Sacramento Bugorama Memorial Day

We had seven cars, 2 CMC's, 2 IM's and 3 Vintage, could be wrong.
Photos are of Jim Hansen's red CMC, Jim is a new owner (1 year), Ernie Frodahl's Vintage and Dale Bates, the Northern California representative for Intermeccanica of Canada :-).

The cars of Bob Baumer, Gene Peterson, and Michael Beaucage

Alan Sherman showed up with his rebuild.

A few details...

Big 2300+ engine, Alan wants a turbo, anyway he was talking about it.

That trunk lid is made of steel, hand crafted by someone in L.A.

One can get ANYTHING in L.A.

The instruments are special, also from L.A.

YOU CAN GET ANYTHING IN L.A.!

Silver Speedster with a great headrest tonneau and a great period racing detail with long wheel studs. Also note the perplex windshield!

This car belonging to a great guy won FIRST Place in the JUDGED Special Interest Class. I really loved this car.

This truck had a chopped roof and a VW type 1 engine!! mated to a Pinto transmission.

And a very nice, slammed, right hand drive K.Ghia

I see a west coast Hooptie in it, myself. Very nice!

More photos of Alan Shermans build

must...............see.............more..............pics.............of.............silver speedster.

I'm having a hard time breathing right now.

you can get that winshield from my friend and neighbor,Bob Kann at http://www.gtwerk.com/ He has alot of parts for that look.

Mickey,
I'll send you some more shots of the silver speedster in a few weeks. Alan will be joining Terry N and myself at the 356 breakfast on June 13. It is nicely done and very cool. When Alan was having the body work done prior to painting he went all out. He had the body guy duplicate the bumper holes ala original cars and several other body differences between a fiberglass car and the steel cars added. The gaps between the doors and body are as sweet as any high end metal restoration.

I'm interested in some pictures of this car too!
Could you send me some?

Thanks to Mike & Dale for the pics.......
Forgot my camera.

Antoine,

I'll send you some pictures too. That looks like the model the Alan used as his "model".

Thanks Dale!!!! The more the better. No detail left out. Thanks again!

Mickey, Antoine, you don't need no stinkin' pictures.

Hop on a plane, come to Sacramento, I'll pick you up at the airport and we'll go see Alan and the car. Lunch is on me.

Hey Mike!
What about that track up in Willows (or near there) that has the vintage sports car races?
They must have some Spring events.

The last race was May 16 & 17th. The next CSRG (Classic Sports Race Group) will be September 25 & 27th at Infineon, what I call Sears Point. Then October 31 and November 1 will be the last race of the year at Willows.

There is always something Porsche at the Willows events, besides the regulars, we get some interesting cars from Oregon and Nevada. Some cars show up once and then we don't see them again until Pebble Beach.

www.vintagemotorsport.com/race_calendar.asp

My favorites are the big speedsters - Can-Am cars, I don't have the upper body strength to handle one anymore, but I still keep in contact - a bit...

Can-Am cars at Infineon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gzEa7ierx4

Zoom, zoom - out

Michael, I'm with Mickey on this; whatever you're sending to him, please also send to me at james.drake AT hoa.usafricom.mil -- We're going to be putting body work on the list when I get back home.
I have all the underpinnings, but the body looks like something a high school shop class threw together.
That silver car is gorgeous. The photography is excellent.

mike was a navy photographer

Cory, Mickey,

I'm confused (not unusual) about what I would send. I'll send you any thing. I guess you want the photos of Alan's speedster, the only one I didn't post was an interior shot like Dale took.

Hey, speaking of interiors, I haven't paid a lot of attention to the different treatments the dash boards receive. I really like the way Alan's dash looks without any padding. I'm starting to be aware of the many different ways the dash board padding is treated on speedsters.

I'm going to start a thread for dash treatments...

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Is that true, Mike? A Navy photographer?
Hmmmm. Even if Bob's pulling my leg, how does an assignment in Africa sound?
Hah, heh. They still don't have my relief identified over here.

As for the images, I'd like to see the details on the underside of the tonneau; the rear valence with the holes in it is really intreaguing to me. I'm also interested in seeing what was done with the rear decklid, the hood and the windscreen. The plexi windscreen we have needs to be replaced after the paint job, whenever that happens. We'll be filling the holes in the car before paint.
I'm not sure what we're going to do for a roof, either, if anything.
We're probably not going to do that paint thing until after we've completely gone over the body.

I'll be seeing Alan soon, and if he cooperates I will get many detail photos for you guys.

Bob wouldn't pull your leg except for the fact that the only Navy Photographer is a Warrant Officer. The rest of us, CPO down to 3rd class, are mates. Photographers Mate.

Don't say it vince! I'll do it - Mate this...

Eight years and enough flights around the gulf of Tonkin to get a blue and gold air medal. Would probably have preferred a t-shirt! "Went to Nam, dodged SAMs and all I got was this t-shirt."

Remember the Turner Joy and Maddox, the aircraft carrier in the gulf at that time was the Bonhomme Richard (Bonnie Dick), I was doing a WetPac when that happened, and we were all excited. Hostilities equal advancement.

My specialty was "Rope Yarn Sunday."

That would be time off for you sand crabs.

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Some of best times in my RVN tour was hanging out with Swabies aboard ship........

great hiding place= ship's library, they'll never find ya there!

i hid out in the bowling alley

...mess hall for me!


...then back to the 'Medic' barracks for 'aroma therapy'!

While we are all drooling over Alan's car, I thought I would let everyone see the blue (Meisner blue?) car he started with...

I just found Dave Barret's business card in my car........ He had a couple of very nice samples of his work at the show. He appears to do a great job and says he can build whatever ya need.
http://www.manxchassis.com/