West Coast Cruise

Okay,,,Here is the official information regarding dates...

We will be staying at the same hotel since it seems to be the most accommodating and convenient for our group.  The dates are June 9th through June 11th.  For those who wish to stay through Sunday the 11th and checkout on Monday the 12th, the hotel will take care of that when you call.

The rooms will be under the SOC or Speedster Group.  We currently have 25 rooms blocked.  In the past we've struggled to fill all the rooms and usually hit around 20 rooms, but with the interest this year I would suggest jumping on this ASAP so you're not left out.

As a side note, the room rate increased from $185 to $195, but given the price of real estate these days, I'm going to say that's nominal especially given their hospitality in the past.

Quality Suites San Luis Obispo
1631 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Hotel 805-541-5001

 

Scott, Kevin and I are thinking about coming to SLO in April to do some reconnaissance regarding cruises, wine and food. Perhaps 4/21-22? Are you in town?

Terry Nuckels posted:

Scott, Kevin and I are thinking about coming to SLO in April to do some reconnaissance regarding cruises, wine and food. Perhaps 4/21-22? Are you in town?

@Will Hesch @slofuzz

Will and I were also working on some cruise routes and I had an idea for lunch. Maybe I can come up that same weekend and help scout out some routes. That is if Scott will let me sleep on his floor.

Robert, that would be great! 

I'm going to put this in my calendar now and see if I can get the wifey to say yes. Maybe she can follow in the Touareg with baby Natalie and join in on the fun.

I should have all the bugs work out of Eleanor to make a drive to SLO. Maybe @MusbJim and anyone else is So Cal would make the drive up too...

There is a huge caravan from SoCal every year.  They meet up at the no tell motel in Malibu and head out together. They make up the bulk of the rowdy crowd in SLO each year. You will be in good company.

Alexis and I are in if the Speedster is back up and running by then.  I'll be taking the car off the road very shortly to prep for the 5 speed swap. I have several little jobs I want to tackle while the car is inop.  

March - June.  Nearly 3 months? Should be doable. *gulp*

Ted

Anyone interested in a caravan from the Sacramento area? I will be coming down from South Lake Tahoe. Meet up some where around the area on Friday around 10:00am or so. Your thoughts valley area guys and gals?

*LongFella posted:

I'm going to put this in my calendar now and see if I can get the wifey to say yes. Maybe she can follow in the Touareg with baby Natalie and join in on the fun.

I should have all the bugs work out of Eleanor to make a drive to SLO. Maybe @MusbJim and anyone else is So Cal would make the drive up too...

Weird - I also have a wife, a baby girl, and a Touareg. I just need a speedster and I'm in!

TRP posted:

There is a huge caravan from SoCal every year.  They meet up at the no tell motel in Malibu and head out together. They make up the bulk of the rowdy crowd in SLO each year. You will be in good company.

Alexis and I are in if the Speedster is back up and running by then.  I'll be taking the car off the road very shortly to prep for the 5 speed swap. I have several little jobs I want to tackle while the car is inop.  

March - June.  Nearly 3 months? Should be doable. *gulp*

Ted

I'm sure you'll make the date!

I have little odds and ends to finish up: sealing the engine compartment, clutch cable adjustment, finishing painting the underside, minor suspension adjustment, fuel sender float adjustment (if needed), oil change/valve job...

It doesn't seem like much, but I don't get a lot of time to do the work each weekend

Edit: And I'm looking at replacing the engine (build or have built - haven't decided)...

*LongFella posted:

I'm going to put this in my calendar now and see if I can get the wifey to say yes. Maybe she can follow in the Touareg with baby Natalie and join in on the fun.

I should have all the bugs work out of Eleanor to make a drive to SLO. Maybe @MusbJim and anyone else is So Cal would make the drive up too...

If you can get your wife to tag along in the Toureg you lead a better life than I, Brian. Just make sure she gets some seat time in Eleanor...

majorkahuna posted:

Anyone interested in a caravan from the Sacramento area? I will be coming down from South Lake Tahoe. Meet up some where around the area on Friday around 10:00am or so. Your thoughts valley area guys and gals?

We might be driving to Bakersfield first then over the 46 to SLO. There may be two of us coming out of Bakersfield. Fresno people, Teby, Troy, Robert... maybe meet at a rally point on the 46? @majorkahuna maybe you Terry and Kevin can meet at rally point too? Any ideas? Something close to the 5.

When I win the lottery, I'm going to have my Beck shipped out there and I'm going to do The Drive up the coast and visit Los Osos where my mother used to live.  That is really beautiful country.  I think there should also be a spring flower festival going on about now.

Rusty S posted:

majorkahuna posted:

Anyone interested in a caravan from the Sacramento area? I will be coming down from South Lake Tahoe. Meet up some where around the area on Friday around 10:00am or so. Your thoughts valley area guys and gals?

We might be driving to Bakersfield first then over the 46 to SLO. There may be two of us coming out of Bakersfield. Fresno people, Teby, Troy, Robert... maybe meet at a rally point on the 46? @majorkahuna maybe you Terry and Kevin can meet at rally point too? Any ideas? Something close to the 5.

Maybe in Kettleman it's right on the I5 and 41.  Or maybe in Sholame, there's a little store/restaurant there next to the James Dean memorial. 

hey guys (newbie) do they still have the knotts berry farm show (when) or is there somewhere i can go in socal i can see some speedsters for sale?

dukewagon posted:

hey guys (newbie) do they still have the knotts berry farm show (when) or is there somewhere i can go in socal i can see some speedsters for sale?

