Most of us are back from the Portland, Maine TEAE United, so now's a
good time to thank those of helped me with the Concours, and there were
a lot of folks.
Throughout life, you hear certain phrases that don't mean too much at
the time, but gradually you experience something that gives them
meaning for you. For me, last weekend brought about the real meaning of
" I couldn't do it without you".
I'm very grateful to the following folks who did the judging:
Tom Calvert
John Webber
Rick McCurdy
Dan Fitzgerald
Tom Ehrhart
John Logan
Jim Morrison
Dave Kellogg
Dana Freeman
Stu Brennan
Eric Gibeaut
Carl Moon
Scott Woerth
If I’ve left off you name, just slap me at the next United, and say,
"Bellman, you know what that's for".
I would also like to thank Jim and Pat Morrison and Dan Fitzgerald for
tabulating the scores, and Jim and John Webber for coordinating the
photos of the winners for the awards banquet.
Thanks also to the folks who brought their cars to Fort Preble for the
Concours. I think this is the first time I've seen as many Alpines as
Tigers at a show. We also had a fair amount of unrestored daily driver
cars in the show, and I applaud the owners for driving these cars to
Portland.
Thanks to Dave Kellogg and Phil Perron for putting on a great autocross
on Sunday. The TEAE portion of the event was great fun to watch. You
haven't seen everything until you've seen Wally Swift not just run the
autocross, but run competitively, something most of us can only dream
will happen when we reach 80 yrs.
As Jim said at the banquet, none of us in the organizing committee live
in Portland, so it is especially remarkable that Jim Morrison and Robert
Jaarsma were able to coordinate all of the details needed to put on the
United, and make many trips 2-3 hours away from their homes and families
to make this happen.
Thanks to all of you.
Rande Bellman
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