More (MUCH BETTER) pics from the Alfa car show Saturday

These were taken by someone, unlike myself, who knows what he is doing with a camera....

MORE ALFA show pics!

That's me 4 cars back in line on the "parade" route....


My Spider in the foreground of this picture...

It's ALFA ROMEO Day!

Today is the day for the Alfa Romeo car show in Celebration, Florida. Alfas (and a few Fiats) will take over downtown celebration as Main St. will be roped off to other vehicular traffic.

Children will squeal with delight and elderly people will openly weep at the sight of the beautiful Italian autos.

CLICK HERE FOR TODAY'S VIVA ALFA ROMEO 2008 PICS!!

Fire flutes!!

One of my pals here at work, Craig Noss (aka Craigger Craigger Master of the Kegger) is also an accomplished flute maker! He hand makes all kinds of wickedly cool flutes!

Check out his website...what a great idea for a Christmas gift or to surprise everyone at Thanksgiving with your flute playing skills!

Craigger's Fire Flutes Website!!

Craigger's Flutes for sale on eBay!!

Viva Alfa Romeo Car Show this weekend

This Saturday (11/1) I will be attending the Viva Alfa Romeo Car Show 2008 in Celebration, FL.

This event is put on by the Mid Florida Alfa Romeo Club (of which I am a member)

I plan to drive my Spider down and put it in the show....luckily they are not too picky about the cars that enter :=)

I am trying to find a volunteer to drive my 164L down as well so I can have both cars present.

There are sure to be some very cool and rare Italian cars at this event.

Tre Italiani

Do you ever get the feeling when reading this blog that I like my Italian vehicles alot? Hope you don't mind, but, well, here's more :=)

Bob White Airfield "Fly-In"

Today I attended a "Fly-In" at Bob White Airfield in Zellwood, FL. This is where Cap'n Jim keeps his 1946 Aeronca Champ.

We got there good and early in the Alfa Romeo 164L and took a quick flight in the Champ whilst the skies were clear. Shortly though clouds moved in so CPJ maneuvered the Champ into the line of planes for folks to gawk at.

Lots of really cool planes to see and even some other cool vehicles, like a 1952 MG car and an old International Harvester tractor.

A really fun way to spend the morning!

More pictures here!!! Click Me!!

Back from Birmingham....what a trip!

Pictures and videos will be posted in the next day or so as I am too tired to do it now. Just got back tonight from the Birmingham trip with my friends Rob (Kawasaki Vulcan) and Bob (Harley Davidson). The Guzzi Breva was it's usual flawless self over the course of the near 1200 mile trip. So was Rob's Kawasaki Vulcan. Not so however for the other bike on the trip .....hmmm, guess which one that was. More on that later.

Click the link below for my Kodak Photo Gallery of my trip pics...

TRIP PICS CLICK HERE!

On the way up Friday we ran into moderate to heavy rain in Alabama for a few hours. Bob's HD conked out on Hwy 280 in Alabama with an electrical issue which required a call to the Harley dealer near B-ham (about 60 miles away) and a tow there.

While they HD dealer was working on the bike Saturday Bob had the "privilege" of riding on the back of my Breva!

The Barber Motorsports museum was AWESOME and so was the vintage cycle racing. But the coolest thing was the Aerobatic show put on by the Shell Aerobatic airplane team...unbelievable!

We rode some nice, twisty roads in Alabama and had a great time.

Monday a.m. we left early only to be surprised by the cold temps....we rode for about two hours in temps of 39-43 degrees. That sucked! None of us really had the proper cold weather gear with us for that!

It finally warmed up but Bob's bike again conked out near a WalMart. We diagnosed the electrical issue as a bad relay which was blowing the fuse for the ECM(Electronic Control Module). But there was no Harley dealer around to look for a replacement part. So we loaded the Harley into a UHAUL and Bob drove that home while Rob and I enjoyed the ride back on our bikes.

All in all an excellent time!