2.  Carol Sakamoto introduced Betsy Oleski from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. She spoke about the Race for the Cure. For more informaton, their website address is: www.sfkomen.org

3. Jim Lent recapped the Central Pontiac car show in Madera. Congratulations to Tom & Vicki Stanger who took 2^nd place for his 62 Grand Prix, Ray Mares who took first place in his division for his 67 GTO, John & Marie Strom who took 2nd place in their division with their 64 GTO, but were picked by Don Bonanader for his special pick as “Best GTO” in the show and got a 3’ trophy. Don is the dealership owner who pays for the dinner and all of the trophies. Adam Peralta took 1^st place in his class with his 2002 GTP. Congratulations everyone

4. Jim Lent talked about the Wangers event. Welcome dinner for Jim Wangers on Friday May 17, 2002. Dinner will start 6:30 P.M. at the Black Diamond Brewery in Walnut Creek. The club members pay for own meal. The price will be $15.00 per person.

5. Saturday, May 18^th the GTO’s will gather at Civic Park in Walnut Creek. Maps will be available on-line. Dinner will be at the Cantina restaurant on Saturday night. Jim Wangers presentation will be 12:30- 3:45 with a presentation intermission at 2:00.

6. Bob Doten will check into a video projector for Jim Wangers presentation.

7. Russ Louthian talked about the GoodGuys in June. Mark your calendar.

8. Club picnic will be held at Tilden Park June 22nd. Skip Hendricks is the coordinator for the event. The club will provide tri tip and chicken. Club members will need to bring a share dish for the potluck. More information to follow in the newsletter.

9. July 20^th will be the date for the wine cruise. Ken Frank is coordinating the event. He would like us to take a vote to find out if we want to visit one winery in the morning in Sonoma take a short cruise and go to Leroy and Judy Anderson’s for lunch, or visit 2 winery’s then on to Leroy and Judy Anderson’s for lunch. It was decided to visit two wineries.

10. Russ Louthian talked about the Day at the Races on Aug. 17^th. The price for the ticket is $20.00. That includes cost of the buffet, parking fee, and tour.

11. Russ Louthian told us about the vendor discount program. He is looking to see if club members can get a discount from various vendors.

12. Jim Lent talked about Cherry’s in Monterey on Sept 6^th, 7th and 8th. If you have any questions you can contact Jim Lent.

13. We are taking donations for the raffle at the Jim Wangers event.

14. A big thanks to Skip Hendricks for the AV at tonight’s meeting. We could hear what was said at the meeting.

15. No meetings until the first Wednesday in September.

As many of you already know, Golden Gate Goats is the host club for the Good Guys 9th Summer Get Together at the Pleasanton fairgrounds. This has proven to be one of our largest event to date with 50+GTOs in attendance last year. Our club has become one of the largest GTO clubs in the nation with approximately 200+ current members. The enormous amount of exposure we get at this show has played a large part in helping us increase our membership. Good Guys management was very happy with the job we have done as well as the fact that we pretty much blew 'em away with our

level of participation! They invited us back for this year’s show during last year’s show! For a niche club such as ours, the opportunity to host a show of this caliber is a really big deal!

Myself along with Jim Lent & John Phillips will be the event coordinators. I will be the pre-show contact and the three of us will be working together during the event like we did last year. We will

be spending whatever time is required, at the next two club meetings, to plan for this event. 2002 will be our sixth year as the host club. The previous events went off without a hitch as I am sure this year’s event will as well. Like fine wine, we are improving with age. It takes a lot of member involvement to make this work.

I would like to thank all of you that have worked the previous shows for all your hard work. I am sure all of you will want to participate again this year. Let’s make it our goal to make this our largest

event ever. One of the many benefits we receive as the host club is our choice of where we want to park. Plan to come on out and work the show, you will have a GRRR8 parking place for the day!

Let me go back to early 1997 when our club was but a few months old. Club member John Phillips was at the right place at the right time and was instrumental in introducing us to the Good Guys.

John also belongs to the P-Town Pushrods, the club that hosts many Good Guys shows each year. He found out that P-Town was not going to be hosting he upcoming Muscle Car Nationals as they were already doing three shows and their members are heavy into rods. John called me immediately and we were able to get the "gig" so to speak. Without John’s help, we never would have been given this opportunity. Thanks a lot, John and I hope I got the facts close to correct!

