Camaro5 invites you to say thanks to Camaro assemblers and tour the Martinrea plant!
 

PLEASE NOTE - THIS EVENT IS ALSO OPEN TO ANYONE WORKING ON THE IMPALA LINE, ALL ENGINEERS, LINE MANAGERS OR ANYONE IN THE STAMPING PLANT.

ANYONE WHO HAS A 2010 CAMARO BUT IS NOT A MEMBER OF CAMARO5.COM IS WELCOME TO JOIN US!!! PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!!

FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME AT HyltonJ@aol.com IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS


I am pleased to announce that Camaro5 will be hosting a meet and greet with Oshawa Camaro Assembly workers on October 2nd (Friday). It is a way for Camaro owners and Camaro5 members to say "thanks" to the brothers and sisters who spend their days putting our beloved cars together.

I am also happy to announce that, although GM refused to allow us to tour the plant, Martinrea has graciously stepped up and will host a BBQ as well as give us a plant tour. You will get the opportunity to see first hand how the 4.5 link suspensions are built.

The final schedule of events is as follows:

Friday:

12:00 - 12:30 Hotel arrival
1:00 Depart Hotel for Oshawa cruise
2:00 Arrive at Jubille Pavillion
2:30 - 3:30 Speeches and presentation
3:30 - 4:30 Car signing and bench racing
4:30 - 5:00 Photoshoot near Lake Ontario (no IOM cars allowed) ;)
5:00 Return to hotel for dinner at hotel restaurant
8:00 - ??? Lounge party

Saturday:

10:00 Depart hotel
10:20 Arrive Martinrea
10:30 - 11:05 1st tour group
11:05 - 11:25 Plant BBQ lunch / car viewing
(we need to let their employees eat etc. b/c they only have 20 mins - we'll eat afterwards)
11:30 - 12:30 2nd tour group & BBQ lunch for us
~12:30 Group photo shoot
~1:00 Depart Martinrea

Here is the hotel info -

10-19 rooms confirmed $ 115.00 CDN/room/night

Holiday Inn Oshawa Whitby Conference Centre
1011 BLOOR STREET EAST
Oshawa, Ontario
L1H 7K6 CANADA
Phone: (905) 576-5101 ext. 6649
Fax: (905) 576-3296

www.hioshawa.ca



I will be arriving late on Thursday October 1st. All participants should arrive no later than noon on Friday October 2nd and count on staying over that night. I am currently negotiating Camaro5 exclusive parking which will include overnight security.

We will all be leaving from the hotel in the early afternoon as a large 2010 Camaro caravan to the reception, which will be held at The Jubillee Pavillion located at 55 Lakeview drive between 2:30 -4:30. The venue is only 2 minutes from the camaro plant. At the venue, finger foods will be served and a plaque presentation will be made to CAW Local 222 from Camaro5.

Following the presentation and speeches, we will all be moving to the parking lot where Camaro5 members will have the opportunity to have their cars, books, posters or whatever signed by those who built it.

After the meet and greet event has finished, Camaro5 members will then return to the hotel where we will have our own Camaro5/beer tasting/get to know each other party. Anyone from the plant is welcome to join us there!

On Saturday morning, we will be going to visit a Martinrea plant for a tour where we will see how the suspensions are built.


This will be your opportunity to meet Super60, 80Zedder, The Mole and a few other notables here on Camaro5. We estimate we will be feeding about 200-250 plant employees as well as anyone who will be attending. Financial contributions will be greatly appreciated. Those who would like to make a financial contribution can Paypal me at HyltonJ@aol.com.

In addition, I am asking all those who are happy with their cars to spend a moment and write a letter to the plant workers expressing how this car has brought you joy and happiness. Perhaps you would like to share some stories about the car. I will be collecting all these messages and creating binders for all plant employees as a keepsake of the occasion. All financial contributors will also be identified in the the binders to be presented to plant employees. Send your letters to HyltonJ@aol.com.

