Our 1953 Commemorative Edition Corvette Story
The parade is sponsored by Chick-fil-A. It runs through downtown Atlanta with bands, clowns, motorcycles, floats -- and 20 Corvette convertibles mostly from our club, Classic Glass.
If you've done parades you know that they are (how shall I put this.....) not the most crisply organized affairs imaginable. Everything is changing all the time. This one was no exception.
We met in a parking lot at Cumberland Mall:
Here we are at the second rallying point:
As usual, there's confusion. Ron was told (by the dude on the right) to pick three cars and go pick up some dignitaries at the World Congress Center:
Here we are, the three of us, waiting on the three dignitaries we were sent for. Who never showed up:
> We went back to the rallying point and took a look at what was happening while waiting for the parade to start:
It was easy to remember who sponsored the parade:
Finally the line started to queue up -- and the three of us that had been sent away were sent to the front of the line:
> ..and this was our view looking back at the rest of the front of the parade:
After that, things started to move and I wasn't able to take any more pictures...