S2K Days Gettysburg 2019
04-16-2019, 05:57 PM
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S2K Days Gettysburg 2019
For anyone unfamiliar with this annual event, it draws S2000s from all over the country and Canada.
https://www.motorsportreg.com/events...g-s2kca-802164
https://www.motorsportreg.com/events...g-s2kca-802164
Last edited by jeallen; 04-16-2019 at 06:01 PM.
04-17-2019, 05:30 AM
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I'd treat this event more about the people than the driving, cars, and any historical events.
I attended a similar event 23-25 September 2016 in Gettysburg. I believe Billman was the celebrity at the event. Certainly wasn't S2000-restricted as there were other cars driven by folks who also, or used to have S2000s. I recall we had a couple dozen cars.
I'm perhaps jaded regarding the roads in Adams County as my daughter attended Gettysburg College and we were there dozens of weekends during her four years. Nothing special regarding driving, this ain't a "dragon." And I'm further jaded regarding amateur tours of the battlefield having been on extended tours with history professors, park rangers, and a Staff Ride with the Army War College. But if you've never been on the field it should be on your bucket list.
While Yankees typically go to the top of Little Round Top where 20th Maine made it's recently-historical stand (this firefight was rarely mentioned prior to the novel Killer Angles which Army-canonized COL Chamberlain) you 'Bama guys may want to start at the bottom and experience the difficulties that made the assaults by 15th and 47th Alabama fail. I recall Chamberlain admitted (probably long after the war) that he only ordered the bayonet charge in desperation because they were out of ammunition and that if they had been resupplied with ammo they probably would have been overrun.
-- Chuck
I attended a similar event 23-25 September 2016 in Gettysburg. I believe Billman was the celebrity at the event. Certainly wasn't S2000-restricted as there were other cars driven by folks who also, or used to have S2000s. I recall we had a couple dozen cars.
I'm perhaps jaded regarding the roads in Adams County as my daughter attended Gettysburg College and we were there dozens of weekends during her four years. Nothing special regarding driving, this ain't a "dragon." And I'm further jaded regarding amateur tours of the battlefield having been on extended tours with history professors, park rangers, and a Staff Ride with the Army War College. But if you've never been on the field it should be on your bucket list.
While Yankees typically go to the top of Little Round Top where 20th Maine made it's recently-historical stand (this firefight was rarely mentioned prior to the novel Killer Angles which Army-canonized COL Chamberlain) you 'Bama guys may want to start at the bottom and experience the difficulties that made the assaults by 15th and 47th Alabama fail. I recall Chamberlain admitted (probably long after the war) that he only ordered the bayonet charge in desperation because they were out of ammunition and that if they had been resupplied with ammo they probably would have been overrun.
-- Chuck
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