Saturday, February 23rd I'm having my first annual F.I.E.R.O. (Freezing In Every Random Orifice) winter meet.
Come out, eat in and join the fun, but dress warm! Who says Fieros aren't winter cars?

This is going to be at Arundel Mills mall in somewhat centralized Hanover, MD (roughly between D.C. and Baltimore), starting at 12pm. After a few hours of hanging out, taking pics and doing various other things that freezing frenzied Fiero lovers love to do, we'll head in to Dave & Busters ( http://www.daveandbusters.com/ ) to eat and to play or whatever! Stay as late as you'd like!
Bring your significant others, they can hang out with us or go in to shop if the idea of freezing Fiero freaks doesn't follow their fortune's fancy! (Sorry, I had to. )
Credit for the location goes to lildevil, thanks much lildevil!

Directions are easy...
From I-95 you'll take exit 43A (MD-100 east toward Glen Burnie) and go 3.9 miles, then take exit 10A (Arundel Mills Blvd.), the mall will be on your right and you can't miss it. We will meet in the parking lot marked by the big red arrow in the last picture, which is right behind the movie theater.
The mall's address is:
7000 Arundel Mills Cir
Hanover, MD 21076










So far all of these fanciful Fiero and non-Fiero owners alike will potentially be there (everyone's welcome):
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ALLTRBO (Steven)
ALLTRBO's wife (Christine)
Saxman (Andrew)
CompYellowFiero
Scurvy
RustyFormula (Tony)
bmwguru (Dave, Joey's husband)
anonymity (Joey, Dave's wife)
88GTFormula
lildevil
twodogjohnny (John)
prizm-bluegt
wikid_one
Francis T
TorqueWench
Daredevil05 (Dave)
Indypacecars (Marc)
shredd
SATX
dobey
Brad
Fierology (Michael)
FieroJimmy
IMSA/GT
steve308
pbd
Mytime (Doug)
Mytime's wife
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You don't want to miss it! Sign up in this thread now before it's too late! (Kidding, you can show up anyway, but I would like to have an idea of how many people will attend). I hope to see you there!

(Edited for updates)

[This message has been edited by ALLTRBO (edited 02-23-2008).]

Great idea! My wife gets off work at 1, so I can't make it out of Waldorf until 1:15.

I can bring a camera...

If I can find someone to watch my Kids Count me in. I will start trying to find a sitter NOW!

And like Sax I will have a camera at the ready. It is so rare for me to be able to get away, I will really be excited to look forward to meeting some more of the Fiero Faithful.

I already met Saxman ( though it will be nice to see you again ), would really like to meet others with this odd passion of ours.

Sounds like a good idea! Does anyone have a lift at their place - I need to do a couple of tweaks that will be a lot easier if the car is on a lift - so if you do I heartily nominate you to host this meeting!

John

SWEET.

I updated the "list", let me know if or how it needs to be changed for your particular situation.

I don't have a lift unfortunately, but I do have a big (for the city) open backyard.
I was thinking that a good food place with a large parking lot would do the trick, preferably one that would require twisty roads to get to! I've only been here for 14 months so others may know the greater area better than me. I'd prefer it to be somewhat outside of crazy city traffic for sure. Thoughts? If there aren't any, I'll find a place and make it stick. If someone with a lift has room for a few freezing Fiero freaks, I'm cool with that too.

12pm+ sounds like a good time to meet up, we could hang out until dark (5:30pm?) followed by a yummy dinner. Group pics are a must.

hey you forgot about WV. i wish i could make it but i got to work that day. if i could get off i would do a trip up there to my parents that live in Harpers Ferry and i could stay up there. but like i said i got to work so no go for me. anyways sounds like fun make sure you all take lots of pics cause i would like to see some that are in my area.

Oh sorry, WV is invited too! Heck, all 50 states and Puerto Rico can come! Any Canucks want to cross the border?

Ah, just tell your work you have something important to attend to!

We should open this up the guys in Southern New Jersey as well, they are not much farther away from College Park as me.

