Who was the forum member I seen in Quebec at the Gumball 3000?

Gavin@MMW · 12-14-2010, 05:31 PM

uhm..... Whats this Gumball thing?

Like Bullrun but worldwide?

(sorry for being dumb)

darkcloud · 12-14-2010, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Craven 328

uhm..... Whats this Gumball thing?

Like Bullrun but worldwide?

(sorry for being dumb)

they are similar style "races", cross county with nightly stops and parties. there are a few cool dvd's about it. Mischief 3000 is the best one.

AllydNYC · 12-15-2010, 03:13 AM

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Originally Posted by jh valley

nice man! sounds like a great time. i'm a big fan of alex roy and i got the chance to meet him at bimmerfest 09. i wish i brought my copy of his book, i just didn't expect to see him :[ i'd love to participate in the event someday

I'm a huge fan of Alex Roy and I might be the only person that knows this on the web that is willing talk about it (don't know if I'm supposed to), I was told by a 2 crew members (been crew of 4+ rallys) that there was some sort of argument or disagreement between Max and Alex. I'm not sure over what, and if they resolved their issue, but I can tell you that Alex will probably not be on the rally this year (2011) as he wasn't on this one for the reason above.

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Originally Posted by 007MCoupe

how do you get in to something like that?

I've been following them since I was 15. I went on Facebook maybe once a month prior to this... It was a day before the rally I think or the day of... I went onto Facebook to see Max's feed (maybe provide some updates). His status went something like this "Listen up Gumball fans, we are looking for some crew members with SUV's to help out on the US part of the rally, please send an email to _______".

After hoping that I was one of the first to send a reply for about 12 hours an email was sent to me that described what I needed to do. "If this is something that you would like to be a part of please send back a phone number". Got a call next day from a London with a brit on the other end asking for me saying this is Gumball HQ calling

, told him I have a car not an SUV and he was fine with it (Guess they became a little desperate that no one else wanted to go

No clue why) After that I had to fill out a form send it to them and had to meet them at Bangor Airport in Maine in a few days.

*Didn't proof read like usual

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Originally Posted by darkcloud

pay the entrance fee and be willing to get a few tickets along the way.

just go to their site. it's all on there. it's not cheap either from what i can remember last i looked. $5+k at least i think.

The fee to get on it? This year it was roughly $55,000 (Pounds not $). The extra cost for this year was flying all the cars to the US. Oh and from what I noticed (on-top of people saying this was a bad year, usually 3-4 good rallys followed by one bad one)there are a lot of 'cruisers' that just do the speed limit to the location... I don't know really why, maybe it was because they are in North America and not some European country that won't impound for doing 30 over, in Canada we were warned if we did 25kph over that our cars will be taken. So from what I expected from watching Youtube videos (crazy driving, doing stupid things) didn't happen... :-\.

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Originally Posted by Wakka

His book The Driver? its a fantastic read.

I can't wait 32 hours 7min movie to come out... been 3-4 years now?

AllydNYC · 12-15-2010, 03:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Craven 328

uhm..... Whats this Gumball thing?

Like Bullrun but worldwide?

(sorry for being dumb)

It's like the Bullrun but with a lot more exposure. I think mainly because of the celebrities, followed by the cars and the insanity of it all. Plus it was the original rally that started all these 'spin-offs". Just look up Gumball 3000 on Youtube when you get a chance... I know your busy building a supercharger though :P. Jackass had an hour long special on it way back when.

007MCoupe · 12-15-2010, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by AllydNYC

I've been following them since I was 15. I went on Facebook maybe once a month prior to this... It was a day before the rally I think or the day of... I went onto Facebook to see Max's feed (maybe provide some updates). His status went something like this "Listen up Gumball fans, we are looking for some crew members with SUV's to help out on the US part of the rally, please send an email to _______".

After hoping that I was one of the first to send a reply for about 12 hours an email was sent to me that described what I needed to do. "If this is something that you would like to be a part of please send back a phone number". Got a call next day from a London with a brit on the other end asking for me saying this is Gumball HQ calling

, told him I have a car not an SUV and he was fine with it (Guess they became a little desperate that no one else wanted to go

No clue why) After that I had to fill out a form send it to them and had to meet them at Bangor Airport in Maine in a few days.

*Didn't proof read like usual

Get an SUV, move to a more popluar area, add them on facebook. check. lol no.

That's awesome though. do you have any more pics?? I would've been overly excited to meet a lot of those people, let alone be a PART of something like that.