my email:valleycruisers@sopris.net website:www.valleycruisers.org NEXT MEETING: We decided to forgo monthly meetings during the winter. There's not a lot to disscuss and if something does come up we can talk about it at one of the cruise nights or Sunday breakfasts. ANNUAL DINNER: You still have time to RSVP and attend the annual dinner coming up Saturday Feb. 11, 2012 at the Route 6 Grill in Glenwood.starting at 6 p.m. The cost is $30.00 per person. Please call or email me for more information or to RSVP. As of today we have 27 people signed up. UPCOMING DATES FOR CRUISES: Our next cruise night will be on Friday Feburary 24, 2012 at the Route 6 Grill in Glenwood starting at 6 p.m.. We'll meet on March 9 at the New Castle Diner, and March 23 at The 19th Street Diner in Glenwood. NEXT SUNDAY BREAKFAST: Our next Sunday Breakfast will be Sunday, February,19, 2012 at the Elk Creek Mining Co. in New Castle at 10.00 a.m. GLENWOOD CAR SHOW UPDATE: The next meeting of the car show committee for our upcoming Glenwood show will take place at the Route 6 Grill in Glenwood on February 29 starting at 3:30pm. Anyone who would like to help is invited to attend. Good news! All of our major sponsors are back on board for this year's event! Thanks to all of them! The dates for the show are July 27, 28 & 29. CARS FOR SALE: 1.1976 VW SUPERBEETLE convertible, triple white with 83,000 miles. Perfectly maintained NADA value is $12,550 asking $10,000 call Pete at 724-438-3081. 2. 1969 Mercury Cougar, red, in good condition 3. 1964 Ford Thunderbird white in good condition 4. 1969 Pontiac LeMans, black needs some body work, engine is a redone 450 5. GMC truck orange, needs much work, lowrider style, tranny may be gone 6. 2008 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins diesel, lifted 7. Harley 100th Anniversary Edition the next cars have questionable titles: 1972 Ford Maverick, blue , average condition don't know about under the hood Unknown year Triumph TR-6, green, good condition, don't know about under the hood Unknown year Land Rover All of the cars from #2 down come from an estate, if you are interested in any of them contact me or Vonda Williams and we can get you in touch with the appropriate individual. No prices have been placed on any of them. DUES ARE DUE!!: It's that time of year again! You should have received a statement by now. I hope each of you will continue with us into the coming year. The dues allow us to continue the activities of the club. MOAB CAR SHOW: The Moab show is scheduled for April 27 - 29, 2012. If you're interested in going, please get your reservations for lodging quickly as most places sell out fast many of you already have reservations due to that fact. For more information call me at 970-945-1008, or go to www.moabaprilaction.com .
CAR SHOW SCHEDULE: I'm beginning to compile a list of the upcoming car shows, It's pretty sparse right now, but I'll provide up-to-date information as it's received: April 27-29 Moab April Action Car Show, www.moabaprilaction.com May 12 Gateway Classic Car Show, www.gatewayautomuseumcom June July 27-29 Glenwood Springs Grand River Classic Car & Motorcycle Show, OUR SHOW August17-19 Gunnison Car Show, Call 970-641-2249 If you have information of other car shows, please let me know and I'll add them to the list.
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NEXT MEETING: We decided to forgo monthly meetings during the winter since there isn't much going on. We'll still have the cruise nights or Sunday breakfasts as weather permits.
UPCOMING DATES FOR CRUISES: Our next cruise night will be on Friday January 13, 2012 and we'll meet at the Route 6 Grill House in Glenwoo at 6p.m. I hope to see you there. January 27, 2012 we'll meet at the New Castle Diner at 6p.m.
NEXT BREAKFAST CRUISE: The next Breakfast will be on January 22, 2012 at the Rivers in Glenwood at 10:00 a.m.
THE ANNUAL DINNER: The Annual Dinner will be February11, 2012 at the Route 6 Grill. Mark your calendars! I'll provide more information as the date draws near.
