Re: Hi from Evansville (club award)

["d_rex_2002" <rich@xxxx>]

Great weather, Great attendance, Great Time had by all.

The Best Club Participation Award was presented to Marty Maier and all
the Delorean owners that attended the Evansville Autofest this weekend
on the riverfront in Evansville, IN. Dennis Gage (MCC) presented the
award to Marty and the D group, right on the new $10 million restored
waterfront entertainment area, only a few feet from the Ohio River.
This made for a nice backdrop for the awards and the MCC show taping.

Thanks again to everyone who made this a great weekend event. And
even though we did lose a little of the spotlight this year to the
Amphibious cars for an hour or two, I'll try to make sure to have the
Delorean Hover Conversion there next time, to run out on the river.

The D Rex has a similar 'secret' starting procedure as Biff's car in
the BTTF movies, which took Dennis Gage a few attempts to figure out,
but he was able to get the "hang of it" to get a good take for his
show. I'm sure we will find out soon when the show will be aired.
Dennis was also quite impressed with the screaming yellow D, sitting
in a "sea of stainless" on the river front.

The AutoFest show was also a reunion of sorts, with Todd's VIN...6681
and my newly re-acquired VIN..6683 refurbished car. It was the first
chance we had to get a photo op of these two siblings close together,
probably together for the first time in about 20 years.

(yes, I do own a few 'normal' Deloreans too)

There were many things that will make this event memorable, including
some of the odd food choices from the vendors, ranging from deep fried
candy bars to BBQ bologna. The one thing that I'm sure most people
will soon forget is that the show was on streets that were faded.

Later,
Rich W.


--- In dmcnews@xxxx, "Dave Swingle" <dswingle@xxxx> wrote:
> Greetings from Evansville IN Autofest 2002. I've uploaded a couple 
of 
> photos to the "photos" section (look in "Evansville") - Dennis Gage 
> in Rich W's D-Rex filming the close of "My Classic Car" and the 
> lineup of the 14 DeLoreans that were featured. They treated us well 
> giving is the prime position lined up at the riverfront. I should be 
> able to get more pics on the dmcnews.com webpage in a day or so.
> 
> We toured here from as far away as Minnesota and Colorado. Special
> cars included of course D-Rex and Ron Wester's screaming yellow D.
> 
> Dave Swingle (here with Marty, Bruce, and others too numerous to 
> mention...)