Thanksgiving at the Rock - anybody?

I don't know about this one Andreas. What are the highlights of this meet? Is it a show? Can I get the time and parking details? You feel this is a good one? Thursday morning? RocketBoy very sleepy...

RocketBoy

 

Andreas, what time does all this take place? I just learned that we will be going to Hyde Park on Thanksgiving for dinner at my wife's aunt's. And, I think (knock wood) that I have fixed what was wrong with the Biturbo, so I'll probably be driving it that day.

 

Yes,I will be down there,nice and early.

 

Yes,I will have my 308. But,not if it's Snowing. Then,I won't go down at all. I will have Frankie with me,too.

 

Well, i will be down town Thanksgiving day morning, in my truck pulling my jet skis in the state street Parade for the Coast Guard Auxiliary that i am in. My 328 is still in pieces, i did buy the parts, $700 worth of parts from T Rutlands. Hopefully my car will be back together by the end of the month...

 

I'd like to go to this but I will be entertaining a guest from out of state. To be honest, I don't think I can get up in the morning and out to the city from the burbs in the best time nor condition. I will look for you guys on TV later I guess.

 

And,for more info. And,other planned Happenings and Events that they have. You can check out the Motorsports Unlimited Website at: www.msutv.com

And,when you check out the site. In the Column on the Left side of the Page....You can scroll down to episode #872-"Rock 1 2003",and see a familar face with his Winged Warrior!!!...

 

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to say I give you all an early wish for a well Thanksgiving. I am personally thankful to have my health and to be able to be a part of lives of the people I care about and now all the new people I meet through this Fchat and the FOC. I hope everyone has their healthy share of Tom Turkey and can burn off the left overs with no problems.

Wishing all my Fchatters the best, stay warm...

RocketBoy

 

Well,it's snowing.......
so,I'm not going....

 

If it's clear when I get up tomorrow, I'll try to make it, as long as there's not lots of salt on the streets. (This crappy weather is supposed to move out of here this evening, and tomorrow is supposed to be clear, although cold.)

 

Hey, Motor Sports Unlimited has a picture of Andreas and his 308 on their web site, from last year's Rock event. Check it out:

http://www.msutv.com/rock2003.html

 

I did go. It was pretty cool, but, apparently they've had trouble with the City and they were not allowed to park on the grass by the Rock itself, so the cars had to park on the side street next to the park. And, given the weather turnout was (apparently) lighter than in the past, but a few other intrepid souls came down in their convertibles--an Austin Healy and a couple of MGs. Alas, the joke which may make it onto the show was, "These guys with the British cars come with the tops down to prove how tough they are; with an Italian car, I'm assuming you came with the top down because it doesn't work." Ha frickin' ha.

I did learn that apparently I have the same name as one of the umpires from The Race, and he wrote a book about it, which I'm going to try to track down.

Now I just hope I can get the salt rinsed off my car before it dissolves into a heap of reddish dust. But, it should be a little warmer today, so here's hoping.

I had not quite realized the extent to which this very historic event in Chicago history and automotive history is officially ignored by the local government. You'd think they would do whatever they can to drum up tourism, but here they are with an undisputed historical First right here in Chicago, and they do nothing about it. Even The Rock was placed by a group of private citizens, who had to really push to be allowed to place it there at all. Scandalous, and incomprehensible.

 

Those MG Guys go every Year,with their tops down,no matter what.

It's a real shame that they hassle Bill Wildt about going on the grass by there now. He's been going there for a dozen or so Years,every Year,with No Problem. Then,all of a sudden,last Year,some whiney crybaby complained,and now he gets hassled for doing the City a promotional favor. On a Holiday,no matter how Cold it is. NOBODY else would do that! What a Bunch of B.S.,I tell ya....

 

Andreas, sorry you didn't make it. If I had had a little more leisure to plan things this weekend I could have given you a ride.

Initially I was not going to go if there was salt on the roads, but Thursday morning was so beautiful, especially after Wednesday afternoon and night, that I succumbed to the lure of the open road and went anyway. Saturday morning I took the car to a car wash and ran the high-pressure rinse all around the car, up inside the wheel wells, and underneath as well as I could, without getting down on the ground of the cold wet wash bay. Hopefully I got the salt off. I have always heard that salt rinses right off, and once it rains the roads are OK again, for instance. It seems that the big problem with salt corrosion comes from everyday winter driving, when the car gets a constant spray of brine from the roads and it doesn't get rinsed off for days or weeks or months. At least, I hope that's the case!!!