EUREKA! I found It!

[Brock Samson]

 it's 11:45 and the town is shut down..

three first gens at the travellodge..

Two Seconds at the Red Lion...

I got a speeding tix on the way here for 70 MPH, though she said she had me clocked on radar at 83 and not a minute prior i was bouncing above 120...

She asks me why i was going so fast?.. like 83 is fast...       i dunno,.. cause there were three lanes no traffic and i wanted to see what the little lady would do?..   

then she says "i can understand it it's a beautiful car ya got".... 

great cruisin up once i got past santa rosa but the first 70 miles took well over 2 hours. you do the math.. even though i left the city at 1:15 to beat the rush it was a parking lot after that mess i was F()*^  Gone...

  http://www.dodgechargerregistry.com/2007%20eureka.htm

[Nacho-RT74]

[defiance]

Yeah, I'm confused to...

I do like the show, though!  I even made the intro my ringtone

[dpm68]

Eureka where? I've been to Eureka, Ark (in the Ozarks) where the infamous Concrete Christ of the Ozarks resides...but that's probably not the same Eureka is it?

[41husk]

Eureka MO.  real close to the Fenton Chrysler plant and six flags over mid America, but thets probably not the Eureka he is talking about either.

[68chrgrwife]

He's talking about Eureka, Ca.  There is a Mopar car show threre this weekend.  We were supposed to go with him and I was supposed to drive his Roadrunner to the show itself, but we had schedule and financial mix ups that prevented us from going.  Man I would have LOVED driving his car.  And hangin' out with him.   

[dpm68]

Eureka MO.  real close to the Fenton Chrysler plant and six flags over mid America, but thets probably not the Eureka he is talking about either.

Ahh yes...how quickly I forget. I was born in St. Louis and blew chunks after riding the Screamin Eagle when I was 9!

[Judhudson]

Ah perfect timing, as the next episode of Eureka will be about the whole town turning "dumb".  You'll fit right in!


I'm just kidding by the way.  Have fun at the car show.


As for the show, I'm a huge fan and I'm always at the tv when that time comes.

[70charger_boy]

 

[Ghoste]

Talk about wandering, we went from Brock's mystery post to dpm68 blowing chunks on a carnival ride. 

[Charger_Fan]

Talk about wandering, we went from Brock's mystery post to dpm68 blowing chunks on a carnival ride. 

[Old Moparz]

I thought he found his vacuum cleaner.



I prefer the Mopar model even though it's older.



But what would Opossom Boy's friend Vacuum Cleaner Boy use?

[4cruzin]

Sucks about the ticket.   

[Brock Samson]

 well the pace really picked up today,..
  Woke up at ^00 am switched on the TV and lo and behold it's the General Lee drifting round Atlanta.. at breakfast I met a'bunch'a great folks, incl. two of whom are well known roundabout these parts, Blue Pentastar in his Ram acting as Chase Truck, who, God bless em, saved my ass when i ran out of gas a few miles from town    well, *I thought i had topped her off,..    on the way back from the cruise, running ahead to pick up a two gallon gas can and back, most thankfully.. first time i ever broke down and had some help on hand..
  And Argos Charger,who's stayin here at the same hotel,.. At the 9:00 am show local news crews from both T.V. and the paper came out to interview the host of the show who did a fantastic job of co-ordination without the help of Wayne Woden who had to stay on his job in Alaska..
anyhow,.. our cruise out to the Ave. of the Giants redwood grove was a sweet slow drive with lots of pictures and movies being taken some of which i'll post later when i get home... This was topped off by a Fantastic Family Style dinner at the Samoa Cookhouse all you can eat, where were also gonna have breakfast tomarrow,.. after we split up tonight i went searching for the Samoa Drags folowing these young guys on a couple super bikes all over Samoa accross the bridge from Eureka, a nice blast keeping up with them - even though i was tailed three different times in the space of an hour by the local Fuzz...    What did I do?!.. We never found the drags.... Dammit! 
  About that ticket,.. I figgure if you live by the sword, Ya' die by the sword...   it could be alot worse.. or as some folks say," it's the price of doin' business in Calif"...



