Yes, we will talk with the owners and make sure that we are being as fair as possible in the placement of the vehicle in a reasonable class. As with any guidelines these are a starting post, then there has to be common sense and reason applied. As the vehicle owner and with these guidelines you will likely already have an idea where you should be. I feel that we will be able to please most entrants, with the classes that we are offering. We added two classes to last year's line up because we are seeing so many owners investing large sums of money for more radical customs or for dealer customs and because there are many more aftermarket opportunities than last year. We are working hard to see that no one goes home empty handed, with great goodie bags, dash plaques and door prizes, but the trophy issue is always a tough one and all we can do is try to be as accomodating as possible.
I did fail to mention that we have also made sure that no judge will be able to judge his own class and by using the multiple judges and judging sheets we are addressing any possibilities that a judge might fail to fairly judge a vehicle or class...
We are also going to attempt to make things easier by parking each class together, so the vehicles can be closer together for judging...I am not saying that we will be completely without issues, but we are attempting to make things go smoothly and give everyone an opportunity to compete...
Luckily there is going to be so many other things going on that the show will be just another part of our weekend !!! I am looking forward to just hanging out with everyone, eating, enjoying a refreshment and getting to know everyone better...maybe sitting around in a hot tub, or around the pools...

 

Wow...44 days and a wake up !!! We are starting to see pre-entry response and the hotel is seeing reservations so here we go !!! If you are planning to stay at the Howard Johnson Antiqua Bay Resort please call and tell them that you are with the Mid-American HHR event so you can get one of the block of rooms that they are holding for us and the 91.00 per night deal, with the waterpark tickets...I will be calling the hotel tomorrow to make sure that the block of rooms will be held for us until at least August 1st...Pat

 

Room reserved. Days scheduled off. Pre-Entry going out tomorrow. May have a couple mods done before the event

 

Me and Bree have our room reserved!!
I guess i should start cleaning the hhr up! Been over looking it while swapping engines in the vette!!
vaccation days logged just to make sure incase i get transferred to yet another crew at work!!!

 

Got mine at the "HJ"

Oh and watch for a "Find the Deer Slayer II Contest"

It would be hard to hide the Deer Slayer!!

 

I talked with the hotel today and they are holding our block of rooms from the general public until August 2...I have good news so far concerning a possible vendor at the run, the hotel has cleared the vendor, now I gotta' see what the state says and get back to the possible vendor. If we can swing this vendor in, you would have the chance to buy some goodies for your HHR while you are with us...Okay gotta' go lots of work to do...still working on games, hot wheel race track, sponsors, getting my HHR ready for a couple of shows before the Dells, making sure the trophys are cool, newspapers and radio stations are on lines...hhhmmmm, whatelse...oh yeah...still gotta' eat sleep and work...I really need to win the lottery...did I mention that there is a casino within a few miles of the Dells???...talk to you soon

 

I wish I'd be able to get my feet wet on this one, but things are a little too tight around my work right now when it comes to trying to schedule more than a day or two off at a time. I'll have to revel in everyone's photos from the bash for this one.

 

Hey Vivid the invite still stands so if you decide that you are available for the Saturday (August 25) jump in that HHR and shoot up that is the day with the most activity, if not we will make sure that there will be plenty of pictures...My son is a (semi)-professional photographer (I am sending him to Columbia in Chicago to remove the semi...) and he is going to be one of the vendors offering photo packages and he had agreed to take pics of the run for me as well...and everyone seems to take tons of pics at the runs so we will have it covered...

 

Okay everyone if you don't have any plans for August 24-26 why not grab your gloves, (driving and putting), a swimsuit, the family and come up to the Dells...

 

Okay the local police have been notified and all permits are squared away and we know what it will take to make our vendors legal (just a Wisconsin sellers permit)...so one more issue out of the way !!! 42 days and a wake up...