As far as I can tell from the comments of attendees at Tedfest this year it was a huge success. There are a few people that deserve honorable mentions here that played important roles in this event being a success. First off I would like to thank Bruno for putting the website together while he was on vacation in Paris,France. After countless hours and emails back and forth between Bruno,Eddie and myself we created a new web page. Lets not forget the 6 hour time difference here either.Then I would like to thank Eddie for the hours he put into designing the flyer,t-shirts,ballots,site layouts and trophy logo designs. Then we have Lou who took the bull by the horns and volluntold a bunch of friends that they were helping with the Tedfest staging of the cars. He also enlisted five new sponsors to help with the cost of running this event. Craig who footed the bill for all the pizza's on the Friday night's dinner.Bruce Kennedy for doing up the marker signs and the Tedfest 2012 and 2013 window stickers.A big Thank You to Peter Raposo from Innovative Millwork Solutions for the Porketta and Picanha he BBQ’d along with Manuela for everyone on Saturday night.The endless number of friends that went way beyond friendship to make salads and desserts for the BBQ, purchase and hand out chocolate cars at the BBQ, friends who donated prizes that they won and graciously donated to the event.This is what Tedfest is all about. People who go way out of their way to make Tedfest what it is today an event for the people by the people.You all know who you are and the Tedfest Team thanks you.
Now on to the highlights. I got up at 530 Friday morning to find Squirly sleeping in his car at the end of my driveway.
Went and picked Craig up at the airport at 7AM and ran some errands with him. The Americans started showing up around 4PM to start with the fun all the while the construction crews were still trying to clean up the street for Tedfest.They finished at 7PM 6 hours behind schedule.
Dukes motor with the famous chicken from 2002.TT would remember this.Dig that Cold Cheese air intake EH?
A's new ride! The front grill is upside down.
What am I going to do with this A wonders?
This was the year of the white Touring cars.Roy with his E61,Todd with his Volvo wagon and a newbie with his e39 525i. Sorry I forgot your name.
The Friday night party lasted until 130AM.
Saturday morning came pretty quick with 3 people waking me up to go jogging with Duke at 6AM. No I did not go with them.
Then we procceded to breakfast with a volunteers meeting at the Daylight grill to prepare for the day ahead of us. Killer PM and Nicki dropped by the restaurant to join us for breakfast as they were heading out to Ottawa.I left my camera at home but I managed to take pics with a friends camera in the afternoon.
Dukes 66 Sunbeam Tiger
Eddie's M528I
Ken's 535IS Turbo from NC.
Jake B's LS swap
Alpina B12
E9 Alpina Tribute car
Hey Killer PM. Look what showed up. He loves it!
A impersonating me.
Back to my house for the BBQ.
Eddie winning the Tedd Dancose Memorial Trophy for Best of Show as selected by the participants.
Jolene handing out chocolate cars to the guests.Her way of saying thank you.
Yours Truly.
Sunday morning pancake breakfast came too quick once again.Craig and Guido are the Su Chefs for the morning.
Duke heading back to Kansas.
After the pancake breakfast we decided to go up to the Ribfest which was about 15 minutes from me to see what was happening. It was very hot so we decided to pick up dinner there and go back to my house to eat. After that we went over to Kims pool to cool off and have a belly full of laughs and memories that lasted till 230AM.
Ali is proud to be a Canadian.
On Monday we decided to go to Toronto to do the touristy thing. Left to right with Brandon,Hanna,Melissa,Ken,Ali,Hunter and myself.
The Toronto skyline viewed from our harbour cruise.
Casa Loma.
Over the front door. WTH?
After our guided tour of Toronto we stopped at the Loose Moose for dinner before we headed back home to my Casa on the Go train.
Monday night Brandon headed home in the dark to keep kool. Ali and Hunter left Tuesday morning after I kicked them out because I had to go to work. Sorry guys. Ken,Melissa and Hanna left Tuesday morning to spend a day at Niagara Falls.
Firsts for Tedfest this year:
Two parrots instead of one last year.
Four Harley riders dropped by to see the BMW's of which they owned their own BMW's.
Two Z1's
19 sponsors generously donating prizes and funds to support Tedfest.
Two pool party's lasting well into the morning.
A record 154 cars which is up 30 from last year.
Unsolicited volunteers who gave their time and contributions to make the event what it is.
A table set up to collect donations for the Princess Margaret Cancer Hospital on behalf of my neighbour who passed away from thyroid cancer one week after Tedfest 2011.
Ted Dancose Memorial Trophy handed out for Best of Show selected by the entrants.
24 cars from the US showed up.Give yourselves a pat on the back and thank you for the strong showing.
I would like to thank the sponsors for their support. The volunteers who gave their time and resources. Finally a special thanks to my family who gave up their beds to Tedfest out of towners and a loving thank you to Dianna my wife for putting up with this sickness of a marque called BMW. This was a spectacular long weekend for me and everybody that participated. It will be a tough act to beat next year but I'm confident we can at least equal that.
In closing Tedfest would not be where its at today if it were not the people who came to have fun,meet new friends and of course to look at the those beautiful machines called BMW's. Thank you for bringing them and hope to see you next year. Oh ya Newbies are always welcome EH!
A BIG THANX FROM THE TEDFEST TEAM!!!
Wheew 4 hours later and I'm goin to bed.
PS if you have any links of pics from Tedfest please post them on this thread. Thanx in advance.
My pics.
http://rides.webshots.com/album/583060643EtLpIJ
Jake B's link
https://picasaweb.google.com/classicdailynet/Tedfest#
Kris Tobias pics.
http://kristobias.smugmug.com/Cars/Tedf ... 754_zqdTHJ
Eddie in T.O. pics
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v627/ ... st%202012/
