Cleveland auto show

[ajwest92]

On Wed. 3/4 at the Cleveland auto show, there will be four autograph guests on NASCAR Day:

Chevy; Clint bowyer

Ford: Matt Kenseth, Colin Braun

Dodge; AJ Allmendinger

they will be signing at their respective car manufacturers' booths from 4:30 to 6:30 PM.

Is there anyone around the C-land area going?

Alex

[jp39]

no toyota?

[ajwest92]

none as of Saturday night...I was hoping for someone better than last year (Skinner)...

[ajwest92]

Here's the full report:

The trip was over three hours long and I just got out of the car when bad news appeared when I walked in the show:

Colin Braun was not going to be at the show today.

OK...I didn't have anything him to sign, so that's a wash. But the others did show up as expected, with Eric Darnell to be Braun's replacement.

You had to feel bad for Eric; last minute replacement, no big pieces to sign (other than two tires that were going around the floor), shoot, he even only had a stack of hero cards half the amount of AJ's. But he was a trooper and signed a hero card for me:



Then I got Matt's auto on this '06 TC Dewalt:



Then off to AJ's booth. I know, I shoud've went to Clint, but (1) I've already had him on a diecast, (2) I had more $$$ into AJ's car than Clint's, and (3) I didn't have to backtrack around the show for AJ.

He signed two things for me:





Then I went to Clint's booth. He remembered me from the Dayton Auto Show in '06 (the silver Sharpie) thanked me for coming back to see him, and signed this beauty...apologies for the bad lighting; the auto is 100x better than the pic.



I also got two packs of the Dodge Challenger set from the Auto Show. Both are the same packs though...(9-16) very popular package for me...old school cardboard AND gum. I gotta get a set off Ebay. If anyone wants either of my packages (both are opened--didn't know that they were the same set) LMK.

Alex

[yzerman19harvick29]

Sounds like you had a pretty good day

[FFighter_21]

Sounds like a good time was had by all. The show totally slipped my mind. I wanted to go and get AJ ta sign my two Red Bull cars of his. Maybe some other time huh? Glad it went well!

[KahnesWrath]

I wish we had something like that around here.

[ronmcc]

DJ the Portlan Roadster show is happening this weekend and they are having numerous Sprint Cars etc.Call the convention center and find out whats going on.Also the Goodguys come to your neck of the woods and they have Nascar show cars etc.

[ajwest92]

Best line I heard at the show:

As I got my Red Bull diecast ready for AJ for sign, I pulled out a trading card for AJ to sign for a kid in line. A young lady, who was new to NASCAR collecting, exclaimed:

"I didn't know that AJ had cards, let alone diecast!"

Even AJ had a crap eating grin on his face...gotta love the NASCAR noobies.

[taterracing]

Great stuff!