Mark your calendars folks, for the weekend of April 12-13. We've selected this weekend as "the" weekend for a SoCal GTG of 500E/E500 owners to drop in, get to know one another, and enjoy some time with the cars.

Indeed, a true two-day festival of fun & fellowship for all FiveHundredEEE Folks.

Jeff Wong (captruff) has graciously allowed us to use his Orange County warehouse as a base of operations. The event will center around Irvine. Whips (of the mechanical or female variety) are welcome, as appropriate.

We are working on the following activities, as part of the weekend:

A visit to the MB Classic Center (date/time TBD)
"Cars on the lift" tech sessions at Jeff's warehouse HQ
Visit to the Saturday, April 12 Orange County Cars & Coffee
An .036 informal swap-meet (you can bring parts and buy/sell/trade)
A drive up in the hills and canyons (location/time TBD)
A restaurant dinner on Saturday night, April 12th (location TBD)
Take-out food to be available at Jeff's HQ
Special ********* commemorative gift to everyone who attends
An on-line preview & demo of what's coming next for *********



We'll run this as a casual "drop in as you can" type of deal, but hopefully folks should plan to devote at least one day to hanging out.

I am planning to fly out, take a vacation day on Friday the 11th April, and be around for the full weekend because I want to see everyone I haven't seen for years and meet a lot of our newer members. And most importantly to see everyone's cars !!

So let's plan to make this the biggest gathering of E500E owners yet. It would be super cool to have say 20-25 cars from all you guys in the LA and San Diego areas.

We'll publish a more formal schedule of specific events (i.e. C&C logistics/location to meet, Saturday dinner, Classic Center visit time, etc.) as things solidify. Thanks to captruff, ebergstedt, and Glen for their support, enthusiasm and help in making this happen. Once planning is a bit further along, we'll publicize via other forums too, but this thread should be the center of the universe on this.

RSVP list is here -- feel free to reply below if you plan to attend.

1. captruff
2. KarlC
3. ebergstedt
4. Glen
5. gerryvz
6. tanger - maybe
7. J-Sauce
8. Jano
9. Maui
10. vincec
11. lil_dz33
12. DW SD
13. Hi-Power
14. fredtga
15. Cannoli (tentative)
16. Calspeed
17. TerryA
18. albdentist
19. edcarls - maybe
20. Dan - maybe
21. Emaq
22.
23.
24.
25.

Look forward to seeing/meeting everyone next month !

.

__________________
1971 250C Ivory / Cognac Leather ~ 1993 500E - 040 / 271 - Porsche Type 2758

Past Cars - 1994 E500 - 2003 CL600 V12TT by SPEEDRIVEN - 1994 E500 - 1995 E320 Cab - 1988 BMW M6 - 1994 E320 Cab