Recovering from a busy week!

This past week has been a bit on the hectic side.  A good friend of mine was in town for the week from Cincinnati, Ohio. He's a car nut and spent as much time as he could traveling to car activities with me.  Tuesday evening was pizza and hot rods at Fricano's Pizza on Alpine.  Club members Steve, Chip, Phil & Jon made it there.  Chip had his new ride, the 48 Prefect, on display and it attracted quite a bit of attention.  Saturday afternoon we attended a car show in Hudsonville.  This was the first year that a car show was added to the Salad Bowl celebration.  Pretty good showing for a first show.  83 cars attended and 8 local businesses selected a car to receive a plaque from that business.  A large trophy was presented to the Peoples' Choice Winner.

After the Hudsonville show, we cruised to downtown Grand Rapids in time to spend an hour and a half at the 2nd annual Calder Cruise.  Nearly 140 cars assembled on the Calder Plaza prior to cruising through the streets of downtown out to Andi Leigh's Pizza in the south end.  Club member Steve's beautiful 34 Ford coupe was selected by the family of Greg Wyeth to receive the Wyeth Memorial Trophy.  Congrats to Steve!

Here's a shot of the cars lined up to start the cruise.

The 28th Street Metro Cruise is coming up in late August and part of the festivities is a Pin Up Girl Contest.  The ClassiX Street Rod Association was asked to provide some of our cars as "props" for the photo shoot which was held at the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners on Sunday.  Seven of us meet for breakfast in Hastings before cruising down M-43 to the museum.  We arrived before the girls were ready so we managed to get a few pictures of the cars without a lot of people around.

The red convertible isn't one ours.  The father of one of the contestants owns that car.

I have several pictures of the girls with the cars but I'll hold on to those until after the professional photographers release theirs.  The last event of the weekend was going to be a large show at Resurrection Life Church but the weather ended that one before we could even get there.  Wanted to pass out the fliers for the Pre-Cruise Party being held this year on the Thursday before Metro Cruise at Downs Custom Performance Automotive.  Here's the flyer.

The coming week looks nearly as active with plans to attend the Monday gathering at Gas Axe Garage, Tuesday at Fricano's Pizza and the BIG show at the Gilmore Museum on Saturday, The Red Barn Spectacular.  That's all for now!

New cars

Figured it was about time to add pictures of two new club cars.  Jon & Cathie's 34 Chevy Vicky is now pictured among the club cars.  Another new car made it's first public appearance at last Friday's breakfast club gathering.  Chip has been working on a 1948 English Ford Prefect for many years and finally had it in a drivable condition.  It still needs paint and the interior needs to be finished but it's on the road!

The weekend of July 12 was pretty much a rain out for local events although Paul & Sharon did attend the Grand Haven Jaycees show and picked up a first place in their class on Sunday.  Al won his class and Best in Show with his Willys at the Scottville show that weekend.  Thursday, July 17, the Big Boy restaurant in Grandville hosted their first show.  Jon was pleasantly surprised when the judges chose his 34 Vicky as "Best Hot Rod/Street Rod".

Steve and Jon attended the 3rd Annual US131 Martin Dragway reunion on Saturday, July 19 and entered their street rods in the Nostalgia Drag Race.  Neither made it past the first round.  Guess they better stick to car shows and cruising!