Indianapolis, IN

Mon 20 August 2007

So, I’m thinking about Truck Bash. This weekend, my husband, daughter and I went to the Import and Truck Bash at O’Reilly Raceway Park in Clermont, IN. (Clermont is just west of Indianapolis.) I had never been there before, but I thought that it was a pretty nice place. They were also doing drag racing there at the same time as the truck show. We went as part of our truck club, United Razas. The weather was much better than the Slamology show we went to back in June. At that show, it rained the whole weekend, and it was cold. But this time, it was 80-85 degrees, and there was a nice, steady breeze. It only sprinkled a couple of times for about 10 seconds. We mostly just sat there under our tent and ate cheeseburgers and drank soda and stuff. Actually, we liked this show better than Slamology in the way that there were less skanky women there. (There certainly were a few who managed to flaunt their way in. I guess the strip clubs weren’t open yet.) What I don’t get is that there are kids there, so why do you dress like a ho in front of all these kids? I don’t know… We only had one incident that made us mad and that was with one of the ladies at the gate. We had to wear these bracelets that came in our packet of participant information. But they never put in one for our daughter. The first day we went to the show, she didn’t have a bracelet, and no one said anything. But the second day of the show, she stopped us and asked us about her bracelet. She made us turn around and go get one. We went to this trailer where you could get them, and he said, “You know, they’re supposed to have them at the gate.” And you know how long she wore it? About 10 minutes. I thought it was ridiculous. (Like she was going to be walking around by herself. Whatever.) And the thing is, my husband told them when he was registering that he was bringing his wife and child, and they could’ve put one in the envelope. Oh, well. Even though we didn’t win anything (but two of our club members won an award), it was a fun weekend.

Truck and Import Bash, O’Reilly Raceway Park, mini-trucks, sport trucks, import cars, tricked out cars, custom cars