[Shotimes] RE: 3rd Annual Lapeer Dragway Fall Drag Day Update

[Ron Porter]

I didn't even take my camera.....but there were a few folks getting pix, so
hopefully they can come up with some for us.

FWIW, I've even found that I take fewer & fewer pix at the Conventions as
time goes on, as it's always a toss-up between socializing and wielding the
camera!!

Ron Porter

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From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Donald Mallinson
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 3:52 PM
Cc: 'V8List SHO'; Shotimes
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] RE: 3rd Annual Lapeer Dragway Fall Drag Day Update


Ron,

So glad you got in an event between rains.  I wanted to make 
it, but the drive was just more than I could do plus we had 
plans both fridan and saturday night.  The autocross in 
Rantoul gave me and Ken a good diversion though, and 
probably was why the rain stopped at all for you folks!

Hope you got some pictures and if you could share a few with 
me for the magazine/web site, I would appreciate it.

Don Mallinson

Ron Porter wrote:
> Guess somebody did a good "anti-rain dance" for us, because the weather
> held! Rained hard on Friday night and early Saturday morning, but it
stopped
> about 10 AM, and didn't rain again until after 7 PM. As a few have
> mentioned, the track was dry enough by close to 4 PM (rather than the
usual
> Noon start), and they left it open until near 6:30, so everyone got a
number
> of runs. Not as many as a typical Lapeer day, but I was amazed that we got
> any in at all!! Would have hated to have all of the out-of-state folks
drive
> all that way for nothing!
> 
> Turned out to be an excellent time!! I didn't count, but I was told that
we
> had 30-35 cars at the track, and there were only maybe 10-15 "regular"
> Lapeer customers, so we had the track to ourselves, mostly.
> 
> A number of us got together at Big Buck in Auburn Hills on Friday night,
> then again later on Saturday night. At dinner in Lapeer on Saturday after
> the track, we probably had around 35 folks there, and the restaurant did a
> great job of getting us all seated on short notice at the dinner hour on a
> Saturday night!
> 
> I want to thank everyone who came out, and I hope you all enjoyed
> yourselves!! We had a large number of out-of-state folks from IL, OH, NY,
> RI, MA and the Canadian folks. Also a large number of Gen 3 cars. All went
> well except for Fred blowing 3rd gear while doing a track-dry-off run, and
> also Ian getting a flat tire about 50 miles after getting brand-new Tire
> Rack Pirellis installed.
> 
> Ron Porter
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