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Old 05-02-2011 | 10:10 PM
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CanAm Cruise 2011 - 8/20/2011 - Agawam, MA - OFFICIAL THREAD









On behalf of Acurazine, 6thGenAccord.com and the Toronto Accord Club I would like to officially announce 2011's CanAm Cruise in Agawam Massachusettes

This is going to be the official 2011 CanAm Cruise Thread here on Acurazine. The dedicated CanAm Cruise website and forum should be up and running soon and when it is that will be the place to go for info on the cruise itself, hotel accommodations for the weekend (I have organized a group rate at a local hotel for those staying the weekend), caravan info for people coming from different regions, etc.

Right now Myself, Kevin (Goldnknight22), Ryan (eggs) and Carrie (CarrieLynn) are just about done with all of the planning.

Hotel Accomodations:

Red Roof Inn
1254 Riverdale Street
West Springfield, MA

This is more of a "budget" hotel with very basic amenities.

Room With Two Queen Beds: $59.99/night
Room With One Queen Bed: $55.99/night

Residence Inn by Marriott
64 Border Way
West Springfield, MA

This hotel is literally right behind the Red Roof, and is much nicer. The rooms at Residence Inn's are "apartment style" meaning they have kitchens with appliances, nice beds, flat screens and sleep at least four people.

Large "Studio" Room - Occupancy: 4 - 1 King, 1 Sofabed, 2 Rollaway beds permitted - $159/night
One Bedroom Suite - Occupancy: 4 - 1 Queen, 1 Sofabed, 1 Rollaway bed permitted - $159/night
Two Bedroom Suite - Occupancy: 6 - 2 Queens, 1 Sofabed, 2 Rollaway beds permitted - $229/night

https://www.marriott.com/hotels/trav...t-springfield/


Itinerary thus far:

Friday, August 19th 2011
  • People will be coming in from out of town, so we will plan dinner and drinks at a restaurant close to the hotels which is TBD.
Saturday, August 20th 2011 - Meet & Cruise Day

9:30am

Where:
Italian Sporting Club
349 Cooper Street
Agawam, MA 01001

What: Car show, BBQ, Chinese Raffle to benefit a TBD Charity.

Cost: Mandatory $10 donation per car (not per person). This will cover entry into the meet/show, participation in the cruise and a raffle ticket. All proceeds after overhead (food cost, venue rental, promotional items, raffle prizes, etc) will be donated to a TBD charity. Right now I'm leaning towards Susan G. Komen for the Cure (Breast Cancer Awareness) or The Phoenix House of Springfield (Non-profit Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Program that basically saved my life).

3:30pm

  • We leave the Italian Sporting Club for a one hour cruise through the hills and back roads of Western Massachusetts. The cruise route has already been planned out and it's going to be awesome.
4:30 - 5:00pm

  • Everyone will rendezvous at the Agawam Junior High School after the cruise. Reason for this is that people will be broken up into groups of 8-10 cars led by a CanAm Coordinator familiar with the cruise route. This is where everyone will meet up before we break off.
5:30 - 8:00pm
  • For people staying overnight, this will be the time for you to get back to your hotel rooms, rest a bit, and get cleaned up for dinner, drinks and shenanigans.
8:00pm - ??:?? Dinner and drinks at Hooters of West Springfield
  • I picked this location because for one, it's awesome, but more so because it's located literally right next door to the Red Roof Inn and the Residence Inn. It's a two minute walk, or five to ten minute stumble from the front door of Hooters to your hotel room. So there will be no need to worry about drinking and driving because you won't have to!! If you can't walk, Carrielynn with be providing piggyback rides from the restaurant to the hotel for 25 cents.
Area map of Hotels and Hooters:

A: Hooters of West Springfield
B: Red Roof Inn
C: Residence Inn



Cruise Route:

A: Start - Italian Sporting Club
G: End - Agawan Jr. High School


In the mean time, I need volunteers in the New England area to assist as Coordinators.

