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Just wanted to share some thoughts on the recent Hemmings Muscle-Palooza event held at Lebanon Valley, NY. First, there were some great cars there and the SYC was well represented. That's where the positive part ends for me and the negative begins.... I have been to 3 of the last Hemmings events at the Valley......that track and facilities looks the same as they did 30 years ago....bathrooms are a pig stye, food vendors are poorly organized and dirty, etc..but the thing that really took the cake were the low-lifes parked next to me and Benny who were having a binge drinking party....they started promptly at 10am and by noon were drunk...they had over 100 empty beer cans piled up on the ground under an old Chevy hotrod....loud..rude...stupid drunk.....around 2pm one of the party animals starting puking next to my car..he was just spraying his over indulgence everywhere
..we had to move the car...they even had a small child in tow that wandered around through the drunken maze..they used her carriage to hold one of the coolers of beer!! This is not why I expect from a show sponsored by a benchmark outfit like Hemmings....I never once saw any track people or Hemmings people making the rounds to observe or say hello
....with all the advertising done in major car publications that promotes bringing a kid to a car show..you would think someone would stop this kind of nonsense....this is certainly not the example we need to set for future car hobbyists....I plan on writing to both Hemmings and Lebanon Valley to express my concerns and anger over this kind of behaivor....the best part is these characters drove home from there in those same hotrods....glad I left first.
wilma
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Tom, That's a bummer. I was there as a spectator...first time at that show. I agree with everything you said. I didn't see the a-holes you mentioned but I saw enough of that bathroom to not want to go in there
ever again. A porta potty would have been a major step up. I also thought it was poorly run for such a prestigious show. Dogs walking around is another peeve of mine. I could do without the drag racing announcer too...automatic headache.
Well...I plan to send them a note as well. Maybe if enough of us write them, they'll make some improvements.