                                                                                                                                                               




 

[68chrgrwife]

Sounds like you had a real good time out there.  Sorry we couldn't make it up...We would have helped you out whe you ran out of gas.....LOL

[Brock Samson]

   got home just before 1:00 a.m.
driving down US 101 from 7:00 p.m. the last sunday before school starts was kinda strange cause the last hour there were no cars on the freeway I've never experianced six lane US 101 with NO traffic at all, kinda' like the end of the world... every light i saw was the CHP commin to git me...
Anyhow after a great breakfast with the Registry Folks again at the Samoa cookhouse (Where they used to feed the loggers the place will seat a few hundred i imagine). I finally found the drags. not only was the $10 admission waved for the Charger reg. folks but they waved my Race Entry fees total $35.oo a great thing cause i was down to my last $6.oo... 
long story short I made four runs but couldn't break 14 seconds  i guess the 323s and the one legger rear plus the weight of a
crammed full trunk makes my hoped for 13s not happinin... I met great folks there however i was taken under the wing of some of the regulars who helped me with my burnouts and staging in Sportsman/Time Only category (SM T/O) still i raced heads up against a Vega and a Nova twice each and won them all once due to the nova's redlight... 
It was great to go somewhere where i didnt know all the cars as I'm pretty familiar with the Bay Area cars goin to shows and Infinion the last 25 years.
  The skunk ran like a champ the entire trip tho the gas guage (on the new guage panel) gave me fits reading 3/4 full when topped off and 1/4 full when out of gas and the dash light wont work lots of gas stations, lots of stories and attention everywhere as folks would decend on the car from out of the woodwork espeacailly in the smaller towns way up north I talked to one guy for nearly three hours who used to own and race a '68 S.S. R/T, '64 Stage III and a '69 Formula S 383....
But i didn't spare the horses one bit I hammered on it every chance I got and other than getting waaaaay out of shape on my first pass (dirty tires i think) and very nearly into the guard rail she ran most excellent the entire 738 miles at an avarage of 11 MPG.

  I'll go ahead and post a few of the 350 pics i took now,.. and some more later in the day/week...

 

[Brock Samson]

 

[Brock Samson]

thought you might like to see this one in particular... 

So, if your in the left lane how ya' supposed to see the tree?..     

[Brock Samson]

one thing im kinda' curious about is why more DC.COM members didn't show?.. cause at the top of this thread folks claim to not even know what I was posting in regards to,.. this CHARGER REGISTREY MEET has been in the works for at least six mos. and there's been a few threads both here and in events,.. so with all the members in the pacific north west i figgured a few of you would show... but not one peep,.. after all it was held near the Ore border so you guys wouldn't have to schlep too far...
other folks drove from as far away as Texas but only four DC.com members made it...
   So what's up with that?.. 

[70charger_boy]

one thing im kinda' curious about is why more DC.COM members didn't show?.. cause at the top of this thread folks claim to not even know what I was posting in regards to,.. this CHARGER REGISTREY MEET has been in the works for at least six mos. and there's been a few threads both here and in events,.. so with all the members in the pacific north west i figgured a few of you would show... but not one peep,.. after all it was held near the Ore border so you guys wouldn't have to schlep too far...
other folks drove from as far away as Texas but only four DC.com members made it...
   So what's up with that?.. 

I'm 3,000 miles away, but when I got my charger running in tip top shape I'll meet you there   Hell, I'll even race you and pay for any speeding tickets you get

[472 R/T SE]

Tacoma, Washington's Mopars Unlimited annual Sunbust show is the Show for the Northwest folks this past weekend.  It's too bad the Registry folks couldn't have taken that into consideration when planning?    I know there were a lot of DC Chargers there yesterday. 

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,24989.0.html

[Brock Samson]

i sure wish that goat and the '68 would have gone head to head but no.. 

im tired of resizing pics but i will later...

[Neal_J]

Sorry dude we were in the wrong redwoods (sierra not coast) for the past couple of weeks. 

Glad you had fun,

Neal

[Argos_Chargers]

I just got back from Eureka this evening.  Sunbust is the same every year...yeah, yeah, yeah, I know...the swap meet.   Wjat y'all missed besides an incredible time and some great new friends was a red '66 hemi 4 spd Charger that hadn't had an engine since 1982.  Lynn, the owner, cranked hard to get the ORIGINAL engine and tranny back in the car for Eureka.  The first time the car saw pavement was for a brief scoot on Wednesday afternoon, yet it was there to meet us in Coos Bay on Friday.   Hmmm, I wonder how much more exciting all of the same old cars at Sun Bust are compared to that.  I guess you're right.  A totally unknown '66 hemi 4-spd is jsut WAY too lame to waste your time on.  By the way, Lynn didn't trailer the car.  He said that cars are for driving (what a novel concept).  I'll post some pics when I have the time. 



Sorry for the sarcasm, but the attitudes displayed just drug it out of me.  Who needs new friends and experiences, right Dave?

Argo

[Brock Samson]

   i dunno man, i had a great time ticket and all... here's the proud owner...

[472 R/T SE]

one thing im kinda' curious about is why more DC.COM members didn't show?.. cause at the top of this thread folks claim to not even know what I was posting in regards to,.. this CHARGER REGISTREY MEET has been in the works for at least six mos. and there's been a few threads both here and in events,.. so with all the members in the pacific north west i figgured a few of you would show... but not one peep,.. after all it was held near the Ore border so you guys wouldn't have to schlep too far...
other folks drove from as far away as Texas but only four DC.com members made it...
   So what's up with that?.. 

