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Carlisle 2022 !   ....I've once again contracted the Courtyard by Marriot, Mechanicsburg PA.  Wednesday is available as an extra day for those that wish to arrive earlier. The dates are Wednesday May 11th through Saturday May 14th, with the majority usually arrive on Thursday. our room block rate is $130.00 per night (King or Queen) plus applicable taxes. this includes free daily breakfast the hotel and the they are providing the free hospitality suite for each night as well as permission to bring in outside adult beverages and food.

Reservations are to be made direct with the hotel. Call:  717 766 9006 and mention "Speedsters Group". Check in is 3PM check out is 12 noon. Early arrivals are subject to room availability. Room block reservation cut off date is April 12th.

On Thursday 1:00 pm, the hotel will be providing welcome station in the lobby with lemonade and brownies.  Courtyard is a smoke free facility.  Currently, masks are not required.

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Carlisle 2022 !   ....I've once again contracted the Courtyard by Marriot, Mechanicsburg PA.  Wednesday is available as an extra day for those that wish to arrive earlier. The dates are Wednesday May 11th through Saturday May 14th, with the majority usually arrive on Thursday. our room block rate is $130.00 per night (King or Queen) plus applicable taxes. this includes free daily breakfast the hotel and the they are providing the free hospitality suite for each night as well as permission to bring in outside adult beverages and food.

Reservations are to be made direct with the hotel. Call:  717 766 9006 and mention "Speedsters Group". Check in is 3PM check out is 12 noon. Early arrivals are subject to room availability. Room block reservation cut off date is April 12th.

On Thursday 1:00 pm, the hotel will be providing welcome station in the lobby with lemonade and brownies.  Courtyard is a smoke free facility.  Currently, masks are not required.

We are all a bit cabin crazy up here and wrapped up in 49th parallel tape ...

As soon as the czar releases us we will be driving south  

Hoping the border becomes less obnoxious as we have a family member who had a covid test that ended up being 3 hours late when he drove across and he got a  6K fine ... go figure..

Moral of the story, if you come back and they say the test is outdated, you have to tell them... ok then I am not coming back today... do not come into your own country, go back across the border to a hotel or to your relatives then come back another day...    ( the relative lives in Windsor and he was visiting his sister in Detroit, he is in his late 70's )

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Throwing this out there to the Speedster Group.  As a former Speedster owner, now a buggy owner, ACME commissioned a build of a Valve Cover Racing Track.  We will have the track at Carlisle this year and if you are creative enough to make a Valve Cover Racer and want to have some fun, the track will be set up for the duration.  We will have a definitive challenge race (double elimination), but feel free to join - you gotta make your own racer.  If anyone is interested, I can send you rules and build specifications for your racer (max 5 pounds)= just about anything goes.    Pinewood Derby and Hot Wheels for the adults     Andy Burger, afburger@gmail.com

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curved incline - VCR build rules also attached   based on area we will have, we have 6 4' sections of flat after the curve from the starting incline.  This image is general representation of an older track we used to borrow and use.   The new track is being finished this month and may include a hump and/or a jump optional sections depending upon how much beer is consumed during the final track construction

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For those wondering what this track will look like with a transitions.  Here is the current build process - about 80%.  There is an additional 8' of sections to be added but the work shed isn't that long

The track is 4' high at the starting line with a 35% incline to an eased curved flat section.  Total length is about 28'.  This particular VCR racer in the video is at the 5 pound limit, made with a base EMPI chrome rounded valve cover.  It also has wood wheels and router bearings that is homemade from my brother Bill in North Carolina - the architect and creator of our track.

Our plan is to have a "cup season" at various events with trophies at each event and grand champion - even best of show at events so everyone can enjoy.    Click the video below to see the track in action as of 07-JAN-2022

Current Build in Progress

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Carlisle 2022 update ..... Cory & Jeni Drake have just finished putting together what will be a great cruise the Friday of the Carlisle weekend including great back roads, a stop at a Winery,  a lunch stop in Gettysburg and ample time to check out some of Gettysburg...if you have not been there, it is a special place of remembrance not to be overlooked in your lifetime ~    Carlisle show field registration is open and be sure to book your Courtyard by Marriot rooms soon ~       Thanks Cory and Jeni !

Saddle up, folks.

Reservations are to be made direct with the hotel. Call:  717 766 9006 and mention "Speedsters Group". Check in is 3PM check out is 12 noon. Early arrivals are subject to room availability. Room block reservation cut off date is April 12th.

On Thursday 1:00 pm, the hotel will be providing welcome station in the lobby with lemonade and brownies.  Courtyard is a smoke free facility.  Currently, masks are not required.

