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Mountainmoron 
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 Calendar Event: 1st Annual Rocky Mountain LX Meet in COPosted: May/08/2009 at 6:41pm |
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This will be a blast!! 1st Annual Rocky Mountain LX Meet Sponsored by at Fountain, Check out the website for all details: http://www.southerncoloradomopars.org/2009MoparFest.htm Edited by Mountainmoron - May/28/2009 at 12:54pm |
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Posted: May/20/2009 at 9:24pm |
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This should be a great place to have a show!
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Posted: May/29/2009 at 8:20pm |
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I went for "Event Staff" training yesterday evening after work. The show will be in the infield area of the race track. Four different clubs (Mustangers, Corvette Club of CO, GM, and Mopar) are sharing the venue. For a "First Annual" event, it looks like it's coming together very nicely.
The local TV News networks are doing announcements today and tomorrow about the show. So far, there appears to be close to 200 cars entered between the four host clubs. As is typical, we're guessing there will be a lot more registering tomorrow morning.
We heard from the facilitiy manager that all show winners will get to take a victory lap in their cars around the Raceway after the awards are handed out. I'll have some photos posted here on the Forum for sure!
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Posted: May/31/2009 at 10:26am |
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This event was a huge success for the first time Pikes Peak International Raceway venue!
Over 300 entries in the Mopar/GM/Ford classes. 90 degrees and sunny all day. Probably thousands of spectators (the official tally is not in yet). And an absolute blast to be showing a car in the infield of a pro-racetrack setting, with pro-stock practice laps going on around us all day during the show.
Photos still to come (once I download everything and sort it all out).
Plus a major surprise (upset??) for Best In Show in the all-MOPAR class... stay tuned.
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Posted: May/31/2009 at 7:51pm |
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Best In Show/Best AMC; Wayne Davis’ (ColoradoAMX) ’69 BBG AMX…
Best Stock Performance Motor/Top 25 Award; Aaron Davis’ (Javelinman) ’70 Mark Donohue Javelin…
Best Interior/Top 25 Award; Bill Guman’s (Mountainmoron) ’69 AMX…
Mopar section at Pikes Peak International Raceway Infield Turn 2...
Pro Stock practice laps on raceway throughout the day…
Rick McGinnis’ ’69 AMX…
Ford section…
GM section…
Top 25 and special awards Parade Lineup…
Parade Lap around PPIR for any show entrant who wanted a chance to blow off some steam at the end of a great show!
Best In Show/Best AMC…
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Posted: May/31/2009 at 8:38pm |
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Great pics Bill!
Thanks for taking time to post them!!!
Doug
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Posted: May/31/2009 at 9:09pm |
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Great job! How fast were you allowed to drive on the parade lap?
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Posted: May/31/2009 at 10:26pm |
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Unfortunately, I didn't run the AMX around the track (I will probably live to regret not having done this!
 ) Hopefully ColoradoAMX or Javelinman can tell us about this, as I think they got to do the circuit. As an observer, my guess is the avg. speed around the track was 65-70mph -- no passing, no fancy driving, etc. etc. .... but probably a once in a lifetime experience for the average guy.
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Posted: May/31/2009 at 11:21pm |
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Looked like fun!
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Posted: Jun/01/2009 at 11:08am |
Tony, it was a blast! Although the final numbers aren't in yet, if they at least broke even on this show I am guessing it will become an annual event. The venue at PPIR is a great place to have an event like this - plenty of space, and a couple of opportunities to actually drive your car rather than just park it and leave it. I really liked the way they had the class winners drive their cars to the indoor podium to receive their awards, as it gave spectators a chance to actually see the car that won.
The Mopar class had the most show car entries this year, then Ford, and then GM. But this could easily change in future years. I heard a couple of the event organizers saying that once the word gets out, the GM guys will probably end up dominating this show. I can see, too, where this event could also be attractive to AMO and some of the other AMC organizations as a place to where they could be a co-host along with Southern Colorado Mopars, the Corvette Club, and the Mustangers.
I think the PPIR facility could probably hold around 2500 cars, which would qualify this event as a regional show. I guess we'll see. If the event lost money, this may have been the first and last show of its type at PPIR.
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