Florida Mazda meet in West Palm 8/13

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Just saw this forum today. Just in time for the meet we have next weekend in West Palm. The info on the meet is below. For more info visit these thread on Probetalk, MX6.com and MX-3.com.

MX-3.com
Probetalk - Florida Probe Owners Club
Probetalk - South Florida forum
MX6.com

Saturday August 13th is the day. It will be exactly 3 months from our previous meet and not conflict with school schedules.

The meet will be at Okeeheelee park in West Palm.

http://www.co.palm-beach.fl.us/parks/locations/central/okeeheelee.htm
7715 Forest Hill Blvd.
West Palm Beach, FL 33413

It's a really big park and has plenty of parking. I'm going to check it out this weekend to see which pavillion will be best for us.

It costs $106.50 to reserve the pavillion plus a $100 deposit.

I'm not quite as generous as mimmp so I'll be entertaining paypal contributions to sweetrecords@hotmail.com. Should we clear the $106.50 we may have some pretty cool door prizes. Hopefully some minor performance accessories. I like this door prize raffle thing.

Track Meet is official - Gates open at 6PM. So if we all get there between 5:30 & 6PM we should be able to get pretty close to each other in the staging lanes. I know a lot of people are arranging their trip around getting there for the track meet Friday.

Here's the address of the track. Cost to race is $15. I think cost to watch is also $15 (might be $10)

MOROSO MOTORSPORTS PARK
17047 Beeline Hwy.
Jupiter, FL 33478


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UPDATE - May 23
I reserved the Osceola pavillion at Okeehelee for Saturday August 13. It's a nice pavilion on a hill with a lake view and a curvy little road up to the pavilion great for taking pictures. It even has it's own private bathroom and playground for the kids.

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UPDATE - June 12
The permit for the pavillion came in the mail today. The place is really cool. Looks to be a great meet.

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UPDATE - July 23
Megasquirt giveaway - Shaodome has made quite an offer from his new Power Squirt Industries venture. If we can get an additional $150 in donations he will donate a fully assembled Megasquirt for the meet. We will give it away raffle style. All contributors (including the ones already received) will get 1 ticket in the drawing per $5 donated. Thanks JORDAN!!!! Who will be the next squirter on msprotege.com?????

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Donation List (Total Received $100)
05-17-05 - mimmp - Probetalk
05-18-05 - shaodome - MX6.com/Probetalk
06-22-05 - tw1st3d_cl0wn - MX-3.com
07-15-05 - Crimson_Red - Probetalk (even covered the paypal fees)

 

[hppwdn]

Figured I should post a schedule of events so everyone knows what's going on when.

Friday I should be in West Palm by early afternoon. If anyone wants to caravan to Moroso from there we can meet up.
5:30-6PM Everyone arrive at Moroso - 17047 Beeline Hwy, Jupiter, FL 33478
11PM Post Track We will be meeting at Brians Irish Pub in West Palm on Lake Worth Road. (7201 Lake Worth Rd, Lake Worth, FL)

The Holiday Inn we are all staying at is located at 7859 Lake Worth Road, Lake Worth, Florida 33467

Saturday Okeeheelee Park BBQ & Swap Meet - 7715 Forest Hill Blvd. West Palm Beach, FL 33413
BBQ starts at 11AM and goes until whenever it winds down. Probably 7PM. Ill be there by 10AM for any early arrivals.
All food and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided. Alcohol is responsibly permitted at the pavilion.
There is also a generous playground for any children attending. Its private to our pavilion.

After the bbq there will be a host of evening options for the attendees

Directions:

To Moroso:
Take the Turnpike to Exit 109 (Palm Beach Gardens) (8/10th mile)
Turn Right onto PGA Blvd. (4 miles)
Turn Right onto Bee Line Highway (8.3 Miles)

To Okeeheelee:
Take the Turnpike to Exit 93 (Lake Worth Road)
Turn Left onto Lake Worth Road (1 miles)
Turn Left onto Pinehurst Road (2.3 miles)
Turn Left on Forest Hill Blvd. Okeeheelee is mile on the right.
Once in the park go all the way back to the first stop sign and turn right.
The Osceola pavilion will be on your right just after the soccer fields.

To Brians Irish Pub from Moroso:
Left on Bee Line Highway (8.2 miles)
Left onto PGA Blvd (4.1 miles)
Take the Turnpike south to Exit 93 (Lake Worth Road) (16 miles)
Turn Left onto Lake Worth road go 1 mile. Brians will be in a shopping center on your left.

 

[hppwdn]

Thanks to all who came out. The turnout was far better than expected. The pics are awesome. I got a preview of SlimmGTs pics last night. I've never seen that many Probes/MX6s ligned up. If anyone needs a place to host the pics just send them to me and I'll host them on my site.

JollyJewBagel earned his award for least likely to make it home as he rode home in the tow truck. Hopefully it's a quick fix and he'll be up and running soon for MYRTLE MADNESS!!!

The protege and RX8 guys who came out were all great people. Can't wait to run into them at some more meets around town. I'll be at Towers for the Protege/Mazda club's official meet the last Friday of this month.

I did a quick count of who/what showed up.
Proteges - 5
MX3s - 6
MX6s - 4
Probes - 17
RX8s - 1 (but it was a really nice one)
Corollas oopa: - 1 (George will have his probe running one day)

Total Mazda/Probes in attendance - 33
Number of cars towed away - 1
Number of cars stranded on the way there that still made it - 2
Numbers of cars that blew up before they even got there - 1 (Maciej's car which I'll be looking at today)

This was a great "Pre Myrtle Flyrtle." Let's see if Florida can represent just as strong at Myrtle Madness 8.

A Tampa/Bradenton meet is in the works for Jan/Feb. We'll probably have it consist of a Desoto speedway trip and a Busch Gardens visit. More to come on that in the coming months.

 

[hppwdn]

http://www.iceyrecords.com/drew/flyrtlewebgallery/

Pics from the meet are in the link. I'll add more as people send them to me.