With success comes complications. Seem like I heard this some time ago. It applies to car gatherings as well. When you need a venue for 80 or 100 cars it pretty easy to find something. For 1000…

After talking with folks from the city of Alpharetta I’ve decided to try to do this right. C&O can now be called an event, and as such I need to go through channels in order to locate a spot that we can hopefully call home for more than a few months.

Now that we have quite a few generous sponsors I can pursue making the event official. To do so will require money (what doesn’t?) as insurance for the gathering will be required. Also I’ll be hiring at least one more off duty officer. Clean up will be another item.

Take the time to check out the sponsor page. They are why this event will continue. Unfortunately I don’t think this will occur in time for the July event. Lots of key people are going out of town next week including myself (work, not vacation). From what I’ve heard it would have been a smaller group anyway due to the holiday weekend.

I’d like to say thank you for all your emails of support, and suggestions of new venues. It’s always a pleasure to read how much folks enjoy the show.

Keep checking the site for news after the holiday, and have a safe and happy 4th of July.

Mark

For all you fans of older American iron this might be fun.

Cedartown, GA, a small town north of Atlanta, is about to receive a visit from Hollywood.

It was officially announced last week that Jayne Mansfield’s Car, starring Dennis Quaid, Robert Duvall, and Billy Bob Thornton, will be shot at various locations around Cedartown, including the West Cinema and Moore’s Soda Fountain.

They are looking for extras to appear in the movie.

“We are looking for men and women, a few kids but mostly ages 18 to 60 or so with timeless looks, as this film is set in 1969,” said Patrick Ingram, the movie’s extras casting director. “We really want folks with no modern hair dye jobs, piercings, etc.” Ingram said. “We very much are in need of people that would like to be extras that have cars 1969 or older.”

Interested applicants should send “a good clear recent photo or two of yourself and your clothing sizes and height, and all contact information. If you have a car, send a picture of the car as well.”

Photos should be sent to ecaindie@gmail.com as soon as possible, as filming is expected to begin by the third week of June.

If you spot them filming in Cedartown, let us know about it at olv@onlocationvacations.com!

Update: They will be filming on Main St between Sunday, June 19 and Friday, June 24.

Ok guys and girls, time for some facts. First off the event has not been cancelled. Yes we have lost our venue, but I was already working on another location close by. I recognized problems with Mansell Crossing, mainly the lack of Caffeine! Starbucks tried hard and we thank them, but we’ve outgrown the location.

That said though size does it was not the primary reason we were told to leave. For that reason we all need to look in the mirror. We had a number of burnouts, people parked in fire lanes, and the group along the main road egging on departing participants to ” do something stupid!”

As I mentioned I’m working on a new venue, but we need to clean up our act, or the same thing will happen. Frankly I’m willing to try this one more time, but after that… Unfortunately it only takes a few to spoil it for the rest. Before anybody starts pinning blame on a specific group or genre there were offenders of all ages and Marques.

When we do move there will be a lot more police presence. They will not be giving warnings.
More to come soon. But for now keep checking the site and please DO NOT go to Mansell Crossing for the July event.