Its hard
to believe that it has already been 4 years since the
club's First Annual Southern California. More than
just a fun day in the sun, this event marks the
anniversary of the inception of the web site. We've
come a long way since then, and the prizes that were
offered in this year's raffle should back that
statement up. Among the prizes were a GIAC and a
Wetterauer chip and a Neuspeed rear sway bar!
We started off the day with the usual sign up and
registration like we do every year, but this year at
registration, not only were people signing in and
buying raffle tickets, their cars were being assigned
a number and they were given a ballot to vote for
their favorite car in the all new people's choice car
show that we added to the itinerary! For most of the
morning, everyone was hanging out and checking out
everyone's cars and voting for who they thought had
the dirtiest B5, etc.
At around 11:30am is
when we rallied everyone up to get ready for our
annual drive down Ortega Highway. I was not able to
participate in the drive since I had to stay back and
tally up the votes, but my brother was more than happy
to take my car on the drive for me. The original plan
was to drive the 22 miles down to Lake Elsinore and
back. We were thinking that we should skip our little
"pit-stop" that we do on the way up to the
lake every year because last year we pissed too many
people off by holding up traffic. We noticed though
that we
had about 15-20 cars fewer than last year, so Adam
(passatlover99), who leads the drive every year,
insisted that we try it. Success! With only 49
B5's on this years drive, the "pit-stop" was
no problem at all.
When everyone
returned at around 1:30pm, they found a food-stand
grilling up hot dogs and hamburgers, compliments of
Capistrano Volkswagen. After a little lunch in the
shade, we concluded the day's events with the awards
ceremony and raffle. After all of the awards and
prizes were handed out, I presented Miles and Greg of
Capistrano VW with a special trophy as a token of our
appreciation for everything they did to make this
year's GTG a successful one.
Thank you to everyone who showed up, and a special
thank you to the following sponsors:
Capistrano Volkswagen,
Neuspeed,
Torque Factory (Jeff Moss), GIAC, Wetterauer,
Image Dynamics, JL
Audio, Meguiars,
Einszett, B&M
Racing, Eibach,
Wet Works and Supreme
Power Parts.
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