McNair Park Car Show 7/12/09

[STL Mark]

OK - the McNair Park Car Show is next weekend.
Let's get as many club cars for this event.
It's always fun, a great location, a nice event.

Chime in here if you plan on attending.
Follow this thread or organizing the day.

8:00 am registration.

McNair Park - 3200 Droste Road - St. Charles, MO 63301

[Matthew 10:16]

I'll be in Colo. visiting my son Jordan who is working this summer @ Rocky Mtn. N. Park.

[Purple Venom]

I plan to be there, have to go to a wedding, can't remember which day.

[Purple Venom]

Oh yeah, Futures All Star game.

[Phoenix]

What!? My daughter is also working in Colorado this Summer. She is an intern at the Fort Collins Coloradoan newspaper. Unpaid, of course.:(

[rednour1]

I have a cruise in at my hometown on Sat. night. Plan on spending the night down there and spending some time with family. I won't makeit.

[Silver Bullet]

I'm going to try to be there. The Cobra is down. The #@%@%^&! distributor shot craps...again. Replaced the coil last week after the snake and eggs tow and it fired right up, ran fine for about 20 miles and died again. Coil was hotter than h#ll. Different coil did not help this time. Tired of screwin with it. Ordered a Malory HEI set up from Jegs. Not sure if it will clear the hood since it is a coil over unit. Is the Mcnair deal an all day event??

Mike

[Purple Venom]

McNair can be as long as you want it to be. Yes, it does start in the morning and awards are around 3 - 4pm if I recall correctly, however, you can come and go as you please if you aren't entering the judged part of the show. Lots of cars to see though.

[BigLeo69]

I'll be in Colo. visiting my son Jordan who is working this summer @ Rocky Mtn. N. Park.

beautiful place to be Dave did some back-packing there.
and had some of my early survival training in CO
i luv the mountains:)and cold water
sounds like a beer commercial Buschhhhhhhhhhhhhhh:D

[BigLeo69]

I'm going to try to be there. The Cobra is down. The #@%@%^&! distributor shot craps...again. Replaced the coil last week after the snake and eggs tow and it fired right up, ran fine for about 20 miles and died again. Coil was hotter than h#ll. Different coil did not help this time. Tired of screwin with it. Ordered a Malory HEI set up from Jegs. Not sure if it will clear the hood since it is a coil over unit. Is the Mcnair deal an all day event??

Mike
sorry to hear that i can't go either unless i want to push my chassis:eek:
well the body is almost about to go on it is that considered eligiable for a show:rolleyes:

[BigLeo69]

I have a cruise in at my hometown on Sat. night. Plan on spending the night down there and spending some time with family. I won't makeit.

one close to u Sunday at the American Legion post in Collinsville:)

[STL Mark]

So far: Me, Tim, Mike (maybe).
Let's go.
Don't forget last year - 2 members won a trophy! Neat Event.

[Purple Venom]

Mark, Linda reminded me again tonight that we have a wedding to go to, some people we've never met :rolleyes: I do know his Dad though.

[Linda M]

No the wedding is Saturday. The car show is Sunday isnt it?

[mike w]

Registration is from 8 am to noon entry fee $20.00 trophies presented at 4 pm also swap meet there rain date is july-19-09 food , drink and swimming availible info call art raymo 636 441 1831. I guess enter as stock reproduction cars 1957-1965 and 1966-1976 LOCATED IN ST CHARLES ON DROSTE ROAD

[Purple Venom]

Wedding Saturday, futures all star game sunday, I guess I'm busy. Sorry Mark, won't be there.

[Silver Bullet]

Well, the Cobra has a new distributor and is running good. HEI unit just fit. Now it looks like the weather will be "broke" for the McNair car show. Darn the bad luck!! We'll see. I would guess if it rains much on Sat they will put it out until the 19th. Is there some where to look on line to see what is going on for Sunday just in case it's questionable??

Mike

[6stringcobra]

Brendan and I plan on being there around noon and will hang out for awhile.

[Purple Venom]

PV is running again, but will be at the stadium Sunday.

[Phoenix]

In usual manner, I went to McNair Park today. But guess what? No car show. I won! The acceptance speech was great! I just ASSUMED Saturday......

I had on my club shirt and sunscreen. Oh, BTW, I was driving my son's Neon that I picked up after body repairs (again) so I did not win the Ford trophy, but the Dodge trophy.

:D:D:D

[mike w]

I went to look only, checked radar on my cell phone and told judges hey you got about 20 min to get these cars out of here bad rain coming.. Get this, was told they have to hand out awards. I told this dope some of these guys have alot of money in their cars at least warn them not done very poor handling by lions club they sure got my vote !