CARS FOR SALE:
1.1976 VW SUPERBEETLE convertible - car is triple white with 83,000 miles. Perfectly maintained NADA value is $12,550.00 asking $10,000.00 call Pete at 724-438-3081.
2.1969 Mercury Cougar, red, in good condition
3.1964 Ford Thunderbird white in good condition
4.1969 Pontiac LeMans, black, needs some body work, engine is a re-furbished 450
5.GMC truck orange, needs much work, lowrider style, tranny may be gone
8.Harley 100th anniversary edition
9.2008 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins diesel, lifted
the next cars have questionable titles:
1972 Ford Maverick, blue , average condition don't know about under the hood
unknown year Triumph TR-6, green, good condition, don't know about under the hood
unknown year Land Rover
All of the cars from #2 down come from an estate, if you are interested in any of them contact me or Vonda Williams and we can get you in touch with the appropriate individual. No prices have been placed on any of them.
CAR SHOW: Now that we're into the new year we're starting to plan for the car show in Glenwood again. Our first meeting will be sometime this month. I should have the scheduled date by the next newsletter. The dates for the show will be about the same - tenatively, July 27, 28, and 29. Please keep those dates open.
Congratulations to Angie Herrington: Just before Christmas Angie completed work on a large quilt depicting a number of national skiiing events for a local skiier. The quilt was featured on the front page of the Glenwood Post and also made the Denver Post. Great job Angie!
NEW MEMBERS: We want to welcome Jerry and Cindi Seifert as new members to the club. They own a 1966 Chevelle and have already attended several of our cruise nights. We hope they will enjoy their time cruisin' with us.
MOAB IS APRIL 27 - 29, 2012: The Moab show is scheduled! If you're interested in going, please get your reservations for lodging quickly as most places sell out fast! Many of you already have reservations due to that fact. If you need more information you can call me, or go to
**REMEMBERING JERRY GARNER** As many of you know by now, our good friend Jerry Garner passed away December 27, 2011 as a result of a gunshot wound. Those of us who knew him had many great times cruisin with Brenda and him. I'll always remember the good times we had, and there were a lot of them. Although they had moved to Texas over a year ago, we still feel the great loss of a great man and good friend. Jerry will cruise with us in our hearts always. Our thoughts and prayers are with Brenda and their family in this time of grief. Brenda intends to bring his ashes back to Colorado at some time in the future.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
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NEXT MEETING:
Last year we decided at the last meeting to forgo monthly meetings during the winter, there is not a lot to disscuss and if something does come up we can talk about it at one of the cruise nights or Sunday breakfasts.
UPCOMING DATES FOR CRUISES:
Our next cruise night will be on Friday, December 2, 2011, at the Route 6 Grill House in Glenwood at 6 p.m. I hope to see you there. On December 16, 2011, we'll meet at the New Castle Diner at 6p.m. For those of you who would like to meet on December 30, 2011, we'll be at the 19th Street Diner at 6 p.m.
NEXT BREAKFAST CRUISE:
The next Breakfast will be on December 11, 2011, at the Elk Creek Mining Co. in New Castle at 10 a.m.
THE ANNUAL DINNER:
Our annual dinner will be February11, 2012, at the Route 6 Grill, I wanted to give you plenty of time to plan the date. I'll have more information as the date draws near.
CARS FOR SALE:
1. 1976 VW SUPERBEETLE convertible car is triple white with 83,000 miles. Perfectly maintained NADA value is $12,550.00 asking $10,000.00 call Pete at 724-438-3081. 2. 1969 Mercury Cougar, red, in good condition. 3. 1964 Ford Thunderbird white in good condition. 4. 1969 Pontiac LeMans, black needs some body work, engine is a redone 450. 5. GMC truck orange, needs much work, lowrider style, tranny may be gone. 6. Harley 100th anniversary edition. 7. 2008 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins diesel, lifted. All of the cars from #2 down come from an estate, if you are interested in any of them contact me or Vonda Williams and we can get you in touch with the appropriate individual. No prices have been placed on any of them.
