Well, using the Jeep, I snuck my way in to the meeting at 6:00pm. A whole slew of Fieros was already in attendance, and there would be more to come later. Everyone stayed out front for quite some time, until heading inside (Except Harrison, who had to be somewhere, and thus left).

Once inside, things were relatively short, with a quick reminder of the All Pontiac Show tomorrow, and a brief recap of the Arlington trip. We also brought up the changes to the Whistler trip, which can be viewed in it's own thread. Following those quick discussions, things switched over to the prizes, where this boy managed to eke out a win in the 50/50 and dinner draw, while three other members took home door prizes (A coil-over cup holder, five litres of Castrol Syntec and... I forgot the last, to be honest). Despite the extremely short discussion, everyone remained inside chatting. During the evening, we managed to pick up a few more members, including Steve (Also known as Medic, the gentleman who own's the black Northstar-powered Fiero). After an extremely long time, the last of us made our way outside.

There the socialization continued, with a large congregation around Steve's awesome new toy. Everyone stayed for various lengths, with the last of us finally letting Steve leave towards 8:30. Eventually I left a little bit after that, enduring the long, boring drive home in the completely uninspiring Jeep.

Meeting pics can be seen here.

http://www.westcoastfieros.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=250 5

Well, for those of you who missed out on today, but wanted a ridiculous thorough review of what happened - you're in luck.

I got a text at 8am reminding me that I was, in fact, supposed to be several miles away from where I was at the moment - at home. With that, I through on clothes, grabbed my camera, keys and caffeine, and booked it out the door. I whipped over to Langley where I met this guy:

Pictured above: Harrison, in all his blurry glory.

After lending me a walkie-talkie, and introducing me to Antonio, his buddy, we quickly established a couple things, most important of which was that neither of us had a damn clue where we were going. As such, navigational duties would be left to the next gentlemen we were to retrieve. This guy:

Pictured above: Colby. Damn they look ridiculous in that chair.

Deciding to give mother nature the finger, we quickly set about ignoring the speed limits, with Colby leading the charge (Mainly to prevent Harrison and I from getting completely and utterly lost). Having filled up in Abbotsford, I thought nothing of slowing down, then chasing Harrison during particular slow sections, wasting about $20 worth of gas in the process. But, more importantly, I stopped when I heard an unhealthy clunk/bang noise when transitioning from left to right (I don't even want to know what it was). We stopped in a pullout, I rocked Gretchin (I have that effect on the ladies) and failing to find anything, told them to go ahead once again. Luckily, the sound stopped from then on. It would be the last stop until we made it to Hell's Gate.

Those of you with a keen eye might've noticed a couple of drops in the air. This, of course, was not an issue. After all, it was still easy to make out who I was following.

Pictured above: Harrison.

Pictured above: Colby.

Pictured above: ...Colby? Ish?

Pictured above: Harrison. Unaltered picture.

Ok, so that last one might not have happened, but it did generally seem like we were outrunning mother nature herself. When we got to Hell's Gate, both Colby and Harrison drifted (Accidentally) into the parking lot, both realizing three things at the last possible moment: There was a parking lot about five feet away. They were still travelling at highway speed. It was a gravel driveway.

This made for some intense Toyko Drift action as I followed them in. As we hopped out, we realized we had beaten mother nature in a race - those stupid, slow clouds were still a couple kilometres back.

Haha. Stupid clouds. You suck at racing.

We emerged, stretched out our legs, made terrible jokes. You know, awesome young people stuff. We then sauntered across the road to Hell's Gate.

This place.

We all paid our $20 and were told to hold on to our tickets for the ride back up. We took the gondola down while discussing bungie jumping (Stupid bungie jumping) and skydiving (Awesome skydiving) with our gondola-guy. Once at the bottom, we took the necessary "Oh-my-god-that-chair-makes-you-look-ridiculous pictures, waited for nature to catch back up (Damn she was slow), and then went across the bridge to the other side. I convinced the others to walk in to the train tunnel:

Yeah - that couldn't end badly.

We made our way back to the other side and stopped in for a bite to eat, as well as to laugh/revel at the gift shop. Once done, it was decided it would be a great time to head back up. We returned to our cars...

Aww... Arn't they adorable?

...And head back home. After we stopped in for gas, Harrison and I drifted our way across the road (Because, you know, screw tires) and eventually back towards home. We passed through a number of tunnels Ken would've enjoyed:

Pictured above: ...A tunnel?

