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Exotics at Redmond Town Center and Ste. Michelle for May 28 and 29
Saturday, May 28, we have our official E@RTC summer opener! We will be parking our cars in the Redmond Town Center center square for the first time since 2009. This is a GREAT place for photos!
As cars come into the main lot we will sort them by type then send you around to park them along the center section of Redmond Town Center. This special location is to further support Redmond Town Center and all the stores for all their generous support over the last three seasons. Our plan is to do this three times this season. They are terrific to us, so lets do our best to show our appreciation! (Please no revving.) We will meet up for lunch somewhere after E@RTC and we will announce that at RTC. The Lexus LF-A will be making its debut in the Northwest at RTC that same day! This is the first time the LFA will be seen in the Northwest!!! Sunday May 29, the weekend fun continues- We’ve been invited out to Ste. Michelle Winery for the weekend “Stay-cation” along with the Ste. Michelle Wine Club. Because of the type of show, we have to prioritize cars in favor of some of the more exotic and classic cars that will be arriving, however EVERYONE is welcome and there will be plenty of general parking, so come out either way and we'll do our best to make it work for everyone. The official event post on the Ste. Michelle site is: http://www.ste-michelle.com/events/w...ndarDetail/401 June 25 will be Porsche Day! July 2 will be Ferrari Day! Stay tuned! |
Sounds awesome! When is Holden Day? HA HA!
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We can do that. Get a group together and give us a date! :)
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Originally Posted by TommyJames
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We can do that. Get a group together and give us a date! :)
Maybe, we should just come out, and not bother with a special day just for us. hilarious |
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We hope to see you there!
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The link doesn't work.
Is this a "car show" or just a gathering? My wife is ALWAYS open for wine tasting, but will ask me a 1000 questions about the event. |
There is a link above. I'd call it a little of both, in conjunction with the wine club. You will see some very rare cars if that's your question.
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Originally Posted by TommyJames
(Post 3213610)
There is a link above. I'd call it a little of both, in conjunction with the wine club. You will see some very rare cars if that's your question.
The page you requested was not found. Return to the Chateau Ste. Michelle Home Page or visit the sitemap. |
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Sorry that link doesn't direct you properly.
The link is under EVENTS, calendar, and then see date 29th for "stay-cation" Yes, kind of vague for a car event, but it does mention the car event at the bottom. Here is a screen shot |
Originally Posted by Apple Sauce
(Post 3213691)
Sorry that link doesn't direct you properly.
The link is under EVENTS, calendar, and then see date 29th for "stay-cation" Yes, kind of vague for a car event, but it does mention the car event at the bottom. Here is a screen shot Working link http://www.ste-michelle.com/events/w...ndarDetail/401 CHATEAU "STAY-CATION" Sun May 29 2011 12:00-4:00pm Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery Not ready to spend almost $4 a gallon for gas this Memorial Day weekend? Stay close to home and visit Chateau Ste. Michelle on Sunday, May 29th, for great wine, food, music and possibly the most exotic collector cars you'll ever see. We will be hosting some of the hottest local food trucks as DJ Sureal spins the sounds of summer. Chateau Ste. Michelle wines will be sold by the glass or visit the wine shop for all of your summer picnic needs. Food providers will include: Skillet Street Food Kaosamai Thai Beefy's by El Gaucho Parfait Organic Artisan Ice Cream A Happy Hot Dog Exotics at Redmond Town Center will be parking some very special cars behind our Manor House for you to view as well. No Admission Fee. Food & Wine available at additional cost. |
[QUOTE=Stealth 993;3213703]Thanks Vic, for some reason, I just could not find it, blame it on lack of sleep. Our 6 mo, has been getting up @ 4am every morning. :(
No problem, it gets better :) |
This is going to be another fun weekend. I look forward to seeing everyone at RTC & Ste Michelle
Cheers, Blair |
I'll be at my sister's wedding reception all weekend, hope you all have fun!
Tom, did I miss your impression of the LFA? Didn't you go check one out a couple months back? I don't remember reading about your thoughts. |
We are ON for this coming Saturday at RTC. See you all there!!! The LFA should be bringing out a lot of people! We will be there rain or shine because if we do get rain, it won't last long. Besides, we're parking in the center section so lots of places to get out of the rain.
Drive to the same lot as usual first, next to Desert Fire and we will direct you around to the center of RTC as we sort cars. Don't go to the center first. |
Originally Posted by Horhay
(Post 3215299)
I'll be at my sister's wedding reception all weekend, hope you all have fun!
Tom, did I miss your impression of the LFA? Didn't you go check one out a couple months back? I don't remember reading about your thoughts. |
Will there be a caravan heading over to the winery? This will be the first time in 3 years that my wife will make it to one of these events- all it took was a little wine ;)
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Originally Posted by Airborne Ranger
(Post 3217384)
Will there be a caravan heading over to the winery? This will be the first time in 3 years that my wife will make it to one of these events- all it took was a little wine ;)
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Originally Posted by Stealth 993
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Wine even is on Sunday, not Saturday!
