Kelly, I registered in January so I should be somewhere in the first three to have registered. Speaking for the rest of our club, most of them typically wait until the last minute so I know you can count on at least 5 more from our club.

I am going to the Birthday Bash on Thursday. I will meet up with Charley and John and the crew there. See you next month in Dothan.

OJ

 

11 Days.

 

Don't forget your golf clubs! We have afew tee times for Saturday afternoon on the Legends course! If we get 12 players we will get the group discount.


:grouphug :

 

4 more days.

 

Now only 3 days! Talked to Steve G. today. He will be bringing down the 2010 Grand Sport for everyone to see. It is AWESOME!! Also talked to Kirk Bennion and he is bringing all kinds of goodies for the Saturday night auction. He is also having a great seminar so you don't want to miss it.

Here is a link to some of the goodies that we will have for the auction to support the National Corvette Musuem:

http://share.shutterfly.com/share/re...=8IZsmbFs0bMwG

See you all soon!

 

Got some more cool stuff this year.

I like the auction but hardly get a chance to buy anything.
There's a couple of ballers there.

 

All the "Ballers" come to our Caravan!

1 more day!

Don't forget your Disco shoes.

 

Headed to Enterprise tomorrow to see Mom.
See you Thursday evening.

Jim

 

We had a great time!
Thanks to all that made it happen!

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This was our fifth year to attend the Panama City Beach Caravan.
This year there were about 85 cars.

I understand this will be the last year to stay at the Dothan National Golf and Spa Hotel.

The event is well organized and a lot of thought is put into making things work for so many folks. There are seminars with representatives from the Corvette Plant and the Corvette Museum. You can do as much or as little as you like.

Thursday night we gathered at the Dothan National for the "kick-off" with food, brief introductions to our guest speakers, a silent auction, and this year, a disco party.


Friday we all lined up and with the help of some Houston County officers blocking traffic to the Florida line, we were off. The drive is an easy one and is a grand site to see. We ended our Caravan at Pier Park in Panama City Beach. We had lunch and shopped around a bit till our room at the Marriott Bay Point was ready.

Friday night we opted to have dinner out. We went over the "The Shrimp Boat" in St. Andrews. The restaurant started in about 1950. It has been completely redone and has wonderful food. Several folks opted for the Lady Anderson dinner cruise which is fast becoming a hit with many of the folks that caravan.

Saturday there were several seminars and a golf tournament. We headed to San Destin for our shopping ritual.


There was a gathering Saturday evening at the hotel with a great spread of food, guest speakers and an auction for the museum. There was some great stuff there again this year from parts off a C6R race car to "one-off" posters of the Grand Sport created and presented by Kirk Bennion, C6 Design Engineer.

We had a great time again this year and hope that we can make it again next year.


Some of the cars for the Caravan at the Dothan National.
(I understand they will not be a Host Hotel next year)




The local law enforcement plays a huge part in helping us get out of the hotel onto Hwy 231 South and gets us through the two remaining lights before crossing into Florida. Thanks again guys.


We were near the front this year!


Our view from our room at the Marriott Bay Point Hotel in PCB.


ZR1...


Wonderful "Corvette Only" parking this year!


The new Grand Sport brought down from Bowling Green.
The folks usually bring something really nice every year.



A piece of fender from a C6R being auctioned off on Saturday night.


Kirk Bennion on the left describing the one-off posters that are about to be auctioned off.
See the posters in the pictures below...









All good things must come to an end...

 

Jim,
Thank You for the great write-up and posting the pictures. I'm sure there will be somemore posted up soon.
It's always a pleasure to see our "Corvette Friends" and we always strive to make our Caravan as entertaining as possible.
We hope everyone enjoyed themselves and if there are any suggestions or ideas to make it better please let us know.

Plans are already in motion for next year!

Thank You All for helping make the "caravan" sucessfull again this year!

Kelly Walker

 

Here are my pictures of the caravan. Enjoy!
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/w...=8IZsmbFs0bMwk

 

Kelly and Charlie, great event as always. Y'all did a terrific job again!

Kenny

 

Thanks, Kenny, and we had a lot of fun too!

 

Great pictures.

Thanks for all the hard work the CCCC did to make this another great event.

 

Kudos to Circle City Corvettes for another great Beach Caravan weekend.
Here are a few photos I shot:

 

Great pictures, thanks for sharing. It was nice someone got a Golf picture and I really liked the one with Kirk and my car in the background!

 

just added another golf photo...