I just want to thank you, Father Time (lol) and the
entire NEDRA crew for your efforts and attendance at
the RPM show. All the shop owners I spoke to were very
interested in what you guys do. They even identified a
number of shop services they can provide to NEDRA car
owners.

I wasn't able to visit with you as I had planned and
that I deeply regret. I did have a brief moment to
talk to a few of you but not near enough. I hope you
enjoyed yourselves and look forward to meeting you
again (at RPM 2007?).

John Goodman

--- Chip Gribben <futurev@...> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> Here is the message FT sent to the list. I imagine
> he is still
> catching up and taking a much needed rest after all
> that traveling.
>
> Chip
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: "crabtrdw@..."
> <crabtrdw@...>
> > Date: September 4, 2006 10:59:33 PM EDT
> > To: "ev" <ev@...>
> > Subject: Father Time Returns
> >
> >
> > Hello, all,
> >
> > I'm back from the RPM Trade Show in Indiana, after
> a grueling 9
> > days, spent mostly on the road.
> >
> > I arrived home this morning a little after 10 am,
> took a nap until
> > 4 pm, and spent the next three hours deleting
> approximately 800 of
> > the 1150 emails that had accumulated in my
> absence. The remaining
> > emails are yet to be read.
> >
> > The RPM show was quite interesting and intense,
> especially for
> > someone like me whose background is in machinery
> design. Although
> > most of the booths were aimed at internal
> combustion engines and
> > after market performance parts, many of the
> exhibitors were quite
> > interested in what we are doing with electric
> motors. They were
> > quite amazed at the ET's that many of our drag
> vehicles have achieved.
> >
> > Roy spent until 1:30 the first night of the show
> downloading videos
> > into the two laptops we had with us, as none of
> the DVD's we had
> > brought with us would play on the equipment we had
> -- with the
> > exception of the Monster Car Garage video,
> starring Rich Rudman.
> > That video played continuously for the three days
> of the show.
> >
> > A typical comment we heard from spectators was,
> "Can it break the
> > tires loose?" We just pointed to the laptops
> showing White Zombie
> > and Dragon Rose smoking out of the burnout pits.
> A picture is
> > worth a thousand words, especially a picture in
> motion.
> >
> > Many of the visitors to our booth wanted to know
> where they could
> > go to see us racing. I pointed out the tracks
> where we normally
> > hold NEDRA races and informed them that electric
> vehicles could
> > race on any NHRA track. There's a definite need
> for more
> > involvement of our membership in active racing all
> over the country.
> >
> > When my brain re-enters my body and everything is
> all together in
> > front of the computer, I'll try to write a more
> detailed report on
> > our trip.
> >
> > - Father Time
>
>


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