We have all seen our lives greatly altered by what is going on with the Covid-19 Virus situation. It has racked the entire world and sent us into a state of lock down where we can't get within six feet of each other (though my wife has been telling me to stay six feet away for years). We've seen major sporting events and leagues cancel or postpone games and even seasons. The Olympics has been pushed back a year. So amidst all of this it was no surprise to me that our local and regional car shows began moving dates and even cancelling events for the year. Even our major local concours d'elegance was called off. It will be the first time it has ever not been held.
For those in the area and the regular readers, you know that our car show season kicks off the last Sunday of April with the Sharonville Classic Car Show. Sponsored by this town's chamber of commerce and held in the main district known as the Sharonville Loop, this was to be the 44th year for this always large and welcome event. This event is always huge. Even with cold or wet weather there are in usually in excess of 1950-175 cars with last year filling every nook and cranny with over 250 brilliant machines. Wisely they pushed back the scheduled date to July 12.
The following weekend for us has seen a new tradition over the past few years of the Cruisin' To A Cure For ALS show that literally takes over downtown Lawrenceberg with almost as many great cars as show up at Sharonville. This past year they topped 200 and were parked in side streets and every available lot. The producers of this show managed to work a deal out with the city to reschedule the event for Sept. 6.
I've tried to get handles on some of the other shows that are traditionally scheduled through May and early June but have only gotten definitive answers on a few of them as I believe some are waiting to see how all of this plays out before making a final decision.
What this means for me and the blog is that I just might run out of photos that I have yet to post. Hopefully that won't be the case. I still have about two weeks of posts sitting in the blog's queue. In addition, I have enough photos left over from the 44th Pumpkin Run Nationals (with in excess of 400 cars on the fairground field it's always easy to have leftovers) I can carry on with posting new shots for an additional 45 days. Worst case scenario that would take me into June and by then we may have a handle on this and I can start posting shots from new shows.
In the mean time, if any of you locals have news about one of these early shows, I would greatly appreciate you sending it my way by either sending me an email at turnerbudds@yahoo.com.
Let's work together on this thing and follow the safe and logical procedures that the experts want us to keep in place. We can beat this and get back to some degree of normalcy. In the mean time, stay safe and spend the time getting those cars ready.
Mark
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