Here's a quick pic. Eyes tired. Have over 500, but gotta sort 'em...

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Niiiiiiice!

Hey dude I want a pic of the white car last row on the right with the roof rack! thanks ;) and the 6th car in third row red thanks :D

Wow, that is simply amazing

Beautiful. I like the BMW sunshield on the last row.

Alex

I rolled in a little while ago...10 hrs, 647mi. A bit tired but what a blast! these are in Winchester Va.

and in no particular order...

on fridays run

That baby blue throttle body has to be Taylor Marshall's TCD car from Montreal:redspot:redspot

it is! and it's honkin fast too!

great shots joe. Jackie and i just rolled in as well, 7 hours and 45 mins, something like 500+ miles. it was great meeting you in person, cant wait to get together with you in a year or two up at limerock!!!

Thanks again for everything, you know what i mean, and ill be sure to do what i can in the future...

sorry i didnt see you after the dinner, it was crazy that night!!!

-Jeff

As i sit here typing, right after getting off the road, eating some pulled pork and mac and cheese (yes, the same stuff from saturday night...thanks JT, Andrew, and the rest of the cooking crew!), im thinking about all the stuff that happened over the weekend!

First of all id like to thank Kai and Nat, and all the others that made it possible, you did an AWESOME job on everything!

Now id like to personally thank all the people who made it possible for Jackie and I to get down there. I dont want to name names, but in the spirit of being down south, "y'all" know who you are, and it wouldnt have been possible for us to get down there without your help, it was greatly appreciated!

Looking forward to seeing you all again next year, wherever the hell it may be, but come hell or high water, Jackie and myself will be there, and of course we'll bring Wolfie!!!

Thanks again for being such a great group of people to be with and share our love of the E24,

-Jeff

I just rolled in also. Total trip counting the friday drive and everything 1131 miles. It was good to see all the old faces and meet some new ones like Jeff and Joe.

yeah man, what a blast! Ditto on thanks to all who halped make my wkend a great one, from Nat, Kai and their families and friends to Todd (Alpina csi) who had the one lens that I needed to make my car "whole" again. Clocked mileage is just under 1600 for the wkend and the car ran great! Thanks to Dave for the door cards and his good humor and chatter to fill the silent spots. I hope to see everyone again in the future!! Joe

Jeff, I was toast by the time I got back to the hotel !! after being out in the sun all day and then the nights events, I just dropped in the rack. hahaha. I was on the road by 4:30am.

i just rolled in

660 miles 8.75 hours, 2 stops 85mph +

and it was very nice to meet and spend time with you all.. i post up some pictures in a day or two...right now i need to take a nap.... and then.... yep you guessed it... do some effing homework

couldnt have said it better jeff.. i second this... it was amazing... what a great group of people. Its a good feeling to know that i made so many new friends this weekend... jackie and yourself included. spending all day getting dinner together for the group was the least i could do, i wouldnt have been able to have gotten half of it done if it wasnt for JT with his leadership and Dave and Greg for their help getting the work done... anyhow... i was just about to do a post that said pretty much the same thing yours did... so i figured id just post here!
...

SESF 09' 363 days? hahaha

too bad my car was at the barn because i had already started cooking...well maybe it will be in the pictar next year haha

I made my journey back to NJ this morning (4AM).

6.5 hours @ and average 88MPH.

SESF was a great once again! It was great to meet old and new friends.:D

3 stellar years of SESF! 2009 will bring even more passion for the E24 & E63/E64...

In 2010 (late) Model 2011, the new 6er will be called F11/F12 Coupe/Cabrio respectively! I can't wait!!

Nice meeting all the new faces! Come back in 2009 and bring more 6er fans.:D

The new blood contributed more this year than ever before! Every year I think SharkFest can't top itself, but meeting all of you was a big highlight of one of my favorite years ever! Great to see Wolfie and all the other new Sharks, too...

