Re: The Ardsley Show

["amc74hornet" <AMC74HORNET@xxxx>]

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, themixtoo@xxxx wrote:
> In a message dated 5/17/2004 1:33:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, AMC74HORNET@xxxx writes:
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> > --- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "amc74hornet" <AMC74HORNET@xxxx> wrote:
> > > By 10:30am there was blue sky and sunshine yesterday for the show. There were 19-20 AMC's and 6 other brand cars there, other brands were welcome. The Mix had the only Gremlin there. There were Matador's, early and late Javelins, Hornets, Ambo's, Americans, 2 & 4 seater AMX's, Rebels, Spirits and 2 Metro's. All in all a good showing. > "Doc"
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> Hey Everybody, I'mmmmm Baaaack! The weather turned perfect for the Adrsley show, and other than getting in the wrong lane at the toll for the George Washington Bridge into New York (I'm told I'll be getting a bill and a fine to pay, BUT I did try to stop and pay the guy in the toll booth two lanes over only he hollard back at me to stay in my car and just get going as cars behind me were now blowing their horns. Oh well!)everything went ok. Doc,s directions out of Yonkers were right on. He did confuse me just a bit when he said the show would be in a mall parking lot. I guess we have bigger malls in Ohio as I drove past it only to see some guy waving and jumping up and down trying to get my attention. His name was Steve and he's a real AMC ya guy. Lots of heart but lots of unfinished 'stuff' (I usually try not to bring half-finished projects to shows that are being judged, cruises are ok for that). So I drove 525 miles there and was the first car to arrive (other than the organizer of the event). Had a great time meeting new AMC folks including Doc's wife and son. I sure got the big surpise when, while Doc and I were sittin' BS'n, I was asked to join the others by our cars as the awards were being presented. I TOOK A SECOND PLACE IN MY CLASS and came home with a nice trophy. That was really nice. I left the show at 3:15pm stopped for about an hour at a rest stop in central PA on I-80 and arrived 'home' at 3:15am, Monday morning only to find my neighbor had a car parked in the street blocking my driveway. Now I could have gone up to his house and beat on the door or I could have pulled right up to his car and parked, but on third thought I continued past my house and drove to our local police station, parked in their lot (out of the way) and then hunted around the building looking for the emegency phone. So at 3:30 in the morning the police brought me home. Needless to say when I opened the front door it woke my wife up (she's a lite sleeper anyway) and as I tried to slip into bed she said "Why didn't I hear you pull in with the cars (I have a car dolley that I use to transport the Gremmie)?" I said...THE POLICE JUST DROPPED ME OFF. She then replyed "Where the hell is my car (she let me use her new Suby BAJA to tow 'The Mix')?" I said......IT'S AT THE POLICE STATION and then I must have fallen asleep. At 11:am I awake to the phone ringing...it's my wife (Calling me from work) chastizing me for falling asleep and not telling her the whole story as she claims she couldn't fall back to sleep the rest of the nite.... LOL 'The Mix'
> ps.....hey Davis 999.3 miles round trip and the RU can handle towing the Gremmie.....we'll see if the tranny blows up next week or before the warranty runs out....LOL

Glad you had a good time and the trip was worth it. Especially since the weather turned nice. I was up at 2am saying a prayre as it was still raining an lightening. That Rt-80 through PA. can be a long lonley drive at night. Steve the guy that put on the show is a good friend but short on patience and has to many cars he is working on at one time. I try to tell him quality not quantity but that's the way he is. I brought the yellow car just to show my work in progress car. The orange car is really my daily driver 6-8 months of the year and I was hopeing to enter it in the daily driver class. Even needing a complete interior it is a cleaner car than the Hornet Wagon that won daily driver last year but unfortunately the daily driver class was eliminated this year. Oh well I still won the 20$ door prize and used it monday night at the pizza place. 
"Doc"