Perhaps a Westcoast or Canada West Thread has been started before, but I can't find it after a short search. BCRotary was a prior attempt. There is now Westcoastrotary.com, but looking at it does not reveal the highly active scene here. We have a chat, however, that has over 60,000 posts in the last two years. I am hoping some of the activity could spill out to the Canadian scene more broadly. And that is the purpose of starting this thread.

 

The loosely associated westcoastrotary.com group of owners is largely "BC Lower Mainland" based although we have participants from the interior and Alberta. The group had a very successful Sevens Day gathering in 2015 which revealed a good number of owners and a need for interaction. Our 2016 Seven's Day was also successful despite its more spontaneous organization, and a terrific rainstorm. Pictures of both those meets have been posted elsewhere in the Canadian Forum.

 

Here are some random shots from meets and mini-meets over the last two years.

 

The pictures above reveal the somewhat "grassroots" nature of our group. We actually have a wide range of participants, from long-time owners of low mileage Canadian spec LHD cars to all manner of built, unbuilt and to-be-built RHD imports. A quick review of my amateur snaps from the last year or so identifies about 45 individual FD locally, although I am certain there are dozens more. We frequently spot cars unfamiliar to our group.

 

Here are some more shots from the Westcoast. Several shots taken at Mission Raceway as well.

 

Rocket bunny originally an ontario car...nice pics

 

This shot was at one of the last full scale meetings at "Byrne Road" (aka "Market Crossing"). Meets on Thursday nights had grown to as many as 800 regular participants. But the mall owners moved to shut it down at the start of last summer. These meets were tremendous grassroots level gatherings with "any and all" cars welcomed. A troop of super built hummers was one of the last highlights. The result was a partially lost summer with bands of tuners rooming the streets looking for a replacement, and being shooed away by disinterested mall owners.

 

A break in the weather allowed an impromptu mini-meet at Metrotown. Great acoustics. Nice examples of local USDM, "CanadaDM" and 99 JDM (mine).

 

I like that

 

I'll join you soon this year - just have to get the cobwebs out of the lhd Canadian FD I just picked up.

 

Great to hear another LHD is in our midst. Let us know what parts you might need.

 

Tell us about the LHD you bought! Any FD is a find, but a LHD is usually like finding a buried treasure

 

Lets see if we can put together a group for a cross border touge down I-5.....

 

So far, its an early build 1993, non runner at the moment, but that looks mainly due to electrical. 170k km, red, touring, mt, fairly stock with a full stainless ex and downpipe, newish looking megan coil overs, brand new (not even bedded in) brakes all around. Body is about 6/10 right now.

 

We want pics

 

She's not much of a looker right now, and this is the clean side! Good from afar but far from good.

 

Looks great regardless. A good preservation project car with big reward for your efforts to come no doubt.


Precision Dent Repair did a great job working out the collected little dings on my car. Eight hours work for $800. Panels looked "showroom" when they were done. Well worth it.


When the times comes, perhaps we can do a group buy ding-out session.

 

Group buy of three body kits through Shine arrived today. Great excitement to see how these builds go. Target completion "Seven's Day").

 

Despite the municipalities going nuts with salt tonight in anticipation of possibly four days of snow, we pulled off a flash mini-meet to get out on a minus 5C night and touge by the light of the moon.


We hung out at Ironwood for an hour then roared out through "the tunnel" to Montana's at the new mall in Tsawassen.

 

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=AgU8oBjVznk

 

Wow! I didn't know we have this many FD running around in lower mainland where do you guys usually go for meets?(since Market crossing have been shut down now)

 

yea haven't seen many honestly, seen one in richmond a blue one a year or so back

 

There is about 30 FD in our chat. My guess there is just as many that are not. Stay tuned for flash meets. Follow "non-revscene meets" on Revscene.

 

Definitely will do! (I hope it will be okay to show up with something other than Rotray powered cars haha)

 

There were at least a few 7 guys there in Daily driver's, myself included. Seems to be a strong rotary presence in lower mainland.