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Wednesday, November 12, 2025

HELLO MARY LOU!

 This blog is dedicated to our "new" 1955 Dodge Coronet Lancer.  We have been waiting 35 years for this moment.  A true car guy from Newton (Gordon "Gordy" Jones) owned this car.  Unfortunately he died from Covid and his son Justin made the decision to sell the car.  A big thanks to Randy Jones of Nothing But Customs for getting it ready.  We took possession on 8/5/22 and got the title on 8/12/22.

We are still learning the history of the car.  We know before Gordy owned it, Bob and Lonnie Clark of Mitchellville had the car. Bob is the one that built her the way we see her and Gordy added the Hemi.

"Mary Lou" is the name we gave the car...named for Cindy's aunt Mary Lou Cass.  She would have loved the car and we know she's smiling down on us now.

Posts will appear in chronological order...that's just how blogs are set up.  I can "label" (categorize) posts by a name or topic and that is how I see the blog being used.  See the menu (File Cabinet) on the right.  You can click on a category that way and see the related posts.  If you get to the bottom of a category, look to see if it says "Older Posts" and you can continue until there are no more posts in that category.  Then on to something else if you want and you can also click at the top of the page to go "home".



(Photo by Diane McKillip)

Saturday, October 18, 2025

TITAN RIDE TO A CURE - 2025

 This was our first year at this show since they moved to the Iowa State Fairgrounds.  We saw pictures from last year's show and expected parking to all be in the big lot on the north side.  We also had rain overnight and didn't want to end up on the grass, so we got there early.  Took a while to actually get in due to registration as you drove in.  We got parked in an area on the west side of the fairgrounds just around the corner from the big lot.  Turned out more cars were in the big lot than where we were.  We did get a nice spot for shade and the canopy...it just felt spread out.  We heard there were 250+ cars/trucks in attendance.









Gary Pullen's recently acquired 1949 Chevy.  He just added 57 Caddy hubcaps which really make it.







This '39 Ford pickup was a Top 10



1951 Packard ragtop - Best in Show



I love the juxtaposition with Skinny Bill's Chevy


Gary Sanger had his RC car out and running





IH Traveall












































Hello, Mary Lou!

HELLO MARY LOU!

 This blog is dedicated to our "new" 1955 Dodge Coronet Lancer.  We have been waiting 35 years for this moment.  A true car guy fr...