Another great award we could win at Carlisle!!!

Hi Gordon FYI I sent out the badges for the meet yesterday

Gordon,
How about some type of display with photos of many, many stars and famous people driving Speedsters? Also ... Sharon has made streamers to attach to everyone's mirrors for the parade that we will be in at Morro Bay. If you would like, we can bring them to Carlisle so all of our group would have something else to identify them as a unified organization.

Happy Trails,
Dusty and LMS (the Lovely Miss Sharon)

I think you guys should do a "surf's up" theme! Blow up palm trees, plastic flamingos, surfboards, hawaiian shirts, flower leis!

The more adventurous of you could wear grass skirts! Men in skirts are HOT!

angela

Angela,
Sharon just pointed out that seeing me in a grass skirt ... with cowboy boots ... could ruin the appetite of a hungry mongoose. Now see what you've started !

Happy Trails,
Dusty and LMS

Brings to mind the scene in "The Lion King" with Simone the Meercat doing the hula in front of the Hyenas......

Only with knobbier knees.....

Just got a notice that the Carlisle Import and Kit Car Show requires ALL clubs to display a banner on their tent with their club name (we have for the past three years, so we're all set there) AND "An award will be presented on Sunday to the club with the most creative club tent display."

So I'm looking for two things: 1.) Someone who will take on this "Cause Celebre" and help us come up with a Boffo Tent Display for this year, and 2.) some Great ideas from people as to what we might do. (I thought of a full-size banner of a Speedster and another of a Spyder, but that might get expensive.)

Who wants to step forward and take on this challenge??

The "surfs up" theme is a great suggestion Angela. Ive heard numerous times in posts to "be sure and pack the hawain shirts" for Carlislle. We can already strike that off of the list. I think anyone attending the event can really identify this little california car with a surfboard occupying the passenger seat. It seems like it would all tie together very nicely. These cars seem to represent a layed back lifestyle. "Lifes a Beach" if you will. My two cents.

Paul (who does not own a hawain shirt).

Gordon,
Leave my knobby knees out of this thing! Those bowed legs and horseshoer's scars were hard earned. Besides, I wear straight leg jeans just to help pull the bowing in.

Happy Hobbling,
Dusty and LMS

Well, I have a couple of illuminated Palm Trees that I brought up from here to Massachusetts to put on the front porch for Christmas. They might do the trick. Might need a few more, though - it's a large-ish tent. I have nothing in the way of Surfboards, so that'll be up to someone else.

As far as the Hawaiian shirts go, I've got those (as some of you already know).

OK, so who wants to be the "Big Kahuna" of Tent decorating?

There's a free "Egg Sammich" in it for ya (and the accolades of Speedster and Spyder Dudes and Dudettes!!)

Maybe we could work in a "James Dean the Surfer Dude" thing with Danny's Spyder and a surf board with "Little Bastard" lettered on it.....

In the meantime, here's one of my shirts (from "Land's End", no less!)

Can we turn my rollbar into a surfboard rack?

I don't have a board but I could rig it up somehow.

I can see it now...more than a few households short ironing boards

I could maybe scrounge up one or two surfboards.

OK, I'm going with Angela's "Surf's Up" suggestion and so far I have collected the following:

Two, Lifelike-looking artificial Palm Trees

A couple of Pink Flamingos

A Monkey Motif Wind Sock

Several Kitschy-looking, Surf related table icons

What I'm still looking for:

A "grass skirt" styled table skirt or something equally Surfy

One or two Surf Boards

Several Tiki torches (with oil would be a bonus - we'll light'em)

Hawaiian looking beach chairs

Anything else Hawaiian or surf related you can think of.

We can't bring in a truck load of sand to make a beach (already checked that out with the Carlisle folks - big NO! there....) so any other suggestions are welcome.

Please let me (us) know what you're bringing.

Remember......we have no electricity at the tent unless someone really needs it and then we'll need a really quiet generator, too.

Thanks! Gordon

I'll bring a stuffed (not real) colorful parrot to hang from the tent.

Re: hauling in sand, what about using a brown or green tarp and dumping the sand on it instead of on the groud (of course cleanup could be a b*%ch).

Pineapple Hard Hat in route..........

You mean Jimbo? The Big Pineapple Kahuna of SoCal??

Bruce has a point, spread a tarp sprinkle a layer of sand on it ....when the weekend is over, four guys each grab a corner of the tarp run like hell as the sand runs out. Call it "going green" at Carlisle .... "it's always easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission "

Fly a few kites from the tent....Kites are big out West....

That might work, Vince....in our "gentle", 40mph "Trade Winds" at the show!!

OK, so never you mind all the "Sand" BS...

Just look at my "What I'm still looking for" post up above....

AND I'M STILL LOOKING!!!!!

What'chu guys and gals got to contribute???

After all, it's YOUR tent, too!!

How about a limbo pole and a limbo contest in the afternoon?
Maybe an egg sammich luau too.

How about a contest drinking beer from a yard glass.
Step 1: take a few cleansing breaths
Step 2: relax and tilt your head back
step 3: raise the glass and throw it down
step 4: try not to barf
It's a hoot....oops, no alcohol on the fun field....my bad.... ;-)

I like the idea, John. Or maybe a beer funnel- this will sort out the men from the boys!

Loudest Hawian shirt???....Must surpass 185 db......

"no alcohol on the fun field"

BWAH HAH HAAAAAaaaaa... Yeah, right.

this is sounding more and more interesting. LOL

OK, just scored a Pirate Flag...

Yeah, it's ginger ale....honest!

Cory - sent you a PM a few days ago- do you copy?

And just where IS Biggs these days, anyway???

Like he dropped off the map....

It's a F. M. to me where he went. I contacted him last year about Carlisle 2007 and he told me he had other things going on....graduations or something. I saw his car in a great article in the "other" kit car magazine and also heard rumors that he had problems with his paint. After that, he seemed to drop off the map as you said. I sure miss him.

Maybe we wore him out as the official "Brake Pumper" during the car build brake bleeding...