There is no longer a show at Knott's Berry Farm. If you want so see some Speedsters you could go see Kirk at Vintage Speedsters in Hawaiian Gardens. www.vintagespeedsters.com

Or you could go see Greg at Vintage Motorcars http://vintagespyders.com/contact-us/

And there are several Speedsters for sale on this website right now.

thanks Robert     bummer that was a good show

Terry Nuckels posted:

Scott, Kevin and I are thinking about coming to SLO in April to do some reconnaissance regarding cruises, wine and food. Perhaps 4/21-22? Are you in town?

Terry,

Did you get my email reply?  That sounded like a winner, although now you let the cat out of the bag and the cops are planning to show up too!  We're screwed now!! LOL

Yes, Robert McKnucklehead, you are welcome to stay here too!!  In fact, I'd have it no other way...

Keep me posted!

Scott

P.S. Just don't bring the CROOKED ACCOUNTANT! He's busy cooking the books for tax season!

hey guys,    i know i'm leaving myself open for sarcasm, but..    i have a really nice 2007 corvette that is a great car.    from you guys that have speedsters. would it be foolish to sell the vette to buy a speedster.    i test drove one and really liked it, and i cant have both cars.

No question the men that drive Speedsters are secure in their Masculinity. 

Stupid question on this site -- just sayin' . . .

First, required reading: in the Articles section of the site read Paul Harford's article, "Are You Ready for A Speedster?". 

Visit Vintage in Hawaiian Gardens. Check the Makers section of the website and look at what is available to be built.

Consider how you intend to use it. Daily driver? Talk to MusbJim, first. 

There are varying degrees of quality and creature comfort in these. Everybody has an opinion, just mention a maker and stand back.....

Check with Troy Sloan and DrClock on this site to see what they are building out. Both highly reputable refurbisher/builders.

All excellent advice.  Notice how Panhandle (MUSB??) Bob skipped right over the question about Corvettes.  They never have been and never will be appreciated by the P- crowd.  I recall many a group B and grp C SCCA race featuring Corvettes and 356s on the track at the same time back in the 60s.  What a hoot.  Fierce competition, and truth be told, sometimes the plastic pigs, as we would call them, won and sometimes the good guys.  As to the denigrating "plastic pigs", who knew then??  gotta watch what I say these days . . .

PHB said it best...............consider how you're going to use the car first. Then there are a lot more questions. If you want to see the cars up close, ride in one, or even drive one come and see us on the during the West Coast Cruise. (See details above)

Thanks guys for the excellent advice. i am going to go visit vintage speedsters and vintage spyders.    they are both close by.    i would also like to go to monterey.    my wife and i drove a shell valley cobra i built, up the coast there.  so nice!   i retired so i don't need to commute anymore. so i really don't need the vette.   i have always liked the speedsters, and its something i can turn wrenches on.    i wouldn't mind building my own, but it seems i can buy one turnkey for not that much more money.   thanks.

oops.   san luis obispo   even better

I'm going to beg for a hall pass for this one @slofuzz 

We shall see! I considered bringing the touareg or panamera and the kiddos but hey... who are we kidding?

So I'm almost 99.9% certain I'll be heading this year

Now, I am 100% sure I will be going. Need to book my hotel room now

For the folks down in Orange County, let's get a meet up date so that we can all cruise up together

booked tonight for the 9th and 10th from Modesto

Bob Hampton posted:

booked tonight for the 9th and 10th from Modesto

Did you call and book or do it online?

Trying to book online, but it doesn't allow the group code listed above. I'll try calling later today to book the room...

Brian - for the SLO gig, a bunch of the SoCal peeps (and other areas) rendezvous 10:00AM Friday morning in Malibu (PCH & Topanga Cyn). Typically there are 10+ cars that meet up & caravan  to SLO. It's quite a sight to see a parade of Speedsters cruising up the coast & 101!

The trip sheet will be posted as the time draws near. Hope you can join the caravan. 

MusbJim posted:

Brian - for the SLO gig, a bunch of the SoCal peeps (and other areas) rendezvous 10:00AM Friday morning in Malibu (PCH & Topanga Cyn). Typically there are 10+ cars that meet up & caravan  to SLO. It's quite a sight to see a parade of Speedsters cruising up the coast & 101!

The trip sheet will be posted as the time draws near. Hope you can join the caravan. 

I plan on being their to cruise up with everyone 

Nancy and I are booked. Looking forward to seeing everyone again this year. And looking forward to seeing all of the new people as well.

By my count for new people we may have: Cory McCloskey, Paul Ellis, Bob Hampton, Seth aka Seth356, Brian aka *Longfella, SF-Speedster, and everyone's favorite perennial new guy Teby S.

It's going to be a big group this year.

booked on the phone
> On Apr 3, 2017, at 7:07 AM, SpeedsterOwners.com <**************> wrote:
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Looking forward to hanging out with all our knucklehead SOC friends at the SLO cruise in June!

I've posted the attached video of SLO 2016 many times before, but just in case our new SOCers haven't seen it, here is a taste of the shenanigans you can expect.

When the video starts, click on the 'Gear' icon in the lower right and adjust video quality to 720HD.

  

Kath and I will be there but we're not booking a room, we'll sleep in Teby's car.

With all the new peeps we'll need name tags...

Cool video.    looks like fun!

@dukewagon - as you can see by the video, our West Coast SLO gathering is actually a "Run-What-You-Brung" event. Its not just Speedsters. Soooo, just drive your 'other' car and join us in the shenanigans in SLO!