The club decided to participate in the B.C. Classic and
Custom Car Show for the second consecutive year and I got volunteered to
arrange the exhibit again (??) This
year’s theme was “Drive-In Theater”. The exhibit needed 4 cars (the maximum
allowed by the car show) and drive-in props.
The cars chosen were of 4 Corvette classes: Greg Ballantyne’s C2 1963 red roadster, Lenny
Merriott’s C3 1980 white T-top, Roy Drewitt’s C5 2003 Anniversary red coupe and
Peter Resch’s C6 2007 orange Pace car
roadster. The “props” used were Greg’s 2
1960’s “Ballantyne” drive-in speakers plus another pair arranged through Jack
and Angie Langston ‘s friend, Joe. Also a
back up pair were located at the Twilight Drive-In and the owner, Jay, was
willing to lend us his last pair if needed in an emergency (a nice guy).
Nigel arranged a 59 “ TV and DVD player
through Visions Electronics (Ray Miller helped set these up) and I supplied
DVD’s of the original Route 66 TV Show to view at the “Drive-In”. Al Frost brought the Club stanchions, the
Club banner, the rope and pennants and……. for dispensing the Club and Event
literature we had tables supplied by Gail and Lew Berry, Ted and Joan Taylor
and Blair Degenstein.
The actual car show went from Friday at 5
p.m. to Sunday 5 p.m. and the Club booth was manned by the Club members already
mentioned as well as Brad and Leslie Shelby, Al Mandleman, Bryan Kulyk, Don
Williams, Melinda Smith, and John Jensen (a minimum of 2 people at the display
at all times). Special note: Lenny Merriott
was at the entire car show - wow!
Anyway, the display was a success.
The Club talked to many past and many possible future members and
distributed an array of Club literature and Thunder in the Sun materials. An added bonus was Greg's ’63 took 2nd
in the Classic sports car category. We also got a chance to see Don Garlits, the
super hero of Drag racing, Chuck Barris, the Guru of Hollywood Specialty car
designs and some very nice “tin cars”.
Thanks to all who participated and helped out in this club event…. I’m
pretty sure that I’ll “volunteer” to do it again next year, eh?
Dan
P.S. Oh!…we were well under
budget this year, too.
