Saturday Night Cruise-Thru With SWMi 11.20.04

[Triepsyn]

<center>Saturday Night Cruise-Thru For NWAi & NWAMS Members
For the weekend of November 20th, 2004

Meet @ Payless In Rogers at 10pm
Roll Out at 10:30pm
Take a cruise down Dickson street
Then off to Sonic in Fayetteville </center>

<center>Let’s all try to make it out to this event to make it HUGE! A crew from SouthWest Missouri Imports will be joining us in our Saturday Night Cruise-Thru to make this a family-sized affair. Let’s all make the Missouri crew feel welcomed and make it out to show them how NorthWest Arkansas does it. </center>

<center>Saturday November 20th, 2004… We will be doing the “Saturday Night Cruise Thru” for NWAi/NWAMS. We meet @ 10pm, roll out at 10:30pm from the Payless Parking Lot at the Rogers Mall. If you’re unsure of this location, send us an e-mail NWAImports@yahoo.com and we’ll be sure to get some instructions out to you.


We will be heading from Payless in Rogers to 71B, cruising to Fayetteville, then cruising down DICKSON street to show off the allure of the rides of NWA... After Dickson we will be turning around and going up to Sonic.

If it rains, the cruise-thru will be cancelled!

Be sure to dress warmly as the elements have now come into play!

:shiftingfun: </center>

[Don Juan]

:shiftingfun:

[Jet-Lee]

:rally:

[HintOfBlue]

are we going to be going all the way to the UofA? we could alway take the on road that gos infront of grubbs, hit the squer and come back down. that we arn't try to fight to get turnd around in a small ass parkinglot that we all cant fit in. :shiftingfun:

[Don Juan]

thats a good idea, traffic always sucks at Dickson

[00Exploder]

I can't make it! IT SUCKS! I already have plans for a deal at church!

[Triepsyn]

Originally posted by 98Jones@Nov 18 2004, 10:08 AM
I can't make it! IT SUCKS! I already have plans for a deal at church!

How am I supposed to get you your note? :huh:

[DanielM]

:shiftingfun: sounds good :2thumbsup: :shiftingfun:

[Don Juan]

hey triepy, try to bring a camera so we can take pics of the cruise this weekend!

[juggalo]

ifn trip fergets teh camera...i'll bring mine and tig can shoot some pics while we out :2thumbsup:

[tig'o'bitties]

juggalo is funny , we will try to bring our cam but i am not
the photograoher in the family
my eyes go all crazy :o <<< see lol
i hope it will be a great turn out

and hintofblue has a great piont there !! getting turned sround that last time
was a bitch :cuss:

[94sentra_se]

how many people are you guys expecting to be there?

[Don Juan]

i dont know, if its as big as it could get, i wanna say close 30 or more, that will be kick ass!

[Don Juan]

One more thing,


The cruise thru is NOT a race, last time we had the cruise i almost got rear ended by that dumb ass in the miata 10 times, im not going to risk damagin my car due to ignorance. So please, if your gonna attend, have some common sence and do the right thing

[Jet-Lee]

:clap: great point Lude.

I'll be bringin my camera, just cuz. So I'll make sure an take plenty of pics an give to Triepsyn if y'all would like.

[Maliwho97]

I might go if I dont' head to KC after work saturday.

[juggalo]

ya know the funny thing...we got over 400 members..but only like 20 or 30 show up....wuts the ratio there? :strange:

[Don Juan]

to be exact, it is 1 out of 14.73 members that actually show up :2thumbsup:

[Triepsyn]

Not too bad since I personally don't know that kind of ratio in person-to-person contact. :D

[tig'o'bitties]

speaking of the cruise and not a race..
i thought that was the entir e meaning of the two leaders one for each lane so the leaders can and will control the speed and keep it to a norm..
i liked the idea so much that by the end of the cruise i did not have to
detach my butt cheeks from jugs seat.. :laugh:

[tobanybe]

