Ellicott City Petition

 

What is a car meet? A gathering of local car enthusiasts on a certain day at a certain time. To others, however, it is much more than that. - - Fuels & Files

A gentleman named Vincent Harris has created a Change.org petition that concerns car meets. I saw it posted on Twitter and was intrigued. Car meet? Boba? Ellicott City?

Here’s the petition:

Okay, now I know where it was and why it has boba in the title. But what on earth is Ambitious Whips? A smoothie emporium?

Ambitious Whips is a organization based on car enthusiasts, gear heads, and that are passionate about the car culture. We express our passion with fellow enthusiasts and help support our communities from shows, meets, events, and fundraisers. 

And Vincent Harris is the President and CEO of Ambitious Whips, Inc. Here are some promotional images for the Cars and Boba events. Note the presence of events to support charitable causes.

So far, so good. I’ve learned that an event that I never even knew existed has for some reason ceased to exist and the organizer has created a petition to bring it back.

What happened? A car meet is hardly an occasion for drag racing, an issue that’s been a hot topic in Columbia/HoCo lately. Did the Normandy Shopping Center businesses complain? Did the members of the neighborhood community complain? 

Somehow I expect to find rants on NextDoor saying things like, “…attracts a bad element.” But I could very well be wrong.

I see that Old Ellicott City hosts Cars and Coffee events in Parking Lot D. There doesn’t seem to be an objection to them.

I don’t know the answer to this but I’m curious. Do you know anything? Have you ever been to this particular car meet? Are you familiar with the car meet culture?

Send me your info.