ZCON 2018 Roll Call

[siteunseen]

Yep!  I'm the one wearing the UPS uniform.  I delivered 2 packages to the track.

Captain Obvious was our photographer, he got a hug. 

 

[SteveJ]

3 hours ago, Mike said:

Nice!  Is that you two in the last photo above?

I need someone to play photographer.  Payment will be made in hugs.   

 

Sorry, Mike. My camera has been stowed away for a lot of ZCON. I had to lock myself in my hotel room to get some of the background work done for the convention. However, I'm glad to hear that most people seem to be happy about how things went.

[Patcon]

@Mike

Thanks for setting up the gallery. hopefully I can figure out the "drag and drop" deal. I was just getting ready to start a picture thread

@240260280

"Mad Mike" said you need to get off your "assets" and get out to Branson next year!

[240260280]

13 minutes ago, Patcon said:

@240260280

"Mad Mike" said you need to get off your "assets" and get out to Branson next year!

We love Mike! .... even our assets love him!

[Patcon]

Today at the PCshow

Mark Maras on the left

Zup in the middle

Matsuo San to the right

at Zup's car

[SteveJ]

I hope you guys had a good time there.

[Patcon]

7 minutes ago, SteveJ said:

I hope you guys had a good time there.

We had a great time!

I have been posting from the hotel wifi, but I will post more when I get home on my own network. Apologies if I double post in the gallery. I will try to pick through the 300 or so pictures and not duplicate anything. It's been a good week. Beats working for sure

[gwri8]

Well,  I had to leave ZCon a wee bit early for technical reasons and didn't get many pics, but I know all the cool kids were heading to the closing banquet that SteveJ was putting together.  When I left, Zup already had one trophy from the Peoples Choice show on Saturday.  It was great meet and hang out with this group of folks. Well done SteveJ!  Thanks for the hard work!

[Diseazd]

More........

 

Edited October 21, 2018 by Diseazd

[SteveJ]

Well, it has been put to bed. The closing banquet room was packed. We had raffles, recognitions, auctions for charities, tons of car show awards, and a nice presentation from the next group of insane or naive bastards who want to take the baton to Branson for 2019. Then the room emptied out. I did ask Tamura-san what was the chance of Nissan using a straight 6 in their sports car. I know that current packaging makes it almost impossible, but he took the time to talk about other factors like the limitations of the straight 6 with regard to higher RPM applications. Where else but at ZCON can you get that kind of access?

I haven't had a conference call in over a week now, but I'm not suffering from withdrawals. The week of somewhat controlled chaos is over. It was great to see how the team worked out pretty much any issue that came up. I have heard that some ZCON teams aren't on speaking terms after all is said and done. I don't think that applies to our group.

Thank you for all of you who made the trip to my neck of the woods. I'm sorry I couldn't be more social, but I needed to help my team take care of a few hundred of our closest Z friends. ? If you ever want to drop back by, I'll be more than happy to show you my favorite roads and BBQ joints. I hope you enjoyed your visit.

I have most of my things packed. I'll get a few hours of sleep and go over to the Sonesta to say farewell to anybody starting off their trips back home. Then it's my turn to take the short trip back to my house.

 

Edited October 21, 2018 by SteveJ

[Pat Carr]

Steve,

On behalf of Patty and myself, thanks for all the hard work you put in over the last 18 months. Great job on putting together the closing show slide presentation. The Georgia Z Club and Fairlady Alliance team did a great job.  I was pleased to help out where needed.

It was a great pleasure to meet some of you guys - Bruce and Gary from Philadelphia, the Jims from Arkansas, Patcon and Cody, etc. Sorry about getting some of you lost temporarily in the north Georgia mountains. ?

Congrats to Zup on his multiple wins! I'll post some photos later.

 

[SteveJ]

3 hours ago, Pat Carr said:

Steve,

On behalf of Patty and myself, thanks for all the hard work you put in over the last 18 months. Great job on putting together the closing show slide presentation. The Georgia Z Club and Fairlady Alliance team did a great job.  I was pleased to help out where needed.

It was a great pleasure to meet some of you guys - Bruce and Gary from Philadelphia, the Jims from Arkansas, Patcon and Cody, etc. Sorry about getting some of you lost temporarily in the north Georgia mountains. ?

Congrats to Zup on his multiple wins! I'll post some photos later.

 

 So are you the one I heard about taking people off-road on the mountain drive?