April Gathering

Greetings. Triangle Italian Motoring Enthusiasts will be gathering for breakfast on Saturday, April 5th at Camille's in the Brier Creek Commons shopping center. We will be there from approximately 9 AM to 10:30 AM. At approximately 10:30, we'll head out and drive to the Long Road Racing garage where Glenn Long will give a tour of his shop and some instruction on setting your car up for your next track or drivers education event. For those not familiar with the Long name, Glenn's son Tom was the Spec Miata national champion in 2005 and has regularly driven in the Grand Am series for Automatic Racing. In this years Daytona 24-Rolex, Tom drove the BMW M6 for Automatic Racing as well as a MX5 Miata for Freedom Autosport in the Grand Am event. Glenn Long manages the Freedom Autosport Grand Am racing team. See Eric at the event and he'll have maps and directions to the race shop!

Maserati of Raleigh is also supposed to be bringing one of their cars to Aprils event...hopefully one of the new GranTurismo's!

These gatherings have grown very large and we're trying to bring a little order to the insanity. Please look for the other Italian cars and motorcycles as we are trying to park in a group. There will be many red Ferrari's, so just keep your eyes open. You'll also have less of a chance of getting a door ding if you're parked next to another nice car.

As this event becomes larger, we are subject to more scrutiny. Please keep your vehicles at least two rows back from the building fronts. This allows normal patrons to park closer, which keeps the shop owners happy, and it keeps the shopping traffic from parking in between our cars. We also ask that you practice sane driving within the Brier Creek Commons area. The parking lot is not a race track and treating it as such is the quickest way to end this event. I thought I wouldn't have to address this but there were a few incidents last month. Finally, for clarification purposes, this is an opportunity for car enthusiasts to join each other for breakfast. This is not a car show and no individual or organization is responsible for anything that occurs within the parking lot. We are not allowed to block off or rope any areas of the parking lot due to liability issues. Enough of the boring stuff though, we look forward to seeing everyone.

Regards,
Eric

Recap - March Gathering

Thank you to everyone who came out on March 1st to enjoy what turned out to be a very large gathering of sports cars and motorcycles. In addition to the standard assortment of Italian cars and Porsches, the AC Cobra group joined us yet again, along with a selection of NSX's, S2000's, Ford GT's (including a twin turbo Ford GT...wow!), and some American classics. Thank you to all of the groups and individuals who come out and make these Saturday mornings so special. Our pictures are up at the following address:

Picasa Album

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Thanks,
Eric
Triangle Italians

Upcoming Events...

Saturday; March 1st, 2008:
Greetings everyone. The gathering on March 1st will be held at Camille's in Brier Creek on Saturday, March 1st at 9:00 AM. For those of you who couldn't make it last month, you will be in for a treat if this month is anything like this past month's meet. We saw a little of everything this past month including quite a few AC Cobra replicas, a GT40 replica, a Ford GT, Dodge Viper, a group of Elise's, some late 60's Camaro's, a pair of Stingray Vette's, in addition to the standard assortment of Italian machinery and our Porsche friends. We invite everyone to come out and enjoy what will hopefully be a pleasant Saturday morning. We're excited about the fact that more enthusiast groups are picking up on our first Saturday event and we hope to see it continue to grow.

I've updated our Picture album with images that I've collected from the various recent outings, so take a look. Unfortunately, I can't find my camera cord so most of these images have been grabbed from other attendees. Enjoy: http://picasaweb.google.com/TriangleItalians

Ray Munsch, who leads the Porsche Club gatherings, has asked me to extend an invitation to all of you to come out to their weekly gatherings. They gather at Camille's every Saturday morning at roughly 7:30 AM (they're much more motivated than we are). If you have any specific questions in regard to the PCA event, you can contact Ray at rmunsch@nc.rr.com

We're still working on the shop tour and tech session at Apex Vintage. We also have some other shop tours in the works as well. We're also looking to host a dinner at some point on a weeknight. There are plenty of things to look forward to and we're always looking for ideas. Please don't hesitate to shoot us an email.

Regards,
Eric
Triangle Italian Motoring Enthusiasts
triangleitalians@gmail.com