Thanks for the EASTERN support, I am 5-6 hours from this and I am offering
my place as a pit stop for anyone Easterly wanting to come to the meet. I'm
leaving out here on that Friday, but anyone coming further who needs a bed
for Thursday night just let me know since I am off work Wed - Sun, Craig ;)

Craig,

I would gladly take you up on your offer, but I think that TN is out of the way by a few hundred miles for us. We are pulling out on Thursday morning, it is only a 1,100 mile trip for us, but with driving the '68 towing the trailer with a 9 month old in the truck it might be a very long 1,100 mile trip. My wife is still loooking forward to it, which surprises me. Can't wait to meet y'all.

James,

No problem, but are you sure? :lol: j/k Glad to see that my offer is at least
worthy of being considered and likewise on the "Can't wait to meet y'all" ;)

Are we there yet? :lol:

How about now????

And I can't wait to meet all of you and spend 3 days wasted in happiness.

Craig;

From my house to yours, (using your zip)
Total Est. Time: 16 hours, 24 minutes Total Est. Distance: 974.11 miles

From my house to Boss'
Total Est. Time: 17 hours, 27 minutes Total Est. Distance: 1066.32 miles

So as much as I would love to go to TN and meet you a whole day earlier I think that it is kind of redundant.

If your still going to Wawa this summer, I will extend the same offer to you, except for I mapquested that as well from your house to Wawa and you won't be anywhere near my side of the province.

I am still waiting on you all :))

BOSS! Feeling a little better? Can't wait to get on the way!

:agree:

Good to see the Boss man up and about. Take it easy and don't worry about anything this thing will go off without a hitch. And we can't wait to come to visit either.

14 hr 44 min 924 miles.....Hmmmmmm......Secret squirrel time.....start stashing money after the family trip to the beach at the end of april. I'm gonna do my best on this one. I hope it works out.

You can do it :hm:

the more the better :) Come on all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hope your feeling better BOSS, I'm new on here but would really like to come, I'm only an hour away. If the truth be known i'm through there everyday on my run out to west plains so i'll be looking for some sweet trucks headed that way.

Well there's no reason for you to not be there if you already know the way. We'll see you in July at the meet at Da Boss house.

:agree: In my mind I'm on the way already. See you Soon BOSS!

I am ready to go as well, I got to drive to work this morning in a blizzard. Last year for Easter we had a beautiful weekend.

Blizzard, whatever you wanna call a lil bitty snowfall, I call them there flurries :lol:

I'd be willing to come out. Just looking for some people to convoy with. you never know when something might want to break down.

I'm sure someone is coming from KS somewhere ;)

I'm coming from KS, not sure whether I am going through KC or down 75 and across yet, depends on what others do. I am leaving on Friday morning though.
Really looking forward to the trip.

Jeff

I have never heard of a chevy breaking down..............:cool:

Sometimes they take a rest until you talk nice to them though.

No Promisises but going to try to come down for a day.. I will have to see how the funds are by then... If I come you will hear me before you see me =P

I'M going, I would love to meet some of you guys.

Ditto, it will be nice to meet everyone else as well ;)

:agree: I've met one board member so far and can't wait to meet a bunch more! Craig, will you be driving Merlot? I want to see that wiper cowl in person.

I would like to go, but it is to far for this year. Next year when the "Sub" is completed.

i just found the link to this gathering. i may able to stop in also. i may be on my way home with the family and the camper from north carolina. if i make it it will be in the 2004 duramax crew cab GMC. i will bring pictures of the burb fleet and the burb on duramax chassis project.

Craig, will you be driving Merlot? I want to see that wiper cowl in person.

"Merlot" will be there for sure!, I have a trailer reserved just incase I don't
get my bugs figured out, I would rather be driving, but only time will tell :(

lets see... that's after graduation, and about a month before I start my job. I might be able to squeeze it into my schedule. :rolleyes:

I plan on roughing it, and by roughing it, I mean an air mattress under the hard top (the wonders of no rear bench). see yall there.

if anyone's coming up from the south on I-44, give me a holler and we can form a posse. :cool:

I plan on roughing it, and by roughing it, I mean an air mattress under the hard top (the wonders of no rear bench)


Me too, Your not the only one :lol:

lets see... that's after graduation, and about a month before I start my job. I might be able to squeeze it into my schedule. :rolleyes:

I plan on roughing it, and by roughing it, I mean an air mattress under the hard top (the wonders of no rear bench). see yall there.

if anyone's coming up from the south on I-44, give me a holler and we can form a posse. :cool:

I plan on meeting up with ADHDCARGUY around Dallas sometime Thursday morning. If you're heading up Thursday maybe our paths will meet up?

I plan on meeting up with ADHDCARGUY around Dallas sometime Thursday morning. If you're heading up Thursday maybe our paths will meet up?

Sounds good. if you're going through dallas, you're gonna have to be pretty creative to not drive right past me.

All this talk about getting together and convoys almost makes me wish I lived farther away so I could join in the fun. But this is where it's at folks, getting together and having a good time. Start making plans to make the trip and join the fun at the 2ed Board Wide Meet July 6th 7th 8th 2007 in Norwood Mo. We gonna have a good time at the Boss House. Come and join us.

Even makes me want to drive out to meet some of you all.....lol

Even makes me want to drive out to meet some of you all.....lol
:lol:

Hey Boss if you have a gas tanker truck you could drive out and fuel us up on the way in! :lol: :lol:

Countdown to the Meet (http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?month=7&day=7&year=2007&hour=8&min=0&sec=0&p0=605)

Oh Yea, less than 90 days to go :lol:

Oh Yea, less than 90 days to go :lol:

:metal: :c2: :metal: Feels like time is creeping by right now.:crazy:

:agree: Only 86 days to assemble,install rockers,and primer the truck.....
brake lines might help too:lol:

I'm with ya D, I need to find tires, buy center caps, mount the swaybar,
find some shocks, weld in some patch panels, buy a compressor, wire up
the air ride switches, test and debug it for road worthyness, etc .... :lol:

wouldn't mind makin this one. only about 3.5 hours away.

