Ridgely Car Show 9/22/19
 

Any one from the forums planning on attending? This is the last car show. Richard Petty, Linda Vaughn, and others will be there. Free Admission for all ages.

Gate opens at 6am. I'm leaving New Castle around 4am to head down. The town will be packed from what I've heard.

most likely . for those that have never gone . this is a big show . 600 cars or more. nice little eastern shore town

I forgot to ad that this is the very last show Brenda Walls will be doing. The article is in the August/September issue of Cruising news.

I hope to be there early before the big rush, and be able to grab some breakfast.

Show info I for got to add before. :o

http://www.ridgelycarshow.com/

BTW, Dennis Gage will also be there and your car could be shown in an episode on his show. ;)

Ok, I know I'm dumb, but who is Brenda Walls?

No you're not dumb. She is the one that puts on the car show. And this is the final show... no more ever again, from what I understand.

Its Pretty cool when Richard Petty comes in with the police escort riding in a superbird . (one of many) . After his signing cession he drives through the show on a golf cart to check out the cars .It really seems like he has fun

Was wanting to go, but doesn't look like its going to happen. Who knows, though, things may change when I wake up sunday morning. Safe travels Gary.

I hope you can make it. Sorry about the phone call. it just dropped on me. I didn't hang up on ya. LOL I tried to call back twice but only got your voice mail.

I'm leaving my house as close to 4:am as I can. I want to beat most the line going in.

Tho the last show in Ridgely it sure was a good one. My guess there was at least 700 vehicles in attendance. Getting in tho wasn't all the best. I pulled up to the line around 5:20am. The line was long and slow. So slow in fact many cars were over heating, mine included. I had to keep the revs up just to keep the temp down to 210. Let off and it would start to climb. 4 cars I was shuffling along side of ended up in a parking lot steaming. One was a gorgeous 69 Charger.

Like an idiot I'd forgotten my phone home on the counter.... so no photos. I did get Richard Petty's autograph, and a photo with Linda Vaughn's signature. I had already got it on my visor in the GTO back in 2011 at Denis Kurban's show at his home. I asked about him and she hasn't heard a thing from him. Just as we haven't here. As for Mr. Petty's autograph, you had to have a wrist band. Only 300 were given out I happened to get one, but only by luck. They had a table set up with about a dozen of them left over and I was one of the 12 that casually rushed the table. LOL When it was time for him to start the autographs there was a line of 300 or more waiting.... for hours, like we had to to register for the show [1.5 hours... some way longer than that].

I had brought the lady controlling the line to see Mr. Petty a bottle of water. The show was too cheap to supply water to their volunteers. So when it was time to head up she said follow me. I did and we were the 6th and 7th in line. In and out thanks to her I got out of there before the big rush for everyone to leave. As I was heading out from where I was parked I met up with Mr. Petty again and Linda too. I had made it out but was caught by them 50 feet from the end of the street and the cones blocking it off. So I had to squeeze over to let them pass by. They passed by and I was out of there at 1:30pm on my way home. I wasn't about to wait until 4pm, I'd seen enough and got what I wanted.