Toyota Fest Meet, Long Beach, So Cal Options

[BonzaiCelica]

so in about 3 weeks from now they will be hosting 14th annual toyota fest. here is the flyer in case some of you dont know what it is.



there is no charge at the door. although i have to check out how much pricing is for parking. i believe the first 30 min are free. then you have to pay. i think it might be like $5 for 3 hours but not exactly sure on that i might drive by there just to see how much parking is.

so lets try to get a meet going. there hasn't been one in so cal since december!!!

This post has been edited by BonzaiCelica: Apr 15, 2009 - 10:22 PM

[j0e_p3t]

last year's was pretty cool. and i do like "free"... hmm.... hope i'm not too busy

[96bluevert]

I'm going to be there with a bunch of local Toyota owners from up here in WA. Should be fun.

[windowlicker]

may have to try and make this, could be fun.

[GMHAPPY29]

I am happy to see it is back at the Queen Mary. Did not enjoy the hot parking lot last time. I just got my paperwork in the mail so I am officially registered and in the show . Hope to see alot of you guys there as this will probably be my last event down here. WOOHOO TOYOTAFEST

[OwnDcelica]

I'd be interested in going. Seems like it'd be alright.

[Tigawoods]

i wish they had a east coast event

[Salica]

i will try to be there.

[95st-celica]

someone be responsiable to take lots of pictures

[96bluevert]

Oh, there will be a TON of pictures taken by the group I'm going with.

[xs94st]

I'll be there, its semi close to my house and I get paid friday and I should have gas haha..no work either so I better be there.

[GMHAPPY29]

Hey Xavier , Happy to hear you will be there. Come and say hi sometime during the day. I hope to see more of the group there as this will be my last event (unless we do another all you can eat sushi meet ) before I move to northern Cali.

[Random_Stranger]

This weekend? You guys honestly think it might be worth my while to make it out or no? Because it is like 2 hours or so away from here. And my car looks rather $#!T. Nah, I dunno. I do want to make it out to a meet this summer with you all though.

[GMHAPPY29]

Come on down Faust . It's a great show if you have never been. Go to www.toyotaclub.org and check out pics from last year. If you don't I'll have to call and invade Bakersfield with my U-haul and car . Hope to see ya there.

[96bluevert]

Faust, I'm taking a week off to drive down there and have a little vacation. Surely you can take a day to drive 2 hrs to the show

[xs94st]

Yeah man. You better come down. If I can drive to Barstow to pick up a friend, you can come down =P

I will drop by Ty, I'll be lookin around for ya. I'm gonna be stayin for a couple of hours, I have some preplanned activities that I have to do and I can't back out of =\

And Faust, your car will look better than mine at the very least.

[Random_Stranger]

I might guys, but there are some things I must consider.

1. Need new tires, brakes, and possibly rotors
2. Engine may have to be overhauled due to how hard it is on the car around that gravevine/I-5 (I am taking that class and can't have access to the machines til next semester)
3. I really don't know my way around out there, no one to come with me


If I were to go out there, I would like to be able to consider it a meet and not drive around so much. I love driving my car, although lately, either I got used to it and it seems too slow for me, or perhaps the engine really is starting to have age take it's toll on it. Either way, lots of light maintenance needs to be performed after next week's Finals. So I cannot promise and if I show up, it will be last minute, but don't count on it. I shouldn't have even brought it up, but this is where it is coming to lately. If the summer is generous and I can find a way around my smogs, I might just do a swap with low mileage. But I dunno.

[BonzaiCelica]

hey guys well its almost saturday. Im going for sure. I might be there at around 10-10:30. 714 422-4898 is my cell, you can also txt too.

ill probably get up at around 8:30 to wash and detail my car. So ill see you guys there!!

My friends has 2nd gen mr2. the mr2's are driving somewhere after toyota fest if you guys wanna come along. forgot to what city they are going to.

[xs94st]

I will be going, but I have to finish putting my cousin's clutch in his saturn =\

I gotta wash my car too..this is gonna be awesome =)

[GMHAPPY29]

On my way to registration . See ya guys there.

[hata]

^-- seen his celi and another red one but in the parking lot with the GT4 good stuff on the wing...forgot what they're called...wing lifter?

[BonzaiCelica]

hey everybody whats up. So the red celica i have no clue who he is. I just happend to park next to him. I saw him driving around super autobacs about a week ago. I have yet to find out who it is. ya i saw hatas car there and also saw xs94st celica but i didnt take a pic of it. I got to toyota fest at around 11 and stayed there for about 2 hours. ended buying a trd leather shift boot for $50. I met gmhappy there. When i was talking to him we saw a blue 6gc coupe with a nice sounding exhaust and a spoiler like supra leaving the parking lot (whoever that may be???)

hey how come nobody gave me cell phone a ring or left a txt, there were 3 of you that went. i mean i saw your cars their. I was hoping we could of met up and talked a little or went for a drive. I thought i was going to get atleast one call... but i guess not hmm guess people just dont like meeting up with other fellow 6gc'ers...

and yes hata they are called raiser blocks i think?

This post has been edited by BonzaiCelica: May 13, 2009 - 10:02 PM

[hata]

lol omg . I feel unorganized now >< cause I wanted to do a small drive too. I was there about noon an left around 2. Then I just drove around la a bit, got a fix it ticket (blah) and then drove home. Dang. I was not there when you took pix. I was inside ><. I uploaded all the pix I took on my fb (on fb as hata riordan) .

[OwnDcelica]

So bad news i crashed my car. ='[ I'll be out of commission for a little while hoping to repair damages before the meet. I really want to go.

[hata]

dang. ur car looks pretty clean too. Take care of it~.

[BonzaiCelica]

how long is your car going to be out for. I will post something about our upcoming meet sometime in june. I want a lot of so cal people to go.

Is the damage horrible. BTW is it me or do the gt antenna go alot higher than the st antenna's?????

hata im sure your aware of that. But my car is not the one with the gt four raiser blocks and the jdm tails mines the other celi with trd emblem.

[OwnDcelica]

Okay Update on the car. replaced the lower control arm and ball joint and now need to replace wheel baring and hub. Then it should drive alright haha. Think my rim might be a little bent to so now i just have to make a trip to the junkyard. Luckily though no body damage! =D

This post has been edited by OwnDcelica: Jun 3, 2009 - 4:39 AM

[BonzaiCelica]

i think you had the same accident my celica had a while back ago before celica was actually mine. did you hit a curb?

Well im going to plan a socal meet for june or july. So keep an eye out. I will post it this weekend on sat or sunday. that should give you plenty of time to put your car back together.

[99Celica]

*cough* weekday meet

[OwnDcelica]

Yeah i hit a curb haha my brakes locked up and i ran into a curb. I'm replacing everything tomorrow. So whenever the meet is i'll be ready.