WOW, if you didn't join us at the picnic, you missed a great event and hopefully this will inspire you to come next year ! WE HAD A RECORD 16 METS, and a Nash Rambler Station Wagon,  in the most beautiful 'rainbow of colors' I've ever seen!

 First and foremost we all owe Ken Conner a big round of applause and a hearty THANK YOU for stepping in at the last minute to show up at the Craig Park Gate and be first in line at 6am in order to reserve our favorite spot at the park, and set up our 'pop up"  and our flags. While we were all catching that 'extra wink' he was sitting there in his 50'z Toy patiently waiting for the park to open. He got our perfect spot with lots of shady trees, and the best parking lot to display our cars.  Thank you Tony Billotti for showing up early too, helping Ken and keeping him company! 

  We had a wonderful variety of food consisting of green salads, fruit salads, chicken, sandwiches, baked beans, potato salad, lots of cookies, specialty "Met Cookies" and deserts, a great auction and lots of stimulating conversation about our cars.. ..what year they were, where they came from, how to fix, them, what to do if.... what a great day we had and the weather was perfect!    

 Thank you to Ronnie, our president for the great job he did on the auction, assisted by our lovely Jackie Bilotti and me, to Kim who always goes beyond and designed and brought the name tags (it really helped us all getting to know each other), and to Patrick who was our chief chef assisting Kim, and his wife Nancy in bbq-ing the hot dogs and all the fixins' they brought. 

 We had some very interesting auction items this year including a 'brief type case' from the FBI donated by Kim Dominguez that was used to transport "things" (whoo hoo) from past cases; homemade 'tomato jam' with garden fresh tomatoes too; an instrument to measure how hot your radiator gets; one specific item from our newest member Tom Booth, which was two outside mirrors for a Met with wind wings that could be installed without drilling into the body that received a lot of 'action' on bidding.. some Met Slippers now out of production, a cute little metal sign with "Toe Mater" stating 'he wasn't able to fix the brakes so he made the horn louder'.. got some bid action on that one too !  Oh my gosh, the list goes on and on !! The auction was worth your attendance in itself!! 

 We met some of our "Metters" and their beautiful cars for the first time today!  I must single out two of MY favorites... "Merlot" who belongs to fun new member and first time attendee Diana Milon,  a beautiful maroon/white Met and Ken and Nancy Pollard who brought their award winning coral/white Met.   There were so many beautiful cars there yesterday, I wish I could name them all and who owned them.  (Note to self to make a list next year)... I know Ken and Tony got lots of pictures that will be posted on our web site and in our next newsletter.  Diana Milon brought her friend Mercedes who's Met is in restoration mode so we hope we'll be able to call her a member soon!

 Some traveled a long distance to join us ..... The Mocabee's from Upland, The Pollard's from Murrieta,  The Wessels from Wildomar, The Waughs from Fallbrook and even though they came in their brand -X car this year, June (proprietor of "The Pit Stop" in North Hollywood)  and Michael Valentine.   Thank you!  We also had someone come yesterday with a cute little Black and White Met, complete with automatic transmission and air conditioning, who is not a member but has 'followed' on our web site.  He showed up with a 'FOR SALE' sign in the window.  One of our members asked for a test drive and before the day had even really begun, he had a buyer.  After spending the day with us and having such a good time, he actually said he was 'reconsidering' his sale, since we were all such a fun group.  Who knows... maybe he'll buy another one and be back !  I'll just let you guess who was the buyer from our Club!