My DGRR 2012
 

Well, the weekend sucked for the first part, but we managed to get a run at the Gap in spite of it all and we just got home.

I don't even know how to express my thanks to everyone who helped out when my car (the "yard ornament" as some unnamed person dubbed it) broke down on the first night at DGRR. I'm not going to type out a long retelling of the events because, frankly, I'd rather not think about them again. LOL

I do want to say thank you to a few people in no particular order.

Everyone from Speed For Sale: You guys ROCK! You all gave about 258.8% trying to diagnose my car to get it back on the road. Joe is an amazingly knowledgeable rotary tech, and the rest of the gang offered a plethora of advice during the process. The amount of time you spent helping me PRO BONO is unbelievable to say the least. You took me all the way in to Bryson to the parts store, spent many hours trying everything under the sun to make the beast live again, and at the end of all of that, you offered yourselves as a resource for me in the future. You made things even better by being generous enough to put a gift certificate worth $500 of service at your Atlanta shop up for grabs in the raffle.

This brings me to my next bit of gratitude. Thank you, Jesse Frame for being kind enough to defer that gift certificate to me to help get my car back on the road. That was selfless to say the least! From what I was told by Jesse, a number of attendees had agreed to give me that gift certificate for the same reason. Thanks to all of you!

Other people that provided help (that I can remember... there were a lot of you!) include Steve Osley, David Jerome, James and Cindy Duncan, Tim, Tray "Hobbit" Houston, Dale Clark's locksmith friend (I'm SOOO bad with names) who opened my car after I managed to lock my keys in it after everything else that was going on, and many many more!

Finally, thanks for putting this event on once again, Phil! It's been 6 years since my last event and, in spite of my run of bad luck this year, I will be back for the next one!

Cliff's notes: First DGRR in 6 years. Car broke down on the first night, keeping me from driving at all until Sunday morning with no sleep. I did manage to get a gift certificate to use at Speed For Sale in Atlanta as well as placing 2nd in the second gen division of the car show. Not bad for my first show!

Wow man! Glad you made it home safe, and nice to see the DGRR community being so supportive!

Glad you got her back home and glad to heard the other stuff as I ended up leaving saturday around 7pm. I will be sure to have my lock out tools next year!

Good to hear that the community continued offering massive help to those whose cars don't like The Dragon. I was in your shoes last year and I feel your pain. Hope your car gets back on the road faster than mine.

That's why I love this community or rotary heads!

Glad you made it back safe and sound!!!