NorCal Audi Club's End of Summer BBQ...
10-13-2008, 09:10 AM
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NorCal Audi Club's End of Summer BBQ...
a special thanks to Jeff, Sia and Stefano who ensured that the show went on despite the last minute regional red flag condition, and also a grateful thanks to <a href="http://www.dsf-usa.com">DSF</a>, <a href="http://www.lemanskarting.com">LeMans Karting</a>, <a href="http://www.034motorsport.com">034 Motorsport</a>, and <a href="http://www.stasisengineering.com">STaSIS</a> for providing the location, food/beverages, eye candy, prizes, go fast goods, and entertainment. last, but not least a BIG thanks out to all of you who attended yesterday, we hope to make this an annual event. see you all (and hopefully more) next year!
Pics:
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2FST4CHP came rolled on down from Marin
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3188/2935842901_7767051c84_b.jpg">
Sweet Cactus "S4+RS4"
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3147/2935843851_9feec24900_b.jpg">
needs no introduction, but if you haven't - the STaSIS line up.
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3030/2936700396_54f23de2f1_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3007/2936701338_c55f8949c8_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/2935847243_92200c0fcd_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3017/2936703612_67c400f5f9_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3144/2936704646_defb2da357_b.jpg">
Would love to see more of the older Audi's make an appearance.
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3010/2936705706_005dcb44d9_b.jpg">
BMW brought Domino's (JoeC500's new 335)
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3296/2936706786_2bdd201b3f_b.jpg">
Gloria's (don't know her handle) sweet oetty A3
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3144/2936707656_e674b545b5_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2936708554_59694f70fe_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3219/2935854209_0926c150b0_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3251/2936710786_177d08be36_b.jpg">
034 Motorsport's goodies
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2935856457_566572782b_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2136/2935857513_acf70ce92e_b.jpg">
that S5 sounded great.
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3207/2935858421_2843099270_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3228/2935859407_1752e6bff0_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3053/2935860379_88b03aa06f_b.jpg">
European Auto Work's A8
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3287/2935861407_7b70a6a561_b.jpg">
Jeff anxious to get out on the surrounding roads
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3052/2935865075_7037cdb9c2_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3136/2935866007_41c8ab32e0_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3195/2935866975_bf6b094bb3_b.jpg">
You can all thank Jeff for cooking up your burgers, hot dogs, chili, turkey burgers, and twinkies?
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3029/2935863243_7c085f6f76_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3280/2936717526_545b79774a_b.jpg">
Yeah...twinkies.
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3057/2935864041_73b14fd1a9_b.jpg">
Thanks for coming guys! Hope you all enjoyed yourselves. See you next year!
Pics:
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3005/2935841871_a6c824306f_b.jpg">
2FST4CHP came rolled on down from Marin
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3188/2935842901_7767051c84_b.jpg">
Sweet Cactus "S4+RS4"
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3147/2935843851_9feec24900_b.jpg">
needs no introduction, but if you haven't - the STaSIS line up.
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3030/2936700396_54f23de2f1_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3007/2936701338_c55f8949c8_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/2935847243_92200c0fcd_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3017/2936703612_67c400f5f9_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3144/2936704646_defb2da357_b.jpg">
Would love to see more of the older Audi's make an appearance.
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3010/2936705706_005dcb44d9_b.jpg">
BMW brought Domino's (JoeC500's new 335)
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3296/2936706786_2bdd201b3f_b.jpg">
Gloria's (don't know her handle) sweet oetty A3
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3144/2936707656_e674b545b5_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3208/2936708554_59694f70fe_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3219/2935854209_0926c150b0_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3251/2936710786_177d08be36_b.jpg">
034 Motorsport's goodies
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3206/2935856457_566572782b_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2136/2935857513_acf70ce92e_b.jpg">
that S5 sounded great.
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3207/2935858421_2843099270_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3228/2935859407_1752e6bff0_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3053/2935860379_88b03aa06f_b.jpg">
European Auto Work's A8
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3287/2935861407_7b70a6a561_b.jpg">
Jeff anxious to get out on the surrounding roads
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3052/2935865075_7037cdb9c2_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3136/2935866007_41c8ab32e0_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3195/2935866975_bf6b094bb3_b.jpg">
You can all thank Jeff for cooking up your burgers, hot dogs, chili, turkey burgers, and twinkies?
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3029/2935863243_7c085f6f76_b.jpg">
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3280/2936717526_545b79774a_b.jpg">
Yeah...twinkies.
<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3057/2935864041_73b14fd1a9_b.jpg">
Thanks for coming guys! Hope you all enjoyed yourselves. See you next year!
10-13-2008, 09:00 PM
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Nice event!!!! <jealous> On a side note: the CHP 11-99 Foundation plate frames.........
(09-28) 04:00 PDT Sacramento --
The California Highway Patrol and a CHP benefit foundation are doing away with expensive license plate frames that may have bought some drivers a pass on traffic tickets.
Commissioner J.A. Farrow worries the frames create a perception that contributors to the California Highway Patrol 11-99 Foundation are getting beneficial treatment from CHP officers.
At Farrow's request, the foundation, which takes its name from the emergency police radio code for "officer needs assistance," voted last week to stop issuing the frames by January.
