Several of us in the Southern MA & RI areas meet up for a local cal cars & coffee roughly every other week. We are largely Porsche's (as we started on a Porsche forum) we are open to other makes and regularly have a few BMWs, Lotus, & occasionally Ferraris.
Location: Starbucks Parking Lot (toward the back), Taunton, MA (65 H Taunton Depot Drive, Taunton, MA 02780). Occasionally we may meet in Rhode Island so check for updates.
Date: Every other Sunday (Weather Permitting) Starting May 21, 2017. Please check updates that you receive as it will let you know if we are rescheduling or bumping the meet out by a week for other big car events. Our tentative schedule after May 21st is June 11, June 25, July 9, July 23, August 13, August 27, September 10, and September 24th. If the weather remains nice then we will continue to meet in October. Please check this thread for updates to the schedule.
Time: 9:30 AM until whenever.
Feel free to bring a friend, girlfriend, wife, etc. I know some ladies don't want to be the only girl at a car meet, but don't worry about that, my wife attends many of the meets. So chances are your wife/girlfriend won't be the only girl there. Feel free to email or PM me if you want to be sure she is attending.
Location Description: The location is perfect for this type of get together. The traffic is light on Sunday mornings since most of the stores are still closed. We often get people who will stop by to look at the cars and ask questions and we have never had any bad experiences. Local patrols also leave us alone which is nice. Please be respectful of the businesses around the location for the meet, and please don't do any high performance driving or launch control demonstrations from the parking lot where we meet, as we do not want to draw any negative attention to our meets.
Weather Permitting: Most of us don't mind meeting up on cold or overcast days but rain really spoils this one since we are standing outside. If it's raining or looks like it will assume the GTG is cancelled.
I will try to provide updates & reminders so everyone knows when the next GTG will be.
Looking forward to seeing everyone soon! Our next Meet is this Sunday, July 9th.
Below are a few photos from Sunday's meet. It was great chatting with many of our regular attendees, Dan, Hans M, Michael M (991 TurboS), Mike S, Frank, Jim, Ken (997S), Kenny (TR), Steve S (Vette), Dwayne, Noah, Brianna, Ray, Bill & Gayle, Martin, Simon. It was also great having a few new face at the meet, Will brought a 991 Coupe, and Tom arrived with a vintage M3. Hope to see some more new attendees at our next meet.
Just a quick reminder our next meet is this coming Sunday, July 23rd. For this meet we will meet at the Moose Cafe, which is located at 1160 Stafford Road, Tiverton, RI 02878. For those who haven't been there, they are not too far from the highway (RT 24), they serve coffee, breakfast sandwiches, pastries, and even ice cream. More importantly, they have a large parking lot to the left of the Cafe so that we won't interfere with their customer traffic, and their traffic doesn't have to drive past our vehicles.
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