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Philthy Offline
#1 Posted : Monday, August 01, 2011 12:26:27 PM(UTC)
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All,

I just wanted to drop you all a quick note about the Turbo TA Reunion this weekend: yours truly and Rob Downey (along with a small support crew) trailered our TTA's up to the show and came away BIG!

Rob and I discussed months ago when he purchased his hardtop / cloth TTA (1 of 15 such cars) that we would use a "Stripped or Loaded" theme and display our cars together at the first ever reunion show for the 1989 Buick powered Trans Am Indy Pace Car. Only 1550 of these super cars were produced and they married the aerodynamics and handling of the Trans Am with the famed Turbo Buick drive train. Fourty nine cars showed up and is certainly the largest gathering of them since they were new.

So how do you stand out in a large crowd of identicle cars? Well, you spend hours upon hours detailing and you also raise your cars, use mirrors and creat signs for your theme: all of which we did and it paid off.

Rob won 2 awards: rarest Turbo Trans Am and also 3rd place for his 28K mile TTA and I won Best of Show, original TTA.

We went to a lot of effort to win but the Texas boys of the LSPBC came up BIG!BigGrin
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#2 Posted : Monday, August 01, 2011 12:40:44 PM(UTC)
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WOW! What an incredible display! I can only imagine the amount of work involved there. I have never seen that many TTA's in one place in any photo anywhere. That is really something for you two to come out on top with that much competition.

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#3 Posted : Monday, August 01, 2011 4:14:10 PM(UTC)
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Love Very nice guys! Congrats ThumpUp
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#4 Posted : Monday, August 01, 2011 7:02:27 PM(UTC)
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Watch closely and you will catch a glimpse of Rob and Phillip in the staging lanes. Hearing all that thrashing in the background makes me want to go out and drop the hammer right now!Drool

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Philthy Offline
#5 Posted : Monday, August 01, 2011 8:47:09 PM(UTC)
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Larry Johnson is in that video as well as Tammy Downey....
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Victor Offline
#6 Posted : Tuesday, August 02, 2011 6:47:03 AM(UTC)
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Pretty cool stuff........The pics are awesome, thanks for sharing.
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#10 Posted : Monday, August 08, 2011 8:31:25 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Philthy Go to Quoted Post
So how do you stand out in a large crowd of identicle cars?

Ya put a hardtop on one is what I did! LOL
Phillip gets all the credit for the displays! I just brought my poster and a mirror. Thanks to Phil for making it raise up on the raisers and the custom sign.
Although, I like this pic of Jim beside Phil's car which really looks like it's the "stripped" one Flapper
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#7 Posted : Saturday, August 13, 2011 1:08:28 PM(UTC)
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Pretty cool stuff........The pics are awesome, thanks for sharing.



So Vic, why didn't you share????
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#8 Posted : Friday, August 19, 2011 6:03:33 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: DNewton Go to Quoted Post
Originally Posted by: Victor Go to Quoted Post
Pretty cool stuff........The pics are awesome, thanks for sharing.



So Vic, why didn't you share????

Was Victor in attendance too?

Check this out:
http://www.streetlegaltv.com/ev...328230_10150284139139394
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#9 Posted : Monday, August 22, 2011 7:49:26 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: SuperCPA Go to Quoted Post
Originally Posted by: DNewton Go to Quoted Post
Originally Posted by: Victor Go to Quoted Post
Pretty cool stuff........The pics are awesome, thanks for sharing.



So Vic, why didn't you share????

Was Victor in attendance too?

Check this out:
http://www.streetlegaltv.com/ev...328230_10150284139139394


Victor wasn't there. Phillip & Rob set up a display table for his '87 D84 Limited Turbo-T though.
You wouldn't be mistaking that Blue Landau Turbo-T (with Kansas tags) in the pics for Victor's blue D84?
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