Yes folks, please don't interpret what I said to mean that the showfield is to be avoided, just that some folks spend more time there than others. We all enjoy it, just in our own ways.
Who knows this year may just be my actual Official Speedster Retirement !
I think we've heard that before.
Greetings,
When I bought my car the body and been set so low that it sat directly on the car's frame. There wasn't any support provided by the shocks so every time I went over any bump the body would lift and crash down on the frame. We've subsequently lifted the front end about 1-1/2 - 2 inches to solve that problem and the car drives and handles immeasurably better. But my wife now reports when she follows me she sees that the front end appears higher than the rear.
I hope that we can find some time at Carlisle to discuss whether we have any options to remediate this by lifting the rear?
Thanks,
Marshall
You'll raise the back by either reindexing the stock spring plates on the torsion bars or install adjustable spring plates. Keep in mind that those spring plates are under high pressure and can easily cause injury.
The number # 1 reason to attend our Carlisle event is to visit with our extended Speedster Spyder family. Some of us have been going for decades and that about sums it up ~
...better late than never.I plan on making it this yer, if I can get the Beck sorted out. Check the number listed for the Mariiot...I think there's an extra number in there somewhere. I live in Atlanta and I plan on leaving EARLY the 13th and wouldn't mind connecting some other brave souls on the way up. Lane, are you driving up?
Meade
@Meade recv'd dinner reservation thanks ...
Courtyard by Marriott, Gettysburg Road, Mechanicsburg, PA (717) 766-9006
@Meade - Replied to your PM
Carlisle Banquet dinner.... Be sure to make your dinner reservation and payment this week as we need additional participants to make the banquet a reality .
Carlisle Courtyard by Marriott Hotel Banquet Dinner & Raffle Info !
Hotel
Event dates are: Thursday May 13th - Sunday May 16th. Some of us will arrive on Wednesday May 12th for a casual get together.
Call the hotel reserving your room ASAP at 717-766-9006 be sure to mention Speedster Owner’s Group.
Address: Courtyard Marriott 4921 Gettysburg Road, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
The room rate for either 2 Queen or 1 King is $129 per diem plus the usual taxes.
Check in is 4:00pm (We’ll assume that you can arrive earlier) Check out is 12:00 noon.
Hotel reservation cut off date is May 1st 2021. Important: After you register, please.... post "Coming & how many " on this thread.
The Hotel is supplying welcome cookies with beverages for our Thursday arrival from 1:00PM to 5:00PM Also included in the package are free daily breakfasts for Friday, Saturday and Sunday AM and exclusive use of the Hospitality room.
Locally, there are various options for food, in smaller groups to go to including the Bone Fish Grill, Pizza Grill, Texas Roadhouse, Dukes, Rock Bass Grill, Dockside Willy’s and many others as well as that cool Oldies Diner that is just down the street from our hotel. Ed Ericson will put together a couple of local TBA cruises etc. Please respect any and all mask requirements.
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Carlisle Car Show Event details and registration here: Carlisle Import & Performance Nationals (carlisleevents.com)
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Banquet Dinner
The Banquet dinner will be at Visaggio’s, 6990 Wertzville Road, Enola PA 17025 on Saturday May 15th at 6:30 PM. Visaggio’s a well known higher end Italian restaurant that is 20 minutes from the Hotel. There are three entree’s for you to choose from. Please remit your PayPal payment: Drclock@pa.net. ( Do not click this email, use it as the Payee on PayPal) You must select "Personal Friends and Family Option" box so that I do not incur a service charge for each transaction, if the that option is not selected the payment will be refused. Fare is $60 each and includes tax and gratuity. In the Pay Pal notes section let me know the number of persons and select A , B or C for the desired Entree. Due to the short notice on putting together the dinner, the dinner payments are non refundable. I will need to have this reservation-selection list completed and submitted to Visaggio’s by May 1.
All entree’s are served with Italian bread and salad. Desert bar Coffee Tea & Ice tea.
