[2manyponchos]

Originally Posted by OVERULD

Bob,
Congrats on a well-deserved Gold! Your car is truly amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing you again and as you've said and others have echoed, it's not about the cars so much as it is about the friendships that the cars have forged. We could lose the cars but the friendships will remain. Great bunch of friends gathered to show off some great cars. Good times!

BJ

I say that all the time BJ...the cars are just a means of bringing like minded folks together. Was good seeing you again.

-Doug

[muscle_collector]

since we are all telling how thankful we are, (and at a perfect time of the year being thanksgiving) I will give my 2 cents worth.
for the last numerous years I have completely given up on attending car shows. got tired of only hearing people say whats wrong with someone elses car. (never ever heard one bad thing about anyones car at this show)
for the last few years boss has been relentless on hounding me to show up somewhere (Norwalk, ta nats and now mcacn). several others like alan reed have been on me to go to the ta nats. I always had a good excuse not to make it. so fast forward to this year, boss as usual is calling and texting several times a week telling me to come to Chicago, then he gets bentwheel bob involved. so now I am getting the onslaught of daily hammering.
so Monday evening I am talking to gary at level one restoration and have it on speaker mode and he also for the last couple of months has been calling and trying to bribe me into coming. he is telling me he really wants me to be there for the unveiling of my 69 ra4 convert I sold the brothers collection and he just restored (and of course for the last few months he has been sending me teaser pics of the progress).
well enter my wife into the picture. she has been a witness to all this onslaught for the last few months and then hearing my conversation with gary waits until I went to bed and then gets ahold of boss and the two of them conspire together and then pull bentwheel bob into it and she buys my airline tickets, boss agrees to be my personal tour guide and bentwheel bob transfers a room reservation into my name. so the next day I am at home sick in bed in the afternoon and get a text from my wife with a picture and I realize it is a picture of airline tickets bought with no refund.
at first I was like I'm not going but a couple of minutes into it I was on the phone thanking her and then on the phone with boss.
it turned out to be the best thing I have done in I don't know when. had a great time and was long overdue on meeting people I consider to be really good friends for decades, but had never met in person.
so if any of you are still reading this I would like to express my personal thanks to BOSS, BENTWHEEL, UNCLEJUDGE, BJ, REDGOAT, GARY AT LEVEL ONE and all the others who hung out and made a weekend I will remember for the rest of my life.