The Cal-look Lounge

Sharon and I hosted an open house Saturday night before the Classic for some out-of-town visitors.  Half the fun of the weekend is getting to meet and socialize with as many like minded souls as possible (not to mention a good excuse for a few extra beers ::)).  Party ON! ;D

L-R  Allen & Sue Wiess, John Lazenby and Dave Galassi

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The driveway filled up quick...

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Hats off to Gregg and Pam Bunch for hosting the entire DKG crew for the week!

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Here's Pam manning the camera... say CHEESE!

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Larry Mac and 'Blackie"

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Carlos works the crowd ::)

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Mark came all the way from Norway with Andy Jewell.  Cheers!

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Brian, Chris and Ben discussing current events..

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Oh yeah... we had some wine, too ;)

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Valerie and Franck from Paris with Dimitri

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How 'bout some red licorice... ::) :o

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Lounge brother Lawrence drove down from the Northern Cal... NICE!!

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Always fun to have the DVKK guys over.  Lanny (brown shirt) with Andy Jewell (green sweatshirt).

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Hey, we're havin' fun now!

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The sun sets on another good time! 8)

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WOW what a week , a massive that's to Sharon and Sarge for your hospitality and feeding Mark and myself ;)

And to all the Legends of Cal-look i meet that night,Thanks it was a blast ;D

We must talk Sausage again soon ;D

Andy

As always, great hospitality, great wine and great people! Thanks guys! :)

Thanks for the invite. We had a great time. It looks like we left to early.

Class act as usual. Massive thanks again to Sarge and Sharon.  8)

There is my heap as promised. The drive back on Carvin' Canyon was fun. Thanks again and Party On!

 :) fun times and some great laughs...... Thanks Sarge and Sharon for having us all......

Lawrence, car looks great dude  :o ........... Nice meeting you over the weekend........

Sarge and Sharon thank you so much for the invite, i enjoyed hanging out with you and the other fellow DKP members. It was cool to meet all the people there from Europe and meeting Lanny and putting a face to that bad brown 67 and giving me  a pointer or two about my oil breather (sorry again about the oil drips i left behind). It's was awesome to be a apart of that to see and be there in person was surreal, when your younger reading about DKP in Hot VWS and see it in a book or in a forum than to be apart of it wow bitch en words cant explane it. thanks again for the invite i well hold this memories close to me.. Bryan N.

Is the black '67 Jimmy Roth's old car?  Looks familiar...;D

Thanks Carlos. It was good to meet you too. You're a good guy no matter what people around here say about you. ;D

   
   A big thanks to Sarge and Sharon for inviting me to come to your house Saturday night. Thanks for the food and beer and for hosting a get together that I have dreamed about for a lot of years. For a first time visitor to California the whole trip just blew me away. To meet people that are legends to me  (young and old  ) was quite a thrill for this old Texas guy. Thanks to all the DKP members who let me hang out in the tent area and talked to me. Thanks for the burgers Jim,they were great. It was great to meet all those from other countries as well.

                                                                      Norris McPherson

Looks like a fun evening Sarge!   ;)

Another reason why it's the best weekend of the year. Nice tidy car young Bryan..nice to meet you Norris. Thursday night 'DKP Beach House Bash' next year?? Damon?:)

Yes its Jimmys old car, Larry completely redid it.

A delicious open house with very cool people and very fine californian wine !
Thanks you very much bro (and thanks Sharon too) !
See you soon,
Take care, 
Franck & Valerie

Big thanks to Sharon and Jim for their hospitality, had a great week, and met a lot of cool people. Can't wait for next year, Andy and I have started looking into the possibilities of bringing our cars with us in 2011 8) :o ;D
Cheers. Mark.

Mark

Speak to boom boom he has all the shipping prices for cars / containers

If you pm me your details I'll forward his number if you've not got it

Ron

Cheers Ron. I think Andy's going to pick his brains about it.
Mark.

Thanks for the invitation Sharon and Jim . A fun , cool and grooving party for sure !

You can tell it is when time fly that fast  ;D

madfrog

Cool to see my North Calif bros drove all the way down...good job lawrence, Brian and yes you too Larry. Sorry I missed y'all. Nice pics Sarge 8)

Yes where the heck were you? We missed ya!  ;)

Thanks a lot Jim and Sharon for the Party and the Wine tasting!  ;)
Thanks to Madfrog for driving us back home!  ;D

Thanks for all the positive feedback everyone!! :)  A couple more pics...

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PARTY ON!! 8) ;D 

once again thanks for the invite and really making my weekend you guys ! hope to see some of you up in las vegas in october ! lanni i was looking at rentals already for next classic !

That was a hell of a (very) happy drive  :D

madfrog

Looks like it was a nice evening with great people.  Nice to see you made the drive Lawrence, you are a die hard. Thanks for the pics Sarge.

Great pics Sarge.  ;)
DKG guy's are really friendly people.  :D

i look wasted in that picture !  ::)