Re: Waterfest: The highlights....[long]

["Allyn" <amalventano1@home.com>]

Jim,
    Many thanks for the condolences. I still had a great time though. Probably since you guys all
kick ass!
Al

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Jarrett" <jarrett@rpa.net>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 6:59 PM
Subject: Waterfest: The highlights....[long]


> Well, I just arrived home from WF 2K+1.
>
> Friday:
>
> -Hooked up with Brett V. at his house, and headed on down, picked up
> Mike Leach and his wife Daphne who have moved to Elmira, NY, in
> Binghamton at our favorite lunch spot, the Harry L. Drive Wegman's.
> (GOOD gourmet pizza).
>
> Nice, leisurely drive to the Ramada in NJ.  Had to deal with the fact
> that all turns in New Jersey are right turns, even left turns.....got
> a bit screwed up by that.
>
> We arrived at the hotel, and at first glance saw no VW's.  We cruised
> around back to see if anyone was there, and met up with Jan Folkson,
> in his stock '86 16v.  Then a window opened, and Josh Able started
> yelling at us as he is wont to do. Apparently the Ramada had set
> aside a lot for Waterfest parking around the other side, so we staked
> our claim, by "the grassy knoll" (the only shade in the area).
>
> We checked in, found our room had a wide open view of the lot, and
> sat in the air-conditioned splendor and watched the cars roll in.
> Till about 7pm, all we saw were A2's,3s, and 4s, with the odd A1.
> Paul Maione and Nigel Heron showed up, but no more Sciroccos.
>
> Hiked over to Chili's, which was right next door for blue drinks that
> came in glasses with salt on the rims, or very large beers, and some
> food....staggered, er...headed back to the parking lot to dig the
> scene, which by 9, had gotten fairly large; the lot was 3/4 full.
> Burnouts were happening, more cars arriving.  Round about 11 or so,
> the Toronto contingent arrived, burning their way into the
> lot....followed by about 6 East Hanover police cars a few minutes
> later.  The police chief rounded everyone up and sort of read the
> riot act -- telling everyone they had to keep it calm, no more
> burnouts, or they "would arrest you, and impound your car until
> Monday, so you'd miss the show."  Obviously, no one from last year's
> Ramada or town had talked to this Ramada or town.....otherwise I
> doubt they'd have set it up here. <G>.  They were cool about hanging
> out in the parking lot, just did not want people driving drunk or
> burning out.
>
> The party went on into the night, a few more list members showed up
> -- Tony Pelletier, the Ohio contingent, Josh Strait.  Crashed out
> about 2.
>
> Saturday:
>
> The phone rang at the ungodly hour of 9am, it was Jan & Josh seeing
> if we wanted to go to breakfast.  We weren't up for it, but we were
> up.  So we wandered outside and hung in the sun most of the day.
> Scott Williams got the road rally organized and off, some more
> listers showed up.  Allyn M. was there with his slightly bent
> Rieger-kitted car (ouch, dude, my condolences....), and he went off
> to the train station and picked up Brian McGarvey.  Runs to the beer
> store were made, and beverages were consumed (right, Brian? <G>).
> Julie MacFarlane and her daughter arrived, with her primered '81.
> Nice job on the body work, too!  Plus some rather "interesting"
> modifications inside....good God, when an electrical engineer gets
> hold of a VW, interesting things happen!
>
> Around 2pm, Yarrow Thorne, of the 1.8
> Mk1-drive-to-CA-after-doing-One-Lap fame, wandered thru the parking
> lot....but there were only a couple of us out there at the time, he
> looked REALLY tired, and wandered off.
>
> Then the Potterpeople showed up, and greetings were traded all
> around...Pete Lindval(sp?), Marc Getty, Bill Scarince and his fiance
> Rebecca also showed up in the afternoon.  A bunch of us headed over
> to Chili's for more food.
>
> After dinner, the parking lot party got going into full swing, along
> with burnouts in front of the hotel, which brought quite the
> response:  More than twenty police cars, and on the order of 55
> police officers.  Apparently, there was a bit of an overreaction, as
> one of the Toronto guys reported seeing one of the cars pull up, and
> the officers jump out, pretty jumpy --- he asked Al what was going
