Pics from today's CAM Meet at Berts 50s Diner -- 17 Apr 11

[Bluerauder]

Had another great time at Bert's 50s Diner. Thanks MyTMerc (Shaun) for setting this up and thanks also for the terrific looking dash plaques.

Lots of old friends and lots of new faces this time. We filled up Bert's back room on this trip.

Total count was about 30 people and 20 MMs (12 Black, 6 Silver, 1 DTR, 1 Blue) and 1 Silver CV LX Sport and 1 '94 Lincoln Mark VIII convertible (1 of 23). Thanks Sherm for letting us ogle your "new" toy.

Attendance by my count and memory ... please chime in if I somehow missed you.

Black MM (12)
MyTMerc
Ladyhawke/Haggis
DOOM
Jabird56
Seneca
Twin03
Mebot
Rick
3dognight
Dj1
Gkid9
Dathinbluline

Silver Birch MM (6)
Fordfrk/Hammerdown
SilverSurfer03/TCBO1
N40GL
Illwood
The Great
Kin2silverboy (love that accent stripe down the side of your MM - see pic below)

DTR MM (1)
Blown3.8

Blue MM (1)
Bluerauder

Silver CV LX Sport
05crownsport

’94 Lincoln Mark VIII convertible (1 of 23)
Shermanator


Some pics ....

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[DOOM]

Hey Charlie did you get a pic of the tire marks an anonymous person put down in front of the restaurant??? :D

[Bluerauder]

Some more pics .... Sorry DOOM -- no pics of the black marks. But your departure sounded awesome. :up:

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[Seneca]

had a nice time, what a good turn out! thanks everyone for your help with Julie. :)

[guspech750]

Looks like a great time and great turnout!! And a great looking restraunt!!
Sent from my iPhone
Go White Sox!!!

[Ladyhawke]

Thanks Shaun for putting together another meet at Berts. And thank you for the ice cream/milkshakes; it was good! :D

It was great seeing everyone and meeting some new members.

[MMBLUE]

Wow, nice turn out for you CAM guys. I'm jealous. BTW, nice pics;)

[SILVERSURFER03]

Thanks shawn ... It was a really good time we enjoyed it

[Blown3.8]

Good seeing everyone again. Great meet, great dash plaques and Ice cream.:beer:

[05crownsport]

Thanks again for making us non Marauder owners feel welcome. I had a great time seeing some I had met before, and meeting many for the first time.

[HammerDown]

Thanks, Shaun

Wonderful time, as always, and turned out to be a beautiful day.

Good to meet more Marauder (and Crown Vic) people !!!:)


Connie & Jack

[twin03]

Just wanted to say thanks Shaun. I had a great time, and was able to buy a set of Steeda underdrive pulleys for a great price...I am trying to catch up to the "birdman" a.k.a ctrlraven N/A beast....

[Mebot]

I have some pictures (and a video) i'll try and post later this week!

[MyTMerc]

Always a pleasure to set these meets up when everyone enjoys the day. Diane and I enjoy everyone especially the newest addition to the CAM family, Julie. Wonder if she's got a screen name yet...

So glad the weather cooperated this year. Floods on Saturday but nothing but sunshine (and smoke) on Sunday.

[HammerDown]

Always a pleasure to set these meets up when everyone enjoys the day. Diane and I enjoy everyone especially the newest addition to the CAM family, Julie. Wonder if she's got a screen name yet...

So glad the weather cooperated this year. Floods on Saturday but nothing but sunshine (and smoke) on Sunday.

As soon as I can figure out how to post up the pics I took, I will post up the "future Marauder drivers":D

Got one of Hailey, too........

[blackrauder]

Im glad u all had a great time wish could have been, now that im a 911 dispatcher I couldnt get off, ill make it next year for sure...CAMer for life

[Mebot]

Here are some pictures from Sundays Meet up: Matt (illwood), Greg(3DogKnight) and myself met up in the Macy's Parking lot in Tysons Corner. I missed Mark's PM the night before, otherwise we would have had two SB and two JPBs caravaning down!
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Matt's SB

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Mine

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Greg's.

