Hey Mickey!
Pismo Beach is about 200 miles north of where I am in Irvine/Newport Beach. Because cars are a huge part of SoCal culture and our temperate weather, you could attend a car show/parking-lot meet at least 4 days-a-week in most any town/city in SoCal.
Did you say your blond ex is Janine? I think we may have dated the same woman...
http://public.fotki.com/wackydave/cruise_nights/cruise-nights-2007/05-26-07-cars--coffee/052607carscoffee069.html
BTW - I was watching a Mazda sponsored kart race on Speed Channel and thought "...man, Mickey must have a BLAST racing his kart".
Peace - Out!
Troy, I do, but I don't want to get kicked off this great site....
I have a lot of pic's that would get it for some but not for others.
I have a lot of pic's that would get it for some but not for others.
jim stop posting pics of my ex wife
Is it OK to post pictures of your next ex-wife?
Gerd - Roger That!
David K - It depends...! BTW - You may already know about this but here's a link for some info on the San Diego International Auto Show this week at the convention center...
http://www.sdautoshow.com/index.html
David K - It depends...! BTW - You may already know about this but here's a link for some info on the San Diego International Auto Show this week at the convention center...
http://www.sdautoshow.com/index.html
Is there a reason we can't just pick a weekend in May, pick a motel and just have our own weekend party? Do we have to have a venue?
We could set up a couple driving/wine tours and have a guerrilla car show at every stop.
Vince, you've planned a few poker runs in the past, haven't you?
We could set up a couple driving/wine tours and have a guerrilla car show at every stop.
Vince, you've planned a few poker runs in the past, haven't you?
Any updates on the status of the Paso Robles meet?
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YEP
JIM ITS NEXT TUESDAY
JIM ITS NEXT TUESDAY
Man I'm really bummed at the thing with Paso. The town and people are just great - talk about make us feel welcome! Loved the big sign over the main street in town welcoming us and the park is beautiful...
My personal vote is same location, a little later in the year. Even if that means no access to the park. I mean, hey, none of us went for the "show" reason anyway. We all went just to drive our cars and hang with our friends. The "show" was just a chance to see ALL the cars up close and visit. With a lot of emphasis on the VISIT portion - LOL!
angela
My personal vote is same location, a little later in the year. Even if that means no access to the park. I mean, hey, none of us went for the "show" reason anyway. We all went just to drive our cars and hang with our friends. The "show" was just a chance to see ALL the cars up close and visit. With a lot of emphasis on the VISIT portion - LOL!
angela
I'm with you, Angela, we think Paso is great and don't wish to see it disappear. Later in the year will conflict with many other things most of us have planned. Is there any way we can salvage this gathering? Come on, everyone, pull together on this and let's figure something out.
Happy Trails,
Dusty and the Hopeful Miss Sharon
Happy Trails,
Dusty and the Hopeful Miss Sharon
". . . . hey, none of us went for the "show" reason anyway."
Oh, really? Who was the hot blonde with the yellow microfiber polishing rag permanently attached to one hand, and a squirter of New Car Shine attached to the other? Don't anyone tell her this isn't a show! LOL.
Dusty, Ann and I are with you. We think Paso is the perfect early season opener. We had some bad luck with weather, but that comes with the territory for an "early season" event.
We are more vulnerable to driving in the rain than anyone on the board. In fact, driving in the rain is simply out of the question for us. But we have made it reasonably unscathed to both Pasos with a little bit of storm dodging strategy (luck).
Maybe it will rain, maybe it won't. If it does, then that might wreck the event. But one thing is for sure, if it is cancelled becase it MIGHT rain, then the event is definately wrecked.
Mark
Oh, really? Who was the hot blonde with the yellow microfiber polishing rag permanently attached to one hand, and a squirter of New Car Shine attached to the other? Don't anyone tell her this isn't a show! LOL.
