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Well I will be living in Wynne Arkansas for a few months. So don't know if there is anybody close or not. Its about 30min west of Memphis TN. I check this site every day, so if there is anything going on you can just pm me.
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Possible Memphis Meet!
Alright here's the ideas I've come up with. We can shoot for a Meet on Saturday March 1st during the day. I will attempt to get us some parking availability nearby the pyramid. (which is a great photo op, and easy to find for those coming in to town). Saturday is generally a better day to do this meet taking into account EVERYBODY. Plus that means that once we finish our meet, Beale street is walking distance away for some after-meet co-mingling
OR
We can hold the Meet on 3/14/08. Which is a Friday evening. And that way once we finish our meet, (gasp) it's the first night of Midnight Madness at Memphis Motorsports Park (weather permitting) So any newborn rivalries can be settled later that night.
For those of you that don't know. Midnight Madness is open night for ANY car on the drag strip. $20 to race as much as you want, $10 to spectate. 10pm-2am. Helmets are required for 13sc cars. There are ALWAYS some heavy hitters there, so don't be surprised if you find yourself next to a older fastback Mustang running 9's. And there are a godawful number of bikes running 8's and 9's.
(Just a note. The midnight Madness is notorious for being cancelled for weather[anything more than a slight mist will shut it down] or for any other damn reason they feel like it. So That's not a guarantee.
OR
if we have enough interest in this meet (100+), We will push it off until sometime this summer. I will try and finagle Memphis to let us use a parking lot on the pyramid grounds. And we can open the meet up to let patients and families at St. Jude Children's research hospital come crawl all over your nice shiny rides. If we go this route, I will also open the meet up to ANY interested car forum or group. (I volunteer at the hospital, and they love any new ideas of activities for the kids.) I will also invite our supporting vendors and local business to sponsor the event. Pass out products, stickers, business cards, whatev. IF we have enough interest in this and people here are willing to help pull this together. Otherwise let's just stick with a cobalt only meet, and kick it on Beale afterwards.
You guys let me know. I've also posted this up in the OTHER Tennessee thread, and the Arkansas thread. (couldn't find a recent Mississippi one)
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/south-east-59/anybody-tn-14289/
If we get enough chatter about it, Please let me make the "official" Memphis meet thread, so I can easily keep tabs on the information flowing in and out of it.
OR
We can hold the Meet on 3/14/08. Which is a Friday evening. And that way once we finish our meet, (gasp) it's the first night of Midnight Madness at Memphis Motorsports Park (weather permitting) So any newborn rivalries can be settled later that night.
For those of you that don't know. Midnight Madness is open night for ANY car on the drag strip. $20 to race as much as you want, $10 to spectate. 10pm-2am. Helmets are required for 13sc cars. There are ALWAYS some heavy hitters there, so don't be surprised if you find yourself next to a older fastback Mustang running 9's. And there are a godawful number of bikes running 8's and 9's.
(Just a note. The midnight Madness is notorious for being cancelled for weather[anything more than a slight mist will shut it down] or for any other damn reason they feel like it. So That's not a guarantee.
OR
if we have enough interest in this meet (100+), We will push it off until sometime this summer. I will try and finagle Memphis to let us use a parking lot on the pyramid grounds. And we can open the meet up to let patients and families at St. Jude Children's research hospital come crawl all over your nice shiny rides. If we go this route, I will also open the meet up to ANY interested car forum or group. (I volunteer at the hospital, and they love any new ideas of activities for the kids.) I will also invite our supporting vendors and local business to sponsor the event. Pass out products, stickers, business cards, whatev. IF we have enough interest in this and people here are willing to help pull this together. Otherwise let's just stick with a cobalt only meet, and kick it on Beale afterwards.
You guys let me know. I've also posted this up in the OTHER Tennessee thread, and the Arkansas thread. (couldn't find a recent Mississippi one)
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/south-east-59/anybody-tn-14289/
If we get enough chatter about it, Please let me make the "official" Memphis meet thread, so I can easily keep tabs on the information flowing in and out of it.
