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Old 07-27-2008, 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Smoke Wagon
I just found the pics.

some of them

bumper cars, water boats...mini golf...

oh...and some HHR's!

C'mon folks...not all of us are lucky enough to be able to cruise this great land with your awesome cars, so the closest we can get, is to live the cruise through your photos...

PLEASE!
We took well over 300+ photos during the weekend... I think Mike is in the process of updating the HHRitage Nationals Photo site that he started working on.

Here are a few crowd pictures we took early...



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Old 07-27-2008, 11:09 PM
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Looks like an HHR car dealership
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Old 07-27-2008, 11:16 PM
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You should have seen what welcomed everyone as we all entered the HHRitage Nationals Event Grounds!!!

GM shipped these to amazing HHR concept vehicles on a trailer straight from Detroit!!








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Old 07-28-2008, 01:23 AM
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Wow,, what a great time we had, so good, were still here........wont leave till Tuesday morning. For the first year of this national meet, it was run, and executed like it was done by professionals. Hats off to Mike and Bonnie, and all that had anything to do with it. This was is a vacation ill always treasure.
Great ppl, great cars, great time...........looking fwd to 2009
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Old 07-28-2008, 07:15 AM
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First off a BIG thank you to Mike and Bonnie for all their hard work putting this together. Outstanding job. . Without you guys, this would have never happened, and your hard work made this a first class show. Lots of great HHR's and lots of GREAT people. What a weekend! The Concept cars were AMAZING! Thanks again and I can't wait until next year.
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Old 07-28-2008, 10:20 AM
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I'd like to the everyone who made this event possible.......

To the board members of the HHRitage Foundation (Bob B., Cheri F., Karl M., Doug M., Jesse S., Robin & Bob T., and Bonnie L.), this would never have been possible without all of the big and little ways each of you helped!

To everyone who attended this year, WOW!! We could not have hoped for a better bunch of people!

And most important of all......because of the generous hearts of everyone involved, we were able to raise almost $1400 for the Children's Miracle Network!
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Old 07-28-2008, 10:23 AM
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Originally Posted by GDZHHR
To the board members of the HHRitage Foundation (Bob B., Cheri F., Karl M., Doug M., Jesse S., and Bonnie L.), this would never have been possible without all of the big and little ways each of you helped!

And most important of all......because of the generous hearts of everyone involved, we were able to raise almost $1400 for the Children's Miracle Network!


So is next year slated for July 23-26th? Not going to miss it next year
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Old 07-28-2008, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by HillsdaleHHR
So I keep hearing people making plans for next year? Isn't Nationals moving around from year to year? If so, any word on where next years is yet?
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I agree that Nationals SHOULD move around every year, but from what I understand, area 57 at the Ramada in Branson has been reserved for the last weekend in July for 2009 and 2010. Of course that gathering COULD be something else besides Nationals...
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Thanks, Rich. Don't know if I can pull off attending 3 big meets in one year. But I can always hope
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After being gone for 17 days and attending a grand total of 3 AWESOME HHR events in that time, we are finally back in our own house! Over the past 2 weeks we have met some super people and seen some OUTSTANDING HHR's. This has been our dream trip!

Thanks and kudos to Mike and Bonnie for their hard work. It was great meeting everyone at Nationals and can't wait until Branson next year and the year after.

The Nationals was going to be held in a different place every year but a board vote was made to do it in Branson for 3 years to try to build up a bigger board so that other areas could have the event planned in them. It would be much easier to have a person living in, say, California, do the planning for an event out there or a person in Florida to do planning there. Anyone who is interested in being on the HHRitage board just needs to let Mike know. I personally loved being involved in helping with this event and can't wait until the next one!

Love to all who we've met the last couple of weeks, you are all part of our memorable vacation!
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Good news for me. Definitely going to try to make Nationals II Robin, glad to hear you made it home safe and had the vacation of a lifetime
The original intention was for the event to rotate. That still may well happen but at this point we need a stronger presense on the board to do that. We are always looking for people who would be an asset to the board to join. We just didn't have anyone who was able to begin planning one on the west or east coast. There would be no way I could do it from St. Louis.

The board decided that for now, to continue in Branson to allow us a chance to grow and get more national representation.

2009 HHRitage Nationals; July 23-26, 2009
2010 HHRitage Nationals; July 27-30, 2010

Hope to see all of you there!!
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Originally Posted by GDZHHR
2009 HHRitage Nationals; July 23-26, 2009


Hope to see all of you there!!
I'm ready
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BTW, the grandchildren of Bill Betts raised over $600 with a lemonade stand, so the brings the overall total raised for the charity to around $2000!!!
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