San Diego Miata Club News July 2000
Volume 5 Number 7 july 2000 A CHAPTER OF THE MIATA CLUB OF AMERICA Upcoming Events from the editor Day of the Condor July 4 - Tuesday 4th of July Parade he day was…well, it was sultry. Unlike Billy Crystal, in the film Throw Scripps Ranch Momma From The Train, I did not have a problem describing the weather that greeted us this day. Not only did I not share the characters July 7 - Friday SDMC Cruises Grand Ave. writer's block, neither did I have his desire to toss an elderly woman Wheels'n'Meals Tfrom the back of a speeding locomotive. Well, not today, anyway. Today, I gath- ered with my friends, whom I consider family, to remember one of our family July 8 - Saturday members who left us too soon but inspired us to do better things. Larry Dennstedt’s Hurricane Carlotta was breaking up as she passed into colder waters on her way Tech Day up the Baja coast the last weekend of June. Sunday, June 25, 2000, the SAN DIEGO MIATA CLUB had a special date at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. Usually in late July 8 - 9 June, the sun is intense and quite hot at the Wild Animal Park. If you want to see Autocross at the “Q” any of the animals out during the day, you usually need to go early in the morning, before the smarter animals head for the shade to escape the heat. On this day, how- ever, the sun was blocked by clouds full of tropical moisture drawn up from the re- July 9 - Sunday mains of Carlotta.
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