I just got back from Eureka this evening.  Sunbust is the same every year...yeah, yeah, yeah, I know...the swap meet.   Wjat y'all missed besides an incredible time and some great new friends was a red '66 hemi 4 spd Charger that hadn't had an engine since 1982.  Lynn, the owner, cranked hard to get the ORIGINAL engine and tranny back in the car for Eureka.  The first time the car saw pavement was for a brief scoot on Wednesday afternoon, yet it was there to meet us in Coos Bay on Friday.   Hmmm, I wonder how much more exciting all of the same old cars at Sun Bust are compared to that.  I guess you're right.  A totally unknown '66 hemi 4-spd is jsut WAY too lame to waste your time on.  By the way, Lynn didn't trailer the car.  He said that cars are for driving (what a novel concept).  I'll post some pics when I have the time. 



Sorry for the sarcasm, but the attitudes displayed just drug it out of me.  Who needs new friends and experiences, right Dave?

Argo

Simmer down there Beevis.  Atttitude?, Brock is the one who was carrying on about how he couldn't figure out why more NW DC folks weren't there.  I take that as a poke towards folks like me and stated the obvious and that is...Sunbust has been the same date for a couple years now and I just can't understand how the Registry folks didn't take that into consideration.  Or did they?  How is that attitude?    And does it really matter what I think?


You don't see me on here crying about how more northern Ca. or NW DC folks didn't show up at the DC.com meet. 

Same old cars at Sunbust?  Really?  Were you there? 
Every year I go to Seattle it's a new experience and I make new friends.  There's just some that I question now.   

[triple_green]

I would have really loved to go to this, but my family situation is such that something 10 hours away is not practical for me.

I would love to help if it was closer.

I could put the resources into this that, I currently put onto the DC-com meet.

Just a thought.

[Brock Samson]

O.K.

I was just wonderin' cause the reason it was held there way up in Eureka Cal. was for the Northern states (Ore. Wash.) and Canadians benefit. It wasn't a one day show it was a two day Charger meet, with a cruise, and i added in the nostalgia drags which i hadn't planned on and didn't even know about prior to Sat. Midnight... It all worked out great though, folks came from Canada, Oregon, Texas and i forget where Mike (Blue Pentastar) is from, but it's long ways off...
there was a large contingent of Racers from Ashland Ore. at the Samoa drags BTW.

I wasn't "carrying on" i just asked a simple question politely (or so I thought)    you can let me know if you think i needed to rephrase it but i don't see where any modification is needed,...
  However, on the other hand, I too get the "attitude" from both your posts. I didn't see you post anything about any conflict  in the thread to that effect when this meet was first proposed/posted, way back , last Oct 20th... so yes, the tone of your posts definitly seem rather trite and belligerent to me too...
but hey, it's all good. 

  I just thought more folks would attend this first ever western states Charger Registry meet.
You have any pics from this Sunburst show?..
 

[472 R/T SE]

Tacoma, Washington's Mopars Unlimited annual Sunbust show is the Show for the Northwest folks this past weekend.  It's too bad the Registry folks couldn't have taken that into consideration when planning?    I know there were a lot of DC Chargers there yesterday. 

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,24989.0.html

I put the " " in after my questioning of the date as to not be meant as negative (or so I thought).  That thread is not intended attitude on my part,(or so I thought), just couldn't figure out why the planners didn't get a schedule for the regions big shows, especially Mopar, especially the best All Mopar Show in the NW.   It was nothing different than what I said face to face to Argo June 3rd so why he or you think I showed attitude and drug a sarcastic response out of him now is beyond me. 
How's that for trite?


I would like to attend one of the Charger Registry Meets and was bummed out to miss the ones that were up in NW Washington for a couple years.  But I was still working back then and would have had to take off work for yet another show.   
There was a '69 Super Bee there Sunday freshly put back together by a 19 year old.  That alone made the trip worth it for me.  I only have about a dozen pix and they were cars in my vicinity that I hadn't seen before, was hoping someone started a thread I could dog pile my pix into since I didn't take a bunch.  Or you can go here to see some of the ones Hemi Jack & I took: http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=3732267&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1

[Argos_Chargers]

Sorry...

The meet made us a little passionate.  I am not nocking Sunbust.  Every year I go, I have a great time.  I guess I really am up for "different" experiences.  I think I was upset by those who cited Sunbust as the reason they didn't attend, as opposed to time and money.  The trip took a lot of time and money, if anyone was lacking in either driving from the northwest is unreasonable. 

I know that I can't explain the TDC experience in Eureka.  If you were there, you understood.  Eureka wasn't a "car show".  There was a little showing off the cars, but that was only a part of the whole experience.  The date was set so that Silas would be ready, so that I could make it and so that Wayne might be able to attend.  Trying to put all three of those things together put a real limit on the time slots we had.  Even at that, things don't always go as planned...

