September 4, 2010 – Greeley BBQ and Golden Cruise,

Even though many may have left town, we had a great “very full day” with the two events. It started with meeting at Brooklyn’s in downtown Denver. A little confusing since no one figured out the CU – CSU football game at Mile High Stadium may have started “event parking” mania early. We got to the parking lot and all around there was event parking signs. In any event a couple of the Z car guys told the attendants, we were not parking, just meeting. Guess that worked, because we were able to park and hang out until the 10:30 AM departure time. We had two roadsters and 4 Z cars start the journey to Brighton. We met up with another Z owner in Brighton, grabbed some munchies and drinks at McDonald’s and headed up the road.

When we landed in Greeley there were several more Roadster and Z owners and a friend of the group with a ’71 Datsun 510. In total we had 7 Z cars and 6 roadsters. This included Matt Klich with his ’77 orange 280Z, Daniel Bailin with his ’73 Silver 240 Z, Gerry Lynch with his ’74 Green 260 Z, Kevin and Valerie with their ’75 Pacific Blue 280 Z, Bruce Over with his ’73 Orange 240 Z, and Tom Nash with is White V-8 Powered 280Z. On the Roadster side Gordon Maness with his ’70 red 1600, Gary Lasater driving Gordon’s ’69 Red 2000, Scott Makinen with his ’69 2000, Bob Bragg with his White ’68 2000. Unfortunately, some left before we got names and years on the cars. Also Gary Boone’s car didn’t want to make the drive to Greeley, so it got trailered back home from the gas station (sorry Gary – catch you next time).

Erlich’s provided some great food for the BBQ and excellent hospitality. Here are some shots of the cars and fun.

We then headed out and for those that could, we headed to the Golden Cruise night and arrived around 5 PM. Joining us there was Darrel with his White Z. We were able to squeeze into the Golden Realty parking lot and thanks to Darrel playing key master, we had to move cars around as other’s wanted to leave. Great weather seemed to attract a good assortment of cars. All in all it was a long but fun day with great company and great cars. We had some other’s such as David Helm and Dave Hulslander that didn’t get the cars together in time, but we hope to see them soon too.