559 Out of Place?
 

So is there any one who fills out of place in the Central Valley? I live in Visalia, and I know for a fact im not North or South. No disrespect but I feel I don't fit in.

From where I live:
SoCal- LA is about 3-3 and a half hours away
SD is about 5-6 hours away
http://mapq.st/18pzIwQ

NorCal-SF is about 2 and a half- 3 and a half
Crescent City is 10-10 and a half
http://mapq.st/10x8vEc


So with that being said, CenCal any one? Its not that I don't want to be apart of NorCal or SoCal, Its CA is so Damn long. Either way its 3 hours away to be involved in meets, drives, any event........

Thoughts anyone?

^^^ Attend both. At least I would try that. Rotate your visits. SoCal has a lot bigger population so chances of seeing a variety of 86s is far greater than Norcal's group. NorCal is an hour closer to ya so if you see an enticing meet here, come on up. Either way, twice the fun, friends, 86s, and social life. Who knows, maybe you can play ambassador and let us know what's the SoCal meets are like and entice us to make the farther trek.

I feel ya on this one being that I live in Stockton. I know there aren't a lot of great roads in the valley, but there are a lot of great drives to be had in the foothills. Did one yesterday out in the Sutter Creek Area and did a 2.5 hour drive outside of Georgetown a few weeks back. Maybe we should try to start a cruz thread out in this area and see what that gets us?

Im down!!!how about Tahoe/Reno? I have been to Vegas 3 or 4 times, AZ 2 times-Havasu Spring Break was :party0030: :happy0180: :barf:, LA once:bonk: stuck in traffic for 3 hours/never make that mistake again!!! Humboldt once, a trip up to Arnold/Angels Camp 30-45min East of you. Owens Lake/Sequoia National Park, Pismo, San Luis, Morro....... still have not hit the bay tho...

Yeah, I hear ya! One can only cruise down dead straight farm roads so many times ;). Why not organize a foot hills drive and post them up on the drive's thread:

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29572

86DRIVE keeps track of all the drives there (and in other threads) to share and spread the word to anybody else interested. Check us out (link on my sig). We are a volunteer based group that organizes drives through out the area, just so happens we all live in the bay so that's where most of them are. We'd love to have some volunteers in the valley, cencal and sacramento area. Heck, a few of us might even drag our butts out of bed to get to a foothills/sierra's drive!

Sounds like all great drives, I say if you're gonna try to hit the bay, might aswell make the trek west and head north via hwy 1 (try to do it on a weekday tho, weekends are chuck full of tourists)

I took a quick spin out yesterday out to Turlock Lake straight east of Modesto. I was thinking about our run on Saturday, and about how many routes that there are in the near-valley and foothills direction. Usually without the tourist-y weekender traffic.

I used to hold a run for our Datsun Roadster community during the first week in March, but as the group has aged a bit, there were less and less cars coming out, and it just faded away.

Although I cannot promise anytime soon, I would like to hold a drive sometime in the Central Valley and through the foothills to the east of Modesto. As they all said 17 years ago when I moved here, 'Its only a couple of hours from everything.' Although it is really 15 minutes from nothing, there are some great roads around here, and it is time I re-aquainted myself with some of them.

Any takers? My weekend sched is completely filled until my return from the midwest at the end of June. The only issue is that the temps in the valley start to really climb by then, making the run a bit less fun.

Eric G

We'll shit if I didn't has so much on my plate right now I'd hit the road. Na Visalia is not that bad. I'm only 20 min from NSF. There is just no organization or events here! 😖🔫. That's why I'm throwing out the idea of CenCal Region. So we here in the Vally can get together. All we have to do here is drugs, drink, or drive!!!!! So let hit the road!!!!

Visalia is in SoCal, Madera is the dividing line so you can really only say you don't belong if you live in Madera. But as a displacement effort all the central california stuff ended up here.

I still think dividing up the California forums was a mistake, this place has next to nothing going on now, at least with a bigger group we could talk about standard things affecting all of us like laws and tracks that we can visit and sanctioning bodies.

And get off my lawn.

Lol, you post this in N Cal section so you already think N Cal way. No?

visit the cencal thread. i honestly dont think its active enough for a region, yet atleast.

