SHO's EAST!
The 10th Annual SHO Club Convention
July 22-25, 2002

Convention #10 A HUGE Success!

Photo by Jack Puryear, Digital Race Photography

How about this group of about 80 SHO's posed at the drags!
To buy a poster of this picture (or the similar version with all the people in it) or a picture of your SHO at Summit Point or Mason/Dixon Dragway, 
contact Jack at: jackpuryear@mac.com or visit his web site at:
www.digitalracephotography.com 
Phone: 512-419-0900

Buy the neat LSHOC/MASHOC Convention #10 Golf Shirt you saw at the convention!  
Go HERE to print the order form and see the shirt.
Buy a great CD of photos of the convention HERE

Where to see more pictures of the 10th International Convention:

Mark Nunnally offers these convention videos, on a T1 with unlimited bandwidth. Some are pretty big files, but these are done at pretty high quality, stereo 44.1k and high quality mpg from digital video

http://dmac.miller-group.net/~michaeld/nunnally 

The following links go to rather large but interesting pictures also by Mark Nunnally

http://www.monmouth.com/~tjsmith/JOSH/003_0A.JPG 
http://www.monmouth.com/~tjsmith/JOSH/004_1A.JPG 
http://www.monmouth.com/~tjsmith/JOSH/008_5A.JPG
http://www.monmouth.com/~tjsmith/JOSH/010_7A.JPG 
http://www.monmouth.com/~tjsmith/JOSH/011_8A.JPG
http://www.monmouth.com/~tjsmith/JOSH/012_9A.JPG
http://www.monmouth.com/~tjsmith/JOSH/013_10.JPG
http://www.monmouth.com/~tjsmith/JOSH/021_18.JPG

Here are more links to convention pictures.

William Lewis took these pics:
http://www.hereintown.net/~lewis/tuesday/

http://www.hereintown.net/~lewis/summitpoint/
Several pages of nice shots of Summit Point by William Lewis

http://webpages.charter.net/lewishome/2002convention/mason%20dixon/ 
A nice page of pics at the drags including the unfortunate incident where a SHO waiting to turn into the drags was rear ended by a local.  Nobody hurt thank goodness.

www.picturetrail.com/f150fan247 
Posted by Gregory Brown

http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~ianf/convention02/ 
By Ian Fisher

http://www.superford.org/registry/index.php?vID=153&profile=1 
Posted by Matthew Swartz 

A quick report: 

Cars attending:  130+
People attending: 200+

We had great weather, people actually were reaching for a light jacket at the drags!  Only a bit of rain that didn't effect any events.

Summit Point was a blast.  Mason/Dixon Dragway was a lot of fun (Click here for a report from Tom Smith and his first time ever experience on a drag strip at the convention) and Harvey was the HERO!

The roads around Frederick were awesome, to use an overworked, but appropriate word.  Pick almost any road west, north or south and it was fun, smooth and led to historic sites/towns.

SHO Club thanks everyone that attended, everyone that donated to the Red Cross event (over $4000 raised!), everyone that helped us plan, and put on the event, it was a group effort that I hope allowed everyone helping to enjoy most of the convention.

Special thanks to Terri Huffnagle.  She was great to put up with my panic almost all of last year and helped with all events at the convention.

The LSHOC and MASHOC clubs are offering a neat CD of pictures of the convention, look here for forms to order this item.  They are also offering the neat golf shirt that convention committee members wore at the event.  Look for an order form for that on SHOclub.com also.

Much more later, I am leaving some of the old info below for those that don't know what we are talking about.

NEXT YEAR?  Looks like we will be "cheesy" and go to Wisconsin, we already have an event planned that you will love and have fun at.  Details this fall.

Don and Jan Mallinson
Ken and Jodie Mallinson and Ethan.

Below is a "review" of the convention from our good friend; Kerby Haltom from Ft. Worth, Texas.  (Smile when you say that pard!)

OK folks, put on your rant reading glasses for the first part, then it gets 
better...

I'm not sure where to start on these Convention 2002 musings. Was it the big 
ol' turtle in the road in east Texas, or the tornado chasing US in eastern 
Arkansas that was the indicator of things to come? Actually, I think it was 
the truck driver in eastern Tennessee that just about took the front end off of 
my car that indicated the way the drive there and back would be. Thank God 
for '96 front brakes and Carbotech pads!

Several rants I must make(and these are my opinions, and mine alone):
The vast majority of people in Virginia couldn't drive a car with help, and 
shouldn't be allowed on the road.
I-81 should be immediately widened to 4 lanes. One lane for cars, one for 
trucks and two for the Virginia State Highway Patrol. I gave up counting at 20 
Trooper mobiles. Here in Texas that would be about 10 more than I would see 
driving from Texarkana to El Paso. And that is damned near 1000 miles of 
Interstate.
67 MPH is NOT hauling ass.
Why is West Virginia considered "backwards" when their speed limit is 70, and 
Virginia's is 65?
"Customer Service" are two words never put anywhere near each other in a 
sentence in Frederick, MD. The best service I got in that entire town was at 
Roy Rodgers. Frankly, that's just sad. To quote Jack Nicholson as the 
Joker "This town needs an enema!"
The night clerk at the Hampton Inn has no right to decide whether the fire 
alarm is real or not. That is not her area of expertise. Call the damned Fire 
Department and let them do their job. And send me some towels.

Now as for the convention itself. I had a blast. Thanks to all that were 
involved. I know better than most what a royal pain putting on one of these 
things is. It is hours/days/weeks of thankless hard work. So I want to make 
it a little less thankless and say thank you, thank you, thank you.

Don, thank you for all of your work, while having major surgery and gong 
through physical therapy. That was probably above and beyond, but not 
unappreciated.

I finally got to put some faces with the names on this list. Ian Fisher, John 
Hrinsin, et al. It was a pleasure meeting all of you in person, and I hope to 
see all of you next year. From what it sounds like we should at least be able 
to get some cheese! ;-)

Oh, and the evening clerk at the Baymont Inn in Brentwood, TN is cute, smart 
and nice. I may need to go back...


Kerby "I didn't break anything this year" Haltom