MOTD 2020 Most liked posts in thread: Come on 200!

That's what I'm running. Crazy sticky tire when it's over 40-45 degrees out. Not so much when it's under that. Luckily Rufus is a fun car for me, so he stays safely tucked away in the cold months (or disassembled and in bits while work is in progress). I just started using 215 width (I had heard of some rubbing issues with 215s with my wheels and coil-overs, but I bought a spare in a 215 and it fit just fine, so I'm calling it good.

 

I'm going to reiterate the sentiment someone posted above... This is a volunteer event. When you give your time and effort to MOTD, you get much more back in return. If everyone would find an hour or two to give to the event... handing out bags at registration, running a drive, whatever, it makes the event that much more fun for everyone (and you will make some great friends along the way).

 

I agree with you 110%. Not into running 10-10's on public roads, justa too much risk.

It's so easy to put your car on the track these days. Back in the day to do that you had to build a race car to go on track. These days you show up in your street car-toy car & have at it. Is this a great age we live in or what?

 

It was a couple that beat me. I don't remember the name, but it was 2 people who had the same last name.

I usually stay in a cabin with some friends from Dallas and they always had a stream of folks through the cabin for evening drinks and a good campfire on dry evenings. They had to bail this year for some other event, so I picked up the cabin and found a roommate to take on their room. I need to try and be more social this year in the evenings because my normal social network will be gone!

 

Come on 300 CARS.

 

My MOTD 2020 Coronavirus Team grill badge arrived yesterday.

 

Qik- you are always welcome to hang out and have a few cold ones by the fire.

 

You are always welcome to hang out and our drive way is a perfect spot for the viewing the fireworks show. We don’t bring out own fireworks anymore and we did not have any last year, even though people blamed us for the fire works.

 

Come up to the Cigar Salon after the Welcome Dinner and enjoy a cigar or two. It's free, as I hand out cigars I have brought. It will be my last time there after 15 years of doing this. We are in the rockers and benches on the porch, just outside where the dinner is. We go from around 8 PM til the last people leave.

 

Thanks for all of the invites! MOTD isn't lacking for social opportunities... I just tend to be an introvert unless I push myself outside of my usual world. I've got a stockpile of cigars at home and I haven't smoked one in a long while (though I've kept my humidifier going, so they should be OK). I've also got a new bottle of Rua, a Charlotte area single malt, that needs to be opened!

 

I have always said the Jeff. It’s MINI’s on the Dragon, not people. I don’t care if you bring 3 people in one car, we would only count cars.

Barry started the counting people crap.

‘FYI - MOTD was an adult event with beer olympic’s and other adult stuff. Now we have to be all PC because people have kids that need safe places.

eff that! Don’t come by my cabin.

 

We'll be there Tuesday night and all set to hand out cigars Wed. night at the Cigar Salon!

 

I generally agree, but some of the drives have a planned lunch or dinner stop... as a drive leader, I have to coordinate with the restaurant to let them know we are coming and how many seats to provide. I'm lucky that my only real meal stop for my MOTD drives is a donut shop. I coordinate with them to let 'em know what day and about how many people are coming, but we don't need reserved seating... just a heads up so they can make several dozen more donuts that day than usual. I used to run a large drive (40-50 cars) in the Dallas area every year and the last minute cancellations/arrivals were a PITA as the restaurants wanted to charge per person that they prepare for... not for how many actually show up.

You are right, though... for many drives, one more car tacked on to the end balances out with the car or two who had to cancel due to travel delays, mechanical failures or oversleeping after a few too many at the brew swap (which was almost an issue for me one year... the hangover from being drafted onto a beer pong team made for a very unpleasant first hour to the group drive I was leading the next morning).