Just for the heck of it I decided to enter both of the Xfires into our local annual spring car show. I was always hesitant to do so &, frankly, have always hated the time of the year when they hold the show because May in N.E. Wisc. is always unpredicable; it's usually cool & damp & a crappy time to hang around outside for hours on end.
But this year we've had an excellent early spring so I thought, what the heck - for the enormous sum of $5 per car (& most of it goes to charity) how could I go wrong?
All week long the weather was warm & dry & gorgeous......until yesterday, the day of the show.
Of course !
After spending probably a collective 20 hours cleaning, polishing, waxing, etc., etc. I figured both cars were ready to go!
The weather was cloudy & it had been misting & drizzling all day but by the time of the show, 5PM, the rain had stopped, the roads were drying up & things looked good. We all got staged & moved out onto a now-blocked Main St., parked & settled down for the show.
And then it started to rain - a nice steady rain, enough to make everyone close their hoods & force the awards ceremony up an hour & a half.
I didn't win anything (wasn't expecting to) but overall the experince was a blast. Had several people ask questions about the cars but the most fun of all was watching people stare at the Coupe & then at the SRT & then back at the Coupe trying to figure out what was different between the 2 ("OK, we can see the engines are different but, but....").

Might just have to do this again ..........

A few pics. of the show are in my Gallery.

Oops - forgot - We managed to park almost directly in front of our State Farm insurance agency. As soon as we had gotten both cars settled one of the agents came zipping out with a camera, said "Hey, we insure both of these, right?" & proceeded to snap a few pictures. One of the funnier parts of the evening.