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For
our final destination, we all met at Old Pro's sports bar in Palo Alto
where we ate lunch and talked about all the wrong answers we got on our
score sheets. The weather couldn't have been better, and the traffic,
both cyclists and cars, was light. When you add to that the $50 prize
for first place, what more could anyone want??? It was another successful
GGLC event.
Some of us stuck
around and went to the Palo Alto Concours as the end to our automotive
experience for the day. As usual, there were lots of nice cars to
drool over, but kudos must go out to Jim McClure for once again bringing
his restored S1 Seven down to the Concours to represent the Lotus marque
and show-up all the garage queens!!! Good job, Jim!
A fine day it
was, and thanks go out to those people who participated, and a special
thanks goes out to John Zender for staging another great event! Every
year I encourage people to attend and I hope to see more GGLCers out there
next year roaming the hills of Woodside and Pescadero.
See you all
at the next meeting.
Scott |
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It
feels like such a long time since my days of writing monthly articles and
I've been enjoying the days of "retirement", but I felt compelled to get
my fingers back on the keyboard and tell you guys about the great time
you missed on the annual John Zender Rallye. Yes, that most famous
of rallies which has tested the patience of everyone who has ever participated,
and which has kept a few marriage counselors with full-time work.
For me, this was my third year, and each time I run this event, I kick
myself and ask why I hadn't done it every year since John started it.
I have to admit that I've always turned my nose up at the thought of participating
in rallies, and I've learned that it was for no good reason! I guess
it's the thought of driving on city streets, or highways, looking for checkpoints
such as common road signs and the like, but that doesn't really apply
with this rallye when you consider who's organizing it. John's rallye
is more like a cross between a rallye and a Mt. Hamilton fun run because
of the location and the roads chosen.
Because of my
poor memory I'll have to refer to this year's participants by car. We had
six cars with a pretty good variety of models, and I was pleasantly surprised
to see wives/girlfriends there as well! There were three Europas,
an Elan, a BMW 2002, and an Alfa GTV. I'd like to point out that
through some sort of alignment of the planets, and some damn good taste,
the public was treated that day to the evolution of the Europa as we had
an S1, an S2, and a T/C Special.
This year we
started off at John's shop and quickly found ourselves up at the Independence
Hall in Woodside. We were asked to "check out Independence Hall",
and then walk down to the creek near an old barn to note the manufacturer
of the water height meter. This was to be our first checkpoint. Then
it was back in our cars where we continued on into Lotus territory in the
hills of Woodside and Pescadero. We went up to Skyline and over to
the backside of the hill to find another checkpoint. To give you
another idea of how things work on this rallye, we were told to "look for
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to park our cars and start at the leaning post and "walk 70 paces downhill"
and write down the largest, rustiest object we saw. I got that one
wrong, but we won't discuss that right now because the object was rather
large and I should have seen it. Talk to me about it at the next
meeting. But anyway, we went on to note other bizarre checkpoints such
as the animal cruelty code number on a sign at a local pond and things
like that. Get the idea? Now add to it John's directions, which are
always a challenge to understand, like: "Go to the stop sign and turn toward
Arbuckle Pennsylvania.", and "Go about 1 mile and either veer left or curve
right" and you can get an idea of how crazy things can get. But,
I'm here to tell you that those directions led to some great roads which
may be familiar to some of you like: Stage Road, Old La Honda Rd., Pescadero
Rd., to name just a few. Our events coordinator is a pretty creative
and clever guy, and everyone who came out had a great time. Could
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Our
own Jon Rosner and his "Sorta-Seven" (Toyota running gear) at the 11th
Annual Hayward State All-British Field meet.
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