I'm working on getting my pix together - will get 'em up soon!

well i found out the hard was that a REALLY early AM leave time was a good idea.(left around 7:00-7:30) NC to MA took 14 hours. and 4 stops, total weekend mileage just over 2,200 but it was a blast and it was great to meet everyone! definatly see you next year

now im going to bed!

Thanks everyone for your passion and appreciation. Without folks like JT, James, Andrew and everyone else that helps to make this event run smoothly, it would not be possible. We always develop a new dimension every year and we hope that there were no major complaints (though I want to hear them if there were).

I was standing outside the kitchen fidgeting with my hands and rocking back and forth like a mental patient at one point during the show and someone, of course I can't remember who, said "Kai, you worry too much." It's probably true... but I can't help it. Though I sometimes can't stop to smell the flowers, I get an immense amount of pleasure from knowing that things are going well and that people are enjoying themselves. If not for that, I wouldn't care and if that were the case, I simply wouldn't bother.

Forget about me; thanks to EVERYONE who came together for this event and helped to make it what it is. I'm so exhausted I can't stand, so allow me to roll into bed from the desk. I'll wait to see all the photos (since I hardly had any chance to take them myself)!!! :)

Here's some of the few I took... the panoramic is very photoshopped so if it looks wierd... it is...

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Phil Parkey's unbelievable awards!!! (Those are pistons from one of my many blown engines!) :)
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Approaching Winston-Salem with our small caravan...
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Chris Gregor (my personal travelling mechanic) (left) and JT (our cook) (right)
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Similar to Wolfies' comments...Kai and Nat, awesome time, you guys really put so so much into this unbelievable event. Both Sara and I really enjoyed ourselves - it was an awesome experience. Oh, and Kai, stopped by my mechanics' on the way home. Don't be blowing more engines just to help make these trophies. He said he has plenty if you want/need them. Oh, and Phil, awesome job...

I made big mistake of trying to go through NYC thinking would be ok on a Sunday (wrong!). 14 hours to RI. However, got 20 mpg, not bad for an "M" car. Was great to meet you all.

What's Jody doing with his arm around my girlfriend? Errr, I mean Jeff's wife?


I got home at 2am last night after about a 2 hour weather delay at RDU. Not bad otherwise. It was a great time. I don't know which was better, the people or the cars.
Lee needs to post of some of those 100's of pictures I took!

let's see if I can post a few more..

yeah man, what a blast! Ditto on thanks to all who halped make my wkend a great one, from Nat, Kai and their families and friends to Todd (Alpina csi) who had the one lens that I needed to make my car "whole" again. Clocked mileage is just under 1600 for the wkend and the car ran great! Thanks to Dave for the door cards and his good humor and chatter to fill the silent spots. I hope to see everyone again in the future!! Joe

Joe, enjoyed the company. Meeting everyone else was great as well.

My total milage was 1200 miles & 43 gallons of fuel(at last fill up). That came out to 27.9 mpg. I need to go back thru my scribbled notes & find my mistake. Although, I seemed to get better mileage on the return trip according to the OBC.

Had a great time, this is an incredible group of people to be associated with. Also have a new found respect for the M engine & the music it produces.

At Picasa (http://picasaweb.google.com/e24mpwr/SharkFest2008E24mpwr)

I also got a little happy with my keyboard over at Roadfly late last night, and summarized SharkFest 2008 for me (http://forums.roadfly.com/forums/bmw/bmw-6-series-e24/8918704-1.html).

Net: It was great. New and old faces, lots of great cars and even better company. Can't wait for next year!

great pics lee, does a pretty good summary of the event for sure!!!

See you again next year!

-Jeff

Lee, great photos!! I like it especially as a slide show, kinda gives it a timeline continuity. I hope to see everyone again next time, what a blast!! Joe

I asked the same question of my wife when she and I looked at the pics quickly this a.m. For those of you who met her, you can probably imagine her response...yes, it was kinda like a very innocent "wouldn't you like to know...." Seriously though, that pic is the perfect example of the bonding that took place between so many of us. Really, it was incredible. Oh, and Jody, she is very interested in bringing her 6er to coupefest!