I'm in if it's less than an hr away

quote Originally posted by Doc John: Sounds like a good idea! Does anyone have a lift at their place - I need to do a couple of tweaks that will be a lot easier if the car is on a lift - so if you do I heartily nominate you to host this meeting! John

I have a 2 post lift. Does that count?

Has a location been decided yet? Maybe, (not promising anythng yet) Joey and I might make a day trip to come meet you all.
Dave

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Steven I would attend but will be out off town that weekend, if you have another weekend count me and my son in as we could do that and maybe bring all three fieros.

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Keep this at the top so we have a reminder. I'll try to work it in. A Saturday outside of a machine shop would be fun.

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Suffolk, Va
87 Gt 350-5spd

Now we just need to pick a venue. Some place within an hour's drive for everybody?

OK, on behalf of Lildevil and Soulcrusher - I nominate Waldorf, MD!

An hour away max for everyone would be awesome, but I don't know exactly where everyone is. Honestly I think somewhere right around here (northeast corner of the capitol beltway) would be decently centralized. I'd like a somewhat secluded location but I have a decent proposal otherwise.

I haven't checked with them yet, but I think the 94th Aero Squadron restaurant here in College Park would be an awesome place to meet. We've eaten there once and it had great food and atmosphere. It's located right next to the College Park Airport runway so you can watch planes take off and land if any are flying. They also have various airplanes on display out front, it'd make for good pics. They have provisions for medium to large parties. Directions and menus are located on their website.
http://www.the94thaerosquad...llegePark/index.html

The only potential drawback is that they're usually very busy from what I hear, and parking may be close to full. However, they're closed from 3pm-4pm on Saturdays so most of the place should be fully clear at least by then. We may not have a problem at all.
Right before that time would be perfect to take a short drive (a mile or so) over to Lake Artemesia to take group car pics, if the "access road" really is accessible to cars (the trails around the lake aren't for motor vehicles, dernit). I'll head over there to check it out for sure. Once plenty of pics are taken (and some high from atop my truck cab) we'll head back over to the restaurant to hang out and wait for them to open for dinner, then we'll head in and chow down. You have to try the "Beer Cheese Soup" (despite how it sounds, hehe. We don't even like beer but we loved it!). Sound good?

I'll be contacting the restaurant soon to make sure this is all okay with them, but it doesn't seem like they'll mind.


I think it sucks that no matter how hard one can try, a date or location won't ever be perfect for everybody. That being said, I would consider another date (+ - 1wk) if it would work for more people, but this one seems to be okay for most, weather permitting of course. If it doesn't, I'll bump it by a week or two.
amflyer, I'd love to see all three of your Fieros, especially my old one again. If you end up being able to make it let us know!

Being from the Eastern shore, no matter where the final destination is, I will be driving some distance, looks like it will be 2 hours or more for me. Lucky I like to drive (especially in my Fiero). Just let me know where, I will put it in my GPS and Roll!

Looking forward to the 23rd!

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Cool man. So far it sounds like you'll be driving the furthest. Anyone care to beat him? We'll have a contest Well, if Tom can make it I think he's the winner so far. That's quite a hike to anywhere around here!

Update:

quote Originally posted by ALLTRBO: Right before that time would be perfect to take a short drive (a mile or so) over to Lake Artemesia to take group car pics, if the "access road" really is accessible to cars (the trails around the lake aren't for motor vehicles, dernit). I'll head over there to check it out for sure.

I headed out there today, and it seems that public cars aren't allowed on the access road, it's purely a hike or bike lake. BOO! We want pics of us AND our cars! So there goes that idea.
On the brighter side, I found a little public park area right around the corner from the 94th Aero Squadron that we could have the meet at until food time, it looks like it'll be much less crowded during these months than the restaurant. If everyone's okay with that then that's the updated plan.

Saxman, do you have anywhere down there that kicks my idea in the behind? I'm still wide open to other suggestions.

[This message has been edited by ALLTRBO (edited 01-21-2008).]

I haven't thought about what there is down here. I was hoping that Lildevil would have a suggestion. I sent him an email, so let's see what he has to say.