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Tommy
where are we all meeting and pm sent. Jag |
Either meet at Ste. Michelle around 10 or Jody is leading a group out of RTC at 9:45 AM and you could caravan in with her. See you tomorrow!
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Here's a few photos from the LFA event at RTC yesterday -
Here's one as a preview (It'd be nice if Flickr made it easier to share several photos on a forum). http://www.flickr.com/photos/apexrally/5768312455/http://www.flickr.com/photos/apexrally/5768312455/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/apexrally/, on Flickr |
Originally Posted by Kristian
(Post 3218289)
Here's a few photos from the LFA event at RTC yesterday - http://www.flickr.com/photos/apexral...26010944/show/
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Ste. Michelle photos
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Here are a couple of pictures of the Ste. Michelle event
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We received a couple of complaints from car owners on Saturday because they were not able to park on the main mall. My hope is that this explanation will be cut and pasted into other forums where Saturday's situation was an issue.
Our reason for parking on the main mall was to thank the merchants at RTC for all their generous support ever since we stared E@RTC. We picked three dates when we will be using the main mall. The first was this past Saturday, next will be July 2 for Ferrari Day, and last will be August 27 when we have our summer party. We estimate, based on Saturday, that the center mall has around 80 parking spaces in total. We now get between 80-150 cars at RTC, depending on weather. We were going to dedicate those 80 spaces to those cars that are known to be the largest primary spectator draw, with secondary draw in our other lots. Because we never know what will come out, especially on a day where the weather was so questionable, we couldn't rule out what would and wouldn't make it into the second lot ahead of schedule. As it turned out we had a lot more exotic cars than enthusiast cars show up, and we gave them priority because again, the goal was about what would provide the most impact for the merchants. E@RTC is first about exotics. That's our core focus and they will remain the priority. We are not ever going to be just a general "cars and coffee" because we don't think that's optimum draw for the Northwest. Exotics are the core draw and without them as an anchor we don't have spectators, no spectators means we won't get the really rare cars worth eight figures. Those same cars bring the spectators and so on. Enthusiast cars are a very limited spectator draw, but we still do our best to pack them into our lots when we can. As parking is needed, we've taken on more and more lot space and we've never turned anyone away because of space. To further keep egos in check with a tiny minority, and to better manage flow, we constantly switch where we park cars to keep that from turning into an issue. Two things went wrong on Saturday: One; we had no idea what we'd get because of the dubious weather forecast and because of the LFA. Two; we didn't have enough volunteers to keep the cars in the other lots grouped together. There were ten Thugs working their asses off as it was. We also learned in the process that when the cars are in the center lot, there are no spectators in the other lots. Again, proving the point, however we do what we can to make everyone happy and will try and come up with a way to draw more people to the other lots on July 2 and August 27. When we had the bare metal Bentley and Hispano-Suiza, that was obviously where the people were that day. People do not come to see what they recently saw in a Safeway lot no matter how nice the wheels look, however that doesn't mean that car doesn't matter either. We do have enthusiasts! Some griped that we still had space that was unused, and yes, we still had a few spots left for truly exotic cars. The last thing we ever want to do is what happened in Irvine where the C&C lot was packed and a really rare very special seven figure car that went through a lot of trouble to get there couldn't get in and was waved to the spectator lot! So, we will ALWAYS leave some room to adjust cars, and there were a handful of cars that we were expecting that just didn't make it because it was raining where they were at the time. In the end it was an unfortunate set of circumstances that made it impossible to make everyone happy. We only have so many volunteers to manage things and we were all working like crazy to manage what we had. We learn as we go and hopefully it will still be worth it to come out. E@RTC continues to grow because of the selfless efforts of everyone involved to make it a great event. We do our very best to make it work, but we are all volunteering our time. We have fewer and fewer instances when someone shows up and makes demands on us with some sense of entitlement, but there will always be that one guy no matter what we do. We have added more space to our main lots and hope to see you this coming Saturday! |
I parked in the secondary lot and have no problem with it, people just need to get over the fact that some cars draw more attention to others plain and simple. It's funny how there was an SL65 Black Series in the visitor parking lot at Chateau St. Michelle, I'm sure the owner didn't make a fuzz about it even though that car is truly exotic.
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Originally Posted by FerRrari
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I parked in the secondary lot and have no problem with it, people just need to get over the fact that some cars draw more attention to others plain and simple. It's funny how there was an SL65 Black Series in the visitor parking lot at Chateau St. Michelle, I'm sure the owner didn't make a fuzz about it even though that car is truly exotic.
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+++ on it being about the Exotics, I think parking with the Exotics is fun but I would never want my car to stop something more rare and interesting from being able to have a place. An older DB7 or Maserati Coupe is more exotic and rare than an M3 or E class, even if by now they sell for half as much. I love Ms and AMGs but I wouldn't get up early and drive an hour to see them, it's the Exotics that get me out and excited! :)
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^Wow! Great photos, gorgeous cars! Gorgeous day!
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