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A view from my car. Matt leads cos he has GPS. I am in the middle and Greg's behind us!

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at the stoplight

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We stopped at McDonalds real quick to get some coffee

[Mebot]

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Rick was already there when we arrived. From left to Right: Ryan (Mebot), Matt (illwood), Greg (3dogknight) and Rick

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the lot starts filling up. My MM in Black and Charlie (Bluerauder) to the right.

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Doom had to be off by himself

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Doom's bling

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[Mebot]

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[Mebot]

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[Mebot]

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I have 2 pretty cool videos, one is of Doom just after his smokeout when he was coming back into the lot. The other is when everyone was leaving and tearing up the asphalt on the way out. For some reason I can watch the videos on my camera but I can't see anything on my computer. It's an .avi file. I can hear the sound, but no video. Windows Media player doesn't work. If I upload it to Youtube, will people be able to see it?

[illwood]

I have 2 pretty cool videos, one is of Doom just after his smokeout when he was coming back into the lot. The other is when everyone was leaving and tearing up the asphalt on the way out. For some reason I can watch the videos on my camera but I can't see anything on my computer. It's an .avi file. I can hear the sound, but no video. Windows Media player doesn't work. If I upload it to Youtube, will people be able to see it?

Ryan, first off, thanks for the great pictures! I may be bugging you to get some higher resolution versions of them.

Second, my guess is that the problem is that your computer is missing some CODECs. The AVI file from your camera probably is a DIVX/AVI and not the older AVI format. Youtube would be a great way for all of us to see because it does the converting for you, but for your personal use, I recommend VLC player (free) because it handles most file formats you can throw at it including ones from cell phones.

VLC Player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)

[Mebot]

Ok let me check on that. Also I was able to upload onto my Facebook page no problem. Had the video and audio. I'm going to see if I can somehow link it from there...

[Bluerauder]

Very nice pics !! Thanks, Ryan. :up: Was nice chatting with you and Greg at Bert's.

[Mebot]

No problem Charlie, it was a pleasure to chat with you too! And Matt, in regards to the pictures, sure I send you the raw photos. I don't know if the resolution changes from posting them on the forum. They look pretty clear to me!

Send me a PM and I can send you the photos

[DOOM]

Sweet pics!
Thanks for posting! :up:

[Mebot]

Sure not a problem! Like I said, as soon as I can figure out how to get the videos up, I'll post them as well. When you all were leaving on Sunday, the sound was pretty ferocious. :cool: Very nice!

[DOOM]

When you all were leaving on Sunday, the sound was pretty ferocious. :cool: Very nice!

That's because every car leaving in my group had aero turbine mufflers! :eek:
Talk about rolling thunder!!! :rofl:

[Mebot]

I created a YouTube account and uploaded the video. I don't know how to embed the video into a post so here's the link to the site:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Kk8aD79gs

Hope this works! Thanks,

Ryan

[Mebot]

I had two other quick videos but they're not as cool as the first one:

this is Doom starting his car up. You were busy talking so it's like 40 seconds of chatter before you start it up:

http://youtu.be/mLARB9-beSw

And this is Doom coming back into Bert's parking lot after pulling his smokescreen stunt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0esPjAwqZY

Hope you guys enjoy this! BTW, my first time ever uploading a video to YouTube WTFH4X!

[HammerDown]

WOW, great job! You got everyone's car in the shots. The few pics I took are same shots as some of yours, so we will just enjoy looking at your pics.

(there might be just a couple shots from in the dining room I can post up, though--still trying to figure it out:confused:)

[HammerDown]

dining room pics--plus, note the "marauderettes" in the first one

[Ms. Denmark]

dining room pics--plus, note the "marauderettes" in the first one

The next generation of Marauder lovers! They are adorable.... Thanks for posting the pics, Connie!