Its awesome, the whole city comes out and celebrates us being there. All the hotels and lot of local places have banners out "Welcome Grand Nationals!" or "Welcome Buicks!" with a turbo six logo. As said, its laid back, people are nice. My buddy was hung over one morning and I was hungry, I decided to go to the Waffle House (love the grits) by myself. I sat down and ordered my food only to have another Buick buy ask why I was by myself. After my little story of how drunk my friend was he invited me to sit with him and his buddies, all TR guys. We sat and BS'd for a while, just a bunch of Buick guys everywhere, if you have something on showing your a Buick guy its like everyone is your extended family while you are there.
The vendors are plenty and the prices are nice. I usually spend around two grand each time I am there on stuff I didnt even think I needed until I saw it. This year I am planning on buying a driver seat, injectors, and a hood insulator. The place is great to go just to save on shipping, call up a vendor and order your part, they will most likely deliver it to Bowling Green so you can just pick it up.
Not to mention that big racers are all friendly too. You can mill around the pits, see what they have for sale out of their trailer and talk with them. My buddy Allen races his twin turbo T-type down there, nicest guy around. He doesnt mind if you walk up and check his car out, in fact he is quite proud to have a low 8 second car with working lights, power windows, and full glass.
If your walking through the pits and see a yellow Regal with GNX vents chances are I will be milling around it. I fix his computer, he lets me poke around his car for ideas for my own.
