[tcb] Re: Ennis Shows
- From: Conrad Klahn <conradk@xxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:08:07 -0500
The one time I showed up early (8?) at Ennis (after a 3 hour drive), all the
good stuff had already been bought and everybody I asked said, "it's sold".
The second time I showed up, there wasn't squat in the first place.
No camping, they charged too much to enter, the parking was too far away from
everything, it gets really hot or too windy on the pavement.... It's just a
crappy show location in my opinion.
Temple HEB Octoberfest Show was probably the best show I've been to. The
Volkslennium show was fun. My life has never cooperated for me to consistently
get to any one show. I'm sad I'll miss the Classic this year. Hopefully its not
the last one, but had some fond (and not-so-fond) memories there if it is. And
T&P has been cool and hopefully I can make it with a bus.
I appreciate the free shows. I put one on myself and it was a lot of fun. The
Red Shed Tavern in Way-South Austin announced a free VW show 5/1 2-6PM.
redshedtavern.com.
On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:41 PM, Denis Dodson wrote:
> I got completely turned off by the Ennis shows years ago. I don’t know what
> specific items irritated me, but I just never felt welcomed. The best shows
> are personal affairs. The people who put the shows on are part of a community
> and a circle of friends. Sammy is the Nac show, Steve and Sharon are
> Fredericksburg, Paul is T@P. I never felt any of that with Ennis.
>
> From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Mike Hayes
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:35 PM
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Ennis Shows
>
>
> Some times it's hard to make allot of out of town shows. I have to choose
> 3-4 out of town shows a year myself and T@P, The Tx Classic and Psycoblooie
> usually top my list.
> I think allot of the blame has to be put on the track, show personal and the
> racing people. The last couple of years we have given them suggestions on
> making the shows in Ennis better and it wasn't
> until the the last show they tried to make the show part better with camping,
> event's etc. The track only cared about the racing and the racing folks
> split themselves between 2 tracks the last show.
> They even scheduled one show the same day as T@P so they missed having all
> the buses there. Plus the track people are just mean and nasty and acted
> like they were doing us a favor taking our money.
> I still managed to make most of them in Ennis.
>
> I think support works both ways and there has not been much either way.
>
> .
>
> On 3/30/2011 5:42 PM, sammie smith wrote:
> As of right now it does not look there will be any more. Last word I had was
> that Warren might be working on something for October but doubtful.
>
> When you don't get support for the events they will stop. I probably put
> more miles traveling to VW events on vehicles than just about anyone. And I
> see lots of VW people who simply will not go further than their home town to
> an event. The last 3 or 4 Ennis events only had about 50 cars showing up and
> entering the show (most from the DFW area) and the last event only drew about
> 10 entries for the drags. That will not support an event. We lost the venue
> of the greatest swap around and the ability to watch VW only drags for the
> most part, simply because people would not support the event.
>
> I know the Texas people are out there: I saw 150+cars at both the Monumental
> Bug Bash and the Ft Worth Club stampede last year as well as 350 or so at the
> Texas Classic.
>
> I went to the Manassas Virginia Bug In last year and found a location much
> worse than Ennis with organization that was not nearly as good, spectators
> could not even get in with a car. If you had a VW you could enter and drive
> in. If you didn't have a VW you parked in a field well away from the show
> and walked. The drag track and the show facility looked as if they had been
> built in 1955 and not improved since. They had a huge swap and 650 cars
> entered in the show; as well as a large drag turnout. Go figure.
>
> --- On Wed, 3/30/11, Mike Hayes <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Mike Hayes <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [tcb] Ennis Shows
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 6:47 PM
>
>
> I know there few people on the list that are more in the know than me so I'll
> ask. Is there anymore shows in Ennis?
> I had heard rumors that because of the poor showing lately there may not be
> anymore.
>
> Inquiring minds want to know.
>
> Mike
>
>
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