Jeff, congrats on the concours trophy! I was NOT surprised when they announced you. And there were many contenders too! hahaha

Lee, great photos!! I like it especially as a slide show, kinda gives it a timeline continuity. I hope to see everyone again next time, what a blast!! Joe

Layne took most of the driving pix, so he gets a lot of kudos (not to mention how he helped Bill Roberts and I out with wrenches (in my case, taking it away from me...:))

I thought you were worried about Layne going Postal? and you gave him wrenches? hahaha .....didn't realize you had difficulties, anything serious?

beautiful photos!! i'm going to have some really good looking desktop photos to cycle through now :D

i'm going to make sure i can attend next year!

Looks like you guys had a blast. I was drooling over the pics Lee, especially the Alpina's.

Hopefully next year!

Alex

Well we throughly enjoyed ourselves and are looking forward to next year!

Jeff, I really have to say thank you to you and Jackie for your assistance. Maybe next year we should try an do a "Mobile Traditions" type build of the e24 from available parts.:D

Not a problem Todd-

Thank you for the deal!!! I plan on doing to radiator and valve cover soon, so ill send it down to you in a few weeks i suppose.

It would be hilarious to get a shell and see how long it would take to get the car running with parts brought in from all over!!!

-Jeff

I may not have traveled as much as some of you (762 miles for the weekend) but I did burn my share of fuel at 9.3 mpg. :eyecrazy

Holy smokes Todd!!

well then you mustve done pretty well at the parts selling if you were covering fuel for that rig!

It was great to meet you todd and your family todd. Jackie and I got a kick out of Bella, she is a pistol man!!

-Jeff

Ume & I had a great time. It was especially great to actually meet people after chatting so much on the forums. Todd, thanks for the tools, I appreciate them very much. Steve, thanks for all your help. I too must add my thanks to Kai & Nat. Well Done!

Looks like fun. Come to Chicago next year, haha.

Here's one place to find everything SESF '08.:)

good call gman!

it was great to meet you, sorry we never really got to talk much, but your car looked...AWESOME!!!

also, where did you get those ///M shoes!!!???

-Jeff

It was great meeting and speaking with you all (too many great folks to name)! Saida and I had a blast. I learned so much this weekend I feel as if I can write a book on the E24. It felt like meeting long lost family members... I can't wait for the next Shakfest! Special thanks to Kai, Nat and the whole Sharkfest team. I would be remiss if I didn't thank my fellow National Capital Chapter BMWCCA members James, Anita, David and Doug for insisting that we make the trip. As they say "With a Shark its roadtrip time ALL the time!"

Cheers!

-Orlando

It was great meeting and speaking with you all (too many great folks to name)! Saida and I had a blast. I learned so much this weekend I feel as if I can write a book on the E24. It felt like meeting long lost family members... I can't wait for the next Shakfest! Special thanks to Kai, Nat and the whole Sharkfest team. I would be remiss if I didn't thank my fellow National Capital Chapter BMWCCA members James, Anita, David and Doug for insisting that we make the trip. As they say "With a Shark its roadtrip time ALL the time!"

Was definitely great meeting you too! When the crew gets together in the VA/PA/MD/DE area, you two should definitely come out!!!

We are thinking sometime in June i believe, a last little get together before Jackie and I head off to the land down under...

-Jeff

good call gman!

it was great to meet you, sorry we never really got to talk much, but your car looked...AWESOME!!!

also, where did you get those ///M shoes!!!???

