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Gary V. sent this slide show and article about the Pebble Beach Concours show.

http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1158358

August 30th - welcome new member Mark G. and your Jag.......we can't wait to get photos of it posted to the website.

Our "clever club cameraman Ken" (try saying that 5 times quickly) has taken a number of open hood photos for us to enjoy......

Welcome new members Melissa and your 1973 Chevy wagon.....and also new members Rachel and Luis and your 1960 Ford F-150....

Click the youtube video link below and enjoy some great stunt piloting....

A little slide show of Don's new 1973 Maverick dragster......made coffee call all the more fun at J-Pat's.....

A Flat Tire Saves the Day! (This reprint from the public radio "car talk" website....watch for the answer next week.

Tony was always late for work. Of course, he always had some excuse but the boss didn't care anymore, he was fed up! Out of sheer frustration the boss confronted Tony one day and laid down the law. 'If you come in late again with one of your bogus excuses, you're fired. No ifs, ands, or buts!'

Well, the very next day, Tony wheels into the parking lot late for work and naturally the boss is there waiting for him. What does he say? 'You're fired!'

Tony says, 'No, no, wait! I got a story to tell you and it's the absolute truth. I got a flat tire during the night. I don't have a spare, but luckily I had just enough air left in it to get to the neighborhood tire shop. They found a nail in it. They fixed it up and got me back on the road as fast as they could.'

'Oh yeah?' said the boss. 'And maybe you wouldn't mind answering a few questions. Did they plug it or patch it?'

'Oh,' Tony thought for a second. 'Uh, uh, uh... they patched it.'

The boss asks, 'Did they take the wheel off the car to patch it?'

'Yeah, yeah, yeah, they did,' Tony said nervously.

'Did they then take the tire off the wheel to apply the patch?'

Tony was beginning to sweat. If he gave the wrong answer, he knew he was fired. 'Yes, they did,' he stammered.

'Last question,' said the boss. 'Which tire did they fix?'

'That one,' said Tony, pointing.

'I believe you,' said the boss. 'Your job is safe. For now!'

The question is, what did the boss see that suggested Tony's story was true?

Now here is a list of disclaimers, hints and preconditions:

The boss didn't see a receipt on the dashboard from the aforementioned tire shop. Nor did he see a can of 'Fix a Flat' on the seat. He didn't see the donut or any spare tire. It was the same tire and it matched all the others. He didn't see any clean lug nuts and besides the hubcap kept them out of sight. And no, it was not flat again!

So what did the boss see that spared Tony the axe?

Answer:

Here's the answer. Tony's boss saw a little chalk mark on the sidewall of the tire. It was put there by the tire shop so they could put the tire back on with the same orientation it came off. The chalk mark was opposite the tire valve so they could save Tony time and money and wouldn't have to rebalance the tire. Ron C. again correctly answered this week's puzzler.....

Vanity on Wheels-this week's car talk puzzler.......

RAY: This puzzler is from my license plate series.

In the past, we've asked people to identify the kind of car that would be sporting a particular license plate.

I'll give you some examples that we've already used:

One was "tan 270" and the car that was affixed to was an Infiniti: the tangent of 270 is infinity.

Here's another one: 4x4x8. It was an Accord. A cord of wood is 4 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet.

So here's today's puzzler: the license plate has four letters on it: "i-n-m-y." "I" like in India, "N" as in November, "M" as in Mike, and "Y" as in Yankee.

Fantastic cars from the Concours show at Amelia Island, GA.

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Welcome new members Tim C and your pretty blue 1967 Cougar....photo below... also welcome to David D. and your 1916 Ford T "Cyclone Speedster"......

August 8, 2010 welcome new member Jeff D. owner of a 1969 project car....(photo on project car page). Jeff also has a 1955 Chevy Wagon that is for sale. We will be posting the details of this car on our "for sale" page in the near future. Welcome JEFF!

Congratulations new member MIKE and your 1968 Triumph TR250, for being selected as the "DIG MY RIDE" featured car in the Norman Transcript. MIKE brought his beauty out for us to admire, one evening to our cruise-in at Sonic on Chatauqua. A fine ride indeed, and nice unique addition to our little fleet of British Iron.

Click below to view the 1906 film clip on you tube.....

This film clip surfaced of a street car doing
what is does in 1906.

No wonder there had to be laws created to regulate driving habits.
Check out the old cars and helter-skelter traffic.

A camera on the front of a street car 104
years ago. Some of the cars had the steering
wheels on the right side, I wonder when they standardized on the left?
Looks like everybody had the right of way.

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We are the Canadian River Crusiers classic car club, based in central Oklahoma. We organized in May of 2008, and will celebrate our second year as a club in 2010. We are a no dues, minimum organization club, open to anyone in the area with an interest in classic cars or motorcycles. We currently have more than 240 cars in the club. Midway Grocery, pictured above, is our club headquarters. We meet there many Saturday mornings for coffee at 9am. Click here for this week's coffee location.