GAF, Just got back Options

[Elliot_Cannon]

Hi,
I just got back from the GAF in Ventura. I don't have any pics for ya but I'm sure someone will. Lunch at the Casa Sirena was great. I think there were about 30 people there. I stayed at the hotel Saturday night and wasn't too impressed. The place we stayed at for this years WCC was much nicer. The Casa Sirena could be a first rate resort if someone wanted to buy it and spend a lot of bucks renovating. The place was OK but I just think we could do better. Just my dos centavos. I picked up some useless things at the swap meet so I consider that portion of the weekend a success. All the venders were there. Said hi to Brad at the Wevo booth. I think I saw more 914 people at lunch on Sat. than were there on Sunday. A few couldn't stick around. There were probably about 8 914s I saw. They were parked all over the place. We need to establish a 914 corral at these events. When I pulled into the parking area, I asked the guy "where is the 914 parking?" The jerk said ,"there isn't any 914 parking." I said,"bullshit! I know where it's at." The jerk says "where?" And I say"anywhere I'm parked". He laughed and waved me through. My feeling is the 914 just doesn't get the respect it deserves. We need to work on that.
Cheers, Elliot

[Howard]

I posted this on WCC 2005, but ...

I didn't bring a camera, but lots of pix taken. Watch for posts.

MAJOR issues with Casa Sirena. Screwed up reservations, dirty rooms, lousy service. They have refurbed about half the rooms, and I made a point to tell them to put all 914 types in the redone ones. They forgot, and after looking at the second crappy room, Mr. and Mrs. BigKat83 went to Motel 6. They 'lost' Slits' reservation....

Lunch was a social success with about 30 attending and food was pretty good, but it took them an almost an hour to serve us. That's 30; would hate to see them try 130. Expecting call from manager manana. If no major ass kissing, we're going elsewhere.

GAF was nice if you like that sort of thing. So many beautiful cars in one place was overwhelming. Too bad most of them never get driven, but it is neat how they get armorall in the tire grooves. Think there was a seminar on that and truly sorry I missed it.

Unless you were hanging around MikeZ's POS collection with the 914 group, you might think that Porsche owners are not allowed to smile or laugh. Thanks for the chuckles. That's what will make WCC 2005 a winner.

I'll go take my meds now.