Those of you that have not yet participated must be curious as to what "hosting" the show entails. Here is what is in store for ya! Our day begins early. We rendezvous in front of Specialty Sales on

1st street in Pleasanton at 5:30 a.m.! We leave promptly for the fairgrounds at 5:45 a.m. We drive to our club parking area near the museum and park the cars. The fairgrounds are very quiet until the exhaust note of 20,000 GTO horsepower fills the air, along with blipping throttles as we back em in. Unless you plan to cruise the fairgrounds, this will be your spot for the day. Good Guys event personnel will meet us here and outline what we need to do. We have done everything in previous years from helping with the special areas to directing traffic inside the fairgrounds. Whatever

assignment we get is always a good time. Our level of participation determines how long we each need to work. I anticipate one hour per day per person. Those of you with cars in progress, come on out and join in the fun! As more information comes in, we will do a work schedule and post it via e mail and on the website so each of you knows exactly where you need to be and when so you can maximize your fun at the show.

1) Complimentary admission both days to members that work the show

2) Reserved parking at one of the best locations in the fairgrounds. Every participant will see your car as they register at the GGuys Gazebo! Literally thousands of people will come by to drool over your car each day of the show!

3) One complimentary event T shirt per worker and additional shirts can be purchased at Good Guys cost ( $10.00). Our club logo will be in color. The shirt will have last years big winners and is always very colorful.

3) BBQ hamburgers, hot dogs, chips & fixins are provided for members and their

families each day. (Club members Rick Daley and Blair Locke have once again volunteered to do the BBQ for both Sat. and Sun.)

Just bring a side dish, or dessert and your own beverages of choice.

Those of you that will be at our April meeting can let me know then or you can sign up with me via e-mail immediately. (mitygto@aol.com) We cannot have too many volunteers to work the show. My final deadline to get everything back to them is May 3rd, just after our May meeting. Once again, if you are working the show you do not need to register (pay) as you get in complimentary. You can work either day or both days. I will have a work schedule for each day. Don’t be shy, let’s really pull out the stops and make this our best turnout ever. If any of you have questions, or want to volunteer you can call me at (650) 349-2095 or e mail me MITYGTO@aol.com or better yet, let me know at a meeting. The sooner you let me know, the easier my job becomes. PLEASE DO NOT ASK ME IF YOU CAN ARRIVE AT A LATER TIME. WE ALL NEED TO BE THERE EARLY AS IT IS THE ONLY WAY WE CAN MAKE IT WORK!

Thank you for your understanding and support. To those of you that don’t attend many club functions, this one has evolved into the BIG DADDY of them all so to speak. As I mentioned, it is a two day show and we are there both days so if you are busy one day, you have the other! It is impossible to talk this show up too much! To my knowledge, this is the largest muscle car oriented show on the west coast. We may be the only GTO club in the country hosting a show like this. I urge all members to come on out and join the fun!

Once again, we will be discussing this event in great detail at the next two club meetings. With our April meeting in Redwood City and our May meeting in San Leandro, we will have a great opportunity to pre-plan for this event. We got a jump on this at our March meeting by beginning sign ups there. Lots of room for everyone. This hopefully will result in a record number of cars along with a new attendance record. Let us set an aggressive goal of 100 cars to attend. I will be e mailing all the car mags letting them know that we are coming out in force. They are always looking for GTOs to do articles on and we have some mighty fine examples of the ORIGINAL MUSCLECAR!

Plan to be there!

The fourth annual Golden Gate Goats club picnic will once again be in beautiful Tilden Park in the Berkeley hills. We have reserved the Island Picnic Area next to the Brazil Room. There is plenty of parking right next to the picnic area to park the goats. There will be space for about 25 cars in front of the picnic area and the rest will be able to park right behind the picnic area.

  The menu will consist of barbecued tri tips and chicken. There will be hot dogs for the kids.  We are asking that everyone bring a side dish to share. Grill space is limited so if you are planning to bring something that needs to be heated please call Skip Hendricks first. We may need to bring some Coleman stoves.