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Speeders' favorite license frame scrutinized
Christian Berthelsen, Los Angeles Times
Friday, October 3, 2008
It was the kind of move that would usually mean a ticket for a young guy in a tricked-out BMW: unsafely zipping around a truck and another vehicle - which happened to be a California Highway Patrol cruiser - while zooming down the road.
But rather than getting slapped with a fine last year on Interstate 101 south of San Francisco, Nick Palefsky was let go with a warning.
"He said, 'Next time, be a little bit more cautious,' " Palefsky recounted in a recent interview. It was one of four occasions in the last three years in which Palefsky, 22, said he was stopped by California Highway Patrol or local police officers; only once did he receive a ticket.
Palefsky believes a license plate frame proclaiming membership in the California Highway Patrol 11-99 Foundation helped him avoid the tickets.
The foundation, based in Fullerton (Orange County), draws its name from the emergency police radio code for "officer needs assistance." It has taken in millions of dollars in tax-free donations for more than 25 years and used the money to aid families of CHP employees.
For $5,000, donors have received the license plate frame as well as, until recently, a brass identification card bearing a small star similar to a CHP badge. The group says neither one was intended as a way to get out of tickets. But Palefsky is hardly the only one who believes they function that way.
The frame has been called "the ultimate speeding ticket solution in California" on a Mercedes-Benz chat board. And recently, the frames have been popping up for sale on Craigslist and eBay, for $250 to $1,000. The resales have angered the foundation, but it has so far been unable to stop them.
"There's definitely a perceived benefit, as well as a real benefit," said one online seller, who asked that his name not be used. "There's this real tangible benefit of possibly getting favorable treatment from a CHP officer."
In response to inquiries from the Los Angeles Times, CHP Commissioner J.A. Farrow looked into the matter and was "surprised" and "bothered" by what he found. Farrow, who took over the top spot at the agency earlier this year, said he was concerned that the frames were creating a perception that 11-99 membership results in beneficial treatment from officers.
......... Carroll Shelby, the legendary race car driver and auto designer who has homes in the Los Angeles area and Las Vegas, told the Globe and Mail in 2006: "I'm a member of 11-99. I have a thing that gets you out of tickets. ... Unless we run over a kid in a school zone doing 40 to 50 miles an hour, they usually let us go."
Writing on an Internet chat board in 2005, a BMW enthusiast identifying himself as "mottati" said: "I've been a lifetime member for five years and have not gotten a ticket since. Been pulled over a couple times, but let off."
PSA.
The California Highway Patrol and a CHP benefit foundation are doing away with expensive license plate frames that may have bought some drivers a pass on traffic tickets.
Commissioner J.A. Farrow worries the frames create a perception that contributors to the California Highway Patrol 11-99 Foundation are getting beneficial treatment from CHP officers.
At Farrow's request, the foundation, which takes its name from the emergency police radio code for "officer needs assistance," voted last week to stop issuing the frames by January.
----------------------------------------------------
Speeders' favorite license frame scrutinized
Christian Berthelsen, Los Angeles Times
Friday, October 3, 2008
It was the kind of move that would usually mean a ticket for a young guy in a tricked-out BMW: unsafely zipping around a truck and another vehicle - which happened to be a California Highway Patrol cruiser - while zooming down the road.
But rather than getting slapped with a fine last year on Interstate 101 south of San Francisco, Nick Palefsky was let go with a warning.
"He said, 'Next time, be a little bit more cautious,' " Palefsky recounted in a recent interview. It was one of four occasions in the last three years in which Palefsky, 22, said he was stopped by California Highway Patrol or local police officers; only once did he receive a ticket.
Palefsky believes a license plate frame proclaiming membership in the California Highway Patrol 11-99 Foundation helped him avoid the tickets.
The foundation, based in Fullerton (Orange County), draws its name from the emergency police radio code for "officer needs assistance." It has taken in millions of dollars in tax-free donations for more than 25 years and used the money to aid families of CHP employees.
For $5,000, donors have received the license plate frame as well as, until recently, a brass identification card bearing a small star similar to a CHP badge. The group says neither one was intended as a way to get out of tickets. But Palefsky is hardly the only one who believes they function that way.
The frame has been called "the ultimate speeding ticket solution in California" on a Mercedes-Benz chat board. And recently, the frames have been popping up for sale on Craigslist and eBay, for $250 to $1,000. The resales have angered the foundation, but it has so far been unable to stop them.
"There's definitely a perceived benefit, as well as a real benefit," said one online seller, who asked that his name not be used. "There's this real tangible benefit of possibly getting favorable treatment from a CHP officer."
In response to inquiries from the Los Angeles Times, CHP Commissioner J.A. Farrow looked into the matter and was "surprised" and "bothered" by what he found. Farrow, who took over the top spot at the agency earlier this year, said he was concerned that the frames were creating a perception that 11-99 membership results in beneficial treatment from officers.
......... Carroll Shelby, the legendary race car driver and auto designer who has homes in the Los Angeles area and Las Vegas, told the Globe and Mail in 2006: "I'm a member of 11-99. I have a thing that gets you out of tickets. ... Unless we run over a kid in a school zone doing 40 to 50 miles an hour, they usually let us go."
Writing on an Internet chat board in 2005, a BMW enthusiast identifying himself as "mottati" said: "I've been a lifetime member for five years and have not gotten a ticket since. Been pulled over a couple times, but let off."
PSA.
