DUE TO THE OVERWHELMING RESPONSE WE HAVE GOTTEN FOR THIS YEARS MEET, WE HAVE HAD TO FIND A LARGER LOCATION MORE SUITED FOR THE NUMBERS WE ARE EXPECTING. THE NEW LOCATION IS LARGE ENOUGH FOR AS MANY CARS AS ANYONE COULD DREAM OF. PLEASE SEE THE POST BELOW FOR UPDATED INFORMATION.

The Toronto Protegé Club www.toprotege.com would like to take this opportunity to invite you to join us at the Meeting of the Mazdas Annual Part 2 (MOM2). This event was organized by the Miataphiles last year and was a huge success. There were approximately 100 cars in attendance last year from various GTA Mazda Clubs. This year, it’s our turn and we have special surprises in store. We are expecting almost twice the numbers this year and we hope that you can join us and help this event to continue to grow each year.

We would appreciate if one or more of the Officers / Admins on your board would take the lead for keeping an updated list of your attendees in this thread. Any further questions can be directed to me at jason_lax@hotmail.com and I will answer them promptly. Please mention "Meeting of the Mazdas" in the subject line so the email doesn't get filtered as trash.

For ongoing updates please refer to this website address for the most up to date information: http://www.toprotege.com/mom2004/

Details:
Where: Valens Conservation Area
When: Sunday September 12th, 2004
Time: 11am – 5:00pm

Agenda:
11am – 12pm – Roll-in
12pm – 2:30pm – People’s choice judging takes place
2:30pm – 3:30pm – Tallying of the votes
3:30pm – 4pm – Award presentations
5:00pm – Roll-out

Awards:
Protege (sedan)
Protege5
Miata (1gen)
Miata (2gen)
MX3
MX6
RX7 (1gen/2gen)
RX7 (3gen)
Mazda3/Mazda6
B-Series
Other (MPV/929/323/etc)
Categories can be expanded based on confirmed participation
* plus a couple of surprise awards

Prizes/Giveaways
We are in the midst of securing a variety of dealers, vendors and retailers for a variety of fun prizes and giveaways. If your club has any contacts or sponsors that you would like TOProtege.com to follow up on, please email us. If your club would like to help out by donating your time in gathering prizes and giveaways please let us know. This post will be updated as we secure more sponsors.

Food:
This year we have decided to have a potluck lunch. There will also be Charcoal BBQs available for your grilling needs. We ask that each club do their part to pitch in and that members each contribute some food and / or drinks for the potluck, as well as any other materials (plates, cups, utensils, BBQ equipment,...) that your club members will need.

Again, we ask that the officers / admin on your board co-ordinate a list of who is bringing what food, AS WELL AS making sure that all other materials that you guys will need that day, are covered.

The BBQ's will be on a "first-come first-served" basis. We ask that everyone share BBQ time with each other in a fair manner.

Directions:
* Please arrange your own pre-meets and plan out your best routes. It would be a good idea to make small packs within your groups as it is a rather long drive and smaller groups can stick together more easily.
** Leave yourselves enough time to get there. It can be a fairly long drive and is quite easy to get lost. Judging will start promptly at 12:00am.

CLICK HERE FOR DIRECTIONS --> http://www.toprotege.com/mom2004/map.html

We have sites GP#1 & GP#2 booked for the day

Things to remember:
1) This is a FAMILY event, so behave accordingly
2) Once your car is in the area, it would be preferred that you keep your car parked until after the voting ends.
3) Everyone will be parked in their respective categories (all Protege5s together, Miatas together, etc ...)
4) Bring a pen with you. There will be sheets provided to list your mods and stick on your dash to help people in judging
5) No alcohol allowed in the park
6) Please respect the grounds and clean up after yourselves. The park was more than happy to have us back this year due to everyone's responsible behavior last year. We are confident that everyone will help to have us invited back again next year.
7) Feel free to bring Frisbees, footballs, or any other outdoor activities you would like to do that day

A Few pic's from Last Year

 

I would like to personally invite all of you to this great event. With the edition of the RX8 we are hoping to see you all come out in full force (plus I want to sit in a few of them). Last years event was successful due in large part to the people that attended. It was a great mixture of cultures, ages, tastes and cars.

If you know of any other RX8 boards that reach Canadian and NE US States, please let me know as we want to make sure everyone gets invited.

Regards,

Jason Laxamana
President
Toronto Protege Club

 

Can an admin or moderator PIN/Sticky this?

TY

 

Please see the updated original post. We are already looking at 75+ cars and we expect to double that by the time the date rolls around.

