Thanks Rick for letting me tag along in the empty seat. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL
DAY! I've got the bug back into me to get my '62 Sprite's clutch fixed.
Jeez I procrastinate a lot.
Got a bunch of pictures of the run to Big Basin. Anyone have a site so I
can send them to you for a post? Let me know.
David L. Vrba
'62 Sprite MKII
Dublin, CA
-----Original Message-----
From Rick & Carolyn [mailto:walters at mail.softcom.net]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 2:19 AM
To: Spridgets
Subject: Sundays Big Basin Run
Hi All,
The event Sunday was a good one. The Day was absolutely beautiful.
Sunny 78 to 85 degrees, not as cloud in site, of course this is
California. I hope all made it home okay with out anything more
exciting then the drive happen.
We got to see Rich Hill's Wife's new Bug-i. Looks great and we will be
looking forward to you joining us on future events.
The drive started for me two hours before leaving Manteca. I had a
couple of passes to climb over and a passenger to pick up. Dave Vrba
joined me as my Wife decided she didn't feel like going. We traveled
down to the meeting spot and ran up the colors, British of course.
Waited for the gathering of the Brave. SWAG joined with the Golden Gate
Healey club for this event.
Ten Cars started this event, including four from SWAG. We ended with
more than 15 cars. They just kept showing up. Bryan met up with us
late at a Texaco station along the way. Before it was over we had five
bug-i's out of 15 or so cars.
It was a great drive through the big trees. Lots of twisty's, some
great climbs and even one CHP (with lights a flash'n joined us). He
wasn't after us, just stopped for directions. Which way did those
speeding motorcycles go. They passed about three minutes before him.
No one broke down on the entire trip, wow.
We had a nice picnic under the trees, including fine wines and cornish
game hens. Me, I was baching it. I had a dried out old sandwich from
subway and a coke. I didn't know it was going to be a white table cloth
affair. They even brought the Brie and crackers. Everyone shared with
us poor unfortunate bachelors. It was great, thankyou very much. David
has the pic's, maybe he will post them soon.
See you all soon.
Rick
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