Hello everybody....I've been talking to my brother in law and we had a brainstorm, how about we get the clubs together for a big Fall Cruise? My brother in law is Benny (bh241), and my club is the East Tennessee Fiero Club based out of Athens, Tennessee. I have heard a lot of stories about your cruises and I think we can come up with something that'll work if your interested. I'll work on it on my end and Benny can work on it on his end and we'll see what we can set up. Let us know your thoughts and ideas.:cool:

That sounds like fun. I'll bring a fire extinguisher. :)

:-o That's ok I've already installed one in the car:razz:

You guys remember last fall, we went across the Cherohala Skyway, and the Dragon. had a picnic at Fort Loudon State park. That was a blast.

We should do something similar, maybe even down in the Northern Georgia / South Western NC area? There's a lot of nice driving in the area.

Should be beautiful in the fall.

Sounds good. Pick out a campground. Is this a road Sam will get sick on?
If so he can ride with Rocket Dog :-D

We'll pick something that the dogs will be fine with. It's more of a 'concept' right now though.

Just tossin' ideas around.

Sounds like fun.....:)

I'm in as long as I don't have to work that week-end.

Sounds like a good ides. I hope it's in November cuz Sept and Oct are full.

-g

If we're going to enjoy the fall colors then it'll have to be around Oct. or Nov., and if you want to hit North Georgia then Fort Mountain would be a great ride. It's on 52 between Chatsworth and Elijay.

I would like to go on a cruise, but I get sea sick too easily. Maybe if someone organizes a gathering at Knoebels Amusement Resort (it has a great campsite) in Elysburg, PA - I could come to that. It is a really cool place in midstate Pennsylvania about 10 miles off Interstate 80... very rustic and in the woods. It has a pool, big campground, a covered bridge and plenty of rides for the family to enjoy. Maybe next year. Something to consider. http://www.knoebels.com

How about the ULTIMATE EXTREME E CHALLENGE: the infamous and, I might add, treacherously nefarious The Tail of the Dragon at Deals Gap, with 318 curves in 11 miles, is America's number one motorcycle and sports car road. The nearby Cherohala Skyway is quickly becoming number two with its remote 60 miles of scenic mountain highway.

Herre is the website:

http://www.tailofthedragon.com/

How about the ULTIMATE EXTREME E CHALLENGE: the infamous and, I might add, treacherously nefarious The Tail of the Dragon at Deals Gap, with 318 curves in 11 miles, is America's number one motorcycle and sports car road. The nearby Cherohala Skyway is quickly becoming number two with its remote 60 miles of scenic mountain highway.

Herre is the website:

http://www.tailofthedragon.com/

You're new around here, aren't you?

The Dragon - Mid-South Fall Run 2007 (the pictures) (http://www.elementownersclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39261)
the planning thread. (http://www.elementownersclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37567)

:wink: sorry, couldn't resist....

You're new around here, aren't you?

The Dragon - Mid-South Fall Run 2007 (the pictures) (http://www.elementownersclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39261)
the planning thread. (http://www.elementownersclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37567)

:wink: sorry, couldn't resist....

Looks like the guy is not that new, since join date is Oct 2006, but started to be active a bit late (it's never too late). Welcome :D

Looks like the guy is not that new, since join date is Oct 2006, but started to be active a bit late (it's never too late). Welcome :D


..Thanks! it's a dangerous job being an "oldie Newbie" and yes, better late than never....had some health issues a while back and dropped off the E Radarscope for a while....Just remember, live every day as if it is your last!:razz:

You're new around here, aren't you?

The Dragon - Mid-South Fall Run 2007 (the pictures) (http://www.elementownersclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39261)
the planning thread. (http://www.elementownersclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37567)

:wink: sorry, couldn't resist....

.....and just to think that I got all that excited! Looking to forward to getting active again! and thanks for the link to last year's event...gonna look over the great time you guy's had....:D

You guys remember last fall, we went across the Cherohala Skyway, and the Dragon. had a picnic at Fort Loudon State park. That was a blast.

We should do something similar, maybe even down in the Northern Georgia / South Western NC area? There's a lot of nice driving in the area.

Should be beautiful in the fall.

