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Thursday, May 15, 2025

PLEASANT HILL DINER #1 - 2025

A VERY windy evening at PHD.  Windy enough that you could get up out of your chair unless you had a plan for someone else to keep it from blowing into a vehicle!

Not a huge turnout but good to get out of the house and talk to Gary about the car show Saturday.  He gave me my staff t-shirt which is "way cool".










Monday, May 5, 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)

Sunday, May 4, 2025

CAR SHOW PREP AT GARY'S HOUSE

First chance to see the magic behind putting on the big Deery car show.  Gary said this year is the most pre-registered (133).

It boils down to loading auction items, t-shirts and goodie bags for those 133 pre-registered.  This consisted of laying out koozies, carabiner clips, advertising, fun car stuff, etc in assembly-line fashion.

There were about 18 of us to get this done.  Gary and Sandy have a beautiful yard and a highlight was Gary showing me the magic in the basement!





One of the oldest trees in the state!



 

Saturday, May 3, 2025

PUT CONCRETE CRUIZER STICKER IN WINDOW

 Made it official.  I had another Good Guys sticker so moved over to passenger side after I removed old one on driver's side.


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...