First of all let me tell you how the weekend started.  Mel & Debbie and Tim and I headed down to Pismo Beach on Thursday afternoon for the Pismo Beach Classic Car Show that started that afternoon.  We got to the R.V. park and set up camp and by then it was too late to go into town to pick up our packets, so we took the opportunity to relax and have a nice barbeque dinner with Rollin & Marlene Silveria from Merced.  As we were finishing up dinner, Debbie spotted Mike and Frances Botzon who were out for a stroll after dinner.  As it turned out they were there for the show too.  We all had a nice visit and said our good nights and that we would all see each other at the show the next day. 
When we got to the registration tent on Friday we just pulled up out front, parked  and went inside.  Mel however didn't actually park in a marked spot, but we figured that since the streets were all closed it really wouldn't matter... As Tim and I were picking up our packet, Debbie came by and said they'd be outside because one of the officials had come looking for "whoever was driving the gold Camaro", thinking they were in trouble for parking in the wrong spot they quickly said they would move it right away.  The man said , "No, I have a surprise for you, come with me."  As it turns out the official who grabbed them was none other than the owner of the production company that puts on the show, Les.  Les told them about a special class of cars for this show, the Gold Class, he said that most of the people in the gold class, of which their were to be only 12, asked him to put their cars in, but he was telling Mel that his car was to be in this class.  Quite an honor as there were over 1200 cars registered.  The only catch was that the car, once parked in the special covered area has to stay there until after the awards ceremony on Sunday, which left them well, sort of stranded in Pismo...without a car, and with us in a car that truly is a two-seater and Mike and Francis who also have a 41 Willys coupe.  Enter Les, again...This time he wants to talk to Mike about his car, and the next thing you know he's in the Gold Class with Mel!  Amazing stuff huh?  Yeah we thought so too.  So, now we have 6 people, one Willys and about 6 miles back to the campground...what to do, rent a car of course.  So that's what they did, so, the transportation problem was solved.  When we got there Saturday, here comes Les again, this time he recruits Mel, Mike and Tim to be judges!  They went to a meeting and pulled the largest group of cars to judge, 99 cars.  So, they took off to "do their job".  They were back in a couple of hours and the rest of the day was spent looking at cars and having a good time in the sun.  Sunday was the day that they judged the cars in the Gold Class.  Below are pictures of the judges looking over every inch of Mel & Mike's cars.

Later in the afternoon they had the awards ceremony in the big tent.  After calling out all of the "regular" winners, (Tim was one of those), they had all of the Gold Class owners go up on stage.  There turned out to be 19 in all, because Les had picked some cars out of the show, like Mel's & Mike's.

       

Tim's award was a cool clock and a Meguiar's gift bag.

The Gold Class members each received a Jacket, a gift box from Meguiar's, and a beautiful bronze sculpture of a horse head.  One lucky member got to trade his horse in for a beautiful lead crystal loving cup as he was named the platinum award winner of the show.  The platinum winner was a very rare Shelby 350 GT.