Page 5 CRUISIN’ with the Mass Cruisers Auto Club
Cruisin’ at The Bass Pro Shops (Continued from page 4) Annual Car Show, thanking
everyone that pitched in to
(Continued from page 4) make it a success. Like many
other shows this year, both the
convertible despite being show car and spectator count
coached by her father to pick a was down from last year which was our highest attended show
Ford product. ever. We did have an unusually
The August 13 cruise also had high number of awesome show
lousy weather in the morning cars competing for the awards
to deal with and threatening and he was getting nothing but
rain to the east and south of our good comments from atten-
Foxborough location. Despite dees and car owners alike. The
getting off to a slower start than 50-50 benefit raffle was a success, raising $500 for the
all previous cruise nights, cars Blue Hills Regional Technical
started rolling in along with School’s Adopt-A-Shop pro-
motorcycles later on for a total gram.
of 350 cars & trucks and about
100 motorcycles. The charita- Bass Pro Shops Apparel Manager Lynne Foster presents the Sho- • Car Show Chairman Rich Ar-
ble 50-50 raffle effort for the Car Association Cruise Night Plaque to Bobby Dell’s beautiful mando was happy with the
August cruise nights is Homes customized 1969 Camaro Convertible at the July 30 cruise night. participation by club members
for our Troops, which provides and satisfied with the turnout. He believed the economy and
new or refurbished homes for particularly the heat affected
our severely wounded combat attendance, noting that people
veterans. were leaving the show around
CBS Scene provided 25 com- 11:30 to head for the beach or their pools rather than stay for
plimentary tickets through Pa- the awards at 2:30pm. Partici-
triot Place for their 8pm com- pation by 54 members for the
edy night lineup which were show was excellent noting that
given away on a first come first many of our newest members
serve basis by DJ Ron Alsop. really stepped up and pitched
Bass Pro Shops’ Uncle Buck’s in to help this year. We had 20
set up outside under the por- members on Saturday setting
tico area where the Patriot up the show field and 31 mem-
Place shuttle stops dishing out bers and 2 guests for the
scoops of Rhode Island’s #1 Goodie Bag BBQ. Passing out roses to the ladies was well
“Ice Cream Machine” ice received and the ne Kid’s
cream. It was a huge success Choice ballot box was stuffed
with more than 30 gallons be- Bass Pro Shops Operations Manager Bob Pope, presents the Sho- to overflowing proving that was
ing served in a little more than Car Association Cruise Night Plaque to Brian Burke of Greenville a popular addition to the su-
2 hours. Plans for adding hot RI for his 1949 Packard Woodie while Patrick Touhey and his team of 50-50 raffle helpers, below, strike a pose with this rare perlative awards this year. The
dogs out front during future Series 22 model. remote speakers which worked
cruises are being worked on. well at the cruise night ran into
some problems at the show
Bob Lepore also set up a cou- field with one facing the over-
ple of portable wireless speak- flow parking area producing
ers to cover the far reaches of static.
Lots 14 & 16 to address com-
plaints of not being able to • Rich would ask that members that experienced any problems
hear the DJ and they worked or have any suggested im-
out very well. There was a provement to write them down
MGM movie scout looking for and e-mail or give them to him
muscle era cars to use in an at one of the meetings.
upcoming Tom Cruise movie
as well. • Meeting adjourned at 8:15 PM
http://www.masscruisers.com
has all the still photos and slide
shows for these and all the ongo-
ing cruise nights. (Continued on page 6)
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