Well another Daytona Beach Dream Cruise is in the bucket & we had an amazing time!!! We ended up with 8 XF's which I don't think is too bad with about 2 weeks notice.
We met up about 9am in the shadow of the world famous Daytona Speedway & saw the most amazing custom Nissan 240 with a cutaway top & a speaker for a steering wheel. We will have to count on Ben Book to post pictures of that monster! The organizer of the DBDC came over 1st thing in the morning to welcome us to the meet & thank us for coming - what a nice guy!!!
We had a great breakfast at Bob Evan's with a nice waitress who dropped EVERYTHING!!!
We then took more photos & cruised over to the main gathering area for our "glamour shots" courtesy of the folks at DBDC. Another XF owner walked about 1/2 mile to come talk to our group!
We then found our spot near some other Mopars that also had a nice shade tree so we could watch the parade of cars go by for a while. Most of the group was so focused on the amazing cars going by in front of us that they didn't notice all the people oohing & ahhing over our cars. Lots of pics were taken by total strangers of our cars today!!!
Next it was cruising off down International Speedway Blvd to A1A on our way to Cow Lick's for some tasty ice cream. Fantastic ice cream, air conditioning & restroom!!!
We were headed further south on A1A, cruising along the "World's Most Famous Beach" we headed to the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse. Amazing site with great photo ops for the cars. I wish we had the time to explore the nature trails, beach & lighthouse today, but those adventures will have to be saved for another day.
Our last stop was a great seafood restaurant called "Down By The Hatch." We sat on the very warm porch, over looking the water, listening to a live band & enjoying cold drinks & good snacks! We also met another XF owner - he found us - who had no idea about our club, but was really excited to see a bunch of XF's out together!
We had an awesome time & we need to have more GTG's down here in FL! Let's look to make this a much larger event next year!!!
I posted all the photos I took on my cell phone today, but I would love it if you guys could post your pics too!!! I know Dan has all the lighthouse photos on his camera & there were lots of other shutter bugs today too!
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