My take on Dunk's Options

[Joe Bob]

Got there the night before....bit of trauma, Blondie the 2.7 powered 914 was doing 75 mph in the fast lane of the 5 freeway....right in the middle of the 'hood. All of a sudden, the engine did a fast decel.....no spark. Everything else was working.

Managed to get over four lanes without killing me or the car.....got to the breakdown lane and after about ten minutes of fumbling, found the yellow spade connector on the solenoid had fallen off. It seems that lead supplies power to both the sparking power and starter....woof, got on the road.

Met another lister (Gint and Mike De Vries) for dinner and saw a few others that I had not seen since last Dunk's.....

Next morning....what a clusterwhump (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ar15.gif)

The 356 board asked for volunteers and would get us in for helping out prior to the mad rush between 6:30 and 8:00. So....like a good little lemming, I fire up Blondie and head over next door. They wouldn't let ya park over the night before like in past years BTW.....

Get to the entrance....no way...can't come in, gotta park in line next door next to the BofA.....rather burn one down than be next to one...another story.....

Anyhow, I'm second in line....then the rush gets on.....the proctors, send "most" of the early entrants to the staging areas....then all off a sudden the angry buzz of dinky four bangers are heard......

THE 912 CLUB HAS ARRIVED.....WEeeeeeeEEEEELLLLL ain't that SPECIAL.....seems they get as a "pre registered group".......wowowwwowoowo, there were some pi$$ed off campers waiting in line for next hour....

Anyhow......I blew off my volunteer thingy as they did not honor their commitment to the volunteers and just sat on my butt and sold some stuff and bought some stuff....actually came home with more money in my pocket than I had when I arrived.

Even if there is another Dunk's next year....don't think I'm gonna attend.

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Even Blondie got out of the sun and got some shade.....

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I don't think the next Dunk's will be worth attending....if there is another one. I spoke with Mrs. Dunkel and she confirmed that they are downsizing and moving.

[Dave Bell]

Somehow I have always missed the Dunk meet before... got there this time... lots of nice cars... but I was a little disappointed after hearing so much talk about it from other years.... others told me ealier years were better.

Personally I enjoyed the meet up in Ventura over the past couple years a lot more than the Dunkel meet.... for that matter, I have to say that I enjoy the Pomona swap meet which occurs every 6 weeks more than the Dunkel meet.... cars and parts more reasonably priced at Pomona and lots of additional stuff to see at Pomona. Some of the Porsche repro kit car stuff I saw first at Pomona as well. It will probably be my first and last visit to the Dunkel.

Yea.... mikey was easy to pick out with his bunny ears.... I talked to the Tarett guy who was real nice but was a little worried about meeting mike... afraid that he might be mad....how dangerous can a bunny be?... had to tease Malm about his new monster truck.... that thing is fantasitic as a staging point for selling stuff at any swap..... it drew more attention than most of the Porsches and parts there... good move Steve.... I think you can write that baby off as advertizing expense.

Enjoyed some of the racing playing on the big screen...., that was the one touch I haven't seen else where. Something about the size the screen made you feel like you were almost there or almost in the car.... very cool.

Only bought a book and a pepsi and went home to a Super Bowl party.... Got to like the weather.

- Dave.... spoiled by too many car meet/swaps to choose from, to many nice roads to drive on and too much nice weather here in So Cal.