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Just got home not too long ago, but wanted to post this before heading off to bed.
I had a great time this weekend. Many thanks to everyone who made it, those who had their cars in the show and represented the crew, and for all our sponsors who put their money where their mouth is and went through the expense, energy, and TIME to add true content to the Expo. It was great to see such gorgeous Skylines on display for all to view and admire.
The dinner at Jack Astors was fantastic. It was so nice to see so many diehards wanting to come out and spend time with each other. Definitely the highlight of my weekend. Having these get-togethers truly makes me appreciate what we have started here and the comeraderie online forums can create. Like our online personas, everyone were friendly, mature, and even though I met a lot of you for the first time, it seems like coming home to old friends.
Notable mentions:
-Dave (Qualthar). Hardcore to the extreme! The only westerner that did what he said he'd do from the getgo: drive across the country in a Skyline GT-R. Easily 10,000kms logged in in one week. The car never looked better!
-Marc (klys). Drove with gf Stephanie all the way from Mtl in the middle of the night to arrive in TO at 6am. wtf? Glad to see you had a chance to make it into a good trip for the two of you, even though most of it was within the confines of the grand prix. We will definitely have another roadtrip to Toronto again in the future and I will play tourguide for you.
-Adam from Feast. Came all the way from Japan for the show, complete with a ton of stuff from jdmland incl a Tomei SR20DET! I hope the show was good to you and rewarded your hard efforts. Thanks for the shochu. 8)
-Mitch (JDM-Imports) with the help of Daryl at jdmspeedshop. Easily one of the nicest GTRs I've ever seen in the country. Simply gorgeous. Very complete booth.
-Dave (Z-tuned) for setting it all up, for the special tickets 8) and still finding time to have dinner with the GTRCers even though I knew you were running around all day like a chicken with its head cut off!
I learned a few things from this meet, and next year things will be very different. I had spoken to alot of you at the show and told you my thoughts on the whole GPT thing. Comments were heard as well and appreciated. Two things that come to mind right away. 1) the venue was too large and too diverse for a proper meet. Next time it will be simpler, more focused and only have one official day so everyone can roll in and roll out that night and have full use of their rides for the weekend. We can carry on informally as a group in the days afterwards but the actual Skymeet will be a one day event. I still want to have it hosted by another event, but it will be much, much smaller. 2) if someone will step up to the plate and volunteer to organize it, I would like to have 2 meets, a western one in Vancouver, and one for the east in TO. This will serve the two largest concentrations of the GTRCers and will eliminate the requirement of everyone having to drive obscene distances (though still cool if you guys want to go to both meets and drive to them
).
I will post pics in the thread soon. Right now I need to sleep.
Cheers,
John
I had a great time this weekend. Many thanks to everyone who made it, those who had their cars in the show and represented the crew, and for all our sponsors who put their money where their mouth is and went through the expense, energy, and TIME to add true content to the Expo. It was great to see such gorgeous Skylines on display for all to view and admire.
The dinner at Jack Astors was fantastic. It was so nice to see so many diehards wanting to come out and spend time with each other. Definitely the highlight of my weekend. Having these get-togethers truly makes me appreciate what we have started here and the comeraderie online forums can create. Like our online personas, everyone were friendly, mature, and even though I met a lot of you for the first time, it seems like coming home to old friends.
Notable mentions:
-Dave (Qualthar). Hardcore to the extreme! The only westerner that did what he said he'd do from the getgo: drive across the country in a Skyline GT-R. Easily 10,000kms logged in in one week. The car never looked better!
-Marc (klys). Drove with gf Stephanie all the way from Mtl in the middle of the night to arrive in TO at 6am. wtf? Glad to see you had a chance to make it into a good trip for the two of you, even though most of it was within the confines of the grand prix. We will definitely have another roadtrip to Toronto again in the future and I will play tourguide for you.
-Adam from Feast. Came all the way from Japan for the show, complete with a ton of stuff from jdmland incl a Tomei SR20DET! I hope the show was good to you and rewarded your hard efforts. Thanks for the shochu. 8)
-Mitch (JDM-Imports) with the help of Daryl at jdmspeedshop. Easily one of the nicest GTRs I've ever seen in the country. Simply gorgeous. Very complete booth.
-Dave (Z-tuned) for setting it all up, for the special tickets 8) and still finding time to have dinner with the GTRCers even though I knew you were running around all day like a chicken with its head cut off!
I learned a few things from this meet, and next year things will be very different. I had spoken to alot of you at the show and told you my thoughts on the whole GPT thing. Comments were heard as well and appreciated. Two things that come to mind right away. 1) the venue was too large and too diverse for a proper meet. Next time it will be simpler, more focused and only have one official day so everyone can roll in and roll out that night and have full use of their rides for the weekend. We can carry on informally as a group in the days afterwards but the actual Skymeet will be a one day event. I still want to have it hosted by another event, but it will be much, much smaller. 2) if someone will step up to the plate and volunteer to organize it, I would like to have 2 meets, a western one in Vancouver, and one for the east in TO. This will serve the two largest concentrations of the GTRCers and will eliminate the requirement of everyone having to drive obscene distances (though still cool if you guys want to go to both meets and drive to them
).I will post pics in the thread soon. Right now I need to sleep.
Cheers,
John
(Team Toyo Street)
nooo nothing strange happened at the old spaghetti factory on friday which was also pretty good.
:shock: 
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