The next cars have questionable titles: 1. 1972 Ford Maverick, blue , average condition don't know about under the hood. 2. unknown year Triumph TR-6, green, good condition, don't know about under the hood. 3. unknown year Land Rover.
I just got one more in for sale:
1974 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible, ready for restore, needs new paint, leather, and top. Runs great, 100,000 miles. Call Kirk at 970-372-6515.
Christmas will soon be upon us and I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. As you know once the new year comes around we have to endure about two to three months of winter. Then, in the Spring, we can look forward to another year of car shows, starting with Moab.
I want to thank each and everyone of you for helping to make 2011 a successful year for the club, it's only with the help of all of the members that we can continue to keep the dream alive!! I look forward to 2012 and working with all of you to make it a successful year as well.
As always, if you have any suggestions please let me know!
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my email:valleycruisers@sopris.net website:www.valleycruisers.org NEXT MEETING: As last year we decided at the last meeting to forgo monthly meetings during the winter, there is not a lot to disscuss and if something does come up we can talk about it at one of the cruise nights or Sunday breakfasts. UPCOMING DATES FOR CRUISES: Our next cruise night will be on Friday November 4, 2011. We will meet at the New Castle Diner at 6:00 p.m.I hope to see you there. November18, 2011 we will meet at the 19th Street Diner in Glenwood at 6:00 p.m. December 2, 2011 we will meet at the Route 6 Grill in Glenwood again at 6:00 p.m. NEXT BREAKFAST CRUISE: The next Breakfast will be on November 13, 2011. We will try a new place,Steffie's, in Silt.We will meet at 10:00 a.m. The next Breakfast will be on December 11, 2011 at the Elk Creek Mining Co. in New Castle. We will meet at 10:00 a.m. DATE FOR THE ANNUAL DINNER: As we did last year, we will have our annual dinner after the new year. The date will be February11, 2012 at the Route 6 Grill.I wanted to give you plenty of time to plan ahead. I will have more information as the date draws near. CAR SHOW 2012: At the last meeting it was decided we would again go in with the Glenwood Car show. Everyone felt it was well worth it. There were a few changes suggested, but overall it will be close to being the same. CLUB OFFICERS: Also at the last meeting it was decided that the current officers will continue to serve their position until another nomination is received.With the exception of Nancy Duffy, who will be the new secreatary. It looks like we have a great eating schedule for the winter, so far!Hope you can make some of them as they are a great way to stay in touch during the off season. Please continue to let me know of any information you would like to have posted in the newsletter.As you can see, this newletter is a little short on news!! That's it for now.
HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
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NEXT MEETING: We will hold our next meeting October 19 ,2011 at Zancanella Offices in Glenwood starting at 7p.m.If you have any thoughts on who you would like to see as club officers, please let us know as October is the month we elect officers. FALL COLORS CRUISE SET FOR OCT. 8, 2011: The annual fall color cruise sponsored by Bart Victor will take place this Saturday, Oct. 8.We will meet at the Charcoal Burger between 8:30 a.m. To 9:00a.m.,we will have coffee and donuts there and then take our cruise to see the colors, we will then return to the Grill House for lunch. UP COMING CRUISES FOR OCTOBER: We will have our Friday night cruise nights on Friday Oct. 7 and Oct. 21.The plan is to meet at the Charcoal Burger for as long as the weather will allow. If it gets too cold, we'll move into the Grill House.Then next month we'll go to the New Castle Diner and the 19th St. Diner, like we did last year. SUNDAY BREAKFAST OCT 16 2011: We'll start our monthly breakfast get-togethers again this month. We'll meet at 10:00am at Rivers, in Glenwood, on Oct. 16.This was very well received last year so I hope many of you will be able to make some of these. FOR SALE: 1964Chrysler New Yorker, 413 V-8, pushbutton automatic, no body damage, White with sea green interior.New tires with original hubcaps.Runs strong,Call Nancy970-306-3596Asking $1,400.00 (willing to deal) Please remember to send photos of your for sale items or favorite classic car to our website www.valleycruisers.org .
