ALL - 2007 BI Nationals - Leominster, MA

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Topic author: bricklin107
Subject: ALL - 2007 BI Nationals - Leominster, MA
Posted on: October 01 2006 14:49:40
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Registration Form
2007 BRICKLIN International Gathering - EAST
July 18th- July 22nd
Leominster, Massachusetts
Make your hotel reservation before May 18, 2007 and receive a $20.00 food voucher.
Ask for Robin Brown in reservations and request the Bricklin Event Rate.
For Reservations Call: 800-747-4470 or 978-534-9000

Sheraton Four Points Hotel
90 Erdman Way
Leominster, MA 01453

Rooms are $99.00 per night base on double occupancy.

Registration will be $35.00 for the meet. Please note that all participants with or without vehicles must pay the meet fee. The funds go to support the costs of putting on the meet with any surplus funds going to Bricklin International to support the Brickline Magazine.

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Name of Attendee(s):_________________________________________
Home Address: _________________________________________
City: _________________________________________
State: __________________ Zip:__________________
Telephone: __________________ Email:_________________

VIN: ________________________ Color: _______________________
VIN: ________________________ Color: _______________________
When will you arrive?

Registration for the meet; $35.00 Late fee $10.00 after 7/1/07 $________.00

Saturday Night Banquet $34.00 per person. How many?_____ $________.00
½ price for children under 12

Meet Agenda will be supplied Soon.

Make checks payable to BRICKLIN INTERNATIONAL and send to the following address:

Paul Robichaud
235 Whalom Road
Lunenburg, MA 01462

Meet Director: Paul Robichaud
Telephone: 978-345-0620 eves 978-345-0099 days 978-407-8500 cell
Email: paul@galcomp.com

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Reply author: bricklin107
Replied on: February 23 2007 17:50:43
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I just would like to announce that Malcolm Bricklin has been scheduled to attend this years Bricklin meet!!! He will be there on Friday and Saturday!!! This is huge!!!!! Herb Grasse will also attend and will give a presentation on how the bricklin was developed on Thursday! Malcolm Bricklin will be our guest speaker at our Banquet! This year is the once in a life time meet! Plan on attending; we will never be able to get these guys toghether again!!!!!

Reply author: bricklin107
Replied on: February 25 2007 19:45:41
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Herb Grasse; The legendary Bricklin designer and Malcolm Bricklin the Chairman of the Board will be attending this meet! Dont Miss this event!!

THURSDAY

10:00 A.M. Breakfast at Parker House
This is an old New England sugar house. They serve an awesome breakfast.

12:00 P.M. Road trip to Yankee Candle factory
This factory has a very extensive showroom. Each area has a theme as well as restaurants and tours thru the manufacturing facility.

5:00 P.M. Leave for Thursday Nite Cruising at Kimbals Ice Cream Factory
Kimbals has great ice cream. They also have batting cages, miniature golf, etc. There are usually about 300 cars at this show. They have hotdogs, hamburgers, steak sandwiches, etc being served at this show.

8:00 P.M. Herb Grasse presentation; The Bricklin from concept to reality!
Slide show of rare Bricklin photos during the early days of the Bricklin! This is a cant miss and once in a lifetime opportunity. Malcolm may attend this event!



FRIDAY

Breakfast at the hotel.

11:00 A.M. Poker Run. There will be 5 stops. Collect a playing card from each stop. The holder of the best poker hand wins.

Stops at:
1. Summit of Wachusett Mountain
2. Cathedral of the pines. Here we will have Chicken/Smoked ribs barbeque.
3. Willard Brook.
4. Not figured out yet. There are some historical sites in Concord.
5. Mystery Stop?

5:00 P.M. Leave for Friday night cruising. This is a car show about 10 minutes away. Nice local show, about 100 cars. Hotdogs, hamburgers etc.



SATURDAY

9:00 A. M. Breakfast at Hotel; Cars begin assembling on show field; Show field TBD.

10:00 A.M. Judging starts; Show runs to 2:30 PM
10:00 A.M. Meet Herb Grasse and Malcolm Bricklin!

3 P.M Directors meeting in Hospitality Suite

5 P.M. Cocktails in hotel Banquet hall

5:30 P.M. Dinner is served

6:30 P.M. Malcolm Bricklin our guest speaker!

Malcolm Bricklin and Herb Grass will choose there favorite cars;
The Chairman award / The Designers award presentations!


Other

50/50 raffle. We will run a 50/50 raffle throughout the week. This will be a name and address raffle, so you wont have to be present to win. We can have this running for all 3-4 days.