-Jeff

Jeff,

The pleasure was all mine. Thanks for the compliment on the car. I bought the shoes from Adidas.com

It was great meeting and speaking with you all (too many great folks to name)! Saida and I had a blast. I learned so much this weekend I feel as if I can write a book on the E24. It felt like meeting long lost family members... I can't wait for the next Shakfest! Special thanks to Kai, Nat and the whole Sharkfest team. I would be remiss if I didn't thank my fellow National Capital Chapter BMWCCA members James, Anita, David and Doug for insisting that we make the trip. As they say "With a Shark its roadtrip time ALL the time!"

Cheers!

-Orlando

KingM6 you made it over. Welcome!

So were there any official numbers on how many of each flavor of 6er were there? There were alot more M's than I expected to see.

It was great meeting and speaking with you all (too many great folks to name)! Saida and I had a blast. I learned so much this weekend I feel as if I can write a book on the E24. It felt like meeting long lost family members... I can't wait for the next Shakfest! Special thanks to Kai, Nat and the whole Sharkfest team. I would be remiss if I didn't thank my fellow National Capital Chapter BMWCCA members James, Anita, David and Doug for insisting that we make the trip. As they say "With a Shark its roadtrip time ALL the time!"

Cheers!

-Orlando Mwahahaha, welcome to the Shark side. We'll see you on Sunday at Deutsche Marque. Should be fun........

lee

june

purcellville virginia

i think i may have a little get together/ going away party for jeff/jackie...
you in?

i think im going to get George and part of his krew to come down as well... we have a bunch of extra room at my parents new house so it is a rather ideal place for a get together/drive/bbq..and people can crash there for the night...

i'll even scout a good little country breakfast place for us! haha and possibly do some cooking since the last cooking i did was a hit... i guess haha

id love for you to be able to come!

i dont think seeing all you guys once a year is quite enough

let me know... i'll put up a post when i get a more secure date in mind... right now im saying early to mid june....i'll figure out more detailed information in the near future...

a few more..

This was my first year and I will definetly be going back. Awesome group of people and the event organizers really know how to pull it all together.

On to the pics. These pics were all taken with my little Kodak point and shoot

Started out on Friday @ Flow BMW for the group drive...

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@ The Vinyard (Shelton Vinyard - Wine Tasting and Tour)

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One of My Favorite Shots

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Who was the guy with all of the parts with the trailer/truck and tent? Anyone have his email?

Thanks Jeff B

That's Todd. He goes by Alpinacsi on here, you could send him a PM.

Great pics!!!

Here are mine, they arent very good, but hey i want to contribute. Jackie took some nice ones though!!

http://s43.photobucket.com/albums/e370/jbd5015/SESF%202008/

-Jeff

Jackie and I are down man, for sure. Looks like its going to be a great central location for the VA/MD/DE/WV crew for sure, just over 3 hours for me from central pa.

lee, you best make it...

-Jeff

That was me! The trailer is sitting inside waiting to be unloaded and parts put away. So, if you wanted something that you saw at SESF, it may be a few days before I can find anything.

Todd

That's about an hour's drive for me :alright

Joe M in WV

Hi Todd,

Trying to recall if we met as there were so many faces and names to put together. Meant to go see you after Steve H bought my Eagle F1's for the First Aid kit, but got carried away selling my own stuff particularly wipers which were in high demand. PM me if you would and can paypal you or whatever you'd like.

Oh, and glad that you are a regular out here as well.

Jeff B

travs25i, how are you able to load all those photos like that? Mine come up as thumbnails and only 5 at a clip?, Joe

Where does the first aid kit go exactly? I can't think of a place it would be made to fit, maybe just the glovebox? Mine still has its kit still sealed in the (now dilapidated) plastic film. So as a note to concours entrants, you should have your first aid kit re-sealed in plastic to be 100% original.