 We saw Colby off back in Abbotsford, and were immediately rewarded for not following the speed limit by being absolutely locked in traffic for about fifteen minutes, before we too finally seperated at Brunette. All in all, an awesome day for a group of four people who's combined age wouldn't have even broken the triple digits.

Pictured above: Immaturity.

I apologize for the tardiness of this month's write-up. Shaw had been doing maintenance last night, leaving me without internet.

Arriving almost late to the meeting, I snuck in just as the clock reached it's apex at the bottom of it's revolution. Quickly parking the mama's Jeep (No Gretchin yesterday), I glanced over and embraced the sight of about eight cars, as well as Harrison and his lady making their way in to the parking lot with his 3800-powered Fiero. Stopping to wait for him, we made our way in only to see Robin (Boxin' Robin) pulling in to the parking lot, making his debut meeting.

Arriving in the meeting, I patted myself down only to realize I had a measly $5 on me, which was immediately dropped in to the door prize. Following that, I sauntered over to Clynt and David, to sit down. To be completely honest, I was too deeply entrenched in conversation to notice what else was going on with the club, but I believe aliens and ninjas were involved. And possibly alien-ninjas. I'm awaiting verification on this. Once Robin got in and was canonized, the floor was handed to David.

Preceding the discussions was the Dinner Draw, Door Prizes and 50/50. Ken managed to walk away with the dinner draw, Kevin was seeing dollar signs having picked up the 50/50, and then the battle shifted to the Door Prizes, where all eyes were on a light-up, push-button ignition. And, as the first numbers were announced, I rushed to move nowhere (Being trapped in by Clynt), but never-the-less, declared dibs on the push-button ignition. The room quickly and inevitably turned on me when I announced I would not be putting it in my Fiero, but rather my GMC Sierra (As I need something shiny to break up all the flat black).

Discussions were appropriately short, but effectively the discussion was on people who were commiting to Damien's (Dawg) pulley project. Following that, all focus shifted to Ken to discuss the lauded Fish and Chips run coming up. I will try not to steal the thunder from his thread, but of special note is the run is entirely dependant on the weather. If it is raining, or excessively windy, the run may be postponed to the following Sunday, but please follow his thread to remain informed. Following that, we quickly touch on Arlington, the All Pontiac Show and the Duffy Lake Run, when it was discovered a tech session prior to those events might be beneficial. Nothing is set in stone, date-wise, but Damien made the awesome suggestion of preparing a Fiero-specific checklist of things to check before those huge drives. Last up, it was mentioned there is a gentleman just across the border closing up a large Fiero warehouse of parts. Tito managed to pick up doors, with everything (Door skin, glass, power window motors, etc) for a paltry $20. At this time, the Reno trip (I will allow David to explain it further) was mentioned, as was a local Gumball rally (Again, please refer to the thread on the forums). With the discussion having died down, it was then that everyone headed out, at around 8:00pm.

I stayed behind to chat with David about such serious topics such as nitrous and power curves, although the post-meeting socialization was more brief than normal, possibly spurred by the uninspiring weather. For once, I enjoyed my cruise home, not wondering when my car was going to try and kill me.

View the entire wrap up thread here.  http://westcoastfieros.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2258

Anyways, today's meeting started under dark pretenses. Johnny Boy was apparently leaving Rambunkshush. David was stepping down as club head. Patrick was being all nyuh, I'm eating with other people. All things considered, an event to be feared. Things didn't pick up much with the attendance of Fieros as of 5:45, with only two present. Eventually more members, and eventually a couple Fieros trickled in.

Perhaps one of the highlight moments, if not the most interesting point of the every meeting this year (Hehe) was that a particular member was in attendance: NIGEL!!! (Sorry to get your hopes up, Marcel). Yes, thanks to the good doctor, and the power of the interwebz, Nigel was chatting to the group through the Doctor's phone, and it's webcam.

Cautiously optimistic, Marcel, Clynt and I proceded to grill Johnny Boy, who conceded he wants to drastically re-style RBS, and shed some pounds (While moving other pounds to more beneficial locations).

With those two bombshells out of the way, we moved inside the club, where Marcel, Clynt and I continued to fear any alterations to the perfection that is RBS. After a little bit of time, we moved on to door prizes, and on his first meeting back in a while, guess who managed to steal a door prize? Yes, for those of you who want/need a reason to hate Marcel, his win-streak continues on. It was just after this that Ken showed up as well.