:drive1:

[tig'o'bitties]

:drive1: :stupid:

[tobanybe]

:P :harhar:

[tig'o'bitties]

:chase: :bash:

[tobanybe]

:getaclue: :dunno: :drunk:

[tig'o'bitties]

:female: :irule:

[Triepsyn]

Post whores, stop. :laugh:

[Don Juan]

BAD WEATHER TONIGHT :( (http://www.weather.com/activities/other/other/weather/tenday-details.html?locid=72764)

[juggalo]

aaah hell its only spossed to be light rain...20 percent chance

[SleeperTec]

I'll be cruisin da lowered B3000.. As soon ast I get my torsion bars & adjusters back together.. when I get bored I rip apart the front of my truck trying to make it lower.. eh.. oh well.. I got 1/2" lower today and 1" lower on wendsday.. So I guess playing with it is paying off.. now I have the issue with speed bumps and high curbs... grrr.. Anyways.. I'll be there rockin the Bee w/ the 3.0 Vulcan Rumble :2thumbsup:

[tig'o'bitties]

lol trippy called me a post whore

[Ricky_Rockstah]

I'm tryin to round up some turbo cars. :thumbup:

[John02Hawk]

Originally posted by Ricky_Rockstah@Nov 20 2004, 05:41 PM
I'm tryin to round up some turbo cars. :thumbup:
I'll be there... Are you thinking what I am thinking? :)

:shiftingfun:

:ph34r:

[Ricky_Rockstah]

Originally posted by John00GTP@Nov 20 2004, 05:50 PM
I'll be there... Are you thinking what I am thinking? :)

:shiftingfun:

:ph34r:
I certainly hope so. :maliwho:

[blue350]

I think I may join up with you guys in Fayetteville.

[tobanybe]

Originally posted by tig'o'bitties@Nov 20 2004, 06:36 PM
lol trippy called me a post whore
:omg: same here ...!!! :shy: i love trippy :nwai:

[Mr. Merk]

i need to hurry and get my merkur back together, the other merk guys around here both are driving their's again, i hope to make it up to the lot sometime soon!

[Don Juan]

I just want to say thanks for all of the SWMi that showed up, made the cruise much bigger and fun too. Lets just not let this time be the last SWMi comes out. The whole cruise was a big tournout, i counted close to 50 cars :yikes: and when i looked in rear view mirror the scene was insane so many imports (and domestics) lined up like that, it was insane. Lets try to make much more cruises like these in the future, it was fun as hell :2thumbsup:. Maybe next time it wont be as cold and we can stay out longer too

[Triepsyn]

Originally posted by 98Lude@Nov 21 2004, 11:39 AM
I just want to say thanks for all of the SWMi that showed up, made the cruise much bigger and fun too. Lets just not let this time be the last SWMi comes out. The whole cruise was a big tournout, i counted close to 50 cars :yikes: and when i looked in rear view mirror the scene was insane so many imports (and domestics) lined up like that, it was insane. Lets try to make much more cruises like these in the future, it was fun as hell :2thumbsup:. Maybe next time it wont be as cold and we can stay out longer too

:2thumbsup: ..More Halls please. :D

But yes, seriously, thank you to everyone for making it out and helping keep the community together even in Off-Season.. If we can round up this many cars in an OFF-SEASON, imagine the possibilities for next season.. It's going to be insane. ;)

Thanks to everyone.. Thanks for keeping the peace as well, with no drama. B)

[SleeperTec]

Fun Cruise!!... but I think Rotory Power and I are only guys with trucks that did not wreck last night .. That S10 X-tream hit the Island behind the mall & I guess the Older '91 or so S10 Drag looking truck thing lost control & smashed into a curb pretty bad.. Humm.. I guess Mazdas just stay on the road better :roll:

[Forest]

Good cruise, but as for a certain GTP, if you ever tailgate me and pass me in the turn lane like that again, I will check you off the F***ing road!!!!!!!!! I will not tolerate stupid driving like that, all you are going to do driving like that is get someone hurt, or worse!!!!!!!

