Not Quite Pacific North West Or West Coast And Certainly Not Nor Cal Or So Cal Ramble

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Sheep With Wool Or Tropic Ramble But Not COW Ramble

Some Where West Of The Rockies But Not California Or Washington Ramble.

At some point, we need to get a west coast gathering together that unites as many 914s as possible to show the Euro guys we mean business. Have you seen how many cars they have at some of their meets?

Have you seen how close all of Europe is compared to even just the west coast?

A 8 hour drive in central Europe can easily take you through 2 or 3 countries ...

True, but we should at least try to get as many as possible.

I wonder how many are on jack stands in Europe vs on stands here?

Yes. They look like an Oktennerfest gathering!

T

laguna seca 05'? lots-o-cars. campbell in 04' had a bunch. Fun times.

I think we had over 70 cars at the one at Coyote Creek Golf Club in '04 ...

Mammoth is a 5 hour drive, like most of Socal for me, easily do-able with a Thursday layover.
Portland is 16 hours, Medford is 12 IIRC, both warranted a sleepover adding 2 days to the trip. Doubled the cost with food and the days off.
Point being, I'm sure most of us have our practical limits. I don't think 2 west coast Rambles is going to hurt participation.
The SW has Rt66 and RRC, so it's not like we're lacking events. The Rambles just add nametags and bigger raffle prizes.

Mammoth was beautiful, but the costs was high and it was really (REALLY) difficult to keep it within budget.

I think Tahoe is probably a better choice to revisit.

That's what I was attempting.
We had a good turn out in the Dalles.

Was that where we gathered for b-fast in 04'? Hard to keep all the years straight.

If we want to do a huge turnout we need to either do L.A. area or say Monterey.

A few members have stepped up to help so I WILL have Temecula 914 gathering this year after All. I will have a kick off meeting next Saturday, Jun 17 at the property to start planning. Anyone else willing to assist or make suggestions can send me a PM.

I will have on site accomadations for advertising venders of 914world on a first come basis.

I hava ample parking for trailers and RV's so stay tuned....

I will start a new thread after our initial kick off meeting.




Thank you all

And over fifty in '05. What happened to those big turn outs? How many were there this year?

More events are splitting the crowd...

Cars and coffee happens every week and draws hundreds of cars at each location across the nation...

More events dont split the crowd THAT much...

Not sure that is really a relevant comparison Andrew. C&C is a 3-4 hour event, usually within 15 miles of the participants home. It costs only gas money. By the way, I hold a C&C event in Sonoma at my shop every Second Sunday. So that was today.
I can go to C&C events and Yopu hardly notices I left. On occasion, she'll text me and ask where I went. "Oh! Get me a flat white!"

Between the trailer rental. The hotel, our entries, the gas and the food that wasn't provided, I spent well over $1000 last weekend. 914 guys are notoriously cheap. Just look at the snarkiness when someone puts their car up for sale at what it's currently worth. OMG! I just don't see guys going to two different events in a single summer. We hadn't made it to Mammoth Scenic Drive on our way home before Yopu was on about a real vacation next.

I just don't think adding an event is a good idea. People don't go to events for a number of reasons. I wouldn't want to go North of Portland. Just don't want to drive that far. But I will drive to Southern California. Both my wife and I have relatives there. They've remarkably improved traffic there. There are lots of things to do. But if I went to either, I'm unlikely to do both.

I might Range further and more often after I retire but for now, more events take family time. I like my family time.

Ok then. Oregon it is. If people want to talk mileage and $ hows this? Tacoma/to portland (1st night)/to Stockton(2nd night)/to Gilroy/to santa maria for lunch then to cammarillo(nights 3 and 4)/to Lancaster(night 5)/Lancaster to Weed or Shasta, can't remember (night 6)/ then the final day drive to tacoma. No truck. No trailer. ALL 914 seat time. I was in over $600 just for rooms to sleep in. Fuel $? California prices, no telling. Food is food. Never kept track. $1k is sort of punny. I got my taste of remarkably improved traffic when i went to Temecula. Memories of sour milk comes to mind.

Wait, you actually stayed in Stockton?

Your a brave, brave man.

Close to the FW for a fast getaway. Safety in numbers. Do you remember the fuel pump fuse for the V-8? Multiple events don't split attendence if people don't plan on attending anyway.

Adding an event is no problem. A PNW event really isn't going to affect the number in a SoCal event. There won't be that many WA teeners who make the trip down to SoCal. Oregon guys will be limited as well. That may amount to a max of 5 teeners. Likewise for SoCal teeners coming up to WA. So I think we can drop that splitting events or even adding event's argument. If you don't or can't make the trip to one don't. People bail on event's every year last minute as well. All of our lives are busy & are in different places financially. I would love to make it out to Okteenerfest some year. I've been saying that going on 10 years now & haven't made it to one yet. Doesn't change my plan to get out there at some point.

More importantly Mike! You don't need to get permission. Plan it & see what your numbers are. The response will dictate if it happens again

This is shaping up to be a replay of last years WCR planning/bickering contest. Therefor, I have no comment other than I will try to attend, wherever it is. If it ends up south I can lend a helping hand with whomever plans the event. Kent

I was hoping to try to not have a conflict here. We had the event in Paso, the idea was to get bother LA and SFO traffic, we did, but not as much as we had hoped. SO we did MMH, and the turn out wasn't bad. but not massive numbers.

I do think that if you want to organize a socal event you should should. I'd attend and will support it too. But I do think that a PNW event would be worth a shot so I will put one together for this next year. Not using the WCR banner unless you want to wrap it in and call it WCR. Temecula looks great, so please if you want to host WCR put it together.

Hay I put made it through 2 years of grad school there. Only got my bike stolen twice

I only counted 17 cars at Mammoth.

I think 6 had issues/breakdowns at the event, btw.

I am down with this.
There is no reason we can't do both every year,
I assume that lots of folks don't make it down south when the WCR is in SoCal (anywhere south of Weed) and lots of folks don't make it when it's north of Weed too. How about one in June and one in August or September? There is still time to put something together for this summer!!!!! I suggest the (PN)WCR-17 for a name if it needs one, or The Great Pacific Northwest 914 Weekend of Debauchery and Drunkenness, episode 1.
Count me in.

How about weed

Count me in.

Oh, Hell no! I'm not over Rt 66 yet nor ready to do another one, yet. I was just saying if it ends up here I'd be happy to help. On the other hand, if it's held in the PNW I'll fly in. I'm good either way.

Wow!
PNW , auto-X in Medford, and WCR - they all sound like fun events. I will try and make all of them and to anyone stepping up to organize I say, "Thank You."

I spoke with my wife the other day about a Portland area event for next years WCR, She said it sounded like fun and that we should fly in and stay a couple days extra.

If you've never been up coast, there's lots to do and see.

Been up to the PNW for four WCRs ( The Dalles,Portland, Seattle, Medford. best vacations ever ! I'll be flying up again

Wait....so we.re not gonna call it COW plus C Ramble?

Thinking about flying up to OW if up there.

OW?

Oregon. .......Washington.

COW without Cali Kevin