On Thursday morning before the show we loaded the trailer up and hit the road to Las Vegas. Calgary and Las Vegas are, strange as it may seem, a direct route practically from door to door. My driving directions were, essentially, turn on I15 and drive 1200 miles to the strip. No turns, no side roads, nothing but climb this hill, go over that mountain and stop when the neon lights get really bright. The 24 hours that we spent in the truck together was more time than my wife and I had spent together in the last month but, around noon on Saturday we arrived at American Touring Specialties.
On Saturday afternoon I had the pleasure of spending time with Curtis, AJ, Steve C, Steve R, and a host of others including Blake and the guys from Killer Customs before reluctantly skipping the evening cruise to try to catch up on some sleep.
Sunday morning it was back at ATS to meet the guys from Optima and help out however I could at the shop – which probably wasn’t much – before heading to the convention center to move into the show. Before heading over we snapped a couple of pictures with Penny and the ATS shop car in the parking lot…
