Pumpkin Run 2012. Club gig or solo?

Trying to figure out all the club runs this year. One years we had a section roped off for the club. We had a really good turn out by the members. Following year no one seemed like they wanted to do it. The Falcon guys have their own spot up front so they can't park with us but what do the rest think? Just go solo or small group or hot it hard? Remeber if we hit it hard we have to have you there. Don't say yea then sit home and watch TV that weekend.
I'm game either way. If we get a spot big enough someone has to get in line about 2 a.m. the night before to get a spot for everyone to park in.

We had both sides of the road in that little spot right next to the food and the potty houses. It was a good weekend.

Man, Who's that good looking guy by that BEAUTIFUL CAR in the very first picture. Everybody's gotta have a Mercury. If I remember right, you and I got asked to leave that Saturday nite after dark when the fires came out. I should have never listened to you and hunted that kid that was in that old Chevy with the hot dogs on his tailpipes. That wasn't very respectable for an upstanding then club President. Bad, Bad Boy!

Had a lot of fun that weekend and I haven't been back since then. That's been a few years.

Yeah it was fun. I spent all weekend there and just after a few minutes in your car we got in trouble. lol It was funny.

Admin wrote: The Falcon guys have their own spot up front so they can't park with us but what do the rest think?

It would be cool to see a big showing from the club! Even though us "Falcon Guys" can't park with you (on Friday and Saturday of the show at least) we can hang out with everybody! Come on out! It's a great time.......

be nice to see the club do this as a gig. i however dont have anything to enter but id sure do like seeing that beautifull car lite a fire or 2.

JRiggs wrote:be nice to see the club do this as a gig. i however dont have anything to enter but id sure do like seeing that beautifull car lite a fire or 2.

Same here Jon, I don't have anything to enter either, but I would like to go just the same.

JRiggs wrote: id sure do like seeing that beautifull car lite a fire or 2.

Can't light fire there, they don't have a sense of humor. They'll pull your ticket there and tell ya to hit the bricks.

OK, I don't really see lighting the fire being that big an offense. I think we aren't getting the whole story.

FalconEddie1964 wrote:

JRiggs wrote: id sure do like seeing that beautifull car lite a fire or 2.

Can't light fire there, they don't have a sense of humor. They'll pull your ticket there and tell ya to hit the bricks.

You pay our Insurance for the weekend with Fire coverage, light it up all night. Fun did you know fact...it costs us over $100,000.00 that's one hundred THOUSAND dollars to put the show on, as is...over 30 Grand just to rent the place, NOT including pottys,trash,electric, Sherriff's office, water, insurance ect.....I will tell them Doug Ice is paying the extra 20K for the insurance, and I am sure we'll toast some marshmellows...

Arieldouglas wrote:OK, I don't really see lighting the fire being that big an offense. I think we aren't getting the whole story.

The Pumpkin Run is held at a county fairgrounds and usually draws well over 2500 cars. They have to have strict rules concerning burnouts, flame throwers and a bunch of other stuff. Years back it wasn't that way but once they cracked down, they really cracked down. Separately from what went on inside the show about six or seven years ago (maybe longer) the Clermont County Sheriff's Department, in a ridiculous show of force, brought out Deputies on Horseback, a school bus sized paddy wagon and a bunch of other riot related gear just to stop the burnouts from happening off the grounds when everybody exited the show on it's final day. They all looked like a bunch of idiots!
Pretty sure a flamethrower exhaust would get you thrown out.....

OK, I'm getting the rest of the picture now. Doug Ice, you were a bad boy! I hope you have learned your lesson and are more responsible now.

Really guys,
I do understand. With that many people, you have to keep a lid on things or it can get out of control real fast and 20 years of relation building can go down the tubes in 5 minutes.

Woowww Now Doug and I have to do some flame shooting.
I've never seen John blow a gasket. lol

Doug you can shoot flames all you want on a Scroungers Run. If I remember right I think you did it in the Newport Police Station's parking lot when we did the Newport Car Show didn't ya. lol

I've shot fire at shows all over and also when not at shows. I've done it for well over 20 years at numerous venures; Gas City, Lima, Indy, Coumbus, Michigan, Beech Bend, Hunnert Car Pileup, Blacktop Bash, Myrtle Beech and been with friends that shot in Daytona and other places. Shows bigger than the Pumpkin Run and smaller. I've never seen an accident, problem or injury. They just weren't run by a militant group that were anal about a bunch of rules. At a lot of places we've been approched as a group to lightem up and put on a show for the crowd. That's one reason why I go to the events that I do. Not every event is siuted for everyone. It doesn't have anything to do with weather it is a lawn chair infested event or not, it's just if you want to have a good time. After all, I've been thrown out of better places by better people, and that's not an LOL. I 've met some really nice people playing with fire and some of them have been great friends from the time I started years ago. They're not the type that keep harping on what they have. Most have only had only one or two cars in the twenty some years that I've known them. They aren't just picking up cars to put on their list of ownership and then selling them. That's not Hot Rodding, that's just selling cars. You know what you can do with your $20,000. I don't know if that's supposed to impress me or not. I guess if was, it missed the mark. Flame on!