This was not your usual sit and shine car show.   If you missed the meet, well you missed a great time.  We had 37 cars at the peak of attendance and we were able to terrorize the streets of Orange County California with little cars and 2-stroke fumes.  With all these cars we only had to trailer 1 car and only for a couple of miles.  We were able to find seats for everyone that wanted to ride in a small car, even had 4 people in a little ole Vespa 400.

Slowest: Richard Lewis won this award for his Peel P50.  But I must say he stayed with the group.  I think he will have to get a few fillings repaired or his insides adjusted after bouncing around for miles and miles on city streets.  It must have been quite a site to be standing on the street corner, watching micro cars zooming by and then seeing an even tinier Peel P50.  (Of course we had Dick Tuttle with his Peel Trident, but he would have won for the fastest award.  That guy is just plain nuts with the way he drives his Peel Trident.)

 

 

 

Most Breakdowns:  This award went to someone that didn't actually have any breakdowns, but helped the person that did have the most breakdowns.  Flower stayed with the person and helped him try and find parts to fix his car.  She said I just can't leave him alone with a disabled car.  Thank you Flower, she does have a last name but most people just know her as Flower so we will leave it at that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bucket of Bolts: We gave this award to the person that actually had the most breakdowns.  Steve Sproul had a few problems with his Isetta Yello!.

It actually all started with a mishap unloading the Isetta.  Let's just say the tires were straddling the ramps as opposed to on the ramps.  The rest of the time it was mostly fuel related, but he kept it running and never got on a trailer.  I think he is proud to be the recipient of this award and has even changed his tag line to "Isetta Yello! Bucket O Bolts". Way to go Steve!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alright here is the picture.  BUT, what you have to picture is the ramps under the tires, well they were there only AFTER the car slipped off the ramps.  And see the oil and rags under the car, well that is all the oil that came out of the chain case.  And you might ask how the oil came out of the chain case...well Steve used a zerk fitting to plug the hole.  So when the car slipped off the ramps, only supported by the middle ramp resting on the chain case, it knocked off the zerk fitting.  Then you might want to know, "Why use a zerk fitting"?  This is only a guess on my part, maybe it was the only thing within reach when Steve needed something to plug the hole?  Turns out he just crammed that zerk fitting back in with a little liquid steel, added oil, and it worked without leaking, sorta like the little Dutch Boy.  There is actually a little more to the story but I think I have embarrassed good ole Steve enough.

Best Hook Up: Ed Hughes won this one for following along with a trailer to pick up any lost parts or broken cars.  Lucky for us he only had to "Hook Up" one car.  I really want to thank Ed for taking a day of his time to make sure we all got home safely!  Thank you Ed.

Saturday: We started early leaving the host hotel at 6:30 in the morning.  It was a beautiful morning drive to "Cars and Coffee".  It is hard to keep a grin off your face when you see almost 40 micro cars come streaming in one after the other.  A comment was overheard that "this is the best thing at Cars and Coffee in a LONG time".  Overall I think close to 300 cars attended Cars and Coffee, but in any case the lot was full and they were turning cars away.

We headed back to our home around 8:30 and had more coffee, bagels and car talk.  Again the whole neighborhood showed up with smiles.  They all commented what a nice group of micro car nuts we were.  We left our home and headed for beautiful Balboa where we parked right next to the water with sailboats and all kinds of activity.  While we were there we had lunch and walked around.  Dennis and Ginger braved the busy island with their 2CV and headed across the water on the ferry.  I think they had to wait about 20 minutes just to get on the ferry. 

    Yep, thats me way up there.

 

 

 

And this is what I saw 

from way up there!! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The evening party had more beer, wine and the slushiest margaritas.  We had the Taco Guy making fresh authentic carne asada, carnitas and pollo tacos.  After everyone was full we went for a yogurt run then back to my home for more partying!