Hosting Manatee meets. [Archive]

JonLGT

07-02-2005, 02:44 PM

I am thinking about hosting the meets in Manatee county myself. What I am mainly wondering is if anybody would bother to go to them so i can tell if i should bother setting them up. Let me know what you guys think.

Also for anybody following the Derek thing, I am not an asshole like it looks. I had no problem with him until he brought me into it and was talking shit to me. I have no problem with anybody else but derek.

ProchargerCobra

07-02-2005, 03:14 PM

ill go when my car is up and running by august! that is if you want some mustangs...

B16aTeggy

07-02-2005, 03:57 PM

name a time and place ill be there

JonLGT

07-02-2005, 04:02 PM

Open to anybody. I am still determining where and when to have meets, any ideas?

ProchargerCobra

07-02-2005, 05:04 PM

lets cut through the crap and ask pepboys! I bet if you explained to the manager what you want to do, they would be happy to have it...IMO if you just want a food place..which i usually dont see people eat at the meets, you can get in touch with benigans by the mall, they always want car shows and cruise inns there...they would even be willing to post it on the marque and buy some trophies...

JonLGT

07-02-2005, 06:36 PM

Im not feeling the Pep-Boys idea. I am thinking sonic still, just for the open atomosphere and cheap food. I am thinking more of a saturday night.

ProchargerCobra

07-02-2005, 06:58 PM

doh...sorry sat nights are out, plus they co incide with alot of car shows... week nights are great, but if i can make 1 or too i will just wont be on saturdays...

JonLGT

07-02-2005, 07:11 PM

Well the only reason i was thinking saturdays was because there are already plenty of modified cars at sonic already. I am thinking anything from monday-wednesday, anything besides thursday and friday nights due to test and tune on thursdays and NHRA S.L.D. on fridays. Maybe it should be a monthly meet?

ProchargerCobra

07-02-2005, 07:41 PM

or bi weekly i wouldnt go each week...if something is the same everytime it gets old quick but its up to you, you do it and get people there! i dont knock hard work! ill support it when i can

MatthewDavid

07-02-2005, 08:01 PM

I worked at pep boys for a while and i'm good friends with the manager, sorry to say he would never go for the idea, but i would like to have my friends and i go to sonic.

arsenal

07-02-2005, 09:36 PM

I have been to a couple of them and to be honest it is rather pointless. I am not going to got to a meet where people are jumping around on cars and doing other dumb stuff (Applebees Meet)

The first Sonic meet was alright, some nice cars.

It would be much better if there was an actual plan or idea to make the events interesting.

For example you could hold it on Saturday night and have everybody cruise upto Gandy to be with fellow ricers. That way everyone is in the same spot and the neon and transformers can all be happy.

agent93

07-02-2005, 10:10 PM

i like the idea of cruises. no ricing around ofcourse, but i like nice slow cruises. im in jon, and i like the saturday nights idea. a lot of us work during the week so you get the people who have the "i have to be in bed early" mentality.

ProchargerCobra

07-02-2005, 11:37 PM

well i guess that leaves an old man like me out...the gandy rice thing is played out, cops all over, this is a bradenton meet right? not tampa...all good man i wish you luck with saturdays and the all rice thing...ill just do something at hooters like before on a wed or something for the old men and them doms....gl guys!

Mud Duck1986

07-03-2005, 11:04 AM

I'll show up, hopefully have my new car by then.

JonLGT

07-03-2005, 11:25 AM

I am agreeing with the Bi-weekly or even monthly idea because if it were done every week i think the crowd would thin out. I also am thinking to keep it on wednesdays. For example, show up at 8:00 and we cruise at 9:00, to wherever. Gandy has been the biggest waste of time for about 5 years now, if you want to go, feel free.

Also if you would like to ask about the people doing dumb shit at the applebees meet, Derek would be the man to talk to, he set it up.

arsenal

07-03-2005, 12:56 PM

Just so you know guys, the gandy thing was a sarcastic comment regarding the rice there and the rice which showed up at the events.

To be honest, Manatee meets are never going to be popular, there are too many people around here with grudges and so forth, I would see a bigger turn out at MCC during fall semester.

