First ever 9:14 breakfast in MI!

Curvie Roadlover · 06:30 PM

We've taken a queue from our west coast bretheren. The 914 Southeast Michigan Owners Group (SMOG) will hold our first ever 9:14 (AM) breakfast at the "Little Daddy's" restaurant in Taylor MI on March 22nd. It's at 22250 Eureka Rd. less than a mile from I-75. Most likely it's not gonna be 914 drivin' weather, but it's about the people too! E-mail me if you need directions.

bowlsby · 02-17-2003, 09:03 PM

What a great idea Curvie...wish we could be there to join the fun...

DR. Z · 02-18-2003, 05:06 PM

My regrets Curvie, I'm in D.C. that weekend. Have a cholesterol bolus for me, eh?

BS Chairman · 02-19-2003, 05:04 PM

Hey, Curive I'll be there for sure with a empty belly

and some stories too!

Barber Dave · Barber Dave's Garage

They better serve grits. Dave

Flormat · Flormat's Garage

Are 928 owners who are looking in to adding a 914 to the stable welcome?

Curvie Roadlover · 03-13-2003, 01:44 PM

Hey, It's a public place. We can't control who they let in. Just kidding. By all means, show up and you'll be treated to the company of some of the finest car enthusiests the area has to offer. There will be no better place, probably in the world, that day, to learn about the 914.
Hope to see you there.
Tom

Barber Dave · Barber Dave's Garage

Flormat: Breakfast is on me. Black Tie of course!!!!!
Dave

Thomas J Bliznik · 03-14-2003, 04:38 AM

Hey Barber,
Come on down, we love that Ohio money.
Dave do you know how a Michigander finds Ohio State University??
We go South till be smell it!
Turn East till we step in it!
Can't wait till next year to take away that joy from you guys.
A depressed Michigander. (thats football talk guys)

Barber Dave · Barber Dave's Garage

Tom: That was supose to be how we find U.of M. and MIch.
State. Let's get it right! Dave

Potter · 03-17-2003, 08:27 AM

OK, I hate to be a Cliff Clavin here (reference to the sitcom Cheers), but do you all know WHY there is a strong rivaly between MI and OH?? I do. And it is an interesting story.

If even one person indicates interest I will share my info........if not, you may all wallow in your "educational" mediocrity (no doubt attained at Ohio State with an open enrollment policy..........)

Eh eh eh.

Potter (Spartan through and through.......)

Flormat · Flormat's Garage

Is everyone dragging along thier significant others?

BS Chairman · 03-17-2003, 10:21 AM

Flormat, most likely not this event. However, she is more than welcome to be part of our First 914 Breakfast. If she wants to come bring her. Now as driving events go most wifes go with. We try to make them part of our group always.

Flormat could you send me your home e-mail off list. Thanks

Curvie Roadlover · 03-17-2003, 10:54 AM

OK Potter, let's have it. (the reason for the rivalry)

Curvie Roadlover · 03-17-2003, 10:55 AM

Does it have anything to do with mesopotamia, or beer, Cliff?

Potter · 03-17-2003, 11:11 AM

Man, I thought nobody was EVER gunna ask. I was startin' to feel like the dumb kid in the back of the room when the teacher finally asks a question to which I know the answer and I'm waggin' my hand in the air so hard it almost flies off..but she does not see me.....cough cough.......but I digress

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Toledo, Michigan first appeared on a map in 1835. The village of Toledo and a 450-square-mile strip of land along the Michigan/Ohio border became known as the "Toledo Strip", claimed by the state of Ohio and the Michigan Territory.

Various surveys resulted in a 50-year dispute over the Toledo Strip, which was only five miles wide at the Indiana border and eight miles wide at Lake Erie. Although it has been reported that no shots were fired, Ohio and Michigan militia units were sent to the Toledo Strip between 1835 and 1837. But luck was on Ohio's side. At the time, the Compromise of 1820 allowed the admission of one slave state for one free state. Michigan and Missouri were to be admitted as states, but only when Michigan surrendered the Toledo Strip to Ohio. The reason? Probably because a Presidential election was coming up. State of Ohio residents could vote, while Michigan Territory residents could not.

While the Michigan Territory originally vowed to fight the surrender, it realized the hopelessness of the contest, and on December 14, 1836, officially conceded the Toledo Strip to Ohio. In return, the new state of Michigan was given the remainder of the unorganized Upper Peninsula by Congress. Toledo became Toledo, Ohio, and victorious Ohio governor Robert Lucas was honored with the name Lucas County, the eastern portion of the Toledo Strip.

The rivalry initiated by this conflict has been perpetuated most notably in college athletics.

Pass me another beer, Norm. Admit it, you are impressed........

Curvie Roadlover · 03-17-2003, 11:15 AM

I'm disappointed. I was hoping for a Mesopotamian connection.

Potter · 03-17-2003, 11:32 AM

Ummmm, I think one of the soldiers involved once had a childhood friend that lived next to a guy who met a dentist on a train who read somewhere that a fight ensued after a guy stated that he once made a "mess on Arcadia" (presumably the National Park in Maine) which somebody nearby mistakenly heard as "Mesopotamia" and became offended for unknown reasons and started punching. Does that help???

Dave at Pelican Parts · Dave at Pelican Parts's Garage

Fighting over Toledo? Heck, I always figured Toledo was part of Ohio because Michigan won!!

--DD (Born and raised in east-central IL, but smart enough to move to CA when I graduated college!!)

Thomas J Bliznik · 03-17-2003, 01:12 PM

Man I love you guys.
I am amazed how much Potter & Curvie know about our great state of MI & that other piece of real estate south of us. We got the best deal with the Upper Peninsula (Yoopers). It's the last great frontier of wilderness. Home of Mich Tech., right up there with U of M & Mich State. The last time I was there in early June they had snow on the side of the mountain at copper harbor. I was at the logging slide at Lake Superior watching "Bald Eagles" fishing the shore line for lake Trout. I guarentee they don't have many 914's up there, just snowmobiles & 4x4's.
Tom Bliznik, HIPO-2L - Yellow