A “ Crab Cake Barbara” Seasoned lump crab meat broiled & seasoned Crab Cakes & Past
B “ Elena Marie” Medallions of Angus fillet w/4 jumbo shrimp in garlic butter over Linguine Pecorino Romano cheese
C “ Polo O’Lynda” Sauteed chicken breast w/ a four cheese & tomato Madera wine sauce.
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Raffle !
After the Banquet we will hold our Raffle in the Hospitality suite at the Hotel. We ask that you bring at least one Raffle item for the table. Raffle tickets will be $1 each of $5 for an arm’s length.
Notice Carlisle Banquet Dinner: The prospect of having the banquet dinner is slim at best. I have received just 8 reservations to date. We booked for a minimum of 30 people and secured the facility with a $500 deposit. Should there not be the 30 minimum reservations made by Sunday April 18th, I'll cancel the booking and hope that I can recover my deposit.
Please: Follow the instruction to make the $60.00 per person Pay Pal payment as two have not done so and their actual amount paid is $57.96.
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The Banquet dinner will be at Visaggio’s, 6990 Wertzville Road, Enola PA 17025 on Saturday May 15th at 6:30 PM. Visaggio’s a well known higher end Italian restaurant that is 20 minutes from the Hotel. There are three entree’s for you to choose from. Please remit your PayPal payment: Drclock@pa.net. ( Do not click this email, use it as the Payee on PayPal) You must select "Personal Friends and Family Option" box so that I do not incur a service charge for each transaction, if the that option is not selected the payment will be refused. Fare is $60 each and includes tax and gratuity. In the Pay Pal notes section let me know the number of persons and select A , B or C for the desired Entree. Due to the short notice on putting together the dinner, the dinner payments are non refundable. Note new cut off date is April 18th,
All entree’s are served with Italian bread and salad. Desert bar Coffee Tea & Ice tea.
A “ Crab Cake Barbara” Seasoned lump crab meat broiled & seasoned Crab Cakes & Past
B “ Elena Marie” Medallions of Angus fillet w/4 jumbo shrimp in garlic butter over Linguine Pecorino Romano cheese
C “ Polo O’Lynda” Sauteed chicken breast w/ a four cheese & tomato Madera wine sauce.
.................Just 30 days until Carlisle !
Courtyard by Marriott Hotel Banquet Dinner & Raffle Info !
Hotel
Event dates are: Thursday May 13th - Sunday May 16th. Some of us will arrive on Wednesday May 12th for a casual get together.
Call the hotel reserving your room ASAP at 717-766-9006 be sure to mention Speedster Owner’s Group.
Address: Courtyard Marriott 4921 Gettysburg Road, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
The room rate for either 2 Queen or 1 King is $129 per diem plus the usual taxes.
Check in is 4:00pm (We’ll assume that you can arrive earlier) Check out is 12:00 noon.
Hotel reservation cut off date is May 1st 2021. Important: After you register, please.... post "Coming & how many " on this thread.
The Hotel is supplying welcome cookies with beverages for our Thursday arrival from 1:00PM to 5:00PM Also included in the package are free daily breakfasts for Friday, Saturday and Sunday AM and exclusive use of the Hospitality room.
Locally, there are various options for food, in smaller groups to go to including the Bone Fish Grill, Pizza Grill, Texas Roadhouse, Dukes, Rock Bass Grill, Dockside Willy’s and many others as well as that cool Oldies Diner that is just down the street from our hotel. Ed Ericson will put together a couple of local TBA cruises etc. Please respect any and all mask requirements.
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Carlisle Car Show Event details and registration here: Carlisle Import & Performance Nationals (carlisleevents.com)
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Banquet Dinner
The Banquet dinner will be at Visaggio’s, 6990 Wertzville Road, Enola PA 17025 on Saturday May 15th at 6:30 PM. Visaggio’s a well known higher end Italian restaurant that is 20 minutes from the Hotel. There are three entree’s for you to choose from. Please remit your PayPal payment: Drclock@pa.net. ( Do not click this email, use it as the Payee on PayPal) You must select "Personal Friends and Family Option" box so that I do not incur a service charge for each transaction, if the that option is not selected the payment will be refused. Fare is $60 each and includes tax and gratuity. In the Pay Pal notes section let me know the number of persons and select A , B or C for the desired Entree. Due to the short notice on putting together the dinner, the dinner payments are non refundable.
All entree’s are served with Italian bread and salad. Desert bar Coffee Tea & Ice tea.
A “ Crab Cake Barbara” Seasoned lump crab meat broiled & seasoned Crab Cakes & Past
B “ Elena Marie” Medallions of Angus fillet w/4 jumbo shrimp in garlic butter over Linguine Pecorino Romano cheese
C “ Polo O’Lynda” Sauteed chicken breast w/ a four cheese & tomato Madera wine sauce.
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Raffle !
After the Banquet we will hold our Raffle in the Hospitality suite at the Hotel. We ask that you bring at least one Raffle item for the table. Raffle tickets will be $1 each of $5 for an arm’s length.
Carlisle room count to date is 19...tomorrow would a be a great time for you to call the hotel and reserve your room!
Get your rooms, slackers!
Is there anyone else going or saying they are who haven't?
Maybe, ill blast out there in the Giulia Ti Sport for a few days. I have never took a road trip in it anyway.
When @Marty Grzynkowicz says "maybe" he means "perhaps if I win the lottery, or if the sun looks like it might burn out". 
Come on out Marty !
Carlisle ..... This a great day to make you reservations for Carlisle ! Time to escape captivity and enjoy some good laughs and renew friendships ..oh and tip a couple colds ones too !
@Marty Grzynkowicz - Now that you've said that, you are obligated to come or Alan will send some of his NJ friends (you know, the ones with no necks) to visit you. Pick up @Stan Galat on the way, will ya?
Marty may very well have constituents out there in Chicago. hence my ppl may know youz ppl's. BTW when we are sitting around in the evening at Carlisle someone remind me to tell the tale of ........" The Trunk Ride "
@Lane Anderson posted:@Marty Grzynkowicz - Now that you've said that, you are obligated to come or Alan will send some of his NJ friends (you know, the ones with no necks) to visit you. Pick up @Stan Galat on the way, will ya?
Now THAT conjures up quite the mental image:
Marty and Stan crammed into the Alpha Romeo Giulia Ti Sport with their two, small backpacks packed for the long weekend.
Marty in his Italian Mohair traveling sweater, Italian driving gloves, heal-and-toe driving shoes, Armani sun glasses and Giuseppe Calvanaro "Sport" watch.
Stan in his best "PipeFather" outfit; "Speedsters meet Spyders" Tee-shirt, Carter's dress Chinos and Eddie Bauer slippers (his Timberland walking shoes stowed neatly in the back, next to the supply of Bison Jerky and "Fronions"), trying to find a comfortable position in that tiny seat made for Italian, non-Orangutan bodies, for the long ride from Morton, Illinois to Mechanicsburg, PA.
Sounds a lot like and "Felix and Oscar" take a road trip.
11.5 hours of pure motoring fun with Marty and Stan!
@Gordon Nichols posted:Now THAT conjures up quite the mental image:
Marty and Stan crammed into the Alpha Romeo Giulia Ti Sport with their two, small backpacks packed for the long weekend.
Marty in his Italian Mohair traveling sweater, Italian driving gloves, heal-and-toe driving shoes, Armani sun glasses and Giuseppe Calvanaro "Sport" watch.
Stan in his best "PipeFather" outfit; "Speedsters meet Spyders" Tee-shirt, Carter's dress Chinos and Eddie Bauer slippers (his Timberland walking shoes stowed neatly in the back, next to the supply of Bison Jerky and "Fronions"), trying to find a comfortable position in that tiny seat made for Italian, non-Orangutan bodies, for the long ride from Morton, Illinois to Mechanicsburg, PA.
