SoCal BBQ Meet June 21, Covina Autobacs + BBQ Options

[tomazws]

i'll be there. I still haven't been there and it's 5 minutes from my house.

Attending:
1) Derrick
2) Marco
3) Yuchen
4) Joe
5) Xavier
6) Aaron
7) Thomas
8)

Maybe Attending:
1) Faust
2) Alyssa
3)
4)
5)

[MaskedMan]

Haha nice 7 people already on the list! Is there anybody who would have an extra driver available? If not, it's cool, it's just a thought.

With 7 Celicas, I will be sure to contact Autobacs since this is turning into a real meet now . So who will be meeting at Marco's house first and be part of that caravan?

[MarcoGTS]

Yah! Whos Coming to my house?!?! lol i guess no panda garden buffet before we go straight to autobacs??? ey! i should call Ty or Maybe even JasonX if they can come, hopefully if they have fully recovered by now. but yeah contacting autobacs is a must now since we already have 7 people and more counting...... umm yeah its better to contact autobacs hella early than late...hopefully they can save us some parking spots....

This post has been edited by MarcoGTS: Jun 6, 2008 - 9:35 AM

[CAMAricer]

Hey guys,

Just throwing this out there as an idea...

How about someone bring a grill and have a bbq/potluck aftewards? It'll be a change of pace from the usual (love the buffet, but would enjoy a simple hotdog(s) or roasted corn out in the sun just as much). Bring a football/basketball or something if it's at a park. Hell, anyone play tennis or skate?

Darn, I'll be in town that weekend but will be busy. Maybe I can put in a guest appearance if this meet runs late...can't make any guarantees though, never know if some hot bridesmaid may need my "assistance" escorting her home that night

[tomazws]

Just curious.... why do we need to contact Autobacs? Do we have to register or something?

[MaskedMan]

Hey guys,

Just throwing this out there as an idea...

How about someone bring a grill and have a bbq/potluck aftewards? It'll be a change of pace from the usual (love the buffet, but would enjoy a simple hotdog(s) or roasted corn out in the sun just as much). Bring a football/basketball or something if it's at a park. Hell, anyone play tennis or skate?

Darn, I'll be in town that weekend but will be busy. Maybe I can put in a guest appearance if this meet runs late...can't make any guarantees though, never know if some hot bridesmaid may need my "assistance" escorting her home that night

hotdogs.... -_-*..... please no hotdogs .

I don't mind having a BBQ or something else, but can we please not cook hotdogs there? I'm not ready to face another hotdog since this weeks sickness incident. I'll be ok again someday, but....it's just too soon .

So yeah, the meet will most likely run late since meets usually do. But it depends on how long everyone can stay. The only reason it would end early is if Thomas has a mahjong thing, Christina or Alexi have a band thing, Yuchen needs to either babysit or be a taxi driver, Xavier is tired from partying the previous night, Joe and Aaron and something with their girlfriends, Marco runs out of gas money, or I get lost because someone thought it would be a good idea to speed through yellow lights knowing that the last person in the caravan (usually me) will either have to run a red light or get left behind .

[xs94st]

Xavier is tired from partying the previous night

lol, thats me alright. cept now i am sans girlfriend its a lot easier to hang out when there are less people to hang out with in your vicinity.

off topic, but i like this lil quick access thing on the left when posting a comment on the reply_post page. made me smile

i can look for my little orbular bbq no hot dogs, carrrrne asada, por favor

and gas prices.. 4.59..jeezus.

maybe we should have a 6gc carwash for other cars to make a 'fuel for meets' fund. lol.

[MaskedMan]

I like the "insert spoiler". That always made sense in the anime forums, but I don't see how it even applies here haha. Are there things we aren't supposed to know about the Toyota Celica yet? The Acronym one is a good one though, even though nobody who uses acronyms uses that function haha.

