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[mdickie]

For the fourth year in a row, I will be leading a group up to the Maker's Mark Distillery on Thursday morning, September 11, 2008. This is a free road tour that is not your average scenic road tour. For those that do not know, WART stands for Wild A$$ Road Tour, I like to call our little jaunt throught the country side a "blurry" road tour.

This road tour will leave from in front of the Baymont Hotel, the Z06Fest host hotel. We will leave at 8:00 am for the 1:45 minute drive to the distillery. I have the distillery expecting our arrival around 10:45 am EST (the distillery is in the Eastern time zone, BG is in the Central time zone)

Along the way we will get to experiences some great back country roads, which will be traversed in a spirited manner. This is not for the faint of heart.

Once at the distillery, tours of the facility will be available, they also have a wonderful gift shop, and within the next two weeks they will be opening a restaraunt on site that we might want to have lunch at. I will look into that as we get closer to the event.

One thing to know, this event will NOT appear on the Offical NCM Z06Fest agenda. This event is sponsored and run by Z06Vette.com and the NCM refuses to put it on the official event agenda due to liability reasons.

Please understand that there will be a Thursday morning NCM sponsored road tour that will conflict with the Maker's Mark WART Road Tour. The decision is yours as to which type of road tour you wish to participate in.

There is nothing you have to do to sign up for this event, simply show up out in front of the Baymont Hotel about 7:40, we will hold a brief driver's meeting at 7:45 am and then we will leave sharply at 8:00 am. Directions will be given to every driver in case they somehow get separated from the group so that you can still rejoin us at the distillery.

I look forward to scaring the crap out of some of you again this year, there is nothing better than following a blind albino through winding country roads at high speed...

Mark