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Posted by: pastordavid Jul 25 2005, 06:02 PM

Each year the small town I live in has their festival to honor our hometown boy made good, WWII Correspondent Ernie Pyle. As a parft of the festival, they have had a car show that was primarily the local/regional Street Rod guys, with a few antiqes thrown in for good measure. This year, the festival falls on the same weekend as the Nationals in Louisvill, just 3 hours away. Guess where all the SR guys are going!

So today (nothing like a lot of lead time, but I guess they figure if I can put together a sermon is 6 days, I can do wonders with 2 weeks) the committee chair caught me outside the post office (yeah, it is kinda like Mayberry) and asked if I thought the Porsche guys would be interested in comeing to town. I guess because I have a torn apart 914 in the garage I am supposed to know all the Porsche owners in the US!

So here's the question, anybody interested? We are right on the Illinois/Indiana line, along US36, about 2 1/2 hours form Indy and Chicago, 3 from St. Louis. We have a buch of windy roads, Parke county (the covered bridge capital) is next door, and Indy isnt a bad drive.

What I was thinking was maybe a show-n-shine, a cookout/ice cream dealie in the park, and a Saturday afternoon drive?

TRhere's the idea, open for others, let's see if it flies.

Respond ASAP to let me know if I should go ahead with this...

david

Posted by: SpecialK Jul 25 2005, 06:09 PM

Sounds like a good time David, but I've got too much on my plate trying to get my '74 ready for the FFC in Oct. There's a lot of Indy guys on the board, I'm sure they'll chime in.

Posted by: qa1142 Jul 25 2005, 07:22 PM

Well

I am going to Midwest classic near Detroit the 5th and plan to go to FFC later in fall.

what dates are we looking at?

Posted by: mudfoot76 Jul 25 2005, 07:26 PM

Two weeks? You refer to Aug 13-14?

Posted by: dralf Jul 25 2005, 07:55 PM

I might be game if I can develope a reliability factor into my car. It is constantly trying not to run for me.

Posted by: pastordavid Jul 25 2005, 08:39 PM

Sorry, yes the dates of the festival are August 11-13. It would be really informal, but woould be a chance to put faces and cars with names.

david

Posted by: mudfoot76 Jul 26 2005, 07:26 AM

Is there a particular portion of that weekend set aside for a picnic, ice cream, and oil drips?

Posted by: 9146986 Jul 26 2005, 08:46 AM

IMHO, you haven't allowed enough time. Also too many events in one geographic area fragments the "group". Why don't you attend the Fall Foliage Classic in Oct??

Posted by: pastordavid Jul 26 2005, 10:08 PM

I agree the timing is short. I think I'll tell them I'll take a pass this year, but if any of you want to come to the festival, I know you would have a great time, and I'll throw a couple of extra slabs of what ever on the grill, fire up the White Mountain freezer, show you my pile of stuff in the garage, and take you out for a sight-seeing drive.

Just give me a heads up, PM for directions, or whatever.

And yes, I do intend to be at the FFC, even if it's in the Catera this year.

david