First let me say, that for absolutely no reason we had a good time today at Owl's Head Transportation Museum With a Gang of good friends and a lot full of cars. With some of us thats all it takes is a reason to have a good time, but everybody today didn't need a good reason. So we had a good time without some of you.
I did recieve an interesting Phone Call from an old Friend that hasn't been seen or heard from in a couple of years. He called me with a question on the criteria of the Custom Car plate in Maine.
I dutifully told him all about that and how it could benefit him in the future as it would lift the limited use label from his car and allow him to drive it more than allowed by law now. I then proceeded to ask him Why now after all these years of circumventing the rules of Antique Plates did he wish the information.
This is his story, he drives a brightly colored Dodge Dart that has a very nasty motor in it and a very performance oriented exhaust system. The car comes equipped with all the modifications needed to go racing or be crazy and drive it on the Street. As he was driving up the Hiway he was pulled over by a State Trooper who asked all the right questions, looked over the car in admiration and gave all the paperwork back to my buddy then politely told him to take the car home and remove the Antique Plates from the vehicle as it no longer fit the Criteria of an Antique Vehicle with all the performance modifications making no longer Stock.
It was only a matter of time before the Troopers started doing this. So take this as a warning to all that run Antique Plates on Street Rods and overly Modified Muscle Cars. Register it right or your gonna get picked for a lecture and next time the cop may not like the car.
This next weekend with Shawnee Peak and an NSRA Member Appreciation Day on Sunday will mean I'll need some reports from Shawnee Peak or not. More on that later.
5/30/10
5/29/10
Verify Your Stuff
How many people showed up at Naples last Saturday? Yeah that's what I thought, OK you can put your hands down.
Naples American Legion's Date is a prime example of a change that didn't make it to print. No fault of the publisher or the organizer. The publisher is told what to print and needs the info by a certain time or deadline in order to make the publication viable. It doesn't make sense to publish a book full of dates that have already happened.
The organizer is told they can hold the event at a certain place and date. they submit that to the publication, then weeks later are told they need to change the date or place. To late at the publishers to make the change. Word gets around but not to everybody and sure enough somebody shows up on the original date and gets pissed off at the wrong people.
Verifying the date, place and time is up to us. there are more resources out there that we can use to cross check the events we want to go to. If all else fails call the the contact number or visit the provided website when they have one available. Information is valuable and is a good tool that we all use, the problem is most of us still believe what we read and think that if it is written it is etched in stone. More like written in sand.
Verify your stuff, or not.
Naples American Legion's Date is a prime example of a change that didn't make it to print. No fault of the publisher or the organizer. The publisher is told what to print and needs the info by a certain time or deadline in order to make the publication viable. It doesn't make sense to publish a book full of dates that have already happened.
The organizer is told they can hold the event at a certain place and date. they submit that to the publication, then weeks later are told they need to change the date or place. To late at the publishers to make the change. Word gets around but not to everybody and sure enough somebody shows up on the original date and gets pissed off at the wrong people.
Verifying the date, place and time is up to us. there are more resources out there that we can use to cross check the events we want to go to. If all else fails call the the contact number or visit the provided website when they have one available. Information is valuable and is a good tool that we all use, the problem is most of us still believe what we read and think that if it is written it is etched in stone. More like written in sand.
Verify your stuff, or not.
5/27/10
Memorial Day Doings
After looking at the Calendar at the Road Scholars Site, it appears that there aren't any shows of interest in Maine. Looking closer shows there is little to do in Maine.
However there Are Shows out of State, in New Hampshire there is the 19th Annual Rotary Show in Londonderry and the Nostalgia Drags and Car Show at New England Dragway in Epping. Be careful of the Londonderry show as it thinks a little highly of itself with the $15.00 day of show entry fee. The Dragway thing is hosted by Down East Street Rods and usually has a big turnout of Street Rods in the show area.
In our own State there are things to do but you need to look at things a little closer. Livermore Falls is having a history Night and Cruise In on Friday from 4pm to 8pm. I don't know much about it, but with enough people that go enmasse we could possibly own the town. Not much of a bargain even at the free price, but it could be more fun had on the cheap.
Something we did overlook was the beginning of the season of events at Owl's Head Transportation Museum, they do a weekly event from now until whenever. This museum allows any pre-1990 vehicle in for free to display on the Runway, free admission to the museum and a chance to view the great antique airplanes and motor vehicles they have on display. Unlike most museums they have been known to take the planes out for a fly now and then.