DUDE!!! So I just caught a fly in my hand right? Cause it was bugging me (no pun intended). But so I catch him and I'm all talking smack like "what you gunna do now fly!?" And I open my hand and he's all not moving and he's on his back and his legs are curled up, and I'm like wth!? How did you die!? All I did was capture you in an enclosed area in my hand! (like a pokeball). So then I feel bad because I didn't mean to kill him, I just wanted to teach him a lesson. So I go to put him down on the table, and then he flys away! I mean I'm glad I didn't kill him, but he really did look like he was dead with the whole leg curl action going on. He laughed at me and called me a fool, then hit me on the head with a rolled up piece of paper and said "how do you like it beeotch!?" Ok so that last part didn't really happen haha, but I assure you that the first parts of it are true until I used personification on the fly.

This post has been edited by MaskedMan: Jun 6, 2008 - 11:01 PM

[MarcoGTS]

HEYY!!! we can BBQ at the Park Near MY house!!!! WE can also Do a Photoshoot there!!!

[MaskedMan]

Just curious.... why do we need to contact Autobacs? Do we have to register or something?

We need to contact them because last time they gave me coupons for Autobacs to hand out that are good for that day. Actually they SAID they would give me coupons at the last Autobacs meet (remember it? it was in July last year haha. And we did a lot of driving and I think you gave up at the beach because you didn't want to drive to Palo Verdes to take pictures haha . )

HEYY!!! we can BBQ at the Park Near MY house!!!! WE can also Do a Photoshoot there!!!

Yeah I thought about that too. It's not such a bad idea, and that's why it's a good reason to meet directly at Autobacs (except those going to Marco's for the Caravan). Because it wouldn't make sense to meet at Marco's, drive to autobac's and then drive back to Marco's hahaha. So I will most likely just get to Autobacs first and wait for you guys there. Marco, will you be ok with handling all those interested in caravaning from your place on your own? From the looks of it, it will most likely be Yuchen and Xavier (possibly Ty). Those are the members off the top of my head that are arriving from the west. Other members are either already in the area, or are coming up from the Southern quadrant. It's kind of odd that I don't even have to think about where these people are coming from anymore because I have most of it memorised. And I'm pretty sure I know most of the SoCal 6gc members by their real name and can name their car, color, and if it's a manual or auto. I can take a pretty good guess at who is GT or ST, but I'm not 100% certain haha. I don't even think I need to ask for any more information from you guys like before. If any of you changed your cell phone number recently, then please let me know just incase I will need to contact you. My number is still the same . Just for another few weeks though haha.

Marco, I give you another task! Please contact Jason and see how is health is doing and if he would like to attend the meet. I will talk to Ty soon, but if you just so happen to speak with him before I do, then please ask him if he is up for the meet as well. I still have to go to Toyota and ask about something for him, but I haven't had a chance yet. And I know there's a few other SoCal members that said they'd be interested, but as soon as I made this thread, the interest seemed to have died .

[Random_Stranger]

Thanks for the HIDs Derrick {--__--}

This post has been edited by Random_Stranger: Jun 7, 2008 - 2:48 AM

[MarcoGTS]

Marco, will you be ok with handling all those interested in caravaning from your place on your own? From the looks of it, it will most likely be Yuchen and Xavier (possibly Ty).

Marco, I give you another task! Please contact Jason and see how is health is doing and if he would like to attend the meet. I will talk to Ty soon, but if you just so happen to speak with him before I do, then please ask him if he is up for the meet as well. I still have to go to Toyota and ask about something for him, but I haven't had a chance yet. And I know there's a few other SoCal members that said they'd be interested, but as soon as I made this thread, the interest seemed to have died .

No Problem! i Know where to go!

yeah ill go ahead and contact jason if hes OK to go....hmmm... for the BBQ part, how is it going to work?? After Autobacs THEN we get the food??? because i dont want food to rot or spoil (like meat or chicken) while we are at autobacs....so yeah we need a plan....also Xavier, try to find that little BBQ grill we will probably need that! ^_^ Thanx!

