Niftee Fiftees Participants Appreciation Open House
Spring, TexasSaturday, December 13, 2014
NIFTEE FIFTEES
“PARTICIPANT’S APPRECIATION” OPEN HOUSE
This year (2014) I’ve made the forty-mile one-way trip from Pearland to Spring (Texas) to cover the Niftee Fiftees Classic Car Cruise In quite a few times. The Saturday night event runs from March to November and I had planned on putting together “2014 Highlight” coverage to submit to Hot Rod Hot Line. That fell through when my computer got infected by a “Ransomware” virus. All of my personal documents and pictures were encrypted including those in my personal website and external harddrive. They “demanded” $500 within seven days to get it all back. A quick check on the Internet produced a Sheriff’s Department in Tennessee that was infected and was told by the FBI to go ahead and pay the “ransom” while they looked into it. If the FBI can’t stop it, what can I do? As far as Niftee Fiftees coverage, I got a break when they decided to host a “Participant’s Appreciation” Open House in mid-December in conjunction with the “Toys For Tots” toy drive to celebrate the holidays. As always, it was a pretty good turnout and our coverage is below.