AZ-D's Thanksgiving meeting

["Matthew P. Olans" <mpolans@xxxx>]

Greetings all!
The AZ-D group (www.az-d.org) just had our Thanksgiving meeting
today and it was a BLAST! A hearty thank you goes out to Richard and Kathy
Federico of Chandler, AZ for putting on a great shin-dig and preparing a
turkey meal for those of us who have nowhere to be on the holiday....:)
I brought the much discussed renegade issues of DeLoreans from the
Midatlantic group to this meeting and distributed about 12 copies to the
members. Thanks to Mike DeLuca and DMCH for the reading material. They
were very well received out here.
We added a 2 new members to our roster today. We had a 14 year old
enthusiast show up with his father. He is a real spark that enjoys the car
and we talked about anything and everything we could think of to keep him
sated. I had to honor of giving him his first ride in a DeLorean and now I
know what people are saying about that. The look of sheer joy on his face
will stay with me for a long time. The other new member is Ryan Gould,
formerly of CA. Ryan is opening up DART in Prescott Valley at the beginning
of the new year and had some terrific products to show us today. His
exhaust system was very impressive and the mini cargo nets are really
terrific. Visit www.d-a-r-t.com for more information.
After the meeting 3 cars decided to trek up to the Scottsdale
Pavillions for the weekly car show. 2 more showed up and there was even a
renegade 6th D parked a few rows over. We really attracted a lot of
attention and for the first time I can remember we were even well received
by the female population. First time for everything!
5 DeLoreans ended the night with a stop over at a Ferrari owner's
house to see restoration of his car in progress and a Q&A session. From
there we headed out to central Phoenix for a late dinner at Ed Debevic's. I
think what best sums up the evening is: "A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL!"
Our next event will be in mid-January for our holiday party and gift
exchange (hey, January is a fun time to get gifts!) and a visit from DMCH at
the Barrett-Jackson auction. If anyone is ever in town please look some of
us up. We drive year round and welcome those cold weather city owners who
put their cars up for the winter. Come on out to the desert for a little
R&R and throw a few DeLoreans around Phoenix! We love the company and enjoy
being hosts, expecially when it's snowing in other parts of the
country....:)

Happy Thanksgiving from the AZ-D!

Matthew: AZ-D VP
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