WE ARE SOLICITING NO ITEMS FROM VENDORS & FRIENDS TO AUCTION. I appreciate your generosity in the past, but please send nothing & I will not put the arm on you this year either! There is no silent auction this year.
Instead we are going back to what started this thing. So for $25 it is all you can eat delicious Mot's BBQ & sides & beer & stuff like that, some music and the big event is the award of the bull trophy...which was very sought after before we got all wrapped up in other things. I will put out the big jar and anyone wishing to donate to the Cancer Fund please make out a check to the American Cancer Society. Also, after the food is paid for the overage all gets donated.
So here's the deal. Augusta, especially Columbia County, has some very cool things to see. The restored locks on the river and dance pavilion not far from the house are breath taking. Old Georgian mansions and STOCK CAR RACING. Come early, stay later and tour around or go to the golf Tournament...but my back yard…Saturday, March 31st…be there.
There are a huge number of hotels, especially around exit 194 off I-20 that are secure & reasonable & about 15 minutes away. Hospitality starts here Friday & arrive here when you want to with beer & tech & bull in my shop all day. The outing Friday is to the stock car races…the most fun you can have with clothes on is watching real dirt track racing! Saturday Bull session starts @ 9AM and leave whenever you want.
Bring a folding chair, drive your 356 car, 356’s get priority primo back yard parking spots, and please bring a donation of beer, or water or sodas for the community good. Lets have some fun, take a group pic for the Registry, shoot the bull and still do a good thing to raise a few bucks for the club Cancer Fund.
If you plan to attend, even tentatively, let me know. The real prize is the fellowship but the real honor is the trophy your earn for a year to proudly display on the mantle. Join the LEGENDS OF BULL: Me ( a 2 time winner), Curt Dansby, Tom McCoy, & Ken Richardson as holders of the prize and the awesome kudos and responsibility of being caretaker for a year. If you have to ask the rules about bull...you are already out of the running...the bull just has to flow...and be believable...like Tom's photoshop picture, fake letters and pictures of Paul Newman in his speedster...the one Tom now owns...as the movie car in Harper. 8)
OK folks. Mark your calendar & set your Garmin to 1408 Ashwood Drive, Evans, GA 30809 for Saturday 31 March 2012.That’s it. See y’all soon. As you have heard me say before…be there or don’t come.
Regards,
George Bryan
Brief History: Bull #1 was a handful of regional guys trying to find a common place to have breakfast and shake out the cars for the first good time of the year. We decided my back yard was a central place for all from Charlotte, Charleston, Atlanta, Columbia, & Greenville areas. About 18 cars (6 were mine including the beaters), we all fit on my back deck, & we served the BBQ from the back of Big Stan's truck. Mot's provided some BBQ butts we chopped up & served with a few sides & plenty of beer. We donated a few bucks to the Registry Cancer Fund. THEN, with Bull #2 we kicked it up since a good friend's wife & an alumni of #1 died from cancer so we started twisting arms a little to up the ante for the donation in her memory. After that somehow it morphed into a full blown fund raiser, huge silent auction, big food, beer, band, and a two day event. Last year was so hectic the original gang & me were so tied up inventorying items, accounting for money, pushing the silent auction, setting up the larger catered deal, collecting $, paying bills…the Bull was almost neglected and I certainly had little time to sit & shoot the bull or visit with folks…some who came from as far as NY & LA. We also moved to a larger space for the auction & attendance became so big it no longer fit in my triple garage. In the early days of Bull we did things like have an old genuine roadster used as an ice tub, smoked cigars, worked on cars, drank beer, and just told some great stories. We’re going back that way this year. But the evolution was a good thing, we raised over $25k and had added some new things...so this year I am going for the best of all events, but back to basics and we'll still send some money to the Registry Cancer Fund!
...and a lot of fun.
With all the 356 cars that show up, space is a premium.
After all, you & the D are veterans of the 2010 Yellow Death....and this year you have a no pollen guarantee...doesn't get any better than that! Oh, oh, is the Bull starting a little early...you be the judge. 
George
