Motzkoman

Mercedes Benz SLK roadster owners are invited to meet rain or shine at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, October 21st in the parking lot at the Del Monte Shopping Center in Monterey for display of their cars and camaraderie (meet and greet, show and shine). We will meet in parking lot in front of the Petco and Rite Aid. Taking Exit 399C(Munras) from Hwy 1 and then 2 right turns to the shopping center works well:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...h&om=1&iwloc=A

We will leave around noon for a drive down the coast where we will lunch at Big Sur's Nepenthe. You can get info and the menu at:
http://www.nepenthebigsur.com

After lunch, we continue our ride to San Simeon. For those interested, we will get together in the San Simeon area for a group dinner. We are considering the San Simeon Beach Bar & Grill:
http://www.sansimeonrestaurant.com/

For planning purposes, it would be helpful to know if you are:
> lunching at nepenthe with the group
> having dinner in San Simeon with the group
Feel free to reply to this with your plans

The following link will give the current weather on our route and includes a great narration of the scenery along the drive :
http://www.weather.com/outlook/drivi...aram2=USCA0733

TwiceBlown

I'm hoping for a good turnout as I have *never* seen a 55 in the flesh. I'm also hoping you won't mind a prospective future owner ogling the cars, comparing colors, and asking questions.

Motzkoman

Jeff,
We currently have 15 confirmed cars with another 4 "maybes," but this month, of all of them, has many more R170's and only a couple of R171's with one 55 as a "maybe." It's actually ironic, since we usually have a 55 or two at most our drives, even one Kleeman S-7 55 that comes frequently but has a conflict tommorow. We'll hope the "maybe" 55 is there...

...Steve

Motzkoman

Thanks to organizer/leaders Chuck and Sam, we had a FANTASTIC meet and drive for October. We had 15 SLK's participate. From the meet in Monterey with beautiful weather, we followed highway one down through Carmel and the coast to Big Sur where we dined at Nepenthe! After lunch, eleven cars filled with participants drove on to San Simeon.

Crank up the sound on your computer! A Quicktime movie with music of the 10/21/06 Northern California SLK Enthusiasts meet and drive can be seen here: http://home.comcast.net/~motzko/0610SLK.mov

Past Quicktime movies of all the meet/drives back to January 2005 can be seen here: http://home.comcast.net/~motzko/Steves_SLK_Page.html

Quicktime player or the PC or MAC is available free at:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime

Thanks to all that participated!us...THANKS!!!