April 14th

What a beautiful day! Today Mike, N4HHA in his Monza convertible would meet Linda, K4EIO and me , K4SLB, at Tony, K4AVD, & Sharon's, WB4ACE, to look at the paint job on his '62 Monza coupe. Steve, K4SKM, is still on a special assignment so he hasn't been out for  while. It's little, It's Yellow! They should be bringing it out in a few weeks once it has been rubbed out and re assembled. We headed out from their house to 192 to make our way to Old Town for our day. On the way our little caravan passed and waived at the '23 Chevy Coupe that was chugging down the center lane. Ron greeted us at the gate as usual. The "Treasure Coast Car Club" had several cars lining the bricks on the West side. Bratt met us at her regular spot for registration. With the smile we have become accustomed to. We turned at the clock past the Cruise office to "Trophy Row". Richard was at the corner with Gary, Mike led us to Block 4 for our favorite spot. We put him in the middle, the Corvair filling for the "Ranchero Sandwich", so to speak.

We stayed in Block 4 instead of delivering the newsletters tonight. We chose to leave a little early for lunch, I seemed to have messed up my knee over the last week working on  replacing the shed in our backyard and I was trying to cut down on walking a bit tonight. We had many spectators very early tonight. Mark, the keeper of that "Ground shaking, window rattling, monster of a '66 Pro Street Nova SS, "T-Rex", stopped for a visit. Dan Z was a passenger in Ron's '37 Ford Ragtop today. Ann had the "Beer Truck" set up early for this hot day, under the tent once again. We decided to head up about 3:30, this would give us ample time to drop off the papers. Roger had out the '62 Fairlane instead of his "Lucky 'Vette", Bill was in his '47 Plymouth. We spotted Louie & Linda in their Nova wagon. Clint & Lynn had the yellow '49 Ford pickup in it's "Cruiser of the Month" spot. (Last week I had it listed as a '48, it was just a scriveners error, sorry.) "Big John" had the '72 GTO on the corner. Bob was out in his GMC in the "Looney Bin".   Dennis was in his '63 Grand Sport 'Vette. The "Red Line Rodders" were all in place along with the "Rat Pack". Bob had his '41 Buick in his favorite spot.  A little further up we chatted with Gary & Helena, Emil and many more on our way to eat. Graham, G4HFG, who was in Oldham, England was once again on my shoulder coming over the Amateur Radio asking about the cars and looking for Ted, KE4TTE, our other regular spectator that was going to meet us at 4:00.

Jane our regular server at "Flippers" was there as we chose a table on the patio under the overhang. Ted who was on his way from the parking lot radioed his order to us so that he might be served at the same time we were. That plan worked well. Jane in her friendly and efficient manor, once again took great care of us. On our way back down to the cars we all visited with the Cruisers and looked over the great cars that had made their way on to "Trophy Row", most of the top 3 Blocks were filled, cars were now being directed to Block 4. While we were gone a large group of Mustangs were now occupying the West side. Bob, in his '36 Ford followed Ron in his '64 Corvair convertible, they took a spot just around from the Roller coaster. Tony & Marlene stopped by for a visit, they were in their '30 Chevy, "Cletus". Good seeing them on a Saturday. Joe & Harriet in their Rose Colored T-Bird were spotted, "Doc" was out in "Tater Truck" with Cara & Suzanne. John & Mary B would park a bit down from us in their 'Vette. Bob, N4RDS, and family stopped for a chat, we spotted Nick, my head gasket isn't in yet, Fran and family looking at the large display of cars and visiting. Even a few more local HAM Radio operators stopped out to check out the cars and what Old Town has to offer. Chris, KE4DUJ, and his Dad stopped to visit for a while. Jim & Craig, "The Dukes" were in place entertaining the masses.

Clint & Lynn Olson in their '49 Ford pickup. April's "Cruiser of the Month" were led to block 4 right at 8:15. Followed by the cars off the "Bricks" then the cars from the top 3 blocks would join in, to the staging area that Block 4 becomes at this time. Mike Singer, who had been playing his great mix of nostalgic music, notified us that due to emergency traffic in the back parking lot there would be a slight delay. The safety announcements were only 4 minutes late, he then played the National Anthem. "Wolfman Jack" proclaimed "It's the Saturday Nite Cruise". Lee led the '49 Ford from the turn at "Kids Town", followed by the rest of the 249 Cruisers onto the bricks of "Deac Hundley Blvd." for this the 877th running of this Central Florida tradition to a near capacity crowd of cheering spectators.

Thank you Old Town for letting us, the curators of this "Rolling Display of Automotive History", the cars that are the  "Stars", to be their guests this evening. Thank you to the Old Town Merchants Association and the Sponsors of this event, Valvoline & the A&W to name a few. Thank you to Rich, Joe, Ron, Lee, Nikki, Bratt and the entire Cruise Staff for keeping us all safe. Thank you to our fellow Cruisers for making this our 229th consecutive Saturday another fun and safe day in "Town".

Bud  Havestadt 
  1972  Plymouth  Cuda

Tim  McAfee 
  1957  Chevrolet  Belair

Pete  Bungert 
  1964  Chevrolet  Malibu

Eddie  Perez 
  1956  Chevrolet  Belair

Bob  Nagro*
  1936  Ford  Coupe

Jim  Zappo 
  1969  Oldsmobile  Cutlass

Laurie  Dunwoody 
  1956  Chevrolet  Belair

Rich  Zapata 
  1960  Chevrolet  Impala

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