That's the weekend before Daytona. Anyone from around here going besides bmwguru and anonymity? I'm working on it. I also have some 88 parts to pick up while I'm down there...

hmm... awefully tempting... but on the other hand, can my fiero handle the salt for the 1st time in her life...? lol

about two hours for me as well. I'll look into it

fiero isnt on the road yet.
I'll show up without it though.
-john

Same here. I don't think I will have the new cradle and rebuilt engine back in the Formula in time - and I can't find the damn tail lights for the Fino! Winter Fiero-ing has not been good to me...

I'll have to be satisfied driving the Mach 1 -

Sweet! I'm in on this! Is it cool if I come w/o a Fiero? I haven't owned one for years!

quote Originally posted by turbo86se: Is it cool if I come w/o a Fiero? I haven't owned one for years!

You're not invited.

That's not nice Jncomutt . If I have my new project finished by the 23rd I'll try to make it.

Awesome, so we're going to have a Chevy truck, a Mustang, and probably something like a '99 Camry and an '92 Ford Fiesta at our Fiero meet, huh?
That's cool. I'd love it if everyone could bring their Fieros but we all understand if you can't for some valid reason. Yeah. We understand. That's it.

Saxman -
Still no. If you can't find the Fino taillights within a month then you don't have them I'd think, heh. If you know you have them, then start looking! I need to see that thing up close!

Jncomutt -
That isn't nice. Play nice. He can come as long as he promises not to drool on any Fieros from envy.

[This message has been edited by ALLTRBO (edited 01-23-2008).]

I told myself I wouldn't miss the next meet, and I'm not gonna back out now. Count me in. If someone wants to drive down to the shore I have another Fiero we might be able to commandeer.

quote Originally posted by ALLTRBO: Awesome, so we're going to have a Chevy truck, a Mustang, and probably something like a '99 Camry and an '92 Ford Fiesta at our Fiero meet, huh? That's cool. I'd love it if everyone could bring their Fieros but we all understand if you can't for some valid reason. Yeah. We understand. That's it. Saxman - Still no. If you can't find the Fino taillights within a month then you don't have them I'd think, heh. If you know you have them, then start looking! I need to see that thing up close! Jncomutt - That isn't nice. Play nice. He can come as long as he promises not to drool on any Fieros from envy.

I guess it should be called a PFF member-meet. Not a Fiero gathering!

The people make these cars fun, so it should be a good time.

I will bring any and all extra Fiero Parts that I can spare ( & Carry in my Fiero ), they will ALL be Freebies to any Fiero Owner that attends!

I am Sincerely Looking forward to this!

I have a set of side scoops (Archie's if i remember correctly) as well as a nice condition gray GT wheel. If there is interest I can bring them with me... I think I can fit them in the car. If I have to I'll bring the Blazer.

quote Originally posted by wikid_one: I have a set of side scoops (Archie's if i remember correctly) as well as a nice condition gray GT wheel. If there is interest I can bring them with me... I think I can fit them in the car. If I have to I'll bring the Blazer.

could you send me pics of the scoops? irmsrus@gmail.com i might be very interested

If I we get the turbo mods done to my 86GT (changing it around to use our latest headers) and also get all the mods done (and paint the car) to our 87GT we'll try hard to make it also.

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quote Originally posted by Saxman: This would be a good time to mention the Fiero parts you are looking for. If anyone has extras like me, they can sell/trade/give them.

Great idea! I also have various parts I don't need, I can bring them.
Have you heard anything from Lildevil?

I checked out another local "lake" (big pond) that a co-worker tipped me off to, same story as the first, bah. I also looked at Greenbelt Park near my work, it's not far from the restaurant and there's one public picnic area there that's fairly secluded from the city, but it's near the ranger station and I don't want to upset them. Chalk that up as a possibility. I'll keep trying to come up with ideas, but if no one mentions a good central place far away from here then plan on coming to this area.

Francis, I'd love to see the turbo GT! You can come even without a Fiero if you want.

-Steven

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I live in the area, and am free that saturday.
i hope wherever it happens, that they serve decent crab cakes.
(i luv crab cakes)