[STL Mark]

We were the first to leave at 11:45 along with Mike B. We get home 15 minutes before the rain. All ok here. But man some of those guys with $150,000 cars got muddy and soaked for sure. They had all of the judging done by 11am - they should have called it then. The guy next to me had a NCRS Top Flight 1958 Vette - just perfect - never been wet - and didn't know what to do. I told him he'll get wet today if he didn't leave.

Thanks to Gary O, Mike B and Chuckie for showing up.

Here's some pictures - more in a gallery I created from today.

[Silver Bullet]

Great pictures Mark !! Thanks!! Glad you made it home before the sky's opened up. The temp dropped about every mile on the way home. Wasn't sure if I would make it dry. Had a half hour to spare. Gary and I were a lot closer than you. Didn'tbreak any laws on the way home,did ya ?!?!?! :D Great car show but we could have done without that 20% of the rain!

Mike

[Purple Venom]

Great pics and I'm glad we were represented well. Went to the ballpark, and got to see one half inning of the futures all star game before the rain came. We stuck around the ballpark for 2 hours before calling it quits and heading to Chesterfield (54th Street) for a bite to eat and drink. Ended up being a 4 hour rain delay and they shortened the game to 7 innings which I watched at home.

I'm sure the Lion's Club guys didn't know what to do really either. It's just water, $150,000 car or not, it will dry out, spots will wipe off. Geez, if you can't even let rain hit your car, your really shouldn't get it out of your garage.

[STL Mark]

I'll be getting a phone upgrade so that I can get the butt radar like you have. That would have come in handy today. I had to call home and get radar updates.

[Purple Venom]

Um, butt radar? :rolleyes: :D

[mike w]

Not just water you have high winds ( possible tree limbs falling ) good chance of hail and interior water stains come on now is this worth a $15.00 trophy for bragging rights don, t think so many of thes cars have alot of hours in them by the owners 1 is old chevy very limited this gentleman found in a lake and did very nice job making a street rod out of it over a 4 year period. Alot of money out there to be damaged by stupidity on the part of the lions club telling all the weather is fine after i showed them my radar screen on my phone. Its the handest idea ever put on a cell phone.

[Dale]

I looked at the Cobras at the show and also got to meet and talk to Mark. I went to the show early at 10:30 because the weather radar showed the line of storms were about two hours away. I joked with Mark about the weather. The four Cobras at the show all looked like show cars. Mark invited me to go on a cruise with the club. My car has stock Cobra Jet engine and I doubt if I could keep up with you guys. Your cars sure look great.

Dale

[Purple Venom]

Glad you got to make it Dale. Your car would keep up fine, heck, Mike B's Miata did fine :D

[TOM KEISER]

Great pictures Mark, thanks! Glad you all made it home safe and dry.

[Phoenix]

By the time I got out of church it was already raining. Sorry I missed the show. Saturday was a nice day at McNair Park though.

[STL Mark]

OK - you're not going to believe this -

I just got a postcard from the car show staff,

Little Blue Piggie WON a 3rd place trophy !!!!!

Made my day! BTW - that's the first trophy ever!

[TOM KEISER]

Too cool!
Congratulations on having the Blue Beast gain the title of "Award winning" Cobra :D. My first award was from the employees of the Villa Ridge Burger King :eek:. Got a couple of real ones after that.

[TBULL]

Whose the Grey with Black stripes, RollBars and Sidepipes? Is that Mike B's? Nice color combo. :D

[STL Mark]

Yep - Mike B - Silver Bullet.

Thanks Tom - really made my day!

[Purple Venom]

Well, isn't that cool :cool: In what category?

[TBULL]

Sorry, Congrats Mark. I saw the gray or Silver car and asked the question and I didn't get to the bottom. What class did you win. Biggest engine?

[STL Mark]

Thanks Dan and Tim. Special Interest is the class. Trophy pick-up next Sat.
Not only am I surprised, I'm surprised as to how happy I am about it.

[Purple Venom]

LMAO :D :D You're easily entertained :)

[Silver Bullet]

Outstanding!! Way to go Mark!!!!! You did the Cobras proud.

Mike

[Phoenix]

Aw, third place sucks!!!

If the judges had known what they were doing it would have been, and should have been, a FIRST PLACE trophy!!

:mad:

[STL Mark]

Picked up the trophy today.
You should have heard my acceptance speech :D

2nd place was a 1990 Destiny - whatever that is

and Amhead somebody had won 1st with a 1967 Cobra. :rolleyes: