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Re: I know all the original members are gone....
« Reply #15 on: October 14, 2017, 06:10:55 am »
Quote from: Raydar on October 13, 2017, 12:47:10 pm
I was led to the GFC by an ad in the Atlanta newspaper under "Clubs".

Are there still such ads?
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Re: I know all the original members are gone....
« Reply #16 on: October 14, 2017, 08:01:48 am »
Anyone still here who was on the first RFTH?
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Re: I know all the original members are gone....
« Reply #17 on: October 14, 2017, 09:10:00 am »
Since Roger hasn't chimed in, I'll say that I think he was present in Helen, Ga. for the first run. 
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Re: I know all the original members are gone....
« Reply #18 on: October 14, 2017, 08:06:32 pm »
Quote from: Fierofool on October 14, 2017, 09:10:00 am
Since Roger hasn't chimed in, I'll say that I think he was present in Helen, Ga. for the first run.
I was approached in Helen, GA by 4 GAFC members about 2 weeks after the first RFTH. I've been a casualty member ever since.
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Re: I know all the original members are gone....
« Reply #19 on: January 06, 2018, 08:22:25 pm »
Just figuring this out.  22 years for RFTH, which started in 1997.  So, the first RFTH was in 1995...2 years before the club started.  The club had members, in 1995?
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Re: I know all the original members are gone....
« Reply #20 on: January 06, 2018, 08:49:30 pm »
RFTH started with a bunch of Florida people looking for something more than what Florida had to offer.  Frank Martin (Dragon on PFF) and some others got together, came up to the Helen, Ga. area and I believe they went on to drive The Tail of The Dragon.  That was before our club was formed. 

RFTH was hosted by Space Coast Fieros and the Alabama Fiero Club prior to turning it over to Georgia. 

Quoted from our HISTORY section to the left:

Our club's most outstanding organized event is its annual "Run For The Hills" weekend held on the third weekend of September.  The idea originated in 1995 at the Gulf Coast Fiero Weekend, when a group of Florida Fiero owners decided to go in search of something higher than a sand dune.  For the first few years the event sponsorship rotated between the Alabama, Space Coast, and Georgia Fiero clubs.  Eventually, the event was offered to the Georgia Fiero Club as its sole host and sponsor. 
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Re: I know all the original members are gone....
« Reply #21 on: January 06, 2018, 08:56:41 pm »
If the club was formed in '97, but Roger was approached by 4 GFC members in '95, and he wasn't a member until later, the math doesn't work.
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Re: I know all the original members are gone....
« Reply #22 on: January 06, 2018, 11:24:14 pm »
Roger will have to answer that, but my guess is that maybe Ramon and someone else that later was a part of our club may have been there, thus that reference.  I think Ramon, maybe Chuck Willyard or Paul or others may have known the Florida people from the Daytona shows. 
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Re: I know all the original members are gone....
« Reply #23 on: January 07, 2018, 08:31:52 am »
Quote from: Fierofool on January 06, 2018, 08:49:30 pm
RFTH started with a bunch of Florida people looking for something more than what Florida had to offer.  Frank Martin (Dragon on PFF) and some others got together, came up to the Helen, Ga. area and I believe they went on to drive The Tail of The Dragon.  That was before our club was formed. 

RFTH was hosted by Space Coast Fieros and the Alabama Fiero Club prior to turning it over to Georgia. 

Quoted from our HISTORY section to the left:

Our club's most outstanding organized event is its annual "Run For The Hills" weekend held on the third weekend of September.  The idea originated in 1995 at the Gulf Coast Fiero Weekend, when a group of Florida Fiero owners decided to go in search of something higher than a sand dune.  For the first few years the event sponsorship rotated between the Alabama, Space Coast, and Georgia Fiero clubs.  Eventually, the event was offered to the Georgia Fiero Club as its sole host and sponsor.
The years may be backward. I joined in '97. I still remember that. Thought those 4 guys were going to kick my arse up in Helen. Funny story. It must've looked like something from a wild west shootout.
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Re: I know all the original members are gone....
« Reply #24 on: January 08, 2018, 10:37:20 am »
Getting things organized for the 2018 RFTH and looking in my archives, the earliest date I found on the event tshirts was for the 3rd Annual RFTH in 1998.  That would put #1 as having occurred in 1996 unless there was a gap where they didn't do one.   
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Re: I know all the original members are gone....
« Reply #25 on: January 08, 2018, 06:28:15 pm »
Someone had previously posted that 2017 was the 22nd consecutive year for RFTH.  The math works that way.
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Re: I know all the original members are gone....
« Reply #26 on: January 08, 2018, 11:36:37 pm »
There could have been a gap between years 1 & 2 or 2 & 3.
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Re: I know all the original members are gone....
« Reply #27 on: January 08, 2018, 11:53:48 pm »
If I'm not mistaken, Alabama hosted the first RFTH.
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