Koy Floyd gets the cRc badge of honor this weekend for braving the elements and driving his classic 1937 Chevy to coffee call in spite of the weather.
What I did was have a great time at our newest rotation restaurant, LA MADELEINE! La Madeleine is a Dallas, Texas chain of 86 French themed restaurants serving up a very nice looking breakfast and lunch. They have a great coffee bar and OMG we actually had ceramic cups....most of us kept looking for the styro cups but this was the real deal!
They are known for their lunchtime tomato basil soup as well as roast chicken and other goodies. We had a hearty 20 or so come out on the early shift . 7am till 9am.......Ray and Juan were there, talking about the cancellation of their car show but we were glad to see them. It won't be long before we say goodbye to them until November - they will be at a new car show every week, to see exactly where our "car show of the week" will be, navigate over to the "WEEKLY CAR SHOW" page. We update this page weekly, and report our club's results every week. Ray tried the French breakfast special which was two eggs, 2 sausage patties, a croissant, and the french version of hash browns - a "GALETTE"....it all looked good and here is Ray's plate:
The club sold enough to pay for the fall meet ($155.00), and put a little in the treasury to boot. We decided to change the rules slightly for the Fall meet. Any club member is encouraged and welcome to place items into the meet for sale...HOWEVER, they MUST be labeled with where the money goes (to you or to the club), and also what the part is and what it fits. Without that basic information, we have a difficult time telling someone whether or not the part will work on his/her car. Many members just abandon these parts at the end of the meet (which is ok and we understand). In the past, we have been picking them up and storing them until the next meet. We will make a judgement on all parts left over as to whether they will sell and some unclaimed parts will be placed into the dumpster.
We have gotten to know some of these parts over the years as they have been hauled back and forth. A few of them found their way to other booths this year, early in the morning, as we tried to make room on our tables for parts that might actually sell. The booth across the way was the recipient of all the 1989 Chilton repair manuals, and the booth down the way unknowingly received a couple of headlight assemblies. Harlan even managed to sneak a part into one guy's wagon as he came by the space.
It was reported that Marshall sold 2 of his cars at the show. Bill McBee had his Samuri out there and Zack the Younger had his recent Ford pickup there.
In club news, we continue to distribute no cost, our little cRc logo insurance i.d. card protectors - free to a good car. The concept is that you place your required docs in the bright red folder and can easily find them among the old ketchup packets, salt and pepper packs, old car repair receipts, obsolete roadmaps and the like. See Dave Saunders at coffee call for yours.
In yet other club news, tonight is the Norman Mardi Gras parade and Charlie is going to take the King and Queen in his '55 Chevy convertible, and Terry is going to drive in his Chevy pickup, and Van is going to drive his Corvette. The parade kicks off at 7 PM downtown and makes several laps from the train station east on main and back around and around. Expect fun.
Bill's classic Riley.....a very rare car, for Oklahoma and the midwest if not the entire United States. Certainly you can argue for years the merits of one car vs another, but I think we do pretty well as a local car club to have a very good group of really great cars.
And then this shot of the rather cold attendance. Yes it was cold. Better luck in March when we begin holding our Saturday coffee call out in the Crest parking lot. We will plan to have our blue top canopies up and you bring your lawn chair. Coffee and donuts will be available for purchase. Drive something fun.
Posted Feb 7, 2019
From cRc member Ray Waldron - NEW DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS FROM OK
If you have been to the tag agency recently, they may have told you that beginning this year, in addition to your expiration sticker on you tag and your insurance card, you must also have in your glove box the official paper receipt they give you at the tag agency. They give you several documents - best just to fold the whole shebang up and put it in your glove box until we know exactly what is required. you can put it in there with all of the other EXPIRED insurance cards and tag receipts and 10 year old McDonald's salt and peppers and leaking Ketchup packs and roadmaps of New Jersey and Wisconsin.
We have not seen exactly what is required - one of those documents that they give you back with your tag sticker.
This year the theme was "A NIGHT IN OLD HAVANA" and their classic Chevy fit in perfectly, well, it is much nicer than most of the classics in Havana. Terry also fit in with his big Pancho Villa moustache.
This is a great example of just how many ways members of our club give back to our community.
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OK, WHAT IS THIS? WHAT IS GOING ON?
Noticed on February 4th on the lift at MASTERTECH.......
Well at least Charlie's car is in Scott's excellent hands.
And then our weekly photos from coffee call. Whataburger struggled this weekend to keep us in coffee, running out a number of times. As nice as their parking lot is for coffee call, I will visit with their manager about this.
January 29th - We posted our first interview of 2019 with cRc member Dan Rohring on the "MEET YOUR MEMBERS" page. Click below to navigate there.
Charlie and his red and white 1955 Chevy convertible. Nice job Charlie!!!
OK Vinny.......and so it was. Congratulations to June and Vince Letta who recently tied the knot. The crc wishes you a happy future and many classic cars.
In other club news - this quarter's 50/50 pot was clearly a "TERRY to TERRY" event. Lawrence Terry won the first pot a couple of week's ago, and TERRY O'dea won it on Saturday. There was $180 in the pot and Terry donated the entire pot to Variety Care of Norman.
In addition to the club making a donation, MIDWAY DELI donated 20% of their profit from yesterday's sale to the local charity.
And finally this bit of news from "DOWN UNDER".....our motorcycle duo of Jon Forman and Philip Scott, who spent the past month touring New Zealand and Australia - have survived the trip and were both at coffee call. Look for a page to appear on the website soon as Philip wrote a trip blog for us to enjoy.
We are experimenting (again) with a weather app on the calendar page. It should be interactive and you can click on the day and the forecast will open up and show you more. Try it. Good luck.....
Young Zack has another barn find that has been purchased and relocated from Wichita Falls, Texas to Norman. Let's see how long this little Ford pickup lasts. Maybe it will make it to one of the coffee calls but we are not sure. A tip of the hood to Zack for his ability to sniff out fun things which are locked away.
The Spring cRuise is taking shape. Carol is working on a cruise to the spot where Zack purchased this truck, in Wichita Falls, to tour his collection of race cars and aircraft. This would be a trip down the I-44 toll-road, and at freeway speeds - so not for every single cRc classic. Modern cars would be encouraged on this cRuise. More information as we get closer to the date. As always, there would be a fun lunch stop included.
Despite the widespread comments, Ray presses on.........
Ray is a litle defensive about his phone, but obviously proud of it.
This immediately attracts the attention of this table.....
Offers to donate the proceeds of this week's 50/50 pot are made by several members.....
Lawrence, who wins the pot, offers to buy it and put it in a museum....
Conversations erupt about the age of the cell phone, sort of like a new classic car coming into the club.....
As you can tell, Ray is pretty worried about his phone and doesn't even want to show it off anymore......
More discussion about the origin of the power source, between Charlie and Keith.....
During all of this, young Zack watches with a sense of amusement....
And Roy is simply an observer here, he is speechless.....
And thus it ended......each of us has the things in life we are proud of....for Floyd - it is his cheap pen collection, and for Ray - it is his steam powered cell phone. As for the rest of us.....we are not about to tell.
A fun day at Johnnies......
and Terry is "CLUB PROUD"!
