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Ed Wright · 07-23-2014, 07:36 AM

Don't think it could be it's located on one side of the country, making travel to it time consuming and expensive for too many to justify making the trip? Central locations make it closer for more people. Money is tight for many of us, and diesel isn't cheap. It's over 24 hours each way from Oklahoma for me, I'm going on 71 years old. Want to come drive me out there? Maybe buy a couple thousand dollars worth of diesel for my motor home? I can swing VP for the car on my Social Security checks, but not that much diesel to get there and back.

Going to those far off races was all new and shiney when I was young. Jeanie and I used to hook up the tow bar after working all day, and drive straight through to Pomona. We were in our 20s when the Winter Nationals began.
No Problem and Indy are long hard trips for me now. Walk through the staging lanes, I'm not the only white haired guy doing this. May be the ugliest, but not the only.
If everybody was 20 to 50 years old with lots of disposable income (or $1.00 a gallon fuel) and almost unlimited vacation days available from work, there would be more entries.
JMHO

07-23-2014, 07:36 AM	#3
Ed Wright Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sand Springs, OK Posts: 8,132 Likes: 896 Liked 389 Times in 169 Posts	Re: attn Ed wright and Tony Janes Don't think it could be it's located on one side of the country, making travel to it time consuming and expensive for too many to justify making the trip? Central locations make it closer for more people. Money is tight for many of us, and diesel isn't cheap. It's over 24 hours each way from Oklahoma for me, I'm going on 71 years old. Want to come drive me out there? Maybe buy a couple thousand dollars worth of diesel for my motor home? I can swing VP for the car on my Social Security checks, but not that much diesel to get there and back. Going to those far off races was all new and shiney when I was young. Jeanie and I used to hook up the tow bar after working all day, and drive straight through to Pomona. We were in our 20s when the Winter Nationals began. No Problem and Indy are long hard trips for me now. Walk through the staging lanes, I'm not the only white haired guy doing this. May be the ugliest, but not the only. If everybody was 20 to 50 years old with lots of disposable income (or $1.00 a gallon fuel) and almost unlimited vacation days available from work, there would be more entries. JMHO __________________ Ed Wright 4156 SS/JA