Well!! The guys that attended carlisle how was it???

Hello All; Yea the weather wasn't very good on Friday as we hit rain on the way down from home Friday afternoon. My buddy & I woke up to blue sunny skies on Saturday morning, wiped the cars down & headed to the show. It was my first time staying at the Hampton in Carlisle & probably
my last. It was very nice, but $433.00 with tax for 2 nights it wasn't that nice-LOL.

Since the 69 Swinger I'm building still isn't ready, I took the 68 Sport Satellite drop top & let my buddy use my 64 Belvedere wagon. The wagon
with it's old "Y" block went 220 miles on a little less then a 11 gallons of gas. I towed the convertible so that used zero - LOL.

We lucked out, as both classes were in the Red Field & we were able to
park across from one another. Since I had a tent & he didn't, you can guess where he stayed when it hit 96 degrees on Saturday & 97 Sunday.

I found a new source for conditioned grilles & trim pieces. The guy is Matt Bollaert of MCB Medal Restorations. I've been looking for someone to recondition the grille on my Dart & Matt had one stashed away in his trailer already done. He wanted 600 big ones, but I was able to get the grille & a
set of OE reconditioned 68-69 chrome exhaust tips for my Sport Satellite for $500.00 & no tax. I have the headlight bezels from Vintage, bumpers from Quailty Chrome in North Texas, so all I need now is a pair of NOS parking light/directional lens & the front of the Dart is all set.

I was making my last run of the swap meet late Sunday looking for hot last minute deals & ran into, literally ran into - LOL - Dan Woods from "Chop - Cut - Rebuild" After all most knocking him head over heals, I asked to shake his hand & have his helper take a picture with my cell phone. He was
extremely pleasant & obviously love the attention as much as I did. He also gave me a signed CCR license plate.

All in all it was a good show & if there was one new Challenger there, there was a 100. Interesting thing, it seem's I'd say, 50% of the new Challenger owners were around my age 50 & older. As much as I do like them, I think I'll stick to the old Mopar iron.