Once the meeting picked up, we inevitably moved towards club runs and roughly setting times (Typically just the month). What has been verified thus far is: Tech session in April, Tech session in May, possibly a Cinco de Mayo run in May (Duh), Hell's Gate run in May, Possibly a movie/drive-in during June, possibly Duffy Lake in June, I believe Arlington in July, All Pontiac in September, Tech session in October, I believe Chilliwack in November, a Christmas party in December at Fireside, something in January, and a Chocolate Run in February (So grab your Valentine's Gift's, thanks for the idea Michelle!). Other suggestions thrown about involved a year-early end-of-the-world-party, amongst other things. Emily also agreed to come to the Harrison Hot Springs run to go swimming. Ahead of time, I call dibs for her in my car.

The next topic of discussion was a more sombre affair, as David spoke of stepping down as club head. Luckily, that disaster was averted thanks to some club members offering constructive alternatives. It was finally agreed upon that the solution was not David utterly stepping down, but having other members step up to ease the work-load. While I only thought to add meeting reminders to my list, I'd like to thank for taking on club sign-up and meeting set-up, Damien for taking on event co-ordination and the two of them offering to do the speaking when needed, with me being a last resort. Colby was also designated our club "Autocross Go-To Guy".

The club finally finished with a discussion on perhaps doing a club drag-race out at Mission some time, although nothing was particularly solidified.

It was at this point that I continued on to flirting with the adorable Emily, until the last of us had left, in which point the Bergquist's and I decided it was a good time to call it a night as well. The last moment of the meeting may or may not have involved David spinning or not spinning his tires while leaving or not leaving the parking lot. 

First off, let me start by extending a sincere thanks to Johnny Boy and Clynt for taking me to and driving me home from the meeting.

Well, today's well-populated meeting was, in all honesty, rather helter-skelter, but still very enjoyable. Although I wasn't present for the pre-meeting socializing, I'm sure there was a whole bunch of interesting things that happened. Probably including ninjas and hippopotami.

However, when I did arrive, I was greeted to the sight of TONS of members. Patrick, Harrison, Damien, David, Maurine, Michelle, Lisa, Colby, John and many, many more were all present and accounted for. Of special note was the number of new members who also populated the meeting. I will allow them to introduce themselves here, but there were quite a few of them.

The main topic of discussion was planning next year's events/runs. There were many proposed, and all were voted upon. During the voting phase, it was also noted that interest in tomorrow's tech session had wained, and thus was postponed indefinitely. Following the official discussion was talk of Colby's suspension issue at the moment, of which the consensus seems to be cradle bushings or rear tie rods.

Last up was a discussion of tools, notably OBD-II scanners, lab scopes and turbo timers. And it was on that note that the meeting came to an end. People slowly trickled out while Patrick managed to chat with the lovely Emily.

And with that, I leave you with Patty as a classy dude:

Well brothers and sisters, despite the abhorrently low
Fiero count (Six. All fastbacks.), as usual we rocked the
proverbial casbah. The meeting started with the mandatory
chatting amongst members in the parking lot, including
Grimm Dragon's maker (Chris), along with our italian
artist (Johnny Boy), our chief (David), our super-sexy
young member (This one) and Patrick.

As things moved inside, chatting continued amongst
several more members including David, Damien, our sound
GURU (Sorry brother, your name eludes me!) and many more.
Once things got organized, a whopping $3 50/50 draw was
won, followed by yours truly winning free food, and
members snagging mint-condition dog-bones and light-up
shift knobs (Red and blue, both won by John). The
organized topics were very brief, but it was abundantly
clear that there were two hot-button topics: Arlington
and insurence. Reminding all of you that Arlington is
just around the corner, so get your passports/enhanced
IDs, and please bring any canopies/chairs if you can, the
club could really use them.

Insurence made for some interesting discussion,
especially with regards to agreed value, where the
customer can elect to set the "worth" of their vehicle,
making it very intriguing to members such as Johnny Boy,
Blair and our sound guy (Sorry again!), who's vehicles
are worth significantly more than the blue book value of
their vehicle. Hagerty's was also presented as a paragon
in comparison to the make-you-want-to-stick-nails-in-
your-eyes tactics of ICBC as well.

We briefly touched upon the Pontiac Show (Don't forget
to pre-register, there's incentives to), the upcoming
tech session and Damien's work on the throttle body and
manifold combination. Patrick also shed some valuable
light on the enhanced ID process, which is $52 to change
a current lisence over to, or $35 (Plus the initial $75)
when renewing, and is mailed within ten days.

