Quote Originally Posted by Psycho
Where did everyone use to meet up at? I heard BP didn't get started until around '05-ish
We started out meeting up at Toys-R-Us at the Mall of GA. Used to meet every single Saturday night. And, holy shiit, we had at least 150 cars every time. There was never any fear of drama or fights or any of the crap that drives a lot of us to stay away. Even the police used to park there and get out and hang out for a while. Someone on here has pics of a couple of Buford policemen talking to folks.

After a while, Toys-R-Us management, for some reason, got tired of the crowd and let us know that we couldn't come out there anymore. We then went to the Kohl's parking lot off 316 in front of what is now Wal Mart. It wasn't quite as packed, but it was a guaranteed 100 cars per Saturday night. That lasted about 3 months until some jackass trailered out a run-about car and started doing donuts in the parking lot. That and a few unwanteds started showing up.

I then got in touch with a shop on Bufurd Hwy down from Pleasant Hill called Burrell's. We started meeting in his lot. It got packed to the hilt. We even worked on Jeff T.'s car there for a few weekends. Mr. Burrell grilled burgers and hot dogs every Saturday night. At his expense. We had to supply the Cokes. Awesome dude. He soold the shop and we had to move on.

That's when we went a mile or so down Buford Hwy to Hybrid Motorsports. That little lot held more cars than you'd think. That lasted for a few months as well.

A couple of local shops, like (the one Brooks worked for for a minute?) held a monthly meet at their shop, but pretty much after the Hybrid meets broke down, everyone pretty much went their own ways. People started coming to meets with "something to prove" and chips on their shoulders and the regulars said fucc it and moved on.

To my knowledge, that is the history of the (IA) meets from 2000 til around 2003. I say IA in quotes because most of them were NOT actual IA meets but consisted of about 85% members. Later, QD.