From: "A SPEC" a_spec@hotmail.com 
Date: Thursday, June 01, 2000 4:44 PM

Waaaaasssup ,
Well ... the meet has been and gone , and for all of you who were gonna go, and didn't, you REALLY missed a great time . Now you may say that we would have to say that ... but we don't.  If you don't believe me ... ask anyone who was there.  The following is my interpretation of what happened .........

I met all of the guys .... and it was great to put a face to the text you read, and better yet a personality.

Chris O' : The guy is pleasant, and calm unlike me ... he gets up at 5am to go to work <id say f..ck that> yet he seems very cheerful even when he gets home.  He get a broken trans, and you sense a slight "Oh man I'm gonna burn this car" vibe, but he res calm, and doesn't use any profanities.  He is very smart, and knows his gear, very easy to talk to as well. Now Mick .. Chris's brother .... man .. this guy is OUT THERE !!! . He had a chainsaw powered blender with a tuned pipe and aluminum muffler!!!!! . He is a totally cool guy and rides a 300EX racing ATV , so we got on real well and his wife Deb was great .. she makes a cake called "better than sex" , but I never tried it , cause I really love sex .. haha

Jose or "Hey essay" : This is a shocker ... he is so different to what you expect . Very witty, uses the finger too much, and likes to grab others attention by calling 'em "dickhead"  :)  LOL . While racing go karts ... we get the 2 seater <a Jose & Saffo [Tm] idea> kart, and let it rip . But I couldn't hit the brake and gas ... so Jose works the gas .. like all the way on the floor board!!! and I trailed the brake all the way around. And we have it on camera ;) The smell of brakes was worse than our odor in the Texan heat . Oh and he makes a 16hr trip into a 24hr one, by using the disclaimer "I dunno, I was swappin' lanes at the time , and didn't see the sign" . On the last night of our stay ... I had the pleasure of sleeping in the same bed as him . Saffo & Jose in one bed .... scary shit man . Chris O copied a disk for Jose I made up in AUS ... its all kick ass tunes ... and now he says "Hey, that CD of yours KICKS ASS.  I almost got three tickets today! That music makes you speed" Then says ... "Seriously brother. I was good before that CD.  Now I'm some sort of street raging freak!" Haha .. that's why we like ya man!

Nathan : This guy looks like he came straight from Hawaii ... he rolls up , total surfie lookin' guy, that you would say knew nothing about life, apart from the social security line, let alone a GT-4 ... think again . Funny guy, easy going and is a must on a party list!  He did have a dump pipe ... and the plumber vibe will stay with him for a long time.   ;-)

Tyler or "Too cool Tyler" : Man what this guy does in a stock ST Celica year 38 BC is out there.  He will frighten Sainz out of a drive , hell you cant even read the lettering on the side of the tyre, cause it's all scrubbed off ! . This guy is a terminator .... he doesn't drink, eat sleep or anything ... Jose and Joaquin drove with him there, and when they stopped cause they were dyin' , he sat there and waited.  He swaps in and out of traffic like psycho .. and will get grown men in 18 wheelers to lock up their brakes to avoid him.  On top of that he tried to run down the manager at the karting place ... he gets out and says "Hey man .. this ain't got no fu..kin brakes", then some guy gets in it and pulls about 15 consistent laps.  ;)   On top of that .. the way home we kept gettin the Check Engine light .... cant see why tho .. 120mph with all our gear .. oh jeez man.  We got on great .... and its gonna be great to meet up again in DC.

Tarik : Now he is a great guy .... just has NO patience :) . He almost ripped my head off when I told him to relax and wait before we went to the drags . And he likes to film gorgeous waitresses in Dallas.  ;)   hahaha   He and Tyler made Captain Fear come out of me ... he had been in my memories never to resurface , but I couldn't help myself ... the capt came out, cape and all.  No bottle tops or pennies thrown by the "Bottle top bandits" from the lower level could infiltrate the super human cape of the Capt Fear !!!

Ryan : Quite a quiet kid .... does a mean launch in his 165, and without notice ... will give you the low down on NHRA rules and regs on fuel and additives .... then busts out some comments on racing MX, as he races BMX himself.  ;)  I believe he is the ONLY one who didn't use any profanities , so all the girls on the list ... here is your prince ;)

Brian : Loose driver ... hahaha. This guy wears a shirt and slacks all the time , and is a dr jekyl , mr hyde guy . You would NEVER guess what he drives.  Nice guy .. .and I think I pushed his patience at a Walmart trip we went on ...