This weekend is a Memorial Day to all. Get out the old car or truck and participate. We can all smile about that, can't we.
However there Are Shows out of State, in New Hampshire there is the 19th Annual Rotary Show in Londonderry and the Nostalgia Drags and Car Show at New England Dragway in Epping. Be careful of the Londonderry show as it thinks a little highly of itself with the $15.00 day of show entry fee. The Dragway thing is hosted by Down East Street Rods and usually has a big turnout of Street Rods in the show area.
In our own State there are things to do but you need to look at things a little closer. Livermore Falls is having a history Night and Cruise In on Friday from 4pm to 8pm. I don't know much about it, but with enough people that go enmasse we could possibly own the town. Not much of a bargain even at the free price, but it could be more fun had on the cheap.
Something we did overlook was the beginning of the season of events at Owl's Head Transportation Museum, they do a weekly event from now until whenever. This museum allows any pre-1990 vehicle in for free to display on the Runway, free admission to the museum and a chance to view the great antique airplanes and motor vehicles they have on display. Unlike most museums they have been known to take the planes out for a fly now and then.
This weekend is a Memorial Day to all. Get out the old car or truck and participate. We can all smile about that, can't we.
5/24/10
Another Good Nite
So who didn't go to the Uptown Kruizah's Cruise Night.
It seemed like the entire Who's Who of Car Shows, Car Guys & Gals and Car Nutz came out on this Balmy evening and gathered at Tractor Supply in Oxford for the opening Uptown Cruisers Cruise Night.
Minimal Blabbering by the DJ and a crowd that the best Cruise Night would be proud of, with the usual good food and the now Infamous Chop Suey all added to the great time had by all.
May this be a trait for all the upcoming Cruise Nights
Well Done
It seemed like the entire Who's Who of Car Shows, Car Guys & Gals and Car Nutz came out on this Balmy evening and gathered at Tractor Supply in Oxford for the opening Uptown Cruisers Cruise Night.
Minimal Blabbering by the DJ and a crowd that the best Cruise Night would be proud of, with the usual good food and the now Infamous Chop Suey all added to the great time had by all.
May this be a trait for all the upcoming Cruise Nights
Well Done
5/23/10
Was It Good For You ???
This weekend couldn't have been better. Beautiful weather, that could have been no better even if someone had asked for better.
With a Customer Appreciation Day at the Advance Auto Parts in Auburn turning into a mini-cruise in in the afternoon it was a good day. Fun talk, times and people showed that it ain't about a trophy or award.
Other folks went to Loudon and found that being in a class and parking where you want does actually work if the organizers want it that way. From what I heard everybody was happy and got to do a lap or 2 on the track. Awesome!
Cheryl Page sent me this about Naples.
Just want to let you know I just got back from the show in Naples and I think it was a great show. The entire show was held on pavement as the Town of Naples owns the ball field now. They did a good job of keeping all the classes together, not to much overflow . With the amount of cars that come now a days it is hard to keep all the classes together unless you have a lot of room. I didn't hear any complaining all today which was great . That is all I have to say,
Cheryl Page
Well it sounds like they finally got it going in the right direction and I'm sorry I missed it.
Up in Orland at the NSRA Member Appreciation Day, they gathered together a group of rodders from Downeast Maine and Maritime Canada and had the Biggest turnout for an Appreciation Day in the History of Rodding in Maine.
So Was it Good For You???
With a Customer Appreciation Day at the Advance Auto Parts in Auburn turning into a mini-cruise in in the afternoon it was a good day. Fun talk, times and people showed that it ain't about a trophy or award.
Other folks went to Loudon and found that being in a class and parking where you want does actually work if the organizers want it that way. From what I heard everybody was happy and got to do a lap or 2 on the track. Awesome!
Cheryl Page sent me this about Naples.
Just want to let you know I just got back from the show in Naples and I think it was a great show. The entire show was held on pavement as the Town of Naples owns the ball field now. They did a good job of keeping all the classes together, not to much overflow . With the amount of cars that come now a days it is hard to keep all the classes together unless you have a lot of room. I didn't hear any complaining all today which was great . That is all I have to say,
Cheryl Page
Well it sounds like they finally got it going in the right direction and I'm sorry I missed it.
Up in Orland at the NSRA Member Appreciation Day, they gathered together a group of rodders from Downeast Maine and Maritime Canada and had the Biggest turnout for an Appreciation Day in the History of Rodding in Maine.
So Was it Good For You???
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