A few of us are meeting at Olive Garden in Marlborough for 7 am and cruising down to meet up with others in Bellingham and ending at S&S in Plymouth with everyone else.
Traffic was horrendous but it was a great turnout
Yea, we tried to discourage the couple hundred car caravans, because it's just too many cars at once converging on one small area.
However- we don't have final numbers yet- but we raised OVER $20k for the jimmy fund- thanks to the many of you that came out.
Had a great time today. Lots of nice cars. Traffic was a PITA.
Not a fan of on the way into the show having to drive through the sand/dirt to get all our clean cars dirty right before the show. But o well.
Ill address a few things- but I'm going to bed
1- the dirt coming in- the airport did that 2 days prior. We didn't know it, they thought they were helping evening the road out. Miscommunication- as we would have left it just grass
2- parking inside the event. We had 35 volunteers raise their hands to help park. 9 showed up. 9. Parking 5000 cars with 9 people is almost impossible. Because of this. Spectators got spread throughout. Unfortunate. But it happened.
3- the airport, in conjunction with the police department shut the event entry down at 12:30. It was deemed unsafe to have anymore cars come in.
4- multiple 100+ car caravans made it absolutely positively insane. As they all got there at once. And caused chaos.
5- we did not anticipate more than 4000 cars. We had parking for 4000. We parked about 5000, and probably turned away another 1000.
6- sorry about the food. We had 3 food vendors this year, but they had enough food for 6000 people. 10000 showed up.
7- we raised over $20k for the jimmy fund
Last but not least, thank you for your support, it was nice to see so many of you.
Gotta get son sleep