Ohio/Pennsylvania gather?

[Tango Charlie]

Aww, man. If I'd known you were gonna have a stone-skipping contest...

Thanks for sharing the pics and videos, guys!
If it's on a Saturday next year, I'm there.

Could someone indicate who's who in the group shot?

[bbjsw10]

Nice pics and videos Geneva!!

[Hacksaw]

From left to right:

Hacksaw, HogBellyRacing, Pu241, RacerX, Johnny Mullet, MetroSchultz, 25Horseplay, bbjsw10, and XFi on the far right with his Aspire.

[Johnny Mullet]

It will be on a Saturday next year and I will do it in late July so we can go to the Drive-In.
Thanks for those pics and vids Geneva Dirt!

You know, I feel bad since I cannot remember the names of the Festiva guys and they were such great company.

[Tango Charlie]

I looked through the garage for Festiva's. Does bhazard, LS1_SE7EN, LonAllen, needarealname, econoaddict, or Gotrootdude ring a bell?

[dcb]

This might be a clue

Originally Posted by bhazard

the fest is gonna run them ALL off the road

Originally Posted by Pu241

Count on another Festiva to be there!

[dcb]

LOL, this is kinda fun, I'm guessing the festiva on the left is GenevaDirt.

[bbjsw10]

Nope GenevaDirt didn't have his had to drive a rental so he filmed us. And bhazards festiva is red, no red ones there. Xfi knew them he should key in.

[RacerX]

Great job Geneva Dirt! Thanks

[Coyote X]

I averaged 51mpg for the entire trip on my dr650 and sarah averaged a bit lower on her gv650 but her bike was acting up a bit. I think the windshield lowered my mileage slightly. I normally get better mileage than that. First three pics are when we were leaving from her house. It rained the whole way so we didn't want to get the cameras out and take a chance on them getting wet so no pics of anything else till the meet.

On Saturday we rode out to walmart and got a tarp and some rope. After that we rode around Pymatuning lake a bit but with the rain going pretty strong we didn't bother with much because of the poor visibility in the heavy rain. We decided to head out to lake Erie. We rode backroads only while avoiding highways. The rain let up a bit when we got there and we got to play in the sand a bit with my bike before heading back to the camp.

[GenevaDirt]

The Festy guy on the left is John (Pu241 and the one on the right is Brian (25Horseplay) he is also the owner of fordfestiva.com.
About my Festy not being there....I am a little miffed about that....I have been renting a car because I was fed some misinformation by an insurance company. I was in an accident with it a couple months back and the other persons insurance required me to get a salvage title in order to pay off....and proceeded to tell me that I would have to get it inspected and turned back to a regular title before I could drive it. Well that was not going to be till the 22nd of this month and I was 3 days into paying for that rental myself. Well after talking to one of the guys at the meet that said he was from Michigan and that he drove a car that had a salvage title without problem. Well on the way back from the meet I called my insurance company and found out that I could drive it no problem so long as I had a mechanic sign off on it as being safe. They gave me 14 days to get the form in the mail and then return it back to them....in the meantime I was still able to drive the Festy. So I was a little mad....got over it and took the rental back the next day and went back to my Festy.....ahhhhhhhhhh. LOL

[GenevaDirt]

Hey...also forgot to mention...I posted all the vids to youtube. Just search ecomodder meet and you should find them no problem

[Hacksaw]

Geneva,

Yeah, that was me you talked to about salvage titles...I'm glad to hear you got the answer you were looking for. My daughter's '97 Metro has a salvage title...I think it is to inform any future owner of said car that it has been involved in some kind of accident and then repaired. The title is orange, rather than the standard green(Michigan)
So with your Festy scheduled to attend Johnny Mullet's 2009 Gathering, who's gonna take all the cool videos of our rides? Thanks for doing that by the way, it is much appreciated!!!

CoyoteX,

Hey bud, glad to hear you arrived home safely. Thanks again for your hospitality, allowing my brother and I to camp with you and S....say hello to her for me.

[Medic Nodirt]

Just wanted to tell everyone that attended the "metropalooza" that I really had a great time and it was awesome to meet you! I'm looking forward to the next meet, maybe by then I will have let coyote x "modify" my corolla

@JM- can I have your wife's recipe for her mac salad??? That was realllllly good!

[bbjsw10]

CoyoteX, glad you made it home safely. And thanks for the cluster and bezel, they worked great.

[HOGBELLYRACING]

Got a question, as I see the gear swap being done in 5speed saturns (10percent improvemnt with the longer legs) why should
i have to swap an entire tranny out of my sons 96 metro to get the legs that the trans in my Xfi has

[bbjsw10]

The Metro doesn't have a higher fifth gear just a higher final drive, you would have to totally tear down tranny to accomplish this. Swapping is easier.

[HOGBELLYRACING]

ok help me now cuz as I look at the trannys they both have the same transmission cover just as the saturn manual 5spd (located just behind drivers front wheel ). What will I find when I remove this cover two gears like in the satrurn right

[Johnny Mullet]

Well, hope this helps......................

[HOGBELLYRACING]

HEY MAN THANX