[MaskedMan]

We can put the food in an Ice Box to keep them fresh. It will be able to keep the meat good and the meet good . It might be better to go to Autobacs first, becuase people aren't usually hungry right away. Walking around Autobacs will give people a time to arrive and gather, then the walking will build up our appetite.

EDIT: I just got back from Autobacs (the one in Stanton), and that place was deader than I have ever seen a place ever be. I hesistated to even walk inside, because I'm saying tomyself, "dude, are they even open? no-one is inside..." There used to be car meets there on Saturday nights too, but tonight, there was like 2 cars. It was seriously bad.

Here is my review of the Stanton location ...

Upon entering the building, I felt a cold presence, almost as if I wasn't welcome. Many many employees, however, I feel as if McDonald's employees would have been more helpful at this point in time. The employees there were standing around chatting and were non helpful. They gave off an impression as if they were forced to work their against their own will. I quickly gathered what I needed and got out. The store used to seem larger to me, but they really don't have a very large selection. I found the selection at the Covina location to be much more complete, and not just an entire row of Air Fresheners. The Stanton location did not have what I was looking for, so I had to purchase the JDM version of what I wanted, which was ofcourse much more exspensive. All I wanted was some simple smoke spray, made by VHT, simple can, usually about $10 a can. But nope, since Stanton Autobacs is JDM, they only carried the small JDM can of smoke spray at $25 for a can that is half the size of the VHT can. Freaking retarded. I had promised my friend I would tint his tail lights for weeks now, but have always been post poning it. So I really had no other choice. I didn't have enough time to drive to the Covina location and get what I needed, so I bit the bullet and purchased the spray and an air freshener. This spray better be enchanted by the spirit of an old Japanese racer and add 200hp, and play magical music every time you drive your car.

This post has been edited by MaskedMan: Jun 8, 2008 - 12:09 AM

[prowzee]

put me down as a maybe i have to see if i can get it off

[MaskedMan]

Sorry but my mind's been trippin lately. I haven't had much time to send out too many PM's, and my cars are falling apart more and more as we speak. I can't find anything around the house, I'm not done packing, and I have to give my 2 weeks notice for my job right about now. I'm missing a ton of important paper work which I will have to find within the next few days. Gosh I'm stressing. I gotta rent a Uhaul, but I'm screwed because I only had planned to take 1-2 cars when I moved, but nothing sold, so I'm stuck with all of them. Damnit . I do not like this at all. And to top it all off, I'm thirsty haha.

But anyways, the meet is still on, it's the only thing I have to being remotely organized with. Except we still need to work out a few things on who is bringing what to the BBQ. I know it's short notice, but it looks like we're not going to have a lot of people going, so please bring what you can . And just because I had a minute, I thought I'd make a list of the items we will need, but aren't limited to just these...

We are going to need,

Spatula
Obvious things, like plates and napkins
Charcoal
A tent or A/C would be nice
Large trash bag
Cups
Eating Utensils
Lighter Fluid
Ice/Cooler and Drinks
Chips and Non-meat items
Alcohol (hehehe jk)
Meat

[MarcoGTS]

Sorry but my mind's been trippin lately. I haven't had much time to send out too many PM's, and my cars are falling apart more and more as we speak. I can't find anything around the house, I'm not done packing, and I have to give my 2 weeks notice for my job right about now. I'm missing a ton of important paper work which I will have to find within the next few days. Gosh I'm stressing. I gotta rent a Uhaul, but I'm screwed because I only had planned to take 1-2 cars when I moved, but nothing sold, so I'm stuck with all of them. Damnit . I do not like this at all. And to top it all off, I'm thirsty haha.

But anyways, the meet is still on, it's the only thing I have to being remotely organized with. Except we still need to work out a few things on who is bringing what to the BBQ. I know it's short notice, but it looks like we're not going to have a lot of people going, so please bring what you can . And just because I had a minute, I thought I'd make a list of the items we will need, but aren't limited to just these...