Dusty, Ann and I are with you. We think Paso is the perfect early season opener. We had some bad luck with weather, but that comes with the territory for an "early season" event.
We are more vulnerable to driving in the rain than anyone on the board. In fact, driving in the rain is simply out of the question for us. But we have made it reasonably unscathed to both Pasos with a little bit of storm dodging strategy (luck).
Maybe it will rain, maybe it won't. If it does, then that might wreck the event. But one thing is for sure, if it is cancelled becase it MIGHT rain, then the event is definately wrecked.
Mark
I make the motion that we run with Terry N's idea. Book the Adelaide Motel a little later in spring (decide on a date), we all meet there, drive the snot out of our cars on the wine tour roads (or a Kamikaze run up Hwy 1 to Nepenthe Restaurant) and have a guerilla car meet/poker run wherever we stop for (?). Return to Adelaide for Bar-b-Que at the pool (like last year).
We should probably make a command decision soon, so as to have time for booking lodging & bar-b-que.
We should probably make a command decision soon, so as to have time for booking lodging & bar-b-que.
Big heads think alike, Jim.
May I offer a suggestion?
http://www.pasowine.com/events/winefestival.php
We would need to act on this FAST or we won't get hotel space. The tickets for the wine festival go on sale in February. My theory is that we would have to block the Adelaide Inn hotel rooms before the festival tickets go on sale. We can BBQ, drive the wonderful back roads, visit each other and oh yeah - the wine thing! We could be a rolling tour group of happy jovial speedstah/spyder drivers!!
I've always wanted to do a wine tasting event. Most wines taste terrible to me, but every once in a blue moon badda-bing one truly tickles my pallete and I buy a CASE of it.
What do you guys and gals think? Mid May is pretty settled weatherwise compared to April.
angela
http://www.pasowine.com/events/winefestival.php
We would need to act on this FAST or we won't get hotel space. The tickets for the wine festival go on sale in February. My theory is that we would have to block the Adelaide Inn hotel rooms before the festival tickets go on sale. We can BBQ, drive the wonderful back roads, visit each other and oh yeah - the wine thing! We could be a rolling tour group of happy jovial speedstah/spyder drivers!!
I've always wanted to do a wine tasting event. Most wines taste terrible to me, but every once in a blue moon badda-bing one truly tickles my pallete and I buy a CASE of it.
What do you guys and gals think? Mid May is pretty settled weatherwise compared to April.
angela
Went last year to the wine festival, AWESOME! Gets crowded very fast and tix for the event should be bought in advance. Hotels are already starting to book for this event, good luck! I'm planning on sipping wine all day!!!
bc
bc
Who, other than Jim, has ever constructed a sentence containing both the words 'guerilla' and 'Kamikaze'?
Show of hands?
Seriously, can you West Coast guys take some more of your famous group shots on that run? It's kinda cold out here, and it's refreshing to log on and see folks having a good time while we wait out Old Man Winter.
Show of hands?
Seriously, can you West Coast guys take some more of your famous group shots on that run? It's kinda cold out here, and it's refreshing to log on and see folks having a good time while we wait out Old Man Winter.
What happened to mixing with the antique show again? I got lost in all the chatter. I don't think the wine festival would be good as there are just too many things going on and I will bet the hotels are hard to get already. Is there any chance the city would let us gather on the edge of the park grass, as before, at any other time?
May is bad for a few of us (Me - Jim - ?) as we will be on the road to Carlisle by the 11th and probably not back until the 24th. (cannot miss out on Carlisle ! What would Cory, Gordon, Alan say ?!)
What can I do to help this process get moving?
Happy Trails,
Dusty and the Anxious Miss Sharon
May is bad for a few of us (Me - Jim - ?) as we will be on the road to Carlisle by the 11th and probably not back until the 24th. (cannot miss out on Carlisle ! What would Cory, Gordon, Alan say ?!)
What can I do to help this process get moving?
Happy Trails,
Dusty and the Anxious Miss Sharon
I also am busy April 30- whenever I get back from Carlisle.
Unless someone can come up with a plan we can all live with, and quick, I say we leave it as is and proceed with the usual dates,
screw the Knotts show.....which if you all remember was not all that kind to us in the first place. They seem to prefer the Cobra's anyway.
As for those that can't miss the berry farm, Have fun, we will do the same without you....
screw the Knotts show.....which if you all remember was not all that kind to us in the first place. They seem to prefer the Cobra's anyway.
As for those that can't miss the berry farm, Have fun, we will do the same without you....
How about Lake Tahoe?
Thanks, Vince, we are with you.
Hey, Knotts this !!
Dusty
Hey, Knotts this !!
Dusty
Vince (et al),
I lived in San diego once upon a time, and I seem to recall there were a few places on Coronado where you could park a wad of cars and have lunch. I think McP's was one, but you had to park on the southeast side of the block, and right across the street was the Hotel del Coronado -- or that whole strip behind and north of the Hotel del where the beach ended in the North Island runway. ...
You don't think the hotel folks would turn you guys down if their house photographer was available that day, do you?
Then you could go from lunch there out to Gillespie Field, the Palomar Observatory or some fixed distance to a GPS point for dinner, eh? Jamul's country store?
Make the poker run start with someplace scenic at noon and end at a great sunset vista? Seaport Village, maybe?
I'm just sayin' ...
I lived in San diego once upon a time, and I seem to recall there were a few places on Coronado where you could park a wad of cars and have lunch. I think McP's was one, but you had to park on the southeast side of the block, and right across the street was the Hotel del Coronado -- or that whole strip behind and north of the Hotel del where the beach ended in the North Island runway. ...
You don't think the hotel folks would turn you guys down if their house photographer was available that day, do you?
Then you could go from lunch there out to Gillespie Field, the Palomar Observatory or some fixed distance to a GPS point for dinner, eh? Jamul's country store?
Make the poker run start with someplace scenic at noon and end at a great sunset vista? Seaport Village, maybe?
I'm just sayin' ...
Cory,
The nice thing about Paso Robles is that it's centrally located. And the roads are great.
San Diego is so congested. Also, my three kids are there, which means it would cost me triple in comparison to Paso. ;)
The nice thing about Paso Robles is that it's centrally located. And the roads are great.
San Diego is so congested. Also, my three kids are there, which means it would cost me triple in comparison to Paso. ;)
Back to the event.
I don't mind the original date. I know now to bring a roll of duct tape (thanks, Paul Harford!)
If we plan the event during the wine festival we will be sharing the road (and accommodations) with non car people. The wineries will be super busy and not as open to us as a group.
I'm with Vince, f*#k Knott's.
I don't mind the original date. I know now to bring a roll of duct tape (thanks, Paul Harford!)
If we plan the event during the wine festival we will be sharing the road (and accommodations) with non car people. The wineries will be super busy and not as open to us as a group.
I'm with Vince, f*#k Knott's.
In the past we have done runs to the hotel Del, very nice going thru the canyons and all but Paso is centrally located for all on the west coast and can't be beat for roads/scenery/coastline/wine/scotch
we have had a few bad years for weather, but you know the saying "April showers bring May flowers"
I will go along with any suggestion that keeps us on the central coast, but we gotta go this quick...
we have had a few bad years for weather, but you know the saying "April showers bring May flowers"
I will go along with any suggestion that keeps us on the central coast, but we gotta go this quick...
I don't care about Knott's. Paso in April sounds good to me. What is the date that Paso will let us do it?
I vote not to Knott! Concrete, smog and some Knott heads, Paso is KEWL, I just gotto time it right if it rains.
Thereon,
You are the man for this event. What's the word?
You are the man for this event. What's the word?
Paso was the ideal location to bring the owners in Northern California and Southern California together. It
do Paso and im in
I enjoyed the whole trip to Paso 2007. Even Vince's rooster tail.
Some weather stripping from Pep Boys to bolster our faith in ingenuity;
A new bag of rags from Costco for take care of reality and some duct tape
in case faith fails and reality intrudes on enjoyment.
Some weather stripping from Pep Boys to bolster our faith in ingenuity;
A new bag of rags from Costco for take care of reality and some duct tape
in case faith fails and reality intrudes on enjoyment.
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I happened to check the Paso Robles Main Street website yesterday and noticed that they had a Vintage Sidecar Motorcycle show scheduled for the weekend of the Antique Treasures. No mention of Speedsters. I gave them a call to see what was up and was told that after last years show the speedster group said they would not be returning and they hadn't heard anything different.
Hey Theron....what gives?
Theron,
It is quiet on your end. What is happening with our gathering? Seems we are all ready for it and I am sure we won't mind sharing with sidecars. There are enough Paso residents who have Speedsters to set up a few winery tours and a bbq or dinner should be no problem. We need to have a date and get things rolling so we can get the hotel.
Happy Trails,
Dusty and the hopeful Miss Sharon
It is quiet on your end. What is happening with our gathering? Seems we are all ready for it and I am sure we won't mind sharing with sidecars. There are enough Paso residents who have Speedsters to set up a few winery tours and a bbq or dinner should be no problem. We need to have a date and get things rolling so we can get the hotel.
Happy Trails,
Dusty and the hopeful Miss Sharon
Bill mentioned Bass Lake and thats my neck of the woods about 30 minutes from the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park. If that's ever a location that is being considered, let me know and I'll do what I can to help out.
Troy
Troy
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If someone has Theron's phone number, can you please call him and mention that he should check this site once in a while...
He at least owes us an explanation as to why we have been dropped from the Paso festivities...
It's one thing to be looking at alternatives, but we never said to cancel the existing plans
He at least owes us an explanation as to why we have been dropped from the Paso festivities...
It's one thing to be looking at alternatives, but we never said to cancel the existing plans
Roy:
Instead of duct tape, try Painter's Blue Masking Tape.
It has some sort of coating making it waterproof on the outside, the adhesive seems to be more or less water-resistant, and it works well.
The best news is that it can be easily removed and leaves no residue.
Instead of duct tape, try Painter's Blue Masking Tape.
It has some sort of coating making it waterproof on the outside, the adhesive seems to be more or less water-resistant, and it works well.
The best news is that it can be easily removed and leaves no residue.
VINCE HIS NUMBER IS
Vince,
In the first post, top of page, Theron says that the organizers of the Antique Show in the park have moved the date to a week earlier than last year.
Last year conflicted with Knott's and, because Knott's moved to a week earlier, Paso will conflict again.
It doesn't sound like we were asked not to show up, it is just that the Knott's conflict may keep some of the group in SoCal.
I'd guess that we are still welcome to participate in Paso, just a week earlier than last year. Theron just said "we" are looking for somplace different later in the year. I'd guess that "we" could do Paso if "we" wanted too.
Of course, I may have missed something with my Polly-Anna outlook.
Bass Lake sounds great to me.
In the first post, top of page, Theron says that the organizers of the Antique Show in the park have moved the date to a week earlier than last year.
Last year conflicted with Knott's and, because Knott's moved to a week earlier, Paso will conflict again.
It doesn't sound like we were asked not to show up, it is just that the Knott's conflict may keep some of the group in SoCal.
I'd guess that we are still welcome to participate in Paso, just a week earlier than last year. Theron just said "we" are looking for somplace different later in the year. I'd guess that "we" could do Paso if "we" wanted too.
Of course, I may have missed something with my Polly-Anna outlook.
Bass Lake sounds great to me.
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Sorry for the hijack -- whose green car is that? I know I've seen it here a thousand times before, but it's brilliant. That first photo with the four cars in the no-parking zone would look fantastic in my living room ...