What a great event!
Three days of flogging Corvairs in the middle Indiana corn fields and the hot Indiana sun and humidity!
No rain, sunny skies and the extended Corvair family.
Hot motors, cold beer and no fist fights!

To me that is what this event was really all about, family. Yes, I looked forward to running my car amongst others of its kind but, I most enjoyed seeing all the familiar faces and talking with everyone. For me and I suspect others it filled the void of not attending the National Convention.
No matter how tired I was, I looked forward to the impromptu lawn chair meetings and some cold adult beverages in the parking lot after each event, even after the dinner Saturday night!

Day three was the autocross was the autocross which was held at old Bush Stadium in downtown Indy. At least it was a short drive from the host abode compared to the 60 mile hike to both Putnam Park and Muncie. Bush is an old stadium scheduled for demolition but the parking lot is great for an autocross. Again, there was nothing here to change my dislike for big cities and all the traffic problems but, all the events started early which avoided most of the traffic.
The lot was decent and the layout was Corvair friendly as was to be expected since Warren LeVeque and company laid it out. Some shade could be had around the edges and the cold water was free and plentiful. It was certainly needed.
I worked a corner of the peanut or "Tweety" section during the first round with Dave Edsinger, Barry Ellison and Ned Madsen. Unfortunately for them they were a captive audience and I did my best to entertain them. There are no old jokes, just new people! I think the best entertainment from our vantage point was watching Andy Kinzelman flog and toss his early model around with glee and a big grin on his face.
We had five timed runs and my best time was on my last run. The first run I got lost and the second run I crashed through the garage cones doing exactly what Warren said not to! I finally settled down on my next two runs and got clean times. Like everyone else I was tired so I decided I was not going to run the fifth time but, the ever large and in charge OIC or "Officer in Charge" his High Holiness, El Supremo Hisself, General Bullhorn, Brian O'Neill convinced me that if you paid for five runs you will take five runs! That last run turned out to be my best one, even though my left rear shock was adrift as the bottom bolt was missing! I did not know this until Chuck Sadek mentioned it back in the parking lot. I was too tired to look but not too tired for the third round of back lot BS and beer!
When we got home Sunday afternoon I unloaded the car I checked it out. No real damaged done other than some missing paint so I replaced the errant bolt while the chore was on my mind.

A huge THANK YOU goes out to the NECC, the Indy group, and everybody involved in putting this event on and making it such a big success. I will look forward to doing this again. No matter what kind of Corvair you drive you are missing a real good time if you don’t do the next one!

Rick