So #1 -- Gwen LOVES her new '33 regardless of what Charley says... Maybe he'd be happier if he'd just go have his own built. LOL


So when I had the car at Laguna Seca for the USCA event (shake down miles before she got her first drive) --- on the tour portion of that event - we stopped for lunch at The Baja Cantina in Carmel Valley -- and I snapped off a couple of cell phone pics of the car sitting in front. I then commissioned Kenny Youngblood to do a painting of the pic I took. So this is a pic of his PAINTING.....

You guys that are on Instagram have already seen this - but I wanted to share with those that are not on there.





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Holey crap!! That is cool Greg. Nicely done...

He painted that from a cell phone pic? :hail:

So here's Gwen seeing the car at Brizio's for the first time -- of course she's moving so I couldn't get a decent picture...





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She opens the door.... and she's IN!!






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So this was all planned so that we could pick up the car - leave our normal car at the shop - and drive to the L A Roadster show with the Bay Area Roadster Club - and a group of Brizio built cars... about 35 of us all together. This really made the trip fun and we had some stops along the way which was all planned by the BAR group.





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A SELFIE using the camera places Gwen on the wrong side in this picture - but that's her driving...






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Parked at the show with the "group" in Brizio's booth....





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And the very first L A Roadster Show -- a 50th Anniversary sticker on the headlight!! Yippppeeeeee






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We left LA and drove up Highway 1 -- to Big Sur.... for a little R&R (it is HER birthday MONTH after all...)





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Left there (Carmel and Monterey area) and headed back to the Briz's shop... after a stop at Canepa -- and Sid Chavers to have the seat rebuilt --- it doesn't fit HER at all... (what happens when you're just guessing!)....





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I hope my old lady doesn't see this, she seems happy with the vacuum cleaner. :D

Good stuff Greg...

Yep! No kidding! The man has some serious talent!

I posted the actual cell phone pic earlier in the thread -- he used the very same pic --- just cropped to place the car "bigger".

Thanks buddy! She was truly surprised... and thrilled... and she had a GREAT week cruising with the gang... met some new friends... it was really a good week.

Hmmmmm what to get the wife for her birthday?


.............NAILED IT!

Well - to be perfectly honest - it makes it a hell of a lot easier when you don't have to shop the vacuum cleaner aisle. LOL

That's awesome Greg. Is this the first time Gwen has done a car thing with you? My wife is finally starting to get into it.

No -- we've been together for 42 years - and I've been doing car stuff even longer than that.... and she's done quite a few things car related. She's just never been into it that much. I have to make it "special" --- like this trip... where we did some car stuff - and then some Gwen stuff... Where most of us can just do all car and nothing else and be happy as little clams.

Or like racing at Laguna the day after Thanksgiving.... we did Thanksgiving with the kids there -- and it's a beautiful area - so a little car tossed in is fine.