WOW!!!! We have way more than 200+ registered people for this Saturday. I knew this was gonna be HUGE!!!

I'm sure they'll be plenty of others walking up, so I hope we have enough food :beerchug:

STOPPPPPPPPP! I want to go sooooo badly!!!!!!

I don't think that I am doing anything this weekend. I may come down and represent Philly. As always, walking in and not registered...;) I have that commitment issue thing going!:dunno:

cool, register online and come on down!!! someone needs to represent x5world!!!

2008 chapterfest
schedule of events
august 23, 2008

8:00am facility opens
8:30am autocross tech inspection opens
9:00am autocross course open for walking
9:15am autocross driver’s meeting
9:30am autocross heat #1 begins
10:00am swap meet starts
11:00am show & shine judging begins
11:30am autocross tech inspection opens
12:00pm food arrives (red, hot & blue)
12:00pm autocross course open for walking
12:15pm autocross driver’s meeting
12:30pm autocross heat #2 begins
1:30pm autocross tech inspection opens
1:30pm last call for show & shine ballots
2:00pm show & shine awards presented
2:00pm autocross course open for walking
2:15pm autocross driver’s meeting
2:30pm autocross heat #3 begins
4:00pm cleanup and teardown
(volunteers are greatly appreciated)

Too bad he doesn't even have an X5! LOL

We adopted him at a e46fanatics meet.

haha...well, they'll be plenty of e46s tomorrow. he'll fit right in :thumbup:

We're looking for a few volunteers to help out tomorrow. Only an hour of your time is needed and this will be to help man registration. If anyone is bringing their wives/girlfriends/kids, this will be a good opportunity to have them help out (and give you some time to hang out alone :D).

Please let me know ASAP.

Online registration is now CLOSED; only walk-ups tomorrow will be accepted. Walk-ups will not be guaranteed a chapter TShirt (which are very nice BTW) but we still have spots open for AutoX.

Also, walk-ups are required to bring their own BBQ, since you weren't included in our original numbers :D (just kidding, we should have enough food, I hope)

To all,

I want to thank everyone that came out to ChapterFest yesterday. It was an absolute success and quite possibly the biggest chapter event ever (definitely bigger than last year's Fall Meet). Although I'm awaiting the final results, I'm very certain we had way more than 300+ people and 200+ cars!!!

All the NCC officers and program directors were very pleased with the turnout and we all hope that you have seen parts of the chapter that you havent seen before. Combining autox, concours, and a social takes some intricate planning, and hopefully more members will now partipate in other concours events and/or autox their cars (lets get those garage queens out and see how your car was meant to be handled).

We were fortunate the weather cooperated and there were some unbelievable cars out there. All the vintage 2002s, super clean M cars, the highly modded and the extremely rare (that Z8 was incredible) all came to make a presense, and it was worth the price of admission IMO.

Sorry about the gravel parking for general admission, but didn't know about the lot setup until too late. I'd like to have everyone in the same general location, so we'll work on that in the future. No complaints either about Red, Hot, and Blue, other than having too much food left over. I'll be eating pulled pork and chicken for quite a while :thumsup:

We have quite a few ideas to improve next year's ChapterFest. Not bad that we really only had a few weeks to put this show on, so we'll make sure that next year we start a little earlier to tighten up some of the loose areas.

As the biggest chapter in the US, we are very fortunate to have the resources and more importantly, the volunteers, to put on such events. I want to also personally thank everyone who helped ChapterFest make such a sucess: Jonathan Thayer (the mastermind) and the entire autox group, Bill Williams and the vintage crew for running the Show-and-Shine, Algie Livingston for handling all the food, and all the other volunteers who put in some time to make everything run smoothly.

I saw a bunch of smiles and received tons of positive feedback yesterday and being my own harshest critic, we'll plan to make the future events even bigger and better.

Please post your pics ASAP, so others can kick themselves for not being there :D