Stoogefest Spring 2016

I am really sorry I missed this one. It sounds like everyone had a great time. Hopefully I can make the next one. The pictures are great and let me know a little bit of what I missed.

Mel

 

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Greetings gentlemen of May Stoogefest. A big thank to the host to begin with. I was rather surprised to see some of you actually working on cars. My experience on the party boat at beemerfest was quite different. More about show boating than anything of substance. But to its defense, the rank and file of the events were attended mostly by teenagers just looking to ride the wave. Here, it is more established. The collective knowledge is obvious. And although my visit was short due to unannounced circumstance, I'm glad to be a witness of the historic even (for me at least). By the third, I should be able to do an engine out service on my car on my own .


Last but not least, a big thank to yellowcab. The advice you gave me in the other thread is the only sound solution. I am moving on. This time she's not getting the house key. Don't want the same thing happening in my house again.

 

Getting it done
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Hoods up
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top view
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can only post one pic at a time. Thanks, IPad

 

Thanks to Vince for hosting! I think the Socal Stooges are doing less work at these gatherings because the cars are getting more reliable and staying fixed! The brain trust is figuring these cars out and re-engineering Ferrari foibles where indicated. I really think Stooges on track needs to be an annual outing to put our mechanical skills to the next level test. If you can track it and keep it together you are winning. Ferrari exercise should be a mandatory part of ownership.

 

A big thank you to Vince and his lovely wife for hosting. Hey, here's a Stooge worthy pic that still gives the name some cred!!
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Thanks to Vince and Barbara for hosting yet again. Always a great time and wonderful hosts. Good to see everyone - old friends and new.

You got yo hand it to Henry for taking an angle grinder to the bottom shield. No need to remove it when you can cut around it. Stooging all the way! Maybe that altered the wind resistance and caused the premature turn back into the bush?

In any case the torch, or Ketel, was passed with the ceremonial drink. Mitchell got to pass it on and Henry is the reining winner until Stoogeapalloza in the fall. Date to be determined soon.

 

The "passing" of the Ketel! Mitchell looks real happy to be handing that honor off.
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OK, so I know you guys have been waiting for me to contribute to this on-going thread, so here's what REALLY happened. Mitchell made it down from NorCal (as did Jason) and brought with him the much-coveted, "Ketel Cup." This prize is awarded to the Stooge who shows up with the most problems (ie. Mitchell last year), or somehow screws up more than all of his brethren at a Stoogefest. While servicing my F355, I came upon an ingenious solution whereby I could access both oil plugs without having to remove either diffusor, or the underbelly pan. I cut a small notch (there go the concours points!) in the tray with an angle grinder and proceeded to change my oil. Desperate to present the cup to SOMEONE, the braintrust threatened to give it to me for my work-around. I argued that my alteration was actually a rather clever feat of engineering. So they left me alone for a while. But these guys are like a pack of wild (albeit well fed) animals. Under the guise of seeing one another off in the street in front of Vince's house, they gathered and JUST HAPPENNED to watch me back my car down the driveway. At this point I began to feel sorry for them (and Mitchell) and decided to take one for the team, thus backing into the row of hedges that line the drive. Yes, I will have to spend countless hours re-spraying and buffing out the damage, but it was well worth it. Fatbillybob laid down in the street in front of my car, lest I even think about scurrying off without having the aforementioned cup presented to me. As is tradition in this long and esteemed ritual, the former holder must first drink alcoholic libations from the vessel before handing it off to the new, "winner." Mitchell was a bit too happy if you ask me, but I graciously accepted my trophy, also partaking of the stooge-necktar within, before driving off to lick my wounds.

There is a lesson to be learned here my future-Ketel-Cup-winning-friends. When you do ultimately fu*k up, and you will, DON'T DO IT IN FRONT OF ANY WITNESSES!

Thanks to Vince and Barbara for the incredible hospitality and a special thanks to Jason who kept me from having to crawl out from under my car every two minutes to get tools, towels and new gloves. Great turn out with a great bunch of guys (and gals).

PS: I took it upon myself to engrave the coveted cup in a fashion commensurate with the idiocy and shoddy work it represents. Hope ya'll like it...

Cheers, Henry
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did you do that with an angle grinder?

 

Nope, would have come out better with an angle grinder...

 

Isn't having us all for friends blunder enough to own the ketel kup?

Henry was a great sport! He allowed himself to be an easy target for enjoyment of all. Great job on the etching. 20 years from now that cup will be pasted around and the new guys will wonder who "greats" were but we will know...

 

My wife laughs every time she sees the cup. It was a spur of the moment grab around our house during at last Fall's Stoogeapalloza in an attempt to find something resembling a "trophy" and a "kettle" and the coveted Ketel Award was born. JT's (Ketel) exploits were the original inspiration and when Mitchell had his car both towed to the event and back out, we knew that it all had to be immortalized for posterity. The drinking out of it came about just for fun. That's the way traditions are born.

Way to go recipients!

 

Sorry i missed it Guys. I was running the Mille Miglia with these 2 cars
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What? THAT'S more important than a Stoogefest?

How'd ya do?

 

Craig,

You need to let us "low hanging fruit" know when you run it again next year for
StoogeFest at the Mille"

 

Good enough reason Craig, you're excused. Besides, Jason filled in nicely with his Brit accent...

 

Number one is actually: Henry working, Peter sampling...

 

Of course that is after Peter had prepped 2 turkeys for the event.