Registration will CLOSE tomorrow, this is your last chance to sign up. Here are a couple of things to know and remember. If you still need a room email Marlo [email protected] she will take care of your reservation with the alternative hotel at the same price. If a spot opens up at the Double Tree after the fact, she will move you back to the Double Tree based on first come first serve. PLEASE follow these instructions as to eliminate confusion if want to stay at the Double Tree. If you are going to use OC Detail at the Double Tree you have to make a reservation with Marlo. This will help speed the process up. OC Detail will be at the Hotel Thursday 1 -6:30pm and Friday 8:00am -6:30pm. Please do not wait till the last minute.
Alright, its the final hours for registration, you've had two and a half months to sign up. The hotel staff are even over-extending themselves to make sure everyone is accomodated. Chrysler and Mopar and tons of vendors will be present in a big way and oh yeah, there's gonna be like 650+ LXes!!! We added FOUR more since yesterday for a new total of 660!!! Those FOUR include: THREE from California and ONE from Michigan TWO Chrysler 300s and TWO Dodge Magnums ONE 2005, ONE 2006, ONE 2007 and ONE Other (???) ALL of them were SRTs (TWO 300s and TWO Magnums) ONE Bright Silver Metallic, TWO Brilliant Black Crystal Pearls and ONE Silver Steel Metallic I'll save the big huge listing post for tomorrow when registration closes.
CAR CARE INFORMATION: ** OC AUTO DETAIL ** The DoubleTree will have a professional detail service available onsite (at the hotel) all day Friday and again Saturday morning. Friday hours will be 8:00 AM until 6:00 PM and Saturday will be 7:00 AM until needed. Hand Wash $25 Hand Wash and Wax $50 Mini Detail: $125 : clean and wax interior, clean mats, shampoo carpet, clean leather, clean wheels Detail: $175 : Clay Wax to remove oxidation and buff, Clean Engine, clean and wax interior, clean mats, shampoo carpet, clean leather, clean wheels
Alright, registration is closed and the final total stands at 662 after adding three more and losing one since yesterday. We'll miss the Texan with the 2006 Brilliant Black Dodge Charger R/T. The new additions - THREE Californians driving a Charger, a Challenger and a Magnum. A 2006, 2007 and an Other year???. ONE SE, ONE SRT and ONE R/T. TWO Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl and ONE TorRed. Now to the big listings... Attendance Rankings By State/Region: 500 - California (Yes, really 500!!) 40 - Arizona 27 - Texas 17 - Nevada 14 - Washington 11 - British Columbia 8 - Utah 6 - Oregon 4 each - Illinois and Ohio 3 each - Alberta, Florida, New Mexico, North Carolina and Ontario 2 each - Kansas, Louisiana and Michigan 1 each - Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Queretaro and Wyoming Just wow... That's THREE countries, Canada with THREE provinces, Mexico with ONE state and the US with TWENTY-FIVE states represented. By Make/Model: 224 - Dodge Charger 181 - Dodge Magnum 122 - Chrysler 300 109 - Dodge Challenger Over 100 of each and some with crazy body/fascia mods! By Year: 220 - 2006 137 - 2007 98 - 2005 85 - 2009 81 - 2008 23 - 2010 18 - Other Nearly 100 or over 100 of each of the years with the exception of the current one, awesome! By Model/Trim: 72 - Charger R/T 68 - Magnum R/T 65 - Charger SRT 56 - Challenger SRT 49 - 300C SRT 48 - Magnum SRT 46 - 300C 45 - Magnum SXT 40 - Challenger R/T 31 - Charger R/T Daytona 22 - Other Other (Non-LX/Non-Dodge) 17 each - Charger SE and Charger SXT 14 - Magnum SE 11 - Charger Super Bee 10 each - 300 Touring and Challenger R/T Classic 9 each - 300 Base/LX and Charger SE Plus 4 each - 300 Limited and Dodge Other 3 each - Challenger SE and Magnum R/T AWD 2 each - 300C Heritage, 300C SRT Design, Charger R/T AWD and Magnum Base 1 - Magnum SXT AWD That's 26 different flavors of the four models, 131 V6s, 276 5.7s and 229 6.1s. Is there gonna be a localized gas shortage in Irvine this week?? By Color: 195 - Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl (Just shy of 200) 76 - Bright Silver Metallic 52 - Inferno Red Crystal Pearl 47 - Silver Steel Metallic 45 - Other 39 - TorRed 32 - Hemi Orange Pearl 29 - Cool Vanilla 26 - Stone White 15 each - B5 Blue Pearl, Magnesium Pearl and Midnight Blue Pearl 10 - Deep Water Blue 9 - Steel Blue Metallic 8 - Dark Titanium Metallic 7 each - Go Mango! and Top Banana 6 - Detonator Yellow 5 each - Deep Lava Red Pearl, Plum Crazy Pearl and Sublime Metallic 4 - Mineral Gray Metallic 3 - Clearwater Blue Pearl 2 each - Marine Blue Pearl and Satin Jade Pearl 1 each - Dark Cordovan Pearl, Light Sandstone Metallic and Linen Gold Metallic Pearl That's 27 different OEM colors plus 45 "Other" colors mixed up between LXes and folks who registered as Dodge Other or Other Other. Should be a sight to behold! Hope you're all geared up and excited and hope everyone has a safe drive out and a wonderful time in Irvine and I look forward to trekking out next year with my mother and my daughter.
Was watching Powerblock on Spike yesterday, and Courtney mentioned Mopar Springfest and they showed various pistures (i guess from last year) and John's (fatchance)car was the last one shown, with Cam's twin tube air intake...Pretty cool, wish I could be there.
Well if you haven't seen it or figured it out. We are live on twitter and facebook working with Chrysler's Social Media Group. We will have full coverage of the event stay tune...if you twitter I go by 1fatchance. at the end of your tweet type #SF5 and it will post for everyone to follow Spring Festival. If your on facebook join Dodge and Chrysler's facebook. Make a post about Spring Fest...show them who we are. Dodge facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/dodge?ref=mf Chrysler http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=....2951865859..1
Check this out, JonW I think the server is going to be over loaded...WWW.SoCalLX.com is being blasted everywhere by Chrysler ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0lhT7dB8Rk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=918eDSDHjjI
Here are a few I took. Don't forget to add pics to our www.flickr.com/groups/SF5 site. This is the site where Chrysler will get photos for their Social Media content. From the roof of the Double Tree Furious Fuschia just pulled off the truck Rich Evans of Rich Evans Designs, will be working with Mopar on 2010 SEMA Project The view from the stage The Chrysler crew, along with Samuel and Rich Evans Samuel Hubinette Dodge Motosports Drift Team and his wife ezcorpian being interviewed by Dodge media group
Great Pictures.... It's too bad they can't do something like this at Chrysler HQ in Auburn Hills, MI.