One of the most intriguing moments of the night was
the introduction to our newest brother, Wayne, who's four
cylinder is unfortunately un-salvagable, but remains
eager to drive the pegasus emblem, having fallen for a
2M4 back during the initial Fiero-mania in '84. Until
then, he is the owner of a Grand Prix GXP (3.8L Series II
Supercharged) which should fill the gap until he can find
a Pontiac with the engine in the proper half of the car.

The organized aspect of the meeting was brief but
things continued for a very, very long time in the
parking lot (Almost two hours by the time David, Patrick
and I left) where Wayne was able to show off his
moderately tuned and very clean Grand Prix. Also present
was the insane-audio Fiero, which ran no less than six 8"
subs, a four channel and mono-block amp, and a battery
that's large enough to power a small city. And that's not
even touching upon all the visual modifications that have
been done. David's '88, Patrick's '86 (Sporting the gold
hood off of his current project) Luke's '86 and my
Gretchin rounded out the roster.

Our audio-connaisseur Arun suggested an audio tech-
session one day, which I will admit I am completely in
favour of, and I came up with the brilliant idea of
mounting a battery down by the front cross-member of the
vehicle, which David promptly informed has been done
before. Such as on his own vehicle.

And, as an added anecdote for Patrick, I strolled on
up to our waitress and proceeded to collect a phone
number. He can enjoy knowing that my high from that
victory was short-lived, as I proceded to be LIT UP by a
2008 Corvette ZO6 on the highway.

Tristen aka Romeo

West Coast Fiero's May 8th 2010 club meeting

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Ok meeting location

Saturday Mar 13th 2010  @ 6pm

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Ricky's All Day Grill

604-455-6002

8720 204 Street, Langley, BC, V1M2Y5

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              Ok what month is this, Oh Ya its, MARCH.  We are kicking off this month with the new meeting time slot of 6pm.  I know that cuts into many of your last min rush to clean the cars up for the meetings, but hey you'll have to get used to it.

                   We chose to do this in order to get more daylight at the meetings, and with the upcoming spring clocks roll ahead, we are going to have a ton of daylight at the meetings.  This will also allow for more chances of doing after meeting cruises.  Even if it is just an after meeting cruise to go out for ice cream or coffee after the meeting.    So remember change all your schedules its Six PM that's 6 PM, ok did we get that 6pm.  Just think 6-6-6, er wait that's, oh never mind, just remember 6pm.

                   Now on to the meeting stuff.    I know Car2Lo aka Jon will be there with his Widebody-Choptop-3800SC car, so I know a lot of people are going to be happy to see that return to the monthly meetings.  I am betting Hugh will be there with his awesome 383ci Chevy V8 6spd, and I hear there might be a Turbocharged V8 also making its debut at the meeting.  I am not going to let that secret out of the bag, but I hear it is being driven on test runs right now.    With my leg feeling much better, I am getting really tempted to toss a permit on my V8 and bring it out for the meeting.   It's still not exactly in perfect shape, however the urge to drive it is starting to take over my better judgment of keeping it here and working out all the bugs.  

          Roadfury dropped by my place with his 85GT V6 4spd car today and we did some tinkering and tweaking, when he came here, he was so disappointed with the performance of the car, and frankly just thought that was the way Fiero's were, by the time he left here, the car was smoking up the tires and screaming down the street.     It really brings up an interesting point, if you have a Fiero, and face it if you are reading this, you probably do, and have never driven another Fiero, you may not know what you are missing.       It's possible your car has had issues since day one and you just did not know it.   You may want to ask to take a ride in or, if the owner is willing, let you drive a car that is similar to yours.  Maybe the 2 of you could swap cars for a quick cruise around the block.   Club runs are a great place to get a benchmark on how your car compares to large number of cars.   If you find yourself getting left behind at every light, or feeling like you are going to fly off the road in the corners when everyone else seems to be taking a leisurely stroll, it might be time to start checking things.   Especially if you find yourself needing a fuel stop, when everyone else has only used 1/4 tank of fuel.

The big topics of the meeting will be upcoming events.

         So I'll let the calendar do the speaking for the rest of this message.  

Also I would like to say Thank you to a few people who recently have stood up to help with the details.   Patrick is assisting with meeting info, Tristen is writing the meeting wrap up letters, Dr. Fiero is showing a more active role in setting up club scheduling, and as always Lisa for manning the club funds, club raffles, club rosters, and general club stuff at the sign in table.

