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**YellowRose** · April 2, 2009, 11:32 PM

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Hi Bill!

I am glad to hear that you are enjoying yourself and being treated well there and enjoying the Mexican food. I am sure you are enjoying visiting the various car shops they have out there. They have some great ones. Enjoy the car show, and maybe, just maybe, you might find a "mate" for Penelope!

Let us know what you might be taking back home with you!

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**RustyNCa** · April 3, 2009, 12:02 AM

To bad Bill is visiting the wrong end of CA though, seriously welcome to CA and the US.

If you make it up to the good part, that is the section in green

hit me up.

KoolApril Nights is coming up April 15th to April 19th... Someone needs to come up and represent beside just me...and if anyone does... hit me up man.

Page not found – KOOL APRIL NITES

http://www.koolaprilnites.com/photos/

Here is my lady driving the 65 in the cruise last year.... she wants to ride with me this year, said she kept getting hit on...

Another bird in the cruise

My son and I in the red gutlass....

**Penelope** · April 9, 2009, 09:45 PM

Hey Rusty, we are in San Francisco now, but only overnight...great place! We love the whole car culture here, it is awesome. **** cold weather here though!

**tarps3** · April 10, 2009, 09:03 AM

Originally posted by RustyNCa

Here is my lady driving the 65 in the cruise last year.... she wants to ride with me this year, said she kept getting hit on...

uh - yea...
ya think?

Nice cars and a nice looking group of people.
congrats you lucky *&%.

**scumdog** · April 10, 2009, 03:39 PM

Originally posted by Penelope

Hey Rusty, we are in San Francisco now, but only overnight...great place! We love the whole car culture here, it is awesome. **** cold weather here though!

The car culture is one of the things I also love about the US, just love cruising around soaking in the old-car wrecking-yards, classic-car sales etc etc, can't wait to get enough $$$ (read: Kiwi pesos) to get back again.

**RustyNCa** · April 10, 2009, 07:06 PM

Originally posted by Penelope

Hey Rusty, we are in San Francisco now, but only overnight...great place! We love the whole car culture here, it is awesome. **** cold weather here though!

Yep, very cold. Where you staying in SF? It's a beautiful city with good eats and nightlife.

You want a good time check out the bisuits and blues club, small little place downstairs, has really good food and good blues music.

Their web site says tonight is Johnny Lee Hooker, JR

They are at 401 Mason St. at Geary just off of Union Square.

Really kool place, if you like blues music and southern food.

Biscuits and Blues

http://www.biscuitsandblues.com/

**Penelope** · April 12, 2009, 09:59 PM

Thanks for the info Rusty, didnt get to the internet again until too late and we are now down in Corona again to pick up parts for my sons Chevys, and hopefully some more bits for my baby from Moon in Wilmington. We are only here for another 3 days then its back to Aussie...and reality.

It has been a most enjoyable trip but I must say that the economy over here is in a **** of a mess. My business in Australia is involved with finance and real estate and whilst we have had a small downturn in prices, its obvious that there has been some real carnage here...sad for all concerned.

We have done our best to inject some cash but didnt find any cars that we fell in love with and wanted to take back...this time.

**Petrolhead** · April 14, 2009, 07:09 PM

Hi Bill
I've been away for a while, road trip to wellington for teh National Hot Rod Show. Glad you had such a cool trip, you must be heading home tomorrow our time? Betcha went nuts at Moon, they give you the shop tour?

**Guest** · April 15, 2009, 12:12 AM

Moons place

HI guys
Dean Moons old shop has changed a lot since he died-- I have been going there since the 60's lots of history was made there and across the alley where the first AC cobra was put togeather--with a 260 in her ( this is the same garage where the Moon Eyes special was hammered out )building where. The hub caps use to be spun in the old shed in the corner of the paring lot -- now gone. When Dean died-- the shop was closed for quite a while-- but then the Japanise bought it from his wife and when it reopened -- a lot of the old casting and equipment were gone -- who know where. There were a lot of one off parts that I would have loved to have bought.

**Penelope** · April 18, 2009, 07:10 AM

Hi guys, back in Oz now and yes we loved the Moon shop but were not offered the shop tour and as a result we didnt spend a lot of cash there. I must say that they did not have much stock on the shelves either (noticable at a lot of stores over there) as they said that they only produce when ordered due to the state of the economy. I was after some finned valve covers etc, but they didnt have any on hand.

We truly had a wonderful time with the trip highlight a toss up between a full shop tour and hour long plus discussion of Marcel's Custom Body Works in Corona and the Goodguys S & S at Del Mar. My son thinks the highlight was me not turning into the traffic on the right hand side (we use the left lane here in Oz) on the freeway. I did manage to do it once or twice in back streets when I lost concentration though....

**Penelope** · April 18, 2009, 07:23 AM

We did have a bad end to our trip, we got home from the airport here to find our house here in Perth had been burgled and my wifes 325ci hard top convertible stolen...great way to take the gloss off your holiday.

**Dan Leavens** · April 18, 2009, 09:32 AM

Bill that's terrible and as you say what a way to end you holiday. It is hoped that all will turn ouut okay and your wife's car is located soon.

**tbird430** · April 18, 2009, 10:01 AM

Oh my GOD that is terrible news Bill!!! Karma is a bad "bleep-BLEEP"!! I hope these low-lifes get back what is coming to them & MORE!!

Keep us posted Bill.

**YellowRose** · April 18, 2009, 12:08 PM

Hello California

Hi Bill,

I was shocked when I read about the break in you suffered while you were gone! I hope the loss inside the house was not to bad. The loss of your wife's car is terrible enough as it is. I know how you must be feeling, since I have been broken into in the past. You feel like you have been violated to the core of your being. It took some time for Faye and I to get over that feeling. We even had the house alarmed, and it did not make one difference to the thief. He or they knew that they had about 5-7 minutes before the police showed up. With the alarm klaxon sounding, they grabbed what they could get to in a hurry and were gone before the police arrived. I do not know why they did not take Faye's jewelry box. It was sitting in our bedroom in plain sight! Luckily, I got part of what was stolen back, because this idiot also stole his girlfriends new TV set and she turned him in! They found him with some of my goods still in his possession, especially my belt buckle collection in a wooden box, WITH my voters ID card in it.

Case open ~ Case closed!

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