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July / August 2016 31 SOCIAL EVENT AT ARISTOCRAT T he email came in from Robert Hellweg at Aristocrat Motors. He was asking if the KCRPCA would like to attend their annual Art of Your Car event, and how many cars did I think we could get to show. Good question, I thought. Aristocrat's event is meant to support the Kansas City Art Institutes' Art of the Car fundraising concours event held every June. This casual concours event draws in spectacular cars from all over the country. If you have never been, put it on your list of summer activities. But that is another article. A few years back, we had 54 cars show up at Aristocrat's event. We filled the parking lot that they gave to us. It was considered a great success. But we tied it to a Fun Run to Lawrence that same day. Did people come for the Fun Run or did they come for the Aristocrat event. I was not sure. In Robert's email, he said he was going to invite other car clubs; MGs, KC Exotic and Supercar Club, and Ferrari, .... ahh Ferrari, the dark side. I knew we could get the members of KCRPCA to come out, and come out in force. I told Robert maybe 60. Tim Bubniak and I showed up at Aristocrat at 9:00 to get our area set up; signs, chairs, ropes. We were ready. Slowly at first, the Porsches trickled in, followed by... what's the term for a grouping of Porsches? Herd? Droves? Gaggle? I did not care, as the count kept going up. The first row filled, that was 25. The second row filled, that was another 25. The overflow lot started to By Stan Thorne I Took Aristocrat's Invite AS A CHALLENGE