It seems summer just arrived and now its over, I can't believe how fast time flew by.I hope you had a great summer and can get out and enjoy the nice fall we seem to be having.The fall color cruise is a good chance for you to get out one last time as a group,Bart Victor is sponsoring the cruise and is providing the continental breakfast and the lunch before and after the cruise,it should be a good time so I hope many of you will be able to attend and hopefully the weather will cooperate at least one more weekend.
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NEXT MEETING:
We will not have a meeting in Sept. The next meeting will be in Oct. and we will have elections at that time, please give some thought to who you might want to nominate for officers.
NEXT CRUISE NIGHTS:
The last Charcoal Burger Cruise night of the year is coming up on Sept. 9. It seems hard to believe it is already almost over for the year. Hope you can join us for the last one, the cruise nights have been great this summer with more cars and we have gotten quite a few new members as a result of the cruises.
OUR OWN CRUISE NIGHTS:
Even though the Charcoal Burger cruises are ending we will continue our everyother Friday cruises, Our cruise will be at the Charcoal Burger on Sept. 23. and we will continue to meet for cruise nights every other Friday from here on out throughout the year.
A BIG THANKS TO MIKE & NANCY DUFFY AND STEVE & KRISTY CARVER:
This past month we had a great BBQ at the home of Mike and Nancy Duffy. There were almost 30 members who showed up to see Kim and Augie Reno, Kim has not been able to join us for our events and this was a great chance for the members to catch up with her. We had a great time and the food was excellent, the BBQ was completely catered by Steve Carver at no cost to the club. You could not have asked for a better night, and I hope all who attended had a good time, I know Berdean and I did. Again a big thanks to these guys, they really went beyond expectations to make the night special.
MEMBERS WIN AT SEVERAL SHOWS IN AUGUST:
We attended several shows this past month and several members came away with awards.
First the Garfield County Fair show in Rifle we had several winners. Congratulations to Wes and Deb Gore, John and Nan Sowieja, Cecil and Betty Waldron, all took top 20 awards, and Lane and Pam Luaguesen took best of show.
At the Leadville Boom Days Show Vonda Williams took Ladies Choice and Big Steve took best of show.
Finally at the Palisade Show Big Steve took 1st place in his class and also was voted Peoples Choice. And believe it or not, yours truly actually tied for 2nd place in class!
CALENDARS ARE AVAILABLE:
For those of you who still want to get a car club calendar I have them available for $15.00 each. They go from August 2011 to December 2012. Please let me know if you would like to purchase one and I will make arragements to get it to you.
WEBSITE REMINDER:
Please remember our website valleycruisers.org We are always in need of updated pictures, some of you have sent in pictures and we appreciate it. You can send the pictures to Darla at her listed email address. Also you can place for sale or wanted items on the site at any time. Please try to use the site to your benefit.
PIN UP GIRLS AND ROCK-A-BILLY EVENT:
On Saturday Sept. 17, 2011 there will be an event with the Roaring Fork Pin up Girls and classic cars, and several live bands will perform. The event will take place at Two Rivers Park in Glenwood and will start at 2 p.m. Thru 8p.m. The Pin up girls would like to take pictures with some of the cars and they want to dress the match the cars. If you would like to bring your car for the event please let me know what car you will be bringing and the color, etc. so I can coordinate with the pin up girls ahead of time so they can match their dress to the car. Let me know as soon as possible as this will probably take some time to coordinate with them. Call me 970-945-1008. Several of us attended a Pin up event in Carbondale this past Friday and found the girls to be very willing to work with us and be careful of the cars. I have told them that in order for us to bring cars we need to have a place for the cars to park away from door dingers, and they have no problem providing this.
