NSXCA Florida chapter election/meeting/social Feb.19,2000

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14 NSXs and their proud owners assemble on the front lawn of Lakeridge Winery

The hilly roads of Lake County echoed with enthusiastic racing exhausts as 14 NSXs and their proud owners enjoyed a full day of activities beginning with the unanimous election of the following officers of the NSXCA Florida Chapter.

President:    Wei-Shen Chin

Vice President:    TJ Wright

Secretary:    Lynn Stedham

Treasurer:    Vince Howard

Track events coordinators:    Brian Rasche, Ernie Wilding, Rick Cuevas

Also elected to represent their regions:    Scott McKay (Tampa), Dave Parker (Miami, Ft. Lauderdale), Matthew Becker (Jacksonville), Kenneth Smith (Tallahassee)

meeting1.jpg (393882 bytes)meeting2.jpg (392386 bytes)TJRox.jpg (405736 bytes) house3.jpg (386570 bytes)  Vince Howard lectures to our first statewide meeting and elections

outside2.jpg (407467 bytes)Citgo.jpg (396035 bytes) cars gathered at the Chin residence and headed west on a 2 hour country drive after stopping for gas at Citgo

The weather was gorgeous for our 110-mile round trip through the winding HILLY roads of Lake County.  Sunny and 84 degrees....that's why we live in Florida!   We made stops at Sugarloaf Mountain (all 364ft. of it) and Lakeridge Winery for a little "tasting".  The traffic was fairly light with no encounters with law enforcement.

Sugarloaf1.jpg (399606 bytes)Sugardloaf2.jpg (411605 bytes) NSXs lined up on Sugarloaf Mountain

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14 NSXs on the front lawn of Lakeridge Winery

winetasting.jpg (410130 bytes) tasting the wine

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We returned to Wei-Shen's house at 6pm for a fabulous catered dinner of roast beef, ham, and wonderful deserts including a surprise birthday NSX cake for member Dave Parker of Miami!  We also gave away a 1:18 Kyosho Spa Yellow NSX to the winner of our "guess-the-member" contest.  Everybody submitted an unusual fact about themselves and a list was generated with all the submissions.  The winner was the person who could match the facts with the NSX member. That required everybody to chat with everybody...a great ice-breaker.  That led to some really interesting exchanges.   For example, did you know that Lynn Stedham was a yellow Crayola crayon at Halloween?  Or that John Butz's first car was a 1970 AMC Javelin?  You were not allowed to ask a direct question...you had to arrive at the conclusion through devious trickery.  It was a wonderful evening finished off with multiple rounds of Grand Tourismo on our 121" screen!  Our next planned event is a car show at Cocoa Village on March 18th....details to follow.

sunsethouse1.jpg (438764 bytes)sunset2.jpg (412387 bytes)sunset3.jpg (417820 bytes)grpZanardi.jpg (417744 bytes)sunset4.jpg (414685 bytes) sunset after the drive

TJdinner.jpg (409962 bytes)Parkercake.jpg (415952 bytes)Parkerclean.jpg (406467 bytes) TJ and Roxanne start dinner, Dave and Mimi inspect their NSX cake AND clean their car afterwards!