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No More May Madness?
Old 08-05-2000, 09:03 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I'm afraid that is the truth. No madness = sadness WAAA I sent an email to John Holmes since there was some talk that "00 might me the last clambake for us gearheads.
He confirmed that there are no plans for "01.
Lack of support was sited. I believe this is regarding sponsorship. I heard that Dodge significantly decreased their participation financially speaking. Beyond that I'm not sure there is any.

I still hold out hope that a scaled down MM could become a viable replacement. While I understand that some folks enjoy the casino, us hardcore gearheads just need a parking lot or a pasture somewhere since we spend our time under the hoods anyway. Maybe a lightly used air strip. Then we can have grudge match drag racing! All we need is a place where the RV'ers could line up the 5ers and maybe a few port a potis and were set. We can dispatch a patrol to town for sodas and burgers every 6 hours or so. This would be a low maintenance, grass roots, budget version of MM. I think John said the banquet room ran 5K by itself...don't need it We'll get by without it and still have fun We could still have the day at the dealer in town since I don't think that would cost us anything. Maybe we could find a campground nearby to highjack. We could just kick all gas powered vehicles out and take over It's the law of supply and demand, they have a supply and we demand they hand it over
We could just build a big bonfire in the evening and call it good.

Anybody interested? John said he is willing to help, maybe set up a show n shine event. Just need to take a low profile approach.

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