Duties of coordinators will be to help setup the meet/show, cook, break everything down, and lead groups of cars for the cruise. IIRC, the entire one hour cruise route has MAYBE three traffic lights, and I think two stop signs so it will be pretty easy to keep everyone together. The cruise leaders are just a precaution. I am friends with the Mayor of Agawam so I'm going to try and arrange an escort out of Agawam because that is where it is the most congested. I will also have authorization from the town to use the Junior High School as our rendezvois point, so we will have cooperation from local law enforcement. Because of this it will also be your responsibility to make sure everyone is on their best behavior.

Burn outs, mAd tYtE drIfTz and other general douchebaggery WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

If you want to volunteer as a coordinator please PM me or email jbmiller616 at gmail dot com

Coordinators/Volunteers:

1. Justin - JMillerUA6 - 6GA.com & Acurazine - CT/MA
2. Kevin - Goldnknight22 - 6GA.com & Acurazine - MA
3. Ryan - eggs - 6GA.com & Acurazine- LI NY
4. Carrie - CarrieLynn - 6GA.com & Acurazine - CT
5. Tom - vtecboi - 6GA.com - NH
6. Brian - sydkck67 - 6GA.com - NH
7. Jon - jpm0887 - 6GA.com - MA

I'm sure a lot of you were wondering when this was going to be posted, but I wanted to wait until I got most of my ducks in a row before I posted it here since I can't edit my original posting.

Special thanks to Astro and Ron A for your support!!


Now who is coming!?


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Old 05-02-2011 | 11:33 PM
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what does CanAm exactly mean? im still new to the car meets scene
Old 05-03-2011 | 09:02 AM
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Canadian-American Cruise. The past few years the Cruise has been in the Niagara region of Ontario Canada.....this is the first year it will be in the US.
Old 05-03-2011 | 10:13 AM
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Sweet, its in Mass. this year!! I was looking forward to a nice cruise to Canada, but now I'll most likely be able to make it, depending on my vacation plans in August.
Old 05-03-2011 | 10:43 AM
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I'm in!!
Old 05-03-2011 | 01:32 PM
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It's going to be an awesome weekend!

I suggest that everyone who can make it for Friday night to come early and join us, and if possible, stay over Saturday night and leave Sunday morning.
Old 05-03-2011 | 03:43 PM
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sounds interesting and fun. ill mark this on my calender for sure! Im just curious but will other forums be joining us besides the mentioned forums?
Old 05-03-2011 | 06:25 PM
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definitely going
Old 05-04-2011 | 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by ionojimbo
Im just curious but will other forums be joining us besides the mentioned forums?
Yes... please invite anyone you would like. Everyone is welcome. All that I ask is that if you post this on another board that you copy and paste my original post in this thread.
Old 05-05-2011 | 12:26 AM
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im in! been waiting for it for a while... I think you should post this in other areas as well.

I will post it in the NY/NJ area.
Old 05-05-2011 | 02:25 PM
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Old 05-09-2011 | 11:43 AM
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Hi guys, my name's Kevin for those of you who don't know me. I'm one of the coordinators along with Justin (JMillerUA6) for CanAm.

If you are TRULY planning on attending, please try and reply with the following format so we can have a better idea of how many people we can expect and to help set up group rates at hotels and dinner reservations for Saturday night.

• Name:
• Number of people coming with you (not including yourself):
• Will you be staying overnight?
• Which nights (19th, 20th, or Both):
• How many rooms will you need?



*Note* I'm sure some people will be sharing rooms with one another. If this is the case just one of you will need to say that you need a room. For example, I put down that I need one room, Justin is rooming with me so he will put down "0" under number of rooms.




