Nor. Cal. Wine Country Run Schedule and Details

Speedster Owners come join us for a Napa Valley Wine Tour August 2&3.
Tour the beautiful Napa valley. Everyone will meet at the Viansa Winery on Hwy. 121, approximately three miles north of Hwy. 37 near Vallejo, at nine AM. You can

Sounds like a very nice tour. I will be there.

My wife and I will be there.

Dick and Roxanne

Eddie,

Looks like you've put together a super weekend. Hope I can make it.

How much for rooms at the Estate?

David

Eddie,

Sounds great! My wife Suzan and I will be there.
We would like to arrange to stay at "The Estate". Can you Email us on the cost and availability.

Thanks for arranging everything!

Brian Bell,
Sacramento

Eddie and Group,

A "Heads-Up" that traffic around Sears Point (Infineon Raceway) will potentially be snarled due to the NHRA Drag Races at Infineon that weekend (gates there open at 7am).

Those of us coming from the East beware and allow extra time and patience.

Brian.

I have seen that snarl of traffic. It is not pretty! Thanks for the heads up. Eddie, can you call someone and have them cancel the drags, or at least postpone them until later in the day?

See you guys Saturday.

Isn't sears point in Sonoma? I thought that was to the west of Napa

Sonoma and Sears Point ( Yeh "Infinion Raceway",,,,just like what do they call candlestick park,,,never change) is SOUTHWEST of napa.



Gclarke

Gentleman, there is no charge for the rooms at the estate. They will be first come, first serve. I think unless alot more people speak up, there will be plenty to go around. As far as the traffic jam, I guess we will have to take that into consideration next time. Eddie

Eddie and Mr. Warren,

My wife Suzan and I will be joining you for the drive and wine tour. We would like to stay at the Warren Historic Ink Estate on Saturday evening if that is available. We look forward to meeting members and seeing old friends. Thank you for the prep-work and planning you two!
Clay

As far as the traffic jam at Sears Point goes..... Take HWY 12 (Jameson Canyon) or American Canyon from HWY 80. Do an expedia or orbitz map and check out Hwy 12 or American Canyon. Address for the Viansa Winery is 25200 Arnold Drive, Sonoma.

If you are coming down from Sacramento let me know and we can get together. I am in Dixon, right of 80. By the expdia map, I am one hour away from Viansa Winery.

Count me in. See you at Viansa.

I am planning to come, whether or not I can get the car insured and running safely. At this point the wife has agreed to come, so two for dinner. thanks for the work, sounds great.

Thanks Dale for the alternate route to the winery, I think Clay and I will be taking that route. Thanks also for posting the address of Viansa Winery, I hadn't gotten to it yet. Eddie

Two more going, I'll see everyone there.

OK, today's the last day to get in on the Wine Country Run with a head count for the BBQ. I looks like a good turn out. If you don't mined, please reconfirm with how many people in your party, so we know how many steaks to buy. Thanks. Eddie

Eddie,

Brian Bell and Suzan Bell...Party of Two.

Staying at the Estate (if available).

Brian.

I will be there with a possible guest. Unfortunately I won't know for certain about my passenger until tomorrow or friday. I will definitely be there though.
-mike

My girl and I will be there. Looking forward to it.

Eddie:

Plan on at least one in attendance. Like Mike, a possible two depending if I get lucky between now and then. :)

Eddie

Count in Dick And Roxanne , we did post eariier.

Suzan and I will be there Eddie. And , Dale is a go also.
Clay

Thanks everyone for the head count. A few people are still trying to get time off work for this tour, so we will keep the gate open until tonight. I can't wait to see all the cool tubs, and meet their owners. Eddie
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Eddie,

As per our previous phone conversation I won't be going on the tour but with all attending I am sure some people will take some great shots of the cars and drivers. Be nice to have captions of the cars and drivers! With Hot August Nights next week,(leaving Wendsday) I think this tour of 700 miles RT would be a stretch for this old body in the heat. Next Year! Everyone enjoy, sounds like Eddie has really cooked up a feast!

