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Jeff S
Guest
Ok, gang, I'm not going to make it this year (Just canceled my reservations, so if someone is looking for a spot, there's a single, king, non-smoking room open) so I wanted to start a thread so that someone could take the lead on getting things organized for some group pit parking.
The club doesn't have the reserved pit space that it did last year, so the idea is to get a group of trucks together early Thursday morning to park in a pack.
What happens is that the guys organizing the pits allocate each vehicle a certain amount of space no matter what the configuration is, so if I showed up in with just my truck, I'd get the same amount of space as I would if I were towing a trailer and parking a car (at least this is the way it's been done in the past). This means with careful arrangement, 3 trucks can fit into the space of 1. We did this at the '99 WFC when Bob Ellsworth and Vern Jones (and later Chuck P. and others) shared the pit space that I had grabbed by getting there early Thursday.
So, the idea is this - you get 10-12 trucks together early Thursday and pit together. As other trucks show up later in the day, the original trucks gradually collapse their pit space and allow the other trucks to park with them. Even with pop-ups and tire piles and such, I still think you could park 30-odd trucks together. And I think most of us go to things like this to hang out together more than anything, so I hope someone will step up to the plate and pull this together.
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Later!
Jeff S.
President, NLOC
#74 in '95 - 11.92@115.2
#582 in '00 - 13.36@101.75 (Swanson chip ONLY)
The club doesn't have the reserved pit space that it did last year, so the idea is to get a group of trucks together early Thursday morning to park in a pack.
What happens is that the guys organizing the pits allocate each vehicle a certain amount of space no matter what the configuration is, so if I showed up in with just my truck, I'd get the same amount of space as I would if I were towing a trailer and parking a car (at least this is the way it's been done in the past). This means with careful arrangement, 3 trucks can fit into the space of 1. We did this at the '99 WFC when Bob Ellsworth and Vern Jones (and later Chuck P. and others) shared the pit space that I had grabbed by getting there early Thursday.
So, the idea is this - you get 10-12 trucks together early Thursday and pit together. As other trucks show up later in the day, the original trucks gradually collapse their pit space and allow the other trucks to park with them. Even with pop-ups and tire piles and such, I still think you could park 30-odd trucks together. And I think most of us go to things like this to hang out together more than anything, so I hope someone will step up to the plate and pull this together.
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Later!
Jeff S.
President, NLOC
#74 in '95 - 11.92@115.2
#582 in '00 - 13.36@101.75 (Swanson chip ONLY)