[s-cars] //SFest 2005 highlights - long

[LL - NY]

Great review PK! 
 We're glad you started it.
 Need a date for next year so I can put in for vacay now! Then there
will be no excuses from the powers that be at work. Can't afford to
miss next years!
 LL - NY

 On 9/2/05, pkrasusky at ups.com <pkrasusky at ups.com> wrote: 
> 
> 
> Morning all-
> 
> Five days of post-//SFest-decompression have finally summoned a synapse
> or three to provide fodder for an //SFest recap. What is //SFest? Wow
> there's a lot to tell.
> 
> Near 40 UrS cars were merely the curtains that surrounded us and
> provided backdrop to great people having a greater time. Heck I don't
> think I talked much //S-car-dom all weekend really. //SFest encompasses
> you with endless others as sictwisted as you, more twisted even.
> Solstice is provided knowing you are not alone in your insanity (hey now
> my wife sees she could always have it worse!).
> 
> Staffers and early arrivals departed work Fri. and descended upon Bys'
> residence again in Granby, CT. Jeff Postupack arrived from NH with road
> crew to assist with this year's multimedia and entertainment setup just
> as Bob Spacesuit Rossato completed engineering tweaks to his outdoor
> shower creation. I arrived impressed with Jim Pasqualoni from Maine,
> followed shortly after with Jim Norris in the freshly waxed //SFest keg
> transporter Silverado. Vincent Fregac pulls up with every bug from
> Montreal to CT (attempting to hide the fact he has bumper grilles this
> year). Moments later Bill Baloney Mahoney pulls in fresh from
> Chicago... having reconn'ed Keith topdown-Miata Maddock from Michigan
> somewhere in Ohio, and oh picking up Joe Evoless Pizzimenti somewhere in
> NY en-route.
> 
> The Olde Speckled Hen and Smuttynose IPA were tapped and there was much
> rejoicing.
> 
> //SFest has begun.
> 
> We awoke to sunrise facing a textbook perfect summer's morning. We were
> ready. Build it and you will come. And you did. 10:00 and the
> entrance tent began passing out the //SFest 2005 logo'd tire pressure
> gauges and //SFest - Shokan logo'd steins to the first 50 to join us.
> Baloney hangs the checker flag banner for me, saying 'people will see
> it and feel racy'. Bwhahaha.
> 
> Pasqualoni ground guided my parking of each of you, by eleven the
> display was humming along (now I think you see why I park everyone).
> Little did the crowd know Jim Smith had snuck up the back entrance for
> son Aaron to race off the trailer in the Sprongl raced vintage A2. I
> asked Aaron to run it up the back drive for you all 'as loud and quick
> as you dare on a cold motor'... the cacophony of racuous cylinders
> ripping through //SFest was quite the aural treat for us Aaron..
> thanks!
> 
> Everyone arrived in a steady stream nice and early, highlighted @ 1:30
> with the dramatic entrance of Brian Purdy's GT3 and Jeff Purdy's 996tt,
> flanked appropriately by Keith's 993 C4S all the way up from Virginia.
> Then blasts in... Brian Werstak in the titanium forged wheel'd GT2. Oh
> momma... Festivus Maximus was reached around 2:30 and Jim and I could
> finally //Fest. Around us by now were a Lotus Elise, 3 MB 500E's (from
> VA and NJ to boot), a pair of 911SCs with a Boxster, Frank Stadmeyer's
> R32, Mike Platt & Company at their fourth //SFest... in a shiny black
> Omni GLHS, a pair 'o UrQs, Alexander Van Gerbig's awesome 20V B3, a V8,
> Tom Pollock's B5, a B6, Scott Allerheiligen in an Audi of Nashua B7
> Avant, a TT with Toureg combo, a 951 and an S2 oh and my wife's ML of
> course.
> 
> Festivus Maximus fersure.
> 
> My client with the Ferraris was to arrive but didn't, nor Bob 'drop the
> ball' D'Amato in the Cosworth Escort. Lots of new faces this year,
> great to meet so many more of you. Everyone fits right in and is lots
> of fun regardless of circumstance, and that is amazing. A handful of
> 4-time //Festers there too, pretty impressive is Baloney from Chicago.
