Evans Tuning’s Annual Car Meet (etMeet 2010) is just a few weeks away. I could clutter this post with the details of the meet, but you can find those here. Instead I want to take a minute to reflect on our past efforts and what to expect this year.

2008
In 2008, Evans Tuning held the first ever “annual” etMeet. It was extremely hot that day, Andrea was pregnant, turnout was huge, and there was leftover food for weeks. Needless to say, we were unprepared to capture the event and share it online afterward. Lucky for us, most of our attendees brought their cameras and took a large number of photos which were since spread all over the web in a relatively unorganized fashion (maybe not so lucky for us).

2009
Last year at etMeet 2009 we had an eventful day planned, and were relatively well organized (compared to 2008). Checkin went smooth as opposed to the hour long line of people checking in for the 2008 meet. Food was served quickly and the effectiveness of our meet staff was rather impressive (you would think we do this more than 1 time a year). Andrea was not pregnant this time around making the load a little lighter on everyone, and we had awesome giveaways planned (something we really didn’t do in 2008). Unfortunately, the threat of rain kept many from coming out, and the eventual storm drove home most of the attendees.

2010
So how does 2010 get better? Well obviously the rain holding off will be a big help so hopefully that is one battle we won’t need to fight. We plan to really document the meet well this year with photos, and on social networks. We’ve started a Twitter hashtag for attendees to share what is going on at the meet, an event page on Facebook for attendees to post photos from the meet, and we encourage everyone to link us to any video footage shot at this year’s meet (see below for more details).

Giveaways & Food
We will be doing some giveaways but we aren’t quite ready to announce the exact details on that. We’ll do a raffle as well this year but we’re not 100% certain of the product option yet. Food will be just as delicious as it’s been in previous years, and we’ll try to keep pricing as cheap as possible.

People and Parts
The primary goal of the meet is to make it enjoyable for everyone who attends. We’re likely to have a large S2000 and 8th Generation Civic crowd out for the day as the close to 100 sign-ups already show those cars in the majority. Jeff will be available at the parts table to chat, answer questions, meet people, and give you great deals. We’ll have a variety of parts in stock for the meet that we find our customers are most commonly looking for, as well as some used parts for awesome deals that have been hanging out around the shop.

Have questions?
If you have any specific questions about the event first refer to the official sign-up page here, and then email phil@evans-tuning.com.

We hope to see you there!

Social Sharing Notes

  • Using Twitter: When posting a tweet on Twitter, follow up your post about the meet with #etMeet2010 to add to the conversation. Then click here to read the entire conversation. Feel free to start posting before the event!
  • Facebook Event: Click here to get to our event for the meet on Facebook, and feel free to add your photos from the day of the event.