B16aTeggy

07-03-2005, 12:59 PM

why dont we just meet sumwhere on thursday before test and tune?.. then roll to the track.. that way we KNOW we will meet more ppl and see nice cars.. even if only 2 ppl show up to the before meet. its a win win.. and if sumone cant meet us before at like sonics or sumthing they can just meet at the track.. seems like more fun to me, then just sittin around bored

JonLGT

07-03-2005, 01:19 PM

Other than the track will be closed for the next month, that sounds like a good idea.

Mud Duck1986

07-03-2005, 01:33 PM

[QUOTE=arsenal]
To be honest, Manatee meets are never going to be popular, there are too many people around here with grudges and so forth, I would see a bigger turn out at MCC during fall semester.QUOTE]

+1

Roberto Fleming

07-03-2005, 01:34 PM

i think some of the guys are meeting in sarasota at a hooters on sat nights and not being f'd with...maybe try that?

B16aTeggy

07-03-2005, 04:40 PM

well fine... pick a mother f-ing a and ill be there.. might bring another stock f-body

BIG-DOG

07-07-2005, 09:49 PM

It Would Be Nice To Get A Group Of People Together Who Like Their Cars,like Talking About Cars And Like Helping Each Other Out.do You Mind If An Old Fart Like Me Shows Up?

JGV350Z

07-08-2005, 09:06 AM

Im in as well.
Loving the idea of you hosting Jon, but really think this through and don't pull a Derek. Somewhere with food would be nice, but with the manager's consent. That crap out at Sonic in Tampa was gay, no one wants that crap. I say the wed night at 8 thing sounds sweet, nothing fancy, just like a meet at 8 somewhere with food, and then possibly a more localized cruise. Going to Tampa or somewhere on a Wed night would be rather boring if you ask me.
Another Idea I had (if the food thing didn't fly), was to meet at the houses of some of the people involved, and just hang out and talk cars there. This would be "different scenery" every time instead of just the same old place. Im all for the same place every week or bi-week at 8, but if that kinda stuff gets old, thats just an idea....

My two bits...

JGV350Z

07-08-2005, 09:07 AM

BIG-DOG

07-08-2005, 07:08 PM

BEING NEW TO THIS SITE AND SPORT,WHAT IS "test and tune"? IS IT A CHANCE TO RUN OUR CARS AT THE TRACK???

B16aTeggy

07-08-2005, 08:40 PM

BEING NEW TO THIS SITE AND SPORT,WHAT IS "test and tune"? IS IT A CHANCE TO RUN OUR CARS AT THE TRACK???

caps are bad.. yes at the strip(meaning bradenton motorsports park).. they usely have it every thursday from 6-11pm and on sat mornings

its $10 to get in and $5 to run

agent93

07-08-2005, 09:18 PM

dude, for that guy being like 30 something, he sure does post like some 16 year old kid.

Slo_RydP5

07-08-2005, 11:33 PM

i'd be willing to meet up whereever......especially if its on wed.

car is not fast but it looks nice....

BIG-DOG

07-09-2005, 07:00 AM

sorry about the caps.so i post like a sixteen year old kid? what the hell does that mean?

B16aTeggy

07-09-2005, 09:54 AM

sorry about the caps.so i post like a sixteen year old kid? what the hell does that mean?

means u post like a 16yearold kid? :dunno:

Mud Duck1986

07-10-2005, 12:30 AM

So Jon are you going to host them for now on? If so I'll help you out as much as I can. :headbang:

JonLGT

07-10-2005, 12:53 AM

If we met at sonic on wednesday at 8 who would go?

Mud Duck1986

07-10-2005, 10:31 AM

I'll go.

ProchargerCobra

07-10-2005, 12:20 PM

ill soon be able to go...car will be done 1st week in august

B16aTeggy

07-10-2005, 02:09 PM

ill go

JonLGT

07-10-2005, 06:59 PM

ill soon be able to go...car will be done 1st week in august

Just drive the Excursion.

JonLGT

07-10-2005, 06:59 PM

If im going to put somthing togather im going to want more than 3 people to be there. If I dont get more of a responce im not going to bother.