I have seen picture of them on the passenger side of the trunk with a facory mounting bracket that goes there and I have seen pictures of them under the non premium speaker pods. I do not know if one is more correct than the other:eyecrazy

I belive that they go in the passenger side of the trunk, behind the carpeted panel as Bert mentioned. I think the Idea is that the jack and wheel chock would go in the drivers side compartment, while the first aid kit would go in the passengers side. I could very well be wrong about this.

it goes on left side above jack on my 88. Little + symbol marks its location

I especially like joecautel's first two pics of the Friday run and the panarama of 77 cars! Hope to be able to attend next year with our recently completed project.

PM sent

travs25i, how are you able to load all those photos like that? Mine come up as thumbnails and only 5 at a clip?, Joe

They are all on my photobucket account. IMG tags are already embedded.

Above the jack on my 87 too.Little compartment with tabs.

oh jeez... i better plan on buying a ton of food hahah

im sure it will be BYOB... and if im buying the food, someone is getting me a 12er of yingling... ;) haha

no problemo...itll be straight from the brew state!!

-Jeff

word or upload to imageshack.us then copy and paste the "hotlink for forums 1"

How many photos do you have Andrew? Cant wait to see the ones from the drive at the top of the hill...

-Jeff

Where's my M5?:(

ummmm about that....

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i have some stuff... nothing that good... its hard to try and take pictures with a camera that requires alot of input to take an image while driving... i was focusing on tearing up the turns and keeping my car from stalling at idle... not to many shots...

For the euro's the first aid kit goes in the speaker pod compartment.

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I know you guys!

haha nice shot!

that was a funny moment...driving round the circle to catch up with people and STOP...oh yea...theres an awesome view right thur, better get some shots...then proceed to do 70-90mph to the vineyard...

-Jeff

Hey, I love 'em all. I take what I can get!


What's Jody doing with his arm around my girlfriend? Errr, I mean Jeff's wife?


I got home at 2am last night after about a 2 hour weather delay at RDU. Not bad otherwise. It was a great time. I don't know which was better, the people or the cars.
Lee needs to post of some of those 100's of pictures I took!

Good to see you jumped over here to BF.c as well jody!

It was good seeing you again, cant wait to see your 6er in person sometime soon i hope!!!

-Jeff

enjoy!
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scott

Hey dude I want a pic of the white car last row on the right with the roof rack! thanks ;) and the 6th car in third row red thanks :D

Thanks for the request, that car is mine!! It's a 80 633, the previous owner painted it about 12.5 years ago in a 96 Jaguar XJS color called Flamenca mica metallic red.:redspot I have had it about 2 years, love every minute of driving with it!! :D Here is a side profile picture as we were pulling into on of the spots on our Friday run, http://picasaweb.google.com/steve.blingham/20080427SESF20081/photo#5194117791126703154

Hey if anyone has a collection of Sharkfest photos, we'll be hosting them on the sesf website shortly. If you want yours included, please send CD's with your favorite few 100 or so (lol) to me. My address is:

Kai Xing
2005 NW 142nd Way
Pembroke Pines, FL 33028

I won't be able to credit each photo individually, but i will have a list of contributors somewhere on the page! Thanks in advance all!

Todd, you still have my brake calipers, e28 bra and fog lights I think... lol - forgot to get them back from you...

Todd, you still have my brake calipers, e28 bra and fog lights I think... lol - forgot to get them back from you...

Everything is in the trailer. I wish I could leave it all loaded until next year but someone needs to use the trailer next weekend. Let me know if I need to ship them somewhere or I can leave them stashed until next year. If someone needs them, I can ship them direct.

Todd

Excellent work everybody! :thumbup: :thumbup:

I've been reading here there and everywhere about how awesome this sharkfest was, and its great to see how much everybody enjoyed it and how it was everything and more you all hoped it would be. All the lead-up, preparation and anticipation everybody had seems to have paid of in spades!

I get excited enough as it is when I can pull four of these Sixers together for a run, so a lush green paddock with 57 or so all lined up would be unreal!!