UPCOMING SHOWS:
There are several shows still coming up the first will be Sept. 10 and 11 at the Eagle Airport and Vail. It is the wheels and wings show, I have heard they have about 100 cars already signed up. I plan to go to this show, if any of you are going and are interested in cruising together please let me know. Call me at 970-945-1008. For information you can call Doug at 970-376-1299.The Burning Mountain Festival Car Show will also take place on Saturday Sept. 10, 2011. If you want to be in the parade you should line up at the public works building no later than 9a.m. The car show will take place downtown New Castle after the parade. For more information you can call Krista De Herrera phone 970-309-6214. for you who get the newsletter by email I am attaching a copy of the registration form for you.
The Downtown Grand Junction show is coming up on Sept 24, this is always a good show and many of the members attend the show. This year there is also a cruise through the Colorado National Monument on Friday Sept, 23. If you can make the show it should be a good one again.
Finally the Cedaredge Show is Oct. 1 , this is the last show locally that I know of for the season and it usually is a nice show with normally good weather, that is no guarantee however!! We will probably try to set up a cruise to this show as well so if you are interested in going please let me know.
I hope all of you had a great summer, I know a lot of you got ou t with your cars at the shows and cruises and enjoyed yourselves and looking at all the cars. It is hard to believe the summer is coming to a close already, I hope we have a very nice fall so we can continue to cruise
During the year we have instituted new events and tried to incorporate suggestions from the members to make the club more fun and viable. We are always wanting new suggestions as to what we can do to make the club work for all the members. Please let me know if you have any ideas you think we should look at doing for the coming year.
NEXT MEETING: We will not have a regular meeting this month, instead we are going to have a BBQ on August 24, starting at 6 p.m. Located at Mike and Nancy Duffy's home in west Glenwood. The address is 90 Mountain Shadows Drive and it is located two blocks north of the Glenwood Springs Mall. Please RSVP with the number of people you will have, this will be a pot luck dish type getogether, however Steve Carver will be providing all of the meat. You may call me 970-945-1008 or call Mike and Nancy at 970-945-9701 to RSVP. We will have Augie and Kim Reno as our guests of honor since we were unable to give them a proper send off when they moved. I hope many of you will be there to enjoy a great BBQ meal and good times with your friends.
CALENDARS ARE DONE AND NOW AVAILABLE: Thanks to Harry Bentzler we have the calendars done and they are available to purchase. The cost is a little less than we originally thought they would be. They are $15.00 each. We have an unlimited supply so we can get as many as we need. Please let me know if you'd like to have one or more and I'll get them to you. Call me at 970-945-1008.
MEMBERS WIN AWARDS AT SEVERAL CAR SHOWS: This past month several of our members won awards at the many shows around the area. Starting with the Gypsum Show, congratulations to Vonda Williams, Don Paulin, Chuck Norton, Cliff Herrington, Cecil Waldron, and Augie Reno. All of their cars won top 20 awards with Cliff getting the Fire Dept. award. Augie also swept the major prizes they had, he won both prizes in a drawing. Then the next weekend several members cruised to the car show in Delta. Congratulaltions to Augie Reno, Cecil Waldron, and Don Paulin, they all won awards.
GRAND RIVER CLASSIC CAR AND MOTORCYCLE SHOW: I want to first thank all of you who helped and attended our show this past weekend, it's only with the participation of the members that we can be successful, and though there were some glitches I believe our first collaboration with the Downtown car show and Silt Heyday car show was successful. I especially want to thank Cathy Queen, Angie Herringtion, Debbie Baker, and Berdean Madsen, they were able to take a less than well planned registration system and make it work. I know it was frustrating but they did a great job!
We started out Friday Cruise Night at the Charcoal Burger with almost 60 cars, many of which took a cruise through downtown Glenwood. It was a great way to let people see the cars and attract more interest in the car show. After the cruise, all participants were treated to a great BBQ at the Charcoal Burger, courtesty of Bart Victor. We had music, good food, great conversation, and lots of cool cars!
