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23, 2001
What started as a
simple meet/picnic, snowballed into our largest meet yet! We
had 13 S200s join us for a leisurely drive to the Windward side and
Kualoa Beach park for a pot luck picnic. We had been planning
this since our last East Oahu Drive and we had new people joining in
right up to the last minute.As before, we began our day at Moanalua
Gardens. This has proven to be an excellent meeting place both
for it's central location, and it's easy access to freeway
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Unlike all
our previous meets, we were greeted by overcast skies and the threat
of rain. Since the weather can drastically vary from one side
to the Island to the other, our Windward members were responsible
for giving us the "heads up" on the feasibility of our
plans for Kualoa. Although things were cloudy, it looked like
the rain would hold off. As we proceeded through the Koolaus
and the H-3 tunnel it was amazing to hear the sound of 13 cars each
turning 7-9,000 RPM |
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amazed at how well we were able to keep all 13 cars in an orderly
row, thanks go out to all the drivers for keeping speeds in
check. Everything went smoothly and except for the lead car
missing the off ramp (no names will be mentioned, but his initials
are Rick Stark) were progressing nicely. Once we were all
pointed in the right direction again, it was a quick run on a two
lane road that twists through some pretty dense vegetation and
before you knew it, we were at Kualoa Park. |
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By the
time we arrived at the park, everyone was pretty hungry and all the
food was laid out. Man what a feast! There was quite a
variety of meats, chicken, sushi, chili, noodles and rice.
Everyone seemed to eat pretty quickly, maybe because we were pretty
hungry or maybe because it looked like it could rain at any minute
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left the park to return to Honolulu and our drive up to Tantalus
Park, an ambulance and fire engine came and cleared out the grassy
area across from where we were picnicking. Soon after a
medivac helicopter landed to transport a patient to a distant
hospital.
Our drive over the
H-3 to return to Honolulu was much quicker, it's happened before,
and I'm sure it will happen again, but a few guys sped off once the
road opened up. Fortunately we were able to regroup before we
reached H-1 freeway, and we made it off in one long train.
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Once we
got to the top of the park, we positioned the cars for another great
group shot, when a and then we had an older Integra pull into
the end of our line and park, ruining our picture opportunities. All
the spaces across from us were empty and we were obviously taking
pictures, but I guess they decided to "get in the
act." Ed decide to ask them to move but they
"declined" What a bunch idiots! I hope you
read this! Oh wait, you probably don't know how to use a
computer. |
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discussing our day, one more enthusiast joined is at the park. That
made 14 S2000s in one place! This was a Hawaii record. What a
turnout! The picture below is a huge panorama of our
local chapter of the S2KCA.
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Here are more
pictures from Sunday, click on the thumbnail to enlarge!
Josh |
Stephen and Jackie |
Tom and Rene |
Shelby and Daven |
Stephen and David |
Chris |
Marco |
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