Sounds like fun. What about the Foxfire thing. There are a lot of good driving around there. Also a few campgrounds and state parks.

that's true, the foxfire museum would be awesome. the whole area has so much to offer.

I do worry about the weekends through October though, it seems that they are filling up fast.

I guess we need to take a look at the schedule and pick a weekend and go from there...

I also remember us talking about the Kings Mountain Battleground (National/State Parks) and then there was the talk of the Charleston meet... man that would be a great event... JCK you still pondering that? *nudge* *nudge*

We do need to get something going for the fall down this way...

If your looking for curvy roads then you should check out the Devil's Triangle.http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b7/RobsFieros/DevilsTriangle016.jpg

Then there's Stone Mtn., it has train ride's and an amusment park, put put golf.

Sounds fun. Hope I can make it whenever it is. School consumes my life so it's hard to really plan anything.

We are hoping for a Deals Gap Run take 2, saw all the cool pics from last year. We normally go annually with another club, but want to go in the E. We would def be in for one. I will keep watching the thread for updates!!!

It's fine with me if we want to repeat the Dragon run, is there really that much interest?

I guess we could re-do the whole trip? Picnic at Fort Loudon (http://tennessee.gov/environment/parks/FortLoudoun/) maybe even find time to do the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum (http://www.sequoyahmuseum.org/)?

Any real interest?

It's fine with me if we want to repeat the Dragon run, is there really that much interest?

I guess we could re-do the whole trip? Picnic at Fort Loudon (http://tennessee.gov/environment/parks/FortLoudoun/) maybe even find time to do the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum (http://www.sequoyahmuseum.org/)?

Any real interest?


Personally, been there done that is my opinion (even got a t-shirt to prove it). :) Are you thinking of this being the fall meet or just another meet?

It doesn't matter really... I haven't heard any real talk of a fall meet, if anyone is seriously thinking about putting one together they really do need to say something soon...

Again, I honestly don't care when, or where but we really do need to get something going.

Maybe this is something we can discuss Saturday.

Maybe this is something we can discuss Saturday.

Thats one of the reasons we have these Meet-and- Eat get-to-gethers.

It's fine with me, you all discuss it and let me know what you decide.:cool:

If this gets organized, we will come. We will make a 3 day weekend out of it, since we would drive so far to get there. I have not done Deals Gap in the Fall before it has always been in Aug. I would love to see all the fall leaves from within my E :D I can try and recruit more FL E's to go!!! We are try to do a monthly/bi monthly meet and eat too (but it's not going well we have had 3 E's both times so far :-(). Keep me posted please!

If there's no objections I'll invite the Georgia Fiero Club to join us. We might just end up with 100 Element's and Fiero's combined. That would be a heck of a showing at the Dragon's Tail and the Skyway.

Rob - you should come this Saturday too if you can, it wil be a good chance to meet these guys and we could well work something out for the fall.

If you guys wanna turn this into a camping weekend, there's a campground up on the Foothills Parkway just off the (TN) end of the Dragon. There's also a nice picnic ground there - we could do a picnic there rather than Loudon State Park...


Honestly, the possibilities are really endless, we just need to get something going - fall will be here before you know it.

Seriously, JCKridgeline - any more thoughts to a Charleston get together? * blatant nudge *

Yeah Rob, come join us Saturday if you can. It might be a good introduction to see what you are getting yourself into before planning a fall meet with lots of us. :lol:


Benny - If we do the Dragon again this year, would you want to do the Cherohala again or skip it? One idea would be to do the Dragon and have a picnic at one of the parks?

Benny - If we do the Dragon again this year, would you want to do the Cherohala again or skip it? One idea would be to do the Dragon and have a picnic at one of the parks?

I'm not beyond doing something different. There are so many ways/places to go. We could do the dragon (if that's what everyone wants to do) then take the Foothills Parkway up to 321 to 441 and back down in to the Smokey Mountain National Park to Cherokee... or go further south into Northern georgia - there's several places there we could do...

Seriously, there are a thousand and one things we could do... I just want to make sure we do something, know what I mean?

Yes, we definitely need to get to work on something.

