The show officially started at 10am so I spent the next 2-1/2 hours cleaning, polishing, staging and all the million of other things you can find to do when showing your vehicle.

The visitors were basically non-stop all day even before the start. Everyone wanted to see the Sportsmobile Sprinters and everyone had questions, oohs and ahhhs.

I took a few minutes off and walked around the many Mercedes that were there. Totally cool! Old, new, restored,some in great condition, some not but a great representation of Mercedes over the years.

One of the hot items was the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. This half-million dollar car was beautiful. Painted a Metallic Iridium Silver, there was so much silver in the paint it was hard to photograph. The speedometer went to 220mph which most likely is low for this car when maxed out. Of course you can’t sleep, cook and camp in it so basically what good is it? Well, how about racing and lots of fun!

Of course, I do think it would look good pulled behind the Sprinter. In fact there were several there I would have liked to tow away.

At Alan’s suggestion, I asked the judges for a courtesy judging of the bus and that made my day!