Rally in Tally Day 2

With an afternoon under our belt and getting all situated, day 2 started with me making a solo run to breakfast.   I got there and say they had Hot Waffles, so texted back to the troops and in 5 min my daughter got up and was over there, lol.   This being our first rally, we had the newbie tags on, so people made it a point to meet us which was nice.   After breakfast, I attended a seminar about RV fire safety which was informative.  I lasted about 90 minutes, then I went back to the main hall and looked through the merch booths. 

As mentioned in the last post, I discovered that I had lost a dust cap.  At the time  in Lakeland, I didn't fret too much as I didn't notice that the actual bearing was exposed and that I drove 250 miles on it....It didn't even occur to me to look for one as I figured my best bet would be to find one at the Rally.    As is turns out the GMC on the rear wheels at least, has two dust caps.  An outer and an inner.  I will assume that the inner one was already missing, but at the time I only thought there was one. 

In any event, I asked around to the various vendors and on one had one with them. I then proceeded to check around with all the 'Garage Sales' that were going on.  Seemed everyone did have one, albeit not with them.   I must have knocked mine loose when I swapped tires before the trip.  As time went on during the weekend, Mike from Vero lent me one of his outer ones as he had an inner (and could get another outer the next week.   We tried to order one from O'Reilly's once we looked up the part number.   The closest one was.....you guessed it, Lakeland!   So we got some grease and packed that puppy up and tapped the cap on.  Problem solved for the moment.

I took a walk around and saw a few really nice looking coaches....

 Wide angle view from just in front of our coach.

 The owner was from Ft. Myers I believe.  He has a 59 Ford hardtop convertible the same turquoise color.   This one was nice inside too.

 Tailgating Machine here.  Owner was a big time fan and did the coach up nicely.

One of five or nine built (depending on who you talk to), the Coca Cola Gadabout was built in 1977 and 5 were given away in a sweepstakes.  A few more were built for bottlers, hence the variation in number built...  I got a quick peek inside on Sunday during the open house, but when I came back with Lucy half and hour later, it was locked up.   From what I saw it looked all original inside but was probably refreshed.   LOTS of red and white lol.  They were pulling a sea plane ultra light on the trailer.  VERY cool rig.

This 23 is the 'sister' to our Pineapple.   It was the first GMC to be powered by an Oldsmobile 350.  Ours is the second.   This one has 4.10 gears so it's alot quicker off the line.  As you can see it has a full air ride suspension and is painted with Rhino Liner.   There is an AC that is fitted in the coach but they managed to strip all the extra off the outside and tuck the bumpers for a sleek look.   It's a total hot rod GMC.  I love it.

 I just liked how clean this one presented on the outside, Nicely done upgrades

 RUn of the mill Palm Beach.  This was probably one of the most popular looks when they were new.  Most of the ones I recall as a kid looked like this one.  Nice green plaid interior and shag carpet too!

 With a matching painted 'Towed' or Toad, This one in my mind invoked the Stripes paint scheme a bit.

 Another Super Clean looking machine....

 The coach on the left is owned by a really nice couple from the Chesapeake Bay area.  It was very nice inside, and the owners were really nice.   Hope to see them again soon.   You may see the Cruise America rental in the back.  One of the GMC owners couldn't get their coach to the convention so they rented a SOB (Some Other Brand) in order to make the convention.  There were a couple of them there.

 Here we have "The Beast"   It is an eight foot stretch on a 26' so it's 34' long.  Owned by Paul and his partner, it houses a bowling alley and skating rink.  Honestly though, the inside of it seems loooooong!  It is really well put together and is amazing to see going down the road.   Paul was the one who saved my rear end a month ago as I happened upon him returning the coach to Sirum's GMC  in Okeechobee, FL a couple weeks ago.

 Another turquoise one.  There were a couple and the late 50s colors seem to work well on these coaches.

 I just love the paint on this one.   Simple, clean, and looks good.  Notice another SOB behind it.

More coaches. I think these were the GMCMI folks as they looked like they got there before everyone else as they were in a different area.

Saturday evening was rolling up fast and I had been very please to find out my friends from The Inoxicators!  had a gig at the WaterWorks in town (they live in Tally, so an easy night for them).  For me it was a BIG treat as it was a double bill with The Disasternauts  a quasi famous Surf Chimp Band!  We met some friends up there and also took one of the GMC faithful with us.   It turned out to be a great evening. 

We Ubered up there and watched the Intoxicatiors! rip through a great set.

 After a short break, the Disasternauts took the stage and the place went bananas!

 All they needed was a guy in a banana suit up there dancing with them.

 Lucy monkeying around with the lead chimp

Apparently monkey's like flashy lights.....

We got back to the fairgrounds fairly early which was good as we had to be up early the next day....I think it was around 1 or so when we got back.