I wasn't around last year so I would love Deal's Gap. See you Sat. in Ashville.:D

I could use another Dragon sticker for the E.;-)

Saturday's out for me, that's our regular club meeting, the third Saturday of every month. Plus I've got a member bringing a car up to be worked on and he's also picking up one I just finished restoring. But I get with you soon.:razz:

I just talked to the Georgia club and their to busy to do anything more than a day, and I think the Tennessee club will have to stay with a one day also. But we could meet up with you and enjoy the ride somewhere along the way.

You know, a good 'day' trip would be to get together in Cherokee and drive the Blue Ridge Parkway north to Asheville.

There's something like 24 tunnels on that end of the BRP. We could call it the "Tunnel Tour" or something equally as corny. :wink:

The BRP would be slightly more crowded than say The Foothills Parkway, but I would guess it would be less crowded than the Smokey Mountains (US 441).

The BRP is closed just north of Asheville, but that wouldn't effect this route. We're still looking at about 18 tunnels (http://www.virtualblueridge.com/parkway/general/tunnels.asp) between Cherokee and Asheville. Combine that with the fall colors, and this may just be a decent event. We could picnic somewhere along the route or of course grab a restaurant somewhere. (I say do the picnic - some people get kinna weird about big dogs when it's eatin' time...) :roll:

Thoughts?

Sounds good to me. At least I wouldn't have a motorcycle trying to buy me a new bumper like last year. I thought I was going to have to scrape him off with my rear wiper. :D

Sounds good to me.

Sounds good to me too. A day trip might be easier for me to work into my crazy schedule.

Ok, now the Georgia Fiero club wants add the Solstice's and Sky's to the cruise. Any objections? There will be 4 different clubs on one cruise.

Sounds good to me, any idea how many cars we're thinking about total?

Just a wild guess....30 to 50 or more.

Do Fieros camp? or is there not enough room?

There's not enough room for a tent and sleeping bags. But they can handle just sleeping bags.:rolleyes:

How many Elements we talking total? And can they take a 30 mph curve at 75 mph?

Do Fieros camp? or is there not enough room?


They may not camp, but I'm sure they do a good job at roasting marshmallows. :lol: :wink:


Sorry, I just couldn't resist.

Ok, I'm outta here...bye

Ok, I'm outta here...bye

Too hot? :wink:

(yes, that was mean... )


How many Elements we talking total? And can they take a 30 mph curve at 75 mph?
10 - 15 or so I would imagine. We'll try and get a handle on it as time gets closer. First we gotta decide on a date and a location.

Actually you would be surprised at just how well these 'toasters' handle a curve....

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i156/bh241/EOC/ohio/sc_all_out.jpg

Just a little history for you all. The 84 Fiero is the only year that caught fire. And they had a recall and added heat shields and a deeper oil pan, which cured the problem. And the 84's had the 2.5 4 cylinder engine. In 85 they came out with the 2.8 HO V6. Now were putting 4.6 Northstar engines and LT1's in them. And no they don't burn either. But that's the only thing anybody remembers about a Fiero is that they burn, but they don't.

So you're saying I'm bringing a bag of marshmallows for nothin' then, right? :roll: :twisted:

(you do know we're pickin' at you - don't you?) :confused:

Oh GOOD! Car bashing!

No I'm not. What I'm saying is we like hotdogs instead.:lol:
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b7/RobsFieros/Daddyslittlegirl.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b7/RobsFieros/Buddy001.jpg

We're into driving instead of camping and we like a great resturant over picnicing. We like taking a curve so fast that the windshield washer squirts the window without touching the switch. We speed up in the curves instead of slowing down. What ta heck, the cars are just plastic, if we wreck we'll just snap in a new piece.:grin:

Just my 2 cents. I'm a big car guy and have had my share of hot rods to Corvettes and muscle cars to vintage VW's. While I'm not against a multi club/multi marque gathering I don't think it should be our "Fall FoliagE EvEnt". A big part of a cruise is caravanning. With Fiero's, Sky's and Solstice's there will be too many differences in driving styles to keep a decent procession. To me it would also take away from the Eple thing.

We like taking a curve so fast that the windshield washer squirts the window without touching the switch. We speed up in the curves instead of slowing down. What ta heck, the cars are just plastic, if we wreck we'll just snap in a new piece.:grin:[/QUOTE]

I don't think we fit in this but who am I to say. I'll be there for the eple that are there.

