Hello everyone! As I write this another heat wave is upon us. Too bad as the hottest forecast day was June 14, our second club race day at Sears Point this year. Way too hot for me to enjoy myself drag racing. If any of you went, let me know how it was. Y2K is certainly going by quickly. It is hard to believe that this is the July edition of our club newsletter.

I will talk a little about our upcoming events for the month of July. Sat July 8th is our Bowlin’ & Cruisin’ date at the Sea Bowl in Pacifica. Please see info in both this and the last newsletter for more info. Event chair Brian Nickless needs your RSVP at your earliest convenience.Weather in Pacifica sure to be fine so be there and join in the fun. Sat July 22nd has us returning to Tilden Park in the Berkeley hills for our First picnic of the year. Skip Hendricks is the event chair again this year and full details are in this newsletter. Both these events are family oriented and promise to provide lots of FUN FUN FUN for everyone. See ya there, for sure!!!!!! That takes us through the month of July for club events.

Event coverage in this issue to include the recent GGuys show and Heritage days, both in Pleasanton. Those of you that have e-mail saw my recap of GGuys. At that time, I mentioned that I had more to say on the subject and here that is. First off, thank you to everyone that participated. Your commitment to our club made the weekend the huge success that it was. I will repeat a little of what I said previously for the benefit of those of you that did not get a chance to read it. The weekend could only be described as perfect! For our hosting duties, from GGuys, we get free weekend admission, free event T shirts, $500 for the club and the club sponsors a free BBQ lunch both days! We had 52 cars on Sat and about 35 on Sunday. This year marked our 4th year as the host club and we were invited back for #5 during an awards presentation on Sunday that included our being given a plaque along with our check during a group photo shoot. GGuys Event Director Harry Daviess personally thanked our entire group for our hard work and said that they would love to see us back as their host club again next year. Our group stepped up to the plate and accepted the challenge in a nanosecond! Our goal has always been to increase our level of participation each year. Our turnout is always excellent but there is room for us to grow.

I would be interested in hearing from those of you that did not choose to attend, why?? Only by your feedback can we address your reasons for not participating. Please e mail me or call me with your comments. Hosting this show and keeping work times to our goal of 1 hour per person per day attended takes a lot of people. We cannot have too many people attend. Your car does not need to be show ready. We are first in the fairgrounds and can fit as many club cars as choose to attend. My 100 car goal for this year will now become next years goal. We are well over 200 members. A 100 car goal should be achievable. It is a great time and something that everyone should experience first hand. Once again, please let me know the reasons why some of you do not attend this event. The early hour is part of the experience and this event is worth getting up early for. If you don’t want to take my word for it, ask anyone that has gone. I do need your help in making this event run smoothly. We typically have about 70 different work spots to cover. It is important that everyone attending preregister with me. When you do that, everything flows smoothly. I simply take the names and plug them into the work schedule. The other part is that if you sign up and then can’t make it, you gotta let me know. I understand that things come up and respect your time. I do not put the work schedule together until the day before as I know that things change. Once again, that is fine AS LONG AS YOU LET ME KNOW BEFORE THE SHOW.

Not showing up and not letting me know DOES NOT WORK. When you do that, you are basically throwing us under the bus so to speak. We now have to find someone to fill your spot. Please keep in mind that we have to first figure out that you are not there. Needle in a haystack! Those of you that choose to come and not let me know also cause some problems. We are glad you are there!, but you are not on my work schedule, we did not expect you for lunch and don’t want to run out of food, I did not order your freebie T shirt, etc. Communication is the best way to handle this. Please help everyone involved maximize their experience by communicating as required. It is absolutely mandatory that everyone be on the same page with what is going on this entire weekend. The majority of you are so the event runs as smoothly as a finely tuned GTO as far as our part goes!!!!

I would like to congratulate Howard Thorpe for winning the raffle Grand Prize watch donated by members Larry & Curtis Smith of Smith Jewelers. We appreciate their generous donation. You owe it to yourself to see one of these watches in person. Maybe Howard will show you his! I would like to thank the many members that helped out during the show. First, thank you to all of you that attended. Your participation is greatly appreciated!!! A special thanks to the following members: Jim Lent & John Phillips for organizing the various work groups. Blair Locke & Rick Daly for handling the BBQ chores, Lolly Mayeda for selling raffle tickets on Sat., Jeannie Lent & Barb Davis for distributing event shirts both days and selling raffle tickets on Sunday. Thanks to Sandi Kent for organizing and displaying the 3 boxes of our club shirts for sale that I set on a table and helping sell them all weekend!

Each year we are given the opportunity to pick cars for different awards. Thanks to Jodi Barnes, Tom Gormley, Larry Holt, Ray Herman, Yosh Miyako & Paul Fujimori for doing this. Not an easy task when any car on the fairgrounds that fits your category is eligible. Club members Ken Davis & Ray Herman both won awards with their ‘65 convertibles and were parked in the Winners Circle on the front lawn on Sunday.

Way lot of cool things going on all weekend. If I forgot to thank anyone for helping, I apologize! Treasurer Will Valle reports that we made about $1800 for the weekend on shirt sales, raffle ticket sales, new members and our pay from GGuys. A bunch of new people joined, shirt sales were brisk as were the sale of raffle tickets! All of you that were there made it happen. Congrats for making Golden Gate Goats the great club it has become.

Please remember to check our website at www.gggoats.org before and after any event for last minute changes, event recaps, etc. Webmaster Skip Hendricks does a fantastic job of keeping everything right up to the minute. Once again I would like to say that I am proud to be President of your club! Stay cool and see ya when I see ya:

John

It has been brought to my attention that many of you are not writing your car of the month articles and sending them in to Jim Lent for publication in our newsletter and on our website. I ask that when you are assigned an article that you look at doing it as a positive experience, grab the bull by the horns and get it handled. I don't assign 3 per month expecting to get 1. There is absolutely no reason why we cannot have 100% participation on this. I really don't want to be a total ass about this but the bottom line is that I expect everyone to do their article when assigned. If you need help, let me know. Together we will get it handled. Consider these assignments as part of your club experience as a GGG member. I am sure you enjoy reading everyone elses articles. Nuff said? Plenty of lead time is given. As I have suggested in the past, when you are assigned an article, write it right away while it is fresh in your mind. Please help GGG be all that we can be by writing your articles.

I THINK I HAVE MADE MYSELF CLEAR ON THIS ISSUE. THANKS FOR YOUR HELP AND CONTINUED SUPPORT OF GOLDEN GATE GOATS!

JOHN

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JULY 22, 2000