SpeedsterEast Pics

Here are a few advance shots for today. It rained till about 10AM then the sun came out and we had Replica Rendevous weather the rest of the day. You couldn't even tell it had rained. Sunny and almost 90!!
Here's a shot of the tent,a field shot and a shot of Carey Hines of Beck Speedsters and Bruce Stumpp. We had a dozen or so cars here today and expect a big crowd tomorrow. Last I heard, Jerome S. and the Mid-west crowd rolled into the hotel about 5 EDT. The northeast caravan was not far behind. No big problems were reported except one car got some diesel pumped in it somehow(which they had to pump back out) and a traffic ticket for riding in the passing lane. Long day coming tomorrow!
All for now.

BD

A couple more shots. George Browns car behind Intermecannica's stand.
Henry is in the white shirt,george in the red shirt.
And Jody Christiansen's car and trailer.

BD

Thank's for the quick pics guy's have a great time. We will be thinking about all the could beers you guy's will be drinking this weekend.
MRDS.

Thanks David, There are a lot of suds floating around! We do the meet tomorrow, big group dinner at 7 and then on to the go-kart track and then brewskis. Or is that brewskis then the karts? That would be interesting!

Cheers

BD

I hope the SUN GOD continues to REIGN in PA. Thanks for the pixs, upload more and mix in a few closeups. I would personally like to see more of the white racer, is it # 25 or 26 and the black Speedster with the roll bar. I'm contemplating adding a rollbar, therefore my interest in singling out these 2.

Best Wishes

Chuck

Chuck if you have the rollbar option make sure they mount the seatbelt shoulder attachment on the outside of the rollbar so that when you put the seat all the way back the headrest wont hit the bracket that holds the shoulder harness.......it could just as easily be placed on the side of each rollbar and that way it won't interfere.

Sat: around 5:00 PM

Here's the assembly of Carlise Speedsters & owners as posed by the Photographer from Kit Car Magazine and a couple of photos of the nice area we had for the Cars and the Tent.

Greg B

So guys, what's the count?

Hey J2Bolts: Having a great time!(wish u were here) Getting ready to motor out to the field. Kit car magazine took a series of group pics yesterday for the Sept. or Oct. Issue. He said this was the largest assembly of cars he'd seen. Last count was 45 Speedsters. He had us jockey our cars around so he could get all in the shots. Had a long day and late nite yesterday.
All for now, More pics later.

BD

Hey there Bill D, thanks for the kind thought. You know, this is really the s**ts. I've been cool and collected about it, but I guess I am a little PO'd. Sweet bride was even more so, as she arranged her schedule around the trip. Oh well, no use crying over spilled milk. Next year is gonna be great too. Great pix so far. Hope you guys get individual shots of the guys with there cars like the left coasters did. That was neat. Did Greg Teeple make it from Nashville?
Have fun.....like you won't, right?
John H.

John, others and myself got a lot of shots of everything. I tried to get members and their cars but it was tough catching each owner at their respective car. With the big flea market and the rows of each make of car we were scattered all over the place. Oh and it was hottt. Unlike last year when my fingers were numb from cold. I have to go unload the camera so I can upload pics. We did have a scare when Russ Bees who drove in from Iowa developed some chest pains Sat. He went to Hospital to be checked out. They couldn't find any thing wrong and gave him some medication and I'm happy to report he drove his car in today and said he was feeling OK. They left for the trip back around 1PM. I may be wrong but I think Greg was here.
PICS coming

BD

Hi John H, Yes I made it, but only for one day - Sat. Got there kinda late Fri and then left Sunday morning. That one day was enough, my son came with me and we enjoyed it all tremendously! We got back home late last night, I got up this morning wiped the bugs off the Speedster and drove it to work.

Kudos to Bruce, Alan, their spouses, and everyone else involved in making that the happening it was.

If anyone has pics they would like to post/consolidate on the SpeedstersEast site, please forward them to our Speedster Meet webmaster - Barry Fuchs. You can contact Barry at barrycfuchs@worldnet.att.net If you prefer posting to your own site, that's okay, in that case send me the links and we'll post them on the site too.

BTW, I was surprised when Barry did not show again on Saturday. Here's his response to my e-mail:

"Sorry we didn't make it back Saturday, we intended to...but the car didn't agree. Heavy rains held us up until after 10 and we were pretty quickly plagued with intermittent fuel cutout. Wound up being a shaky ground on the fuel pump, but by the time we got to Danville and tracked it down it was early afternoon. Frankly our confidence level was at the point where it seemed prudent to spend the time going through the car looking for other potential problems. Mike will be bringing the car down to VA in a week or two and wants to make sure it's 100% before he does. Disappointing not to get back, but it was fun tweaking timing, jets and other odds and ends and just driving the car on the great back roads up around northern PA!
Please do what you can to have anyone with show (or other) pix send them along to me. I'll be glad to return any slides or photos if a self-addressed and postage paid envelope is included, and any format of digital image works too. As for yourself, it would be nice to have your impressions and comments on the show to include - so put on your reporter's hat and send me and article! I'll be happy to keep the site going for as long as it serves a purpose, and hope it leads to more Mid-Atlantic regional events (like the wine tour). It was a pleasure meeting you, Dr.Clock and all the others and I hope we can keep the group going! Looking forward to those pix and your write-up".