Mississippi Map Turtle Mascot - Performance Racing Trade Show
Kevin is at it again, the little Mississippi Map Mascot, while researching Orange Groves last week, stumbled upon the Performance Raching Trade Show. Kevin recruited our “Only One Man” Patrick - our portable exhibit guy into a road trip! The Performance racing Trade Show will be taking place at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando Florida - December 6th-8th, 2008. Last year, there were over 1400 companies that exhibited and with over 1,000,000 square feet of exhibit space. Kevin read that the requests for larger aisles at this trade show did not fall on deaf ears.
Patrick and Kevin decided to hunt down an old tour bus from the 1970’s for their wheels this past week. They thought it best to do a trial run, so that they are sure the bus will make it to Florida through our blustery northern winter weather. The tour bus is a MCI Coach Bus, well belive me you, Patrick and Kevin stocked it full of the amenities, they made sure the turtle food was in stock and that there was plenty of cold one’s in the portable fridge!
MCI stands for Motor Coach Industries, which is located in Illinois, and was started in 1933. I asked Patrick if he had any background information on the wheels he borrowed for a friend, and he said he was not sure, but rumor has it that a famous singer from the 1970’s may have used it to travel across the country before they were well known. I belive it over $350,000 for a brand new MCI Bus these days, so the economical solution for Patrick and Kevin was to borrow this one. Since Kevin may be maxing out someone’s credit card, I don’t think they would take to kindly to that sort of charge.
Being that Kevin was a turtle, he didn’t think he could handle the excitement of a performance racing car and decided on the bus. He heard through the grapevine that Patrick may end up in a ditch if the power under his foot was too much!