Me, I just wanna drive... :rolleyes: I figure if the E's are in front then they will set the pace...


I'm still holding out for a certain Ridgeline owner down Charleston way to pipe in.... It's high time something got together for either mid-state or southern South Carolina....





just sayin'

Hey guys, I'm just checkin in...it's been a while, and I'm missing all of you! I probably won't be able to do a long weekend thing until after the first of the year (Swiss trip is taking all my vacation time)....but I'll be willing to jet down to see everyone after I'm back from the trip in Sept.

Don't forget me.

We have a new camper, but won't be able to drive the E when we camp with it.

Me, I just wanna drive... :rolleyes: I figure if the E's are in front then they will set the pace...


I'm still holding out for a certain Ridgeline owner down Charleston way to pipe in.... It's high time something got together for either mid-state or southern South Carolina....





just sayin'


I'd be up for something in central NC (easy since I live there) eastern NC would be cool too, so would SC though... lots of stuff we could do

I don't mind the Elements being up front, we're just in it for the cruise and seeing some colors.

We have a new camper, but won't be able to drive the E when we camp with it. You can tow it in back of the new camper.:lol:

We discussed options for the fall at our meet-n-eat and decided to go with two events, a Fall Ride on October 25th, and a Fall camping Trip in mid November. Unless someone comes up with a better idea in the coming days we're going to go with these two ideas.

The Fall Run will begin early morning in Cherokee NC and travel from the lower end of the Blue Ridge Parkway up to Asheville, NC. Once in Asheville we plan to have a dinner before heading our separate ways. I don't want to post all the details this far into a thread, I will get everything in line and made a new thread later on this week.

As for other car groups, you guys are welcome to join us. It's all about getting together and enjoying a good ride. However, keep in mind, this will be during what could well be 'peak leaf season' along the BRP. It may well be impossible to maintain a 'formation' or 'caravan' the entire route. We may well wind up going as 'separate groups together' if that makes any sense.

The fall Camping Weekend will be a few weeks later and will run from Friday to Sunday. Again, I'll post the info on a new thread. This will be held at a State Park in South Carolina - yes, water and power at each site. There will be sites available for trailers, RV's, and Tents. We should be able to even do some limited 'moding' if anyone is interested.

October 25, I'll post it on our calender.

It's posted Rob -

Check out this thread (http://www.elementownersclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49013).

Ok, gang, where's the camping in November thread?....I've been in limbo here (yeah, like I care)...and getting ready to head to Switzerland so....(yeah, Neutral Territory....hmmm)....give me some direction so I can tell Fire Elf what weekend to take off and where we have to go....yes, I know i'm fully capable of telling people where to go :roll: but I need a little help here

see y'all after Sept 8!

I haven't posted it yet. :rolleyes:

Seriously, I haven't...


But for those that MUST KNOW NOW it's November 14 - 16 at Kings Mountain State Park in Blacksburg South Carolina (http://www.southcarolinaparks.com/park-finder/state-park/945/camping.aspx).

I'll post the official info post in a few days... :)

It's posted Rob -

Check out this thread (http://www.elementownersclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49013).

I meant I'd post it on the ETFC calender and forum.

Well when I came home today I found Buddy doing something I thought I'd never see him doing. I was totally shocked. I walked into the kitchen and there he was, snorting crack. That's right, he didn't even try and hide it. He must have been doing it for a long time and I just hadn't noticed the signs. I guess I'll have to go out tomorrow and get some caulking and caulk up that crack, then he won't have anything to snort. Except Lady Bug. :grin:

Hey Benny, your Mother-in-law has a real pretty dog that has one blue eye and one blue and brown eye. It's real friendly and likes to play ball. She's going to have it taken to the pound and I thought you might want to take the dog. Did I mention it's a real pretty dog? And I think Laraine wants it too.:D:D:D:D:D:grin::grin:

and the pictures are where?? :-o


I can help find it a home, but I swear we're not adopting anymore, we promised each other that we would get down to two dogs. We've made it down to six so far. Give it a few more years and we'll be down to two.... :rolleyes: