Looks like the votes have selected Indianapolis and Cincinnati. Jan, Mark, and I have a number of great ideas of where to go, but a couple of the ideas (listed in the poll) would define events more than others.
Option 1 - We could start things in Indianapolis with a visit to the annual Mecum Auction on Wednesday morning, May 16, and from there head east for other events with a typical Wednesday evening start. There is an admission and parking fee, and while I know many of the cars are out of most of our budgets, almost all are on display and it is great fun to look!
Option 2 - Most likely the biggest draw for Indianapolis is the Motor Speedway, home of the Indy 500. However, other than the standard tour, it's simply not realistic to be able to drive our cars on the track with few exceptions. Bloomington Gold is one of those. For a fee (on top of BG admission) you can take "hot laps" on the track. Plus, the Bloomington Gold show is the "Grand-daddy" of the Corvette shows. Including this would likely shift the start date of our gathering from the typical Wednesday to earlier in the week. Once in Indy, we would also be less likely to get a single block of Hotel rooms given other groups already working those dates. Not impossible, but... The show runs June 21 (Thu) through 23 (Sat). You can buy one or three day passes (or two single day passes), and we could always plan and/or suggest events and meals in Indy for those who only attend the show one or two days if interested.
Option 3 - If neither of these events are of much interest, not to worry, we have plenty more ideas (and neither of these events would eliminate any of them), but knowing these preferences would help us to select the "launch point" for other events and allow us to shape the rest of the agenda.
Please vote on one option by the end of August. Between now and then, we'll keep working on plans and in early September, we should be able to give more information on thoughts for the hotel location and event options (more votes to come!)
I'd ask "Are we there yet?" but I'll wait until we at least know where 'there' is
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