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Originally Posted by sp00ln
Right on.
When did all you guys start doing this? Meetin' up and stuff? This is pretty cool.
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Okay, history time!
The 1st meet was like what, more than a year ago? Somone posted on NASICO (then I-Club) about getting together in Reno. Some fellas got together over at Starbuck I think, I missed the meet, since I got emailed about it on an address that I don't check very often. Since I wasn't there, I'm not sure who showed up.
About a month later, another email went out. JC was the main man as far as organizing these. I met up at starbucks with JC, his buddy w/ the Brighton (whos name escapes me... I'm real bad at names...) Matt (MattR) and Ryan (SoulCrusher). I think it was just the 5 of us... was anyone else there... was Ty (Imprezton) at this meet?
A few months later, I was screwing around with my website, coding the image gallery, and I thought, "I should make a message board"! Well, after a day of work, I realized that coding a message board is a huge project so I just grabbed a copy of phpBB, and setup this forum. Since a few guys were using the BAIC forum over at NASIOC to try and plan Reno meets, and this was right aroud the time of the I-Club/NASIOC split, I offered the use of doink.net's forums for meet planning. We weren't sure if our group was big enough to get our own regional forum on NASIOC... in fact we weren't even sure if NASIOC was going to survive the split at all!
Since then (around Dec '02) we've slowly gathered new members from the area, mostly by word of mouth and a few posts over at NASIOC. We started having a few weekend meets about once a month. We had a couple parking lot meets over at Tamarack Junction.. tried taking an off-road run, but that was foiled by a big Ford Truck (check the
Meet's Gallery) We had a fun day one weekend watchin the Initial D movie, and a bunch of Rally footage provided by Sergio (BOO).
Finally a few weeks back, Matt suggested having a mid-week evening meet. Going back to our roots
we had a Wednesday night Starbucks meet. Surprisingly, the turn-out was better than most the weekend meets we'd been having! It was suggested that we do this once a week, and Thursday seemed to be the best night for most people.
Since then we've had great turn-out each Thursday (usually about 8 cars, 10 people), and have started trying to mix it up with the locations, getting dinner somewhere. We try to pick the next meet location on Wednesday, so log on and vote!