Showroom-Schlock Shootout 2012 - roll call! (Page 3 of 4)

Depends on what you're looking for...

Downtown Joliet has Harrah's Casino plus some local pubs/restaurants.  Several of them pretty classy.
Over by the Louis Joliet Mall (Route 30 and I-55) there are lots of chains - Outback, Lone Star, Texas Roadhouse, etc.
Over by Tinley Park and Orland Park you have similar chains.

I did find this special event in downtown Joliet:
FRIDAY, JUNE 8 / "NEW ORLEANS NORTH" in Downtown Joliet in front
of the Rialto / 5pm - 11:30pm . . .BEER TENTS, GREAT FOOD, LIVE BANDS. Must be 21 or over - $5 Cover charge

Sounds like a fun time...

LOL! No we made a correct catch can instead. So now we can use the window sprayers again.

My parents live in Shorewood, so I grew up around the area... so here's some places to check out.

If you're looking for really good mexican.... Try "The Front Street Cantina" in Plainfield. It's a little bit further from the track but worth it. It's a nicer place too, but you don't have to dress up. Polo and jeans or whatever. 

15120 South Des Plaines St
Plainfield, IL 60544
(815) 254–3474

If you're not from Illinois and have never had a good hot dog, you need to try out Portillos (Shorewood), Babe's Hot Dogs (Joliet), or Joe's Hot Dogs (Joliet). Lots of people prefer Portillos... it's a big chain now (although still family owned), they've got a ridiculous selection of other stuff. Personally, I like Babe's better.... Real Beef Hot Dogs, french fries are air cooked vs oil cooked. Joe's Hot Dogs has been around for ever. Everything is salted (so high blood pressure people beware), but if you order a large fry, it's cheap and they literally fill up a brown paper lunch bag with fries so you get a ton.

Portillos - Shorewood
1155 Brook Forest Avenue
Shorewood, IL 60404
(815) 609-1400

Babe's Hot Dogs - Joliet
2600 West Jefferson Street 
Joliet, IL 60435
(815) 744-7773

Joe's Hot Dogs - Joliet
810 Plainfield Road 
Joliet, IL 60435
(815) 723-6375

Breakfast Joints...

Check out "The Crispy Waffle" in Shorewood (Off of IL-59 aka Route 59)
564 Brook Forest Avenue 
Shorewood, IL 60404
(815) 744-0356

Old Fashioned Pancake House - Joliet
2022 West Jefferson Street
Joliet, IL
(815) 741-4666

Fancier Places (Places you need a pair of slacks for, and a dress shirt)

Try Syl's in Rockdale.... (It's about the closet nice place to the track besides the casino). Steaks, Good wine, Italian, Their chicken is awesome, lots of good stuff.

829 Moen Avenue 
Rockdale, IL 60436
(815) 725-1977

Bars I would stay away from......

Sammy's in Joliet (By the Louis Joliet Mall) -- Most of the time a very young crowd, cops patrol that bar quite a bit, there's usually always a cover charge for something, drinks are over priced

City of Champions - STAY AWAY! This bar is NOTORIOUSLY known for fights, there's been stabbings (recently), this is known as the "UFC Bar" because the only people who go there are the one's ridiculously addicted to UFC in the bad way (as in... they think they're a UFC fighter and want to kick everyone's ass in the bar).

I'm sure there's others, but those are 2 I would primarily stay away from.... unless you feel like getting in trouble or going to jail.

All the other places people have already listed are good as well.

#108 - Team Point-0-Eight - 1991 Ford Escort GT - "Hey... at least we're legal!"
Campaign to Prevent Gingervitus 2012 - Blown Head
North Dallas Hooptie 2012 - 35th
Showroom Schlokout 2012 - Winner We Got Screwed

Rooting for the Gulp Racing Carerror Poorsche (VW Fasty)

My son (Faster Farms fame) Patrick is driving.

Tech and BS inspection with little fanfare, apparently testing went well today

Anyone at the track selling a nascar or imsa helmet kits?

Also, anyone selling an IMSA to NASCAR adapter?

Send me a PM, thanks!

- The bob ross light blue'ish landscaped v6 firebird

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It was a great weekend of racing. I'll send out multiple thanks in a post once Phil updates with a results thread.

Just glancing at the timing sheets, there are eight teams that disappeared before Sunday, not including anybody who didn't get to the green flag on Saturday. And the field wasn't that large.

Anyway, it was a great race, fraught with drama at the end with Clueless earning two black flags in 20 minutes with less than 90 minutes remaining and a three lap lead. They made a mandatory driver change and the time it took to do that put them down to Subliminal Racing by a minute. They worked it down to 30 seconds by the last lap, but Subliminal had it all together and took it.

And I know there will be a lot of attention on Marc and the Kinner MR2 (and deservedly so), but Class C was insanely deep. FIVE Class C cars finished in the Top 20 and they were all legitimate C entries (Metro, VW Squareback, Mercury Bobcat, TR7, and Monza). There were only four Class B cars in the Top 20.

Bravo, Class C cars!

First of all, hats off to Keith and the rest of the Byte Marks team.  Well done guys.  I didn't get the final results and don't know how you actually finished, but it looked like you guys really stepped your game up and were kicking class-B ass.

I didn't get a chance to roam through the pits and socialize with other teams.  I did make quick appearances at the Buck Snort and Skid Marks trailers and reminded myself why I use them as examples of how to run a team, even as the Skid Marks team looked equally as defeated as us with their (even less) under performing Dodge.

The Euro trash VW was a top notch team and they definitely had their shit together.  We kinda chuckled when we saw them unload a box that contained an entire "spare" engine.  Our laughter turned into tears when we later smoked our own engine.  Thanks again (Euro trash) for the generator Friday night.

Our other neighbors "Supra Troopers" were about as green as green could be, and I loved watching them.  It was a heart felt reminder of how we all got into this in the first place.  Just a bunch of buddies out having a good time... and completely in over their head. 

So anyway, we took a lot of heat from people about pulling out early on Saturday and not doing more to get ourselves back on the road.  We tried all night to repair the motor with a new rod bearing and polishing up the crank and rod journals, but the damage was too severe.  Besides, the spun rod bearing was the effect, not the cause... we still had a sudden major oil consumption issue that was TBD.  We did find a replacement junk yard engine that was half an hour away, but the cost was immediately out of budget (more than $500) and we were tired.  After getting our asses kicked so relentlessly in April, we really weren't in any mood to drop another ~$1000 for a ball-busting weekend that may or may not get us back on the track.

In the end, we decided to take the motor home and fix it "properly".  Spun rod bearings can be repaired for ~$100 all day long.  We wanted to race this motor again, not grenade it within the first hour of racing.

Results and timesheets will be here when they're done, usually within a couple days:

http://www.specialtytiming.com/LeMONS-S … sults.html

The #1 Neon seemed to be off the track regularly, but I think it finished mid-pack. Not sure if they mechanical issues or they were black flagged. The car finally called it quits in Turn 2 with about 10 minutes to go in the race, if I recall correctly.

"THANKS"