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August 9th

What a fantastic day, a real Florida weather day, the high was right at about 90 degrees, light breeze and low humidity. We arrived at about the time "Mustang Mike" did. Paul & Tommy were the next to arrive as usual. Mike & Bagel stopped by, they are in town this week with the president of the McMinnville, Tennessee car club, James Kirby, that he and Carol Cruise with up there. Mike was looking very trim, I guess climbing all those hills is doing him some good. Louie brought out the '52 Ford, then Don in the Red 2+2 Mustang, Ron in the DelRay followed a little later, hmmm must have over slept. Dennis and Francine, regular spectators from Thursday Nite stopped out to spend the evening with us and join in on the 50/50 and prize drawings. The other "Die Hards" including Bill in his Blazer and Jim in the GTO were out. Bob had his Camaro across from our Corvair then Steve & Charlie came in in the Caddy. Richard had his Model A pickup out, always good to see him and one of his great cars in attendance. Al rolled his Model A in so I figured that would be the end of the arrivals but then just about 7:00 here comes George in the '61 Falcon. We all saw a little of the "Wookie's" Buick, he had the Skylark script from the fenders, both were broken and were supposed to have been re-chromed. He wanted to show us just the luck he has been having, getting this car done.

One would have thought that we would have had a larger attendance than the 17 cars that were counted, guess the grass was too long at home or the "Honey Do" lists needed attending or maybe some just are out of town, even us Floridians go on vacation. Tony was out in "Lucy" with out Sharon, she was home packing for a trip to Wisconsin. He only had time enough to say hi to those present and headed home to help get ready for tomorrows flight.

As always the Robertson's made us feel at home, Judy even took time to have a few photos taken with Cruisers. Always a good time at the "Square".

The 50/50 of $35, not bad for so few cars went home with Ed the "Wookie" Guglich. He did have the Mustang out tonight and as much of the Buick as he could bring. At least he is trying.

The "Cruise-A-Matic" of $45 would have gone home with Ed & Sherry Gasdick, who is usually out but they were not tonight, AWWWWWWW, so next week $55 is in the offering.

"Cruiser of the Week" went home in the yellow '77 Cadillac Coupe deVille driven by Steve Clarke, Cruiser #5. Earlier in the evening Steve was showing off one of the only options his deVille didn't have that was offered by GM 1977 but he found it on e-bay. A real OEM 8-Track in dash stereo!

Here are a few photos:

Congratulations to the winners and Thank You to the Cruisers for coming out tonight. See you "out there!"

 
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