True, we unfortunately do attract a few young guys who like to do strange things to amuse themselves. We've taken to squashing that stuff when it happens to pop up. For the most part, I think that's pretty much over with.

The way we try to organize the lot is put the members on the corner, the overflow and visiting musclecars on the other side, and whoever else who drops by parks by the white block building. It's been to the point where we've had people parking in the next lot some nights; good weather brings out a lot of awesome cars. We had a couple of Mustangs come out one night with their chutes still on from the track. One in the low 9s, the other I hear is already in the 8s :o . There's a 2nd gen Pro Street Camaro Z28 that stops by here and there; some guys from Tampa with a couple of turbo sport compacts tried to challenge him to a money race after the HIN show. They were full of the "domestics suck, power to weight, etc" blather until they found out it's run "10 seconds or less" as their hero put it. Then it was, "Oh, let's go from a 100 roll..." What kind of race starts at 100mph? That's pretty much like challenging a fish to a swim across the bay, then once your common sense kicks in and you realize that the fish will embarass you, moving the race to the nearest desert.

I hear you about the ricer element. When we were smaller, we used to go out to the Wal-Mart on John Young and Sand Lake. Was cool hanging there with a couple hundred cars, until the kids started doing burnouts with their one-wheel-peelmobiles and hitting their rev limiters all over the place. Along comes Johnny Law... I heard one night they laid out spike strips to surround them all and went in and ticketed every last one there. Sounds like that's going to happen to Bennigan's soon.

You ever go out to Gandy Bridge?