I would like at the MINIMUM to have at least one car of every color attend this event. Many of the plant workers never get to see the final product (believe it or not). They certainly do not see the cars with stripes or GFX on them so I need a show of hands of Camaro5 members who are willing to attend. Please identify your cars color if you plan on bringing it.

So please post if you are attending, if you would like to make a financial contribution, if you are going to write a letter to the employees or a combination of all 3!

I know this is a weekday but I hope to see as many of you as possible come out and say thanks to the men and women who have had a hell of a year and despite all the bad news, have done an outstanding job with our cars! Hope to see as many of you as possible.

Hylton Jorssen


Cars attending:

Trent RJT SS *
cKerensky RJT LT *
josh1147 VR SS *
JAREDCAN SIM SS *
Hylton SIM SS *
tony_c SIM SS *
camarorick SIM SS *
Oshawa city counsellor Maryanne Sholdra RY SS *
Duane RY SS *
The Honorable John Gray, Mayor of Oshawa IOM SS *
Angelina IOM SS *
trsc1970 IOM SS *
Banshee IOM SS *
TJ91 IOM LT *
mbauer IOM SS
Kenney. IOM SS *
Squalo IOM SS *
Ericcamaro IOM SS
CanadianCamaro IOM SS *
2010CAMAROJ IOM SS *
RickRay CGM LT *
jxmot CGM SS *
376camaro BLK SS *
heinzd01 BLK SS *
19K3SS BLK SS *
Camaro99 BLK SS *
THUMPER20X BLK SS *
stefan5464 BLK LT *
DDustiNN ABM SS *
Riderover40 ABM SS
luckynuts ABM SS *
white 2ss/rs WHT SS *
RetroDude IBM SS *
Main IBM LT *
T's_1st_Camaro IBM LT
HINEY1 Bumblebee *
Ultimate_Bumblebee Transformer edition LT


Car-less attendees:

DGthe3 *
y2jonkurtz@@yahoo.ca
Camarodriver
Anna*


As for the "special" parking - yes we have our "Camaro5 & friends parking only". It is the large square section of the parking lot at the far left of the picture below (where bus is).

We have security for Thursday and Friday night between 9:00pm and 6:00am. At least one security guard will be present all night watching our "children". :D.

http://www.camaro5.com/forums/attach...1&d=1253103316

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR EVENT SPONSORS:

Members

19K3SS
40years
Abygale
Angelina
CajunCamaroChic
Camarorick
CanadianCamaro
DDustiNN
Heinz01
Hylton
josh1147
jxmot
Lord Grey
Main
"prima"Donna (& Keith)
Retrodude
stefan5464
SWHCPA
tjbusa
Tran
trm0002
Trsc1970

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Ouch, sure wish I was closer! :D Will definitely write a letter and chip in some $$ though :)

GREAT IDEA!!!

Hylton, the cars will be outside, in the back compound, gated off from what my understanding is, word is they wont allow anything to enter due to possible paint contamination.

It's not like they have H1N1, lol.

J/K :D

who says i dont have infectious disease? you wont wanna meet me lol

lol sorry

Okay, cool!

I'm looking forward to meeting all of you and your 2010's :thumbup: If any of you do attend and have one of my Prints/Lithos please make sure you show it off with your Camaros. Thanks Hylton :thumbsup:

Ya, they wash their hands. :laugh:

Two of three for me, not attending. Great idea, they built me an beauty.

can't be there; but, will do something by 9/10/09. great idea and the Oshawa peeps are top drawer.

My father and I will definately be attending if it is on September 25th and I would like to make a contribution.

Count Waldo in. :D Definitely looking forward to this.

Will try and make it! Unfortunately I dont have my camaro yet :( hope I'm still welcome to join!

