Page 7 CRUISIN’ with the Mass Cruisers Auto Club
CRUIZN and Car Shows in July (Continued from page 6)
cruise, will produce much
(Continued from page 6) better results. The July 30
cruise 50-50 is planned to be
Then the following weekend there dedicated to the One Mission
was the club’s annual trek to the foundation charity with Gerry
Bay State Antique Auto Club’s Kelly’s family helping us out.
38th Annual Endicott Estate Car Patrick will be on vacation so
Show in Dedham on July 12. A Ralph will need all the help he
typical nice sunny Sunday for this can muster.
show with about a thousand cars • Dale brought up a concern
on the show field, another two that has been discussed much
hundred in the car corral, and I before, yahoo burnouts onto
don’t know how many vendors in Rte. 1. One particular repeat
the flea market area, but this is offender, driving the creamsi-
always a great show to see and be cle Nova, will be warned at the
seen with your car. Dave Sereault next cruise or not be wel-
and Frank Bryant took 1st place Frank Bryant is seen detailing his ‘40 Ford at the July 11 Endicott comed back. Show for which he won a 1st Place in his closed modified vehicle
awards in their judged classes class along with Dave Sereault with his ’32 Roadster in the open • Rich Armando noted that we
and Bruce Waite a 3rd place in his modified vehicle class and Bruce Waite a 3rd place in his class. now have 33 pre-registered
class. We all met with Steve Hunt- Below, Bruce Berry sits in the cab of his ’41 Chevy pickup truck cars for the August 16 car
ington in the Cadillac class sec- filling out the show class information card at Endicott. show. He went over the judg-
tion of the show field to get our ing team assignments and he
supply of car show flyers and fan will use the August 11 Board
out across the sea of cars and meeting to refresh everyone
make sure everyone had one on using the judging forms
placed on their car seat or in and provide training on proper
hand. judging techniques for the
Our club’s first visit to the Mans- assigned elements they will be
field Downtown Family Fun Night asked to perform.
event on July 14 saw 8 members’
cars join with another 13 friends of
the club to set up a mini car show ‘Round About
in the midst of the town’s annual • Fun & Games at the club-
fund raising celebration that saw house has settled back to the
thousands enjoying a great eve- 1st Thursday of the month as
ning of entertainment and food. If these are now occurring on
you didn’t park your car before the open off-week nights for
the 6 pm start time, you had to our final Bass Pro Shops
fight your way through bumper-to cruises.
-bumper traffic to get to the mu-
nicipal lot where we were set up. • If you are wondering how
It was a totally different experi- successful the cash-for-
ence than what we are used to at a clunkers program will be for
cruise night or car show. But for the U.S. auto manufacturers,
Judy and I, it was a homecoming the program in 13 European
of sorts, as we met some of our old countries using similar cash-
neighbors from years back when for-clunkers incentives helped
we raised our family there and boost sales of the small cars,
also enjoyed an ice cream on the but did not make a dent in
front porch of the Sweet & Crafty the overall demand according
Ice Cream Parlor. to an Associated Press report.
The split starts the following Club members hang the Mass Cruisers banner behind Dave Fin
(Continued on page 8) Sareault's Deuce Roadster and Steve Huntington’s Caddy at the
July 14 Family Fun Night Cruise in downtown Mansfield, MA
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