700 cars? :stunned: That's a lotta cars
Well that sort of trumps Howard's (maybe 50 car) coming out get together *chuckle* and you 'got' to be a video star.
Looks like a good time, except maybe for the running and hiding part
Why are you looking at your hands?
Yep, 7,000 cars... It was hot as hell too, so standing near a hot car with no shade and just pavement wasn't my idea of fun.
I made a sign, but that didn't stop the questions.
I had people FB'ing, texting and emailing me all weekend to see when I was going to be so they could come see the car and ask me all sorts of questions. I even got stopped at the gas station for 30 minutes just answering questions... It really almost got to be too much.
The deal with the hands was that I was pulling the Ricky Bobby line from Talledega Nights, "i'm not sure what to do with my hands" ... I was doing this right as channel 9 news went live... Not telling me or giving me a count down, just straight up live television... and me acting like a jackass, so the reporter and I had to to pull a "what do i do with my hands?!!" Pose.
We all had a good laugh about it.
Ran the AutoX a few times, apparently half the crowd left as soon as much runs were over... that's how nuts this thing is. No one has seen or has ANY clue what this car is. I had lots of "Yep, that's definitely a (insert favorite hypercar name, Lotus, Koenigsegg, McLaren...etc...etc) _______ car". I even had one dude argue with me about what it was.
It really was quite insane.
The Hotchkis guys were pretty enamored as well. John Hotchkis chatted me up a bit, nice guy. I let their pro-driver take it for a spin on the track, pretty much confirming that the AutoX isn't quite it's specialty. However he did say, "get this thing on a big track and ALL these other cars need to get the FUCK out of the way!"... and that's exactly how he said it LOL.