Will be here before ya know it.I have alot to do also but will have to wait and see if i get it all done.....lol

We can help ya with whatever it is when we get there! I can't wait!

wouldn't mind makin this one. only about 3.5 hours away.

C'mon down, the more the merrier :metal:

I have too get the transmission rebuilt, radio installed, back seat installed and service the truck. Then I have to service the bearings on the trailer. Then I have to install new flooring in the house and trim the whole house, by next Sunday, as my wife is hosting a bridal shower for her best friend here and we are in full blown renovation mode. At least after the house is more or less complete next week I can concentrate on the truck. The way that I am going with it right now though I will be bringing the FURD.

:hmm: It appears we have a race for the longest TO-DO list :drama:

:hmm: It appears we have a race for the longest TO-DO list :drama:

I Win!!!!!

Or you can do like me.......nothing. I'm going to drive my daily drivers and attend the events. I'm going to meet people and enjoy myself this summer. What time I have in between I will work on my projects or my Nova dragcar but not like my life depends on it. Meet me in Maggie valley.

I just signed up as a 90% sure I'll go. Dunno what I'll drive yet. I'd like to run down in the boy's '68 GMC short 4x4 (If he decides to go)- but the totally uncomfy sits too low saggy Buick deuce-&-a-quarter seat I put in there when I was a teenager would have to go. Yeewwwoouuch!

I Win!!!!!

Only if you drive it there :lol:

Only if you drive it there :lol:

Good point!

I Win!!!!!

I'd say! I thought I had a lot to do, but you've certainly got me beat!

Good luck with your project smbrouss70. My list is short but you stand a better chance than me of having your ride there. I will be there however even if it is not in the '68. I went through what your are going through the day of my wedding in 2005. At 2:40 my father, my brothers, my best man, the ring bearer and I, plus countless other people where bolting the seats in and hooking up the gas line, I ran home, showered, threw on my tux and raced for the church, which was 20 km away, They followed suit (literally) and the service started promptly 30 minutes late, but I got to drive my truck there and line it up with the other classics in front of the church, I was on cloud nine and it is something that I will remember for life. That was its first trip on the road and it took me to next chapter in my life. Last september I wanted to pick up my wife and newborn son up from the hospital with the '68 but alas it was not practical, so after a few days of getting used to handling him I took him for a little drive around town.

id love to drive the '67 up there but hmm... 524 mi. @ 7 mpg... that's 74 gallons @ $2.60 a gallon which turns out to be roughly $194.62!!!! times two for the trip back. anyone wanna donate to the broke college student fund?? :( i might borrow the madre's chrysler pacifica for the trip it gets about 33 mpg on the highway + a/c. hmmm

Gas prices are like buying truck parts, Priceless to look cool :metal:

Gas prices are like buying truck parts, Priceless to look cool :metal:

:agree: My DD gets just over 10 mpg. But it looks gooood.(for a D*dge:rolleyes:)

In preperation for the trip to MO I am actually in the middle of rebuilding and recurving the HEI in my 71 I found the vacuum advance was not working at all and the advance springs and weights needed some attention. I have read that no vacuum advance can cost you up to 5mpg. I am looking forward to the trip with my ignition system in good shape. The money I am spending for the parts to do this should be made up with better gas mileage pretty quickly, at least I hope so! :lol:

Jeff

Drove mine about 200 miles round trip Saturday to the Memphis SCS,
seemed to do pretty good, if I get the bugs out I'm driving it instead
of pulling it. But ............... I also gave out my number 8 times on it
and wasn't even trying to sell it, guess I should have drove the 4wd :lol:

Congrats on the road trip. Always good to get the first one done.

Well you cant sell both of them before you get here,i want to see one of them before you do....lol

Watch me try :D

You better not let GQ hear you talking like that.

:haha:

Second thought if you could sell both then we would have a trip to take together....lol

:agree: Out WEST maybe? :hmm:

If I know you you have the replacement picked out already. Just remember the last time you were looking 5 or 6 seemed to vanish as soon as you expressed interest.

Yeah, I know, that part sucks a lil, oh well. Trying to buy me some tires for
my 17" shoes, doesn't look like she's leaving so I got's more work to do :lol:

It's a good looking ride. Just get everything right so it's dependable and enjoy it. It might inspire you and make you want to finish GQ and have the best of both worlds.

Found my reservation! Days Inn Mountain Grove, chk-in:Thu Jul 5, chk-out: Sun Jul 8. In another month, we'll start getting a plan for convoying out of North Texas, thru McAlister, Tulsa, Springfield, BOSS's. Cool! A/C's almost finished (gotta have it for my Honey!). Gettin' closer!:hm:

a Bit too Far for me..in a truck that gets about 4-5 miles to the Gal. and Gas prices are WAY to high right now

Perhaps a Future one closer to So. Calif

Have fun everyone who is going, drive save and take care on your journeys!!

Not sure if this is covered in the thread (and too lazy to read it all), but have you all ever had workshops at the board meet before? Looking around the board it sems there are a lot of good questions, answers, and forums on welding, body work, suspension, etc. Just a suggestion -- it might be cool to have some organized workshops for those in attendance so they can learn and share in person.

71 days. I can't wait!!

Capitan, we have had "Overhaul'n" type things at my last cookouts, James said
he has plenty of tools to pull that stuff of at his place also. Are we there yet?