  Also let Skip Hendricks (510.727.0221) or Jim Lent (510.799.6096) know how many in your group are coming and if you’re interested in helping out. We could use some help setting up, parking cars, cooking, and the ever popular clean-up. Also need volunteer to sell raffle tickets and someone to organize games for children.

  BYOB: Beer and wine are permitted, however, no hard liquor is allowed.

  If you get tired of standing around talking horsepower, here is some information on other activities in the park taken from the park’s web page.

•   The Little Train offers rides along the scenic ridge on a scaled-down steam train.

•   An 18-hole public golf course has a driving range, a pro shop, and the Tee Clubhouse coffee shop.

•   The Regional Parks Botanic Garden contains the world's most complete collection of California native plants, including rare and endangered species. Its visitor center offers tours and lectures throughout the year.

•   Lake Anza offers swimming in season at a sandy beach with a bathhouse and food stand. Fishing is permitted all year

•   Tilden's merry-go-round is a splendid antique carousel with hand-carved animals to ride and a calliope to make any child's heart sing. Or children can ride a real pony at the nearby pony ride, in season.

  Directions: From the East Bay or West Bay, take Hwy. 24 to the Caldicott Tunnel. Take the Fish Ranch Rd. exit on the East side of the tunnel (from either direction). Take Fish Ranch Rd. to Grizzly Peak Rd. Turn right on Grizzly Peak Rd. Turn right on South Park Dr. Turn left on Wild Cat Canyon Rd. The Island Picnic Area is on the right just past the Brazil Room.

We'll gather at 10AM in the large upper parking lot (don't be late, so we can park together). This is a beautiful - albeit touristy winery, which overlooks the SF Bay wetlands, a small vintage airport and hillside vineyards. Viansa is an Italian wine experience set in a hillside Palazzo and the wines are molto bene.

Viansa has a large open-air BBQ - grilled burgers, salmon, Portobello mushrooms, corn & veggies, a great market place for cheese,salads, etc. and a huge picnic area overlooking it all! We've been asked not to bring food in. They have wine (obviously), sodas, waters for sale with your lunch.

The market place is fun with lots of wine related "stuff" and Italian ceramics and kitchen items to keep everyone busy. We're getting a private tour from 10:30 - 11:30 and because it will be crowed in July there, we will get our own private tasting too. Cost $6 per person.

St. Francis is an old winery, but a brand-spankin-new facility and sits right under the Mayacama mountain range. Large parking area, beautiful grounds, large outside area for socializing, sitting, napping, just looking at the scenery. Some of The wines are great, some not, but still a great experience! Their Merlot can at times be quite outstanding! Cost $5 per person.

At 2:30 we're going wherest we came, and back to Leroy and Judy's Anderson’s for BBQ Tiger style! Please, if you want to bring your favorite specialty salad, side dish or dessert PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE call Leroy & Judy first, so not too much of something is brought or there isn't enough room for something.

707-996-3549. Otherwise, you really don't have to bring anything but your appetite, just relax and enjoy.

Let's help share the cost of the BBQ (which can be expensive for the host),

Cost is $5 per person - GTO (Gift Token Offering)

Last year we had 38. This year we're again expecting 40 or so and 20 cars.

Leroy and Judy are great hosts, the wine country is awesome and we get to share GTO stories. What could be more fun in-the-sun!

See ya there!

Ken Frank
ken@kfacpa.com
415-898-7768

Hi Everyone,

This is one of John’s absolute favorite breakfast recipes. Never any leftovers here !!!!! These are really good.

Chocolate Chip Pancakes

1 1/4 cups buttermilk ( Low fat o.k. )
1 egg
2 tablespoons oil
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt ( Optional )
1/2 cup miniature semi sweet chocolate chips
Whipped cream ( Optional )

In a small bowl, beat the buttermilk, egg and oil. Set aside

In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, sugar, baking soda and optional salt. Stir the buttermilk mixture into the flour mixture. Some lumps may remain.

Pour 1/4 cup of batter for each 4 inch pancake onto a lightly greased griddle. Top each pancake with 12 to 15 miniature chips. Cook until edges become dry, then flip and cook briefly on the other side

Keep pancakes warm until serving. Top with optional whipped cream and sprinkle with more chips, then serve with favorite syrups.

Makes 8 to 9 pancakes.

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