October 13, 2007

This was a non-racing weekend for me so there were several things that I needed to do for my sponsor. This weekend the Florida State Fairgrounds hosted the Street Rod Nationals which drew over 1600 entries. Is was an opportunity to go chat with some new potential trailer and motorhome customers so I spent most of the day just walking though the monstrous sea of the most beautiful street rods you have ever seen and chatting with their owners. I really don't impress easily but this 68 Camaro Pro Street machine was probably the most beautiful car I have ever seen in my life. It was so clean, you could have eaten off of it and it was probably capable of low 8 second passes. Explode this photo just to get an idea of the immaculate detail. I so wanted to take this car home with me, I was drooling like a baby.

Anyway, I spent the day drumming up business then went home, had dinner and headed to Sunshine as they were having a heads-up night with Pro Mods, 10.5" tire cars, 6.50 cars and the wild stock suspension class. This is a group of racers that run in different circles so even by racing at Sunshine so much on Friday nights, Right Trailers isn't exposed to them. It was the largest fan and car count turnout that I had ever witnessed at the track. They were 6 deep at the fence to watch low 4 second 1/8 mile passes. Right Trailers wound up putting up an extra $100 for the winner in the lower 3 classes which really pleased the racers and generated a little additional excitement. I wound up talking business to the racers until I was hoarse and finally got back home by 11:30pm, way before the final. It was definitely crash and burn time.

Sunday is going to be a full clean up and load up day. I need to wash the motorhome and trailer, wax the race car, fix the water heater in the motorhome and change the oil in the motorhome. All of this is to prepare for leaving with the whole familyThursday right after work for the Division 2 points race in Reynolds, GA. Now with a good Super Comp set up in the car, I'm anticipating being very, very competitive. I can't wait.