> on, that there had been reports of a riot.  Well, they swept thru the
> parking lot, telling everyone to either go to their rooms or if they
> didn't have a reservation at the Ramada to leave.  One cop explained
> to us they just needed things calmed down, just go in for a while,
> let things cool off, they'd leave, and then we could come back out
> (as long as it stayed calm).  Okay....off to Chili's for a few drinks
> till this happened.
>
> The parking lot fun continued on late into the night.
>
> Sunday:
>
> WAY too early, we had to get up and get to our cars for the hour long
> drive to the show.  The hotel was over 30 miles away from Island
> Dragway, and a good part of that was county roads.  The line to get
> in was long and dusty, and there was no shade, anywhere.
>
> We all got in and got parked, and waited for the judging to happen.
> The Sciroccos got judges fairly early in the day, albeit not without
> some problems.  I was showing my 16v Rabbit Convertible, and mine was
> the very last class judged; they actually brought the results up onto
> the podium while they were reading off the winners.
>
> I was stuck at my car all day, so I can't really report on what I
> saw, cause I didn't see anything.  I did get into the vendor area for
> about 1/2 hr with Brian McGarvey, and met "Dave" from Adirondack Auto
> Brokers.  I was going to have some fun with Yarrow, and point at his
> clutch cable and ask something about where it came from (remember, we
> had to rebuild it in a gas station lot on the way up to New
> Dimensions), but he looked even more tired and way busy at the
> Adrenalin Tuning booth.
>
> So the awards.  There were some issues.  At first, Steve Szuba had
> won third place for stock Scirocco.  Only one problem.  Unless we
> totally missed you Steve, and a gem like your Callaway is pretty hard
> to miss, he wasn't there.  So frantic recalculation was required.  In
> the end, Jan won 1st place (again) and Jason Cammisa really took
> third place.
>
> In modified, Josh Able got 3rd place, AJ Russo, who's car was also
> done by the place that did Josh's got 2nd, and guess who got first.
> Yes, that's right, Jason TMB. Hehe, no, Brett took back first place.
> However, there was also a rather embarassing mixup in the
> supermodified A1 class that didn't look good for Rapid.  I'll let
> others explain that.
>
> In A1 Cabriolet modified, I humbly have to report that I took first
> place.  Ok, not so humbly....hehe......
>
> Mike Potter took 2nd place in DSP autocross, in a stock 2000 Passat
> with a Tiptronic.  Nice job, Mike!
>
> I unfortunately haven't heard the results of the road rally, so if
> anyone cares to post them, please do!
>
> Now, getting out after the show was a nightmare of the first order.
> We watched cars line up all the way back to the end of the show
> slots, and not move more than 2 car's length in an hour.  There was a
> HUGE traffic tie-up somewhere; it was rumored someone was speeding
> and went off the road near the show.  Again, it was a county road
> leading to the site, so it wasn't designed to handle large volumes of
> traffic.  The awards ended at about 3:30, and we didn't even try to
> start heading out until 5:30.  It still took us over an hour and a
> half to get back to the Ramada.  And the cars in the spectator lot?
> It was the dustiest place on earth since the '30s dust bowl.  Cars
> there were FILTHY.  Anyone who'd left their windows down were in a
> bad way.
>
> We finally got back to the hotel, cleaned up, treated sun burns, and
> had a leisuely dinner across the road at a Japanese restaurant, the
> Potterpeople joined in.  Then back to the back of the hotel near
> TMB's room for a quiet hang out and finishing up of the beverages
> that were left.  If anyone has an agressive cam for their chicken,
> just let Jason know, okay?  He needs one.
>
> Monday:
>
> Long, hot drive home.  I'm sweating myself silly here, so that's the wrapup.
>
> For me, it was the best ever, but I'm biased, I think having taken a
> first place. :)  The hotel situation was rather inconvenient, what
> with bumping people, and being so far from the site.  I will be
> interested to see what next year's show brings.......
>
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