From Paul Riccioli - NJZCC Club President:
Hope everyone enjoyed our 10th Annual New Jersey Z Car Show! This year we had 66 cars officially register to show their car, another several that came in late and participated without being judged and several more that came and parked on the other side of the Hotel. We had our 1st GTR particpate in the show! In total we had somewhere between 75 and 80 cars. The cars just keep getting better each year and it's great talking with all the Z people. We had people come in from several states including Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York, Maryland and New Hampshire. Honestly, Z people are just terrific!!
Once again I would like to thank several people who helped out prior and during the show:
The people include: Ed Rivera and Ro, John Marciano, Jerry Quinn, Ralph Ciccone, Dom Ciccone, John Ziak, Barry Cohen, Jan Elliott, Jim O'Mara and Pat Riccioli. Special thanks to Peter Riccardi our Events Coordinator who handled the trophies, Shirts and Raffle items. Hope I haven't missed anyone!!!
After the show we had what has become our traditional Bocce match: NJ vs PA. This was an Official Rubber Chicken Sanctioned Event (You need to see the trophy if you don't understand what this means!!) and then about 14 of us went to Applebees for Dinner.
Now back to Bocce!!! Steve Weyant Senior started the ball rolling, sort of speaking, when he showed up Friday in NJ with an official bocce tournament shirt, trying to psych out the NJ competition. Despite my plea for bocce ringers during the awards ceremony during the show, there were no new takers to play against the PA team. Once again it came down to the usual suspects to take on PA!
The NJ team resorted to a multi pronged attack during the bocce game consisting of the following strategy:
1) Use home court advantage! The grass court was extremely rough with lawn mower ruts, rocks, etc which required extrordinary skill (Some might argue Luck) to try to beat the competition. The NJ fans consisting of Barbara Marciano, Joan Ciccone, Sarah Ciccone and Pat Riccioli started the wave to change the momentum of the game.
2) Allow Kirk Towner from Maryland to play on the PA team! We knew Kirk was just a nice guy, and a poor innocent bystander who just did not fully comprehend the importance of the match. Kirk played well, but just didn't have any skin in the game.
3) We allowed Ralph Ciccone to take off his shoes like they "do in the old country". This immediately gave us a slight advantage and catepulted Ralph as Anchor of the team.
4) We went to the long game to take out PA's best player, Tina Weyant!! Steven Weyant immediately cried foul and tried to resort to the short game. Too little, too Late!!!!!!!!!!
NJ Wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PA Takes Home the Rubber Chicken Trophy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
See below link for our New Jersey Victory Dance!!!!
http://www.funpages.com/chickendance/
Paul R. Riccioli
NJZ Car Club - President
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