2008 Midwest Z Heritage Fest June 6-8

[Kozby1976]

2008 Midwest Z Heritage Fest – June 6, 7, 8

The Windy City Z Club and ChicagoZ.com forum are hosting the 9th annual Midwest Z Heritage Fest. Last year 95 Z cars from all over the Midwest attended this event in Nashville, Indiana. This year we are also inviting other old school Datsuns, and new school Infiniti Gs, and GTRs to the event.

Host hotel:

Hickory Ridge Marriott in Lisle on RT 53.

1195 Summerhill Drive

Lisle, Illinois 60532

Phone 1-630-971-5000

A block of discounted rooms are reserved. More info to follow.

Event Costs:

• $35 pre-registration before May 1st. $40 after May 1st or at the event. Includes car show entry, track touring, t-shirt, goodie bag, and raffle ticket. (we'll make a pre-regitration form available shortly)Obtain form at windycityzclub.com.

• Dinner $25.00/person. Outside bar-b-que style diner at hotel.

• $5 per/person entrance fee to enter at Autobahn Country Club (paid to and at Autobahn Country Club). Applies to anyone entering including track tourers and spectators.

EVENT SCHEDULE

Friday

• 11:00 am start of registration

• 8:00 Start of driving tour into Chicago – itinerary TBD

Saturday Car Show and Autobahn Track Touring

• AM car cleanup starts, leave for track 10:00 am

• Check in and grid at track 11:00ish

• Autobahn Country Club C track touring Saturday – noon to 1 pm

• Clean up continue after return from track

• Judging starts by 1pm, Must be ready for judging by 4pm cut-off

• Dinner starts at 7:30pm

• Awards start by 8:30

Sunday

• Open day. Possible destinations to explore Chicago or local (Volo Car Museum, Chicago downtown, Morton Arbotetum, etc.)

• Possible other Z related event TBD.

In addition to car show judges, we are looking for volunteers to help with car staging for the show, caravan leads to Autobahn and gridding cars for touring at Autobahn. Also other miscellaneous duties. REGISTER at www.windycityzclub.com

[Carl Beck]

Sounds like the "Midwest Z Heritage Fest" ... has been turned into the "All Nissan/Infiniti/Datsun Fest".

Why do people feel that successful events have to be made ever LARGER, or have to be EXPANDED? Money, money, money perhaps... A desire to be more "inclusive" in order to dilute the exclusive nature of owning a Classic Car? A true belief that diversity will lead to a cohesive and well functioning group?

hummm......

FWIW,

Carl B.

[bigoak]

Counterpoint to that is to bring in owners of more current Nissan products back to the Z family.

Not sure anyone makes money, money, money on car shows (at least they don't up here...well, maybe the hotdog guy...).

The Ontario Z club was very inclusive, we had active members from early 240Z's right to G35 coupes. All admirers of performance and solid styling. They all had a twinkle in their eye when we rolled in in our S30's mind you...

Right back at ya...

Mike A.

[Z Speed]

Sounds like the "Midwest Z Heritage Fest" ... has been turned into the "All Nissan/Infiniti/Datsun Fest".

Why do people feel that successful events have to be made ever LARGER, or have to be EXPANDED? Money, money, money perhaps... A desire to be more "inclusive" in order to dilute the exclusive nature of owning a Classic Car? A true belief that diversity will lead to a cohesive and well functioning group?

hummm......

FWIW,

Carl B.

I agree, the key words here are, "Z Heritage"....

= .02

[Kozby1976]

We have two(2) Z car clubs in Chicago...Windy City Z Club which handles most of the older Z's and ChicagoZ.com full of 300zx's, 350z's and G35-G37"s, they are a younger group that started as a forum that has grown into more than 400 cars in size nationwide They are a privately owned and publicly used forum type site with membership only being to sign up through the forum to be part of the site and it is open to all Nissans mostly 350z's and 300zx's, Datsun Z's and other makes and Infiniti autos and trucks...We decided to open up our Z Fest to all makes and models... kind of like the Nissan Sport Magazine did to offer a non Z consumer to see what all the BUZZ that is with our beloved Z car...I personally like the G35 and G37's, own a 69 Datsun Roadster and have friends that have 510's and Skyline's...this fest is not about the money(we live in Chicago because we have money)...its about the love affair of Nissans, Datsuns and Infiniti automobiles...

[Walter Moore]

Gee, it sure is good to hear that "(we live in Chicago because we have money)" did someone start distributing boxes of money in the projects on the south side?

:cheeky:

Seriously however it still sounds like fun to me. It is only about 2 1/2 hours from here. I wondered what club it was that was in Nashville last year. From what I can tell the Indy club just meets at local Nissan dealers once a month.

Whatever floats your boat.

[TomoHawk]

People just want to belong someplace, so they use the association of Infinity with Nissan and to Z cars as an excuse to get in. the rest of it is money, and being able to brag about how many cars were there (although only a few were DATSUN Z cars.)

[Kozby1976]

Windy City Z Club is a not for profit kind of thing guys...thats why when you register the Autobahn Country Club track tour is basically free. It should be a blast...the Chicagoz group consists of mostly newer Z's and we've put the S30 Z into them so much that some of them are buying older Z's...I've participated in their shows even winning Best of Show at an Infiniti show with a 76 280z...We aren't allowing Maxima's, Altima's, Sentra's or trucks and suv's, just rwd sports cars...

[Mike]

Did you post this in our calendar? If you do, it will show up on our main page until June.

[TomoHawk]

In the email invitation I got a while ago, it mentions "Check in and GRID at track 11:00- ish" which makes it sound like a competition or hot-lapping event. If it's just a tour of the track facilities, why not just say "Meet at the track at 11?"

[28Zero]

it said "grid" Cause it takes time to get everybody all lined up and ready to go in groups. It's non-competitive, just a track touring. Shouldn't be much more than 60mph on the straights.

The track's tons of fun, I've been on it twice now in my 280z. :devious:

[TomoHawk]

A "Tour" sounds like you're walking around inside an office building or museum or something. If it's a low-speed cruise, why don't you just say so?