HooptieCon Is Finally Proof You Can Have A ComicCon For Cars
In the way that everyone wants something cool to happen, but has no
qualifications or desire to get off their ass and make something cool
happen, I would say “They should do that, it would be awesome!” Well,
after years of doing nothing about it myself, ‘they’ finally did. And
they came up with HooptieCon.
In this case, the ‘they’ is Jay Lamm, the head honcho in charge of the
24 Hours of Lemons series for crapcan racers. While each Lemons race
sees well in excess of 100 cars on track, and each car means a handful
of racers through the gate, they weren’t getting much in the way of
non-racing spectators. Lemons added a few events to their day, post
racing, including an engine-heat barbecue contest, and an
automotive-themed film festival they dubbed ‘CrapCannes.’ That was just
the beginning, though.
Lamm, acting as something of an automotive culture Nick Fury, called
upon some people in the automotive world who might be amenable to his
plan. “I’m here to talk to you about The HooptieCon Initiative. I’m
putting a team together,” he might have said if he was in a Marvel movie
with an eyepatch. He asked Lemons offshoots Concours d’Lemons and
Lemons Rally to gather their best and brightest, then reached out to
Billetproof Hot Rods, the Gambler 500, The Arcane Auto Society and
Radwood. A date was set, and a track was readied. Sonoma Raceway in late
March.
(Jalopnik.com)
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