Thanks everyone for all the excellent photographs, its great to see how it all came together, and there's a few faces in amongst the mix there that even I can recognise from here in the down under southeast hemisphere.

Regards,
Ellis.

I counted 80+ cars for the photo and a few more showed up after I stopped counting

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i have some stuff... nothing that good... its hard to try and take pictures with a camera that requires alot of input to take an image while driving... i was focusing on tearing up the turns and keeping my car from stalling at idle... not to many shots...

Great pic. Good time

it was a great time Dave, it was good to meet/drive/hang out with you

you better get a new ride or get yours fixed for next year/northeast coupe fest

Hey Guys/Gals, let's see Jeff D & Jackie, Dave, Joe, Andrew, Jody, Jeff B, Tony, Steve, Scott, Nat, Maggie, Kai, Anita, George, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. God I met a lot of cool people. It's very nice to be able to picture you all now. Anyone up for NWSF? C'mon, lets put 3000 miles on your cars and everybody come on out to the West Coast. It was great meeting everyone and had an outstanding time. Not a bad person in the group. I'll try to get pics up later this week, just haven't had time. We had some sun when I got back and since I didn't drive anything at SESF, except Anitas Alpina B10 (drool), I've been a little hard on the M6 lately but who wouldn't. Didn't realize how much I missed her. Thanks for everyones friendship and hospitality and I hope to see everyone again.
Regards,

Dwight

Dwight, Flying in from the left coast definately must be up there for the long distance award!! I'm glad we met and you're right about putting faces to the names. You know there's the rumor of the coupe fest northeast right? That's 2hrs from my backyard so you know I'll be there, don't think if I can swing it out west this year.....might have to bring a bigger bottle of Makers next yr!!

Thanks for the nice words to all of us mutual new friends. I wouldn't take mine x-country, but found 14 hours nothing, compared to screaming 5 and 7 year olds for 7 to the in-laws.

I trust my 6 completely to make the west coast and back, but it's a large commitment of vacation time. Pushing hard, single driver, 4 days? 1 day burn out recovery, 4 days sharkfest, 1 day recovery, roam around the coast for a couple days, 5-6 days home, 1-2 days recovery....that's about 3wks...mmm, still leaves me another 8 days of vacation....probably be costly in fuel....6000mi rd trip @ 23mpg= 260gal of fuel @ $4/gal (now)+$1043. then there's a couple bags of munchies, some cigarettes, some booze to put me to sleep at night, oh and a place to sleep at night....geez, this adds up fast! maybe I'll need a co-driver/partner...Don't get me started Dwight!!

It is real dedication to fly from WA cross country and not have a sixer available for SESF. But I think Tim Timmons from Sacramento, CA, drove by himself in his sixer cross country to SESF in 2006. Now that is real dedication, but then gas prices were about half of what they are now.

Hey, I can't blame anyone for not driving that distance. If I can make some good investments, and quit buying cars, maybe I could afford the time to drive across the country in the future. That's a lot of frickin miles. 5er Fest is in early June in Reno. I might take the M down for that since we have so much in common with the e28. It's about 10 hours from home. Wish you all could caravan down again. I doubt I can make it to North Atlantic Coupe Fest, or whatever it's called, that's during the heart of salmon season and I do have my priorities. Thanks again for a great time.
Regards,

Dwight

Well, if you are considering 5er Fest in Reno you might as well consider Pacific SharkFest somewhere near Paso Robles in Sep/Oct.

LOL - I hadn't noticed this had been stickied!

So...would be cool to see y'all at JeffandJackieFest. Not sure I can make it as there are Father's Day things planned. But I'll see...

yes people should come to jeffandjackiefest at my place the 14th of june..

Beautiful. I like the BMW sunshield on the last row.

Alex


I have no idea if anyone posted where to find one of these, but I have exhausted Google and eBay, did someone custom make this one???

im pretty sure it was a flag that he shut the ends of it in the doors to keep it from blowing away haha!

-Jeff