I knew when I decided to cancel the Fling for the safety of our family, that it would raise a stir. I had no idea that it would raise a coast to coast tornado!
My phone, my e-mail, the shop has been a constant whirlwind, full of suggestions, hints, (a few threats
and more offers of help and ideas than I ever thought were possible.
Since last night "we" have come up with three "Plan A's".
So here it is: The Spring Fling will go on.
Same dates and "MAYBE" the same location. Jack, aka Hotfingers called me bright and early this morning insisting that we had to hold the Spring Fling somehow, somewhere, someway. Jack has offered, with the help of the Northern Ohio Cobra Club to work out as many details, as fast as possible to hold the Spring Fling in the Cleveland area. Actually he has all the hotels picked out, and is on a crash course to setting up one heck of an agenda. Just one of the ideas is a cruise/tour to the world famous "Rock n Roll" hall of fame. A cruise to a really great park which is more than big enough to hold us all, along the Lake Erie shore line. They also have the original (Ohio) Quaker Steak and Lube and they too are ready to host our little family.
This is truly a work in progress so stay tuned as they say. I am sure that these guys can do this and do it probably better than we can
Now it's time for plan "A" part 1. Hopefully all the turmoil for the last 24 hours will be for naught. Our Sniper has been caught and is locked up, or at least something along those lines. DV Jr. came out this morning with blood in his eye! He too never knew the cancellation was coming. After much discussion, debate, and new planning we have decided to make MAY 1st. our deadline.
In other words, everything will proceed as normal. (If you can call the Fling normal!) If the SOB isn't caught or put out of commission by MAY 1st, then Jack will take over and host the DVSF IV in the Cleveland area.
This has all happened in the last 24 hours, so bear with us please. It will take place one way or the other! Don't worry about anything, that's up for us to do, you guys just keep making those plans.
Alright then, I did say there were three plan A's. We DO have another plan that is somewhat different from the Spring Flings of old, but it is ten times more awesome. In fact one guy in one of the threads hit it right on the head! I thought how the hell could he know, then realized it was just another great suggestion from our group.
I along with some very important people will be hammering out the details tomorrow afternoon. IF we succeed, the Fling IV will be at least three times bigger than it ever has, with two to three times the amount of Cobras getting involved from all over the country. As I mentioned, if this takes place it will be like nothing we have ever done before, it will be huge and it truly will be continental. Trust that before we go this route I will ask for your blessings, either yay or nay, it will be up to "you" to decide.
That's it for now. I just want to say thank you to everyone. Thank you for your support in this difficult time, and difficult decision making.
With this awesome family of ours, we will make this work!
DV...never ceasing to be amazed at "our family"!
DVSF IV Update -2-19-04
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