You are not far from Nashville, and there is a strong presence of active, technically competent owners there. I would recommend you meet forum members Lori and Dean (WildmanMopars). Mr Peabody (Zachary) has family just outside Chattanooga, he lives in Columbia, SC but is home some weekends, in fact, he spends a lot of weekends with Lori and Dean. You might send a message to either of them.

Also, our Dragon event is a good place to meet, well, everyone. We have a meet in October but our spring meet in April is probably not going to happen this year. I see you have posted in the fall Dragon thread - keep an eye on that part of the forum, living east of the big river means you are close (reasonably) to most events held thruout the year.

The Atlanta/North Georgia group is very active as well as the "Lower Ohio" bunch led by Eric and Cliff (all of these people will be at the Fall Dragon).