Miata Mailing List: September 1999, Message #333

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All,

At first a confession: After Axel & Steffi, Gary & Michele, Rolf, Petra and I had 
lined up all Miatas for a group shot for which the badge was placed on the hood 
of one Miata, we managed to loose the badge on the first Kilometer because we 
forgot to put it back on the door before we left.
DOOOOH
This happened on Sunday, and we had to leave for the Rhine valley and the 
Alsace without the badge :-(((((
On Monday while we had lunch outdoors of a small little Restaurant in Andlau 
(Alsace) after some wine tasting, Axel sent an e-mail to Joe Portas with his 
Palm Pilot and cellphone modem.
Today I received the new badge from Joe!!!

Three Cheers to the Knobmeister!!!!!!!!!!!!

So the badge will travel with me today from Marburg
http://www.marburg.de/oben.asp
to Spa Francorchamps (last weekend´s F1 GP location), where the Alpine 
Challenge
http://leden.tref.nl/~kitmich/Default.htm
will start tomorrow.
On Saturday evening, the book which has travelled parts of France, southern 
Germany and Switzerland with Gary Fischman in the last week will be united 
with the new badge when Gary and Michele and Gialla (our Canadian yellow 
92) will meet the other "Challengers" for dinner and the night in northwestern 
France.
Both the book and the badge will then be carried by about 20 Miatas taking 
turns carrying the MAW stuff on small backroads (LOTS of twisties) down to the 
Mediterian area (Nice, Monaco). After having done parts of the F1 course in 
Spa, the badge will do most of the F1 course in Monaco. On next week´s 
Friday, the badge and the book will be taken into the mountains north of 
Monaco, where it will be taken over the Col de Turini and other roads of Rallye 
Monte Carlo fame. After the end of the challenge, Petra and I will take the 
badge and book to Italy (general area of the San Remo Rallye. From there to 
the Piedmont in Italy
http://www.miata.net/gallery/images/alp961.jpg
up to the Trentino and through the Tessin into Switzerland, where Brua (Red 
91A with117k miles)
http://www.miata.net/gallery/images/wcmx5_6.jpg
will carry us over the Furka Pass
http://www.udena.ch/Andreas/PCCHFurka.html
and other passes in Switzerland where we will spend the last night of our 
vacation in the Hotel Furkablick  (altitude 2436 meters).

Then the badge and book will be back in Marburg, where it will be passed on to 
Axel and Steffi and from there to several Miata clubs in the 
Köln/Düsseldorf/Dortmund area.
 
I´ll be offline for 17 days from now :-)

Werner