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To: jwilliams@kidpower.com
Subject: Nat'l Meet / Ozarks
From: laurahoey@myself.com
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 19:54:48 -0500 (EST)
Been there done that for 7.5 years. My former and I built a small resort 
bordering the Buffalo National River about 10 miles south of Harrison, AR on 
highway 7. You want twisties? You want hills? No place and I mean no place 
beats the Ozarks!

Laura Hoey
'70 SRL-14316
Issaqah, WA


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> All,
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> I'm pretty familiar with the mid-west. I've lived in Kansas, Missouri, 
>Oklahoma,
> Colorado, Texas, and am now in Tennessee. If I may humbly propose a good place
> for a National Event, it would be the Ozark Mountains of north-west Arkansas,
> south-west Missouri. There is a little place called Eureka Springs nestled in
> the Ozarks (go to http://www.eurekasprings.org/ ) for further details. Here's 
>a
> map showing the location , http://www.eureka-usa.com/maps/distance.html 
> 
> This is one of the hilliest towns I know of, and it's not far from I-44, which
> runs from coast to coast.
> 
> Just a suggestion.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jay
> 
> '68 1600
> 
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> Subject:    Re: Nat'l Meet and Roadster List 
> Author: Ken Pearce <kpearce@engr.ukans.edu> 
> Date:       3/24/00 10:30 AM
> 
> 
> > << Why wouldn't Kansas be a good site for a national meet?  The SCCA Solo I 
>& 
> >  nationals bring about a thousand competitors, including roadsters,  from 
>all 
> >  over the country each year to Topeka.  The national solo site is just a 
> >  couple miles from the Heartland Park road course which has about five 
> >  different track lengths & configurations. >
> 
> The local MG club has a day at the track at Heartland Park here in Kansas.
> I think it's co-sponsored by Victoria British (a large Triumph/MG parts
> house) and the Kansas City MG club.  I believe they charge $40 or $50 per
> car and have a day or half-day of open track time.  
> 
> I vote against holding a national event in Kansas because there's just not
> much to see here.  The roads have few curves, and our mountains here
> are nothing more than cumulus clouds sucking up the 80% humidity and
> blessing us with hailstones and tornadoes!
> 
> > miles.  Basically there are only three shows out here.  We have Shasta, 250 
> > miles north of S.F.  Solvang, 200+ miles south of SF and Doheney All Datsun 
> 
> That's funny, I thought Shasta *was* the national show!  I put close to
> 6000 miles on the roadster last summer making it to Shasta, then B.C.,
> then back to Kansas.  I had a blast and wouldn't trade that experience for
> anything.  
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Ken Pearce, 68-2000
> Lawrence, KS
> 
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