For anyone with a love of Corvettes this was the place to be!
With stunning examples of every generation filling the show field.

We arrived mid afternoon on Saturday to setup ready for the show and shine on Sunday.
The timing of the event worked out well for us as it gave an opportunity to get the new 'goose-neck' trailer on the road for the first time and check that all was OK!
The amount of hours Nobby has put into building the trailer completely from scratch is incredible, at 38ft long it was a huge project.
The finished item is quiet a piece and was admired by many over the weekend.
 

With Nobby, myself and Simon Hayward on duty we had everything in place fairly swiftly, including our new Nascar style pit wagon fabricated by Nobby and home to our wrenches and air tools (Courtesy of NH Racing sponsors and quality tool suppliers) -Teng Tools and Chicago Pneumatic.
 

Sunday dawned bright and warm, and over the course of the day the funny car was the subject of much attention. We had a great time as always, meeting the visitors, making contacts and drooling over those gorgeous Vette's!

Big thank you's go to Steve from the club for inviting us along, and the team from Mothers Car Care Products who were trading at the event. After getting the Funny Car absolutely sparkling they supplied NH Racing with a full set of their fine polish and vehicle dressing products -Thanks guys!

A great event and one for your 2006 diaries!

Darren

Darren and Nobby...and the super clean Funny Car with thanks to
 Mothers Car Care Products

Both pictures with thanks and © Andy Willsheer

Secondly, AMERICANA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
Newark, Notts, July 7th - 10th 2005

On duty this weekend were Nobby, Junior and myself.

Nobby and Junior arrived on the Friday night after a hard day at work on the trailer with some of the graphics being put on, the remainder being scheduled for the following week along with the last few things to, at last, say the trailer is finished....look out for a feature soon on how many of us spent our spring !

I turned up on Sunday to a large crowd (not for me!!), incredibly hot weather and a great show of everything American; cars and culture.

The car was on show alongside the truck and trailer and looked for all the world like it was ready to race. In fact we had initially hoped to be able to fire it up at the show but with some parts still required, this unfortunately did not happen.

As always, a great deal of interest was shown from the numerous visitors at the show with many stopping to take pictures.

Come the end of the show, and putting the car in the trailer, a young lad asked me why Junior didn't drive it in and why the winch was pulling it in....obviously this lad needs to see the car in action as I am sure even Junior would not want to drive it into the trailer under power.

Then again ............

Chris