[juggalo]

well...on a lighter note....i thought it was a good turn out...like trippy said...even for as chilly as it was :2thumbsup:

[HintOfBlue]

Originally posted by thejester03@Nov 21 2004, 06:03 PM
Good cruise, but as for a certain GTP, if you ever tailgate me and pass me in the turn lane like that again, I will check you off the F***ing road!!!!!!!!! I will not tolerate stupid driving like that, all you are going to do driving like that is get someone hurt, or worse!!!!!!!
to add to that, gtp, your damn luky i didnt hit you when you cut me off. i never saw you comen.

as for the green del sol, what the hell were you tryen to do. its not a race, its a cruse.

[2quick4u]

Now you guys see why i dont go. Can be pretty embarrassing at times.

[Forest]

as for the green del sol, what the hell were you tryen to do. its not a race, its a cruse.

Actually, the DelSol was being pretty well behaved, he didnt tail gate or cut people off, he was staying a good distance from people, though he did need to cool his jets a little.

[John02Hawk]

Originally posted by thejester03@Nov 21 2004, 05:03 PM
Good cruise, but as for a certain GTP, if you ever tailgate me and pass me in the turn lane like that again, I will check you off the F***ing road!!!!!!!!! I will not tolerate stupid driving like that, all you are going to do driving like that is get someone hurt, or worse!!!!!!!
dude, stay up there with the car ahead of you and speed up when the group does.

Everyone else cruising seemed to have the hang of it.

Otherwise, you are just slowing your lane down and causing everyone else to slam on their brakes.

I didn't see anyone else brake checking people like you either . . .

As for Anthony, sorry if I cut it close buddy, I didn't mean to mang B)

[Forest]

I wouldnt have to brake check if you would crawl your ass out of my tail pipe, tail gating is just plain STUPID!!!!!!!! And so is passing in the turn lane!!!!!!

Everyone else cruising seemed to have the hang of it

Also, every one else didnt have you up their tail pipe!!!

[John02Hawk]

Originally posted by thejester03@Nov 21 2004, 10:50 PM
tail gating is just plain STUPID!!!!!!!! And so is passing in the turn lane!!!!!!
I was trying to get my point across, and obviously did.. :thumbup:

Otherwise, sorry if I upset you.

[Forest]

Just dont drive like an idiot and you wont upset me.

[Triepsyn]

Anyone know who the guy in the red Jetta was at the cruise? Had a license plate with a razorback on it...

[Jet-Lee]

GTP, you were tailgatin me at first too, and frankly, it was pissin me off pretty bad, not mention watch you cuttin everyone else off in front of me. I know I'm in nothin but a lowly little Escort, but a a cruise is just that, a CRUISE, but to cruise together as friends. And we shouldn't have to ride the ass of the person in front of us for fear that we'll get cut-off.

The del-sol guy was gettin to me a bit, seein as I was right behind him, couldn't tell when the line was actually goin, or he was just just jettin it for a second.....all the speed-then-brake was really irk'n me.

I'll be at most of the cruises, with my bone stock Escort (with the exception of a Pringles can CAI), expecting a CRUISE. I hope to see as many, if not more, people and cars that we did yesterday. It was a really fun cruise, and I'm hopin to bring my fiancee out again, if I can get her out again. She really didn't get a good first impression due to the previously mention incidents. A team is only as strong as it weakest player, and in her eyes, that demonstrated the strength of the group, and really embarassed me, cause I ALWAYS talk highly of EVERYONE, to family, friends, and co-workers.

Hope to see you all at the next cruise. Take care.

-Lee-

[Don Juan]

Originally posted by Jet-Lee@Nov 22 2004, 12:00 AM
GTP, you were tailgatin me at first too, and frankly, it was pissin me off pretty bad, not mention watch you cuttin everyone else off in front of me. I know I'm in nothin but a lowly little Escort, but a a cruise is just that, a CRUISE, but to cruise together as friends. And we shouldn't have to ride the ass of the person in front of us for fear that we'll get cut-off.

