4th Annual All E30 Picnic & Drive information

[Mot]

im down to link up in tacoma. Im thinking CA and the rest of the oregon people meet in portland and caravan to tacoma, and link up with a bigger WA r3v group. Form ultra mega caravan. :? :roll: :twisted:

[James Crivellone]

I'll be there, won't be driving an "eta" but i'll be there ;)

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

I'll be there. In MY car.

I'll try to drag along as many E30s as possible, but i plan on dragging along four other E30s as of now.

Me, Matt (MR325), Ryan (I3uller), and a couple friends.

btw, we could wear r3v stickers on our shirts, josh ;)

[DarkWing6]

I'd be down for meeting somewhere w/in an hour drive of the picnic. I'm going to be coming from The Gorge Amphitheatre that morning and will DEFINITELY need a place to wash my car before the meet. Does anybody have any good ideas as to where to meet in WA? How far from Tacoma is it?

Don't worry about it. You have bronzit. You may have to stop and clean the weaves to keep your reputation, but don't worry bout the paint. :D

[MR 325]

I'll be there. In MY car.

I'll try to drag along as many E30s as possible, but i plan on dragging along four other E30s as of now.

Me, Matt (MR325), Ryan (I3uller), and a couple friends.

btw, we could wear r3v stickers on our shirts, josh ;)

For shizzle my nizzle, SoCal E30's gotta represent

[Mot]

Just to let you know. All the cali guys plan on stopping in portland and linking up with the OR r3vers. 8)

[cramer]

very cool to see some CA guys heading up for the BBQ!

:D

[Justin B]

So, is this a drive through the night deal? Its 15 hours straight from my house, not including going to meet people on the way, gas, food, and etc if neccesary. Would the plan be to meet people in parking lots along the route in the middle of the night? As far as I know I dont have a codriver. That is yet anyway that I know of. I dont know if I could hold out for it but we'll see how things pan out :?. My car is a 90 325ic if anybody was wondering. Another thing that Ive always wondered about caravaning long long distances (I have not done it) is what would be the communication between everybody for things such as gas (people will surely need to fill up before others are even close to empty), food, and "ah shit I gotta piss like a race horse!" to keep everybody together instead of dropping like flies along the way. I have my own ideas that doesnt have to include cell phones unless some cars are out of view of the rest of the pack, but am wondering what the general idea is to inform everybody relatively quick.

Never too early to ask questons like this I guess.

I think it would be neat for everybody south of here to slowly start picking up more e30's in a train like a magnet as they go by, every general area (ie extended greater bay area to a particular place nearby sacramento so nobody would have to travel backwards to meet people) a group would get together and we'd wait in a park n ride or similar, and so on for more groups farther north. Obviously the span of the little globs of cars would have to be pretty far apart to be effective but you'd have to drive past where you'd meet anyway to get to WA, so why not wait. Maybe Im thinking too much but I like things organized :shock:

[tonytony]

Another thing that Ive always wondered about caravaning long long distances (I have not done it) is what would be the communication between everybody for things such as gas (people will surely need to fill up before others are even close to empty), food, and "ah shit I gotta piss like a race horse!" to keep everybody together instead of dropping like flies along the way.

I remember driving down to eugene with teh WA guys for the eugene meet, Grant out of no where decides to cut right off into the rest area while James C. and I got caught off guard and had to park on the shoulder. that was certainly unexpected. Cell phones would be the only way to do it, unless everyone has access to a two way radio. Call who ever is in the front to pull over and every one will follow like a flock of birds, given it's with enough notice.

[golde30]

CA caravan forming>?

if so i would try to meet that up. would be pretty sick. maybe i can get a lil group also. r3v section is going to be HUGE! :twisted:

[tonytony]

I finally put my r3v sticker on, while preparing for this picnic. I agree this seems like it'll be a big r3v turn out

[Mot]

Give the person in the front and in the back walky talkies, every one else exchange #'s. easiest way to do it. And of course, L33t R3V handsignals will be properly demenstrated at each link up. :twisted:

[KenC]

South of Seattle WA guys,
Do you guys want to meet up in Tacoma at like 8:00am and have a wash/detail session before driving up to the picnic? I'm going to be driving from The Gorge Amphitheatre that morning and need somewhere to wash all of the bugs and shit off of my car.

Lets get a grip of us together that morning.

[DarkWing6]

South of Seattle WA guys,
Do you guys want to meet up in Tacoma at like 8:00am and have a wash/detail session before driving up to the picnic? I'm going to be driving from The Gorge Amphitheatre that morning and need somewhere to wash all of the bugs and shit off of my car.

Lets get a grip of us together that morning.

I'm up for that. I will have washed it the night before, but the trip from Vancouver can be dirty. Where would we wash? Crivellone doesn't wash his car so his place is out. :D

[Mot]

So it looks like the game plan is to try and get every one into to tacoma by 9 at the latest. Shoot for 8. which means us portland people need to be rolling out of portlandy by 6 :shock: am.