> And Keith M. and Tim Leonard now 2x from Michigan! The Colorado Mafia
> even flew in espionage / surveillance personnel (via Monterey CA to
> elude our attention)... Mikey Pederson, you are a gamer's gamer. Kudos
> my friend, hope our efforts to brainwash you with sudz hamper any
> proprietary information pilfering from us CTers. Very cool to 'meet'
> you finally!
> 
> Anywayz...
> 
> _You_guys_area_all_nutz_!!!
> 
> With the raffle table overflowing with a significant depth and breadth
> of schwag for all, we began proceedings around 5:00. The PA system was
> a huge score here Posto! We must share our ***most sincere
> appreciation*** with all of our sponsors, including SJM, Shokan,
> NEA/TJM, Wagner Audi (go Tom P.), Sports Car Workshop, Force 5, Ronal,
> Stromung, and manymanymany other generous individuals for all of their
> phenomenal donations - forgive me for who I missed. And for Pasqualoni
> / Posto's efforts in accumulating them. Most won at least something,
> ranging from Audi playing cards to //SFest polo shirts (go Jimmy
> Norris), hats, various used replacement C4 parts, a Mance strut bar, and
> a ceramic coated AAN intake manifold.
> 
> Dusk nears and begins to lull all into a false sense of normalcy (what's
> normal @ //SFest?)... only to have the serenity *explode* into 75
> cylinders of bristling UrQuattro. Fifteen of the 22 UrQ Preservation
> Group's attendees @ Gary Brown's event across CT journeyed over to us in
> full caravan. UrQ's lined centerfield, from Florida to Tennessee to
> Virginia to Colorado to Maine, including the only known '86 imported.
> Waaaay cool guys thanks for the invasion Gary. Also accompanying were
> Uncle Bob 'let's go tuna fishing on the way there' Pastore, Serge
> 'somehow Maacoavant UrS is a UrQ' Filanovsky, and Tom Saltino from
> Georgia in his ubersexy UrS4 to UrS6 conversion. Great seeing you again
> Tommyboy, you are truly caraaaazy. Phil Ackley's stunning 20valve'd UrQ
> from VA drew quite the crowed around the engine bay.
> 
> Sunset arrived and we disrupted Pasqualoni's day's worth of moodmusic to
> feature the inaugural LAF Outdoor //SFest Theater (trademark pending).
> Projected upon a large screen we watched a fine selection of in-car
> Walter Rohrl footage around der Nordschlief in Porsches (go Super
> Keith), and some Steamboat WDS footage. The bonfire was lit and then
> 'the fog' started rolling in so beyond this gets fuzzy. I have faint
> recollection of random TEN MILLION CANDLE POWER implementation with
> Serge, um ooops. Most of us stumbled our way into tent city by 2 a.m.
> We awoke to drizzle Sunday a.m. and nearly 20 cars still there, lotsa
> camping.
> 
> Packed up, showered, a now fourth //SFest an overwhelming success.
> Success not remotely possible without Jeff Postupack... my left arm.
> Jim Pasqualoni... my right. Bob Rossato... my, um, Rossato...
> everyone needs one a Rossato I tell ya. For this we got Bob a set of
> Richard Hoffman rotor hats and an attempt to end Rossatoing parts once
> and for all. More importantly folks... we achieved success not
> possible without each of you making such effort to contribute to our
> madness by COMING. Yes methinks we're getting good at this. Scary.
> 
> I'll conclude with a Baloneyquote: "even if Bys sells the place we
> should just show up next year anyway". Um, I'm guessing that might be
> bad. I fear Vincent's recent suggestion will prove true that I'll deny
> another //SFest for 9 more months then plan for 3 then //SFest 2006 here
> we come. If it does it will likely be held in Coventry, CT. Don't
> ask... but... do stay tuned for more things Coventry.
> 
> //SFest. Those who have know.
> 
> -Paul what have I started K.
> 
> ps. be sure to thank JEN for letting me be me, and for bringing all my
> kiddies by briefly to show off...
> 
> 
> 
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