Saturday 11-16-24 A nice sized group turned out for coffee at Rudy's with a good number of classic cars and trucks. Several more arrived after this video was made.
2024 Veterans Day Parade
"The City of Norman honored the nation's veterans with its annual Veterans Day Parade and Ceremony on Sunday with floats, classic cars, humvees and musical performances.
The parade started from the University of Oklahoma’s Stephenson Research Technology Center at 101 David L. Boren Blvd and traveled north along Jenkins Avenue to conclude at Reaves Park, where the ceremony took place.
"Today is a day of celebration to honor American veterans for their patriotism, love of country and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good," said Taylor Poindexter, a U.S. Army veteran and CEO of Dale Graham Foundation. "First and foremost, I want to begin today by recognizing all of those among us who have been part of the great brotherhood and sisterhood we call our US military, our veterans, our active duty service member Guardsmen and Reservists, your sacrifice and service have kept our country safe and free."
Multiple civic and private organizations participated in the parade, including a combination of the Norman High School and Norman North High School marching bands as well as the Little Axe High School band. Lexington High School Show Choir performed during the ceremony.
Norman Mayor Larry Heikkila, a Navy veteran, said there are a lot of veterans from different parts of the nation's history who fought in different wars." -The Norman Transcript
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OK DINER FINALLY OPENS!
The long awaited opening of the OK Diner in the Max Westheimer airport admin building took place on Oct-25 and the results were good. Replacing the iconic OZZIES Diner, the new version does a good job in striking a balance between today's likes and traditional diner food. Operating hours are 7-2 and gone are the all-you-can-eat specials, but their onion burger is a good replacement. Comes with your choice of side for $12. Lead server Linda, who was with Ozzies back in the day, has returned and makes it seem much like Ozzies. Don't expect it to be a duplicate, but try it and you will likely return.
As I said earlier, I have always been a car guy. If you can’t tell me how you felt when you saw the first split window, then stop reading now.
I am speaking for all the post war babies. Cars were freedom, cars were American pride, and cars were path to the future. Four wheeled rockets, with bumpers that were jet engines, and interiors that were chrome, stainless, and glitz. NASA was headed to the moon, and we were king of the road. Kids dreamed of the cars they saw in magazines. Noses pressed against September windows to catch a look at the latest model.
The cars were in our soul. Not because they drove without us, or connected to the world wide web, but because they needed us as we needed them. If you have not cussed a carb, or experienced drum brakes, then you are sadly missing one of life’s great times.
I have sat in the seat of project cars and let my mind go to where the car would take me. At a full stop, up on blocks, I could hear the roar and feel the acceleration.
Maybe it was the Tequila, or maybe the ICE magic, but I was there. I have a basic understanding of what makes a car go, but more so I believe in magic.
There have been many conversations between myself, motorcycles, and cars, and I regret none. “Please feel my longing and make it one with yours”.
So, if you come from here or there, we all share a love. A love that is deep. Deep as the oil that powers our passion. So, I pray that in my short life, I will never enter a self- driving, transportation pod, to get where I want to go.
Time for full disclosure, I was, and am still, and import guy Sixty-eight horsepower English cars against high horsepower Vettes, Camaros, Mustangs and Cobras, but in my mind, they were still race cars. The smell, the sound, the feel is still as clear as fifty years ago.
Satruday morning was a fine time at Rudy's
As of Friday afternoon, the ownership of TOPAZ, the powder blue, 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 was transferred from Lani Malysa to Ray Langley. Glad to keep this one in the club. (Pictured above- Lani and TOPAZ)
October 6th-12th
This week in the club was quite busy as we successfully managed the Thunderbird Casino car show with more than 210 cars, supported the Norman Swap Meet from Wednesday afternoon thru Sunday by offering coffee and donuts, as well as a fun gathering space for club members and friends alike.
This was the most profitable show we have seen, and the club treasury is ready for the club Christmas Party on Saturday December 14th.
If this wasn’t enough, Saturday was the first Okie Nationals (photos left), a joint car club project between CRC and five other area club, in the planning stages for almost a year.
We participated in facilitating the show on Saturday and showed cars also. Hopefully next year the swap meet and show will fall on different dates. That show drew another 211 vehicles and could grow much larger as a regional show.
At any rate, we were all coming and going all week. Thanks everyone for the hard work.
Our roving reporter, James Hileman, was in Cromwell, OK this weekend. Photos below.
