Originally Posted by Klasse Act

I'm new to this forum via my recently acquired Fit, but I've been apart of www.contour.org for the past 10 years. I've been organizing the running of the Dragon since 2003 and its grown nicely over the years, last year we had 17 cars from 6 states. Most of us have moved on from the Contour that brought us together, but have established friendships over the years that don't need a certain type of car to maintain, ofcoarse The types of people are as diverse as the cars that we've had down there, everything from a Mini Cooper to Cherokee SRT8, Fiero GT to MS3, S2000 to a Saab 9-3 and everything inbetween. I think we had every drivetrain possible and just about every engine number too, outside of a V12 or V10...but who knows what'll come along this year.

We have no "cliques" either, just good car guys and gals, that's all and its a relatively cheap trip, biggest expense for most of us gas getting there. From the metro Detroit and Chicagoland area its about a 9-10 hr trip but I can tell you this, the road is like nothing you've ever driven, even racetracks don't have the typs of turns they've got down there. Then there's the scenery....AWESOME!

Information can be found here about the road itself www.tailofthedragon.com and you can google the Cherahola Skyway as well, this is the road we take to get to the Dragon, a 57 mile ride through the mountains of Tennessee with elevation going up to one mile high and 9% grades at certain parts of it, great roads, great views and great times! The cabins we stay in are here www.caneycreekvillage.com and run by the nicest lady ever, Dixie, southern hospitality at its finest. We get a group rate and the thing about this cabin complex is its only 3.5 miles from the start of the Cherahola Skyway, thus making it very easy to get to and make our 140 mile round trip on for the days fun! Afterwards we get dinner from one of the local small town restaraunts and head back to the cabins for talk around the campfire to discuss our days events...and then go it again the next day.

We've got a poll for this run set up over on the Contour forum, addy at the top of this page, so if your interested in doing this, we'd love to have you along for the ride! This run is well organized, by me and I'm 40 FWIW and I've been doing this since 2003, we have a good time w/o any "fun governors" but we don't accept any "clowns" out there with us either, its in your best interest as well as the welfare of others not to push it too hard out there, its a public road afterall but rest assured, you'll have ALOT of fun without needing to push your car 10/10th of the way and honestly you wouldn't want to anyways

SO, LET ME PERSONALLY INVITE YOU GUYS AND GALS FROM FITFREAKS TO JOIN US OUT ON THE DRAGON THIS YEAR

BTW, don't worry about knowing anyone either, most of us see each other once a year anyways, but being all car enthusists, there are NO strangers among us anyways!!!

Originally Posted by Bluflu

that would be great! but im trying to focus on local meets and hopefully expand!

Originally Posted by Klasse Act

Oh I know, its a long drive and for something like that you'd have to spend some bucks and time, both things are usually in short supply nowadays