Our plan is to cruise the Dragon and the Skyway, we are not planning to set any speed records on the Dragon. We just want to drive it have a good time and make it back to ZCON with straight fenders :tup:

thats a good plan! I used to drive it fast, but its just too much work and too tiring. I like a comfortable cruise up the dragon, and the fun stuff for the skyway and for foothills parkway. Its got very wide sweepers and next to zero traffic.

if i get the days off.. is this meet part of IA?

also do u have to sighn up?

IA?

Open invite for anyone that wants to join us out there. We are staying at the Fontana Village Resort on Tuesday and then driving to ZCON on Wednesday around noon.

Friend of mine put this video together for the upcoming ZCON:



Enjoy!

Sweet video!

import aliance

^bump

Woot!

cant make it manager wont let me off work bah!!

that really sucks! Try bribing your manager with more work??

Show him who's boss and quit! :rolleyes:

sure thing, there is always something else! go to zcon and have a blast for a week and worry about finding a job after.:tup:

Yeah! That's the spirit! SCREW WORK! Who needs money anyway?!

lol
yea and have no cash for the Z...

yea gl with that

I'm about 90-95% sure I'm going. Won't be able to leave here until Thursday so I won't be there for anything until either that evening or Friday.

I hope I get to see a lot of you guys at ZCON!

Friday morning through mid afternoon, I'm leading a cruise up to the Pratt Museum (dedicated to the 101st Airborne Division) on Fort Campbell with somewhat interesting roads going up and some VERY fun/interesting roads coming back.

We'll leave and return from the host hotel.

Obviously that's only one of several things to chose from that day but it should be a great ride and I hope some of you can tag along.

I heard that registration closes soon, so if you haven't already, you need to register and make payment.

That sounds like a great drive and place to visit. I'm in! What time are you leaving?

Yeah I talked to Bob with the ZCCA last night (he's a member of the ZCoT) about it. Web registration closes today.

Haven't published a firm time yet but probably around 10AM.

Sounds great! Keep me updated.

was going to go on thursday morning, but decided to drop the trip at work and go wednesday per my original plans :)

^^ thats awesome! See you there!

When are you heading out? Everyone in the ZCoT is leaving Monday or Tuesday and I can't go that early

Im heading out on Tuesday with Warren and the fast group. Its me Jae I spoke to you at the ZCOT meeting on Thursday. lol

ook lol. I always forget what your name is on here.

I think I'm not going. I can afford 2 semi-local HPDE's if I don't go to Nashville.

Well...you can always wait until the 80th Anniversary and Mr. K might still be around (around 142 y/o depending on when exactly they hold the convention). :)

Seriously, I do understand the everyone has to make the decisions that's best for them when it comes to how/when/where they spend their money but HPDE's aren't difficult to find - 40th anniversary international conventions celebrating the Z don't come alone very often...that's my $0.02 to consider, anyway.

Agreed. :tup:

Agreed. And being that 3 hotels are sold out and the 4th one almost sold out, should tell you how big this even will be. You don't want to miss it. Sure I could do some HPDE's as well, but I can go to those anytime. You won't get another chance like this.

Bob stated that they were over 500. I know that the 40th is a huge one, but I just can't take the time off of work and definitely don't have the money to pay for it. I can put it on a CC of course, but my rough math will put the weekend just under $1,000 and that's a big deal for me right now. It sucks that I'll be missing it..

that sucks man.. just dont go to the HPDE's this year and attend the event.

you said it was either 2 HPDE's or the event. choose the event!

well it's not really one or the other. i'm just saying that going to ZCON will guarantee there will be no more HPDE's for a while. I honestly can't budget ZCON at all. I'm close enough to living off of ramen as it is...

HEY! Don't mock ramen! :icon17:

damn i feel ya.. yeah dont live off of ramen man.. that thing will destroy you inside out.

Can't wait to hit the road on Sunday :driving:

Anyone want to join our caravan on Sunday or Monday let me know.

Sunday-SA-> Dallas
Monday-Dallas-> Nashville

I just got company approval and will fly in for the weekend to support the event. Can't wait till Saturday to see all the cars and hopefully get to meet some famous racers and others. Actually one of the original Designers of the 240Z will be there from Japan as well. I need to pick up some extra memory cards because of all the pics I'll be taking.

Should be a fantastic show especially considering its at Nissan's North America Headquarters and there wont be another 40th Z show so if you can, come to the show.

Sunday's trackday at the superspeedway should be fun also and since I won't have a Z there maybe someone could like me ride shotgun?

Going to be a bit wet...

Weather update folks….

San Antonio: 10 Day Weather Forecast for San Antonio, TX (78232) - weather.com

Sunday - Iso T-Storms 30%
Monday – Iso T-Storms 30%

Dallas - 10 Day Weather Forecast for Dallas, TX - weather.com

Sunday – Partly Cloudy 10% rain
Monday Partly Cloudy 10% rain

Texarkana, AR 10 Day Weather Forecast for Texarkana, AR - weather.com

Monday – Iso T-Storms 30%
Tuesday – Iso T-Storms 30%

Memphis, TN - 10 Day Weather Forecast for Memphis, TN - weather.com

Monday – Scattered T-Storms – 30%
Tuesday – Scattered T-Storms 40%

Nashville, TN - 10 Day Weather Forecast for Nashville, TN - weather.com

Monday – Scattered T0Storms – 30%
Tuesday – Scattered T-Storms – 40%
Wed – Isolated T-Storms – 30%
Thursday – Scattered T-Storms – 40%
Friday – Scattered T-Storms – 60%

Fontana Dam, NC - 10 Day Weather Forecast for Fontana Dam, NC - weather.com

Monday – Scattered T-Storms – 40%
Tues – Scattered T-Storms 30%
Wed – Iso T-Storms 30%
Thur – Iso T-Storms 30%
Fri – Scattered T-storms – 60%

dont sweat the scatterd t-storms in the southeast, they are hit and miss and never last more than 20 minutes or so.

We've had scattered storms all week. Just yesterday the sky was clear here at home while it was pouring for 15 minutes 5 miles away. 10 minutes later the sun was shining again. Can't worry about it, but for everyone's sake, I hope it doesn't rain at all.