[adamw]

While I don't have all the qualifications you've listed, I am a die hard Ford fan, especially of the smaller Fords.

Perhaps you could pick me based on the one example of my intense interest in compact Fords.

While on a trip to Turkey with the Air National Guard, I had a one day stop in the South of England not long after the new RS had come out. I had good info from a forum that a dealer in Essex had a white Focus RS. I called to confirm and the salesman said it was there and would be picked up at 6pm. We had gotten in late and by the time I got to the dealer, they had closed ant the RS was gone. The whole trip took several taxis and trains with many traffic delays and cost about $150. If a nice couple hadn't showed up at the dealer to look at transit vans, I wouldn't have had a way to call the taxi for the ride back.

I got to see the new Fiesta and a sweet Focus ST and barely caught the last train back to Mildenhall ( I would have been in a lot of trouble had I missed it, in the military it's called being AWOL)

I had to settle for a magazine featuring the RS that I picked up at the train station, but it was still a good adventure and I got to see a bit of England.

I had written a much longer version of this story, but it got erased thanks to the computer logging me off, but it's probably better that way.

Thanks in advance if you feel I deserve to go to the SEMA show, I'm especially interested because of the Ford sponsorship and the Foci that people are taking to put in the show.

Thanks,
Adam