Bruce

Thanks Bruce, we will surely miss you this trip. Hope to see you soon. Eddie

Just an update, Mr. Warren was not able to get a tour at Farneinte Winery, but is working on another tour at a winery that has a collection of Ferraris and other exotic sports cars. Also several winerys are having parties this weekend, with food and live music, so we may find ourselves with too much food, music,wine and fun. "not" Looking foward to a great time! Eddie

Sorry I missed the cruise today. I got stuck in Salinas yesterday, and didn't get home until 9:30 tonight. Hope everyone else had a great drive and BBQ. I wish I could have been there.
-mike

Wow!! it is near mid-night and I just got home. Most everyone else spent the night at a fantastic Victorian, that has enough garages for everyone to park inside! Eddie, Fantastic!! Mr. Warren (Rick) Thank you very much. You are a most generous host. Your hospitality was endless and, I know very appreciated. Thank you.

8 speedsters, a Speedster "D", BMW convertable, a SAAB, and a Land Rover all participated over some of the niceset roads in Napa and Sonoma Counties. Two wineeries, about 150 miles, no accidents or car problems (when I left Sat. night) and great BBQ Chicken ala Clay Harvey, flowing beverage at our BBQ, meeting some wonderful new friends, and those that spent the night are heading out again Sunday morning for more miles and another winery.

This was a great event, and the Northern Californians that missed it, MISSED IT! I sure hope it becomes an annual event.

Thanks again Eddie, Rick Warren, and all those that made this day so wonderful.

Pictures Sunday Im sure.

I wanted to thank Eddie for putting an amazing run together(very nice paint, btw),and Rick Warren for being a very cool host. I also want to thank the chef,(Clay).Nice cars,nice people. I was so impressed with the other speedsters I went home and buffed out a shiny spot on my car.

Eddie:

Very nice event. I guess we've come along way since our Opel Gt's. Always fun meeting new people as well as seeing many familiar faces.

Had fun keeping up with Dale on the long drive home. ( Beautiful car and still searching for those darned headlight gaurds) We lost Kurt on the way out.

Always fun running into Dick and Roxanne - we'll have to do the Santa Cruz Mountains Winery Run soon.

Clay and Eddie - looking forward to the Tahoe Run - will our cars breathe up there?

Thanks Rick for sharing your two wonderful homes, your knowledge of the area, and the tour of the Napa Valley Opera House.

And in case your wondering - my ass has recovered. :)

John Malone (alias Michael Blaine)

You know I just read my last above comment over and it may be taken the wrong way.

For clarification - my seats are terribly uncomfortable and can be tough on the old butt on those long rides.

That's all I meant.

Don't be reading anything in to that stuff. ;)

John: Thank you from all the attendees for the clarification.

I am so jealous. I just got my car back from the shop. I think it's fixed???? Eddie, sounds like you put on a fantastic event. I'm definitely in for the next one. Whenever, wherever.

David

Hey guys (and girls), what a great time was had. My guess is that most runs are not this delicious and or entertaining. Rick, thanks for the great hospitality. I was really bummed not having my car but it was worth doing it in the Saab. Hopefully things will be worked out for the next one. It was great meeting all the members and I hope we can put together a Santa Cruz-Monterey run, maybe for Pebble Beach Historics.

For those of you who left, in the morning we did a nice tour of the property which included the Guest house, tree house, and mineral springs fishing pond. Dick tried to drive the WWII vintage D7 Caterpiller... can't keep a gearhead down...

I will post some pics really soon. There were a few good ones including one "on the road" pic that I messed with in Photoshop. hope you like it. Eddie, thanks for putting it together and I got a nice shot of your car at Mario's winery.

Michele, I guess your followup means you missed the late night bubblebath for six...

Thanks everyone for the kind words, but really I'd like to thank Rick Warren and all of you for supporting this event. All the planning in the world is for not if nobody participates. I had a great time meeting everyone, and putting faces to all the names. I hope this encourages more people to organize their own tours at the places they know and like. I'll try to make the Wine Run annual event. Jay thanks for the great shot of my car. I hope everybody had as much fun as I did. Eddie

What might be more interesting - if more difficult to plan and coordingate - is a meeting of two loosely connected geographic groups, for example, the east coast guys driving northwest and meeting up with the central US guys driving southeast at some agreed upon location at a car show or whatever. This would probably be a 3 day weekend type of deal.

First Annual Porsche Replica Concours, Tire Kicking, and Bragging Rights Rallye. We could make it a knock-off of the Terlingua Chili Festival.
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Eddie, actually I hadn't posted your shot yet. I am doing so now. trying to figure out the right size for the files requirement. I am also going to post some of my car for the non-believers. Thanks again for the run.

Eddie, I take it back, that was the shot. I didn't think it went through when I posted it before. If anyone want printed copies of these they should look pretty good.