Saturday the show drew approximately 80 to 90 cars and motorcycles that filled the streets with cool rides from all over the western slope and even from out of state. We want to congratulate Ron Arbaney as his Indian motorcycle took one of the awards picked by independent motorcycle judges. Also, congratulations to Richard and Vicky Nash. Their Shasta travel trailer won the People's Choice award.
Thanks to Harry and Lori Bentzler for all the work they put into the poker run. A few folks enjoyed a cruise through the countryside around Harvey Gap and back. Several cars took part in the Bike Nite at the Meadows. Congratulations to Augie Reno, his 37 Chevy won favorite car. He took home a great and heavy trophy! Also, Ron Arbaney won with his Indian motocycle again! That makes twice in one day, way to go Ron!!
Sunday morning we had approximately 20 to 25 cars join the the cruise from Glenwood to Silt for the Silt HeyDay Show. Bart provided a continental style breakfast to all participants and theshow drew some 60 to 70 cars. Congratulations to Darryl Queen, his motorcycle won an award at this show.
As you can see it was quite a busy and fun weekend! The weather was great the entire time and most of our members were able to participate in at least parts of it. I hope all of you enjoyed it. Please make note of any changes you feel we could make to improve the show for the coming years.
NEW MEMBERS: We want to welcome a couple of new members to the club. Jamii and Hope Bentzler, from Silt, who own a 1957 Chevy, and Dave Ogren, from Carbondale, and his 1969 El Camino. We hope they enjoy their time with the club and go cruising with the rest of us.
I'm going to include an application form in the newletter from now on in the event you have someone interested in joining you can print one and give it to them. That should help recruit new members! Application can be accessed at the end of the newsletter.
REQUEST FOR MORE PICTURES AND INFORMATION FOR THE WEBSITE: We need updated pictures of cars and events for the web site. If you have any pictures you want on the site, please email them to Darla at darljene@comcast.net . Also, if you had vehicles placed on the "For Sale" page, let her know if there are any changes to be made.
I urge all of you to check the website from time to time, the address is
www.valleycruisers.org. Thanks!
UP COMING SHOWS: Next Saturday, August 6, 2011 will be the Garfield County Fair Car Show. If you want to participate in the parade as well you need to show up at the Rifle Police Dept. parking lot no later than 9:30 a.m. Some of our members are plannng to attend this show. It's good to attend events close to home. For more information, go to www.garfieldcountyfair.com/events .
Another show that many of our members like to attend is the Palisade Peach Festival Car Show in Palisade. It's on Saturday August 20, 2011. Call Jim at 970-243-8352 for information.
I can't think of anything else at this time, I hope you're having a good summer!
NEXT MEETING: The next meeting is on Wednesday July 20, 2011 at Duffy's Garage in Glenwood starting at 7 p.m. Hope to see a lot of you there. This will be our last meeting before our big car show in Glenwood so we will need to make final plans for the show. If you can't attend but are willing to assist during the show and poker run, please let me know. CAR SHOW UPDATE: I want to let you all know what is going on with the show. We are going to start with a cruise night at the Charcoal Burger in Glenwood on Friday night July 29 at 6 p.m. We'll have a car cruise down Grand Ave. in Glenwood, then return to the Charcoal Burger for food and music until 9 p.m. On Saturday morning, July 30, we'll begin parking and registering cars at 7 a.m. If you didn't preregister you can still register cars the day of the show. The cost for the show is as follows: both Glenwood Show and Silt Heydays show is one charge of $30.00 per car. If you are going to only do one or the other, the cost is $20.00 per car for the Glenwood Show. Club members will be eligible to win awards if you've paid the registration. If you only want to display the car we can do that as well. After the car show we are sponsoring a poker run. It will leave downtown Glenwood at 4p.m. And will end at the Bike Nites at the Meadows in Glenwood around 6p.m. The organizers of the Bike Nites are going to allow the cars to be displayed free of charge. There will be live bands playing and plenty of food and good times so I hope many of you will be able to go. Please tell your friends they are welcome to participate even if they're not members of the Club. Sunday morning July 31, we'll leave the Charcoal Burger at 8:30a.m. and cruise to Silt