Sounds a lot like and "Felix and Oscar" take a road trip.
11.5 hours of pure motoring fun with Marty and Stan!
Ummm, it's a 4 door sedan with a trunk, no? Plenty of room.
" Plenty of room" .......Quietly referred to as Hoffa trunks.
Carlisle is just 27 days from today ! Call the Hotel and reserve your room now to be part of the fun !
Hotel
Event dates are: Thursday May 13th - Sunday May 16th. Some of us will arrive on Wednesday May 12th for a casual get together.
Call the hotel reserving your room ASAP at 717-766-9006 be sure to mention Speedster Owner’s Group.
Address: Courtyard Marriott 4921 Gettysburg Road, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
The room rate for either 2 Queen or 1 King is $129 per diem plus the usual taxes.
Check in is 4:00pm (We’ll assume that you can arrive earlier) Check out is 12:00 noon.
Hotel reservation cut off date is May 1st 2021. Important: After you register, please.... post "Coming & how many " on this thread.
The Hotel is supplying welcome cookies with beverages for our Thursday arrival from 1:00PM to 5:00PM Also included in the package are free daily breakfasts for Friday, Saturday and Sunday AM and exclusive use of the Hospitality room.
Locally, there are various options for food, in smaller groups to go to including the Bone Fish Grill, Pizza Grill, Texas Roadhouse, Dukes, Rock Bass Grill, Dockside Willy’s and many others as well as that cool Oldies Diner that is just down the street from our hotel. Ed Ericson will put together a couple of local TBA cruises etc. Please respect any and all mask requirements.
@Alan Merklin posted:Carlisle ..... This a great day to make you reservations for Carlisle ! Time to escape captivity and enjoy some good laughs and renew friendships ..oh and tip a couple colds ones too !
We'd be there if we could... 
"Room-Meister" Merklin wrote:
"Plenty of room" .......Quietly referred to as Hoffa trunks.
Would that be the four-man, Cadillac Sedan de Ville trunk or the larger, more luxurious Oldsmobile 98 six-man trunk?
Come to think of it, "Dear Leader Stan" must have a six-man trunk in his rolling annex of Stanistan - He could drive THAT to Carlisle and just sleep back there!
And as Alan said; "Mask Up, Y'all!"
And since we haven't talked at all about having T-Shirts this year, might I propose these for the group as a reminder, with maybe a few replica cars on the back:
Attachments
Sunday 4/18 midnight is the cutoff for the Banquet dinner ! We still need 18 more reservations to make this happen !
Also if you are still on the fence for Carlisle, come out and enjoy the long weeks with your extended Speedster family !
Banquet Dinner
The Banquet dinner will be at Visaggio’s, 6990 Wertzville Road, Enola PA 17025 on Saturday May 15th at 6:30 PM. Visaggio’s a well known higher end Italian restaurant that is 20 minutes from the Hotel. There are three entree’s for you to choose from. Please remit your PayPal payment: Drclock@pa.net. ( Do not click this email, use it as the Payee on PayPal) You must select "Personal Friends and Family Option" box so that I do not incur a service charge for each transaction, if the that option is not selected the payment will be refused. Fare is $60 each and includes tax and gratuity. In the Pay Pal notes section let me know the number of persons and select A , B or C for the desired Entree. Due to the short notice on putting together the dinner, the dinner payments are non refundable.
All entree’s are served with Italian bread and salad. Desert bar Coffee Tea & Ice tea.
A “ Crab Cake Barbara” Seasoned lump crab meat broiled & seasoned Crab Cakes & Past
B “ Elena Marie” Medallions of Angus fillet w/4 jumbo shrimp in garlic butter over Linguine Pecorino Romano cheese
C “ Polo O’Lynda” Sauteed chicken breast w/ a four cheese & tomato Madera wine sauce.
