1st Ever MI Firebird Club Meeting!

[meissen]

It was a good time.

[MyBadZ28]

That really sucks i wanted to make it very bad.

[phoenix_rising]

Hi everybody:

I just wanted to take the time to thank everybody that showed up. I know its not easy to drive 2 hours each way in the snow. I apologize for those of you that brought your birds. I did not expect the weather to change so drastically. I only caught a glimpse of the cars that showed but they looked great and sounded even better! I am very glad that everybody made it home safely.

I also am very impressed. A large portion of our club staff showed up and we had a lot of worthwhile discussion on the details of the club. It was wonderful to meet all of you guys!

If anyone runs into Doug please thank him for me. The restaurant he suggested was great!

I will post the minutes I took later on to fill the rest of you in. Lots of things going on. I'll keep you posted.

Until then, mark your calenders for our second meeting. It will be held at an event called the "Pontiac Dust off" in April. If someone has the details of location and time please post it. Sounds like it should be a great season starter show.

[CHMLEON]

Thanks Ben. It was a great meeting.

It was a fun time and I got a chance to meet some great people.

[WMCC Doug]

Hey Ben,

I'm glad to hear your first meeting was a success. Glad you liked the restaurant, too. It has worked well for our Camaro Superfest planning meetings, as it's midway for the east and westsiders. Now you've got something to build on. It will be a fun ride!

We had a great WMCC meeting today too. We met at a Famous Dave's BBQ here in Grand Rapids. Had a good turnout with 45 people attending.

Everyone should venture over to Grand Rapids this coming weekend to check out the Autorama. We'll have a 10 car Club display. (It's a lot of work!)

[81DaytonaPaceCar]

The Pontiac Spring Dustoff is held at Bob Sellers Pontiac in Davisburg. They've somehow gotten affiliated with the GM special vehicle department, and last year GM brought out 6 show cars including a 1909 Oakland, a 1926 Pontiac couple (the FIRST Pontiac built), and a Solstice GXP turbo.

130 cars showed up, so this may be a good show to make a presence at. Looks like there's mostly older stuff, but there were a few 3rd and 4th gens there.

Still looking for a date...don't think they've announced it yet.

There's also an "All Pontiac" show sponsered by Bob Sellers that is at the 12 Oaks Mall in Novi sometime in the summer.

No date announced for that one yet either.

And it was really good to meet everyone and put a face to a name.

Nice job on setting it all up, Ben

[FireBirdGirl02]

I have really wanted to go to the one at 12 Oaks mall. And every year there is somthing that comes up on that date. Let me know when that show happends becouse I really want to go.

The Pontiac Spring Dustoff is held at Bob Sellers Pontiac in Davisburg. They've somehow gotten affiliated with the GM special vehicle department, and last year GM brought out 6 show cars including a 1909 Oakland, a 1926 Pontiac couple (the FIRST Pontiac built), and a Solstice GXP turbo.

130 cars showed up, so this may be a good show to make a presence at. Looks like there's mostly older stuff, but there were a few 3rd and 4th gens there.

Still looking for a date...don't think they've announced it yet.

There's also an "All Pontiac" show sponsered by Bob Sellers that is at the 12 Oaks Mall in Novi sometime in the summer.

No date announced for that one yet either.

And it was really good to meet everyone and put a face to a name.

Nice job on setting it all up, Ben

[MiT/A'96]

Hey...Its great to hear of your success !!! I wish the Club all the luck,you ALL worked very hard to get where your at now... Keep up the good work ........

[EMCC Randy]

Congratulations to you guys! It sounds like it went really well.

[CHMLEON]

Frank from Firebird Nation posted these pics over at FirebirdNation.com so I figured I would repost them here for those that are not signed up at FirebirdNation.com.

The Silver 4th Gen Firebird is Angie's (FireBirdGirl02) and the White 3rd Gen is Frank's.

Looks like Frank did not get a chance to take a picture of Mike Z's (turbocreeper) Black 4th Gen or Mike M's (MikeM) Red 4th Gen.

[meissen]

woot you can see me sitting in Angie's firebird with the dell laptop screen against the windshield in the first pic lol

[SoulTerror]

Wish I could of went. Ended up driving home from Alger last night in that shit. That was a fun trip. NOT!

[meissen]

Yeah we drove from Lansing down I-96, to I-696, across I-696 to Van Dyke, and then Van Dyke all the way up to 24 mile. Long ride, weather sucked, but atleast once we got onto 696 it was all rain.

[phoenix_rising]

Yeah the weather never let up all the way down 127 and then as we rolled into Adrian the weather just cleared up.

I love the look on my face in this one...

http://www.mifbody.com/vbulletin/att...1&d=1168278360

P.S. here is a link to the Widetracker's home page. If you look in the event Photos page you will find a collage of pics the Widetrackers put together from Bob Seller's Spring Dust off last year...

http://www.widetrackers.com/

Also here is a schedule for events to consider this season.
http://www.mhraonline.org/06coe.html

And also the schedule I mentioned at the meeting...
http://www.carshownews.com/national/MI.htm

Also the Nesting of the Birds show at Cabelas...
http://www.greatlakesfirebirdgathering.com/

Trans Am Nationals...
http://www.78ta.com/nats/index.htm

[Formula Z]

looks like we a lot to do. cant wait.