Dan Habel can tell you one of those "night before the show" stories.
A couple of years ago, poor Dan flew into Ohio and I went down and picked him up. I live about two hours from the airport so by time we got to my house, Dan had about 9 hours invested in traveling.
We dropped his stuff off at the house and headed straight to the body shop to finish the assembly on the white convertible. About another four hours into it we finally had the car back together and loaded on the trailer. We grabbed about five hours sleep and the next day we drove about six hours to the Nats in Bowling Green.
A couple days later, it was another six hours home and the two hour trip back to the airport to drop him off. Dan then got the privilege of sitting on a plane for the next hours.
What motivates a guy to do this you might ask.... it's all about the 65 GS.
Chris