I can't find a cencal thread finch. Got a link or am I that blind? :bonk:

Not sure if joking...

http://i.imgur.com/8Dmj6U4.png?1

*****Lol, you post this in N Cal section so you already think N Cal way. No?



UUUUUMMMMMMMMMM When was the last time you looked at a Map? Cause if you want to get Technical, Your in Central CA!!!! Let see San Jose to Crescent City is just over 400 miles, taking 7 and a half hours!!!! -for the ignorant- http://mapq.st/17o1AC3 :bonk:Now San Jose to San Diego is 460 miles, taking 7 and a half hours!!!! http://mapq.st/131fjts It takes longer going North cause how windy the 101 gets!!!! Now looking at a Map Northern would be Humboldt, an San Diego is Southern:bellyroll: So really your Central and make you right about one thing, that I'm southern. I know I don't understand why people started calling the Bay Northern CA?!?!?!?!?!:popcorn: OOOOO Wait a Minuet the Bay and LA became Northern and Southern CA cause the Mexican Gangs in the Prison System!!!!!!:bow:!!! Now since Your Central how about we start holding all events over here so you can make the 5 hour round trip!! Now is you want to keep being grumpy I wont tell you where open tracks like *Midnight Mayhem* are or how to find them!
:respekt:

And the second question, I posted this in Both Nor and SoCal :happy0180:

Well that escalated quickly...

Not sure what your rant is trying to prove, but might want to read this:

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_California"]Northern California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

In any case "Central California" generally refers to the "Central Valley", bitch about geography all you want but culturally speaking population density is waay more important when dividing people.

Edit: Just googled "Midnight Mayhem" I'm glad there's some Rocky Horror Picture love going on!

Not joking and thanks. I did see that....:confused0068:

I hear ya, I actually enjoyed having just one CA subforum. "You kids these days, back in my day, we had one CA sub forum, and we liked it, and we had to walk to school, barefoot, in the snow, uphill, both ways!"

:bellyroll: Thanks, I needed that.

I can understand the density thing! The only reason I bring it up is because we are still a ways away from everyone. Like do you want to drive two and a half ta three hours one way for a three hour drive, just to have another three hour ride home? I know if im doing a 7-8hour trip I wana end up somewhere I can find a cold one an some boobies to play with!:thumbup: Not just home to the dogs. But anyways u came off a lil as an a$$holewith the hole get off ur lawn. I should have said 'get out my orange grove', an to face the fact (who wants to be socal)? there drives must consist of a 6 hour drive taking the 405 in one circle.:thumbdown:

Why the split in the first place?
But anyways good research!!!:respekt:

O and Midnight Mayhem is open track for LVMS/ Las Vegas Motor Speedway. They try and hold it a couple times a
http://www.lvms.com/dragstrip/midnight_mayhem/

:bellyroll:

O and Midnight Mayhem is open track for LVMS/ Las Vegas Motor Speedway. They try and hold it a couple times a
http://www.lvms.com/dragstrip/midnight_mayhem/[/QUOTE]


Most tracks have them. you have to find info out through the arena.

Famoso Speedway
http://www.famosoraceway.com/fnd.htm
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:slap: Your choice of emoticon grieves me greatly! How did you not see these?! :tweetz::drool: Seriously tho I feel you on the driving thing. I grew up in fucking Chowchilla. The ratio of people on the forum to people with these cars is so small, there just arent more than about 6 central valley peeps total. And the valley is loooong..

That's the way it has always been and the way it always will be, how do you think owners in Idaho or North Dakota feel? Rural Texas? And then you bring up Las Vegas, you are smack dab in between some of the most beautiful coastlines, mountains, and forests and can make a weekend out of visiting any of three world famous cities without worrying. :happy0180:

The get off my lawn comment was me being an old man reminiscing about the past and how things used to be. It's a relatively common phrase.

The split was due to complaints that it was confusing, people "wasting time" clicking on threads for meets that they didn't realize they had zero chance of making, people getting excited about a "Bay Area" thread and realizing it's the wrong one, and probably a little bit of rivalry.

