Image taken by me: Tony Stewart's 1980's Hearse at the Unique Whips booth.
There isn’t a year that goes by that up here in the Northeast that we don’t have a Motorsports expo of some kind that kicks off the next racing season, in the past, the show was called Racearama, that was held mainly at the Big E in Springfield, Massachusetts, last year it was the first annual Speedway Expo and this year, it was no different with the second annual Speedway Expo, however unlike the last year's, this past weekend’s wasn’t much to really talk about.
Before we even got on the road, we already had a problem, we had to try and find two $5.00 off admission coupons at an Sunoco station that carried them and believe me when I say it, only Springfield stations might have them, no such luck, all out, you think considering we are on there mailing list and have a Sunoco credit card, it would be easier, nope, full admission for both my father and I, $15 each, plus $5 parking fee, great $35 dollars plus tolls, food at McDonalds (yeah twice eating there) and of course gas at $3.15 a gallon.
So what was and wasn’t on there? Well since we were forced to go Sunday Morning, Will Castro from Unique Whips with Tony Stewart’s Custom black hearse was on hand, what a creation, I’ve never seen anything like it, we passed it three times because of its location and we walk around twice, they had the Sunoco OCC built Chopper, nice one there, very detailed, that must be fast, but those spokes are tiny and three #40 Matt Kobyluck Mohegan Sun Resort Chevrolet Monte Carlo, yeah I said three including one at the newly renamed New Hampshire Motor Speedway’s booth. At the third booth, the guy asked me if he wanted him to move for picture of the #40 car, my reply, no need, this is the third time I had seen it at this show and already have several photos, he said, yeah, Kobyluck’s team got requests for three show cars.
Well, with that said, I ask to the organizers, were was more of the NASCAR Modifieds and the Camping World East Series Cars including last year’s East Champion and winner of the Toyota Showdown in California Joey Logona’s car, how about more racing collectibles, I’m just saying, where was everything?
All in all it was an interesting show, but having to pay full admission, parking fee and not having a lot there in a smaller space, it wasn’t worth it and since we got there just after 10am, we were home before 1:30pm with a little over a hour drive, go figure, good Cup series race, second place for Dale Jr.. I’ll think about going next year.
Image taken by me with my Kodak EasyShare DX6490:
Left: Rear view of Tony Stewart's Unique Hearse, Right: Sunoco Orange County Chopper.
Left: Todd Szegedy's No. 2 Wisk-Snuggle Modified Tour car, Right: #4 Modified Tour car and #40 Matt Kobyluck Mohegan Sun Resort Chevrolet Monte Carlo East Series Car.
Hopefully I will have more photos soon, but check out that hearse with the blue led's on.
- Racedriven
