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Randy did great work for us last time. He pulled 11 dents out of my car and charged me $150. Those deals don't come around all that often!

Paintless Dent Removal Party Saturday ~ 22 March 2014 Location: GarageMahal (McVeay's house) 5200 Lindsay St Fairfax, VA 22032 Randy Coffey is available for another dent removal party. He has again offered us the incredible price of $50/panel (not per dent). ~ Dents should typically be about a half-dollar in size, without creases. Anything over 2" will require an estimate and much more shop time. ~ Dents can't be in the roofs, pillars or rails as they require much more shop time to access and repair ~ No dents on body lines or edges of panels ~~ If anyone has any questions on what Randy can or cannot do, please email him 2 to 3 pictures from a few feet back at a 45 degree angle. randy@detailauthority.com or 703-978-7800. please RSVP with your time request. I will edit the schedule accordingly. 9:00 - 9:40 - Ray ~ NYRican MC40 10:20 - Bill ~ wsheffel 11:00 - 11:30 Lunch Break 11:30 - Chris ~ SMNOLE MCS 12:10 - John ~ OBSESSIVE 12:50 1:30 - Craig ~ SneakyBaron 2:10 - Beau ~ ElpolloDiablo 2:50 - Beau ~ ElpolloDiablo 3:30 - Laura ~ GreenCactus 4:10 - If people would just like to come by and hang out during the day, we will fire up the grill and/or smoker.

We had a Category 3 Labranado this morning. Picked the dogs up at 8:30 and 2 hours later they are finally calm enough for the house to be peaceful again. Once home, they thoroughly inspected everything, found a few bites to eat on the floor, supervised clean-up, and now, all 3 are asleep and snoring. Life is back to normal.

Great photos, Ali! Love 'em!!

I really, REALLY wanted this thing sold before the Post Holiday Party. Someone ~needs~ this BowFlex. It's $2000 new with all the gizmos and attachments.

Does everyone have a White Elephant gift...?

If anyone is interested in bringing items by early, I should be home on Friday and able to receive. Just PM me...

Can I reserve the Banquet table? I think I'm good on tables with what we have, and what Brian, John and Melissa are providing. But just in case... Anyway, there are only 18 RSVPs at this time. Last year there were about 50 people here. I may be way over preparing if only half the people show up this time.

My new year's resolution may come true! It was to coerce Craig into getting rid of some of his "overstock".

Melissa, they sound perfect. I'm aiming to make quite a few tables available for people to sit at and become comfortable. There just weren't enough last year and people couldn't put a plate down and eat comfortably. Thank you for your offer!

I've got my 'potential' gift for the White Elephant gift exchange! Hope everyone else is thinking of something good. And let's be honest... this is the perfect time to re-gift that awkward something you've been holding onto. Aunt Ethel will never know...

Yes, I'll need chairs. Thanks Bert!

I need enough for all the food, (remember how much there was last year?) and for the swap table. Brian's tables are perfect for the food! Bert, would it be possible to get 2 or 3 tables from you too?

We can use a few folding tables for the post-holiday party. And folding chairs if possible. If anyone has some we can borrow for the day, please let me know! Thank you!! ~Lona

If anyone needs an address, please PM one of us for it.

We've done some photo shoots at Lorton prison in the past. It's got some great rustic background options. Ali can probably give you a link of some she's taken...

This is an excellent idea. Especially since you have the lift right there, people can switch summer/winter tires all in one place without transporting them to and from that storage place under their beds. :hahaha:

We did it! We broke that $2000 threshold! Thank you to those last contributors who helped push that number up! Today I put $2017 in the mail to Operation Second Chance. We had 77 cars in the Sears parking lot; 76 made the drive. (Chris remained behind to take departure photos.)

Still time to donate! On another note, I've lost / misplaced two t-shirts from the event. We'd ordered 2 shirts to give to the ladies who run 'Operation Second Chance.' They are ladies size medium and size large. They were in the same bag. I could have misplaced them at the dealership or the restaurant. Has anyone seen them, or discovered they arrived home with extra shirts? Please let me know.

That is incredible! Soooo Cooooool!!!!

Good question! I need them by 1 December.

Great news! We've almost reached $2000 to send to Operation Second Chance. Our total for donations as of today is $1922. For people who didn't make the event but wanted to donate, we'll take donations for Operation Second Chance until midnight Saturday. PayPal Login to Paypal Select the "Send Money" tab Enter the following email address: ~~ payments@dcmetrominis.org ~~ Select the “I’m paying for goods and services” option On the next page: Select “No Shipping Required” PLEASE Enter a message, so the donation will be applied to: Operation Second Chance

I'm talking to MC2 about getting MTTB5 in issue #48 that comes out in February. Barry, the MC2 Editor said we can have 2 pages of the magazine. People who took photos... can you look through them and send me your best 5? I need to submit up to 15 photos for the magazine to select from. Note... by sending me your photos, you'll be giving me permission to send them to MC2 to be published. I can't guarantee that any or all pictures will make the magazine. I'll need the highest quality you can send me. And use your last name in the photo title so we can track which ones are submitted so that person gets credit. Send to: lona.mcveay@gmail.com Thank you!

A HUGE Thank You to everyone who participated today. The number of people who came out to support this event was the best we've ever seen. I'd really like to thank everyone that volunteered to help out. There were so many! Will, Corey, Craig, Mike and Laura helped with registration set-up. Craig and Mike made registration paperwork a breeze. Erin gave a fantastic driver's meeting. Lawry and Catalina sold tons and tons of raffle tickets. Laura did an amazing job designing the t-shirts. Haemish kept WTOP updated on our status. And little Ray stole the show at the Raffle Prizes. He's a natural with a great booming voice! Thank you to the Run Leaders! Sara, Chaquitta, Brandy, Corey and Greg. And the impromptu run leaders! Great job in getting everyone to the restaurant! Our photographers were Craig M, Chris M, Mike B and MikeV. And that guy you saw taking your picture from the Baltimore Ave overpass... that was Justin. And everyone else who took photos and video all day, right? Can't wait to see all the photos and videos. I hope I didn't miss anyone. This couldn't have been put together without the team effort! Now the numbers... these aren't firm yet! At first tentative count, there were around 80 cars. Once we have video, it'll be much easier to count and come up with a firm number. (RSVPs never equal the number of cars.) We counted the cash box before we left the restaurant. Again, not a complete total as there are the credit card transactions to consider. But from what we collected today just in cash and checks from donations and raffle sales, there was $1715. Oh, and I have the raffle prizes for the people who won but weren't there to claim. I'll be PMing these individuals to coordinate a way for them to get their prizes. Thank you again, EVERYONE for a really great day!