Amarillo Wings n Wheels Extravaganza Show.

Saturday, May 7, 2005

We went to Amarillo for the Wings & Wheels Extravaganza. What a show!!! Over 100 Corvettes plus vintage airplanes.

Friday night the Amarillo Area Corvette Club put on a wonderful free Dogs/Burgers 'n Suds dinner in Hangar 4 for the car show participants. Terry entered the Concours so he got to set up his car Friday night in the Hangar and leave it there until after the Saturday night BBQ.

There were about 30 cars in the Concours/Invitational Show which included 5 Callaways (one previously owned by Carlos Santana and another originally owned by Don Johnson and appeared in the final episode of Miami Vice. They were all owned by Larry Harris who also had his custom C5 power hardtop convertible; C1; C2 and C4 ZR1 on display. I asked why he didn't have a C3 and he said he did, but they didn't ask him to bring it! Saturday was a beautiful day for the Vintage War Planes Air Show and Corvette Parades.

All cars in the show, whether Concours, or Show-n-Shine were judged by the AACC members. The competition was very close. Terry took 2nd Place in his class behind another C5 with just a little more chrome than Terry has. It could have gone either way.

The AACC people are such wonderful hosts and treated us very well. We even received the award for most miles DRIVEN to the show, so we had our hotel compensated for the two nights!

Photos and information provided by Linda Walker

	Driving in to Amarillo		Terry getting it all shined up - They had a place set up for cleaning the bugs off the car and Terry took advantage of that first thing!
	talk about a mileage marker!!!!
	Terry Walker's '02 Coupe - these neat shots of his car by the "Learn to Fly Here" sign at the Flight School of course we're talking flying in a Corvette!
The hangar where many of the Vettes were shown			The Vettes inside, not being intimidated by the bi-plane
	Terry's '02 was displayed nicely	Terry w/his 2nd place award
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Please email additional photos and information to Doug McMahan