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Originally Posted by skeet
Ray, Karen and I are a big yes!! We'll be there. To the readers, Ray and I met by chance in Penticton when Karen and I were talking our first cruise in our 2006 FPR SSR, built on 3/1/2006 and pickup up on 3/23/2006. Ray and I were the only SSR's in the 2006 Peach City Beach Cruise with opposite tu-tones, Black over Silver and Silver over Black. I won the first SSR trophy from the PCBC. We were entered in the Millennium Class and won 2nd. place as there was no SSR class at that time. (the only reason I won over Ray was because I was on the street and Ray was parked in the park grassed area). It was really fun as most people at the show hadn't seen a SSR or at least up close. We both got the usual questions like.. what is that, when did they make those? , is that a VW, Studebaker, etc. I teased my wife because I said the SSR was a chick magnet, exept all the admirerers were well over 70! We couldn't believe how many women over 70 came up and said-- we used to have one of those in the old days! Lots of pictures taken, people stopping us in parking lots, on the street, etc.
Anyway, our SSR is still just as much fun today as it was that first few months we drove it. Penticton is a great venue and vacation location. If you have never been to British Columbia, or only to the Vancouver BC area, you really need to see the Okanogan Valley, it is clean, green, uncrowded, with an amazing number of very good wineries, lots of roadside fruit and vegetable stands and just a great place to tour. Ray and Iris are great hosts!!
Can't wait till June 
Tom W. |
Thanks for the endorsement, Tom
Check's in the mail.
That chance meeting was tougher than it sounds. That was before Tom knew those things had mirrors. Had to chase him several miles through Penticton before I forced him to pull over.
Tom and I met about the time the Northwest Fanatics were getting going. Tom and Karen went to a SSR event in the Seattle area that summer, then organized a run to Lake Chelan in the fall. That was the first car event Iris and I went to - Paul and Doris came from Arizona, George and Virginia made the trek from Prince George, Sandy and Wayne came from Langley, and a whole contingent of Washington SSR made the trip. We were hooked.
Decided we should try to get 20 or so SSRs to Penticton for the 07 Beach Cruise. 42 showed up. The rest is history. The Beach Cruise has been a very successful event. We expect between 750 and 800 cars this year. We had hoped for 80 SSRs, but we lost some of the long distance runners to the Colorado event.
Be glad to add you to the list. I'm filling in holes from cancellations, so you'll be towards the beginning of the list.
Looking forward to the cruise.