The del-sol guy was gettin to me a bit, seein as I was right behind him, couldn't tell when the line was actually goin, or he was just just jettin it for a second.....all the speed-then-brake was really irk'n me.

I'll be at most of the cruises, with my bone stock Escort (with the exception of a Pringles can CAI), expecting a CRUISE. I hope to see as many, if not more, people and cars that we did yesterday. It was a really fun cruise, and I'm hopin to bring my fiancee out again, if I can get her out again. She really didn't get a good first impression due to the previously mention incidents. A team is only as strong as it weakest player, and in her eyes, that demonstrated the strength of the group, and really embarassed me, cause I ALWAYS talk highly of EVERYONE, to family, friends, and co-workers.

Hope to see you all at the next cruise. Take care.

-Lee-
same thing with my wife, most of the time i dont advise her to go due to bad drivers and such :headshake:

[John02Hawk]

thejester

The only reason I followed you guys that closely was because you were barely keeping up with the car in front of you.. Therefore, creating a gap in the line of the cars and a lane that is slower than the other. It was frustrating as hell seeing everyone accelerate pretty fast at a stop light and you sit there like you didn't even see the light change.. When the group speeds up, the cars behind them anticipate that and start to speed up, and when you don't, we have to slam on our brakes behind you.

As long as you keep up with everyone else (not necessairly tailgate) and accelerate (or at least attempt) when everyone else does, you won't have people tail gating you and slamming on their brakes right up on your ass.

It's one thing to keep a safe following distance, and another thing to drive 5 car lengths behind the next car.

Jet-Lee

Same as you, a "certain green car" made it pretty difficult to follow behind there. Since he kept slamming on his brakes and then speeding up, I never knew if you were speeding up or slowing down. So instead of having to slam on my brakes like everyone else every 20 seconds and hear his loud exhaust, I moved on over to another lane.. I don't even think I was behind you but more than a few minutes if even..

If either of you or anyone else for that matter would like to continue this conversation, I will be more than glad to on any of my instant messenger names, or via private message. You 2 weren't the only ones getting pissed off here.. :thumbup:

Originally posted by 98Lude@Nov 22 2004, 08:26 AM
same thing with my wife, most of the time i dont advise her to go due to bad drivers and such* :headshake:
Same with mine, not always the best choice to bring them along... However, it's nice to have them at Sonic once the cruise is over. :thumbup:

Since we have a big group of people driving trying to keep up with everyone else and make the stop lights, let's all try to keep up with the car in front of us so we don't get seperated. Just keep it somewhat safe people.. B)

[Don Juan]

what the biggest problem we have is that a lot of people like to slow down to make gaps between the people ahead of them then "race" and try to catch up, causing a lot of people to be left behind wich causes us to get seperated. Not to forget that by doing that you also put in danger everyone else. It only takes one bad mistake to cause a 20-car wreck. I know a lot you guys have invested a lot of money into your rides and the last thing you want is to have your car wrecked. Its good to play arround and have fun, but when your tailgatting and doing stuff to seperate the group up, its just uncalled for. Having fun and being ignorant during the cruise is completely different, there are many more ways to have fun other than being stupid and putting other people at risk.

[John02Hawk]

The only reason people tail gate eachother is because the car in front of them isn't keeping up with everyone else. No one wants to get stuck at a stop light either..

Most of the time it's not tail gating on purpose, it's tail gating because we have to slam on our brakes at the last second because the person in front of us either isn't keeping up with the flow of the group and the next car cannot easily anticipate what the driver in front of them is going to do, or like LUDE said, they decide to leave a huge gap for whatever reason..