Auction. We will be soliciting donations for an auction. Bring a Bricklin part or a nice item for auction; Proceeds support the magazine!

Raffle. We will be soliciting donations for prizes, gift baskets, gift certificates, etc.

I will have directions to at least 2 of the following restaurants in the area.
Breakfast places
Lunch places
Dinner places
Italian
General reataurant
Chinese
Mexican
Indian.





I will also supply directions to local interests.
Jonny Appleseed birthplace
Plastics Museum (great for kids)
Concord Historical sites
Foxwoods casino
Public Transportation for anyone tat would like to go to Boston/ Train Schedule
Other points of interest.

I am also trying to get some arrangements made for any RAINY day that we have. No one wants to drive their car if it rains. I am working on this as we speak.

Reply author: bricklin107
Replied on: June 30 2007 07:04:43
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I hope everyone is getting ready for the meet! Herb and Terry Grasse are very excited and can't wait. They have put together photos that nobody has seen before. Lots of stuff that center around the factory. I might add that Malcolm is also excited and is our feature speaker on Saturday night. I think there are some surprises in store but I am not at liberty to discuss! WOW!

Reply author: bricklin107
Replied on: July 12 2007 20:16:10
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I just spoke to Malcolm's secretary. He confirmed that he will be at the meet. He will issue a press release on the event next week! Herb Grasse has a fantastic slide show planned on the development and manufacture of the SV1! Some great photos of the factory and photos he did not show in Canada. This presentation will be on Thursday night. Saturday, Malcolm will be at the show and he will also deliver the key note speach. Afterwards lots of surprises at the auction! Bring your pocketbook and support the club.

Reply author: vin6635
Replied on: July 13 2007 11:11:40
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Man do you guys have me jealous. Should be an excellent meet.

Does anyone plan to take videos for youtube? Is there any chance Herb will share a few (all :) ) of his pics for those who couldn't make it?

Cheers,
Rich R

Reply author: bricklin107
Replied on: July 14 2007 09:44:56
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Jonathon Bricklin is going to be there and is going to film. I am going to ask him to make us a DVD like he did in Horseheads. He did an excellent job last time and it has become one of my favorites. Plus the club made a couple bucks on DVD sales!

Reply author: bricklin107
Replied on: July 14 2007 09:45:40
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Just got word that the Hotel is now completely sold out. We went way over our Quota of Saturday night rooms!!!! YEA

Reply author: play8o9
Replied on: July 15 2007 18:39:54
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Rooms are still available. Finally was able to arrange a flight. Just completed my reservation at the Bricklin rate. I believe our allotment was sold out, but if rooms are available they can override and do them at the Bricklin rate. So there is still time for you to attend. There is also a Super 8 that appears to be within walking distance of the hotel if this one sells out.

Reply author: play8o9
Replied on: July 16 2007 00:11:11
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I will also try to do the slide show from each day like last year and a youtube video(s) after the meet is over.

Reply author: Colin1332
Replied on: July 20 2007 11:59:51
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I found a small article and a few photos about the meet...

http://www.autoblog.com/category/timewarp/

Reply author: Bricklin1155
Replied on: July 20 2007 12:45:35
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Here's some pics for those that couldn't make it. Unsorted, not labeled, etc.
(There's about 100 photos in this post - be patient while they load!)

Yep, the following photos are of Prototype #2!




Note the headlight cover ... not square and intrudes on the fender...
















I'm not sure, but I think that's electrical tape on the seams ... (good thinking!)


























I think Rick should get a prize for 'hard core' Bricklin Fan!




That's Paul Robichaud (far left) and wife Debbie (far right) - 2007 Meet Director. Awesome job so far (and thanks again for the ride!).


I'll bet that stereo system is worth 10 extra horsepower with the speaker facing backward ...




That's Ron Jackson in from Arizona. Ron's hosting this year's BI Meet in AZ. Be sure to register if you can make this one!!






That, of course, is Herb Grasse and his lovely wife (Terri Lee?).

















Watch for this teal car in the future. Jim Wajda JUST picked this up and this - unlike many that Jim has done before - will be restored to stock / original condition. Why you ask? Because this one has some history... meet 0224 (?) - the Road & Track test car! Congratulations and good luck with this one, Jim!







Prototype #2 has some interesting features ...

Reply author: vin6635
Replied on: July 20 2007 12:55:26
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This is great - thank you!! Would love to hear other people's comments on how the meet went - especially the historic photos from Herb.

