From: "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: [tcb] My weekend at Eureka
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:38:29 -0500
It was a great show. The weather was very good. It rained like hell on
Friday, but stopped before the burger/hot dog event. It rained Friday
night but quit around 8:30, I guess. 220 cars.
I was amazed, before I put on my show T-shirt, as I was standing around,
that people started asking me where to park and where was registration
and
this and that. Did I look like I knew?
Finally, I did put on my T and stood in the road at the rise between the
lower and upper lots. It was a great place to be. I saw and talked to
about 30% of the entrants and met new people and old ones I hadn't seen
for awhile. Pretty much I had everyone turn right and fill in wherever
you
wanted. It went very smoothly.
I had a couple of tense moments when two different people were all
agitated about judging, which I had no input on and couldn't see the
problem. One guy had put his sand rail in as a type 3 because it was a
type 3 frame. So, is it a type 3 or a sand rail? people get really wound
up about those trophies.
I was showing Jan a couple of cars and missed the awarding of the
Psycoblooie trophy. Dave Hiellman (sp?) was the MC and he was at
Psycoblooie (poptop Westy, off white with a gold VW emblem) And,
according
to witnesses he said "Psycoblooie, if you were there, you know." Which
may
become the motto and will be how we invite new people. Everyone who was
there knows what kind of people should be there. They told me that the
guy
with the white hair and beard went "Woo hoo!" That was Paul.
Every night I thought I was going to bed at 1 AM only to be told that
people were looking for me at 9 PM. Getting old.
Steve, "Big Balls" came up in his Honda and insisted that he couldn't go
to the show without a VW, borrowed Murray and I drove the Ghia. I warned
him that I had put absolutely no maintenance on the bus since
Fredricksburg and not much since the 3500 mile trip to Florida. I had
intake leaks, exhaust leaks, hadn't checked the valves...Basically the
bus
was in a state of neglect. He said that he would fix it all. I thought
"Yeah yeah" I had heard that from plenty of people. He had it going well
enough that he did drive it up to the show and it was strange
