The Showfield


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Rows and rows of Merkurs.  This year's location, back on the main showfield, allowed for some good pictures of our favorite marque.

Despite rain through the weekend, the majority of Saturday was dry which allowed much polishing and prepping to be completed.

This is where it all happens at Carlisle.  On Saturday, cars start arriving in the early hours and immediately we start striking up conversations with old friends and making new ones.  The turn out was great this year, and as ever, the standards high.  In particular the Scorpio standard continues to amaze us - those cars just seem to get younger every year!

The problem everyone has is finding time to meet everyone, look at the cars, discuss the various problems that we all suffer from, walk the trade isles, look at the other marques and visit the flea market.  That's not to mention registering at the tent and listening to the seminars.  Maybe if the show was a week long next year?

Enjoy the selection of pictures we have put together for you here.  If I have mis-captioned any pictures or if you want a caption added, please let me know.


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Yes that's Peter Orlinski towing Mark Evan's Cossie replica, complete with the Cosworth 200 block.  We look forward to seeing more of this car in the future.
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Attila Nyiradi's green monster took first place in the Carlisle awards and first place in the MCA awards for the 1985 Custom Class.

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George Schult's much-modified spotless XR won second place  in the Carlisle awards.
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Bill Stobbe and his sister Winnie arriving from Boston
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Paul West's '89 XR4Ti
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Dennis & Roberta Edward's took first place in the Carlisle awards and in the MCA awards for their two spotless XRs.
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Anyone seen this decal before?  I believe that's 'Cossie Rich's' XR from LA.  The decal was on Rick DaSilva's car when he bought it.
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Dave Weiner's '89 XR4Ti
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Roberta Edward's clean XR4Ti
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The 427 490hp Mustang concept which was on show in Building T
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The Ford GT - scheduled for limited production in 2004.

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