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A RARE evening event in SoCal...Breaking the record for driving across the U.S.!

Old Oct 14, 2008 | 01:58 PM
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A RARE evening event in SoCal...Breaking the record for driving across the U.S.!

The Orange Coast Region of the Porsche Club of America presents:

An Evening of Driving Fast (legally or illegally) with Alex Roy and guest appearance by Tony Adamowicz:

We all do it…drive faster than we should. And, we have a strange obsession of timing our mundane routes we do over and over again to see if we can “best” our times. Well, Alex Roy (www.teampolizei.com) has made a career of doing this. Recently, Alex Roy finished a best selling book called “Driver” which accounts his tales of driving fast all over the world in road rallies and finally his pinnacle: setting the record for driving non-stop across the U.S.

Riding in the car with him on this historic adventure was Cory Welles (www.GravidFilms.com) who is the director of an upcoming film called “32 hours and 7 Minutes…an Outlaw Race.” This film is going to most likely debut at the upcoming Sundance film festival.

Now is your chance to get a sneak peak event at this must see for the automotive enthusiast:

December 10th (Wednesday night) at 6:00pm, the AutoKennel
will be hosting Alex Roy and Cory Welles to share a unique night of crazy driving experiences, the book, and the upcoming film. Hopefully we will have the actually BMW M5 that broke the record on hand if it is available. We will also be showing some sneak peaks of the film before it is released. This film is sure to be in instant cult classic and you can get a chance to be a part of this experience.

Also, we will have Tony Adamowicz on hand to share some of his experiences nearly winning the first Gumball Rally (with team PDRA in a Van) competing against Dan Gurney and Brock Yates in a Ferrari Daytona.

AutoKennel will be providing a keg of good beer and plenty of pizza at no charge. We simply ask for a minimum $5 donation to the Porsche Club of America/Orange Coast Chapter’s selected charity.

For more information or to reserve a spot, contact Paul at 714-668-0345, or email at paul@autokennel.com

YOU MUST RSVP!
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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 03:08 PM
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Are you kidding?!?! Sign me up. Alex Roy is one of my few living heroes. My goal is to one day beat his record in an AMG. Possible? I don't know, but I'm sure as hell gonna try. Sign me up.

Thanks for bringing this up.
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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 03:09 PM
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btw. How big is this event gonna be? About how many people are you expecting?
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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 03:23 PM
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Change the night!!!!! CHANGE THE NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!

I just realized I have finals the week after that (or maybe even that week) and I might not be able to make it. Any chance this can be changed to thursday night? lol.

Any chance this will ever happen again? (doubtful with this small a group)

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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by W211 BEAST
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Change the night!!!!! CHANGE THE NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!

I just realized I have finals the week after that (or maybe even that week) and I might not be able to make it. Any chance this can be changed to thursday night? lol.

Any chance this will ever happen again? (doubtful with this small a group)

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Sorry, that's the date....probably won't do it again...
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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Paul-HB
Sorry, that's the date....probably won't do it again...
Lol I know. Hopefully nothing important is going on in class that night. If its just a review I can probably have someone take notes for me. I just hope my final isnt that night. This sounds like an awesome experience.
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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 11:34 PM
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Hopefully you can make it...
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Old Oct 18, 2008 | 02:27 AM
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danny ill roll down there to this is going to be sick. he has been a hero of mine ever since i read an article about him and that M5 a few years back. i say with some good planning we can beat him.
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Alex Roy is one hellova down to earth guy. Met him on a few occasions, and even got to "race" his M5. IDK, I'd prob cut a final if this was on the east coast.
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