Well, life has kept me busy since June 25th, but wanted to take a moment and thank everyone that attended this year, I think it was a great success. Many thanks to Art
Nesmith for all the great Amsoil products we had for raffle prizes. Art's
90 year old WWII veteran father was in town and other family were arriving so
he had to leave about 2:00 and missed out on the thanks we gave him
there. Additional thanks in the prize department to Tom Taylor and Ted
Davis. Thanks to Tim Gould for pitching
in to assist with participants arriving and anything else you saw that needed attention. I’d like to also thank my
wife Misty (without whose hard work and endless patience this event would not
take place) and our boys Erik and Derik Todd.
We had a good number of people from the community come by and visit and
look at the cars. I have actually had a couple of people tell me they
drove by multiple times to see what all cars arrived during the day, but they
didn't want to get out of their A/C to look at a more leisurely pace ; )
Huge props go out to Ken and Grayce
Aggen, from Henderson, TX who drove down again this year in their gorgeous '83
Cherokee, arriving first thing and bringing some great garden produce to share.
Our long distance caravan from Ft
Worth/Saginaw were first time participants who we hope will be long term
participants from now on. Raymon Hacking trailered his '71 Javelin to the
event (being its' first outing in 30 years, we were honored) followed by Bill
Russell driving his '69 AMX (and winning the long distance participant award)
and Bobby Gilley in his '70 AMX (which you could have just left with me if you
had wanted to). That was quite a sight seeing them all pulling together.
Onnie Weaver from Jasper, TX graced us with a pair of his Nashes, a '47 coupe
and '46 sedan. Onnie won the Participant's Choice as well. Tim
Gould from south east Houston won the People's Choice award with his '74 black
AMX (though I didn't see him bribing small children with Hot Wheels cars for
votes this time, so he must've been up to something else... ; ).
Rounding out the participant field
were:
Allen Baker from Houston, TX in his
one owner '70 Donohue Javelin.
Gary and Lisa Edwards from Palestine,
TX with their 70k original mile '72 Javelin.
Jason Heflin from Nacogdoches, TX
with his '59 Rambler American wagon that's not quite stock under the hood
(yeah, it’s a Chevy, but I really like it).
Jeff Jung from Houston, TX with his
way too quite running '65 Rambler American coupe, what a great car.
Art Nesmith from Lufkin, TX with just
one of his 401 Gremlins this time.
Tom Taylor (with Ted Davis
co-piloting) from Houston, TX in his one owner '69 Javelin.
Bill Threet (and I'm sorry I don't
have you friends name) from Temple, TX in his '72 Javelin SST making his AMC
debut as a participant. Bill attended
last year and determined then and there to find and buy his own AMC and he
snagged a nice one that he drove home from California.
And last, but not least due to
working all day, but making it in time to at least see the last handful of cars
was Josh Evans in his ever so slightly modified (yeah right) '98 Grand Cherokee
5.9 Limited.
Well, and of course the short
distance winner being our '72 Javelin that made it flawlessly from the garage
to the front yard and back again.
If I've missed someone, please
forgive me and reply all to this message to correct the omission. We were
also joined by a local gentleman with his resto-modded '57-'58 Studebaker
Hawk. I'm sorry I don't have his name and info, but he and his Studebaker
are more than welcome to attend every year. And certainly not to be left
out was John Williams (who last year brought his then for sale and now sold '74
Matador) in his rat rod '51 Dodge truck/wrecker.
Also in attendance were many of the
AMC faithful from all over that were unable to bring their vehicles (Richard
Harrod from Palestine, TX), notably Lufkin's own Marsha Eppley who always dives
in to help Misty out with the great lunch that's served each year. She
may not have had her '71 Javelin here this time, but she did pick up a super
sweet set of Ralley rims from Jack Lee to put on her white and black beauty for
the next time ; ) Triston Barringer was able to pick up a few more pieces
for his Gremlin project too if I'm not mistaken.
Thanks to Jack Lee, Jurl Davis and
his son, and Larry and Kathy Schmidt for bringing the swap meet goods for
everyone. Thanks to everyone that came out and
braved the heat. We look forward to another great event next year. Hopefully we will be scheduling for the first or second Saturday of June for 2017, so stay on the lookout for updates. We do have a few event t-shirts remaining in adult large and XL that are available for purchase. I can mail you one for an even $20 in a priority envelope. If you want to buy multiples I believe up to three can be shipped for $6.80, so $15 each plus the postage in that scenario. Just contact me by e-mail at ratliffr@centralisd.com if you are interested. I'm attaching shirt images below.
------------- Once owned'70 Donohue 360 :( Now '72 Jav w/94K '70 Jav (major project) '74/'75 Wagoneer 401 project(s) '74 Javelin 401 very late (the last?) built. ’85 Mustang GT 5spd '68 AMX project
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