[Don Juan]

I say next time with have a cruise have a meeting before we leave and discuss everything that is being discussed here, that way we can answer any questins or concers and help prevent mistakes like these happening again. Just remember that we have a lot of new people coming out to our cruise and they see this and never come back, if we want our community to keep growing, we need to act right and not scare any newbies away. :thumbup:

[Jet-Lee]

I'm not jumpin down anyone's throat in this post, just aiding the conversation.

That "hang back then catch up" is annoying as hell. Can't tell whether they're screwin off or the line is actually movin. I got hung back a couple times cause I thought they were just screwin off again. IMO, if you wanna do that, get in the back, but preferably, don't do it at all.

As far as distance, I think 1 - 1 1/2 car lengths is a good cruising distance, if no one is screwin off. Not enough room for an everyday driver to risk squeezin in, but not so close to piss each other off.

*EDIT* - This was meant to be before Lude's post above.

*In response to 98Lude* - I agree with Lude. Have like a BIG huddle, and make clear things that wont be tolerated. Even if it has to be repeated at every single cruise, it will show that it's not accepted, as well as letting newbies know.

I'm a newbie to the cruises, I simply know how to act by reading posts like these, afterwards.

[OBD1 Kenobi]

John that was totally retarded. I watched you from the back almost clipping several people and passing people using the center lane. I was anticipating a big pile up. It looked like u ran a red at the top of the hill near the end of springdale, couldnt tell for sure.

[John02Hawk]

Originally posted by daveASPEC@Nov 22 2004, 10:44 AM
couldnt tell for sure.
According to your post, you obviously you couldn't tell much of what was really going on.. :rolleyes:

[OBD1 Kenobi]

Originally posted by John00GTP@Nov 22 2004, 10:51 AM
OAccording to your post, you obviously you couldn't tell much of what was really going on..
Oooooooooooh that was a good one

[John02Hawk]

Good what?

:???:

[OBD1 Kenobi]

Why did u edit your post? lol I saw the whole thing baby!

[John02Hawk]

Originally posted by daveASPEC@Nov 22 2004, 10:59 AM
Why did u edit your post? lol I saw the whole thing baby!
I did it right before you posted :P

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[OBD1 Kenobi]

you bastad'

[John02Hawk]

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[turboXR]

I was gonna make it on Sat night. I finally got Ellie running on Sat morning, but, I didn't want to be stranded in Rogers if anything happened, so I'll be cruisin the bright red merk next weekend. :2thumbsup:

[Mr. Merk]

we prob wont cruise anymore, karen esp wont drive, too many close calls, but i'm all about hanging out in rogers beforehand, you guys need to be careful and stop this gay jr high style fighting about stupid shit

[94sentra_se]

I was beside the celica when he passed him and personally i don't think it was a big deal. the celica was about 6 or 7 cars behind the one in front of him and when i was behind him it pissed me off too. The GTP gave him plenty of hints that he needed to move up and he didn't so he picked a safe time to pass and did it. Might i add that was a pretty bad ass pass too. :thumbup:

[Jet-Lee]

Sorry man, but I was either 1 car behind or in front of the Celica at all times, if not right beside him, and he was never more than a few car lengths distance, let alone 6 or 7, but that's beside the point. With a group that big, you ARE GOING TO get seperated, no matter how hard you try not to. This subjects already been beaten to death, let's leave the dead horse alone an quit kickin it... <_<

[Triepsyn]

Okay, next cruise we're going to have a big talk before we leave.. At 10:30, when we should be rolling out we'll gather a big group and have a discussion beforehand.. This way any questions will be answered and we will let you all know what we expect out of you. This isn't a road course, math class or anything of the sort. I just feel like we all need to speak up and let each other know what is expected.. What is tolerated, what is not.

So if anyone will have any questions then, be sure to speak up. If you see a group forming, please join in the discussion. This involves EVERYONE; new members, veteran members as well as guests...

The cruises are fun, but they are getting big enough now that a few guidelines need to be made so that it can stay safe. :thumbup: