2011 West Coast Meet

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How's everyone coming along with their plans to attend this gig? Don't miss it!

I'm in, and the logo change works for me....
trying to figure out a good gift exchange idea, different from past years....if you have a good idea, send it my way, but please, don't be stupid about this....(we will see what I just started)

I CANT MAKE IT

Vince,
Perhaps a "White Elephant" affair?

Terry, your sick, I'm not about to have an affair with any color elephant...although I do remember waking up with a few hippo's over the years...but hey, those days are over...

(define white elephant)

White Elephant Gift Exchange

The gift should be something that you really wished you hadn't received for Christmas, birthday, wedding, etc. Example: avocado green electric carving knife


1. Each guest who wishes to participate must contribute a gift. Everyone sits or stands in roughly a circle around the pile of gifts.
2. Prepare slips of paper equal to the number of gifts with clearly written numbers. Be sure to distinguish 6 from 9, 1 from 7. Each participating guest draws a number and holds onto that slip of paper.
3. On the first turn, the guest with paper slip #1 chooses a gift, opens it, and all admire it.
4. On the second turn, the guest with paper slip #2 gets the choice of "stealing" any unwrapped gift (#1's) or choosing a wrapped one. If #2 steals #1's gift, then #1 must open a wrapped gift.
5. On the third turn, the guest with paper slip #3 gets the choice of "stealing" any unwrapped gift (#1's or #2's) or choosing a wrapped one.
The game continues based on the following:

1. If a gift is stolen from you, you can steal a gift (within limits, described below), or open a wrapped one.
2. The turn proceeds until a wrapped gift is chosen.
3. A gift cannot be immediately stolen back from the guest who just stole it.
4. The fourth "owner" of a gift gets to keep it. The gift is "dead" after it has been stolen three times.
5. "Owners" of "live" gifts must keep them visible and hold them up when requested.
6. The gift exchange ends when the last wrapped gift is opened. Usually, guests are encouraged to perpetuate the gift stealing as long as there are "live" gifts, but no one is obligated to do this.

been doing that for xmas for years...didn't realize it had a name..
thought about doing that, but thought it would take to long..
I'll re-think that, it's a lot of fun.....

We still need a widebody in that logo Jim!

What Troy said.....

Terry, that while elephant thing has all the makings of a large cluster f--k. The group will be to large for this.

You're right, Warren.
How about we forget all about the gift exchange and just have Vince, GERD and Jim do an hour of stand-up?
I'll supply the Oban...

Last years exchange seemed okay to me.

"A man walked into the doctor's, he said 'I've hurt my arm in several places'.
The doctor said 'well don't go there any more'. "

I say we just have a killer game of 'Dodgeball'!

White elephant would take too long with the # of people. Also,should limit to one gift per person/couple. last year some did 4-5 gifts each and it took too long.

I'm guessing that most SOCers at this event don't really need to add to their collection of polishing products, ball caps and T-shirts.

How 'bout a simple raffle. Participants ante $5 into a cash kitty and receive 1 raffle ticket for each $5 donation. After dinner, draw 1 raffle ticket for Grand Prize (65% of cash collected) and a 2nd ticket for 2nd Prize (balance of cash pool). Based on historical attendance at this event, there could be the potential of at least a >$300 cash prize pool ( >60 x $5 = ?).

I don't know if there would be any legal ramifications for such a raffle so, I'm just saying...

Hey Warren,

Nobody can keep up with you if you lead the spirited drive with your 997. That is a sweet ride.

Jim,
I like your idea. Who's taking care of securing raffle prizes?
Any interest in having a mini swap meet?
Just throwing it out there...

I think a mini swapmeet is a great idea (for whatever items you can fit in your car). Perhaps at the park on Saturday?

Typically the way a raffle works, is that the show or gathering would have a sponsor who would donate prizes, things that would be worth spending 5 bucks or more to try and win, this would also be called a 50/50 raffle meaning that half the money taken in the raffle would go back to an individual as a prize...(the other half goes to the show or cause)
I know most of you realize how this works, but the reason I mention this is because we would need some of us to donate a few prizes to make this work....
I would be glad to start this by donating an Item or two, and Im thinking that perhaps no more than 8-10 items in total to keep it short and not boring for those not really interested in taking the chance to win....And to make it more interesting, we would return all the money taken as a prize rather than just half, since there isn't anybody to give half to as a cause....

If you guys want to try this, this year, speak up...
I admit recent years have gotten boring after the first half hour or so, but it still has been fun....

Eddy - I won't be leading the "Spirited Drive" this year. Eddie Janis has volunteered to head that up, although you won't be able to keep up with him either. I will probably bring up the rear to pick up any lost souls or break-downs.

I can donate a Classic Coca-Cola Picnic Cooler for the raffle (you can check them out on my web site www.american-retro.com) if you didn't want Coke, I could donate a generic one and you could put a club decal on it.

Dave

I just made my reservation. See you all there!

Dave, that would be a perfect donation, thank you...

think we oughtta do shots of oban. Last one standing gets all the gifts. Yes thats it!

Bob, that would be a perfect donation, thank you...

Oban Pong!

Forgive the ignorance, but what's a cornhole tournament?

I think it originated in Alcatraz.

Blake and Jen do it all the time from what I understand...

countin on you for that.

Had to modify the link above to find out.... It's similar to horseshoes.
So now Sherry and I are lookin' forward to it (she DID have concerns reference the games name).You other miscreants are just too bad. LOL

I will contact Theron and see if he would post an attendance survey for our West Coast SOC in Pismo as in previous years. Then we can view a roll call of sorts for attendance for the various events that weekend.

In light of the fact this is a popular summer beach destination, I strongly recommend you make your room arrangements early.

We are looking forward to hanging out with our SOC friends...

CANT WAIT

me too

Sherry, The Tinker Toy and I are booked and looking forward to it.
PS: Good job on the poster

Well, fellow wide body owners, I guess we're just not worthy. I still don't see a wide body on that poster!

So just kiss my

Replica !

I'm pretty sure the Wide-bodies, Carreras, Roadsters and Cabriolets on this site fall under the 356 category. 8-)

Didn't want to get into specific distinctions because then we would have to represent cars that are black, silver, blue, red, green (etc), single-exhaust outlet, dual -exhaust outlet, Subaru-powered, 911-powered, Golf-powered, etc...

Too much wave modulation...bwaaaaaahaaaaaaa

Now, here's a pair of wide bodies.