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Alright here's the ideas I've come up with. We can shoot for a Meet on Saturday March 1st during the day. I will attempt to get us some parking availability nearby the pyramid. (which is a great photo op, and easy to find for those coming in to town). Saturday is generally a better day to do this meet taking into account EVERYBODY. Plus that means that once we finish our meet, Beale street is walking distance away for some after-meet co-mingling
OR
We can hold the Meet on 3/14/08. Which is a Friday evening. And that way once we finish our meet, (gasp) it's the first night of Midnight Madness at Memphis Motorsports Park (weather permitting) So any newborn rivalries can be settled later that night.
For those of you that don't know. Midnight Madness is open night for ANY car on the drag strip. $20 to race as much as you want, $10 to spectate. 10pm-2am. Helmets are required for 13sc cars. There are ALWAYS some heavy hitters there, so don't be surprised if you find yourself next to a older fastback Mustang running 9's. And there are a godawful number of bikes running 8's and 9's.
(Just a note. The midnight Madness is notorious for being cancelled for weather[anything more than a slight mist will shut it down] or for any other damn reason they feel like it. So That's not a guarantee.
OR
if we have enough interest in this meet (100+), We will push it off until sometime this summer. I will try and finagle Memphis to let us use a parking lot on the pyramid grounds. And we can open the meet up to let patients and families at St. Jude Children's research hospital come crawl all over your nice shiny rides. If we go this route, I will also open the meet up to ANY interested car forum or group. (I volunteer at the hospital, and they love any new ideas of activities for the kids.) I will also invite our supporting vendors and local business to sponsor the event. Pass out products, stickers, business cards, whatev. IF we have enough interest in this and people here are willing to help pull this together. Otherwise let's just stick with a cobalt only meet, and kick it on Beale afterwards.
You guys let me know. I've also posted this up in the OTHER Tennessee thread, and the Arkansas thread. (couldn't find a recent Mississippi one)
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/showthread.php?t=14289
If we get enough chatter about it, Please let me make the "official" Memphis meet thread, so I can easily keep tabs on the information flowing in and out of it.
OR
We can hold the Meet on 3/14/08. Which is a Friday evening. And that way once we finish our meet, (gasp) it's the first night of Midnight Madness at Memphis Motorsports Park (weather permitting) So any newborn rivalries can be settled later that night.
For those of you that don't know. Midnight Madness is open night for ANY car on the drag strip. $20 to race as much as you want, $10 to spectate. 10pm-2am. Helmets are required for 13sc cars. There are ALWAYS some heavy hitters there, so don't be surprised if you find yourself next to a older fastback Mustang running 9's. And there are a godawful number of bikes running 8's and 9's.
(Just a note. The midnight Madness is notorious for being cancelled for weather[anything more than a slight mist will shut it down] or for any other damn reason they feel like it. So That's not a guarantee.
OR
if we have enough interest in this meet (100+), We will push it off until sometime this summer. I will try and finagle Memphis to let us use a parking lot on the pyramid grounds. And we can open the meet up to let patients and families at St. Jude Children's research hospital come crawl all over your nice shiny rides. If we go this route, I will also open the meet up to ANY interested car forum or group. (I volunteer at the hospital, and they love any new ideas of activities for the kids.) I will also invite our supporting vendors and local business to sponsor the event. Pass out products, stickers, business cards, whatev. IF we have enough interest in this and people here are willing to help pull this together. Otherwise let's just stick with a cobalt only meet, and kick it on Beale afterwards.
You guys let me know. I've also posted this up in the OTHER Tennessee thread, and the Arkansas thread. (couldn't find a recent Mississippi one)
https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/showthread.php?t=14289
If we get enough chatter about it, Please let me make the "official" Memphis meet thread, so I can easily keep tabs on the information flowing in and out of it.
Sounds good to me. I am good with anything on Saturday, and anything after 5:30 on Fridays.
