don't mean to derail at all, but are there ever any west coast events? Used to go to the TPS meets in San Jose but they haven't had those for a couple years...
I somehow missed that post last weekend. That sounds like a good enough plan to me. I've often wondered what my bird would do at a track, but never had the will to go down myself.
There is a Upstate NY Thunderbird club meeting this Sunday at the Latham circle diner, just outside Albany at 1:30. Some of the members get together for lunch the second Sunday of the month during the winter
I think it would be awesome to meet up at Lorain, I've talked to the GF and her friend is from Ohio, so she wants a trip up that way anywho, what a great excuse to take my car and sneak in a trip to Lorain
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