After several weeks of beautiful weather the forecast predicted thunderstorms for our show date. The prediction was that the cold front would pass over Mobile early in the morning and the rain would end by 8:00 AM. We decided to take a chance and go on with the show as scheduled. When we started stetting up at 8:30 the skies were gray and the wind was strong out of the North. Nevertheless the rain did hold off.  We only had a small sprinkle at about 10:00 AM and it lasted for less than 10 minutes.  After that the skies gradually cleared and by noon it was sunny and warm. Despite assurances that for 2017 we would get back into the Dauphin Island School yard that was not to be.  Again more construction was scheduled for the buildings and again we were asked to use  Fins' parking lot.  Fins is a local bar about a hundred yards to the west of the school. The owner Mr. Gene Fox graciously offered to let set up shop for the day.  We blocked off the street between the bar and his gavel parking lot and that actually gave us plenty of room to display the bikes. We had 84 bikes register for the show which produced $780 for the Dauphin Island PTO. They also had a food concession with shrimp, burgers, and hot dogs. They were busy all day long. Fund raising also included T shirt sales and a 50-50 raffel. The last accounting was that the show raised ~$5,000. The trophies were kindly paid for by our sponsors: Adventure Motorsports of Northwest Florida in Pensacola, D&D Cycles in Pensacola, Hall’s Motorsports in Mobile, Mort's Power Sports in Mobile, Rosie's Motorcycle Consignments in Mobile, Port City Marine in Mobile, and Powder Coat Junction in Theodore, Al.  Hundreds of spectators came to see the motorcycles and everyone seemed to have a great time. Hats are off to our organizer Carlos Forte who saw to it that everything went smoothly. Registration was handled by Beverly Moritz and Chris Conover. Below is a list of this year's winners as determined by our seven judges. Click on the bike's name to see a picture of it.  We tried to take a picture of every bike entered and you can see all of the pictures in the gallery.

Best of show went to Bo Arrington for his 1952 BMW R25

Despite threatening skies at the onset of the show bikes started showing up

We awarded a " Best of Show" and 36 class trophies. We also gave out 12 framed Runner Up certificates.

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