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Recently,
I connected with the CLC St. Louis Region. It turns out that Terry Wenger
lives about 10 minutes from the hotel where I stay every week. For those of
you who don't recognize his name, check out the June & July 2010 issues of
The Self-Starter, particularly the articles on the Sixty Special.
Terry wrote the articles.
Terry and
Bob Schuman, another club member, picked me up at the hotel in a 1947 Series
62 Convertible with standard shift. We drove to Terry’s house where I got to
see some of the other cars that he has including a 1963 Fleetwood and a 1932
Cadillac 355B Town Sedan (originally sold in Baltimore), and meet his wife
Nancy and son Michael, who expertly drove the ’32 over from his house as if he took possession of the car as soon
as it came off the showroom floor.
After
doing the garage tour, we went inside and sampled homemade ice cream that
Terry made on Father's Day (great treat on an evening that had temperatures
still in the 90s!). We talked club stuff for awhile and then Terry and Bob
drove me back to the hotel in the ’63 Fleetwood. This is another example of
the CLC friendship and hospitality that exists throughout our great club.
Thanks Terry and Bob for your hospitality.
And
speaking of CLC friendship, there a great time being planned for everyone in
October!
The CLC Valley Forge Region is planning a trip to the Baltimore Streetcar
Museum on Saturday October 23rd (the day before our
Fabulous Fleetwoods show). We encourage
the Potomac Region members to drive their classics over to the Museum to
join the members of our neighboring region. Afterwards, quite a few of the
Valley Forge Region members will be driving down to the Holiday Inn
Greenbelt to have dinner with us, and then join us the next day for our
show. More details to follow! The AACA Chesapeake Region recently held an
event at the Museum. AACA Chesapeake Region / CLC Potomac Region’s Jerry
Gordon wrote about their latest trip down streetcar memory lane in the May /
June 2010 issue of The Chesapeake Bulletin. To read the story and
see pictures, visit
http://local.aaca.org/chesapeake/FullBulletin8&9MayJune2010.pdf.
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