OK here it is, hot off the presses
The GTA caravan info is as follows.

Thursday July 18th
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Meet at 9:30 - 10:00am at the old Computer City parking lot at Eglinton and Hurontario (just north of the 403). We will depart there at 10:15 am and head to the highway.

11:00am meet at the Home Depot on #20 in Stoney Creek (Centenial Parkway). This is about 1 block from the QEW. Pee break, and Tim's run till ~11:30am.

Lunch will be in NY state at the Mcdonalds on the interstate ~1:00-1:30 pm.

We should arrive in Ohio for supper time.(mmmm bacon gravy!!)

NOTES:
1- you NEED a passport or birth certificate to cross the border!!!! or they will turn you back.
2- Gas stops will be at the places we meet and or eat. SO please make sure your tank is full of Sunoco 94 BEFORE you leave.
3- The interstate in NY is toll so you will need some american $$ for it and the lunch at McDonalds.

Please also note that this is the Caravan I'm participating in and these times are not up for discussion If you are not heading down on the Thursday...MYOC (make your own caravan)

Please let me know if you plan on joining us!!!!!

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I know I'M heading down on Thursday.... I think most people are going down a little later than Wednesday.. Have a good caravan, though!

I'm gettin' giddy. I'll see you guys at the Home Depot.. 11:00 am SHARP! (Actually, I'll probably be early..)

I'm in...

Count me in!

I'm in too!

Please don't forget the FRS radios to use and a spare set of batteries. It passes the time a ton better when you can talk to someone (most of us will be alone)

We'll be there, but who knows what car or cars we will be driving

PPG
As related to the FRS radio post do the Cobra radio's you guy's used last year have the sub channels ?

Sub channels will come in handy at the races or Cedar Point. For the ride down its not important, and actually becomes more complicated

The best ones to buy are the sub channel ones, but that not what most of us bought

If anyone wants to borrow a Motorola FRS I've got one in my closet.

Steve.. if you're up early already on that day, maybe you can help me load up.

And I was just gonna start asking people if they've got spares!

Think I could borrow that bad boy?

Ya, like I'm going to be able to sleep in.

Sure, can give you some help putting the Mongoose on the trailer..

Have fun guys! Just don't get caught drinking beer in the pool again.....
I knew I would regret not going this year!

I found this frs radio for 35 bucks at one store http:/ /commerce.motorola.com/cgi-b...ABOUT%AE%20T5200%20AA%20Alkaline%20Radio
Are the "38 Interference Reducer Codes" subchannels? Or is that something else?

I am pretty sure they are subchannels but that is in U.S. funds....

I paid 35 in canuck pesos, and yup those are sub channels. Pretty good deal.

Office place had them on sale for ~$43 less a $10 instant rebate.

FYI

Ya i got mine from Office Depot, the sale ends tomorrow, i think every store is cleaned out though.
Your only chance is to order over the phone, but theres a $10 shipping fee if the order is under 50 bucks.

BUMP!

2 weeks to go guys! wooohoooo

Please make sure you remember your Birth certificate/passport.

also please remember that the US has a ZERO tolerance for drugs. If you get caught trying to cross the border with any banned substance your car will be impounded.

also please remember that if you have a criminal record you may have problems crossing the border.

I did see that Future Shop has an FRS radio on sale this week for $29 And bring extra batteries too, you'll be surprised how fast you go through them.

This is gonna be the longest week ever

I can't wait, I need this vacation baaaad

I counted up about 10 people who will be in this caravan starting in Mississauga... how many more are we expected to pick up along the way?

LOL
will anyone know EXACTLY how to get there?
I will have my GPS and all, but last time it wasn't THAT up-to-date on the roads.

I always followed Andy...and this year I won't have him to follow

Also, will any of you have a Radar detector/CB?

I thought we were just going to use the force...Norwalk will draw all DSM's to it....follow the light

Ya know, for a caravan that's named after you, you really don't know squat about it!

www.mapquest.com will guide you young grasshopper

edit: what do you mean you won't have Andy to follow, isnt he comin?

Mapquest... P-shaw!

Streets and Trips baby... I've got my route covered.. (not sure how this is going to format...)

Time Km Instruction For
Summary: 486.6 kilometers (4 hours, 47 minutes)
11:30 AM 0.0 Depart near Stoney Creek on Local road(s) (South) 0.1 km
11:30 AM 0.1 Turn RIGHT (West) onto Cascade St 20 m
11:31 AM 0.1 Turn LEFT (South) onto Covington St 0.4 km
11:32 AM 0.5 Turn RIGHT (West) onto Barton St E 0.3 km
11:32 AM 0.8 Turn RIGHT (North) onto HWY-20 [Centennial Pky] 1.0 km
11:34 AM 1.9 Turn RIGHT (East) onto Queen Elizabeth Way 88.2 km
12:29 PM 90.0 Entering New York
12:29 PM 90.0 Continue (East) on Peace Brg 0.5 km
12:29 PM 90.5 Continue (South-East) on Moore Dr 40 m
12:30 PM 90.6 Bear RIGHT (South) onto Local road(s) 0.3 km
12:30 PM 90.9 Continue (South) on Ramp 0.5 km
12:31 PM 91.4 Merge onto I-190 [New York State Thwy] (South-East) 10.2 km
12:39 PM 101.6 Turn off onto Ramp 0.5 km
12:39 PM 102.1 Merge onto I-90 [New York State Thwy] (West) 6.3 km
Road widening in Cheektowaga (SB) from 03/15/2002 to 11/29/2002
12:44 PM 108.4 *Toll road* Stay on I-90 [New York State Thwy] (West) 0.3 km
12:44 PM 108.7 *Toll road* *Tollbooth* Stay on I-90 [New York State Thwy] (West) 1.2 km
12:45 PM 109.9 *Toll road* Stay on I-90 [New York State Thwy] (West) 104.3 km
1:39 PM 214.2 Entering Pennsylvania
1:39 PM 214.2 Stay on I-90 (South-West) 163.3 km
Resurfacing between McKean and Girard from 09/24/2001 to 07/26/2002
2:18 PM 288.8 Entering Ohio
3:05 PM 377.4 Turn off onto Ramp 0.8 km
3:06 PM 378.3 Merge onto I-90 (West) 28.1 km
3:26 PM 406.3 At I-90 Exit 170B, turn off onto Ramp 0.8 km
3:28 PM 407.1 Merge onto I-90 (West) 41.3 km
3:52 PM 448.4 At I-90 Exit 144, bear RIGHT (West) onto SR-2 31.4 km
4:12 PM 479.8 At SR-2 SR-61 Exit, turn RIGHT (North) onto SR-61 [Ceylon Rd] 1.1 km
4:13 PM 481.0 Turn LEFT (West) onto US-6 [Cleveland Rd E] 5.6 km
4:17 PM 486.6 Arrive 45 Cleveland Rd E, Huron, OH 44839 [45 Cleveland Rd E, Huron, OH 44839]

SUMMARY
Driving distance: 486.6 kilometers
Total travel time: 4 hours, 47 minutes
Driving time: 4 hours, 47 minutes
Cost: $16.41

What?!?! 16.41 in tolls???

Damn I hate the states

edit: plz tell me thats not what the 16.41 means

LOL.. no, $16.41 is about what it would cost me in gas...

If I was taking my wife's car....

phew, thanks for clearing that up

less than 2 weeks left baby yea!

man I was going to say I'm luckey I'm hitching a ride with you... $8.20 each

Actually Vince, I thought you told me it was because you were scared of racing Darko?

Darko needs a vent to sound as fast as you...


ONE MORE WEEK BABY!!!!!!!!

Oh boy, look at PPG stirring the pot, I back down from no one, not even the purple Lazers scare me, because we all know my grandma shifts faster than 12.5 @ 114 :rolleyes:

But you are right, I think Darko is afraid of the Vent

I can't wait!

LOL
I'm just trying to sell a 02 housing damnit!

Stir this you little runt!

I shift just fine...and I've seen your grandma with a knob in her hand, and it ain't a pretty site.

Ya I don't know why no one wants a vented O2 housing. I love mine, the V8 guys love it, the Import guys are afraid of it and it has to be an east 15hp gain.

There's nothing better than pulling up to a packed parking lot on "crusie night" and having all the heads turn as you let a little vent go, the thing just sounds mean.

Did you really expect a thread that has Myself, Yourself, Steve K and Darko posting in it to end without a few flames?

Ya it was a shift nob because she said your little knob wasn't even a hand full, more like a thumb and fore-finger job.....

Please Darko the way your car is running I'll give you a car length and still beat you by 4 at the end of the track

We've got nothing more to discuss here Vince. The date is set, it's on.

Im gonna pick up one of those o2 housings in a month or two, if you still make them by then.

What? What date is thie?

Well I thought everyone agreed that shortly after the shootout is when this is goin down

Let's say... the 2nd weekend after the shootout?

LOL... You should be so lucky.. It'll probably be about a tank each way, so you're probably looking at about $20 each way....

Or some "favours" on the way down....

Don't worry, Darko the way these cheapass DSM guys are going, PPG will have about 4 of those 02 housings sitting on his shelf..

Wait a minute here... I don't know what kind of agreement you think we have here but there will be no favors or anyone or anything going down.... I think I want to drive up with someone else. You think you know someone... :rolleyes:

Just wait till the next person goes to a 3" exhaust and develops the dreaded boost creep, they will be begging for the vented 02 housing.

Yeah, Andy's not going.

Me so sad.

It's a work thing... and it's not their fault, it's just really bad timing. We've got about 4 months work, culminating in the next 4 weeks.

Including a move, on the weekend of the Shootout, so I can't avoid it, let alone take an extended weekend.

I knew since January that we had a lease expiring at the end of July, but worked at it, and hoped that the move would fall on another weekend... And it was, for the longest time, but the landlord then told us we had to renovate as we left, and we had to move things up a week.... right smack into the shootout.

So, guys, have a blast... I'll be thinking of ya, trust me. I was really looking forward to this.

And Mark, when you pull that 11 second run at Norwalk, I want you to call me from the return lane while you're picking up the slip. (seriously!)

--sniffffffff--

Andy