[rdorman]

From what I have seen and heard there are some apparent themes. With that in mind, let me know what you think of the following:

- Extend the event

- Have the lake party at the hotels. What we save can be spent on a stage setup. Outside would be great. Does these hotels have convention facilities? We book every room in those hotels, they can through in the facilities. I can practically gaurentee that they never see 100% occupancy except when we are there.

- For the most part, shut down the events before dinner time. Make the hotels an event in themselves. Don't have to worry about drinking and driving!

- Keep London but maybe have it on Sunday. Drawing right there and then.

- The number of cars that showed for the Columbus parade does not warrent it. I have participated both years and it is way cool but unless there is more energy around it, scrap it.

- The 'Lube' was flat this year. Why? No band? We couldn't so burn outs? Thougts?

- Have one of the days, probably Friday, for 'discover Ohio' type day. Visit the airforce museum at Wright Patterson airforce base (very cool, rumored to have stored alien bodies!), go out to Mid-Ohio for the vintage GP (this year the featured mark was corvetted, image the look on their face as we roll in), go to the american motorcycle association museam, check out some of the beautiful country side, go to the balloon festival or any one of a dozen other festivals, check out COSI, the zoo, check out the arts, historic neighborhoods and sites, fine dining, great pubs, fantastic golf, some of the best amusement parks in the country, water sports, etc, etc, etc. We can tell you what is going on, what there is to see and everyone have a nice relaxing day doing there own thing with other Cobra owners.

- Keep the airport event. official timing set up. or better yet
JAY, JAY are you there???????????
lets go to TRC (transportation research center, the one with the 7.5 mile oval). I couldn't seem to locate its home page. Help please. What a place that would be! Perhaps we could even book Mid-Ohio. If everyone kicked in an extra $35 dollars or so it would be ours for the day! But at TRC, we could have it all!

- Keep the CobraX, but at a larger facility

- Keep the dyno guy coming!

Some of these places would give us a chance to push the car as much as you care to in an environment built for racing. But if you going to push that hard and fast, might I suggest no passenger. At least not the general public.

Rick