WHERE DO ALL OF THE COOL CARS HIDE?

 Here's one 😉

MARY LOU CAN LOOK GOOD JUST SITTIN' IN THE GARAGE

 

FALL COLORS

 This will have to do for a fall color picture...we didn't get Mary Lou out anywhere to show off the fall foliage...

TITAN RIDE TO A CURE - CAR SHOW

Cindy and I took Mary Lou to the Titan (Tire) Ride To A Cure Car Show on Saturday.  It felt like a last hurrah with the beautiful weather this last in October.  Titan puts this on every year to raise money for Cancer Research with all proceeds going to the John Stoddard Cancer Center. We heard there were 70 cars last year...the turnout this year was 137 cars!  Cindy is a nut...see her headband 😃

We were backed up to Bill and Maggie.  We learned that next year we should be facing north so when our hood is up we have natural shade.  We saw so many cars we had not seen before so we had fun with that.  We were parked next to "Mr. Edsel" and enjoyed visiting with him.  Our poster kept blowing over and we determined that in additional to Velcro holding the poster in place, we need a weigth on the tripod so it won't tip.

Tried something new with my replica owner's manual

Bill's Falcon

Gary Pullen's Merc

Great story on a lady driving a Chevelle...had one like it in high school and wanted one like it again.

No trophies for us but on the way home I stopped by an old gas station and took a photo...

TIME TO OPEN UP THE OTHER CARBURETORS - HALFWAY FOR NOW

 Mary Lou was starting for me.  So Bill and Maggie came over to see what she needed.  Bill checked and we had spark and fuel was getting TO the carburetor but wasn't squirting where it needed to.  The fix for now (and maybe forever) was to open the other two carburetors halfway - meaning they won't kick in until I have the pedal down more than halfway.  But they should help squirt the gas where it needs to be to fire.

We also set the idle a little higher.  Bill is always good to show me what he's doing so I can learn.  I feel confident I know what he did and I could make adjustments in the future if needed.

SUGAR SHACK ~ LAST TIME FOR THE YEAR?

 The season is winding down and good days may be ending.  It was a fairly warm but windy evening at The Shack.  Typical turn out with some new cars showing up.

Maggie and Bill had something cooked up for Cindy's birthday.  They had SPAM announce her birthday and sing Happy Birthday.  Maggie brought cupcakes to help celebrate with enough for us to go around and share with the rest of the group.  They also got her (us) a California Duster for Mary Lou.  Bill has been saying if you have a classic car, you need one of these.

UPDATE - I found some pictures on the Facebook page SPAMtastic so I'm adding those in as well.

Now hanging with the rest of my supplies...

Jim and Sue Vitzthum came out in their pickup.

The '47 Diamond T below was quite a sight to roll in.  A nice gentleman (Phil)and his wife own this survivor.

Cindy's new favorite car ('54 Chevy) lurking behind this modified and slammed mail Jeep.

Bill's Falcon

I was looking for a picture of my mother at the State Fair from 2007 and found the picture below of Maddy and Jacob.  I remember taking this photo but what stood out this time was the car in the background.  Now that I've spoken with Gary Pullen about his Mercury (above) and we have seen it at so many events I knew that had to be his car in the background below...

Gary said it was his car and Butch Jones owned the custom Ford behind the kids.  I showed Gary this photo and he got a kick out of it.  I saw Gary coming our way with a photo album.  He wanted to show us the progression on his Mercury.  His album went back to 2002!  As he said "you have to get ugly before you get pretty".  Very impressive and how nice to have that documented.  He even had a story and photo about picking up Potsie and Big Al from Happy Days😃

Getting dark earlier and earlier...a fun way to cap the evening as we were heading out.