Re: Memphis again....

[Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx>]

> Hi all
>
> Just thought I'd add my voice to the throng all singing the praises of 
> the fantastic experience that was Memphis....
>
> Myself, Richard Johnstone and James Russel-Grant flew to Atlanta, 
> picked up a hire car (for those who didn't realise, the Mitsubishi 
> Spyder rag-top with the temporary licence plate was ours), drove to 
> Knoxville and met up with Aaron's convoy.
>
> Not to bore with the details, it was fantastic putting so many faces 
> to names. I lost count of the number of people who recognised my name 
> from the DML and I had a lot of really nice comments about "always 
> reading your posts".
>
> Speaking for myself, it was great meeting John Hervey, Darren Decker, 
> Dave Stragand, Marc Levy, Bill Lane, Don Steger, Jeremy Delaney, Josh 
> Haldeman, Dave Swingle, Matt Olians, DMC Joe.... and all the other 
> names I know off the DML.
>
> The show itself was great - but as a brit, I feel I have one 
> criticism..... NOT ENOUGH DRINKING TIME!!! The raffles would have been 
> more fun if the bar'd been open all through them. Rich, James and I 
> were just settling down to a good drinking session when the bar closed 
> and we started to fall asleep :-) Already mentioned this to Ken at the 
> time, and apparently the bar was very expensive to keep open. This 
> wouldn't happen over here, but maybe we're just used to drinking more 
> <grin>
>
> After the show, we decided to drive strait back to Atlanta and see 
> what we found on the way. We went via Huntsville, and joy-of-joys for 
> me was being able to visit the Marshall Space Center (I'm a bit of a 
> space-race buff). We stayed the night in Huntsville, and spent two 
> hours at the space centre. Drove onto Atlanta from there, missed our 
> flight, got stuck in Charlotte, NC and finally arrived home on 
> Wednesday morning at 11am.
>
> I'm really looking forward to getting home to my parents' this weekend 
> to fit my new PJ Grady shock absorbers, and finally fit the gearshift 
> grommet. #2727 is so near to being finished we can taste it - all it 
> needed was a new set of HT leads and the intermittent running has been 
> sorted. The cooling system is working properly and the engine's back 
> together. All that remains is to hang the rear fascia and attach the 
> light clusters, and fit the left hand side trim panel we brought back 
> with us.
>
> I took over 300 photos on my new Nikon Coolpix 995 - I hope I have the 
> time to put them up soon - I'm flat out now getting Draven ready for 
> Robot Wars on July 3rd!
>
> If anyone's ever over in the UK, make sure to let us know so we can 
> meet up. Our "big" show is coming up on July 13/14th.
>
> Cheerio
>
> Martin
> #1458
> DOC UK