 

Bump.... can an admin or mod please sticky this?

 

not even one person on this board is remotely interested?

 

"5) No alcohol allowed in the park"

Weak.

I'm not a member of any mazda club nor do I own a Mazda, but Valens is close to my home so I might stop bye. Looks like a neat event

 

There are couple of other threads on this RX8 board about MOM 2004 so 8's will be REPRESENTED ......

Well at least enough of us to warrant our own category for a prize so we don't have to be considered second cousins in the category of "Others" :D

 

Sorry, I hadn't read this thread til just now - it's stickied, but on ONE condition...

The RX-8s deserve their own category, they should not be lumped in with the MPVs and family haulers!! :p

Regards,
Gordon

 

Thanks Gord for the stcky.
RX8;s wll REPRESENT in grand shinny quality so quantitities of numbers of 8's wont be so critical. For those of you 8ers that do show it wll be a blast wth lots of cool mods to discuss and compare.... So come out and enjoy. Its a broad spectrum of drivers, owners, signifant others of various ages and interests who's common goal a fun day in the park for a picnic and some neat people anf cars to meet, Bring your camera for lots of interesting panaranic pictures to shoot. See ya there! BJ.

 

lets starta list of potential participants.
Board Name, Personal Name, Hometown YY car & Color. Polt luck Food, Signicant others
__________ ____________ _________ __________ ___________ _______ _____
BJ99MM, Bill Jorgens, Brampton, 04 RX& TiGrey KFC & Pop Sons Scott, Brent

 

BJ...great post.

This meet will have a great mixture of people...ages....families....tastes...

I am now going to ask for a new RX8 catagory... BUT..... we need to see a strong showing of participants.

We can't have an Rx8 catagory and have 3 cars show up

Just to update you all...we have gotten more sponsors and prizes... so please come on out!

 

Hey everyone. Just a friendly reminder that the Meeting of the Mazdas is this Sunday (Sept. 12th) at Valens Conservation area. The turnout is looking very good and we hope that you all will be able to join us.

If you have not already done so, please ad your name to an attendee list. Your club can organize your own pre-meets, or you are welcome to join us at ours. If you would like more information on our pre-meets, please feel free to email me at jason_lax@hotmail.com

Again, we ask for your support in helping with the Pot-luck lunch. Anything that you can bring to share with your fellow Mazda enthusiasts would be greatly appreciated.

For more details please visit http://www.toprotege.com/mom2004

Below is the final awards list
Protege (sedan) – Sponsored by Vibrant
Protege5 – Sponsored by Lockdown Enterprises
Miata (1gen) - Sponsored by Lockdown Enterprises
Miata (2gen) - Sponsored by Lockdown Enterprises
MX3 – Sponsored by TeamGarageWorks.com
MX6 – Sponsor being finalised
RX7 – Sponsored by Clarion Canada
RX8 – Sponsored by EssentialSPEED
Mazda3/Mazda6 – Sponsored by Dave Wood Mazda
Other (MPV, B-Series, 929, 626, 323, etc) – Sponsored by Underground-Highway
Best of Show – Sponsored by Performance Auto and Sound

There will also be various miscellaneous “surprise” awards and prizes available throughout the day. We would like to thank all of the sponsors below for the generous contributions.

Dave Wood Mazda
Vibrant Performance
EssentialSPEED
Underground-Highway
Lockdown Enterprises
Kieswetter Mazda of Kitchener
ShinzoWerks
Emblemhouse
Team GarageWorks

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

I'm planning on being there. Not too many people have committed to going on this thread though. I hope we get a good respresentation of 8's there. Where are the guys who have come out to the Toronto get togethers in Woodbridge - Hobbes, Pete, CrackerJax, Saint75, Spaceman? I know MyRXBad said he was going to be at SevenStock. Come on everyone, let's go show off our beautiful new cars!

As far as the pot luck goes, I'm probably coming with my wife and kids, so we'll probably just pack our own picnic lunch. It's easier that way with the kids.

Hope to see a lot of you there.

 

Broose...thank you for coming...you family will have a great time. Lots of people are bring their families, pets and friends.

We even have a seperate trophy for the rx8 class... winner and runner up. Lets hope they don't go to waste.

Please make sure to find me (or I will find you)..i would like to meet you all.

Jason

 

also...please visit www.toprotege.com/mom2004 for all the CONFIRMED deatails and LOCATION.

 

Actually my family has dedided not to come as they have another commitment so I'll be there by myself. Looking forward to meeting some other 8 owners and checking out all the other Mazda, especially the 3rd gen 7's.