Deutsche Bank will add a familiar name to it’s Supervisory Board: John Thain. You may remember John as the man who led Merrill Lynch to financial ruin.
(BroBible.com)
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Another Great Idea From This Group
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)
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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