What: Portland All British Field Meet/SOVREN Vintage races & Greg Paris Elite Collection Tour and BBQ
Where: ABFM at Portland International Raceway and Greg Paris' home. More details later.
When: September 5th, 2009
Time: Cars need to be registered and on the field between 8 and 10AM. BBQ and tour at Greg's home will follow after Saturday afternoon's ABFM awards ceremony. Mark Gleason has done a lot of research planning a drive route and weekend activities regarding the Portland, Oregon ABFM Labor Day weekend event, Sept. 4th-7th.His greatly appreciated work was sent out in a previous message from our Google Group. He may be contacted
at mark.gleason@seattlehistory.org .Because of space constraints, his info posted on June 29th can be accessed on our Google Group home page: groups.google.com/group/elcc_org?hl=en
If you are not receiving Google Group messages, contact chair@elcc.org and I will add you to the member list. The Google Group is also an excellent venue for members to communicate and hook up for a caravan drive route there and/or back, as well an overnight stay location and/or an additional drive to the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon on Sunday. Their website is at: www.sprucegoose.org/
The ABFM show display area is on the grounds of Portland International Raceway, next to the pit area and right alongside the main straight. SOVREN will be running their Copper River Classic vintage races all weekend. Land Rover rides around the motocross track are also fun! Here is a link that gives more information on a very busy weekend, as well as an ABFM entry form and SOVREN info: www.abfm-pdx.com/2009/index.htm www.sovren.org/
In addition, we have been invited to a tour of Greg Paris' Elite collection and a club sponsored BBQ at his home. Greg is the editor of the Elite World Wide Registry, and a friend of noted Lotus expert and club member Mike Ostrov. It is a very special privilege to be extended this invitation. PLEASE, please note on your Socializr response EARLY whether you will be attending this after-show BBQ, as Greg would like some indication as how many people to expect and plan for. His only other request is that "no children" attend this event, due to safety concerns.Here is an article from one of his newsletters: www.knockoffspinnertool.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Knock-off_Greg_Paris_news_letter.307214932.pdf