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Just as an update. The Memphis meet is still in the works. I have spent the better part of this morning on the phone with first the Tennessee Bureau of Recreation and Tourism, who transferred me to the Memphis Chamber of Commerce, who transferred me to the city Council, who transferred me to the Mayor's Office, who transferred me to the Cook Convention Center, who finally told me they can't answer me just yet.
From all this I've determined that the pyramid is literally the largest game of "Hot potato" in existence. No one wants to claim enough ownership of it to tell me either yes or no.
But my last phone call was a resounding "maybe". Unfortunately as us local Memphians know, since the Pyramid was officially shut down, Bass Pro Shops has been bidding to reserve the ginormous empty building to set up shop in, and Memphis is resolutely holding out for something better. So until the issue is decided, No one can get permission to use any of the massive empty parking lots for any event.
On a side note, the private parking lots that used to border the pyramid have all been shut down, fenced in, and put up for sale. So those are out too.
I'm working on it guys. If I don't hear an answer soon, I'll see about getting some space on Mud Island, or possibly using a nearby Local Park. But we probably aren't going to make a March Meet happen with such short notice, so I'm shooting for April or May.
From all this I've determined that the pyramid is literally the largest game of "Hot potato" in existence. No one wants to claim enough ownership of it to tell me either yes or no.
But my last phone call was a resounding "maybe". Unfortunately as us local Memphians know, since the Pyramid was officially shut down, Bass Pro Shops has been bidding to reserve the ginormous empty building to set up shop in, and Memphis is resolutely holding out for something better. So until the issue is decided, No one can get permission to use any of the massive empty parking lots for any event.
On a side note, the private parking lots that used to border the pyramid have all been shut down, fenced in, and put up for sale. So those are out too.
I'm working on it guys. If I don't hear an answer soon, I'll see about getting some space on Mud Island, or possibly using a nearby Local Park. But we probably aren't going to make a March Meet happen with such short notice, so I'm shooting for April or May.
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Just as an update. The Memphis meet is still in the works. I have spent the better part of this morning on the phone with first the Tennessee Bureau of Recreation and Tourism, who transferred me to the Memphis Chamber of Commerce, who transferred me to the city Council, who transferred me to the Mayor's Office, who transferred me to the Cook Convention Center, who finally told me they can't answer me just yet.
From all this I've determined that the pyramid is literally the largest game of "Hot potato" in existence. No one wants to claim enough ownership of it to tell me either yes or no.
But my last phone call was a resounding "maybe". Unfortunately as us local Memphians know, since the Pyramid was officially shut down, Bass Pro Shops has been bidding to reserve the ginormous empty building to set up shop in, and Memphis is resolutely holding out for something better. So until the issue is decided, No one can get permission to use any of the massive empty parking lots for any event.
On a side note, the private parking lots that used to border the pyramid have all been shut down, fenced in, and put up for sale. So those are out too.
I'm working on it guys. If I don't hear an answer soon, I'll see about getting some space on Mud Island, or possibly using a nearby Local Park. But we probably aren't going to make a March Meet happen with such short notice, so I'm shooting for April or May.
From all this I've determined that the pyramid is literally the largest game of "Hot potato" in existence. No one wants to claim enough ownership of it to tell me either yes or no.
But my last phone call was a resounding "maybe". Unfortunately as us local Memphians know, since the Pyramid was officially shut down, Bass Pro Shops has been bidding to reserve the ginormous empty building to set up shop in, and Memphis is resolutely holding out for something better. So until the issue is decided, No one can get permission to use any of the massive empty parking lots for any event.
On a side note, the private parking lots that used to border the pyramid have all been shut down, fenced in, and put up for sale. So those are out too.
I'm working on it guys. If I don't hear an answer soon, I'll see about getting some space on Mud Island, or possibly using a nearby Local Park. But we probably aren't going to make a March Meet happen with such short notice, so I'm shooting for April or May.
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