where there will be a free breakfast for participants. The Silt Car Show will take place the rest of the day until about 4p.m. There's plenty of things going on during the weekend so make plans to get out and enjoy all the activities! By now I hope all of you have gotten your posters up in your areas, we're still looking for more door prizes as well as trophy sponsors at $50.00 each. If any of you know of any businesses who would be willing to donate either one, please get with them right away. We are also looking for judges to pick the top 20 awards. If you know anyone who is not affilliated with the club who would like to help judge, please let me know. A BIG THANKS TO DARRYL AND CATHY: On June 21, 2011 Darryl and Cathy Oueen opened their home for a club BBQ to welcome Jerry and Brenda Garner back home, if only for one night. Those of you who attended know what a nice time it was, Jerry and Brenda were quite appreciative and we had good food, good friends and an overall good time. Again, a big thanks to Darryl and Cathy. REDSTONE RALLY: Our first time attending the Redstone Rally was a success. We had approximately 17 cars on display during the day. Our club took over the parking lot at the Hightower Cafe, we played rock & roll music and had a good time. Andy the pin striper showed up and several of our members were able to add stripes to their rides. The weather could not have been better and all in all the day was a success. I hope we can do it again next year. NEW CASTLE DINER ANNIVERSARY: The day after the Redstone rally, several of our members attended the first anniversary of the New Castle Diner. The diner provided the parking area for the old cars and there was a live band. Again, the weather was almost perfect for the cruise in. CHARCOAL BURGER CRUISE NIGHTS: As a reminder, the next cruise nights for the Charcoal Burger are July 15, July 29(our car show cruise night), August 12, August 26, and Sept. 9. The cruises have been very well attended and many cars we have'nt seen before have been showing up. We've also been able to sign up several new members as a result of the cruise nights. I hope you can attend some of these cruise nights. It's a great time to show off your ride and meet old and new friends as well! CRUISE TO GYPSUM CAR SHOW: We'll meet at the Glenwood City Market at 7 a.m. to cruise to the car show in Gypsum on July 16. We're meeting a little early because of the construction in Glenwood Canyon. It slows things down a bit. CALENDAR UPDATE: I know it seems like this is taking a long time to finish but we're almost there! We finally have all the pictures for the calendar. Harry will be putting it together and start printing this month. If you want more than one calendar, please let me know how many. It will be an 18 month calendar and will cost around $22.00 each. You can email me or call me at 970-945-1008. If you already placed your order with me previously, those will be orderd automatically. If there are any changes, be sure to let me know. NEW MEMBERS: As I said earlier, we have several new members who have joined the club in the last month or so. We want to welcome Doug Britt, who owns a 1966 corvette, Michael Whiddon, who has a Viper, and Dave and Shirley Lawson, who have two Mustangs, and a Torino Talledega. We hope they'll be able to cruise with us and enjoy their time with the club members and our activites during the year. RIFLE WAL-MART CAR SHOW: The Rifle Walmart would like to do a show in August, probably August 13. I'm not sure about this yet but I wanted to let you know well in advance so you can make plans. I'll get more information to you as I get it.
As you can see we're well into our summer activities and there are plenty more to come. I hope you're able to participate in some of these activities and cruises. This is the best time of year to get our cars out to show them off and just enjoy them!
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NEXT MEETING: The next meeting is on Wednesday June 15, 2011 at Zancanella's offices on Grand Ave. in Glenwood. It starts at 7 p.m. Hope to see a lot of you there. We'll be handing out car show posters and information on our upcoming car show. We need members to volunteer to help with the show.
NEXT CRUISE NIGHTS:
The new season of Charcoal Burger Cruise nights has begun. June Cruise nights are set for June 17. The next ones are July 1, 15, and 29, which is the cruise night for our show in Glenwood. I have attempted to send the entire cruise schedule in a separate email to you who receive email newsletters. Hope you can make some of these cruises. We also decided at the last meeting to not have any breakfast cruise getogethers until October.
