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oh its not in spokane with him?

tpulliam79 wrote:oh its not in spokane with him?

No :( It's at my parents place in Bonney Lake

PDXGTP wrote:

GXP_vince wrote:A little hick up for me. Not going to be there the whole time. I probably leave Tuesday or Wednesday night till Sunday and drive all day Sunday back home. I am taking next week off and the big boss is being a pain about it(he doesn't know about WCBF) I told my supervise about both weeks but because I don't have anymore leave saved up I am kinda screwed for WCBF. =(

Now your talking about my plan, depart AZ Monday or Tuesday night.

If you leave Tuesday night I would like to meet up so we can go up there together.

GXP_vince wrote:

PDXGTP wrote:

GXP_vince wrote:A little hick up for me. Not going to be there the whole time. I probably leave Tuesday or Wednesday night till Sunday and drive all day Sunday back home. I am taking next week off and the big boss is being a pain about it(he doesn't know about WCBF) I told my supervise about both weeks but because I don't have anymore leave saved up I am kinda screwed for WCBF. =(

Now your talking about my plan, depart AZ Monday or Tuesday night.

If you leave Tuesday night I would like to meet up so we can go up there together.

Got-cha... sounds like a plan to work out.

Tentative WCBM09 BONNEVILLE ATTENDANCE LIST
Corvallis/Albany, Oregon

Willwren = GreenZilla 93 SSEi & SLEeper 95 SLE Spruce Green Metallic - Bill, Shorty94 & Dex(pooch) - home
PDad = 00 SSEi Red Violet Metallic - Bone Evil - O'Neil
2000SilverBullet = 00 SSEi Galaxy Silver Metallic - Paul
DriverJohn = Expedition Arctic White - John - KOA 44
2000CadillacSTS = 'Caddy' Matt with F250 & Emily - KOA 44
EchoSSEi = Camelion 97 SSEi - Teal Green - Bob
RRounds = 00 SSEi - Midnight Blue Metallic - Rod, Cindy, Rod Jr., Hillary & Lexie(pooch)
Bugsi - 97 SE Silver Satin - Mark, Heidi, Andrew and Adam - KOA 38 - 01 GP GT Dark Blue
PDXGTP = Black GPGTP -Thomas - Hotel
id97GTP = Maple Red GPGTP - Celin & Nash(pooch)
BoiseGTP = Charcoal SSEi - Keven
Myfirstbonnie = 89 LE Red & 00 SSEi (nursebonnie007) - 'Lottavagina' Matt & Wendy
PianoBomber = 97 GTP white - Landon
GXP_Vince = 95 SLE Black - Vince & Bro Daniel
SuperSLE = 00 SLE Arctic White (SC L37) - Jared
JMH1950 = 94 SE - Arctic White + 92 Silverado 1/2 Ton - John & Margaret
Singscountry1967 = Flying - Tracy
VBCSpangler = 96 Gold SSEi - Jordon - home
Allmachtige = 00 SSEi - Kyle
dirtracr95 = 88 Lesabre T-type - Freddy
Irish91983 = 92 SSEi - Keith
Spoiledred94 = 94 SE - Kris

Maybe's:

Ragsdale = 06 G6 GTP - Stealth Grey Metallic - Greg
Hans = 01 SSEi
Chadow427 = Shadd


Tentative AGENDA

Sun. July 19 - Early arrivals, fun and mods at Bill's

Mon. July 20 - Mods, tour of Corvallis and Pizza & Beer or Soda at Bill's.

Tues. July 21 - Morning Golf, Check-ins. Afternoon Tuning and Mods, Corvallis touring & arrivals at KOA. Automotive Discussion and beverages.

Wed. July 22 - Check-ins. Clean up. Testing and tuning at Bill's. Arby's/Wendy's dinner. Flags and T-Shirts. Road testing and final tweek mods. ...........Back to KOA for campfire discussions.

Thursday July 23 - 10:am Coast Cruise ......Rogue Beer run and Moes for Clam Chowder or Weanies. back to KOA for Fun. Put on the Race tires, Pour in the Rocket Fuel.- Dinner at China Buffet. Full Throttle Ramp Run video shoot, KOA Testing and tuning .. ... . Campfire discussions.

Friday July 24 - Egg McMuffin morning, and final Mod morning.... then Ready for Test and Tune at Woodburn Drag Track - Quiznos for lunch at noon. Convoy Leaves KOA at 1:30pm sharp. Drag races - 3:pm - 7:pm. ....dinner at McDonald's @ 7:30pm.........back to KOA by 9:30pm and bed by 10:pm for big day tomorrow.

Saturday July 25 - Woodburn Chevy Showdown Show'n Shine Swap Meet & Drags Woodburn WCBF09 convoy leaves KOA at 6:00 a.m. sharp.
8:am - 6:pm followed by our traditional Flagged Bonneville/GP group photo shoot at Woodburn Dragstrip, and 10 Pizza's to go dinner . ...back to KOA by 9:00 pm for WCBF08 awards and party till the engine blocks are cold.

Sunday July 26 - Group discussions and picture/video swap at Bill's. Some will leave.
Coffee Day or hair of the dog.

Monday July 27 - All are gone cruising home to post pics of the best time they ever had with memories to last a lifetime.

Can we pre-plan the group car photo shoot before we actually do it this year? I was disappointed with last year's "mess of cars in a field" photo. I really liked the photos from previous years where the cars were arranged in a semicircle with each owner next to their car. I realize this may be difficult with a large number of cars, but we have digital cameras and Photoshop now, and piecing together a panorama is now a simple process. (I'll be happy to piece it together if we need someone skilled at it, I didn't spend 9 years working at Adobe for nothing.)

