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Originally Posted by DAVID GAGNARD
.......He also gave a REALly good explaination as to how/why the sites are picked for the yearly convention, made a lot of sence, to me anyway!!!!!!!!:
For you, cajun buddy... I'll look it up:
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Dats do one I was referring too........tanks....
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Oh, and based on the above post by Mr. Gagnard I was RIGHT AGAIN!
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Only to the fact as to where the membership is located......On all other points, your missing the boat badly....Let me assplain:
In 06, we loaded up and went to VIR... I booked room/track time and all other related things at least 6 months ahead. We ended up with 6 or 7 truck loads of folks (wives/kids) and 4 or 5 cars, we trekked half way across the US (16 hours total driving each way), made it a 2 day drive each way, spent 3 days/nights in Virginia... All toll we were gone 7 days. Being I'm just a poor,dumb self-employed cajun, I made NO money while I took the time off,actually lost a weeks worth of wages and spent something north of 4 grand for the whole excursion.... It was a our vacation for the year!!!!!
Would I do it again???, in a New York second, without blinking an eye!!! Met up with a bunch of old friends from the northeast I'd seen at other SAAC conventions and made a bunch of new friends from the northeast, Ron being one of them and your group buddies known as Club Cranky, even broke bread with em one night as well as a large bottle of adult beverages....
Enjoyed the cars and fellowship of the folks there, to me that's what it's all about.....And I don't even have a real Shelby!!!!!!!!! I gots a 66 GT-350 clone/look-a-like/fakey do or whatever you want to call it and a homemade 65 Coupe race car that started life a a little six cylinder grocery getter for someone in south Louisiana!!!!!!!!
My wife still talks about some of the things we did that week, she's proud as hell of the fact that she ran in the Ladies event and came in second in a field of 20 or so cars, got video of it.....We still talk about the fact that going thru Atlanta traffic in the rush hour, the truck/trailer in front of me had a blow-out on the rear trailer tire at 75mph, towing a 65 GT-350 racer, the peices of tire hit my truck and trailer, luckily doing no damage. Pulling over and changing a tire on a loaded trailer ain't no fun. Then on the return trip, the same trailer burnt a wheel bearing just as we were exiting the interstate somewhere in Alabama. Luckily I carry a spare set of wheel bearing for my trailer and they fit his trailer, but did you ever try to find a tire store (screwed up the tire also) on sunday afternoon right at dark on the Forth of July weekend in small town Alabama or remove a set of red hot burnt wheel bearing in a hotel parking lot in the rain with your wife holding a flashlight for you to see what your burning your hands on???????
At the track I gave my spare thermstat and gasket to some fellow for his GT-350, so he could get it on the track, his old one had froze up, don't know his name, probably never see him again, doesn't matter...One session on track, ran door handle to door handle with Dick Smith (RIP Dick) down the front straight at 140 mph, he and I talked about it after, he wanted to know what I had under the hood....... Helped another guy work on his race car for an hour or so one day, no big deal, dats what we do for folks in need....
Wouldn't trade the memories and friendships made/rekindled for all the tea in China.......
To me, that's what the SAAC conventions are about......
David