[LeMans335xiE90]

Originally Posted by coldasicex5

my dinner after the meet.. all that walking around made me hungry! haha

fucking guy had a dinner for 2 entree and appetizer all by himself

[Rallyenick]

Originally Posted by SMOKE EM IF U GOT EM!!

Dear Mr. Nick "cruzin650/rallyenick" Soldo,
The same way i feel the show was lackluster, you feel it was ringlin bros esque, where as it was the greatest show on earth. Never asked for you to put impressing me on your "to do list". I know you for a very long time Nick, but you wouldnt remember someone like me or my family, or probably close to the half a dozen customers we had sent to you. I know you from back in the day when you used to drive a black dodge magnum, on chrome 20s might i add, way back before youre head got soo big it didnt fit in that lame bucket hat you were walking around in yesterday. Back when you had the little desk in the sales office on northern blvd. Way before your "salesman of the year" bonuses clouded your vision on how exactly you got to that position of power, and who really put you there. Back when you valued your customers and what it meant to sell them a car, and not just making them another number on your quarterly reports.

Again nothing i said was a personal attack, but taking your comments into consideration, and your remarks it seems you did take a little personal. The cars at the show were amazing. Had nothing to say about them. I was actually talking about the show itself. As far as the music, youre joking right? Its seemed like some salesman's son got the break of a lifetime when he got called up to the major leagues performing on your makeshift stage. As far as the food and raffles good job, but Im sure all the cars you had on display for sale, apparell you sold and new customers you gained made up for it and then some. So...."IMHO".......you should be lessed concerned about taking peoples opinions on public forums personal and start worrying about customer service, and regaining loyal customers confidence back in you.

Best regards and much continued success Nick
Smoke

*Once again this is nothing personal to anyone on this forum, just a reply back to Mr Soldos's comments about my opinion on the show. I do not wish to get into a back and forth tennis match about whos right and wrong*


And to everyone else who participated in the show, wether working for rallye or just entering their cars, great job on displaying some amazing cars.

Hey Smoke,

First off, apologies to the forum for the multiple screen name confusion. My laptop at home had me logged on as crusin 650. I gotta defend my show and the people who support it. Too much heart is involved to ignore your critical post.

NOBODY at Rallye got paid one DIME for their participation in the show....all volunteer....so YES, it's a little personal. I support those who support our show. We wanted as much display space for show cars as possible so we displayed only 5 Rallye cars for sale to make room for 125 show cars. Hardly a business related decision as was our decision to keep the showroom closed for business that day.

As far as my business goes, if you and your family were clients of mine in the past and no longer are then I may have "dropped the ball". I'm pretty good at what I do but I'm far from perfect.

I'll ignore your references to anybody's kids or anything as trivial as my hat......I'm guessing you simply used bad judgement in going that direction.

You OBVIOUSLY know me but right now I only know you as "Smoke". Drop by and say hi one day. We'll go across the street and have a Slurpee and maybe we can clear the air....lol

This show is put on with only the best intentions to the BMW community and a lot of good people make it a success. It's not exclusive to Rallye customers and we charge no fees to anyone including our vendors. I would be less than honorable if I did not defend my show, my people's hard work what I see as a "win-win" for BMW enthusiasts.

..............and I like my hat!

[LeMans335xiE90]

Originally Posted by Derek@MAC Auto Couture

SICK SICK SICK PICS!!




THAT.WAS.DISGUSTING.

no bush on the strawberries!

[LeMans335xiE90]

Originally Posted by Rallyenick

Hey Smoke,

First off, apologies to the forum for the multiple screen name confusion. My laptop at home had me logged on as crusin 650. I gotta defend my show and the people who support it. Too much heart is involved to ignore your critical post.

NOBODY at Rallye got paid one DIME for their participation in the show....all volunteer....so YES, it's a little personal. I support those who support our show. We wanted as much display space for show cars as possible so we displayed only 5 Rallye cars for sale to make room for 125 show cars. Hardly a business related decision as was our decision to keep the showroom closed for business that day.

As far as my business goes, if you and your family were clients of mine in the past and no longer are then I may have "dropped the ball". I'm pretty good at what I do but I'm far from perfect.

I'll ignore your references to anybody's kids or anything as trivial as my hat......I'm guessing you simply used bad judgement in going that direction.

You OBVIOUSLY know me but right now I only know you as "Smoke". Drop by and say hi one day. We'll go across the street and have a Slurpee and maybe we can clear the air....lol

This show is put on with only the best intentions to the BMW community and a lot of good people make it a success. It's not exclusive to Rallye customers and we charge no fees to anyone including our vendors. I would be less than honorable if I did not defend my show, my people's hard work what I see as a "win-win" for BMW enthusiasts.

