Wellardmac

Okay, first call - who's going to the Porsche Parade in Charlotte?

I'm severely tempted, if only for an excuse to get together with Tim and Dell.

Right now I'm thinking of driving down on Friday and driving back on Tuesday - maybe we can do a Rennlist gathering.

DFC

I am tempted also, but not sure yet. Have some other things going on this year so it's too soon to tell.

Wellardmac

For me the main hurdle is getting my wife interested and she seemed up for it.

ddixon2327

When is this...I may be interested. dale

Chads996

Definately interested.

C.

Wellardmac

It's advertised in the latest panorama

- Starts the last weekend of June (28th) and runs all week until July 4th.

SC996

Come on down. I volunteered through the local PCA and will be taking the week off to help. Here's a link to some preliminary info:

http://www.paradecharlotte.org/

gota911

Awe crap, I can't go! My Porsche will be gone by then!

I would love to met up with you guys, if you are willing to let a Porsche-less guy tag along!

Wellardmac

Of course we would love to hang out with you - porscheless or not!

shustermeister

Hey guys - we'd welcome you all with open arms down here. I've been attending the Parade meetings, as I'll be working on the Presentations for the banquets through our Carolinas Region chapter. It looks like this is going to be a stellar event!
If you do plan on attending, registration is expected to fill up on the first day, so make sure you get to the website on the first day of registration and sign up! There will be a Carolinas Region DE just following the Parade at Lowe's Motor Speedway, so if you can't get into the Parade proper you may as well come into town for that.

Wellardmac

So help me understand how this works - is there limited entrance to the parade events? - this would be my first one, so I've no clue how they're run or what goes on.

BillJ

This will be the first parade I go to as well. Father and good friend (both p-car owners) live there so no excuse.

Dutchie in NC

It is a rather long trip for me.. believe the events are about 2 blocks from my office

Would be my first parade as well and definitely am interested to meet up with people.

Wellardmac

Dutchie, I'd forgotten that you were in Charlotte also - cool!

For us it will be around an 8-9 hour drive - the longest drive I'll have taken with the Porsche. I'd thought of suggesting that Phil join us, but I think that would just send him into convulsions at the thought of putting that many miles on his car.

So does anyone know how these work? I have no sense of the logistics of the event.

Unfortunately, I'll be out of the country when the registration opens, so I'll have to rely on either having a good internet connection at my hotel in Brussels, or getting my wife to do the registration for me.

Phil G.

Waye, you know I've been consciously avoiding this post. See, here's what we'd be looking at: 510 (yes, five hundred ten) highway miles each way, which means >1000 miles (almost double my current mileage). But, that's nothing compared to the expense of the extra psychiatrist visits this would incur. We're talking big $$$$ here. All kidding aside, the only truth here is that - no lie - I'm really, truly on-call July 4th weekend, which is the conclusion of the event. Changing holiday weekend call is next to impossible for me.

Should be fun - I went to one of these events in Orangeburg NY years ago, when my brother showed his 1968 Sepia Brown 911T and came in a close 2nd to "Mr. Clean" - those in CT may remember him (he had a perfect '60's Guards Red 911S Targa).