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Old 11-18-2001, 11:22 AM
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Eurotunerfest at Willow Springs 11/25/01

Hi gang! We've all been talking about this upcoming event on various threads, so I thought we'd better have a separate thread for it if we hope to get together there! Here's the relevant websites for info:

http://www.eurotunerfest.com/

http://www.willowspringsraceway.com/

Of all of us, Guido seems to be closest to the organizers of this event, so Guido, please chime in!

I've got a busy family weekend coming up, so I plan to just head up to the track for the day. I'd like to propose a rendezvous for us South Bay types - Guido, me, FredHeld, helmutvonschet? How about at Mercedes Benz of South Bay at 6:00am on the 25th? My confidence of making it is currently 90% - but my son has a football bowl game in San Diego the day before.

-fad - Rancho Cucamonga is near Pomona. I checked out the route from Rancho Cucamonga to Rosamond on MapQuest, and it routes you via I-15 and CA-138 to CA-14. That's a much nicer trip for you than traveling back through LA to the South Bay to convoy there! We could meet at the track, or if my fellow South Bay'ers are game, we could leave the South Bay at 5:00 or so and head out to Rancho Cucamonga to travel up to Rosamond with you from there. Highway 138 would be a nice drive.

Whose idea was it to have a designated parking area for MBHotRods? Anyone on it?

Has anyone registered for the event, or are we just showing up?

Anyone planning to drive on the track? I had mine on the track at an HSR event last March - the fourth day I owned my car. That's where I met Guido. It was a blast!

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Old 11-19-2001, 11:28 AM
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Hi Mark and gang-

I'll also have a busy week starting tomorrow so, hopefully we can firm up our plans today or tomorrow?

I'll be incognito on mercedesshop starting tomorrow, but will definitely not be persona non grata for this.

Cruizing to the event with a whole bunch of 500e/e500's will be a blast, and maybe I'll do the hotel route in the LA area on Sat night so we can do the South Bay meet up at 6am.......just firm up plans and I'll be there. What's the street address? so I can pull mapping?

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Old 11-19-2001, 12:36 PM
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No word from the others. My confidence in attending the event just fell to 50%, as my son's Pop Warner football bowl game in San Diego was just scheduled to Sunday instead of Saturday. I'll have to see how the family week goes; right now it's not looking good.

Any others out there?
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Old 11-19-2001, 12:45 PM
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Well, I'm feeling a bit left out. I opted for an E420 instead of the E500. I think I'll be picking it up on Friday.

Is the black sheep welcome?

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Old 11-19-2001, 01:09 PM
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Craig- congrats on that clean E420!

By all means meet up and let's do this event!
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Old 11-19-2001, 01:14 PM
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I'm planning to meet at the Gates of Willow at 7am.

I have the AMG'd wagon entered in the customs show, and am hoping to have a friend drive the 500E as well (even with the bent hood hinge!).

Anyone else want to meet in Santa Barbara at say 6am?

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Old 11-19-2001, 05:43 PM
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Hey everyone, some of the people at mbworld.org are going to meet and caravan up to Willow Springs. It would be great if we could have one big MB caravan to go up there. They're meeting up at the supermarket in front of the Rusnak dealership in Pasadena. Lets get this thing going! Here is the link to the site: http://forums.mbworld.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=214
It would be great if we could all go together!
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Old 11-19-2001, 10:55 PM
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Thanks fad.

Neil, looks like we'll get to meet.

I'm up for it as long as Rusnak gets the rims, tinting and the CD changer in by Friday!

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Old 11-20-2001, 09:03 AM
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Craig, congrats on the E420 purchase! Cool car, huh? I'm up for meeting at Rusnak instead of South Bay if it turns out I can go. Can someone post Rusnak's street address?
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Old 11-20-2001, 12:25 PM
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Hi Mark- from the latest post- sounds like you are a 50% maybe

Craig is 100% meet at Rusnak

Anyone yet heard from Guido? or other South Bay MB types?

I haven't registered for anything for this event, but will show the E500 if we can get at least 2 other's so the organizers can open another category for us....

The weather forcast looks like rain here in the SF Bay are on Friday and the entire weekend...it'll be a bit of a bummer if Willow Springs is raining too! I'm driving down to Rancho Cucamonga early Friday morning ~6am- and won't have internet access starting tommorrow evening...

in the circumstance that we are not able to get more members to firm up committments to meet for a caravan (beyond Rusnak), I'll most likely do the trek to Willow Springs from Rancho and look for you mercedesshop people there. Notwithstanding any mechanical difficulties...I look forward to meeting and greeting and an entertaining event.

My '94 E500 is black pearl on black (36.6k), tinted windows x4, riding on stock 8 hole chromies and PP S-03's. It'll be a bit of a drag to get her dirty and wet if the weather is droopy!!!

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Old 11-20-2001, 07:27 PM
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The address for Rusnak is 325 W. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena.
We are going to meet at the supermarket parking lot across from Rusnak on Colorado Blvd.
So who's coming for sure?
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Old 11-20-2001, 10:33 PM
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Thanks for the address. Sorry, I still can't commit. Still 50%. If I CAN go, I'll show up at the supermarket across the street from Rusnak at 6:00am. And I'll post as soon as I know for sure. Weather.com lists partly cloudy for Sunday, bracketed by scattered showers Saturday and Monday. The Rosamond forecast pulls Lancaster, which is about 15 miles south
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OK mercedesshop fellas, it's 330pm and looks like the only 'for sure' start will be from the shopping center parking lot across from Rusnak...

...looks like my best route will be to leaving from Rancho Cucamonga solo and meeting and greeting you at the event

see ya then!
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Guido- bring those 500E springs to Willow. I might be interested.


:-) neil
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Old 11-23-2001, 12:07 AM
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rainy days ahead

WELL GUYS LOOKS LIKE RAIN BIG TIME AT WILLOW. I WONDER IF THERE GOING TO DO ALL THE ACTIVITIES STILL. ARE ALOT OF YOU GOING EVEN IF IT RAINS ALOT????

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