If Tuesday, September 11, 2001, was the day war came to our shores, Friday, September 14, 2001, was the day much of America got home. We were on one of the first flights from the West Coast to Chicago, ironically an American Airlines 767, and the feeling of the passengers and crew was emotionally expressed with a thunderous ovation when the wheels touched down at O'Hare. These people were home!
We felt fortunate to have been at home when the world changed, but now we were going to see friends and colleagues at the Columbus, Ohio, Super Chevy Show. When asked by a TV interviewer during the week if the Super Chevy Show would still go on, Autostar's Roger Gustin replied that there were people in this world that wanted to shut our country down, but he (Gustin) "didn't want to participate in that." From the record-breaking crowd of Super Chevy Show cars and racers that came to Columbus, it's obvious that there were many people who felt the same way. As we talked to the show goers, exhibitors, racers, and vendors, we learned there was an overwhelming desire to be with those who had a common interest and to see people they might only get to see once a year at this show. There was also the sense that many wanted to escape the news for a while, and that's reason enough to come to where they could find a still-strong symbol of America: Chevrolets.