Harry's Hof Brau
1909 El Camino Real
Redwood City
 

Howdy Folks,

Well it certainly seems that Indian Summer has arrived, been plenty warm lately.

Next meeting coming up at Harry's in Redwood City on Wednesday October 1st.

We can get caught up on Cherry's, and Altamont Cruisers show and look forward to and discuss our upcoming Picnic on Oct 18th. It is the time of year to start thinking about our events for next year, Officer Elections and any other club business you may want to discuss. Upcoming meeting agendas to go something like this. October lets discuss if you want any changes to your Officers, GGuys 2004 and the future direction of our club. Are we doing what YOU want? Are there things YOU would like to do that we are not doing? November let us begin our event selection process for 2004. Group discussion for potential events. We can dedicate the bulk of the meeting for this. December lets go NO MEETING as we did last year. Jan 04, we can have a special meeting for the purpose of next years event selection. Bosco's has worked well for this the last couple of years and we can discuss if we want to return there again next year. Jan 10th or 11th 2004 looks good for this, plenty of time to decide.

That covers everything for now..........see ya in the fast lane...............

John

MEETING MINUTES

Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2003

Note Taker:  Barb Davis

  Date/Location:     Harry’s Hofbrau, San Leandro , CA. 7:00 PM

1. Al Harris gave treasures report. As of Sept 3^rd, our balance is $7205.00.
   
   

2. Jim Lent talked about upcoming event at Cherry’s Jubilee in Monterey. Jim will send an e-mail regarding meeting locations and the event at the Flynn’s house.
   
   

3. Jimmy Sanderson shared information about the Del Valle picnic on Saturday, October 13^th. Rain or shine event. You can bring your regular car.. Camping, swimming, rental boating available at the park.  Bring raffle gift. Club voted to have proceeds from raffle to go to Ed Cudney and the USO. Silent auction will be held. This is our thank you to Ed and all the people that served our country. RSVP to  Jimmy Sanderson before Oct 9^th. Please bring a share dish. Details to follow in newsletter.
   
   

4. Russ Louthian discussed hosting the GoodGuys event in June 04. It was decided that we need to let the GoodGuys staff know our feelings on how things went last year, problems that occurred.  Goodguys moved the barbeque pit. Barbeque will be in the same area as it was this year.
   
   

5. Altamont Crusiers are having a car show September 28^th. Alan and Julie Blake have invited the club to their house for barbeque and swimming after the show. Please RSVP to the Blakes.
   
   

6. Russ Louthian talked about the Santa Cruz parade on the 1^st Saturday in Dec. Dec 6^th. Donations would go to Second Harvest Food bank. The club will give a donation to this event. More details to follow.
   
   

7. Next meeting to be held  Wednesday, October 5th at Harry’s Hofbrau in Redwood City. 7:00 PM.  

CHERRY'S JUBILEE RECAP

Cherry's is our favorite car show. You have no doubt heard about it. Well, this was our recent experience.

We met Thursday morning in San Jose , one of several groups headed for Monterey. It is always exciting to hear 12 GTOs going down the road together. The trip to Albonetti's restaurant for lunch on Fisherman's wharf in Monterey was uneventful, thanks to Jim Lent’s leading the caravan.

After lunch it was on to the Andril Fireplace cottages where we checked in and rested before going the the Flynn's house for tri-tip dinner and karaoke. The Righteous Brothers, Ken and Dale Davis, sang "You've Lost that Lovin Feelin", and Deidre Stipanov sang " I Got You Babe" to hubby Mark, but my favorite was John Phillips breakdance. Quite a sight!

Friday morning we were awakened @ 5:15 by John Phillips and Tom Stanger firing up their cars to take them to the show downtown. The rest of us, later, went on the poker run. I don't think anyone came close to winning the $1000 prize.

That afternoon was filled with general laughing and tom foolery. There was high excitement, however, when Dale and Anita returned from their walk on the beach, as she was wearing a new engagement ring. Many cheers and toasts.

People went to different restaurants for dinner that night. We went for a short walk to the Fish Wife restaurant. Please note that Albonetti's is better. There was also a birthday party, for tom Stanger, during the day and to everyone's delight, Julie Blalock cut the cake.

Saturday is the car show @ Laguna Seca and all the GTOs met at the entrance. Lolly Mayeda came running over and gave Mary and I big hugs. Then all 20+ GTOs drove in and parked together. Breakfast consists of pancakes which are tossed to the crowd by the cooks and you catch them in your plate and big slabs of ham which are at the table.

One of my favorite things are the Hot Laps. You ride shotgun in specially prepared Porsches. My driver John had a 911 with a big air foil. I knew it was going to be good when he asked the magic question. "What kind of ride do you want from mild to wild?" Guess what I chose. We passed several cars with the most exciting part being the corkscrew.

They also have parade laps where you can take your own car out on the track. Stuart Cole was having apoplexy when he returned. He had high hopes of airing out his 428 tri-power on the straightaway, but was put behind a very slow 1956 Ford. His fiancee, Carmen, tried to find a bright spot by saying, "They took our picture in the corkscrew", but he was having none of it.

GTO owners share their ideas. With so many in one place I asked Keith McLelland, owner of "Lemanster" a very quick Lemans, and Jim Edwards, who has a gold '67, for tips on cooling down my always hot running goat. They were a big help.

After the show, back at Andril Cottages, Tom Stanger & Mark Stipanov put together a New York steak barbecue. The spouses supplied the trimmings and it was excellent.

After the dinner, groups either went for a walk on the nearby beach, (that's what we did), or they went downtown to the dance. It was apparently great, because our group stayed until the band gave out.

We had a long trip ahead of us, (Portland), so we got up to leave early. There were already several people getting their cars ready for the trip back as well. We shook some hands, got some hugs, and took off.

For me, Cherry's could best be summed up by what I overheard Russ Louthian say on Friday afternoon. He looked around at the collective people in the center courtyard at Andril's, then at the beautiful tall pine trees surrounding our cottages. To no one in particular, he said, "You know, Hot August Nights is big and its great, but this is the best."

Larry Holt