Reserved at the hotel. Boy, they aren't making that easy this year.

"How best can we not actually talk to you today? Would you like a text instead? The website is the best way to book your room, How about a twenty-seven minute wait?"

Apparently the automated system doesn't recognize, "GO EFF YOURSELF!!!!"

Plus, they let the guy who recently retired from two decades of huffing paint answer the phones!! YAY!

Booked for Weds-Sun

I just spoke with Charity Sheffler at Courtyard Marriott when you call they have a new phone system which quite hasn’t been straightened out yet select the option for the sales office if she does not pick up leave a message she will call you back and make the reservation direct sorry for the inconvenience until They get things ironed out with new  phone system

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I called the number you left and versus last year, where I believe I called Charity direct and left her a message to call back. She sent me an email that I was confirmed for my reservation so it was super easy.

I encourage anyone to follow Al's instructions and push the button for the sales office when you get to that point.

Thanks for trying to iron it out Al!!

Please folks, sign up for Carlisle Gate & Go ASAP. Deadline is end of March. As in the past, the more people we get who sign up as part of the Speedster gathering the more likely it is we'll get a free thing.

You want a NON-JUDGED SHOWFIELD Gate & Go pass; sign up here. Remember to go to the club affiliation drop-down menu and choose "Speedster Owners." Do this regardless of what car you plan to bring.

Every year I've been a part of this group we've gotten a free tent from Carlisle. This year, owing to last year's lower attendance, it costs $97.50

No problem! We got this. But free is better than $97, so if you're thinking of coming, sign up.

Here's the nitty gritty re the tent:

COST OF CLUB TENT
• Club tent qualifications are based on the following:
1) The total number of vehicles registered for the prior year’s event –
if your club had 25 or more vehicles registered last year, your club
is eligible for a FREE tent this year
2) The total number of vehicles registered by the Gate-N-Go deadline
of the current year’s event – if your club’s total number of vehicles
registered by the Gate-N-Go deadline is greater than the prior
year’s total and meets the number for the next larger tent size,
your club will receive the larger size FREE.
• Rental fee is $195.00 for a 20 ft. x 20 ft. club tent when your club’s
number of vehicle registrations is under 25.
SIZE OF CLUB TENT
• Club tent sizes are offered and determined by the number of vehicles
your club has pre-registered. FREE tents may be offered at the
following club vehicle registration levels:
25 vehicles = 20 ft. x 20 ft. / 50 vehicles = 20 ft. x 30 ft.
75 vehicles = 20 ft. x 40 ft. / 100 vehicles = 30 ft. x 40 ft.

Carlisle 2022 ! ....Please make your hotel reservations ASAP.  As of today the room reservation head count is at just 10.   Andersen, Cuccureddu, Frazer, Gallo , Greig, Holden, Luebbert, Stumpp, Thibodeau, Piperato. We have a contract with a room block of 30 rooms per night, upon fulfilment of this number we have hotel perks inclusive of the free Hospitality Room etc.  To reserve your room at CourtYard : Call the hotel direct...717 766 9006 and select the option for the Sales Office if Charity does not pick up please leave a message as she will call you back.

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I've once again contracted the Courtyard by Marriot, Mechanicsburg PA.  Wednesday is available as an extra day for those that wish to arrive earlier. The dates are Wednesday May 11th through Saturday May 14th, with the majority usually arrive on Thursday. our room block rate is $130.00 per night (King or Queen) plus applicable taxes. this includes free daily breakfast the hotel and the they are providing the free hospitality suite for each night as well as permission to bring in outside adult beverages and food.

Reservations Call and select the hotel Sales Office option   717 766 9006 and mention "Speedsters Group". Check in is 3PM check out is 12 noon. Early arrivals are subject to room availability. Room block reservation cut off date is April 12th.

On Thursday 1:00 pm, the hotel will be providing welcome station in the lobby with lemonade and brownies.  Courtyard is a smoke free facility.  Currently, masks are not required.

Last edited by Alan Merklin

Just 10?!  C'mon folks, it's time to celebrate the backside of the pandemic and join us for jocularity, merriment, and frivolity.  Oh, and cars, too.  Almost forgot about the cars.

Carlisle: I know of at least 9 possibles that have verbally committed but are sitting on the fence, surely it can't be the cost of gas as that's easily remedied by switching to cheaper lunch choices............ Come on folks let's get it done this week !

I drove my Ford F250 and trailer on the show field several years in a row.  They really don't care all that much once you've paid for a show field pass.

BTW:  Those show field passes are a real bear to remove (the adhesive is wicked sticky) so I would scotch tape mine to the windshield.  I don't think they really like that, but no one ever told me to do otherwise.

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