October 6th

It is sure acting like June around here, all of the rain from the over active Tropics is taking it's toll on Cruising. We had rain all around our hose but not at it, so we headed out a little early in the "April" our Corvair. "Elvira" our Ranchero had sprung an oil leak last night so she had to stay home.

We got many calls on the phone with reports of rain all around Kissimmee, Saint Cloud. Trevor, Bill and Virginia were headed in from Clermont area. We arrived at the lot next to the Sonic about 4:15 and "Mustang Mike" and Duke were already setting under the canopy at the Sonic. Trevor arrived about the same time we did.

We all hung out and again were getting calls about the rain moving n on us. About 5 minutes to 5:00 the rain arrived with force. We all were discussing the up coming "Reunion Weekend" that was coming up in Saint Cloud. That "Mustang Mike" and "The Dukes" were only going to appear on Saturday Night from 7:00 to 11:00PM. There is a bunch going to Inverness to the "Nature Coast Corvair Clubs" picnic. Leaving our area about 9:00. Linda and my plan is to leave the picnic in time to make our usual "Saturday Nite Cruise®" Old Town before 5:00PM.

Bob Berube came by with his latest acquisition a 1972 Oldsmobile 442! This car he had been dealing on for a while. Trading off his Corvette to a Cruiser in PA. Good looking Original Car.

Shortly after 6:00 "Mustang Mike" called the Cruise-In a Rainout and we all headed home.

On our way home we were going to fill up the Corvair, the needle was near the E mark. Well, in the middle West bound lane of 192 at the light on the Boggy Creek intersection, the needle hit the E mark and sputtered to a stop! After a Osceola County cop, that pulled up behind us at that moment helped us push "April" to the side of the road I called Bill and Virginia, hmmmm, I had the wrong numbers for them. Bill had sent me an e-mail about number changes but I forgot to update the phone. So we called Tony DeBlasio and he came to our rescue with a gas can with 5 gallons of gas! Thank You Tony! even though the gauge works I am just going to put gas in every 125 miles or so... Lesson learned.

Here's hoping we get to do the things that we want to this weekend and See You All Next week!

I did take a photo or two.