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Today is the day! (scroll down below the trophy information for the day's journal.) -:|:- 1:56pm, awards have started! i'll be blogging the trophy winners.
MODEL CAR best alien theme: Chris Hayes most unique: Rhonda Murry Model car BEST OF SHOW: Marnie Aaron STOCK Top Five: BEST: Rick Bannister MODIFIED STOCK Shannon Slinez BEST: Tiffany Stallberg CUSTOM Joe Barnett BEST: Tina Ferrell
Anne Green BEST: Ed Wilder Best Budvase: Anne Green Best Exterior Graphics: Ed Tull Best Alien Theme: Shelley Burkett Best Toy Display: Alex Chevez Best Interior: Tina Ferrell Alien's Choice: Marnie and Rich Aaron BEST OF SHOW: Isaiah Sanchez
The above information was blogged live as David read out the names. I do my best with the spelling of names, but every year I get several wrong! If you know of a correction, please post it to the comments and I'll get it updated. Congratulations to everyone who won! This year setting up the webcams was really a breeze (and we did run the cams as some of you noticed), and Jason and I were really well prepared for the day. We got there early, got a spot under a tree (for shade!), set up camp chairs and had a cooler full of drinks and food. J got breakfast from McD's (which is walkable from the car show) and we both worked on cleaning the car. I think Spacepod looked about as respectable as he ever has at Roswell! It's really too bad I never got him to the body shop to repair his front end issues, and that I never got the interior shampooed as I had intended. I didn't win a trophy (and I think I need to consider entering Stock next time unless I do more to the car). Jason did a count and we think there were 59 bugs that appeared to be entered in the show, with another six in attendance or parked in the vicinity. So maybe around 65. Not like the old days but it's still a really impressive sight as you can tell from the photos. And the quality of bugs is still very high, with really nice modifications to a lot of them, very clean cars, and people getting inspiration from each other. Tonight everyone is heading over to the conference center to watch the original Herbie movie on an inflatable (!) drive-in movie screen. I can't wait! That's the best Herbie movie (of course) and I love drive-in. Apparently this is the first time since 1967 that there's been an all-beetle screening of Herbie the Love Bug. Tomorrow I hit the road to go back home. In the evenings I will probably start uploading the webcam archives, and tweaking the photos on flickr so they have actual captions and are rotated correctly, etc. Just generally do housekeeping on the site. So stay posted and before long it will all be fixed up nicely. Thanks to everyone who has been visiting the site, leaving comments, watching the webcams, and telling us that they appreciate our efforts! We really enjoy hearing that kind of stuff. (Oh, and I actually DID win something... the fella next to us at the car show was from a Missouri-Kansas VW club and he handed out trophies to cars that he liked-- including Spacepod! That was really nice!!) Posted by lisa at June 30, 2007 12:01 AM CommentsHi Guys,Just checking the web & found your site.Say Hi to Rich & Judy @ Rich's VW Toys for me.Greg Posted by: Greg on June 30, 2007 01:37 PM Hey, Jacob! Nice 2 C U!!! He's the first one I saw that put his Smyling face in the Podcast's camera at the Car Show! It's been fun watching the Podcast! TY TY TY Lisa!! Posted by: Teri & SMYLZ 2 on June 30, 2007 02:31 PM Ah! Such mnemories. We really miss the fun bunch especially from the CENTRAL! caravan. Thanks for doing this Lisa. Posted by: Caboose #1 on June 30, 2007 09:46 PM Thanks for posting the trophy list and running the webcam! A couple of spelling corrections for the list...under Custom - Antoine Dehon and under Convertible - Dede O'Daniel. Posted by: Dede on July 1, 2007 08:58 PM dede, thanks for the corrections! Posted by: lisa on July 16, 2007 11:39 AM Post a comment |
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