First Anual Mid-West volvo extravaganza
 

who: any volvo owner and any friends and family who would like to come

what: weekend of volvo fun including grill out, food, good ole meet and greet, and multiple drives at your own will with others who come along for the extravaganza.

where: Rockford, IL (park location in the works)

when: August, 15th 2009. (saturday)

how: in your volvo?

RSVP AT THIS LINK HERE

check back for updates to come.

feel free to rsvp here, like i said, more to come, this is just the start.

I'm down like a clown charlie brown.

so far we have 3 rsvp's.

come on there has got to be more of you midwest guys and gals out there!

remember the location is not yet decided, and is mostly driven on where the majority of people are coming from, so lets get more rsvp goin on here.

I will officially RSVP if we can move the location south a bit. Wisconsin is awefully far North for a Midewest meet. Missouri, Illinois, or Iowa and I'm down.

i will keep you posted and see if and when we get more people in on this. the more the better, so spread the word.

I put the flyer up on the midwest thread in Turbobricks, a lot of wisconsin guys on there. So like Northern Illinois?

I would be there if it were a more central location.... I'm almost in PA... but not close enough to take part in the PA/ east coast Volvo events which it would seem are mostly in Philly. Chicago would work though

So if we did it in like Illinois somewhere? If we wanna grill out we should find a nice park that we can all meet at. If anyone has suggestions of where a park is around the chicago area, let us know.

Midwest madness from Turbobricks was pretty rad. But zero Illinois people showed up... as is par for course. I doubt they'd even show if it was in Illinois.

I'd be up for it, but my work schedule is certainly unpredictable. No RSVP, but a maybe.

ALSO. I currently possess Matt Dione's Memorial Journal.
http://forums.turbobricks.com/showth...t=matt+journal

Yeah, I know there's quite a few Wisconsin people, I posted this in the Midwest thread on turbo bricks, maybe I'll put it on volvospeed too. there's just a couple people that would come if it was a little further south, so just trying to include everyone.

location info updated.

Hey if we are going to do Rockford we may as well do Chicago. Only a couple miles away and for some people it may be nice to turn it into a vaction. I plan to bring a couple friends.

I've never been to a meet. What are they like? Am I going to feel completely out of place considering I am noob?

I've never been to one either. Basically just an afternoon of volvo enthusiasts and grilling out. I'm kind of a noob too, so don't worry about it.

Maybe we can do the meet on saturday, and then see if some people want to go to chicago after the meet or something? I just think it would be easier for everyone to meet at the park.

ever drive through chitown? if so, no picture that with 20-30 volvo's with half the people not knowing where they are going.... on a busy saturday.... that is why we are doing it in rockford, but i am not apposed to taking a drive through chitown maybe.

a meet is basicly just a bunch of people getting together to hang out, maybe some volvo talk, and a meet and greet. grill out in the park, maybe some yard games (minimal drinking, after all its a car meet). then afterwards some may camp, drive home, or catch a hotel.

if people want to camp, or get a hotel I would be game for that. But yeah, that's what I was thinking with having it not be in chicago, is a bunch of people that haven't driven there, especially with crew of cars, would make it even harder. I have some yard games I could bring. And I can bring some food and stuff too. I think everyone should be in charge of bringing something. But it would be nice to have something for people who are for sure going to RSVP to so we have an idea of how many people and whom.

Do you guys go out driving? I think it would be cool if we got like 30 volvos lined up cruising through Chi city or like a flying "V" (for volvo) formation on the highway. LOL

One thing cool my friends and I did... We got 4 of us on a 4 lane highway all lined up and dropped our speed to 40 mph (a perfect rolling start speed for my car but don't tell them that). Then we took each other on for about a mile. I won

It was my 850, 2002 Toyota Camry V6, 2005 Dodge Neon, 1999 Honda Prelude. We were all stock.