Meanwhile entire continents get one lonely subforum, not to mention every other state that isn't California or Hawaii gets combined into large regional forums.

No where are those ones at? Im still really new to all this. I have not used any kind of social network in like 5 years!!!! I don't even have a FaceBook.

I would actually like to have some sort of section for Central cal so that it would be easier for us to setup meets and other stuff. We have 1 thread that we just post everything into and it just gets jumbled up with everything else. Even if the section was still listed under Nor cal I wouldn't care it would just be nice to have some way to be able sort through everything. Most of the time we don't see when someone is setting up a meet on our thread because it just ends up mixed together with everything else and we don't end up making it and having successful meets.

I think there is actually about 15 people in Cen cal total although probably only about 6 or 7 of us are actually really active. I do like going to some of the Nor cal meets even if we do get a cen cal group ill still go to some of those, but for the trips that are farther up i just won't make them. Any sort of friday night event or anything where as i still have work the next day there typically in nor cal. For instance the first event i went to in November I stayed at a friends place, but he has since moved and is really busy so that is not really an option anymore. the second event was closer, but i still had a
2 1/2-3 hour drive home, so i skipped the drive event and left for home early.

Just saying it would be nice to have some way to sort things into categories for us here in Central Cal. :thanks:

ya I agree in theory but if you look at how dead our thread is...:word: When Im here in phoenix its even worse,we just had a 35 car meet & bbq,and theyre VERY active & we only have a thread in the southwest regional forum.Its insane,some days they fill up 3 pages,try finding the info in that!:respekt:

I think the best bet would be to have a cencal thread specifically for meets/drives(NO conversations),and use our existing cencal thread for riff raff.. :bs:

http://https://www.dropbox.com/s/ey1...%2040%20PM.jpg
Surprising how common that is still.. If you scroll to the bottom of the smileys template,there is a link for "more",just click that and then each one you click on will appear in the text box here..

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So in away I do agree that splitting to another Region will just make things worse. Then instead of trying to organize 2 groups it will be 3. It will just cause conflict be so much more work and harder to organize . Every one wll be pissed at each other until we all fall out!!

So what if we stay on the Norcal Region, but start a Central Valley Owners Club? That way we can still organize our self's and be recognized, an still part of the bigger picture! We do need to stick together though. SoCal don't want us NorCal opened the door an welcomed us. The more we devide the faster we will all fall. We can do drives to Nor and So an link up when ever.
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...ps7c48ae07.png
CenCal Owners
C.V. Owners
Central Valley Owners.......


How does every one feel about that?




Cause we know we don't want to go South, more trees North

559 who els is off today?

Cen/NorCal owners

I think it's a great idea. I'm in....

Sounds good to me, i like the idea. So we just make more threads then basically? :thumbsup: :thanks:

I'm working till 5, on here in between customers lol

Anyone on here stationed at NAS Lemoore? I've been seeing a couple of FR-S/ BRZ around base.

Not that I know of, I was going to drive down there an Hanford, Porterville, Tulare an try and spread the word.

Flag them down next time you see um

recruit
 

Recruited the Black and White FR-S Brothers from Visalia today, they will be joining soon!:party0030:
We still need the Firestorm on the North Side AutoZone!
The White BRZ in Tulare....
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was that the mothers day event?
Are you in CA or AZ right now?

I like the sound of that, if we stay connected with NorCal we can get there support/views to keep it active

Yes it was. Im back in AZ just now but Im sure Ill be home again soon. My schedule is pretty wierd but if meets coincide with my time in CA,I usually try to go to stay current wth everyone. There really are a FEW who would come down from Norcal,but Pry not towards Visalia. Even from my hometown your close to a 2hr drive away. Tack an hour and a half for even the east bay guys and thts quite a haul. Im sure you know this but there are some peeps over towards San Luis Obispo on the SoCal region that are wanting to start doing some meets, that would be as close to you as anything in the Modesto/Stockton region. And its a very beautiful drive there! Heck Id be more than happy to drive down tht way some time!:D

Im in!!!!! :clap:

What ever it takes....

Hey im new have a whiteout frs and would like to meet with people i live in visalia but id travel hmu