Brian,
The little gathering you speak of was to be no more than a small gathering of Cobra lovers. Coming to our humble shop for a few hours on Sunday, June 24th to meet and enjoy some chocolate chip cookies and other goodies.
Now it has turned into a full 3 day event, with what appears to be the largest Cobra gathering ever assembled. So far over 39 States and 3 country's will be represented.
A very brief description of the itinerary: Friday everyone starts to arrive - we have two hotels reserved at this point and have arranged for police protection (for the cars of course) Friday and Saturday night. Saturday morning we meet here, then cruise to a large BBQ until early afternoon. Then all 150 plus Cobras will cruise to KilKare Drag Strip in Exenia, Oh. where we will take over the strip for the evening. (They are making special arrangements for us and should be an exciting evening.)
Sunday is the big day! We have rented a lodge at a private lake next to the shop where we will have 3 boats available for cruising the lake and water skiing. An all day catered BBQ will be going on, as well as another chocolate chip cookie contest. (Believe it or not, this whole thing started over these cookies!)
Since this has gotten so huge in our little circle, we decided to make it for a "cause." We are now raising funds for a little two year old girl named, Jenny. Jenny lives in Massachusetts and has Cystic Fibrosis. We are raffling off all kinds of neat car stuff, including patio furniture donated by "Brown-Jordan", all kinds of Cobra stuff and accessory's, and the big one, a full Classic Roadsters Cobra kit, valued at $15,000.00. We're even putting together a small block motor for the car which will be thrown in.
The really, really neat part about this is that Jenny's parents are bringing her here to draw the winning ticket for the Cobra!
I know most of you remember, "Big Daddy", Ed Roth! The father of the muscle car caricature artist - "Rat-Fink!" Well, "Big Daddy" has donated an original drawing of a Cobra and that too will be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
After all this, and my pilot buddy finishes his aerial photographs of the event we will all line up for the last and major cruise. Jenny will announce, "Gentlemen-start your engines!" Just imagine 150 plus, hi-powered Cobras firing at one time!
Now, under full police ******, we will leave the lodge and cruise about 40 miles, going right through the heart of down town Columbus. After that it is time to say good-bye, and drive off into the sunset.
The Viper community has always been very receptive to our cars. They do come from the same genes, just decades apart.
If any Viper people would like to attend, we would be deeply honored. This is strictly a family event, bring the wife, the girlfriend (!!!???) and even the kids! I absolutley promise you wont get bored and you will have a great time.
I can be reached here or at: Classics by Elite, inc. 740-852-5280. We're located in London, Oh., just west of Columbus. If you would like to spend the weekend with us, please let me know as soon as possible. Our first hotel filled up within days, our second hotel has something like 30 rooms left.
The event is being called the, "Double Venom Spring Fling."
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what this is all about. May I present to you.......Miss Jenny!
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ps. in answer to your original question - yes, there will be a DV and the DV II present!
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