The order was
1 Me
2 Prelude
3 Camry
4 Neon

What about Aurora Ill. It saves people east about an hour and avoids the godawful mess that is Chicago and It doesn't add much to the northern folk. Also Wanes World.

I think we should do a drive, depending on how many cars make a trip to chicago later in the day or something.

Someone has never been to Chicago.... Now, in a national poll us Clevelanders are the nicest drivers in America (tied with Portland), so maybe I'm a little biased but.... Driving through Chicago is like Driving through the seventh rung of hell with a red hot poker up your ass. The roads have pot holes a mile deep and it would seem that the majority of Chicago drivers think the freeway is THUNDER DOME: IF YOU AINT BLEEDING YOU AINT DOING IT RIGHT because they are the most aggressive drivers I have ever seen. In a 20ft box truck going 15mph above the speed limit just to keep up I had people in everything from POS honda civics to S-Class benz trying to drive me off the road. I spent a week there and every day there was some incident on the road that made me :eek: :confused: :mad: . Anything to avoid Chicago would be the best.

Also, I would totally be down to camp. I have a couple of extra tents if anyone is interested, but those of us with wagons don't need no stinking tents :cool: ... well I might but thats because I'm 6'6" and I have to lay diagonal in my wagon to fit so we will see

If we drive through Chi town and don't want our Volvo chain being broken up by redlights, we could all just flip on our blinkers and pull the "funeral" card. LOL just kidding but that would be awesome. Other cars should yield to Volvos anyway. Right?

a drive will forsure happen. goal is to do it whenever we have the most volvo's to really show the pride on the road.

i will have my slr camera there (canon rebel xsi for those who care). to take pictures the whole time to post back up here, so we can take some sweet (non blured) ones on the hwy if wanted.

directly through chitown is stupid, but through the outter hwy would be fine (avoiding tolls).

if we plan on camping i have 5-10 tents i can bring. and in that case we should just make it a two day thing and do it at a state park....

I've got a girlfriend, a sunroof, and a camera....

gf+sunroof+camera= Good highway pics

Yeah, I would be down for that as well. I guess the main thing is to see how many definite yeses we have and who would all want to camp. But I am game to do whatever.

thats what i had planed on doing. i have some nice sunroof pics of night time hwy shots :)

I want some highway pics for sure.

right now the count is 3 for sure, and 2 maybe.

we need 15 for sures and 10 maybes....

I got this going in the turbobricks one as well and there seemed to be a few people interested from that one as well. I'll post something to have people send me some RSVP's if they're for sure going to do this.

I'm going to create some fake profiles on this site and RSVP with them because I want to go that bad. LOL

Should we start a thread that is solely for RSVP's and that's it?

dont do that, ill get pissed haha.


and we have a kinda rsvp thread started. i will put together an online form to fill out that will forward to my inbox so i can keep track of it. ill post it live when i get outta the shower (going to take shower now).

Haha, I guess that's what the attendees thread basically is...

*ANYONE WHO IS PLANNING ON ATTENDING THE FIRST ANNUAL VOLVO EXTRAVAGANZA, PLEASE ADD AN RSVP IN THE "ATTENDEES; First Anual Mid-West volvo extravaganza" THREAD!*

My Black 850 wagon looks like a Hurst.... just say'n

dibs on laying in the back then.

there is such a thing as a volvo hearse.... they used s80's, and 960's. i think there might be a few 740's layin around to.

http://www.volvoclub.org.uk/press/sp...s80_hearse.jpg

HAHA. That's funny. That's such a huge window in the back.

When I die and they lay me to rest
I want to go to the place that's the best
For my last, final ride
Send me out in the Volvo (the Volvo) in the sky.

ha. you come up with that?

I saw the picture and its the first thing that came to mind... I've been trying to take it from there but I hit a block so if anyone else wants to take it from there be my guest. If we get an entire parody of the song I'm pretty sure I could record it and find someone to sing it for laughs......

That would be great. Classic.