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Below you'll find some of the upcoming
Alfa-related events, both the ones organized by AONE and other activities of interest
to Alfisti. To submit new events, or changes to listed events, please
contact the Webmaster. Mark your own calendars with the events that
interest you—there's something for everybody!
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Tech Session at AlphaCars
and August Monthly Meeting
If
you’re "Always Looking For Another",
Imagine
how useful this will be the next time you suddenly hear about that Alfa
barn-find in the next town over! Or when a small ad in the local rag yields a
gem to be checked out! I’ll definitely be all ears at this session. Then again,
my wife does say I have "selective hearing", but that’s another story. We’ll
also cover upcoming events, including a final check on the big Watkins Glen
Alfa-oriented event in early September and other events in the months ahead.
So plan on meeting us there on Sunday, August 14 at 12 noon!
You can check out the
AlphaCars web site
for
more info on their fine facility. We’ll be arranging for some tasty munchies and
beverages to slake your lunchtime hunger. Bring your Alfa, for gosh sakes—it’s
summer and AlphaCars is located on a very nice road. Be there!
—Kevin Murphy
Directions: AlphaCars is located at 649 Mass. Ave. (Route 111), Boxborough, MA, which is just 1.5 miles East on Route 111 off Route I-495, Exit 28.
Italian Car Corral at the
Lime Rock Park Vintage Festival
On
Labor Day, Fiat Lancia Unlimited (FLU) will sponsor its 12th annual Italian Car
Corral
All Italian marques are welcome to participate in the Corral. Each year, the corral attracts a stable of Italian cars including Alfas, Fiats, Lancias, Ferraris, Maseratis, and Lamborghinis. There is no additional charge for the Corral; however, participants must purchase a ticket to the Vintage Festival and races.
While the Italian Car Corral is held on Monday, FLU is offering weekend and daily tickets to the Vintage Festival that are discounted to about 30-50% below the gate ticket prices, including the new $10 parking fee charged to park in the infield. The ticket prices are as follows:
Weekend Ticket: $65
Friday practice: $14
Saturday qualifying races: $18
Sunday Concours: $18
Monday Race & Corral: $30
Your tickets will be held at the Will-Call Ticket Booth next to the infield entrance gate. Please send your ticket order indicating the number and type of tickets, payable to "Lime Rock Park", to Tim Beeble, Fiat Lancia Unlimited, 63 Grassy Plain Street, Bethel, CT 06801. Tim can also be contacted with any questions at 203-743-4954 or beeblet@umich.edu. It's getting very late! You must get your check in by August 24th!!! For more information, check out the Lime Rock Park web site.
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Alfa Romeo To Be Featured
Marque at
Watkins Glen Grand Prix Festival
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AONE members are planning a caravan! So far, nearly a dozen AONE members (and some spouses) are signed up to caravan out to Watkins Glen, NY on September 8th to participate in the largest event featuring ALFA in the Northeast since our highly successful Giulietta Giubilee last year. ALFA is the "Tour de Marque" for this year’s Watkins Glen Grand Prix Festival, and members who sign up will participate in many special events, including a tour and lunch at Watkins Glen International Speedway, parade laps on the track, three laps of the old 6.6-mile long road course, and special reserved parking in downtown Watkins Glen for the Vintage Race Re-enactment. All of these events occur beginning at 8:00AM on Friday, September 9th—hence the need to get out there on the 8th.
On Saturday the 10th and Sunday the 11th are the SVRA Vintage Races at the track, which is a major take-in with many different classes competing wheel-to-wheel, and The Collier Cup. There will also be many vendors from all over the country to tug at your purse-strings, and a classic car show in which those participating in the prior day’s ALFA event are invited to show their cars (and it gives you great parking while at the track!).
As if all of this weren’t enough to give you a total overdose of your favorite obsession, the picture-perfect setting of Watkins Glen, crammed with old (and not so old) sports cars and racers, beautiful twisty roads dotted with wineries, lakes, and waterfalls make for a heady brew, so you’d better bring someone sensible with you to make sure you come back!
The Watkins Glen Grand Prix Festival is a terrific weekend of vintage racing and other forms of celebration, all held in historic and scenic Watkins Glen, NY. It’s always a real happening, and this year Alfa Romeo is the featured marque! Attendance will be high and accommodations are filling up fast, so click here to download a brochure (2MB PDF file) and make your plans!
One last thing—the New York Club tells us that they have
twelve cars committed to this event (and more coming), so there’s another reason
to make the trip! Your club needs you to help make AONE….A-ONE!
| Contact Info: | kevin@kmurphyslaw.com (Kevin Murphy—AONE liason) |
| www.grandprixfestival.com (How to sign up, general festival info) | |
| www.alfasattheglen.com (Comprehensive site serving as the central clearinghouse for information for Alfisti) | |
| www.watkinsglen.com (General site with long list of hotels/motels/B&Bs) |
Seventh Annual Pasta Fazoom Rally
in Central New York
The early-autumn Italian Car Cruise that's become a
tradition! For more info, visit the
Pasta Fazoom web site
or contact Cal Crouch at 315-691-9718 or
calvincrouch@hotmail.com.
"Il Giro Del Monadnock"
New Hampshire Road Tour
Saturday, October 1
It's back for an encore! Fellow AONErs and Peterborough residents John Percival and Guilherme Bonatto have teamed again to put together what promises to be a another fabulous motor tour in the Monadnock region of southern New Hampshire. Organized as a last-minute event last year, the dozen or so participants all had a terrific time on a tour that included quiet back roads, a stop for lunch, a couple of Alfa photo ops, a little shopping, more back roads, some historic landmarks, country estates, the McDowell Dam, horse farms, a basket-making shop, more back roads, and finally a stop for ice cream. It was a well-planned, interesting route and this year's variant promises to be even better!
There will be a lot more details forthcoming, but for now reserve October 1st (rain date the 8th) on your calendars!