We are going to need,

Spatula
Obvious things, like plates and napkins
Charcoal
A tent or A/C would be nice
Large trash bag
Cups
Eating Utensils
Lighter Fluid
Ice/Cooler and Drinks
Chips and Non-meat items
Alcohol (hehehe jk)
Meat

Ill Bring Charcoal, Trash Bags and eating utensils, i could bring the Ice Cooler

[Chanh55]

We can put the food in an Ice Box to keep them fresh. It will be able to keep the meat good and the meet good . It might be better to go to Autobacs first, becuase people aren't usually hungry right away. Walking around Autobacs will give people a time to arrive and gather, then the walking will build up our appetite.

EDIT: I just got back from Autobacs (the one in Stanton), and that place was deader than I have ever seen a place ever be. I hesistated to even walk inside, because I'm saying tomyself, "dude, are they even open? no-one is inside..." There used to be car meets there on Saturday nights too, but tonight, there was like 2 cars. It was seriously bad.

Here is my review of the Stanton location ...

Upon entering the building, I felt a cold presence, almost as if I wasn't welcome. Many many employees, however, I feel as if McDonald's employees would have been more helpful at this point in time. The employees there were standing around chatting and were non helpful. They gave off an impression as if they were forced to work their against their own will. I quickly gathered what I needed and got out. The store used to seem larger to me, but they really don't have a very large selection. I found the selection at the Covina location to be much more complete, and not just an entire row of Air Fresheners. The Stanton location did not have what I was looking for, so I had to purchase the JDM version of what I wanted, which was ofcourse much more exspensive. All I wanted was some simple smoke spray, made by VHT, simple can, usually about $10 a can. But nope, since Stanton Autobacs is JDM, they only carried the small JDM can of smoke spray at $25 for a can that is half the size of the VHT can. Freaking retarded. I had promised my friend I would tint his tail lights for weeks now, but have always been post poning it. So I really had no other choice. I didn't have enough time to drive to the Covina location and get what I needed, so I bit the bullet and purchased the spray and an air freshener. This spray better be enchanted by the spirit of an old Japanese racer and add 200hp, and play magical music every time you drive your car.

Did you ask for help and they didn't give it to you or something? Is someone supposed to walk up to you and hold your hand? It's a car place man... not a day care. If you need help walk up to an employee and ask for it.

Anyways... instead of bringing stuff for a bbq, if you guys really want to burn things why don't you meet at a Korean BBQ place.

[MaskedMan]

Ok Marco, sounds good, I'll put you down for those things.

[MaskedMan]

Spatula
Obvious things, like plates and napkins
Charcoal - Marco
A tent or A/C would be nice
Large trash bag - Marco
Cups
Eating Utensils - Marco
Lighter Fluid
Ice/Cooler and Drinks - Marco for cooler/Derrick for drinks and Ice.
Chips and Non-meat items
Alcohol (hehehe jk)
Meat

[GMHAPPY29]

Hey guys!!! How have you all been? I've finally got my computer fixed and I'm back online . I feel like I've been on an Island out of touch from civilization . Marco buddy, how's the car doing? Derrick thanks for checking on the info for my sisters car for me, that's awesome. My I.E. friends how we doing???

O.k. short notice but I will hopefully know by this week if I can go to the meet but I will definitly try to rearrange anything else so I can go. I have enough lighter fluid and almost a whole cooler full of ice packs if needed. I will check the needed list once I can confirm I am going.

Derrick I have a friend that is always buying and selling cars (mainly Corvettes ) but let me know what you are selling and I'll try to help you out.

Anyway I am sooo happy to be back online and I have tons of e-mails to write so hope to talk to you guys soon and I'll let you know about my schedule for the 21st.

Thanks again guys and talk to you soon - Ty.