With coming events we need to get input from the people attending and finalize all the details.  

I look forward to seeing all of you there at the meeting.   I am sure it will be a blast. 

March 13 Club Meeting

March 20^th Chocolates and Coffee @ Euphoria Chocolates in Historic Fort Langley. 

April 10^th Club Meeting

April 17^th Hells Gate Air Tram and Boston Bar Meet 8am at the McDonalds Parking lot on 152^nd Street across from Guildford Mall in Surrey.

May 8^th Club Meeting

May 22^nd Tech Session, this is the Pre-Arlington Tech day.  This is to evaluate any problems that have shown up on the Hells Gate run, and fix them, as well as do a double check for the Arlington run.   A US to Canada Tow bill would cost more than what some of us paid for our cars.   I will have a list of suggested tools to carry for the event.   

June 5^th Arlington Jet City Fiero’s Picnic   7am Meet at 152^nd and Hwy 10 in Cloverdale/Surrey at the Tim Horton’s.   Details to be released as the date gets closer. Make sure you have your Passports.

June 12th Club Meeting and Detail Day at my place.  Let’s get together to polish those cars up for the All Pontiac Show.

June 13^th All Pontiac Show and Shine at the Barnes Wheaton GM dealership (3050 King George Highway) in the South Surrey Auto Mall  Pre Registration is $15 and includes a free Hamburger/Hotdog and Pop.  Details at www.pppcc.com

July 10^th Club Meeting

July 16th, 17^th, 18th Camping Earls by the River.   .   It'll be a 2-3 day event running July 16th - July 18th.  The 16th will be for people that can get away early enough on Friday to make the run up, and then go Friday, Saturday, then leaving Sunday afternoon.    The actual picnic will be held on July 17th all day. Starting as early as the hangovers permit from the Friday night people.   Also for those that are into paintball, the camp area is next to a paintball range, so feel free to go shooting each other for a few hours.      It’s a pretty open event, the only thing we ask left at home are grumpy attitudes.   We like to have FUN.    We'll supply the BBQ and the condiments, so all you have to bring is meats and buns, optionally, if pre-arranged, Lisa can purchase the food for you and then you can pay her when you get to the event.

August 14^th Club Meeting

Aug 21^st Whistler Run, meeting in Burnaby somewhere.

Sept 11^th Club Meeting

Sept 25^th Mopac Dyno Day aprx cost $100 per car.

Oct 9^th Club Meeting

Oct 23^rd  OPEN FOR DISCUSSION

Nov 6^th Winter Tech day.

Nov 13^th Club Meeting

Dec 4^th Movie Night

Dec 11^th Club Meeting

We need a Meeting Speaker.  So Speak Up.  I'll be there to help you setup. 

Ok so the meeting was a bit on the small side, but the slightly more informal meeting seemed to style let the enthusiasm come back to our club.

I know I am going to forget a few people, so bare with me, the roster is still outside in the trunk of my car.

Nigel 86GT with Fiero

Austin 86GT with Fiero

Me 88GT with Fiero

Lisa 86SE V8(as sick as she was, she still came so she could manage the draws and dues)  Thank you Sweetie.

Graeme 88GT

Glen 88GT

Marcel 87SE

Trevor 87GT

Tristan (Romeo from Forum in New West)

Luke 86GT

          The topics of the night were “Where should we go” and What should we do.  As well as what is the actual towing capacity of a Fiero.   Marcel later pointed out that the 86SE V6 had a rating of 1000lbs.

So the places we came up with were.

Bellingham

Bridal Falls

Shannon Falls

Harrison Hot Springs

Point Roberts

And a few places I can’t recall off the top of my head, but a popular suggestion was Go Kart Racing.  The club enjoyed the Castle Fun Park aka Wonderland in Abby that I think just about everyone wanted to do more Go Kart racing.  The suggestion was also brought up that we need to dig deeper into the Mission Road Racing that Austin and Brian do in there Fiero’s.   What could be more fun that treating your Fiero like a big Go Kart on a real race track. 

Restaurants were brought up again as we really need to make this permanent.   As of know we have had several suggestions however nothing is carved in stone yet.    So far every suggested place has something that does not meet the criteria.   The good side was, food last night was simply amazing.  I believe Nigel said that his steak was one of the best he has had in a really long time.  Service was for the most part really good.    The banquet room is on the small side and I don’t believe one of our larger meetings could fit in the space.  Seating for 20-25.   

