10/22/06
Tomyang.net 2006 East Coast Party
The Second Annual Tomyang.net East Coast was another success with good
weather, great friends, food, and cars. Weather in the Northeast is
always unpredictable this time of the year, but luck was with us, and
the rain stopped the day before.
Unfortunately, my 330 America did not make it this year because the
transmission is being repaired, but Michael Greenspan's 330 America
came in place of her sister car along with Yale's Series I 330. Sam
brought his recently purchased 365GTC/4 which was a beautiful dark red
metallic.
John drove his nice Alfa in from Connecticut to join my old Mustang at
Mike Meehan's house.
As the interesting cars arrived at Mike's beautiful home, I asked if it
would be O.K. if he moved his Packard off the the four post lift to
inspect some of the Italian machinery. The straight eight fired up, and
idled with such quiet smoothness, I thought that perhaps I was wrong to
take it off the lift so quickly. Hopefully, I'll get a closer look at
this car someday soon!
The first car up on the lift was Greg's Maserati 3500. It was nice to
see how another company made their sports cars, and this car was a very
clean example of the 3500. The staccato rap of the the straight 6 was a
nice contrast the the V-12s parked outside.
The next car to go up in the air was Michael's 330 America. This car
has not seen a full restoration, so a lot of details on this car was
largely original. Unfortunately, the exhaust was showing its age, and
some holes were not only seen, but also heard by Dori, Michael's wife,
on the long drive up from Connecticut.
With so many capable hands to remedy the problem, we all pitched in to
temporarily patch a hole in a muffler to make the ride home more
bearable. With some aluminum roof flashing, sheet metal screws, and
some high temp RTV, a cheap repair was made until a new exhaust could
be fitted over the winter. Who says Ferraris can't be fixed cheaply?!
Kerry, Peter, Mike, and Ian stood back and admired their work. During
these repairs and car inspections, it was great seeing how many guys
were standing under these cars at once! It truly represented the spirit
of what tomyang.net is about to me and why we are all friends.
After lunch, we presented Kerry Chesbro with an award that was begun by
Yale Evelev last year. It's dedicated to François Sicard because
of his
help to Vintage Ferrari owners, and this year's recipient was
Kerry Chesbro. Kerry has created two great websites documenting the
work he does on his Vintage
Ferrari collection, and a 330 Registry that
tracks the history of all the 2+2 330s. He certainly deserved this
year's award.
Parker Hall sent some great southern BBQ for us to add to the wonderful
food Mike and Marie served for the party. He also sent a bottle of wine
and some Kilimanjaro Designs shirts to raffle off as door prizes.
Someday, we'll have to convince Parker to come to the East Coast Party
to meet some of his East Coast Customers!
Although Kerry Chesbro came from Seattle and Tom Wilson came from Los
Angeles, one guest beat them all for distance by flying across the
Atlantic to be with us for the party! I was honored that Ian Levy
(pictured right) felt the need to come across the ocean to meet a bunch
of strangers that he has only traded e-mails with over the years, but
within
minutes of shaking hands we realized that we all had a kinship that was
only strengthened by meeting in person.
Pictured left to right, Tom, Pete, Greg, Dori, Michael, Kerry, Sam,
Ron, Yale, Warren, Tom, Judy, Marie, Ian, John, Mike, John, Traci, and
holding the sign, Russ.
I want to thank Mike and Marie Meehan for opening their lovely home and
garages to us to have the tomyang.net party this year. Everything
was perfect, and we could not have asked for more. I'm sorry to have
missed some of you at this year's gathering, but there will always be
next year to attend! Thanks everybody!
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