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The Local Subaru Meets Series showcases some of the Subaru meets running all across America. We head to the Tri-State Area and talk to Vinny (Gatchaman on NASIOC) to get some information on the Hudson Valley Meet. Sounds like a great meet with a few surprises once in a while too! (Minor editing was done by me.)

So tell me about yourself: I’m 34 years old, married with a 3 year old son. I love cars, like watching car racing especially Formula 1, I also like to hike, go camping, play paintball, fish and even go birding. I also am somewhat of an artist. You can see some of my work by going to www.vincentbihn.com. I own a wingless blue 2004 STI. It’s lowered, with header, up-pipe and down-pipe, window tint, Cobb exhaust, Cobb short throw shifter, Defi Gauges, Cobb access port, and its been Pro-tuned by XXTuning in CT. The Rims are 18” Prodrive GC-10’s in British Black. Unfortunately this past winter I hit a patch of black ice and banged up the passenger side of the car pretty good. It will soon be going into the shop to be fixed and the whole car painted in a 3 coat metallic dark gray.

Could I get a brief description of your meet: It’s a weekly meet that’s held every Friday night. The meet starts at 8:30pm and usually goes until 12:00am – 12:30am. Near the end of the meet there is usually a cruise. The meet is officially a Subaru meet but anyone is welcome just as long as they bring a good attitude. This year will be our 2nd year having the weekly meet.

What’s the routine? The meet starts at 8:30pm and then we usually talk for a few hours. Cars come and go but we have been averaging about 20 – 30 cars a week. At around 10:30 – 11:00pm we usually go for a cruise.We typically end up at a different location then the original meeting spot, usually it’s a parking lot of some sort. We then hang out there for an hour or two until everyone eventually disperses.

Why or how did you decide to come up with it? Ever since I was 16 I had fast cars and always hung out with other car enthusiasts. The last few years I noticed that the local car scene was getting full of some ….well lets just say they weren’t the kind of people I wanted to be hanging out with. This did not put an end to my desire to want to hang out with other car people. So I decided to try and start a new meet with just Subaru owners. I announced the idea on a Thursday evening and that Friday we had 6 cars show up for the first meet. Each week it just continued to grow and grow.

How long has it been running? This will be our 2nd year. This year is going to be bigger and better then last year. We are planning more activities this year outside of the normal weekly meet. Last year we ended the year with a big barbeque and it was a huge success. We want to do more things like the BBQ this year. Some of the ideas we have come up with are going Go-kart racing, taking a long drive with the cars and then camping out over night, getting together and playing paintball, etc… We also would like to have at least 2 or 3 BBQ’s this year.

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