Pics From May 17 Event

[TMZSSR]

Here are a few pics from the May 17 trip to Lemay Car Museum, North American Eagle Shop and lunch at Airport with Mt Rainier in background, the weather was beautiful and the whole day was great cruising around Washington with a great bunch of people with the tops down on our SSRs.

[Red Cat]

Looks like a fun time.

[flynSS/R]

Looks like a fun time was had. What is the plane in the hanger?

[Maui Mike]

Originally Posted by flynSS/R

Looks like a fun time was had. What is the plane in the hanger?

It's not a plane. It's the Land Speed Racer called the North American Eagle.

Home of the North American Eagle - World Land Speed Challenger

[tickledpink]

A Big THANK YOU to our Hosts !!
Our great hosts planned our day in such a way that we were able to see and do everything BEFORE the outside temperature hit 91 degrees under an awesome blue sky !!

Jack & Sandi (GO N BYBY) made wonderful arrangements for a fabulous day's event for 23 SSR's from the Pacific Northwest SSR Group - 6 of whom were NEWBIES! Jack & Sandi, along with Glenn & Carol (RedRacr) who assisted in overseeing that all of us arrived where we were supposed to be, are volunteers who have designed and built the traveling float for the famous NW Daffodil Parade, so they are experts at Parades and Caravans!

Our thanks go to these special teams for a wonderful visit to the LeMay Car Museum; a surprise stop to see the North American Eagle getting ready to break the land speed record (introduced to us by Gino & Rose), followed by a great lunch gathering at Thun airfield in Puyallup !

Glenn, Carol, Jack & Sandi getting "Pink-i-Fied" by You-Know-Who!!

[HALSSSR]

Northwest SSR's Celebrate America's Love Affair of the Automobile, May 17th This link from other post,want to keep together! Check out Hal's pics!!

[jewlz965]

Originally Posted by tickledpink

Glenn, Carol, Jack & Sandi getting "Pink-i-Fied" by You-Know-Who!!

Is that a "sparkling" I see in these pictures? Glad you all had such wonderful weather - was almost as good as ours out here in VA on our winery run - I think we hit about 76 for our high. That's a nice picture above with Rainier in the background - my closest girlfriend and her husband live on Vashon, and have a home with a lot of windows and a perfect view of Rainier from their living room.

Maybe one of these days NauticalDave and I will make it out that direction in . But first come WDC '08 and Texas '09. And a few runs in between.

[tickledpink]

How the excitement spreads as we view our beautiful trucks all in a row - and then to go back in History to view what once was, in the Automobile Industry, our forefather's lives, and to some - even our own life's Memories !! Some day it would be fun if the SSRfans would sign in and list the Vehicles they have owned in their lives !!

The Northwest sun was sooooooo bright, Redline Red turned very orange with the sun's glare !

Here are a few of my Memories - Forever Alive in My Mind's Eye!

[tickledpink]

Because of having a new thread aptly labeled Pacific Northwest, we were able to contact and include 6 NEW Northwest SSRs , including two from Oregon!

This is our family !!

Jack & Sandi - Our Gracious Hosts *
Glenn & Carol - : Our Secret Service "Herdsmen" *
Hal & Toni - Loyal SSR Nuts - Hosts for Port Orchard weekend, August 10th *
Roberta & Mark - Hosts for Roslyn weekend, August 17th *
Pat & John - Penticton SSR Trophy winners *

* Attending Penticton 2008

[tickledpink]

Ed & Linda - Gig Harbor
Roy & Sharon - Lacey
Dennis & friend Stan - University Place
Tim & Mary - McMinnville, OREGON
Linda & Ray - Olalla *

Not Pictured:
Mark - Woodinville *
Larry - Seattle

* Attending Penticton 2008

[kr clifton]

Well, Shannon and I just wanted to drop a line to say thank you so much for allowing us to join your enthusiastic group. We had a wonderful time yesterday, especially when meeting such a great group of friends. It was quite the experience. Shannon has added the SSR pics to her photobucket account, and is now loading the pics from LeMay.....

Here is the url......
feelin_frogi/SSR

[tickledpink]

George - Renton, 3rd event
Gino & Rose, Spanaway, 2nd event
and, our NEWBIES:
Ron & Sue - Samammish - *
Ken & Merry - Portland, OREGON
Brent & Marcia - Lynden

Not Pictured:
Don & Maria - Bellevue
Ron & Donna - Ferndale *

* Registered/Reserved Penticton

[tickledpink]

