Best of France and Italy November 2

r u ready for F&I show?

I'm ready!

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will see you there

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Ricardo
X19/79
 
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I didn't know N54 would accept the space bar... !

I always just put a period - .
 
Thanks, Dan

But we are leaving early (6AM) and storming down I-5, as I have a little biz to conduct early Saturday afternoon. We'll see ya down there!
 
Here's my pics. I stayed close to the group. Among the millions of dollars of machinery, I always find the friendships here more valuable.

This year's "Speical Guest Star": Albert Alvarez
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Gathering for lunch
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Gilles and Ricardo scheming something
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Danny, Connie, Rey, Tony, Ricardo, Gilles
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Rey and Ricardo
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My "Personal Best in Show". You have to see it in person to truly appreciate the details.
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SoCal X1/9 Contingent....although we had 2 late arrivals (Ed DeCarbo and Ed Ramirez)
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That's "Stockton Brad" in the middle
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This year's "Babe in Show": Ed Ramirez's beautiful little girl Lauren. Look at those goldy locks :)
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Good times!
 
Here are a few of my pics from the show.
I was told that I was a sick man and needed to get help.
me in the scorp on the way home from the show.
Deli driving the spider after the show

Yadira riding in the spider w/ her mom.
My two mistresses, and they get along so well.
I wonder if they noticed that it wasn't an X?
Only a couple red cars showed up.
A pair of Dinos.
Gary's
Alvon's
Ron's
Mark's
Ricardo's
George's
George's brothers'
nicely restored '69
Rey's
Tony's
Alberto's
Alberto's other
Luis'
Peter's
Eddie's custom scorpion roadster
Nice custom scorpion dash
just awesome
my scorp finally got reunited with it's long lost siblings.
It presented itself rather well considering that it didn't even get washed.
The new batch of shirts came out really nice.
Ximena and I.
 
Eli... it was great to meet you and your beautiful family...

... thanks for all the excellent photos also!

What a great day it turned out to be!
 
BFI... What a day...

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This was the ENTIRE show at 0630 this morning... Yep... that's rain and MUD... and it STORMED all day Saturday with a forecast to do the same today. Around 0800 a hole opened up over Woodley Park and it was beautiful for the remainder of the day.

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Here's a shot of a 695cc Abarth with one DCOE 45 Weber. The carb is as big as the engine!


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A magnificent FIAT JOLLY and a Multipla next to it... Justin from "Matchbox" brought them...

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And one of his 500s...

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An Isetta like no other...

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This Scorp's engine bay looked awesome...

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There were FOUR of these Iso-whatevers with Corvette Drivetrains... but this one in RED really popped! The FOUR Webers really transform this American SBC into a cultural Euro-car... almost!

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For Rossofini... a Citroen Panel I know he'd love...

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A great looking Alfa racer... the engine was actually tilted a bit to clear the webers on the right side...

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A small line up before we left... Stockton Brad is in Mark Plaia's old ride and that's Dan Yee next to his Black and Silver Ride... also down from the Bay Area.

Most importantly... Ricardo, Rudy, Brad, JJ, Rodney, Reyy, Eli, Alvon, Talon, Mark, Will (apec), Gilles, Alpert, Dan (Minnesota!) Cesare, Dan Yee, Ron, Chris, Mo, Ed and Barbara De Carbo... and their families were wonderful to meet and see again. (Hope I didn't forget anyone...)

Almost as important... Rudy's Saugage and Bell Pepper Sandwiches with Chips and Drinks were the ENVY of all those within BBQ-ing distance around us.

We were certainly all blessed today with good weather, good friends, good food and drink, and GREAT cars!
 
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