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| EVENTS January 7-12, 2003. San Jose Auto Show, San Jose, California. Five PTs from the PT Cruisers of Silicon Valley were featured in the club's booth at this major automotive event! Our PTs were seen by Thousands of event-goers and we had some WONDERFUL reactions, especially from the children of some local schools who came by on a field trip.....Thanks to the Silicon Valley Auto Dealers Association and Mark Normandin for having us at the event! Click here to see photos from the San Jose Auto Show December 14, 2002. Toys for Tots Run 2002. San Jose, California. Through the nastiest storm of the year, 18 PTs from Monterey and Silicon Valley (and north) brought bags and bags and bags of toys to the brave Marines in downtown San Jose. Radio station B-94.5 FM called the Monterey Bay PT Cruisers and Silicon Valley PT Cruisers the "heroes of the hour" and mentioned us twice ON THE AIR!! We all wound up doing lunch at Tony & Alba's again, and everyone thankfully made it home just fine. Mother Nature can't keep these groups down! Click here to see pics of the Toys for Tots Run 2002 December 7, 2002. 2nd Annual PTCSV Christmas Party. Bill & Betty Henthorn's house. Sunnyvale, California. For 2002, B3 invited us to enjoy their home and celebrate the holidays as a club. And enjoy we did, as we filled their home to capacity. The White Elephant and plain old gift exchanges were a big hit, as was the appearance of the man himself, Santa Claus, who handed out presents to ALL of the young ones, and was even a hit with my daughter, Katrina! Thank you so much, Bill and Betty (and you, too, Belle) for a wonderful Christmas bash! Click here to see pictures of the 2nd Annual PTCSV Christmas Party November 27, 2002. 2nd Annual 2nd Harvest Food Bank Run. San Jose, California. 13 PTs took of on our annual run to drop off food at the local food bank. Together we gathered over 100 pounds of non-perishable foods for the poor for Thanksgiving. After that, we cruised over to a local slot car track, where we raced in three heats of races. Looks like John Gallagher and I raced to a dead heat in the last race. After that we headed to Tony & Alba's Pizza for some REALLY good eats. Met a new cruiser named Rich Steffens with his Stone White with baby moons. Look forwqard to seeing more of his car in the future! Click here to see my pics of the 2nd Harvest Food Bank Run 2002 November 16, 2002. Stoneridge Chrysler Car Show. Dublin, California. About 90 PT Cruisers of all over Northern California came to participate in this first annual event. out of the five awards given out, PTCSV won three. Not too bad! Although, Don won for "stock" and if his is stock, what the heck is mine? "Bone Stock?" Click here to see my shots from the Stoneridge Chrysler show October 13, 2002. Greenfield Harvest Festival Car Show. Greenfield, California. For a change of pace, the PTCSV and Monterey Bay PT Cruisers participated in the Greenfield Harvest Festival Parade and Car Show. As a group, we won 2nd Place in the Automobile division for the parade. For the car show, 5 PTs stayed behind and enjoyed the festivities which included a great amateur wrestling venue right behind the PTs. Debbie Stafford won third place "Euro" division and I won first place "Euro" division....my first "Best of Class" award! Click here to see my pics of the Greenfield Harvest festival Car Show September 29, 2002. Antioch Rivertown Jamboree Car Show. Antioch, California. As part of the 13th Annual Rivertown Jamboree, the PTCSV joined the Delta PT Cruisers, Capital PT Cruisers, Monterey Bay PT Cruisers and Valley PT Cruisers in the Sunday PT Cruiser car show. About 70 PTs showed up to copete for awards. The PTCSV cleaned up again with Bill and Betty Henthorn winning third place for Presentation, Debbie Stafford won Best Underhood, Mark Fife won Best Flames, Don Kildebeck won Best Woody, I won Best Theme (again), Darren won 2nd place People's Choice, and Don Kildebeck won again with 1st PLace People's Choice. This show was great with raffle prizes for everybody, great food, lots of shopping and a pleasant atmosphere!! Click here to see my pics of the Antioch Rivertown Jamboree Car Show September 28, 2002. Concord Chrysler PT Jamboree. Concord, California. This was the first dealership sponsored PT show that our club attended. 