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Shelby club and should not be con-
fused with a small, local car club from
Shelby, North Carolina. That distinc-
tion had never occurred to us.
I was pushed forward into the pic-
ture and the news anchor asked me a
quick series of questions about the his-
tory of the cars in general, the club
and the event schedule. Then they
asked Cresanta to start up his Shelby,
which possessed a throaty exhaust
that reverberated nicely off the tall
buildings in the early morning, for
some final footage. Before I knew it,
the crew was rolling up the cables and
folding up the camera’s tripod. And
the anchor was thanking me and
telling me that a segment would play
on the morning news and would be
rerun all weekend. We had no way of
knowing if it was responsible for addi-
tional attendance.
Thursday’s schedule offered up
some NASCAR action. We contracted
with the Fast-Track NASCAR Driving
School to put on a modified driver’s
school for club members. This proved
to be a very popular activity at past
conventions and this one was no dif-
ferent. It was divided into several ses-
sions which included chalk talks and
on-track sessions. There were no
NASCAR team spotters in the bleach-
ers looking to sign up new talent.
At noon the gates opened up to con-
ventioneers looking to get a jump on
the weekend by finding their garages,
prime swap meet real estate or to
plant their flag on a piece of asphalt
and unload their cars.
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