Pics are located here, http://westcoastfieros.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1121&am p;PN=1

I did include one pic of my driveway just before Lisa and I left for the meeting. 

If you have a suggestion for a drive, event or other.  Please bring it up.

I would like to see our members setting up events, I’ll be around if someone needs advice on planning an event.   As everyone knows, my cell phone is always on for the members to contact me, and if I can’t answer, I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.    For the record my cell is 604-807-2623 email is  david@westcoastfieros.com 

                         If we don’t have a decided location for the next meeting, we will be returning to the ABC that we were at last night.  104^th Ave and 158^th Street in Surrey.

David

Can you believe its almost 2009?  Can you believe it was below zero last night and the die hards were still standing outside talking about cars. There was snow was falling on the cars at the meeting?   We are truly the greatest Fiero club end of story.  We always have good turn outs for meetings, we always share our info with each other.  I don't know of any Fiero club that has as active of tech sessions as we do. 

Pics are here,  http://captfiero.com/121308meeting

   Well on the good stuff.  It was a little bumpy start at the meeting as I did not find out until the morning of the club meeting that someone else had booked the banquet room for use before us.  So our 5:30 start time ended up starting in the upstairs area, with food and munchies being delivered and handed out.   I kinda think we should have ordered more food.  We only bought about $60 worth of appetizers which seemed to go rather quickly.  If you did not get at least a few things, I am sorry.  When the first order went I quickly ordered to more plates of the Chicken strips.  Hopefully everyone got at least something.

The gift exchange went off great, everyone that participated I think had fun.  I even ended up with something a little extra, John Carlos gave me a special present for my V8 GT I am working on, in the direction of scoops and vents, he thought the back end could use a little bit of lift, he presented me with a set of hand made, wing stanchions.  I believe they are 4" tall.  So Thank You John.

The Christmas food drive was a small but spirited run, we made from Guildford Mall at 6:15 over to Pine Tree Village in Coquitlam in a little over 30mins in rush hour traffic.  Attending was Lisa, Myself, Ken So, Glen (I know I am going to slaughter the spelling of your last name) Farquhar with his son Ethan.  We donated a large bag of Toys, several large bags of food and $120 in cash.    After the run, we all snuck over to the Boston Pizza to warm up have a few quick bites and wait for traffic to die down before trying to make it back over the Port Mann bridge.

    Other topics last night.      Its Winter if ya hadn't noticed.  If you have not checked your  antifreeze since last summer, it might be a good time to do it.   With the way the Fiero's cooling system is, the radiator up front, can freeze while you are driving.  One year, that I had put off checking it, I had my car parked in a heated garage.  I pulled out of the garage and everything was fine, it was about -10 outside, and before the car had warmed up enough to open the thermostat, the water in the radiator had frozen enough to turn my coolant into slush blocking all coolant flow.  Engine overheated but because there was no flow, it couldn't get the hot water up to the front to melt the ice.   Only way to fix it was get the car home, place a space heater under the rad, wait for it to melt, then remove a gallon of coolant from the system and replace with a gallon of pure antifreeze.  

Shops, please if your Fiero is broken and you can't convince one of the Fiero tech guys in the club to help you out, please post to the list on what your car needs, people will at the lest be able to tell you roughly how long a repair will take and what it should cost you.  I recently did some work on Paul Wans Fiero, I spent 101 hours, of labor putting the car back together correctly.  Cut wires, missing parts, brakes put on back-wards, all manor of issue. 

      There is no date set yet for the Christmas lights drive, as frankly there has not been enough people actively wanting to do the run.  Glen kinda hinted that is enough people wanted it, he would help out to set it up.   So post up if you want to see this run happen.

      Dyno Day, this topic came up again, we had about 5 people raise there hand saying they would be willing to pay up to $150 to get there car on a Dyno.  I am pretty sure I can get that reduced to $100 if we have a large enough crowd.  This would be for Fieros only.  That way the Dyno shop can set up for one type of car and just rig and un rig each car.  If you are interested please get in contact with me.

             Also the topic of changing the meeting location came up again, and I think this time we are going to make the jump, there is a thread with a poll started by Dr. Fiero, please post your comments in that thread.  I have listed off the requirements for a place in that thread.

       Well that's about it as far as I can tell.  If I have forgotten something please feel free to send me an email and I'll get it added.