Do you live near Seattle? Or even in Portland (Oregon) or Vancouver, BC? Want to meet up with some fellow Top Gear fans and go on a long but awesome drive around the Cascade Loop? Then join me and some other folks on the morning of August 11th at Exotics At Redmond Town Center. We’ll be meeting up there to check out all of the beautiful cars and then taking off from there at 10 AM for an approximately 400 mile drive along the rivers and over the mountains of northern Washington.

If you’re interested, drop by this thread on our forums and post that you’re interested. You can also just show up unannounced on the 11th but we’re attempting to at least get a rough estimate of how many people will be going with us.

I hope to see you there!

EDIT: 400 miles too much for you? Consider just driving out to Leavenworth with us for lunch and then heading back the same way. That’s only a 200 mile drive but still along an awesome road!

If you’re in the Portland or Seattle area, please consider joining fellow FinalGear members and me on March 3rd for the first Portland Meetup! We’ll be going out part of the Historic Columbia River Highway to Crown Point and then on to Multnomah Falls.

If going for a drive with some fellow FinalGear folks sounds like a fun time to you, please drop by this forum thread on our forums.

Hope to see you there!

Our annual Nürburgring track meet will be this August 13th and 14th. Previous meets have been reported to be lots of fun. If you’re anywhere in the area and are potentially interested in going, check out the official forum thread.

Sorry for the next to no notice — I completely forgot to front page this until just now.

If you’re near the Nürburgring in Germany and aren’t doing anything this Sunday, you’re welcome to join some of our forum members for some laps around the Nürburgring. About 17 of them will be there. Look for the guys with FinalGear stickers in their windows and hit them up on Twitter (hashtag #ringmeet) or our forums.

If you’re going to be anywhere near The ‘Ring on August 14th and 15th, I’d like to invite you to come to our annual meetup there. We’ll have a bunch of people going and taking their cars out onto the track for some laps.

If this sounds like something you might be interested in doing, check out the official thread for the meet.

For any of you who are in the Ohio area, LeMons Ohio is this weekend and we’ll be having a car there. Our team is hoping to do even better than our previous outings and they’d love it if you’d drop by and say hi.

You can find details about the event on the LeMons website and details about our LeMons history our forums. The guys also have a Twitter account where they’ll be posting updates.

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Garage419 will be returning this Saturday. They’ll be participating in the 2009 BullRun Rally from New York City to Austin, Texas and will be posting a new episode from the road every night as well as tweeting their progress. They’ll be participating in a 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor, a street legal Baja truck:

Since we host Garage419′s official forums, we thought this would be a good opportunity to have a mini-meetup of FinalGear’ers. So if you’re in the New York City area and aren’t doing anything this Saturday morning, please consider showing up at the Hotel Gansevoort to meet the Garage419 gang and fellow FinalGear’ers. UPDATE: Be there by 8:30am!

Details and discussion can be found at this forum thread.

Yes, we’re going LeMons racing yet again!

This year we’ll be entering a car in the Garrettsville, Ohio race at the Nelson Ledges Road Course. It will be a true 24 hour race rather than the more common two 12 hour races. We’re also turning into a FinalGear meet, so we hope to see you there! All the details about the day and a sneak peek at our car this year can be found on our forums.

Our Australian forum members are having another Melbourne-area meet. If you’re in the area, they’d love to have you come. The previous ones have looked to be quite fun and I’m sure this one will be too.

If you’re in Finland (or near by), a bunch of our forum members will be going to a track day at Ahvenisto Race Circuit on September 16th. If you’re interested, check out our forums for further details.