..............and I like my hat!

Nick thanks again for having us! Don't that the comments of one person to heart everyone I spoke to that attended had a blast!!

I already cant wait for the 2012 show!

[LeMans335xiE90]

Originally Posted by coldasicex5

it was delicious.. btw.. never let nick dare me to do ANYTHING at a bmw event ever again

what i say?

[Bobby_LeMans]

Cant we all just get along....



















and have a Omelette station station next year...lolz

[Rallyenick]

Originally Posted by phozenstone

i wasn't criticizing anyone's car, just saying it was more a meet than anything. I guess i just had my hopes up after seeing pics of Bimmerfest in the photo section and also the great turnout at the Bear Mountain meet. Like I said before, there were very nice cars there yesterday nonetheless. The green M3 was a beauty...surprised there aren't pics of that beast on the forum in a proper photoshoot..or maybe i just missed em.

Cool. Come down earlier next year and enjoy the show. We'd love to have you.

Originally Posted by Rallyenick

This show is put on with only the best intentions to the BMW community and a lot of good people make it a success. It's not exclusive to Rallye customers and we charge no fees to anyone including our vendors. I would be less than honorable if I did not defend my show, my people's hard work what I see as a "win-win" for BMW enthusiasts.

I vote we move on with the nonsense and get back to the pictures.

This show was 100% DYNAMITE. An awesome show that didn't cost anyone (excluding the hosts with the mosts of course!) a dime. Great times, food, music, crowd and cars. I enjoyed every minute thoroughly as did everyone I spoke to and came with. Do you know what this negativity does? It makes the people who consider throwing these shows FOR US the enthusiasts think twice about doing so. I have nothing but appreciation-THANKS SO VERY MUCH AGAIN to Nick, George, and all the folks over at Rallye BMW.

Now- POST THOSE PICS!!!

[Rallyenick]

Originally Posted by LeMans335xiE90

Nick thanks again for having us! Don't that the comments of one person to heart everyone I spoke to that attended had a blast!!

I already cant wait for the 2012 show!

Thank you. George and I put a lot of heart into this event and it would be less than human to not feel the need to defend every part of it. We are having a meeting about the 2012 show tomorrow that definitely includes more classes of trophies including SUV's and an original vintage class.

[Bobby_LeMans]

Bimmerstock, bimmerstock, BIMMERSTOCK?!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Bobby_LeMans

Bimmerstock, bimmerstock, BIMMERSTOCK?!!!!!!!

HELL YEAH!!

[LeMans335xiE90]

Originally Posted by Rallyenick

Thank you. George and I put a lot of heart into this event and it would be less than human to not feel the need to defend every part of it. We are having a meeting about the 2012 show tomorrow that definitely includes more classes of trophies including SUV's and an original vintage class.

[Ph0zenstone]

Originally Posted by Rallyenick

Cool. Come down earlier next year and enjoy the show. We'd love to have you.

i definately will check it out again next year...hopefully better weather this time around. I will definately make it earlier too next time! thnks again for setting all this up...very rare to see someone setting a show up and even more rare to be coming from a dealership. I just hope no one was there taking down vins and voiding warranties haha jk

[Joe @ Martino Auto Concepts]

[slalomfever]

agreed on the 2 different classed 4dr sedan and SUV/ SAV. I know there was at least 5 SUV/ SAV's that registered but due to the weather, they were a "no-show". Maybe, we can also have a women's class if we get more participants.

lets all end the criticism and personal attacks. Bottom line is, it was fun and successful. See you next year!!!

[Rallyenick]

Originally Posted by phozenstone

i definately will check it out again next year...hopefully better weather this time around. I will definately make it earlier too next time! thnks again for setting all this up...very rare to see someone setting a show up and even more rare to be coming from a dealership. I just hope no one was there taking down vins and voiding warranties haha jk

Just Joe's car.....ha-ha

[Joe @ Martino Auto Concepts]

Originally Posted by Rallyenick

Just Joe's car.....ha-ha

F@#k warranties!!!!

[sA x sKy]

Where them pics be @?? I know I wasn't the only one with a dSLR at the show..

[D335NUTZ]

No pics of my car

[Craig@SupremePower]

Originally Posted by Joe@MartinoAutoConcepts

F@#k warranties!!!!

[Point N Shoot]

I'm at work, still got to finish a few shoots, then ill start mine soon.. not sure how soon that is..