3rd Annual Italian Gathering in Dublin Ohio August 31

[Midwest124]

Hey midwesterners! The 3rd annual Italian Gathering in Dublin Ohio is coming up at the end of August!!

August 31 from 10:00am - 4:00pm at Wendy's International Headquarters in Dublin Ohio. All Italian hardware is welcome. Autos and Bikes. Lamborghini, Ferrari, Fiat, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, DeTomaso, Maserati, QVale, Ducati, Vespa, Moto-Guzzi etc....

Info and registration here:
http://www.evansauto.com/ig2006.htm

[mbouse]

o.k. I am going, and so is Lee putman. Lee is bringing two fellow CHI-FLU folks with him. I hear that Dave from Indy might show as well.

how about the rest-0-ya?

[kristoj]

I am tenatively planning on being there...

[mbouse]

are you registering and putting the car on the display grounds, or whimping out and parking in the spectator area?

c'mon John. It will be fun. Logan says we could put more cars on display than the Ferrari boys, if we just getta little more participation....

[kristoj]

Well, since I unexpectedly finished third in my class at FFO , I guess I have to go display all the way! I will be paying the extra ten bucks to register the day of the show, though, because I am not yet sure if I can get out of a prior holiday commitment.

[mbouse]

well, last i heard, there are four of us rambling over from this way... Lee has suggested we call this trek:

ANOTHER Great Cruise

I'm gonna be satisfied with gettin' there and back in one piece

[mbouse]

Congratulations to our own John Kristoff... winner of the best Fiat at the Third Annual Italian Gathering in Dublin OHIO!!

Take a bow John! first class act, especially involving the Kids in on the day..

[msrmd]

Way to go John

[rlux4]

Ooooh, I almost know two people with the best Fiats!
Congratulations John, we know you did a lot of work to get your car to this point.
Ron

[kristoj]

Thanks guys. As Mike mentioned, I brought the wife and kids as well (boy, 6; girl, . The whole family had a good time. My kids have been to so many shows with me, that no one ever expects to win anything, because we never do and winning an award isn't why you go to these these events in the first place. But I have to say, both kids really lit up when we won 1st place. We were all surprised as there were some really nice Fiats there (13 in all I believe), including a gorgeous X-19 that was nicer than my Spider and didn't win anything...go figure.

And although I was bummed (and a little embarrassed) that I towed my car to the event to accomodate the family and all of our stuff, I was glad to have A/C for the two-hour drive home as it was HOT and muggy yesterday. I must be getting soft in my old age

Thanks to Jon Logan, who took third place with his car and helped sponsor the event, and Mike Bouse for getting a whole crew of Fiats to come from far away places. We had three chapters of FLU represented and about 15 cars, including the two Lancias! This compares to only a handful of Alfas that showed up. I didn't do a full count of cars by make, but Lambo seemed to have to most with Fiat and Ferrari fairly even, then dropping off quite a bit to Alfa and Maserati.

I'll post some pix as soon as I get them uploaded. Unfortuntately, I only got pictures of individual cars, not the event, so hopefully Mike or someone else can post some pix as well.

[racydave]

Thats great John. Hope to make it next year with my car lookin alot better than it does now!

[ga.spyder]

Congrats ,John
You are collecting quite a bit of hardware! It is nice that the hard work pays off with a little appreciation.
Craig