This is a very good car show and we are sorry if you happened to miss it. Thunderbird gave away $2,600 in cash prizes today. We had more than 211 cars in the show with about 15 non-registered cars. The day turned out to be drop-dead gorgeous and everyone seemed to be having a good event. The club made $2,500 as our payment for running the car show for Thunderbird. All of this money goes in the bank and will fund the trophies, portalets, coffee, donuts and other things we do at Rose Rock, Food and Shelter, The DAV Veteran Show, and Moore Olde Town show.
The proceeds of registration from those shows all go either to the Food and Shelter Veteran Housing Fund, or to the Disabled American Veteran (DAV), Oklahoma-Chapter Veteran Recreation Fund.
In either case your registration positively affects our Veterans. We thank you for the support of our car show activities in Moore, Noble, and Norman!
then to capture many of the really nice orphan cars that may not have been made for years, like the Corvair and Falcon, the Edsel and the Rambler. While you are looking, check out the white 1963? Chrysler 300 which is really beautiful....
Then there were the unique cars like the Model T "SPEEDSTER", the Sambar, and the BMW ISetta (one door)
OHRA Car Show - Mustang Oklahoma
The Canadian River Cruisers are often listed among Food and Shelter’s group of “CHAMPION GIVERS”. This places us in their top 10 or 20 annual donors, among a number of the large churches. Needless to say, we are the only car club on this list. And we are proud of the good things we do in our community.
We learned recently that one of the club's founding members, Jim Reinish, or as most people called him "PANELMAN", has been moved into a full service retirement home in Oklahoma City. He is at Saint Anne's Retirement Center on the north side of OKC.....
daughter Amanda reports he is doing better there than he was at home.
WAYNE SAUNDERS TO BE IMMORTALIZED IN BRONZE AT "THE GATHERING" IN TULSA WITH BRONZE STATUE.......
(Kyle Windrix who is of course in the cRc)..... if Kyle could do a bronze rendition of Wayne for an art project in Tulsa. Wayne agreed and so the casting is currently being done.
We will await the final results which will be posted here at a later date! This photo taken when Wayne and Dave were testing various Covid mask designs....this one did not make it into production was was successfully used at our 15th CRC birthday party.......
THE FALL CRUISE TO MEDICINE PARK AND MOUNT SCOTT!
A drop-dead gorgeous view awaited 18 cRc members laden with full tummies from our meal at Riverside Cafe in Medicine Park.
Carol and Jim had a private dining room waiting for us when we arrived and we bypassed the que and had our own dedicated waitstaff.
Everyone's vehicle made it easily to the top and it was worth the visions of "plummeting end over end down a near vertical cliff" to make the exciting drive up and down the mountain......but we all survived.
During lunch, we were treated to an excellent lecture by Emeritus Geology Professor and senior cRc member Jock Campbell who helped us (as well as the wait-staff) understand where all those little round cannonball size rocks came from that are unique to this part of Oklahoma and most of the United States. We also learned why "fracking" can cause minor earthquakes.
We were oh-so close also. Well, we're not saying who that was, but we are saying that the drive down was quite pretty on the very "green-for-August" back country roads of Oklahoma.
Medicine Park was hoppin! In these photos above, Carol issues route instructions to Roy for the Elgin to Medicine Park run. They were like " Follow Ken's Cadillac and don't let Dave and Marilyn pass you because they are supposed to be bringing up the rear!
Members Sam Klatt, Dan Haggerty, and Kimmer Phillippi helped fabricate the trophies that will be used for the OKIE Nationals car show in October. A big thank you to them!
We had a supersized morning at Midway Deli with some great cars coming in.
Kimmer drove his new red hot-rod, which was a big hit.
Coach Switzer stopped by again this week and enjoyed conversing about the cars, as well as providing a photo op for the cRc members.
ALL IN ALL, A MORNING WELL SPENT!
Meetings have been taking place monthly at "Grill on the Hill" in Capital Hill district. Meetings between area car clubs to determine if there is sufficient interest to put on an area wide car show to replace the one that was lost last year at the OKC fairgrounds. The CRC has joined with the coalition of a dozen or more clubs.
Led by CRC member Sam Klatt and several others to be recruited and announced, the clubs have agreed in principle to do what is surely to be a massive car show at FREEDOM TRAIL PARK in Yukon, Oklahoma on Saturday, October 12, 2024.
There will be more information to follow as all the details are yet to be finalized, but let us just say that the CRC plans to be very well represented at that show. Thank you Sam and others who volunteered your time to make this a reality.