Of course you are. :D Bring your OrderWORKBENCH.:paddle:


j/k ;)

:laughabove:

i would love to attend but we are on extreme oppisites of the map, i am as far as you can go to the south without having to swim....pascagoula ms.,however, i may be able to contribute financially if the $$ allows at the time,

would love to go but not close enough

Right on! :thumbsup:

Unfortunately it's too far for me. (40 hours!) I will take the time to write the employees a thank you letter because they did a hell of a job on this mean machine!

Don't count on me right now.... But I am considering the trip, it's only 600 miles from chicago. :headbang5thgen:

2010 Camaro Owner's - I'd say the folks working @ the Oshawa Camaro Plant owe Y'all a big thanks for buying your Camaro's and giving them a job! :thumbsup:

Later . . . . . .
6 Shooter

You can be sure that i will personally shake each of the Camaro owners hand's and say " Thank You " . We are acutely aware of the fact they are buying our cars ! and appreciate the fact this in turn keeps us working. We are not blind to this !!!

If I was a bit closer I would come for sure man! Send all my love to the Oshawa guys! Also is the sneak peek one of the greens, perchance?

can we visit the plant?

Yes. Thank you for building me a mean machine. I would like to go but its about 40 HRS. I will do the other two though :wave:.

Personally, I don't think anyone at the Oshawa plant owes me anything. The way I look at it.... I'm lucky to have a great job that enables me to buy a car made by people that appreciate their job as much as I do mine. Let's face it, we are connected. Not just because of our new Camaros. It's because no matter what kind of job we have there is someone that depends upon us to do it with pride and passion. And in turn we depend upon others to do theirs.

Appreciation and heartfelt thanks to the folks at Oshawa, you rock! :bow:

Sounds like fun, but since I'm stuck in 1100 hell doesn't look like I'll have my car by then either. Of course if you guys could pull some strings and get her built and ready for delivery I'd be happy to fly up, join in the celebration and drive her home over the week-end. Deal? :-)

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Hi guys it's andrew -

I will be coming for sure as I live in Peterborough which is only 45 minutes away from the oshawa plant. I'll be bringing my Yellow with Black Stripe Camaro!

Can't wait

Andew:chevy:

I'll be there!!!

That's quite nice of you Hylton to arrange something like this. Maybe I'll have my Camaro by then, and take my first road trip to Canada.

It's been a long time for me to see the inside of an auto factory, but years ago they used to have the openhouses for Oldsmobile here.

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I would love to go but I don't have a passport! As a family we travel the US in our motorhome and we have been to many state and national parks, so we never had the need for a passport. I doubt I could get one that quick. I would love to write a letter and send a donation!

:bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow:

AMEN TO THAT!!!!...super60 and the Mole already know how I feel and I have thanked them both profusely...

:clap: They are my "CAMARO HEROES"...:clap:

I totally agree, and super60 has gotten numerous alcolades, from me via PM's, about what he's doing and the ENTIRE CAMARO TEAM! :thumbsup: :clap: :canada:

I'm more than likely going to attend, once I confirm my schedule at work.

Hylton,
Great idea! I'm sure it takes a great deal to put something together like this. I would love to attend but it would be helpful to firm up a date in order to make plans. Do you have an idea when you may be able to publish a firm date?? Thanks!!

280 miles for me..only 14 of those not on the 401 e-way.

I am in...

Anyone from the Detroit area want to carpool, drop me a PM.

I would like to be there to say hello and thanks for doing a great job on my car and all the new Camaros. I am too busy and too far away, so hello and thanks Oshawa. You all rock!!!

I just sent a letter to Hylton's address. This is a great opportunity to express a huge thank you to these people. Thank you Hylton for letting us do this.

:clap:Definitly in for this, Hylton, Scott, Frank, Mike, any of you or anyone else like to take me and my crutches there? I will be free for show but not very mobile, wont be able to bring my car their either :( unless i bring it on a flat bed:popcorn: Anyone have a truck and a trailer? :wave:
Anyways if anyone can please bring me, it will be greatly appreiciated!