@turbocad6
why didn't you come to the first meet back in september at roosevelt? you make it sound like anyone who doesn't have a computer in their car are more or less worthless because there's nothing to look at. people think its lame because the people that think its lame don't go. so there aren't that many people. we might do another meet on the island in a few months. you should really check it out. lame or not, its only 4 hours out of a saturday or sunday that you would be spending.
i hope im not offending you or belittleing you. i mean yes...the last meet i think maybe 5 cars showed up. 3 had systems while two didn't. i think the whole point of the meets are so people can exchange ideas and people without systems can see what works and what doesn't. for example, the first meet at the mall, we figured out that my 8" monitor wouldn't fit into a 350z without any cutting. the 350z, of course, had no carputer..but he was planning on putting one in.
back to the main purpose of the thread, i would love more than anything to see a massive east coast mp3car meet. however, as you harped upon before, the hoopy isn't saturated nearly enough. a huge problem for those of us that are in the hoppy, is that we have to contend with school, work, family, etc. things come up last minute all the time. That will be your biggest obstacle to overcome if you want to plan a meet of this magnitude. you have to come up with 1) a place equally convenient for everyone and 2) a date thats not too near so people can get the time off or whatever, and not too far away so that people can't even tell if they have to do something (vacation, job change, etc).
start off with this thread:
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/mp3car-gatherings/36113-long-island-ny-meet-post348703.html
on page 7 start signing up. maybe people in other areas can make similar lists and when it comes time to plan the big event we can generate one large list with these smaller lists..