BOB PAETH PORTLAND CLASSIC CONTEST

[E St. Kruiser50]

Hey all

Last week-end was a blast at the BOB PAETH PORTLAND CLASSIC MODEL CAR CONTEST.

Several of my buddies from Eugene came up and entered, and we spent a lot of time catching up and eating out - YUM , and checking out over 300 1 to 1's out in the Roadster Show. One of the the best I've seen in year's.

The model contest was one of the best too, in probably ten years. We had over 340 model, with some of the best quality ever.

Steven Carpenter came all the way from Arizona to win BEST IN SHOW and six other firsts, and say'ed he "Was In Shock" to win what he did.

Jeff Miller came up from Calif., and won the first annual BOB PAETH - BEST OF THE BEST AWARD, and several other nice awards as well.

A young gentleman who just moved here with his new bride from Italy, showed up with some amazing builds with a lot of scratch-built features and won big also, and may be at our next club meeting.

We had people from Washington also, who came down and won some cool award's.

There were tons of very nice awards and kits given out as prizes, and the people loved it.

The layout of the model contest was changed completely this year, with a bunch of seating for the first time, and models displayed totally differently, and there were a lot of compliments on how comfortable and professional the show was.

The Portland Roadster Show promoter was so impressed with the quality of our show, that he wanted the BEST IN SHOW'S award's next year to be presented at their big car awards event - First time for our model event ever. Pretty cool.

We felt very encouraged.

Next year should even be better

[Hizoot]

And you should feel encouraged Dave,

It was a very good show in all scales & sizes. Had fun meeting you, the club members & the Paeth family. Even without an award, this contest was well attended, fair & down right fun..! Expect even better photos next year as Mr. Fletcher has/is getting some detailed instruction in that regard, so you can share this event with everyone. Take care & as Arnold Schwartzinegger says, "I'll be BACK..!"

Hizoot

[James Flowers]

That sounds great that the promoter wants to include the model awards in next years show. Now if you could get the model companies involved? That would be to everyone's benefit. I think the model companies are missing the boat by not showing up at these car shows. They seem to not want to promote models anymore. With any product if you don't advertise all you can ,you die.