Thanks guys! This is going to be an awesome weekend!
Old 05-09-2011 | 01:36 PM
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Wow .. this shit would be the same time I'm in Vegas!!!!!
Old 05-09-2011 | 01:46 PM
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Aw, that sucks Mike. Sorry man.
Old 05-09-2011 | 01:56 PM
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Aw, that sucks Mike. Sorry man.
Ughhh better luck next year then ..
Old 05-10-2011 | 11:36 PM
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Looks like we may get more azine people this year
Old 05-11-2011 | 01:58 PM
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I would expect WAYYYY more Azine ppl. Where the hell are they? LOL
Old 05-16-2011 | 12:59 PM
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Kevin, i'm in and few more people from Montreal.
I'll post later how many rooms we need.
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Sounds good Gim! (Is that the name you go by?)
Old 05-17-2011 | 12:01 PM
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Can't wait for my 3rd canam \m/
Old 05-19-2011 | 05:30 PM
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LOL! damn you, i was thinking "is that his real name or something?"
Old 05-19-2011 | 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by mastini
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Can't wait for my 3rd canam \m/
Old 05-19-2011 | 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by CarrieLynn
Carrie, you better don't laugh or I'll end drinking in your room again

xoxo
Old 05-19-2011 | 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by mastini
Carrie, you better don't laugh or I'll end drinking in your room again

xoxo
lol its cool everyone probably will anyway
Old 05-20-2011 | 09:37 AM
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Ya, where everyone is staying? Red Roof or that fancy place?
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I'm glad its in MASS this year haha!!! Most likely i'll be able to make it!
Old 06-01-2011 | 07:37 AM
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Gonna be a hellova drive, and I'm gonna love every minute of it
Old 06-01-2011 | 11:12 AM
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Glad to hear you're making the trip, Justin. Saw some pics of you and Andy on fb. Car looks good!
Old 06-01-2011 | 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by GoldnKnight22
Glad to hear you're making the trip, Justin. Saw some pics of you and Andy on fb. Car looks good!

....stalker
Old 06-02-2011 | 08:53 AM
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Came up on my feed. Not stalking.
Old 06-02-2011 | 08:55 AM
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Old 06-05-2011 | 03:04 AM
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Originally Posted by GoldnKnight22
It's going to be an awesome weekend!

I suggest that everyone who can make it for Friday night to come early and join us, and if possible, stay over Saturday night and leave Sunday morning.
everyone should come friday night for the shenanigans that will take plave
Originally Posted by mastini
Carrie, you better don't laugh or I'll end drinking in your room again

xoxo
you know your room is the party room
Old 06-06-2011 | 12:38 PM
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I'm coming Fr-Sun for sure!
My gf is applying for US visa, so I hope both of us will come )
Old 06-07-2011 | 06:57 PM
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how long is the cruise (mileage wise)? i have that fri, sat and sun off
Old 06-09-2011 | 12:00 PM
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Well it looks like I might be able to go this year since Vegas may be a bust since almost everyone has backed out already so if that is the case .. I am sooooooooooooo down for this.
Old 06-09-2011 | 06:25 PM
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ummm Mike why the hell was I NOT invited to vegas? SMH
and bring me a Dels to CanAm i recently discovered lemonade is good mixed with vodka
Old 06-09-2011 | 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by eggs

you know your room is the party room
yea Andy and I would just leave the door to the room open because everyone would just come by lol idc tho i <3 you guys


anyone book rooms yet?
Old 06-09-2011 | 09:11 PM
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Come on man be 4 real! U cancelled yur trip 2 vegas, 2 b w/us! Lol
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Originally Posted by CarrieLynn
ummm Mike why the hell was I NOT invited to vegas? SMH
and bring me a Dels to CanAm i recently discovered lemonade is good mixed with vodka
We invited you on new year's but you were too drunk to remember lmao

Originally Posted by jacksonstl03
Come on man be 4 real! U cancelled yur trip 2 vegas, 2 b w/us! Lol
It wasnt booked at all and everyone backed out. I was so down to go out there.
Old 06-10-2011 | 01:36 AM
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Originally Posted by CarrieLynn
yea Andy and I would just leave the door to the room open because everyone would just come by lol idc tho i <3 you guys


anyone book rooms yet?
sleeping in my car with a 12 gauge shotgun :shady: haha jk


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