Hey, bigjoe! There's quite a few of you in SoCal and I've started a statewide group on Facebook called California Mark VIII Addicts. I will be launching a website pretty soon so that we can get serious about meeting up. I'm in Fresno and there's four others in the Modesto/Sacramento area. We will definitely be doing Fabulous Fords Forever at Knott's in April 2014 as a group and are also looking at Ponies By The Sea in Ventura in October. Here's the FB link for now:
https://www.facebook.com/CAMK8Addicts
Awesome to see you here!!! Our little West Coast group is really starting to materialize!!!