25 of the PTCSV PT's showed up. Terri Estrada won Best Hatchback Display, Debbie Stafford won Best Underhood, Pete Saulnier won Best Custom, and I won Best Themed PT. Fun was had, but the food was sparse, drinks non-exitant, and the music was shall we say, low tech.... Click here to see my pics of the Concord Chrysler Car Show September 21, 2002. Past Time PT Cruisers PT Jamboree. Isleton, California. About 65 PT Cruisers attended the third annual PT Jamboree in the quiet Delta town of Isleton (think Crawdad Festival). The PTCSV won the Club Participation award, Don & Kristen got Third Place-Custom, and we got 2nd Place-Custom, Best Theme and People's Choice. Overall a very nice event, though short on food and outhouses..... Afterwards, we had out monthly PT Cruise-In at Foster's Freeze in Milpitas. A record 29 PTs showed up. We had a raffle and raised about .00 for the http://www.snbw.org Guests Bill and Sandi were our first out of state participants and they contributed a Benevento sunroof deflector to the raffle, which we managed to win!! Click here to see my pics of the PT Jamboree September 14, 2002. Beans and Beer Cruise. Fairfield, California. 14 Cruisers gathered for this unique day out to the Jelly Belly Factory and Budweiser Bottling factory where we enjoyed tours, samples and each others company. Click here to see pics of the Beans and Beer Cruise August 23-25, 2002. Casa de Fruta Camp out. Hollister, California. We had 6 PTs camp out and three more stay at Casa de Hotel for the first annual PTCSV camp out. Mark damn near killed himself with some Death's Head hot sauce, a monumental water balloon fight, and HUGE breakfasts were the highlights of a great weekend..... Click here to see my pics of the Casa de Fruta Camp-Out August 20, 2002. Giants versus Mets, Pac Bell Park, San Francisco, California. The PTCSV went on a non-cruise group visit to the Giants game. Schmidt pitched a 5 hit shutout, and Bonds scored the only run on a funky sacrifice by Shinjo (he shoulda been cut down at the plate) but a win is a win. We had fun on our first visit to the ballpark.... Click here to view my pics from the Giants game August 17, 2002. Hot August Niles, Fremont, California. The PTCSV decided to make this yearly event for the first time. A good time was had by all, viewing some really classy local cars... Click here to view my Hot August Niles pics July 21, 2002. Hot Antioch Nights, Antioch, California. The PT Cruisers of Silicon Valley participated in this 3rd Annual hot rod event put on by Pete Paulson. Of the 5 PT Cruiser awards, we won 4. The club also won the Club Participation award, showing the best overall club presence at the show! Congratulations to the winners in the club. Click here to see some pics from Hot Antioch Nights, more to come July 4, 2002, Alameda, California. Alameda Mayor's 4th of July Parade. Sheldon Buford organized 41 PT Cruisers in this parade in which the group won 1st Place in the automobile category!! The weather stayed cool, and we had a boat-load of fun!! Click here to see my parade photos and a couple Clyde Waldrop took, too..... June 1 and 2, 2002, Modesto, California. 2nd Annual Central Valley PT Cruiserfest. 314 (yes, 314!) PT Cruisers converged on Modesto for this two day event. PTCSV came away big with five trophy winners. We got third Favorite Theme, Don & Kristen won third Ultra-Modified, Mark & Donna won third Favorite Rear Hatch Display, and Jim and Laura Winter got first Under Hood Display and first Favorite PT!! The ultimate, though, was a surprise Birthday party for me on Saturday night, when 35 of my closest friends threw a party for my 33rd! What wonderful friends I have, and what would I do without them? My wife, Suzanne, continues to be the ultimate light of my life....I LOVE YOU SUZIE!!! Click here to see my pics of Cruiserfest May 29, 2002, Sacramento, California. Sacramento Memorial Day Parade. Gloria and the Bugdude family were 1 of 55 PTs that participated in the annual parade. Organized by Jim Drysdale of the Capital PT Cruisers, we won the "Commander's Award" as best of parade. My Uncle Sam get-up was awarded 3rd Place "Most Patriotic Individual." It was a blast and look forward to doing this again! Click here to see my pics of the Memorial Day Parade in Sacramento May 18, 2002, Milpitas, California. Foster's Freeze PT Cruise-In. 17 PTs gathered for the first ever PT Cruise-In in Milpitas. A strong showing of the PTCSV if I do say so myself!! Click here for my pics from Foster's Freeze April 24-28, 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada. 3rd Annual Vegas Cruise. 10 PTs from our great club caravaned together over the mountains and through the desert to meet all of our fellow PTers in Las Vegas. I have not been part of such a wonderful group of travellers in my life. Bill and Betty Henthorn got 1st Place in Ultra Stock, Jim & Laura Winter got 1st Place in Modified, and Suzie and I got 3rd Place in Ultra-Modified! What a great time!
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