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recently been expanded and refur-
bished and now had a ballroom that
could seat 1,000 for dinner. It was also
less than ten minutes from the track’s
entrance.
The hotel’s public relations depart-
ment put us in contact with a local tel-
evision station so we could get a little
pre-event publicity. If we could attract
some spectators who might not other-
wise have know that the convention
was in town, so much the better. They
wanted us to meet them downtown,
outside of their studio, with a Shelby
so they could interview someone and
include some footage of the car. Like
us, they knew the cars were very pho-
togenic.
When we arrived on Wednesday,
one of the first people we saw in the
hotel’s parking lot was Doug Cresanta
of Haskell, New Jersey. He was knock-
ing the road dust off of 6S188. We
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