Merkur candy bar & Carlisle pics.

[turbopower]

Paula and I wanted to say "thanks" for a great time at carlisle,
this was our first and most enjoyable car event I've been too.
Sorry for not posting sooner, I had an extended vacation after
we left carlisle and I wanted to share my pictures with you after
I got home.

Now I need to start working on my car for next years show.

here's the link to the chocolate candy bar that chris anglin's wife made
plus pictures from the show and convoy.
enjoy.... john

http://photobucket.com/albums/v614/turb ... ion=logout

[anglin]

here's the link to the chocolate candy bar that chris anglin's wife made

Connie made the Merkur cookie (based on Eve Ziminski's amazing design from a few years back) and the chocolate bar was made by somebody else. I forget who now. For those curious about the cookie and the candy bar, here are Ryan Mattson and Dimitri Wittal modeling each of them.

Ryan Mattson orally molesting a cookie:
http://www.merkurtech.com/merkurtech/sh ... sle007.jpg

Dimitri Wittal workin' it:
http://www.merkurtech.com/merkurtech/sh ... sle008.jpg

The images are unedited, so they are kinda big (like 750K). Just a warning for you dialup folks.

I also posted a sampling of my Carlisle pics under the same generic file name. I have 2005carlisle001.jpg through 2005carlisle008.jpg online in that directory.

[xrian]

Man, Dim's eyes!! He looks so evil there.

[anglin]

Man, Dim's eyes!! He looks so evil there.

I kept asking him to move the chocolate bar over so I could get a picture of it with the white t-shirt in the background. He was commenting on my requests when I snapped the picture.

[turbopower]

Chris,
sorry for sending out wrong info,
I assumed that Connie made them both.
regardless, Connie did a fine jobe w/ the cookies
eventhough they didn't last more than 10 seconds
at our table.
`john

[anglin]

sorry for sending out wrong info,
I assumed that Connie made them both.
regardless, Connie did a fine jobe w/ the cookies
eventhough they didn't last more than 10 seconds
at our table.

It's all good, ain't no thang. There were plenty of cool treats and lots of effort by a lot of people. I'll give Connie your compliments.

[DPDISXR4Ti]

It was actually Scott Williams and his wife who set up Willy Wanka's Chocolate Factory in their kitchen for over a week to create those "XR4Ti" chocolate bars. It was a monumental, slow, manual effort - probably well in excess of 100 hours invested!

Don't count on "Scorpio" chocolate bars for the 20th in 2008!!!

[Ray]

great pics. now that i see what's out there i can get more ideas about how to do stuff and realize how much more i have to do ...

[mangostick]

great pics. now that i see what's out there i can get more ideas about how to do stuff and realize how much more i have to do ...

hell yeah, carlisle was wicked fun..but a wake up call too...I have so many new Ideas now its insane. Alot of em arent expensive ones either..I saw neat little details that looked so cool and made huge differnces in apperance. I've alot of work to do for next year

[MagentaRed]

Thanks Brad for setting the record straight on the candy bar. While it was a monumental, and time-consuming effort, the actual hours spent melting, molding, chilling, unmolding and wrapping those bars came to 25 hours.
With only 2 molds available, we averaged about 10-12 bars an hour. We used 31 pounds of chocolate to make 273 bars. Judging from the reaction, it was time well spent. However, next year, I'm spending those 25 hours on the car!

Scott Williams