Dave : Man he rolls up on Friday ... we talk a little, and as he is a tarmac racer .... I thought we will yak on for hours ... well I went to bed at about 8am ... then I wake up at like 1pm .. when I get down I say where is Dave ... and they say he is gone.  :(

Noah : Well ... you guys know my nature ... and this guy agrees with me on so many things .. it shits me.  Seriously ... he is a top guy, and we get on great, except when he starts to dribble on about VW's ... like who cares ???? . It took like 30 years for them to figure what a radiator is used for .... and fill it with water.  As far as Wendy .. Noah's lot nicer side ... I managed to end up in the same bed as her on the first night .... like I predicted a week ago . Unfortunately we both had clothes on ..... but I did predict it . Say ... Noah tells me Paul K and his MRS are sharing a room with me in DC ... guess what ??  :)  <Joaquin is laughing here .. he says I'm a dead man>

Chris C : Man this guy has a smile on his dial all day long.  We hit the Malibu karts and he was smilin so much ... he had bugs stuck to his teeth from drivin.  ;)  hahaha .  Now he says we hit New York ... cool .. at least i can use my "Joyzey" <Jersey> accent.  :)  He brang his mate Miguel ... cool guy, very content with the whole Toyota thing.   ;)

Aaron : Man he is another all smiles guy ... and since he gave me a EPC .. now I have to make him some wild designs of stickers . His MR2 leaves these hideous black lines on the road when launching ... wonder what that could be.  And his 2 stroke buddy Scott was cool too .. he also has a MR2 and sat next to me the whole time I spoke about the "pissing on the side of a off-ramp" while eating his mexican in an restaurant . The people who sat near us ... weren't so understanding.  ;)   Aarons' sweeter half Christin <I hope I did that right> put up with my pissing episodes and all the Toyota talk in a very understanding way.  ;)

Joaquin : Well I'm stayin with him now ... he is a crackup . He rips out a line that leaves you in tears ... and he is probably the easiest sleeper out of us all . At Chris', any place, sofa, floor or DVD cabinet did for the night . And when I threw a supersized McCoke at him while doin 100mph on the way home .. he does these huge ass lane swaps .... funny man . Lucky no-one was near him . He and Jose drove a Kia on the way up .. and the aircon stopped working . We gets to Budget in Texas on the way home, and I said I had overheated on the way up thanks to no aircon <they didn't know I was already in Texas> and was in bed for 2 days with a fever, and I'm a cripple , and I have a wheelchair ... so they gave us a new Ford Explorer , and apologized very promptly . We laughed our asses all the way home.  ;)

That was pretty much all of the guys ... I really hope I didn't forget someone . If I had to write a mail on what makes ME laugh or so ... you would be here all day reading it . I'm having a ton of fun.  ;)

Oh and I got a speeding ticket ... those bastards got me at 93 in a 70 zone ... I cant seem to get 
away from the cops.  :)

And the new greeting word / motto for the Meet and forever is ... "Waaaaasssup" - in your most obnoxious accent. ;)

The MPEG that Tarik was talkin about ... we spoke to a few guys before about it <lucky this ain't a buisness Tarik or I'd have to burn you now man> , and that I would get Adrian's pc to convert it from my camera ... and me and Too cool Tyler will be collaborating it here ... from the whole trip <edited> on CDR's, so you get like 2 x 74min CDR's, instead of downloading it from a web page. 

The Chin experience .. Texas ... Tyler cam .. race cam from karts ... east coast meet. Shannonstock and so on ...

AS far as next years meet ........ we <us few head honchos that rolled up> are really keen on .......   Jamaica !!!!!

We get deposits, and hire a house on the beachfront ... babes ... liquor ... Stephen G ... what more can we want??? . AUS would not happen ... who could make it ??? no-one . Me drag the aussies .. and we hit Jamaica for some party and ganga mun.  ;)  10 people per house ... and it would be a blast !!!!!!  More on that soon !!!!

Take care ... and I hope you enjoyed it !!

IVAN - '92 GT-FOUR GRP A