So you are, or arent coming? I am thinking the 12th or the 19th. Are these good days for everyone? Will I get more or less attention of it is on one of these days? Why would I get more attention if the Hot Rod Power Tour was going through Wisonsin? Would they come all the way down to Iowa to come?

 

One of the stops (June 9th) is in Davenport, IA. And yeah, I'd like to go.

 

Gotcha now. So the 12th would be a good day?

 

The Tour ends in Green Bay WI on the 11th. Last year they had 1700?! cars on the Long Haul Gang. When that breaks up, a lot of them are looking for another show........

 

I don't have an F-body anymore, but I still might be interested in coming!

 

Is there a place to wash/clean up my car? After a 2 hr drive on the interstate, it wont be the cleanest of all vehicles. jw


btw, you should come up with some sort of amount for everyone to chip in unless you wanna pay for the entire bbq yourself. Id throw in some cash.

 

Just park next to my car and it'll look like the cleanest one there! I don't think the Iowa group has ever seen my car clean

Some sort of donations is a good idea, depending on how generous you are and what size a group will be there. I normally try to conrtibute with some home brew but since this party's dry I don't know what to do It's a good idea since you don't know most of these folks, half of 'em are probably alkies

Looks like a few of the IFBA guys already got my message and posted here, so they can speak for themselves.

 

If I come, I'll put in like 20 bucks or so, would be an awesome gathering. If you get a post up in 3rdgen.org 's midwest plains, you will have about 20 northeast ohio people that could go

 

I'm in for sure.................been waiting FOREVER for something like this to go on close to home!

 

I sure wouldn't mind comming!! My car isn't the best but heck it is 1994 Rs with a LT1 swap. That might count for something..lol But ya if you would keep me posted... you can email me at c_aust32@hotmail.com if you have details.

Thanks
Chad

 

Well It depends on how many people want to dyno. The dyno will be around $30-35 per person plus I will charge each person for the BBQ. Go-karting will also be xtra if we indeed do that too. And also if I have t-shirts made, you will have to buy one of those too if you want one.

I need to get out the calculator and do some punching to figure out the cost for each person. We can do hamburgers and hot dogs and chip, pop, desert, and whatever. I have some time to get this figured out so no rush.

There is a brand new carwash 3 miles away that you guys can use when coming through Norwalk. I have directions posted now with a map so you can get an idea of where you will be going.

And yes, (to clarify) the BBQ will be DRY (meaning no alcohol). I don't want a bunch of drunks running around. We will have pop, water, punch, or whatever floats your boats.

Directions can be seen by clicking Here. They are in PDF so make sure you have AAR.

I will post on 3rdgen.org as well. If any of you guys know of any other f-body boards to post on, let me know, or take care of it yourself.

 

Hey Buttercup and Darkhalf, this is Nate Sheesley. I went with you guys to TriState. In the pics that Josh Posted, mine is the Black 94 Z with the clear marker lights. Buttercup, you car was pretty clean up at Tristate, and you know as well as I do, black is never actually clean Of course I'll be at the meet, clean car or not.
Later guys.

 

Sorry Nate, I didn't get much chance to talk or check out your car that day... I couldn't stop racing My car's a running joke in the club. I drove out to Cedar Falls Raceway and had to drive down one of those Iowa, gravel, back roads. My car was white on the bottom to grey on top at the strip

CMAN- Most of use don't care whether it's a V6, V8, a fourth gen or a second gen. As long as it's an f-body it's good, mods are a plus

Joshp14- Let us know when some of the details are worked out. If you can actually keep a group of this size organized, my hats off to you I'd recommend a sign up sheet for each thing. I know for the dyno it'll be more difficult since you won't know prices until you know how many people are interested. I'm probably not, but if it gets cheap enough I may consider it. Hopefully the dyno shop can accomodate the # of cars, but it could turn into an all day event at the dyno

 

If you have it the 11th, it'd work out perfect for me. I'll be returning from Green Bay for Power Tour.

It's about 400 miles from my house to Des Moines. I could probably make this. Any dragstrips in the area? Hell, even nice straight concrete roads would work for me. What about fuel? I may need some high octane dino juice if I turn the wick up on it.

 

Let's just hope that everyone doesn't want to dyno. Even if it takes 10 min per car, thats only 6 cars per hour. So we may have to take turns heading to the dyno in Des Moines cuz like you said, it could turn into an all day event.

I had planned on writing cars down as they drive in, how many peeps are in each car, whether they will be dynoing or not, and then giving them a sheet so they can fill out car info, and give each car a # to place on their dash so we can have a vote on cars for best of show and such.

mongse_1 - It's going to be a saturday cuz I don't want it to come into effect with anyones work day. No dragstrips nearby...but there is a gas station in Norwalk with like 110 racing fuel

I just got off the phone with MM (the place we are dynoing at) and they said that they would charge $500 for 8 hours worth of runs. He said it usually takes 30 min for 2 pulls, so that's 4 pulls per hour, or 4 cars per hour if each car gets one pull. So in 8 hours that's only 32 cars.

So if we have more cars than 32 that want to dyno, I'm not sure what to do. Cuz even if we start sending the cars there at noon, they won't be done til 8. And I don't know what the rest of us will do at the BBQ while the others are dynoing. Unless, we do the dyno day the day before the BBQ and make it a 2 day meet.

I'm all ears for suggestions..

I also called on t-shirts and got prices for that too. I did all the math and with a max of 6 colors on the logo or design for 6.1 oz ultra 100% cotton heavyweight (white) short sleeved shirts, the price would be $10 per t-shirt. Is that too expensive?

For food and drink, I'm thinking that each person could throw in $5 or maybe a little more. Just a estimate right now.