Solvang 2012 Photos

[MSmethers]

Sorry, no video till I get home. I filled up my harddrive.

Yeah, that's the problem with those measley 256 gig laptop hard drives, eh?

Great pics. Thanks for taking the time and effort.

Marshal

[scogre]

Sorry, no video till I get home. I filled up my harddrive.

Yeah, that's the problem with those measley 256 gig laptop hard drives, eh?

Yeah, but mine is a 120GB SSD. So very fast, but small for a weekend like this.

[Alvin]

I am going to add my experience to Ted's thread instead of starting another one if that's ok
We got to Solvang around 8:30am and I was surprised to see the one half of the city block already filled with roadsters! I heard 87 cars was the total count present, with +/- 4 non-roadsters

I was on a mission to find this roadster that my friend had spotted on the freeway blasting southbound on a chilly Thursday evening:

And I found it! "roadsterjon" it was nice meeting you:

The "diamond in the rough" category was extensive with lots of gems on their way to being stars:

"chucks66" made it:

I was impressed with "msmethers"(marshall) freshly painted black/gold V6:

Owners from all over attended with several cars from Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Canada!
This was the first time seeing Mitch Jensen's S15-powered SRL in Scoville paint/stripes:

Flat dash conversion:

factory roll bar and NEW SR20DE crate engine:


Jeff's '66 STROKER with a new RON DAVIS radiator and velocity stacks:

Turbo-DIESEL powered truck was turning heads from it's two-tone paint and disc brakes:


Kurt and his wife Beth both drove their roadsters down to Solvang for the first time!

Eric(SRL311DET) and Michael(spriso) drove down from Oregon with Dave Joliff and also stopped by ZCarGarage on the way. Both of these cars are sensational automobiles. I will start another thread for them. Eric won best of show:



The banquet/awards ceremony was held in a different location and everyone had a good time. People were very excited when Jeff announced the VTO LeMans wheel set:
It was a beautiful, sunny day and as always not enough time to see everyone and their cars, but I did see Dewey from MT and Dbrick(thanks for sticker), Richard, Ted, Brian(NV) and others especially from my neck of the woods. I got to meet lots of folks whom I only knew by screen name like Garm, Scott(scogre), datsun.david from Canada. All a pleasure to meet in person!

THANKS to organizers Jeff and Gabby:


full-album here:
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[Alvin]

ps looking forward to SOCALroc carrying the torch for next year's Solvang Show, congrats!

[dld]

Great photos guys! I'm so sorry I had to miss it. My 84 year old Father had to have emergency surgery the day before I was planning to leave. Just didn't think it was a good idea to leave town. My roadster wasn't ready anyway, so I'll see you all there next year. I was especially looking forward to meeting all of you Northern California guys. My Roadster should driveable, but far from finished, in a couple of months, so Maybe I can catch one or two impromptu fun runs this summer.

[RobertAuclair]

Awesome pictures. Looks like a great time. I am hoping to come next year, I haven't been able to attend the past 2 years to to a Trade Show that same weekend. I should be able to get my boss to cover.

[dbrick]

I was looking at the album, which is VERY thorough The pic below made me think of Abbey Road. Great photo op for next year!

[scogre]

I was looking at the album, which is VERY thorough The pic below made me think of Abbey Road. Great photo op for next year!

We just need to line up from right to left a white, black, gray, and blue roadster. lol

But who wants to be Ringo?

[scogre]

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[jritchie]

Just in case you have not had your fill of pictures; here are a few more.



Enjoy,

Jay

[Alvin]

hey mods, maybe we can consolidate all Solvang-related pictures/coverage into one thread?