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If I had the space ….
[web:d956ee4b5a]http://madison.craigslist.org/car/339735127.html[/web:d956ee4b5a]
It was at Olin Turville park up by the shelter. You need to get there before 8AM or there are to many cars around to take good pics.
Most of my shots the background was overexposed. Here is a shot where I zoomed in all the way to bring the background closer (but the background is over exposed…
[img]http://www.walkerdowney.com/zoom.JPG[/img]
I clicked on the link and tried to add a test cruise for the 25th of May and hit save. It looked normal but when I went to the calendar it didn’t show up.
no plans for me this weekend. If the weather is nice I will probably just take it for a ride. Unfortunately I’m going to be out of town for the next 3 weekends after this one, so no shows for me for the next month ….
Specific Ratings (A-F):
Arrival/Departure (easy to find, easy to leave?) -A. Easy, I took highway 12, and let my GPS do the workParking Location – A-. I like trees and grass, but for a mid May show a parking lot is fine ( I did have trees and grass 25 feet away from my car and that is where I put my chair at). By 11AM they started to stack the cars in one stall per car instead of 1.5 stalls per car. I don’t think they turned anyone away, but it had to be close (my guess is that there were around 1000 cars)
Class Organization – n/a
Trophies & Prizes – A. They placed pink stickers on the award winners by 11AM.
Food – B. Normal burgers brats with a mix of gyros and other things. The prices for water and soad were a bit much. I would also recommend having water for sale on the far end of too.
Entertainment – A. Music was pipped in over some speakers and you could hear it pretty decently. And they had a live band their too.
Judging – N/A
Dash Plaque – A-. Nice big plaque with tiny photos of last years winners.
Variety of Cars – A. A little bit of everything (I can’t say I saw a Corvair or a Jag), with lots of 60-70 muscle cars (there must of been +70 Impalas there)
Bathrooms – B. A large portion of the location only had 2 porta-potties. I would suggest a couple more in the lower location
Weather – A+. I had about 3 drips of rain hit my windshield as I drove out.
Trophy Presentation Timing – N/A
Entry Fee – A/B. I didn’t pre register, and paid 15 bucks to get it, which I think is a fair price due to the number of cars there.
Overall Rating:A
Overall I enjoyed the show. It was a fun drive up there at 7AM (hardly any bugs to clean off). Lots of cars and lots of people. I didn’t understand the grab bags we got since it was a bunch of pamphlets to things around the Dells. Also, I would of thought they would of drawn more raffle tickets then they did due to the close to 1000 cars there.
I was thinking about going on the cruise but it was looking like rain so at about 3 I took off (or last least spent 30 minutes trying to get out, but I knew that would happen at that time). There were many exciting cars there and I one I enjoyed looking over many times was a car made by gang that works for Chip Foose:[img]http://www.walkerdowney.com/foose.JPG[/img]
has anyone done the car cruise at 4PM at Automotion before? Even if it was 200 cars going for a cruise I would worry about some of the big older v-8’s overheating….
