For the 16th year in a row, the Northeast Coast Chapter of Fiat Lancia Unlimited will sponsor the Italian Car Corral at the 27th annual Vintage Festival at the Lime Rock Race Track in northwestern Connecticut on Monday, September 7th. The Corral attracts 70-100 Italian cars of all marques.

To participate in the Corral, we Italian car owners must buy our discounted tickets to the Vintage Festival online from the Lime Rock Affiliate Ticket Sales web page at http://tickets.limerock.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=13. Click on "Buy Tickets" opposite the line for "Italian Car Corral Weekend Ticket" or "Italian Car Corral Monday Ticket" and enter the Italian Car Corral Coupon Code of "IT2009". (The password is case-sensitive, so capitalize "IT".) Please buy your tickets on this web site as soon as possible. Friday, August 28th, is the last day to have your tickets mailed to you, but if you want to print them from home or for an extra charge have them Fed Ex’d to you, you can order your tickets online until September 2nd.

There is no extra charge for registering for the Corral. Italian car owners will receive a goody bag that includes an event program, a poster, a Lime Rock pin, and a Vintage Festival cap. Best of all, the Italian cars are admitted on the track for a few parade laps to wow the crowd at Lime Rock. In order to qualify for parade laps, we must sell at least 25 tickets at the special affiliate web site above before the deadline. The number of Italian cars allowed to do parade laps on Monday will be limited to the first 50 that sign up for the Corral, so sign up fast!

While the Italian Car Corral is held only on Monday, September 7th, the Vintage Festival is a four-day celebration of antique and vintage sports cars held over Labor Day weekend each year. The festival includes trial laps on Friday, qualifying races on Saturday, a world-class concours to match Pebble Beach on Sunday, and the vintage races of ten classes of cars on Monday.

New for this year: For the Sunday concours, the track is waiving the entry fee for Italian cars that are in "show" condition and are entered by our group. The track will set aside up to 20 spaces for our Italian cars to be displayed together. The top three Italian cars in the concours will be awarded prizes by the judges. Our cars will also be eligible for consideration for the Best In Show award and the Road and Track prize for the "car that we would like to drive home." Email a picture of your car and its make/model/year to Tim Beeble (see below) if you would like to participate in the concours. He will submit your information to the track management.

If you do not want to get a weekend ticket but would like to buy tickets to the other individual days of the Vintage Festival, you must go to Lime Rock’s regular online ticket window. However, buy your Monday ticket from the special web site above if you want to participate in the Italian Car Corral on Labor Day.

For more information, contact Tim Beeble at 203-743-4954 or tbeeble@aol.com (if emailing, please include "Lime Rock" in the subject line).

This is always a great celebration and a terrific way to spend part (or all) of Labor Day weekend. Come out and enjoy!

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