Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Putting Cars in Buildings

A weeks ago we had a convenience store convention come through and they wanted to put a car in our ballroom. We were all very excited because we knew we could do it, we just had not had the chance to do it yet. They had the M&M's race car they wanted to bring up to the third floor, apparently the car was ridiculously expensive so we needed to be super careful with it. They brought a driver obviously so he was the one with the most responsibility I suppose, but we had to clear him for everything too. The first obstacle was getting the car into the freight elevator, the problem here is that the race car sits very low to the ground and could get up the curb in front of the elevator. The driver had to actually drive on the sidewalk in front of the hotel then back in just to avoid the curb. Now something I did not think about right away was the fumes, so once the car was in the elevator we did not turn it on again or we would hurt ourselves. We get it to the third floor and then everyone had to push this thing across the ball room while laying down plastic in front of it so the wheels would not damage the carpet. It may sound silly but it was a big deal for all of us just to see if we can do it. By the way those race cars are not light.

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