Hello to all SSR fanatics: Well , another great day to be recorded in the history book of Northwest SSR Fanatic adventures and treks etc! We started the day all meeting at Camping World in Fife ,WA along the I-5 corridor a colorful group as you can imagine, bunch of beautiful SSRs from all over Western Washington and two new fanatics from Oregon too! The weather was unbelievable, at 7:30AM it was already 68 degrees, so that was naturally a instant top down day for all of us. After we all gathered in Fife and had a short fifteen minute meet & greet, we herded our iron steeds (22 ssrs) and headed them toward our first destination, the internationally renoun LeMay Car Museum. This drive took about twenty minutes along Pacific Ave in Tacoma ,WA and then a left turn onto 152nd St to the 87 acre estate of the tenth largest gabage company in the USA. There we lined our SSR's on the grassy apron in front of the Old brick museum. There is a lot of history behind the beginning of this museum by Harold LeMay, but too long for this thread to expound, much of the interesting facts and history behind this unique automobile museum are available online for your information. I must say, the museum, is unlike any other car museum I have been to before. Harold liked buying firetrucks and military vehicles as well as classic treasures, over 3800 vehicles are stored in various buildings on this huge 87 acre estate. Harold liked buying vhicles in an original, non restored state at first, simply because they were cheaper to buy.
He started his massive collection in 1964, as his garbage business grew, and with the comensurate growth of wealth, Harold began buying vehicles that were in a more pristine condition. He also started acquiring some extremly rare types of automobiles and trucks, a very facinating place to visit. Our tour guide "Mike" was a very knowledgeable fellow, sometimes I thought a bit windy, but maybe that was because I was feeling a little tired from walking in the 90 degree heat, drank lots of water yesterday, that gave me a constant urning to visit the litle boys room etc.LOL Anyway, fanatics, I think most of us found this Museum to be a fun and unique expierience for sure! After a group photo, that I don't have yet, we then powerd our beautiful rumbling ssr's onto another venue, actually a surprise. One of our new fanatics, Gino & Rose from Spanaway, treated us all with a stop at the hangar, where low and behold a group of very committed race enthusiasts are building a jet vehicle, from the actual fuselage of a F104 fighter aircraft, that was used to fly chase for the x-15. This project has the highest hopes of taking the World Land Speed record away from the British, currently held at 763MPH. The driver of this incredible machine is Ed Sandle. He and a his crew chief and several regular volunteers, Gino being one of them, have been working on this project for ten years. This guy, Ed, is no spring chicken, he looks close to my age, a whole new definition of gonads in my book! Ed God bless you and all that are doing to break this world land speed record! After a very informative talk about the project by Ed Sandle, we all took off (aircraft no); to Thun field, and it's restaurant there where all had an opportunity to satisfy a hardy appetite, conjured up by several hours of walking, standing and driving etc!
We all enjoyed a tasty lunch. Sue(tickledpink)Wagonmaster, gave a coming events anouncement and introduced many of our new wonderful members to our ever growing Northwest Fanatics SSR Group! After lunch we broke up the gathering and headed back home with more great memories to hold onto and more strangers turned into family fanatics! Ain't it just grand!! Long live the "FFF"friendly fanatic forum! and "PERMAGRINS" always! Thanks to Jack & Sandi, Glenn & Carol, Gino & Rose, and our Wagonmaster, Sue for another oustanding job of organizing this fun time for us all!! On behalf of all who attended, may I say Thank You!!

[turnheadz]

Fabulous photo's. Looks like a wonderful day. We had previous plans to attend The Cloverdale Rodeo, so could not join youz.

[wildcat66]

Looks like fun was had by all

[kr clifton]

Originally Posted by kr clifton

Well, Shannon and I just wanted to drop a line to say thank you so much for allowing us to join your enthusiastic group. We had a wonderful time yesterday, especially when meeting such a great group of friends. It was quite the experience. Shannon has added the SSR pics to her photobucket account, and is now loading the pics from LeMay.....

Here is the url......
feelin_frogi/SSR

BTW if you click the image in photobucket you will see the actual size of the pictures, they are about 4 x 6. Anyone who wants to have any of the pictures for themselves feel free to copy them

Shannon

[Big Smitty]

I would also like to Thank our Host for there time and efforts in putting this together. And I would also like to Thank Tickledpink (Sue) for all of her efforts in keeping us rugrats together and having beautifull drives to go on with our group. We have such a wonderfull group of Folks that we are like Family, and it is always so nice to get together with all of them at the events and we all have a great time. We really enjoy our get togethers and anyone else that is in our neighbor hoods that would like to become part of our Group Please get ahold of any of us and we will send you to Sue, because we don't do anything with out our Leader.LOL Once again Thanks. Smitty

[tickledpink]

Suggestions for "NW Events" are always welcome.......... I feel a lot of Pacific Northwest BLUE SKIES coming our way!!!!

Already making my LISTs and checking them twice.... and that's just for Penticton !!! Ye GAWDs - I hope I have room for my friend Susan who is riding shotgun with me

Sue

[kr clifton]

Here are a couple of pics of the SSRs

Just a note.....the pics of the cars IN the LeMay Museum are uploaded.

feelin_frogi/Lemay

[HALSSSR]

Originally Posted by kr clifton

Here are a couple of pics of the SSRs

Just a note.....the pics of the cars IN the LeMay Museum are uploaded.

feelin_frogi/Lemay

Hey Ken & Shannon: Super job covering the vast array of vehicles,you flat took some pics,Photo bucket is a good way to go,due to the limited space to post on the forum etc! Thanks for jumping in and doing a great job Guys!! Also thanks for joining our ssr fanatics, crazy bunch of car nuts!!

[HALSSSR]

Originally Posted by Big Smitty

I would also like to Thank our Host for there time and efforts in putting this together. And I would also like to Thank Tickledpink (Sue) for all of her efforts in keeping us rugrats together and having beautifull drives to go on with our group. We have such a wonderfull group of Folks that we are like Family, and it is always so nice to get together with all of them at the events and we all have a great time. We really enjoy our get togethers and anyone else that is in our neighbor hoods that would like to become part of our Group Please get ahold of any of us and we will send you to Sue, because we don't do anything with out our Leader.LOL Once again Thanks. Smitty

Smitty: I must say,you and Linda's SSR looked outstanding,you guys flat put some energy into getting it beaming,real sharp,thanks for your ever growing support to our fanatic ssr NW group!