Jack Griffin and Morrie Larsen have been working on a longhood gathering within Cars & Coffee for Jan 30.
This will include a Breakfast get together prior, Lunch after, and a visit to the famous Jack Griffin Garage after lunch for the start of the 24 hour. Here is the notice Morrie posted on the 912 board with all the details.
Dallas Cars and Coffee meets at 6800 Dallas Parkway, Plano TX 75024 (http://dallas.carsandcoffee.info/). November's Cars & Coffee drew 661 cars and amazingly most all the spaces fill by about 8:30 A.M.
We plan to meet around 7:00 am at "The Egg and I" so we can drive in together.
The Egg & I
15203 Knoll Trail Drive, Ste 103
Dallas, TX 75248
469-375-0750
It's a great breakfast place that is just off the Dallas North Tollway about a block east of tollway at Arapaho exit. It is at the N.W. corner of Arapaho & Knoll Trail Dr. It has plenty of parking for us and Jack Griffin will be there about am. It is about 5-8 minutes south of the location of Cars & Coffee.
If you are going to go in directly, you need to be at the Dallas Cars and Coffee event by no later than 7:45 am to help secure a spot. Any later than that would mean it would be difficult to park together. Cars generally start pouring in around 8.
By 12 Noon we will plan to muster for lunch at the Spring Creek BBQ:
Spring Creek BBQ
12835 Preston Road
Dallas, TX 75230-1277
(972) 726-9002
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&so...ed=0CAgQ8gEwAA
Then off to Jack's garage!!! at 6007 Northaven Rd. (N.E. corner of Preston Rd. & Northaven Rd.), just down (south) Preston Rd from Spring Creek BBQ. When you arrive at Northaven Rd & Preston Rd. (red light) take a right turn; the most convenient parking is at the church on the S.W. corner of Northaven & Preston, in the parking lot that fronts on Northaven. We have permission from the church to park here. Then, walk across Preston Rd. to the N.E. corner, which is Jack's house.
If you have any questions the day of the event, you can call Jack on his cell phone at (214) 435-4898. See you there!!!
Jack will have his Garage Big Screen tuned to SPEED for the start of the 24 Hour.
For anyone coming from out of town here are some hotels close by.
Hotels close by:
Courtyard Dallas Plano in Legacy Park
6840 North Dallas Parkway, Plano, TX - (972) 403-0802
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites -
NORTH TOLLWAY
3101 Dallas Parkway, Plano, TX - (972) 403-1112
Extended Stay Deluxe Dallas - Plano
2900 Dallas Parkway, Plano, TX - (972) 378-9978