2010 Calendar and Event Planning

[Keeper]

I will be updating this as the season progresses. Your input helps planning. Please check all items in the poll that are of interest or apply to you and post comments in the thread.

EVENTS
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Jan 29-31 - MA International Auto Show at DCU Center
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Feb 07 Sun 6pm - Firefly's in Marlborough, MA dinner meet
Feb 13 Sat - Lamborghini President's Day Event - info sent to mailing list.
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Mar 28 Sun - UMass Lowell Car Show
Mar 28 Sun - Lunch Feng Shui in Chelmsford, MA
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Apr 02-11 - New York International Auto Show
Apr 03 Sat - Tires-Brakes-Alignment Tech Session - Peabody, MA
Apr 10 Sat - Herb Chambers Cars and Coffee
Apr 18 Sun - WPI Car Show
Apr 25 Sun - NELLI Spring drive (CT countryside) open to Lotus Ltd. members.
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May 1 Sat - Umass-Amherst Car Show
May 1 Sat - Breakfast Puffins - Millbury, MA - See window tint event thread.
May 1 Sat - Window Tinting Event in Worcester, MA
May - NEMOLL May drive (Canceled: Planning Fail)
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Jun 6 Sun - NEMOLL breakfast/drive to British by the Sea for Lotus Ltd. members. (Canceled due to weather)
Jun 6 Sun - British by the Sea in Waterford, CT
Jun 6 Sun - British Car Day at Larz 10am - 2pm
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Jul 10 Sat - NEMOLL Mass/Vermont drive
Jul 10 Sat - Herb Chambers Cars and Coffee
Jul 29 Thu - Kimball Farm Cruise Night -Westford, MA
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Aug 8 Sun 6:30am - [tentative] NEMOLL drive to British Cars of NH
Aug 8 Sun 8-10am - Catered breakfast at British Cars of NH show.
Aug 7-8 - British Cars of NH car show
Aug 8 Sun 3:00pm - [tentative] NEMOLL post-show dinner(/drive)?
Aug 14 Sat - 5th Annual New England Cobra Club Cookout
Aug 21 Sat - Northeast Exotic Car Show - Merrimack, NH - www.northeastexotic.com
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Sep - [tentative] NEMOLL September drive
Sep - non-drive event: lunch/dinner/car show/bbq type meet?
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Oct 8? - [tentative] NEMOLL Drive to LOG XXX
Oct 8-11 - Lotus Limited, Ltd. - LOG XXX in Gettysburg, PA
Oct - non-drive event: lunch/dinner/car show/bbq type meet?
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Nov - NELLI annual business meeting.
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NEMOLL denotes New England Members of Lotus Ltd. events. NEMOLL events that include driving are only open to members of Lotus Ltd.

Autocross and Track Day Calendars.

• COM Sports Car Club
• SCDA
• BMW-Boston Chapter - includes evo autocross school, ice racing, and ADSS
• SCCNH - NHMS Autocrosses, VT Hill Climb, and Rally Events
• BMW-White Mt. Chapter
• Renegade Miata Autocross

Holidays to consider/avoid:
Sun Apr 04 Easter
Sun May 09 Mother's Day
Mon May 31 Memorial Day
Mon July 05 Independence Day
Mon Sep 06 Labor Day
Mon Oct 11 Columbus Day
Thu Nov 11 Veterans Day

Input from our Feb meeting:

Food for most events is a requirement and brewery tours are clearly a popular choice. Here are some links with some ideas for eateries included:

Possibly as part of another event like the 2009 Alfa Wachusett Run
Wachusett Brewing Company
The Old Mill

Redhook brewery - Portsmouth, NH
Woodshed Restaurant - Moultonborough, NH
The Woodshed is also in the same town as the British Cars of NH show, so that's another option.
Or, head into Maine to some place like our last visit to The Ramp - Bar & Grill

Harpoon Brewery - Windsor, VT
Farmers Diner - Quechee, VT

Newport Polo Club - USA vs Argentina is on Sep 19 which might be better for avoiding summer crowds

Overnight trips to places like The Balsams Grand Resort or Mountain View Grand Hotel were suggested:
In which case we might consider a drive down Moose Alley

• Keep the group informed on local Cars and Coffee and similar events.
• Check for car clubs planning a full track event at F1 Boston that we could attend.
• Ice cream runs. From Jaffrey, NH to CT, we only need good destinations.
• Mount Tom/Greylock Wachusett?. Something was paved recently? We'll try to find out what.
• We talked about LOG XXX for which there seems to be a lot of interest.
• More local social gatherings such as Firefly's.
• Route 100 run from MA line.
• New England towns such as Peterborough.

[Keeper]

Thanks for voting. The info really helps. Keep it coming.

[Keeper]

Added links to calendars for track and autocross.
Updated general calendar.

[JungleJim]

You should Ian Prout's www.scda-1.com site for Northeast track junkies to your list of other sites.

[Keeper]

Done.

[Keeper]

I need brewery suggestions throughout New England. Looking for places with good food, good driving, good parking, interesting locations nearby or along the way, etc.

