Bay Area Pro-Touring Get Together (Now with pics!)

[mdprovee]

OK,

I am the idiot who cant spell. See ya in a while, hows that.

[MrQuick]

Hope you all had a great time...but I gotta use this room for a big thank you to Mary and David Pozzi. You really saved the day.

I hope its just a broken distributor shaft...if its not, a nice LS6 and T56 will take its place.

Thanks again, the next time we meet up Gina and I will buy dinner. Its people like you that makes this site a great place to be!

Oh yeah, thanks to Allen for finding my flaws. Live long and prosper with that pretty vulcan.

[TonyL]

Is that what the ticking was??

I had an AWESOME time. The turnout was great. Good cars were there, and it was cool getting to meet a few more faces to put with the screennames. The vair faired pretty well, but lost a throw out bearing in the process. But oh well, I needed to pull the engine again anyway.

This little event was just what I needed. My family thought it was cool, and it may just have lit a fire under my brother to get his car running.
my sister in law shot this on the way down. This is what it's all about. Driving whatcha got.


I uploaded that right before imageshack went down. I'll upload the rest tomorrow.

[MrQuick]

Cool Tony I can't wait to see the pictures...I should have called in sick today as it was a mad house...9 warranty jobs that had to go. All in all I worked 10 1/2 hours and was paid 6.5 hours for my reward...flat rate. Gotta love it.

Im hoping it is just the oil pump drive shaft. I will pull it out Sunday and strip er down. Its been acting funny the last few days. I've been wanting to fix the headers and powder coat the frame anyways.


Figures, I got 4 messages about the car tonite...oh well. Roll on

[TonyL]

And now for the pics I got before the camera died. First the batteries, then the memory card failed. I lost like 40 pictures and the video of the dragster running. :(

Tony Huntimer was snapping loads of pics though. I'm sure he'll post them up.

[zbugger]

Thanks a BUNCH to everyone that showed up. The even was OUTSTANDING!!! I'd call it a great success. I lost count of all the cars that showed up. From Dean Tognotti in his LSx powered RX7, to Charley Lillard and Jody Bernard in the Mule, and everyone else from this site that I missed. It was a great show. And DAMN those dragsters were loud.

Mary and David, thanks a ton for the help. Fernando was a great tow truck driver and only hit on Sarah once while I was out of the truck. I just wish I could have driven the car home. And thanks to Brett for helping push the car. There's a bunch of great people on this site that are always willing to help out. That's what makes this site great.

[mdprovee]

My son and I had a great time. He even won a hat, which he wore all day. Nice seeing Allen again, and meeting Mary, David, and Brett.

[Damn True]

Allen,

My wife and I showed up just as you were rolling out of the lot in Vinces Nova. Sorry we didn't get a chance to meet you.

[SIK02SS]

some good photos! i feel like i've seen the goodies 69 before? damn, this makes me wish i was still in modesto and could've taken the 67..assuming the ignition problem was fixed :(

[mpozzi]

Thanks for all of the Goodie's Speed staff for hosting this awesome day. Wonderful cars and people, super parts deals from Goodie's (spent a few dimes on DSE second-gen parts and sound deadener, and a book), great food and entertainment, and a place where the cars were the stars for a day.

I took a gazillion photos and these made the cut. Didn't want to post them individually as the Nikon D80 doesn't know the meaning of a "small" photograph but check 'em out on my Zenfolio link.

And even the weather was special ordered . . .

Anyways, enjoy the photos. http://www.zenfolio.com/marypozzi/p849619277/

Cheers,
Mary Pozzi

[Lowend]

It really was a great day... despite my multi-mile hike to find a new fan belt when driving in (yeah that's the last straw, its serpentine time)
It was great to meet some new faces, great to see some old ones. I almost felt guilty pulling my functional-ugly auto-xer into the lot with all those awesome looking rigs

[Blown353]

almost felt guilty pulling my functional-ugly auto-xer into the lot with all those awesome looking rigs

Never worry... I brought my faded paint and rust holes in the bottoms of my front fenders. They're functional too, natural galvanic body weight reduction.

I missed the shop's Gulf painted Camaro, which is one of the main reasons I came in the first place. I had to bail by noon or so and it wasn't there by the time I had to leave. Maybe next time.

Very good turnout though. Thanks to the guys that put it on!

I didn't drop much under 85 the entire way home and still pulled off just shy of 18mpg. Yay!

[tracy]

I want to thank everyone that attended our very successful event. I was overwelmed with the level of participation. It was really a fun day.

I also want to thank everyone on my team for doing such a great job getting the word out and putting everything together.

...and a giant hug for Mary Pozzi for taking all of those awesome photos. Wow!

We will certainly be doing this again.

-Tracy

[bleucamaro]

Thanks for the great show!

I didn't drop much under 85 the entire way home and still pulled off just shy of 18mpg. Yay!

Not to mention the several full boost runs and 90mph tire smokers.

[TonyHuntimer]

I just got home from Bakersfield. When I get a minute I'll post up some pictures. I have not even looked at them and I know Mary's pics are better.

Thanks a ton to everyone who came. We couldn't have had such a great success without you all.


Tony Huntimer
http://www.goodies-speedshop.com/

[Orngcrush69]

Looks like it was a great turn out! What a great shop! Wish I could have been there! How about opening one here in Fresno?

[larknut]

Looks like I missed out on a good one. I tried to get out of work but it just didn't work out. Hopefully we can have many more of these Nor-cal get-togethers.

[MrQuick]

yeah, we should put on a Sunday get together at Goodies at least once a month.

[Benoit23]

Great pics!!!! Thanks Tony.
I love that last pic of the Drag Car! I will always be a sucker for the all out Drag cars. I wish I lived on your end of this country, you guys have the best car scene; Drag races, road races, car shows, shops, etc.

Thanks again for the pics.