the best raffle ever!

Now that I've had a little rest and was thinking back on the most awesome weekend, I just wanted to say one of the highlight was the super generous raffle prizes donated by the most amazing Speedster builders!

For those of you that weren't there, you missed out on a Nardi steering wheel donated by Henry at IM, a gift certificate for parts from Kirk & Mary at Vintage, an exhaust system from John at JPS, and a luggage rack from (oh s@*&!, I forgot who that was from, help me out guys.) Thanks to all of you for being so generous!

Jen

I won the A1 exhaust from John Steel at JPS

I HAD THE NARDI STEERING WHEEL FROM HENRY AT IM

An A1 AND a Nardi!!!???




You guys SUCK!!!!

DONT FORGET JENNIFERS RACK AND THE $100 GIFT CERTIFICATE FROM KIRK AND MARY AND DUSTYS HOOD STRAPS

Who can forget Jennifer's rack...

Even on the east coast we've heard about Jennifer's rack.

I scored the biggest prize of all, but it wasn't being raffled. A silver and blue Vintage Speedster with 20,000 miles from a Morro Bay local for $8,000! I just drove it home and it runs and looks perfect!!!

Yah - we couldn't believe it when Vince, Gerd, and me were sitting
outside of our rooms, when this guy drives up with this beautiful
silver/blue top speedster. He was looking for Kirk. He told us,
he was a local that wanted to sell his car. I believe Gerd asked
him, "how much" and he said $8000. We couldn't believe it. We
all jumped from our chairs, with our beers in our hand, and walked
over to see this car. It was really nice.
Now the kicker to this is - - - - - he had already made the deal with you Troy. So, why was he at the motel trying to sell it to Kirk? Maybe to see if Kirk would give him more?
But you got the deal of the century ! ! ! ! You could sell it
today, and almost double what you paid for it !
Good luck with the car. My ATM wouldn't let me take out that much
Simi Mike

Kewl for you Troy ! So when will it be on eBay?
One only needs to be in the right place at the right time with full pockets.... Some know of tis find: Some eight years ago I bought a mint Red CMC speedter that needed only a header bow and that was it and purchased the speedster for $4,000. ~Alan

Troy, post so pics of the new ride.

What a score!

Well, really who wouldn't remember my rack, its huge!

They are nowhere near as nice as Jennifers big rack, but here are a few pictures of my new silver Speedster. It's going to be hard to part with this car, it's VERY sweet.

Holy crap! $8k for that car is a steal. Come to think of it, are you sure it wasn't stolen? ;-)

No Beehives...

I'm with the "Sludgester", no Beehives...No Sale

Damnnnnnnnn Jen, that is a nice rack! Maybe someday I'll get to see it in person. ;)

So Troy,
Have you gotten an email from Merklin offering you $8,500 yet? ;)

im just glad Jen won the rack since it would look pretty dumb on my spyder. ;) you took home the lot!

i am still sorting through the 500+ pictures we took and one really stood out- that would be Gerd's ride parked @ Topanga Ranch Motel with a Coors light sitting on the door sill. LOL. That's a pretty nice mod! Maybe next year someone will give out one of those plug in icebox coolers...

Ok, Sight unseen, I'm all in for $8,500 ! ~Alan

CHRIS
CAN I HAVE A COPY OF THAT PIC
GOOD ONE FOR MY ARCHIVES

Jen---I too liked the rack---what's to hate?? But the highlight had to be that great dipstick you won!!

for sure, Jen and I actually won "matching" dip sticks.

Come on Alan. This car comes with 2 car covers and I had to replace that little tiny spring in the door latch! I wouldn't take a dime under $8,600.

Well ok, since you have fully disclosed that expensive spring issue, ......I'll go to $8,800 :)

Juh-Hee-sus!
I thought Merklin had the Midas touch. Eight thousand dollars after someone practically abandoned it in front of you?
You gave that dude a gas can and a kick in the butt to get on down the road, Troy!

That's frigging outstanding. Good-looking car, too!
What are you going to do with two, or did I miss something?
Did'ja sell the other one?

Gotta love those dipsticks! Someone wanted my dipstick so bad they traded me for some bezzels on my way out the door (sorry I don't remember who).

Jen

See, it wasn't a "looser prize".

The rack was provided by Carey at
Special Edition, Inc
Bremen, IN
.
I wound up with the dipstick oil temperature sender - minus guage....the chrome bezels were from JPS...
.
Rick J

Since I already had a dipstick, and Jen was clutching her's tightly in her hands, I was concentrating on Snow whites rack most of the evening, but alas, I went back to my room with my own dipstick in hand..Oh the humanity...

Jen,
How did Blake feel about you trading in that dipstick? ;)

Troy - you definitely scored with that VS! Good on you.

No Cory, I didn't sell my widebody. As much as I would like to keep the silver speedster, I'm not going to. I'll clean it up a little and replace the slightly pitted headlight rings, turn signal grills and windshield posts and then sell it. Here are a couple more pictures of the two of them in my garage and the rest of the story.
The guy pulled up behind me in the gas station early in the morning, before the winery run, in a new Volvo SUV. He asked me if my car was a Vintage Speedster and I said yes. Then he told me he had a 7 year old Vintage with 20,000 miles on it and his wife wouldn't ride in it. He also said that he lived in Morro Bay right on the ocean and was tired of replacing the chrome trim every two years and that he wanted to sell it. I asked him if he belonged to the SOC and he said no, so I told him there would be about 50 speedsters down at the beach in about 15 minutes and that he should take it down there if he really wanted to sell it. I also told him that Kirk was going to be there. Then I asked him how much he wanted for it and he said it was probably worth $10 or $12 thousand, but that he would take $8,000 for it. That was when I asked him for his phone number and told him I would be by in the afternoon to take a look at it. I should have followed him home right then and there, but I didn't want to miss the winery run. WHAT AN IDIOT!!!
Apparently, he took it down to the beach and found a few of the SOC'ers who didn't go on the winery tour and some of them even sat in it. It's unclear to me why it wasn't sold to one of them, but I suspect they may have been nursing serious hangovers from the night before and not thinking clearly.
Two thirds of the way through the winery run I decided that maybe it wasn't such a great idea to have told him to go show it to the rest of the SOC'ers and I called him and went to take a look at it.
I couldn't believe what I was looking at and that I had actually told him to go show it to everyone else! I gave him a $500 deposit to hold it and took a bus back to Morro Bay on Monday with $7,500 in cash and drove it home with that classic SEG on my face all the way.
Troy

Now Troy, if you are a really good guy(and you must be, 'cause you're on here), you'll hold onto this extra car and sell it to Jimbo when he is done with his legal issues!

Troy, that's calendar material.

Daniel. I think that deep down inside Jim really wants a widebody.

Cory. The two of them in the garage? Maybe if I cleaned out my garage!
Troy

HEY TROY
WE DIDNT BUY IT WHEN HE BROUGHT IT TO THE HOTEL CAUSE WE KNEW YOU WANTED IT AND WERE TO MEET WITH HIM LATER.
I EVEN TOLD HIM YOU WERE GOING TO HIS HOUSE LATER.

uh, no you would sell it to me! So that I could sell mine and get some cash to get rid of my problems and I would still have a speedster!

Troy, I would like to make a low-ball offer on those "slightly pitted" posts. I could use them.