[JungleJim]

Southport Brewing Company has 4 locations in CT. Branford, Milford, Stamford and Southport. Good food and great beer. Can vouch the Southport location has easy access off I-95, ample parking, quality brewed beers and good food.

[Timbo]

I will put in a plug for my local brew pub, the Portsmouth Brewery.

Good food - check
Good beer - check in spades!
Groovy little New England town, just off Rt 95, harbor cruises & Strawberry Banke & climb thru an old submarine.

The only problem is we would need to brave the parking garage 1 block away, can't park at the actual place.

Just throwin' it out there..

Edit - I see Red Hook is suggested in the OP - that might be better. It's not in the quaint downtown, its way off on the edge of town all by itself. But parking is no problem, they have a giant parking lot, wouldn't need to brave the garage.

[Keeper]

I love Portsmouth and go there a lot in the summer. The brewery is a great place with great food. I'm usually in the Mini when I go and parking at the garage is never a problem, but it's probably not ideal for one of our events.

Next time I'm there I'll see what parking on the roof of the garage is like on a Sunday afternoon. It might work and we could always bail out to Loco Coco's or similar if it's busy.

[Keeper]

EVO Autocross School registration is open:

Boston Chapter BMW CCA - Ultimate Calendar Event

[Keeper]

From UMass Lowell River Hawk Racing:
The Big Thaw Car Show at UMass Lowell is going to be held on Sunday March 28th, from 10am to 4pm (rain date Sunday, April 11th). We have up to 270 spaces available for show cars, and there will be music and food as well. The cars will be parked in every other space, allowing for plenty of room to relax, set up chairs, etc. It is being held on the corner of Pawtucket Street and Broadway Street, in the very large Riverview parking lot on UMass Lowell's South Campus. There is a zero-tolerance drug and alcohol free event, and there will be a UMass Lowell Police presence. The entry fee is $5 if you preregister, and $7 at the event; spectators are free!

Thanks, and please feel free to email me any questions that you have,

Ryan McIntosh
Event Organizer, The Big Thaw Car Show at UMass Lowell
Treasurer, UMass Lowell River Hawk Racing
978-766-5461, ryanmcintosh24@gmail.com

To preregister your vehicle(s), send an email to Ryan McIntosh (Event Organizer) at ryanmcintosh24@gmail.com. Be sure to note if you would like to be placed with a specific group or club, other than the general categories that the show is split into. Include in the email:
(1) Your name
(2) Address
(3) Phone Number
(4) Are you a student or faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Lowell?
(5) Vehicle(s) that are being entered (For each entry, include the make, model, year, whether that vehicle is stock or modified, and whether that vehicle will be brought on a trailer). The registration fee of $5 per vehicle will be collected at the event (cash only)
(6) Are you entering the event as a member of a group or club? If so, what group do you want to be placed with? We will do our best to accommodate clubs or groups of people looking to park together.

There will be a drawing for $50 cash of anyone who pre-registers their vehicle(s) by March 21st, 2010. Once we receive your registration, you will be sent a confirmation email with a registration number for the event. Print that email out and bring it with you to the event.

[Keeper]

Added Sports Car Club of New Hampshire info to calendar.

Umass Lowell car show went well with a Type 75 on site and a great lunch afterward at Feng Shui in Chelmsford.

[exarkun1178]

any one going to ny auto show Saturday?

[hroundy]

Thanks for the SCCNH post. Hope to see some of you this summer.

[Keeper]

Originally Posted by hroundy

Thanks for the SCCNH post. Hope to see some of you this summer.

My pleasure.

I just added the NELLI spring drive for Lotus Ltd. members. See you on Sun Apr 25 in the CT countryside. Details to follow in the event thread.

If you're on my mailing list you should be receiving an email about this event today. We're off to a good start trying to keep at least 2 club events per month on the calendar.

I also added a link for the Herb Chambers cars and coffee.

[Keeper]

Updated with May 1 window tint / breakfast event.

[Keeper]

With BCD at Larz and BBTS at Harness a touch soggy, attendance was equally dismal. Normally among the most well attended events in the Northeast Lotus community, we can only hope the Northeast Exotic Car show (NECS) sees sunshine.

There is however another opportunity to gather at a similar type of show. Two weeks prior to the NECS, is the BCNH weekend gathering in Wolfeboro, NH. I'm suggesting we go on Sunday Aug 8. We can attend breakfast at the show and maybe head to the Woodshed afterward for dinner. If at least 5 Lotus attend they'll create a class for Lotus. I'd like to get 10 so we can have pre-Esprit & post-Europa awards. If you pre-register let me know so I can make that happen!

British Cars of New Hampshire

[Keeper]

We missed a May drive, but June isn't over. I'm trying to piece something together for Seacoast, NH into southern, ME. Anyone familiar with nice roads in the vicinity of the blue route in the link below, please contact me.

Hampton, NH to Naples - Google Maps

[Keeper]

I hear the McLaren F1 will be featured in the Sat Jul 10 Herb Chambers Cars and Coffee

Herb Chambers Cars and Coffee

[eman]

Any info on the NELLI drive in July?? The site doesn't have anything.


Thanks,

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