Are we really THAT boring?

[Bscman]

All the other Regional sections of the forum have 3x as many threads as we do.....are we just anti-social northwesterners?

[ChopperDr]

I hope that's not the case. I'd like to hear about some upcomming events in the northwest.

Chopper

[NovatoriusRex]

All the other Regional sections of the forum have 3x as many threads as we do.....are we just anti-social northwesterners?

I've pondered that same thought on many occasions.

I'm not quite sure what it takes to get more northwestern Nova owners motivated to get & stay involved...both online and offline. :confused:

[the FLYER]

I've pondered that same thought on many occasions.

I'm not quite sure what it takes to get more northwestern Nova owners motivated to get & stay involved...both online and offline. :confused:

have ya tried electroshock therapy or a cattle prod ??? :rolleyes: :D :D :D




yuk yuk yuk :D

[NovatoriusRex]

have ya tried electroshock therapy or a cattle prod ??? :rolleyes: :D :D :D

yuk yuk yuk :D

They actually have to appear before you can do that though. What you can't see or get near, you can't electrocute! :D

[72GreenRally]

Maybe ya 'all need a doughnut shop.

























And sunshine!!:rolleyes: :D

[NovatoriusRex]

Maybe ya 'all need a doughnut shop.

We've got something like that in Beaverton every Friday night during the late spring and summer months. A place called Bales Thriftway has a cruise-in every Friday night. Only occasionally does a Nova show up.

Maybe the NW Nova Club guys should have a talk with the local Krispy Kreme to see how their business is on weekend nights. We may be able to drum up some business for them. :)

[the FLYER]

i dunno if it's true but i guess the "Donut Shoppe" back 25 years or so ago started with a couple guys stopping in the early AM for a cuppa coffee and a donut... and it grew from there... i guess it's the largest unorganized "meet" in the US...

OK, i just copied/pasted their info... see if ya can get something goin' Brent... ya never know what you & the NW Nova's can get going ;)


http://www.donutderelicts.com/index.php?location=about_us



Back in 1986 In Sunny Southern California, four buddies who some years before went to high school together, met at a small neighborhood donut shop at the corner of Adams and Magnolia Ave. in Huntington Beach, California. This was the humble beginnings of what was to become "Donut Derelict", the largest and most well-known casual hot rod gathering in the world.

These four friends actually gathered to take their sons dirt bike riding. As time went on, the guys would show up in their hot rods and classic cars. Theo other guys in the area began to notice the couple of cars gathering, and as one thing led to another, the small group began to grow…6 cars, then 10, then 15 and so on.

One day after one of the neighborhood hot rodders had been drawing cartoons for "Street Rodder" magazine, he invited one of the editors to the donut shop gathering. The magazine editor was so taken by the group, he photographed one of the unique cars and wrote a small article for the magazine entitled "Hot Rodders Coffee Break". This set off an explosion! When the magazine hit the stands, 75 cars showed up to the small donut shop.

The "Donut Derelicts' came about as two of the guys, Jim McCain and Rick Finn were compiling a phone list…the name stuck!

Over 75 cars were showing up each and every Saturday. Their group began to include such names as Art Chrisman, drag racer from the 60's, Little John Butera, hot rod builder (formerly with Hot Rods by Boyd"), and Chip Foose, builder, artist and designer…the list goes on and on.

Each and every Saturday you can expect to see everything from "backyard rat rods" to "America's most beautiful roadster". Chrysler concept cars and new factory releases are but a few surprises.

Back about 1989 Rick Finn, world famous motor sports artist, was asked to create a T-Shirt to represent the group. After a quick idea was scribbled on a napkin, the first "Donut Derelicts" T-Shirt was born. At first there was no plan to follow up the initial T-shirt design, but the response was so overwhelming other soon followed. Many years have passed and dozens of T-shirts have been created, along with an ever-growing accessory line for hot rod related products.

Today you can cruise in to the "Donut Derelicts" and be amazed by the variety and quality of cars that drop by to join tin the most famous car gathering in the world. To this day about 20 articles have featured the Huntington Beach, California gathering.

Cruise by next Saturday…you will be amazed!

HAPPY CRUISING

[Dragnova67]

I just think everyone is afraid of the "aquatread nationals" we hold up here from september to june every year!!!!!!!:D

[66novass]

I also belong to a Honda prelude forum and they tend to have the same problem with the North Western people. :confused: That's weird...

[Bruce]

A big part of the problem is there are huge distances between many of us in the Northwest; I know you would like larger turn outs for the N.W. group, but time and now fuel costs can get in the way. I just made the trip to Gresham last weekend to pick up my short block and it was over $100. for fuel.

Over here, you may see an occasional Chevy II on the street, but a bunch at any drag race. Maybe printing out a flyer and putting them on Novas at Woodburn may help recruiting.

[novas4life]

If you wana see Novas,they're all at the track:D

[David_D.]

A big part of the problem is there are huge distances between many of us in the Northwest; I know you would like larger turn outs for the N.W. group, but time and now fuel costs can get in the way. I just made the trip to Gresham last weekend to pick up my short block and it was over $100. for fuel.

Over here, you may see an occasional Chevy II on the street, but a bunch at any drag race. Maybe printing out a flyer and putting them on Novas at Woodburn may help recruiting.

Bruce is right, I think population and the area that the Northwest covers has something to do with it.

Maybe us Northwesterners are too busy working to spend hours on the net...in other words we have a life lol j/k :D

[Dragnova67]

www.headsupnw.com

Our first race is friday evening!!!
There will be some novas there!!!! ;)

[novas4life]

If I get done working in time,I'll be there. My ChevyII wont. Even with the numbers I'm hoping for,I would be sitting still compaired to some of those brutes!!
I frequent the HeadsUp site a lot,theres a lot of muscle.
Brandon

[youngin69nova]

we really are kind of dull over here in the northwest i think its because we dont have people as close together as all of the other people maybe some of us should meet up

[Bruce]

It might be interesting to do a simple NW poll of what we do with our Chevy II/Novas. Something like:
Drag Race only
Street/show car only
both
neither

Maybe if we find a common ground, getting a group together somewhere when it is not 100 degrees, raining and would take less than a $1M in gas for the majority to get to.

[patsadog]

I'm game, how about gettin the Treasure valley Novas together soon.

[youngin69nova]

what about tacoma/seattle/lakewood/olympia are there several novas we could get together