Great little show - wish I had a picture of the Mansion, but maybe some other time. HUGE, field-stone Mansion, slate roof, sweeping vistas and all of it is a huge Candy Factory/Store and old-time Ice Cream Parlor.
This is a show co-run by the local Volkswagen and Corvair clubs, so we were all lumped into the "Special Interest" category - that is, not a VW Sedan/Vert, nor a Dune Buggy (of which there must have been 20-25), nor a Bus (had both buses and Westies), so we got our own class, which we shared with a young teenager who brought his VW Sedan-bodied (albeit really tiny) Go-Kart. As we got more Speedsters there the staff kept asking him to move over so we could group the Speedsters together. I felt bad for him after the third move so helped him push it around (it weighs next to nothing).
Folks who showed up from Speedster-dom: Boston Bob had his Black Speedster there (along with his Deserter Dune Buggy), complete with a rear-mounted Bicycle Rack and requisite Ten-Speed. All Three Bill Pickering's showed up with their Burgundy IM, Chris Schofield arrived with his new-to-Massachusetts, Forest-Green IM, and I got there with Pearl right after Doug Allen arrived, him having driven the 2-hours one-way from Portland, Maine in his Silver Vintage with those big, "anti-Moose" lights on the front bumper.
Anyway, Pearl won Third place in "Special Interest" (surprised me - I never expect her to win anything - maybe clay-barring and waxing her yesterday helped!), the kid with the Beetle-Sedan-Go-Kart won Second place (absolutely the youngest award recipient and a grin way bigger than any of ours), and Doug Allen got first-in-class for Special Interest! (Doug - I'll send your plaque up Monday - send me your address!)
That's it......I only took one picture there of a nice early 60's sedan engine (it was pretty cherry) so I'll wait to see what others took for pics. Chris Nichols and I talked for a while with a couple who had a Subaru-engined Dune Buggy (It took second in the Buggy class) and it looks final that we're now going Suby-power in the new car.
There was also maybe 30-40 Corvairs there. I never see them on the road, so they must really be kept under wraps. Even had a couple of Corvair pickups, and I thought I saw a couple of Corvair-powered Dune Buggies! And, of course, being a VW show, there was a small horde of Sedans and Verts, along with two looong rows of Buses and Westies (Westie people are a breed apart, I swear).
Great day, GREAT WEATHER, and got to see some old and new Speedstah Friends.
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