First time in their history that anyone was kicked out of the show. I'd be careful who I claimed as acquaintences.
I'll claim him, I won't claim the rest of his club. I've never met any of them before.
My old roomate is a member of the MSRA and so is his dad, for a very long time. So they were both really embarassed that it happened.
He's got a '48 Chevy pickup, and he's got a '54 Ford that he is going to do up as a traditional hot rod. We're even talking about going to the Pileup this year.
I don't know the official story, and at the time when he told me, he might not have known either. He was on the garage tour and when he got back they were kicked out. He said that one of the guys was drunk, and was p/oed that they wouldn't let him get his truck out on Sunday before 6, and then I heard he got into it with some of the officials.
I met up with him at his hotel as they were cancelling their rooms. Both him and his dad were pissed as hell about what the guy did and it sounded like the rest of the club was too.