Thoughts from the Inaugural MCACN

[Bill Rose]

We had a great time from start to finish. I met a bunch of people I read about here, but have never met. Learned a few things I wanted to know about, as well as having a couple of good diners out with Phil, Grady, Rich, and the rest of their Ohio gang.

We didn't have any delay getting the cars into the building. I guess because we were toward the beginning of the process.

The judging was second to none. I had 4 guys going over the Elky for 20 mins. They were very through. I also learned something about my L78 that I never thought was wrong. Apparently the power steering reservoir cap on a 69 should be Black, not natural?? Anyone care to comment on that. I lost 2 points for it, and a couple other points for small defects, but overall, the judging was taken very seriously, from what I saw.

You've all seen the pictures, so you know the quality and varity of the cars.

At the end of the show on Sunday, The "move out" went better than I'd expected. The majority of the cars were out the door in 30 mins or so. Then the trailers were aloud in, directed to various places in the building, loaded and out the door in a very organized fashion. I was very impressed with the way it was all organized. Moving 500+ cars in and out of a building could get very crazy, but it all worked thanks to all the folks working to make it all run smoothly.
Many thanks to Bob and Vicky for all their hard work, and all the other folks who pulled this off.

I hope it was successful financially, so we can look forward to future shows.