Reply author: Bricklin1155
Replied on: July 21 2007 05:22:42
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More!

Reply author: Bricklin1155
Replied on: July 21 2007 14:55:00
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Before ...


After ...


Yes - the Bricklin Boyz have been signed by Herb and Malcolm. I have it on good authority that by tonight's banquet, the signatures will have been made permanent ....

Reply author: Bricklin1155
Replied on: July 22 2007 04:59:46
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OK

Here's the last of the pictures I got before the batteries gave out.

If you have pictures of the meet you would like to share, please feel send them to John T. Blair for possible inclusion in the Brickline. I would be grateful if you would also CC me. Be sure to send full-sized / best quality (do not resize or reduce quality) when sending to John (or me). As a rule of thumb, send your pictures in groups that, when combined, are less than 2 MB per e-mail as some systems will bounce mail over that size. Also, some systems have a cap on the amount of mail allowed, so you may need to submit your photos over a period of time.

Malcolm and Herb also made an announcement at the banquet about a new project that - if I heard correctly - is already well underway and should actually be made public soon. Keep an eye on the Visionary Vehicles website - http://www.vvcars.com.

In short, for those that didn't make it this year, you DID miss a good meet. Paul Robichaud & crew did an awesome job all the way from start to finish. Herb Grasse & Terri Lee's (sp?) presentation was as funny and entertaining as it was enlightening and informative. Malcolm Bricklin was great to meet - pleasant and accommodating in every possible way. They both signed so many cars and items of memorabilia that they will no doubt be sore for weeks.

Next year's meet is shaping up to be another significant one, too. Get your registrations in early when announced so you don't get shut out. Since 2008 is a joint meet with the Delorean group, that is actually a possibility!

Some of the fantastic art that was auctioned off last night....











For those that don't know them, here are the Bricklin International Owners Club Board of Directors (in attendance at the meet).

Starting with John Martin (standing) and proceeding clockwise, you have:
John Martin - Chairman Emeritus
Steve Stratton - Vice President
Dwight "Doc" Schreck - VP Finance
James Wajda - President
Dr. Sandy Bigman - VP Operations
George Malaska - VP Membership
Stuart Zukrow - Bricklinalia
Kevin Hand - California Regional Director
Michael Mitchell - Webmaster / Ohio Regional Director (not shown - it's me behind the camera!)










Somehow we always get lucky and sit at a lively table. We laughed pretty much all through dinner and the following events. It was great to see 'old' friends and make new ones!

Reply author: Bricklin1155
Replied on: July 22 2007 07:06:26
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Missed posting these, too. Some pics of the Concourse on Saturday & Herb Grasse made a repeat of his presentation from the prior Thursday evening.

Malcolm was present for this one (and sat right behind me!). He tossed in a few comments and stories.

Reply author: Bricklin1155
Replied on: July 22 2007 07:39:29
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One of the interesting items Herb related to us during his presentation was the selection of the Pantera taillights that we have on our car.

Malcolm needed to show a 'completed' prototype Bricklin on short notice - which caused Herb and his team to scramble. The Ford prototype taillights weren't ready, so Herb snagged the taillights off his present daily driver - a Pantera. They fit perfectly, looked good and since they could be had 'off the shelf' they were left on the car!

Reply author: vin6635
Replied on: July 23 2007 10:42:01
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This is the best photo update I've seen on this site! Thanks again for sharing and keep up the great work!

Reply author: Bricklin1155
Replied on: July 24 2007 19:16:54
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I put some links to articles on the 'autoblog' site here ...

http://www.bricklin.org/forum/links.asp?action=showsubcat&id=9

Reply author: vin6635
Replied on: July 25 2007 11:48:06
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Excellent. Very cool pic of the "vin" plate on P2.

Reply author: Bricklin1155
Replied on: July 30 2007 04:18:09
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The following were sent in by Ron & Margaret Jackson of Tuscon, AZ.

Ron & Margaret are hosting the Western meet this year - details are available here: http://www.bricklin.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=777.

Reply author: play8o9
Replied on: August 02 2007 00:43:18
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I have just uploaded the PhotoShow from the Meet. I also have the PhotoShows from the previous two meets there.

http://photoshow.comcast.net/gschroeder/bricklin_meets

If you want to save any or all the photos from these. Click on the Album tab and select the photo and then press the download button at the bottom of the page. I should have photos of every car and their interior.

I will be creating a youtube video of this slide show and posting it to the youtube site in the next few days.

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