Traveling home

We thought we were going to get a good start on Sunday Morning.  We double checked everything with the cars and Zeno walked around and checked the tires with a hammer and found that we had a tire that was loosing it's tread.  The guys put the spare on it

Show Day

We woke up late and headed to the vehicles.

Good thing that the guys had spent time with the cars the night before.  They were all ready to unload. The flat tire on the Impala had been fixed.

I went to Judges breakfast and the guys polished the cars.  At the breakfast we go over what we will be doing for the day.
Because you have to have 10 judging credits to judge a Grand National event I volunteered to help with admin.
With 190 registered cars the task of judging and recording scores was going to be a task.

We had a short hour and a half break.  I tried to photograph the cars and only got one row done.  Then it was time to go inside to start the admin part of the meet.  As hot as it was outside you would think being inside would be welcome except they did not turn on the air conditioning.
About an hour and a half in the teams started to come in and then my job as runner started.  I took the score sheets from the first table where the ladies would review the sheets with the team captain and double check the addition of of scores to the second table of double checkers.

After the score sheets are double checked then I would run them upstairs and the ladies upstairs would enter them into the computer. 
14 of the 15 teams came in real steady.  That last team took a while.  Finally the last team captain came in and we finished up. 
Vicki Bolton and I went out and finished looking at the cars.  It was very hot out and they released the cars at 2 pm instead of the 3 pm normal time.
We loaded the cars and headed in for showers before the banquet.
We sat with Joey and Kaye Moore.  We had our picture taken with Harry and Bess Truman.

Friday before show day

We were up early for breakfast.  The day will be packed full of things to do.  Darrin, Zeno and I attended the first seminar on appraisals for your cars. 

I learned a few new things about what I need to do with the Henderson collection.  It is amazing how much you can do to improve the value of your vehicle.

After the seminar we decided to go to the Truman Presidential Library.  We saw several of his vehicles on display.The library was the highlight of the history of the area. 
We walked by his grave site and took pictures with his life size statue in the most photographed spot in the entire museum.
We came back to the host hotel so I could make it to Judging school.   Judging school must be attended every year before you are allowed on the field to judge cars.

Darrin and Zeno went to look at the Zenith cars. 
After Judging school we hung around until my friend Doddie came to visit. Doddie and I s[pent some time taking photos so the Zenith Cars.
We all attended the BBQ and walked around to see the cars that were out of the trailers.
As it got dark we moved inside and talked with many of the National Directors.

Arriving at the show

We set out to make the final leg of the journey to Independence MO.  We didn't get far and Darrin could not get the Columbia to switch out of first gear. 
Took a minute to figure out what to do but he got it.  Of course we were in rush hour traffic so it was a pain to shift the gears manually.
We arrived at the show before 1 pm and took about an hour for us to get the rig positioned. 
We checked in and saw so many friends right away. Joe and his wife Carol greeted me first.  Then we ran into Kaye Moore.
Soon we had our stuff in our rooms and headed to the hospitality area.  We soon ran into more people we knew.
We went down and had appetizers with Kaye and Joey.
We hung around the hotel visiting till dinner time.  Then we ate supper at Twin Peaks.  Similar to Hooters.

Grand National Meet 2017

Darrin​, Zeno and I are taking four of the Henderson collection cars to the AACA Grand National Meet in Independence MO.
We left at 6:30 am with two rigs.  The Columbia has three cars and the Excursion is pulling one.  The 1962 Chevy Impala, the red 1951 Ford Tudor Convertible and the 1936 Ford Cabriolet Convertible are in the Columbia with Darrin driving.
Zeno and I switched out driving the Excursion towing the single car  enclosed trailer with the 1940 Ford Sedan Delivery in it.
Today has been a very uneventful day.  Only hick-up we experienced was that the brakes on the Columbia needed adjusting. 
We will be stopping in St Louis for the night at a Holiday Inn.