Bring your Stuff to the Carlisle Raffle!!!

Thanks for the heads-up Gordon.  Yes the raffle is an important part of the weekend in that it supports the costs of running the event - table and chair rentals for the tent,  trophies, awards dinner drawing items, name tags, etc.  My explanation of items to donate is new parts, auto-related products, artwork, memorabilia, etc. Please try to bring items you think someone would like to win in the raffle and avoid items such as old sparkplugs, used stuff, etc. 

The raffle is held Saturday evening in the host hotel hospitality suite following the awards dinner and tickets will be sold for $5 per person. 

I'm bringing Weber carb manuals because I don't have no stinking carbs :-)


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I have a couple of Speedster items to bring, too.  A brand new, unused, clutch cable, which I no longer need as a spare, and a couple of other things.  Maybe some real beer...

"Maybe some real beer..."

See Bob, you're full of them!

Well, I may be full of something...

Kathy, while peering about my "Cueva del Hombre", said, "You've got too much junk in here.  Get rid of some of the chotchkies and it'll look nicer." 

Well, OK.......So I'll be offering up to the Carlisle raffle, one 2009 "Speedsters Meet Spyders" commemorative, hand-thrown, ceramic Beer Mug.   This is one of the mugs (a mini-stein, really) that Danny Piperato offered that year, never been used and never been spit in - PRISTENE SHAPE, in other words (well....Maybe a little dust on it.)

If you weren't there in 2009, this is a true piece of SOC History, even more so than a framed ticket to a Trump rally!!    I only offer it because I have two and I am NOT a "two-fisted drinker".  Hell.....Sometimes I have trouble with even ONE fist!

Come to Carlisle.  Buy a Raffle ticket.  You, too, could own a piece of SOC History!

I've got a nice surprise from one of our friends on the left coast.

Family is keeping me away. I saw Carey in Bremen last week and he graciously agreed to bring my stuff to the raffle; a few books (Weber carb manuals that I no longer need).

I was looking forward to showing off water-cooled Natalie with her black aluminum wide-fives, trick signal mirrors, and new gauges. Alas, not this year.

I'm adding some black Pegusi per Stan's direction (probably this week).

Have a great time!
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Just boxed up a nice assortment of cleaning products. Really looking forward to a great time and some hot weather. 

Among other things I'm bringing two envelopes - each with $25 cash in them - then you can buy your own Speedster/Spyder stuff.  

Now understand, you don't necessarily have to bring something to donate worth that much but I just haven't had time to shop!

Also bringing  a set of wind wings, sun visors and a folding foot rest donated by west coast's "Aircooled" Bruce Williams. 

Cash buys beer! Excellent, Bruce!

Anybody remember when Carey Hines and I got beer one night in my Spyder? Carey is not short, and we crammed 3 cases and us in the passenger compartment! I think it may have been the last hurrah for the old Hotel Carlisle.

I'm sure that being buried in beer is one of those dreams that Carey has but doesn't talk about.

Kathy and I limped into the Beaufort house on 6 cylinders on my old truck's V8 one year.  Two fried coil-packs.  Awful trip down, but what'chagonnado?  

Unloaded the Speedster (in a downpour) and headed to the grocery store for needed stuff.  We found that the Speedster's windshield wipers work pretty well, and the limit was six bags of groceries and a 4-pack of wine and us, leaving just enough room to reach for the windshield inside defogger pad.