Please, pardon my passion.  For those who don't "get" it, they need to be there to understand, and a trip usually doesn't seem worth it until you "get" it.  Sort of a catch 22, one that I try to pull people out of.  On top of that, those who know me know how much I love to drive my Chargers...when I have the time and money, I will almost always choose the road trip

While I did mean to make some people think about the value of spending time at Sunbust as opposed to going to Eureka, I really didn't mean to ruffle feathers or to turn this into a flame thread.  After all, we are all one in our love for Chargers.

Argo

[Brock Samson]

here's a related thread that seems to have gotten lost, waaaay down there....

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,33092.0.html

[MoparJTH]

     I had an unexpected suprise that weekend, my mom, roommate, and I took the weekend off to go see the big trees south of Eureka (knowing nothing about the Charger meet) when I saw three chargers driving North on 101 on our way to the trees. I didn't see any more Chargers that day, so I didn't think too much about it. The next morning we went to eat at the Samoa Cookhouse and Low and Behold there was a whole parking lot of Chargers  . If I knew there was going to be a Charger meet I would have brought my '67 instead of my truck, the funny thing is that I was going to bring it but decided not too because my mom talked me out of it because of the "Creature Comforts" of my 06 Dodge. But it was nice to meet all of you and see all of the cool Chargers (let alone an original Hemi car and an original owner car), and now that I know about this site i'll be sure and make it to any future meets that are going on around California. If there's another meet anywhere in the Northwest make sure and email me so I can make it. I'll have to get some pictures of my Charger on here this week.

[70charger_boy]

  Welcome to the site and feel free to post some pics

[Brock Samson]

    Glad ya' made it over, welcome! 

[Argos_Chargers]

We look forward to seeing your '67 next year, wherever we are!!

Welcome to the site!!

[Blue Pentastar]

I finally made it home late Thursday night. I had a great time great meeting everyone again. I wish I could have stayed for Sunday morning but had to get to LA. to pick up a car for Wayne.

By the way Brock I still have your gas can you left Sat night before I could give it to you. I was half way to LA before I realized it Sunday. Sorry do you want me to reimburse you for it? It would cost more to send it than it is worth.
So I could send you a check easier if you pm me with an address.


Mike Schrader

[Brock Samson]

naw man, concider it a souvenir...

Thanks for your help,.. I really enjoyed meeting everyone... can't wait for the next one.  glad you made it home safe and sound.

[Blue Pentastar]

OK But all things being equal I would have rather had the car as a souvenir and gave you the gas can. Ha Ha

It was great to have met you and the others from out there and look forward to the next opportunity to get together.

Mike Schrader

[Argos_Chargers]

Hey Mike...did you get any pictures of the '69 you picked up for Wayne?  What condition was it in? 

It was great to see you there.  As much as I wanted to see your Charger, I'm glad you made it without the car!  Not to mention the fact that I wouldn't have been as comfortable sitting on the trunk of your car in th eredwoods as I was sittting on your tailgate.  Hopefully I'll make a show in th emidwest next year.  Look forward to seeing you there!

[Brock Samson]

 I redid all the pics inna new folder which has greatly reduced the wait times when resiszing so here are some more pics, hope you like...

[Brock Samson]

murr...

[Brock Samson]

met Jon W. at the Meet, here's some pics of his pride and joy... maybe he will log on here some time.. 

[Brock Samson]

 

[Brock Samson]

some more of Argo's 70..

[Brock Samson]

this freshly restoed '68 showed up for an hour, had some nice details like the highback bukets recovered in a '68 pattern,.. i know that's been discussed here but i have never seen it before...

[Brock Samson]

inside:

[Brock Samson]

here's some more from the cruise Sat...

[Blue Pentastar]

Yeah I got some shots of it but I had to use a disposable camera. So the pictures might be a couple of weeks to process my wife has to shoot a couple of more to finish the roll.

By the way it will be worth the wait it wasn't just a 69 charger but one of the stunt cars from the 2005 movie. It's last filming was jumping onto the freeway from the catapult.

It was pretty cool if you like that sort of thing.

Mike Schrader
P.S. I did not know it was a general Lee until I got there to pick it up and uncovered it.

[cowboywolf]

I have never met any people like the people who have a charger. the best people in the world.

[Brock Samson]

That would be Jon.. logging in for the first time...       Hey Jon!!!  welcome to the best site on the web!

[Argos_Chargers]

Jon...glad you made it to the site!! 

seeing your post reminded me that I still have to go look at those tail lights for you!!

[Blue Pentastar]

Hey Jon

I am glad to see you made it to the site hope you come back often. I was glad to have a ride in your car. Thanks for taking me to the gentlemens club with you. Ha Ha

That was fun

Mike Schrader