Better late than never and apologies for that as we had additional travels.
Once again, the Indy Road Roackets put on a great party at the 51st Annual Motorama held in conjunction with the Indy World of Wheels. I believe the total entries for the Motorama this year rose to 223, completely filling the South Pavillion Buildings at the Indianapolis Fairgrounds. Move-in began Thursday, Feb 11th and setup continued Friday until the doors opened to the public at 5PM. The show ran until 10PM each night with the awards Sunday evening at 6PM.
Studebaker participation rose this year to 4 vehicles and again were well received, in fact sought out at the front door, with ticket takers reporting the public asking for directions to the Studebaker display. We also had folks displaying in the "high rent district" making a point of sending enthusiasts and fellow exhibitors over our way.
More complete pictoral coverage can be seen at http://s186.photobucket.com/albums/x...ama/?start=all , but here are some highlights. If you want hi-res versions, let me know and I'll be glad to send them your way.
Here is the look of the display.
The guys displaying from left to right, Ted Harbit, Chuck Kern, Jim McCuan
Ted's Hauler and the Stude Tomato
My '63 Avanti
Chuck's Champ
At the awards ceremony, Ted received a Rocket Trophy and The Stude Tomato was chosen as one of the Top 40. A few words were said about his contribution to the car hobby as well as mention of The Chicken Hawk. As a finale, based on crowd response and traffic, the Studebaker Display was chosen as the Outstanding Club Display and awarded a $300 cash prize. The owners of the cars in the Stude display determined that this award will be used for next year's display to improve the recognition for our chosen brand.
I'd love for the other guys to add a few comments to this thread and expand this to include their experience, so if you had a car or saw the display, please chip in.
We'd like to see a dozen or more Studes in the show next year and have some great plans to expand the exhibit. The Road Rockets have promised to give us our choice of the floor plan anywhere we'd like to set up. It's great to have the support of the show promoters and they did an unbelieveable job in pulling this show off again. Thanks to Naomi, Tom, and the other 9 (that's right NINE) club members that do all this. (If you look at the pics and see just part of the 2 year iniatiation process for new members, you'll see these guys are committed)
They even had a Miss Studebaker
A truckload of car show beauties. Wonder what it is about yellow trucks that attracts women, Jeff?
Jim
Often in error, never in doubt
____1966 Avanti II RQA 0088_______________1963 Avanti R2 63R3152____________Rabid Snail Racing
Once again, the Indy Road Roackets put on a great party at the 51st Annual Motorama held in conjunction with the Indy World of Wheels. I believe the total entries for the Motorama this year rose to 223, completely filling the South Pavillion Buildings at the Indianapolis Fairgrounds. Move-in began Thursday, Feb 11th and setup continued Friday until the doors opened to the public at 5PM. The show ran until 10PM each night with the awards Sunday evening at 6PM.
Studebaker participation rose this year to 4 vehicles and again were well received, in fact sought out at the front door, with ticket takers reporting the public asking for directions to the Studebaker display. We also had folks displaying in the "high rent district" making a point of sending enthusiasts and fellow exhibitors over our way.
More complete pictoral coverage can be seen at http://s186.photobucket.com/albums/x...ama/?start=all , but here are some highlights. If you want hi-res versions, let me know and I'll be glad to send them your way.
Here is the look of the display.
The guys displaying from left to right, Ted Harbit, Chuck Kern, Jim McCuan
Ted's Hauler and the Stude Tomato
My '63 Avanti
Chuck's Champ
At the awards ceremony, Ted received a Rocket Trophy and The Stude Tomato was chosen as one of the Top 40. A few words were said about his contribution to the car hobby as well as mention of The Chicken Hawk. As a finale, based on crowd response and traffic, the Studebaker Display was chosen as the Outstanding Club Display and awarded a $300 cash prize. The owners of the cars in the Stude display determined that this award will be used for next year's display to improve the recognition for our chosen brand.
I'd love for the other guys to add a few comments to this thread and expand this to include their experience, so if you had a car or saw the display, please chip in.
We'd like to see a dozen or more Studes in the show next year and have some great plans to expand the exhibit. The Road Rockets have promised to give us our choice of the floor plan anywhere we'd like to set up. It's great to have the support of the show promoters and they did an unbelieveable job in pulling this show off again. Thanks to Naomi, Tom, and the other 9 (that's right NINE) club members that do all this. (If you look at the pics and see just part of the 2 year iniatiation process for new members, you'll see these guys are committed)
They even had a Miss Studebaker
A truckload of car show beauties. Wonder what it is about yellow trucks that attracts women, Jeff?
Jim
Often in error, never in doubt
____1966 Avanti II RQA 0088_______________1963 Avanti R2 63R3152____________Rabid Snail Racing
Worthy of note, here, is the following, since Jim would be reluctant to blow his own horn:
We've got to quit saying, 
"Wilburrrr"
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