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THE LAKE MIRROR CLASSIC- Lakeland, FL Oct 20-22
The Fireball Run exhibition teams were on display at this; muscle-meets-vintage-meets-exotic-meets… amphibious car  event.
Lake Mirrors' Organizer is Mr. Ford Heacock, owner of Parish-Heacock Insurance, founder of Vintage Motorsport Magazine, and founder of the SVRA sanctioning body.
While it was no Pebble Beach, the event was all-in-all a pretty damn good. Budweiser kicked off a Friday Muscle party, leading into Saturdays open to the public event, which took over all of downtown Lakeland Florida. You name it was there.... and for an interesting first, we saw those good ole' amphibicars at work- driven right into the lake! Incredible!
There were plenty of cars, but because the event is spread across a huge area- our impression was there needed to be a bit more people. Organization at our arrival was a bit chaotic, as can be expected with such huge events.
The evening capped off with an evening party in honor of the legendary Brock Yates and was hosted by Mercedes Benz. The food? Awesome! though the service left something to be desired. The company? Excellent! Brocks talk? Well, Cannonball never gets old with us... as I mentioned before, all-in-all, a very enjoyable evening. We ending our long hot day/night back at the hotel bar, privately with Brock and Lady Pamela.
We were a little dismayed at the odd level of arrogance from some of the "players"- especially in Lakeland. As you know arrogance never goes too far with us- we enjoy real people being, well, “real.” Arrogance is not what made Pebble Beach or Amelia Island, it’s the laid back atmosphere of the attendees. And while the Lake Mirror Classic has a ways to go using Amelia Island as the bench mark... it’s positively on its way. We'll be back again and hope you will be too.
To learn more visit www.LakeMirrorClassic.com
Drive Safe,
J. "JJ McClure" Sanchez
Organizer, The Fireball Run®
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