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Neuspeed
open House & Rally
February 26, 2000
Camarillo, CA USA
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Last November, I took a trip up to Camarillo to go visit with NEUSPEED's
president, Greg Woo,
and to tour their facility. I was impressed, so impressed that I shared
it with everyone on the Club B5 discussion forums. Many people shared an
interest in touring the facility, so I met again with Greg again and we
came up with a plan to have a tour/tech day for all of us Southern
Californian B5ers & guests, including all of those die hard
out-of-towner enthusiasts that came from Arizona, San Diego, San
Francisco/Bay Area, and Colorado, and the Conejo Valley
Audi Group, that brought a few Audi S4's for us to check out.
After a bit of planning, Greg brought it to my attention that VW Cola
was planning a similar day and that we should join them. I thought it
would be a great idea so we planned
our first, of hopefully many, NEUSPEED
hosted events.
Little groups from different areas,
got in touch and planned to meet up early in the morning before the
event in order to caravan together to the main event. The group from the
San Fernando valley met at VW Woodland Hills, the group from Orange
County met at Wings West in Newport Beach, and the 2 groups in San Diego
met up at the In 'N' Out burger in Mission Valley and at the McDonalds
parking lot near the Del Mar race track.
The day's events were as follows:
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10:00-10:30am:
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Meet at NEUSPEED
headquarters in Camarillo.
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Road Rally
begins. First car released onto course. For
guests not participating in rally, NEUSPEED
showroom opened, factory tours available, and tech desk
opened for questions. |
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Road Rally ended.
Last car rreturned from course. Lunch. |
| 1:30pm:
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Rally
results announced. |
| 1:45pm:
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Raffle of items
from NEUSPEED,
Bilstein, MOMO, Koni & Ronal. |
| 2:00pm:
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Event ended. |
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Overall, the event was a success...and VERY fun. The whole week prior to
the Saturday of the event it was raining here in the Southland. Many talks of canceling the
event took place, but even if it was canceled NEUSPEED
still would have kept the
facility open for us and give tours to those people that were
interested. We lucked out and got no rain what-so-ever, in fact, it was
rather hot out. Then, as soon as I woke up Sunday morning, I heard rain.
Talk about luck! The one day it doesn't rain in a period of 5 days is
the day we chose to have the event!
It was
great to meet a lot of the new faces that have recently appeared in the
forums, and also to see those old faces again from the August 14, 1999
B5 meet that we had in San Juan Capistrano. A lot of people were missed,
and you know who you are!
Enjoy the pictures.
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Pictures of the cars: Page
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Pictures of the people: Page
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Pictures of the Rally: Page
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Special
thanks to:
1) Manyee (B5 Boy), for making all of those cool name tags for everyone.
2) Neuspeed for hosting the event
3) All of the sponsors: Ronal, Momo, Koni, and Bilstein
4) The magazines that came out to cover the event: European Car, Sport
Compact Car, and Max Power
5) All of you out-of-towners that drove (and flew) great
distances...you know who you are. |
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