Festiva Madness 3rd Annual Meet Saturday Oct 3, 2009 in Raleigh, NC

[batstiva]

Cool, I went to Florida for a week 2 years ago, does that count??

[Smedley]

^ lol

[sam.1956]

Cool, I went to Florida for a week 2 years ago, does that count??

I've been to Florida 2x this year for work. So yeah, it counts! LOL

[V8Festiva]

Madness 3 may climb past 40!!!!

32 FESTIVAS...............what were taking over N.C. !!!!

Looks like another 5 Festiva owners with their cars will attend.

Phone calls and e-mails are picking up the last few days.


Dean
Raleigh, NC

[batstiva]

^^ Sweet!! Did you get all the re-emails?

[FeistyFesti]

I already got my leave approved for October 3rd, oh man, I can't wait!!

[V8Festiva]

3rd Annual Festiva Madness Meet will be October 3rd in Raleigh, NC

All Ford Festiva and Aspire owners join us for an afternoon of car talk with other Festiva /Aspire lovers.

21 Festivas and 2 Aspires were at the 2008 meet. I have been receiving e-mails and phones calls weekly about this get together and at this time, the numbers could be 30 to 35 cars at this year’s event.

The plan is to meet between 10:30 and 2:00 at the Poyner Place Shopping Center behind Triangle Town Center Mall to eat and talk and check out each others' rides for the afternoon. There are several food places there, Shane’s Rib Shack, Dominic’s NY Pizzeria, Bake House Bistro, and Cold Stone Creamery.

For mapping purposes, use 5811 Poyner Village Parkway, Raleigh, NC 27616. The location is ½ mile south of I-540 at exit 17 Triangle Town Blvd. When you get off the exit, you can only go south. Go through the stop light then turn left into the shopping center and make the first right onto Poyner Village Parkway to the end.

Map link is: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...55747&t=h&z=15

If your GPS unit allows you go enter LAT & LON coordinates directly, they are:
LAT = 35.863477, LON = -78.569769

In the unlikely event of rain, we have permission to use the (never used) parking deck on the other side of the restaurants, so don’t let the threat of rain keep you away.

Bring camp chairs for seating near the cars please. If your “significant other” doesn’t want to spend the afternoon talking cars, bring them along and let them go shopping! Between the shopping center and the mall, there are tons of shops.

The food places are in two buildings on the right on either side of a pond. Shane’s has a large indoor seating area and there is plenty of outside seating for eating near the water. We are proposing Shane’s for lunch, but the other options are there for those who don’t like ribs or BBQ. Who doesn’t like ribs? And you can head next door for ice cream for dessert if you have room! See pics below.

For all who drive their Festiva or Aspire to the meet, there will be free event t-shirts. If you are planning to come, please email me with your t-shirt size so I can be sure to have enough shirts made up.

If you have parts to sell or swap, bring them along! And bring pictures. Door prizes are still in the planning stages.

At 2:00 pm by invite only (this location will not be posted on the web) Festiva/Aspire owners with their cars will convoy about two miles over to our home for a swap meet. And, there will be a parts car at this location for a free Pick-A-Part.

Some Festiva owners are arriving Thursday and Friday before the meet. We will be heading out those two days to local junk yards searching parts. Let me know if you are interested.

Friday evening several of us will convoy out for dinner. Maybe, like last year, it will be at a member’s restaurant. I will post on that as soon as it is locked down.

Sunday plans are to have a post-meet for anyone that wants to do a breakfast buffet and/or go junkyarding before heading home.

Anyone who has questions or needs more information can PM or email me or call me.
919-271-5190.

Shane's dining area.

Pond, fountain and outside seating

outside Shane's

Area behind Shane's for the meet

Rain site

For anyone that is coming in Thursday or Friday please let me know by e-mail.
Friday is starting to look like a large number of us will be out searching parts in local junk yards.
Later that evening a group convoy for food.

Dean
Raleigh, NC

deanraleighnc@cs.com

[DriverOne]

Guys, I have to change my status to 'not attending' due to my job. They told me the plant could be down upwards of three weeks during the Christmas season so everything extra I get financially has to go to surviving the holidays. Those days are unpaid... I'm sorry. It looks like it's gonna be great. Take lots of pics & vids for me...

[V8Festiva]

DriverOne,

Things come up.

If it helps, a good number of folks are crashing here at the house to save money. Just bring a sleeping bag.

Sam1956, Mr Festiva Madness couldn't even be at the meet last year because of work in another state.

I am sure lots of pictures will be taken along with video.



Dean
Raleigh, NC

[V8Festiva]

Meet t-shirt order

Order for meet t-shirts will be processed Monday. A few extras will be made.

If you are coming and have not contacted me by e-mail, please do so by Sunday night.

deanraleighnc@cs.com



Thanks

Dean
Raleigh, NC

[gestiva]

u can change my status to coming friday!!! will be arriving around 5pm
went to local pull a part and got a bunch of goodies, and parts i needed for
the trip... getting some 13inch steelies tomorrow and gonna order me some tire from
tire rack in a few... everything seems to be working out now.

[lanemeyer14]

u can change my status to coming friday!!! will be arriving around 5pm
went to local pull a part and got a bunch of goodies, and parts i needed for
the trip... getting some 13inch steelies tomorrow and gonna order me some tire from
tire rack in a few... everything seems to be working out now.

Nice! I bet there is gonna be a MILLION festivas there!!!!

[FB71]

Alas, I will not be able to make this year's Madness. My mom has scheduled a family reunion for the 3rd, and we also be celebrating my oldest niece's 4th birthday that day!

Maybe next year...

[sam.1956]

Nice! I bet there is gonna be a MILLION festivas there!!!!

Likely more than was ever at a Ford dealership at any one time! HA!

[Damkid]

Man i wish i could make it