M Monterey Rendezvous 2001 |


One of the Club's historic first car meets took place on August 17-19, 2001, in the Monterey, CA area. The meet was attended by six members (plus wives and other family members): Roger Waters (President) and Paulette Parong-Waters (Treasurer) from Washington, Jeff and Mindy Goldman from California, Brent Johnson (Board Member) from Colorado, Michael Sylvia (and his dad, Tony, mother, Betty, and sister, Kathleen) from Arizona, and Jim and Mary Thompson from California.

Though the turnout was smaller than expected, everyone had a great time, getting together for several meals, to check out each others' M's, and for the Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races at Laguna-Seca Raceway. These races were sponsored by Daimler-Chrysler, so this was an appropriate spot for one of the Club's first events! Here are some photos:



 Michael's hood scoop, left, and modified air intake, below (not yet set up for intake through the hood scoop, but he's working on it!)



 Michael's spoiler, '01 tail lights, dual exhaust, and badge modifications



 The ladies, left to right: Kathleen, Mindy, Paulette, Betty.



 The tail end of Roger's M, with spoiler, dual exhaust, badge modification, and Club advertisement!


Side/rear view of Jeff's M, showing the Chrysler lettering removed. Jeff's M has the Borla exhaust. After listening to both Jeff's and Roger's (with Hujo dual exhaust) idle and rev in the parking lot, the sound was similar, with neither being markedly louder than the other.


The award winners at Saturday night's judging (left to right): Michael Sylvia, Most Custom - interior, exterior, and/or performance; Jim and Mary Thompson, Most Clean - clean & polished stock or near stock; Roger Waters, Most Classy - all around cool and buff; Brent Johnson, Most Cruisin' - farthest distance traveled to get to the event.


For a panorama composite photo of Laguna Seca, click here (340k).

For a slide show of some more pics from the races & car displays at Laguna Seca, click here.

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