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Topic: Savannah Speed Classic

Don't know if anyone saw the email, but Lemons has been invited to some cool stuff at the Savannah Speed Classic October 27-28. It's a historic sports car race on an old Indy Lights track for rich people, held in conjunction with the nearby Hilton Head Concours d'Elegance. We go every year to watch. Of course we're excited to do it, and will bring the Fairlane, but I wanted to take the opportunity to offer up our house for anyone that wants to come down and needs a place to crash. We live in Rincon, about 30 minutes away from the track, and have plenty of room.

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Re: Savannah Speed Classic

I really want to do this. Ricky and I may bring Sparky down for the weekend.

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Re: Savannah Speed Classic

I registered the Bumble Bee and will tow it to Savannah for the event. One of our team drivers is working the event as a corner worker. The schedule on the Savannah Speed Classic website has a designated slot for pull behind trailer load in on Wed afternoon. I emailed the organizer and he was happy to have us arrive on Thursday afternoon. The Lemons cars will be set up in the infield.

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Re: Savannah Speed Classic

I'm registered, see you guys there.

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Re: Savannah Speed Classic

Hey Everyone,

Jay asked me to be the local support for the event.  Should be a great time.   Here is a list of the benny's for nyone willing to drag their Hooptie down to the event.


Credentials for them and their families at the Savannah Speed Classic (Oct. 27-29)

•                    Credentials to the Hilton Head Island portion of the event (Nov. 4 & 5)

•                    Exhibit included in eBlast for promotion ----we need registered cars by 10.10. to add to the eBlast

•                    Dedicated Parade Lap on Sunday during lunch time, and added to spectator schedule

•                    Peoples’ Choice Award presented on Sunday to “Favorite Lemon”

•                    Opportunity for interviews from local news/magazine/radio---this will be very popular!—I’ve created a Media Alert announcing this which has been sent to local media

•                    Opportunity for photo ops with fans/spectators

You can PM me for additional info.


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Re: Savannah Speed Classic

R&R wrote:

Exhibit included in eBlast for promotion ----we need registered cars by 10.10. to add to the eBlast

What does that mean?

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That means that they wanted us to register by 10 Oct. but good luck on that! 

They are still accepting applications. 

Just email the registration form to :

sstrelcheck@hhiconcours.com 

If you need to form just PM me with an email address and I'll send you one.

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Re: Savannah Speed Classic

Okay, I registered last week, so we're good to go. I only saw 4 recipients on Sawyer's status e-mail, so I'm guessing that there won't be a lot of us.

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Re: Savannah Speed Classic

Representin'

http://www.carolinahondas.com/members/roger-albums-pj-picture6695-ssc1.jpg

http://www.carolinahondas.com/members/roger-albums-pj-picture6696-ssc2.jpg

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Re: Savannah Speed Classic

That folding table looks worse than the ones we take to launch sites upon which our epoxy-crazed students assemble high-power rocket motors and engage in field-expedient airframe repairs. Nicely done!

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Re: Savannah Speed Classic

More Lemons cars are here today, and also more people marveling at their hooptieness. Lots of cool classic cars are racing as well. And there is a big snake. This event has everything. Tomorrow they let us on track:

https://youtu.be/V590kZD4fz0

http://www.carolinahondas.com/members/roger-albums-pj-picture6697-snake1.jpg

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We had a great day.  Great crowds and a chance to talk to the press.

http://savannahnow.com/news/sports/2017 … -go-racing

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http://www.carolinahondas.com/members/roger-albums-pj-picture6698-allthehoopties.jpg
http://www.carolinahondas.com/members/roger-albums-pj-picture6699-allthehoopties2.jpg

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Re: Savannah Speed Classic

End of parade laps:

https://youtu.be/oqsQpmeLdjk

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Re: Savannah Speed Classic

The gang all gathered at the awards ceremony:

http://www.carolinahondas.com/members/roger-albums-pj-picture6701-winners.jpg


The three special award winners for the show, a Lola, a Chevron, and an Electrica. It was so weird to be on the podium accepting an award with these cars. Each of us gave a short speech and we received our awards:

http://www.carolinahondas.com/members/roger-albums-pj-picture6702-podium.jpg
http://www.carolinahondas.com/members/roger-albums-pj-picture6700-winner.jpg

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Re: Savannah Speed Classic

Action shot of Sparky on track. If you squint and don't think about it too hard, it almost looks like a real race car:

http://www.carolinahondas.com/members/roger-albums-pj-picture6703-actionsparky1.jpg

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Had a great time.  Hope everyone made it home safely.

Rick
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Re: Savannah Speed Classic

It really was a great experience. The organizers took good care of us. There was a huge number of historic race cars actively racing and that was pretty cool to see. Lots of interest in the Lemons cars. It was worth the trip, I would do it again.