2014 TCC Spring Meet - A look Back
 

Friends,
It has been one week since we adjourned the 2014 TCC Spring Meet. It was unbelievable!! My best tally shows there over 130 Cobras, Gt-40s, and Daytona on hand. We hosted 189 folks at our Saturday Night Banquet. Not all of the bills having been paid but we came in the black and will be donating the remaining proceeds to our charities, Cystic Fibrosis and Wish of Our Heroes (Harris Hill Track event.)

This year we had only minor car problems including a run-in with a rabbit, lost oil pan plug, radiator leaks, MSD failures, and starter problems, just to mention a few. There were no major injuries aside from those of you falling off bar stools in the hotel.

The list of folks I would like to thank for the success of the event is lengthy and I truly apologize if I accidentally leave your name off the list. It is not intentional.

Steve Klestinec, Laura Klestinec, Skip Snowden, Tom Harrison, Glenn Reilly, Gregg Herdlitchka, Rich Bassimer, Frank Riha, John Campbell, Paula and Hershal Byrd (Crooked Oak Ranch) , Kevin O'Grady (Harris Track Event), the Cystic Fibrosis Chapter of Central Texas, George Daulton (OCC), the Ohio Cobra Club, Randall Thomas (Superformance Owners Forum), Gary Osbourne (not really sure why), Debra Grabowski (t-shirts), Jackie Riobi (Finishline), Jesse Ramirez (Tito's Vodka), James and Terri Walker (Margaritas), and the fine staff of the Embassy Suites Hotel.

I hope that I did not miss anyone but if I did, I imagine that someone will point it out to me soon enough.

The Austin Group has hosted this event for 15 years. It has grown to not only a national event but into an international one. We are so proud of this event and what it has come to represent.

We are preparing an article for Kit Car Builder. If you have photos, videos, or commentary you would like to have included in the KCB feature, please forward the photos, videos, and/or links to them to me in the next week.

Details about next years event will be out in the next couple of weeks, including hotel information and registration.

Remember "It is not about the cars.... it is about the people"

Thank you,
Ken Walker

All I can say is WOW
 

To all of you that took part in the planning, execution and participation of this great event, you just blow my mind. It is such a wonder to see how much this has grown in 15 years form 17 cars and 32 people to now. It is such a testimant to the saying adopted at the first meeting. IT IS NOT ABOUT THE CARS, IT IS ABOUT THE PEOPLE. Never has such a simple idea proved so real. Thanks are not enough but that is all I can give. To see such a wonderful thing as this and the way it has grown and changed over the years humbles me every year. You folks are too great.

Again I am always blown away. Thank you all soooooo much.

Jay

Magnificent Job!
 

Ken, and all the Austin team .. this was the ultimate TCC event. Thank you for your year-long sustained effort to organize this monster! We had more participation than ever, and we received a higher level of service from the hotel than ever. I will single out parking lot logistics for special congratulations. Also, special thanks to Hersh and Paula for the Crooked Oak event. I know you worked long and hard to pull that off. Finger lickin' good!

Sam

I hope this works. Crooked Oak from the air. Too cool! Thanks Daryl Landry.

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