I think a really wide panorama photo of all the cars arranged like that (taken head-on to the arc of cars) would be very striking.

And if we can plan a couple versions of the photo: Group photo with all the participating cars, including non-Bonneville's on the ends, followed by Bonneville-only shot?

I'm just throwing this out there as a suggestion. Last year's photo was taken after race-day, everyone was hot, tired, and hungry, and arranging the photo just seemed to be done very ad-hoc and took a long time.

Lots of people take pictures of the assembled cars, and that's cool, but if we could assign one official photographer *cough Vince cough* with a high resolution digital camera on a tripod so we can get good overlapping rotated shots to piece together the panorama, then we could put together a very nice, very striking wide panorama that we can post for everyone to have.

Comments? Thoughts? Good idea? Bad idea? I'm just throwing this out there. If we collect thoughts as a sort of post-mortem on last year's `fest, we can plan ahead to make this year's even better.

-Mark

I agree with Mark.

Since he is most interested, I would like to put him in charge of the photo shoot. He could assign the actual shooting requirements to a volunteer with a good camera. Bill also has a good camera and tripod.

Anyone want to second the motion?

I have a very good camera too. We'll need volunteers to help tell people where to place their car. We should start with Bonnevilles in the center, I'd say by year and style, with participating non-Bonnes on the sides. Minor misplacements are not a big deal and people shouldn't worry about it. This should be as stress-free as possible.

We can do varying shots: with flags, without flags, etc.

I second it. And I will post this on the PDX/SEA sites as well so they are all in the loop about the photo shoot.

Mark, how about drawing up a plan of how you think it should look.
We can form a small team of people who will direct cars but we all need to be able to visualize the final arrangements.

Good idea coordinating with the GP guys, Jared.

Can some of the veteran WCBF campers provide a recommended list of what KOA tent-campers should bring with them? Someone did this for me last year and it really helped weed out unnecessary stuff I wouldn't have needed. I mean, for me, I basically brought the tent & tarp, air mattress, sleeping bag, pillow, flashlights, chair, and general grooming stuff. Additionally: sunscreen, hat, clothing for hot and cold temps, GMRS radios, and chargers for cell phone and radios was pretty much all I needed. [Edit: And a small cooler with ice, caffeinated canned beverages for the 10-hour drive, and beer for after arrival at the KOA.]

I'm bringing my wife and the kids this year, and she heard "Campground" and is prepared to dig in for trench warfare. I'm trying to tell her that I don't think we'll even cook a single meal at the campsite, that we usually drive to a restaurant to eat, and that the only time I generally spent at the campground was to sleep and hang out and BS with other B'villers. Because we're bringing the kids, I'm sure we *will* make use of the pool and KOA activities for them, but my wife thinks we're going wilderness camping, and she's prepared to pack her car full of everything we might possibly need. I told her there's a whole town with stores a minute away for anything she needs.

Obviously, others *do* cook at the campsite, especially those with trailers, but for the tent campers, if some veterans can list their recommended stuff to bring, that would be great.

This year, I'm going to also bring FSM's and tools! -Turns out those could have been handy last year!

Do we also do a group shot with the Portland Grand Prix club? If we do, I'd like to make sure we also get a photo of just our club.

Yeah, the big shoot usually includes all th Bvilles, the PDX clubGP, the Seattle ClubGP and the Idaho Club3800. So if we stick them on one side or the other, or in the back or front, then they can quickly move out for just the Bonneville shots.

SuperSLE wrote:Yeah, the big shoot usually includes all th Bvilles, the PDX clubGP, the Seattle ClubGP and the Idaho Club3800. So if we stick them on one side or the other, or in the back or front, then they can quickly move out for just the Bonneville shots.

Or we can do our shot first, starting with B'villes, adding non-Bonne's from our club, then add the other groups. That may be less chaotic. (I really want to reduce the chaos of last year and make it go quicker and get a better photo.)

I agree. Last year really wasn't very good and everyone was a bit tired and the shot was kind of crappy. I can't even see my car in it.

In the past we a total group shot and then they left and we stayed behind for an extra b'vers only pic.
This does take time to setup and I think a bit of a map with general layout would be nice.
You kinda need 3 people or more with radios to direct the flow and place the cars.

As for camping stuff, the essentials you listed is a good start and your right you dont need to pack for Armageddon but if you want to cook and do the whole camping experience theres no reason why you couldn't.

This year I will bring since its just me.
Pillow
tent
sleeping bag
pair of shorts
tool box
shaving kit
cooler
Flags
spare parts
camera
towels

Pontiacdad wrote:This year I will bring. . .
Pillow
tent
sleeping bag
pair of shorts
tool box
shaving kit
cooler
Flags
spare parts
camera
towels

Glad to see you remembered a pair of shorts! Oneil, please think about adding: One or more shirts, several pair of clean underwear, and consider maybe shoes? Socks optional. If I have to, I'm calling PMom and making her pack for yoU!

I'll be bringing a telescope again this year. The dark skies in Corvallis are a pleasant change from the light polluted Bay Area, Ca.

Bugsi wrote: If I have to, I'm calling PMom and making her pack for yoU!

You better do that anyway

Bugsi wrote:

SuperSLE wrote:Yeah, the big shoot usually includes all th Bvilles, the PDX clubGP, the Seattle ClubGP and the Idaho Club3800. So if we stick them on one side or the other, or in the back or front, then they can quickly move out for just the Bonneville shots.

Or we can do our shot first, starting with B'villes, adding non-Bonne's from our club, then add the other groups. That may be less chaotic. (I really want to reduce the chaos of last year and make it go quicker and get a better photo.)

So maybe thinking of doing the shot of our group at the KOA or something? Maybe the big grassy area behind all the camping spots would be good?