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Hotel Event dates are: Thursday May 13th - Sunday May 16th. Some of us will arrive on Wednesday May 12th for a casual get together.
Call the hotel reserving your room ASAP at 717-766-9006 be sure to mention Speedster Owner’s Group.
Address: Courtyard Marriott 4921 Gettysburg Road, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
The room rate for either 2 Queen or 1 King is $129 per diem plus the usual taxes.
Check in is 4:00pm (We’ll assume that you can arrive earlier) Check out is 12:00 noon.
Hotel reservation cut off date is May 1st 2021. Important: After you register, please.... post "Coming & how many " on this thread.
The Hotel is supplying welcome cookies with beverages for our Thursday arrival from 1:00PM to 5:00PM Also included in the package are free daily breakfasts for Friday, Saturday and Sunday AM and exclusive use of the Hospitality room.
Locally, there are various options for food, in smaller groups to go to including the Bone Fish Grill, Pizza Grill, Texas Roadhouse, Dukes, Rock Bass Grill, Dockside Willy’s and many others as well as that cool Oldies Diner that is just down the street from our hotel. Ed Ericson will put together a couple of local TBA cruises etc. Please respect any and all mask requirements.
Sorry for the late response. I will be attending the gathering. I am headed to paypal as soon as I send this email to pay for the gala dinner. Cheers🍺
Hey Dave!
@edsnova posted:Hey Dave!
Dave's Not Here Man .................
Hey Ed and Alan, I'm back! I am looking forward to hanging out with the crew. Since I live fairly close I will probably just be staying at the hotel saturday night. ( The after raffle hoopla can go pretty late). I'll keeping an eye out for updates. Thanks for taking the helm.
Regretfully, the banquet dinner at Visaggio’s is Cancelled, the reservation head count did not come in as anticipated. For those that did remit payment, I will process your refund asap.
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Be sure to call the hotel to reserve your room as rooms still remain in our room block !
Hotel Information
Event dates are: Thursday May 13th - Sunday May 16th. Some of us will arrive on Wednesday May 12th for a casual get together.
Call the hotel reserving your room ASAP at 717-766-9006 be sure to mention Speedster Owner’s Group.
Address: Courtyard Marriott 4921 Gettysburg Road, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
The room rate for either 2 Queen or 1 King is $129 per diem plus the usual taxes.
Check in is 4:00pm (We’ll assume that you can arrive earlier) Check out is 12:00 noon.
Hotel reservation cut off date is May 1st 2021. Important: After you register, please.... post "Coming & how many " on this thread.
The Hotel is supplying welcome cookies with beverages for our Thursday arrival from 1:00PM to 5:00PM Also included in the package are free daily breakfasts for Friday, Saturday and Sunday AM and exclusive use of the Hospitality room.
Locally, there are various options for food, in smaller groups to go to including the Bone Fish Grill, Pizza Grill, Texas Roadhouse, Dukes, Rock Bass Grill, Dockside Willy’s and many others as well as that cool Oldies Diner that is just down the street from our hotel. Ed Ericson will put together a couple of local TBA cruises etc. Please respect any and all mask requirements.
Sorry to hear that, Alan. Next year's attendance should be better - at least some of us furriners will be able to make it.
I'm sorry to hear that as well, Alan. We'll have fun anyway and like I said earlier, those of us in the "Cool Crowd" can go if we want - maybe Wednesday night.
@Lane Anderson posted:I'm sorry to hear that as well, Alan. We'll have fun anyway and like I said earlier, those of us in the "Cool Crowd" can go if we want - maybe Wednesday night.
I guess that depends on your definition of "cool". Hehehe.
Cool is anyone riding in a topless unheated vehicle at speed Sent from my Galaxy
Windshield sticker # 451. We really don't go for the food anyway.
#293. We go for the margaritas at our favorite Mexican restaurant. And Dave's beer.Sent from my Galaxy