2009 D/FW Toy Run

As we drove by the parking lot where we will all collect pryor to leaving for the base I think I heard the first musical lines of the Hallelujah Chorus. Yes indeed we actually ran the run in it's entirety for the first time. It is 74.5 miles long and it took us 1 hour and 38 minutes to do it. The time length is due specifically to the Ft. Worth urrrrrban spraaaawl. You must also remember we did it at the speed limit to which you all also should adhere.

So we will rerun it on Thanksgiving just to tweak it and then on Saturday to Ferrarize it. Everything else seems to be falling in place so now we pray for good weather and a huge turn out.

 

Well we went out Thursday AM and Ferrarized the part of the route I was a bit concerned about and it is fine! The route seems to flow pretty well once you get out of the spraaal.
We will run the entire route at the correct time this Saturday just to see what the traffic is like. Still hoping for one more piece to fall into place

 

Ok the report on the at time run for next Saturday. Additional problems cropped up with apparently intelligent street lights. There is no way to get to the main part of the run unless you make a left turn (1 of 4). The problem we encountered is that when we were doing planning we knew where we wanted to go so we did not do the left turn-just the road and how to get there. On Saturday we got into he left turn lane and bumped smack dab into a 7 second left turn light and you can only make a left on the arrow. In addition we noticed a police presence that we had not seen before.
Therefore, I have come up with a little different twist on the start-which will be explained on Saturday

The roads are good, there are a few bumps, but they will be noted on the maps

I still have a couple of items to work out this week but everything should go well.

If you want to make a cash donation I will have an envelope at the run otherwise 1 or more toys.

 

Scotty, remember that if you lift the tongue of the trailer that decreases the angle of approach for the car. This makes it easier for you to load a low clearance vehicle. Then when the car is on the trailer you let the tongue down on the hitch. I had to move an 8,000 lb. fork lift one time (very low clearance vehicle) and it had a bad transmission so it did not move. We put a 3 ton Hein Werner floor jack under the front of the trailer, lifted the frond, hand winched the fork lift onto the trailer and let the front of the trailer down onto the hitch. It was really quite simple.

 

I am going to start a list of people that have said that they will be attending;

Here is the official list!

Don & Carolyn
Frank Sprow
TR Scotty
'the other William H'
Jake Miller
Rob Lay
Stew F.
Steve F.
Mike Khun
Brian Ratcliff
Raffi
Jano
Dan Gardinger
Mike Hersey
Joe & Becky
Bob lewis
Chet parsons
Safe For Now-RS6
Jim-S6
Ratfink RS6-RS6
S8Tuner-S8
Eric The Red S4-S4
PZ-TBD
Mr_CT9A-TBD
Johntesi-F430 or Alpina B7
Texas RS6-RS6
cc08GT2-GT2
Mrs. cc08GT2-Panamerica Turbo
bbs993TT-CGF
Silentrun-997TT
RaceMX-M3-M3
Fubar-Ford GT
Jetmech-M3
TEJS-Lotus
Westrock-Lotus
5Qf3764b-Lotus
TR4-Lotus
MikeMC1-Lotus
Sweet and Low-Lotus
Nerces M-M3
TonyP-'63 Lincoln
Scott72 Olds
GregTR
Mike B.
Frances
Robert Parlato
Brant Worrell
Tom Minella
Marci
Sam Emerick
John & Carol Knight?
Brannon & Christy
Plane Guy
DB (Challengehauler)
512 Dreamer?
David Seizer
CR Fitch
Don & Pam Payne
Damiel & AAron
Greg & Jamie Thompson
David Knapp
Shaun & Lucinda Howard
Larry Freeman
Kenneth Struck
Kimson
Jeffb99tx
Nicola-Apparently flying in for this one A BIG THANKS
Kenneth
AJ Pena
The turbo Saab clb-7 cars
Italian Car Club of the Southwest-6 cars
Scsuperman105
Kevin Foster
Shayne77
Jared-Camero
Curz
Monarch air-2 cars
It looks like 89 cars at this point. I would like to see thirty five more sign up!!! Remember last year we had over a hundred.

 

I will have an envelope at the run for cash/check donations. If you would like to write a check and it is in excess of $10,000. just make it out to me---JUST KIDDING. Make your checks out to Collin County Children's Advocate and I will deliver that envelope on Monday to those folks.

Thanks again for all you help and generosity. It looks like the weather will be good for Saturday perhaps a little windy!

 

Jeff-the toys should be unwrapped and don't worry about the wrapping paper. Thanks for joining in and it should be fun.

 

FOR ALL PEOPLE COMING FROM DALLAS AND THE NORTH--ATTENTION PLEASE!

When you are proceeding south on east loop 820 you will come upon the 820/287 junction. Just before that intersection there is a sign that says Sun Valley Exit 3/4 of a mile. The problem is that when you go under 287 you will see that there are 2 lanes of merging traffic from east bound 287 onto 820 and that makes getting to the Sun Valley exit a little difficult.

In the event you cannot safely get to the SV exit get over to the right lane and proceed south on 820 and exit on business 287 this is the next exit. Turn right and go to Parker-Henderson Road (approx. 5 blocks). Turn right(N) and go to David Strickland (approx.5 blocks) turn right there and go 3 blocks to Durothy. Turn right there and go 1 block to Vesta Farley.

 

STEVE THAT IS ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!!! YOU WILL HAVE TO DRIVE THAT CAR BY REMOTE CONTROL