CAR SHOW UPDATE:
Before you know it we will be having our show in Glenwood, we need volunteers to place posters in businesses in your area and also to contact your area businesses to get either donations for door prizes and/or items to place in the goody bags. Please contact these people soon to get these items so we will know what we have. We want the posters in place no later than June 20th, if you need posters pleasecontact me at 970-945-1008. We also need people to hand out cards on the stops during the poker run on Saturday after the Show and Shine in Glenwood. If you would like to volunteer your time, please contact me or Harry. We still need trophy sponsors of $50.00 per trophy. I included the sponsor donation form in last month's newsletter. If you didn't get one, please let me know. We need to know about door prizes, trophy sponors, and goody bag items by July 1st. As I've said before, the show can only be successful with everyones help. Please contact me if you have questions or concerns.
REDSTONE RALLY:
Just a reminder: Saturday, June 25, 2011 at Redstone - the club has donated $300.00 for space to display our vehicles at the Hightower Cafe in Redstone in conjunction with the big Redstone Rally. This rally is mostly for motorcycles, however, this year they are including cars and have asked us to come and spend the day in Redstone. There will be music, food, a poker run and much more. It would be great to see a lot of club member's cars on display there. Also if you know someone who would like to bring a car but is not a member they would be welcome as well. We'll start parking cars between 8 and 9 a.m. It should be a fun time!
FRUITA CAR SHOW:
Congratulations to Big Steve, his Willis pick up won a top 20 award at Mike's Headless Chicken Car Show this past month.
THANKS TO HARRY AND LORI:
Some of you were able to join us for the May BBQ at Harry and Lori's last month. It was a great day for a BBQ and Harry and Lori went the extra step to welcome all who came. We were also able to get some great shots of the cars for the upcoming calendar. Harry is working on getting the calendar put together and printed. If you were at the BBQ your car will definitely be on the calendar, those of you who gave us pictures to use last year for the calendar will also be included as long as we have the space. If your car doesn't get in this time, it will be the first in line for the next one. We plan on continuing to have calendars made each year.
NEW MEMBER INFORMATON:
We have quite a few new members in the past 6 months and I'd like to let the members know that if they wish to have a club jacket or some other item with a club logo on it to wear to the cruises and shows, they can select the jacket, shirt, or cap of their choice and take it to the Glenwood Shirt Shop. Tell them you are with the Valley Cruisers and they will put the logo on the item, the club will pay for the logo to be placed on one item. If you have questions let me know.
JERRY AND BRENDA TO VISIT:
Jerry and Brenda Garner are planning to be in Glenwood on June 21, I am going to try to get members together to meet them for dinner that evening. If you would like to join us for dinner, please call me and I'll give you information on times and places. My number is 970-945-1008. Also we want to congratulate them for winning 1st place at the second show they attended in Brownsboro, TX.
It looks like summer has finally arrived and with it many chances to get the cars out and cruise and go to shows etc. I hope all of you are able to get out and enjoy the cars this summer. As you can see from this newsletter, we'll be busy locally and the car show schedule continues to grow.
As always, if you know of any shows that I do not have on the list that you would like to see added please let me know.
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MAY 2011 ~ WELCOME SPRING!! ~
my email:
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NEXT MEETING: The next meeting is on Wednesday May 18, 2011 at Duffy's Garage, starting at 7 p.m. Hope to see you there.
NEXT CRUISE NIGHT: Our next cruise night will be May 13 at the Charcoal Burger in Glenwood, starting at 6 p.m.
BBQ AT HARRY AND LORI'S HOUSE: The BBQ will be held on Sunday May 15, 2011 beginning at 12 noon. We'll be able to get some good pictures of the cars for the calendar. If you want a new picture of your car, please bring it to the BBQ. Otherwise we'll use the picture we already have on file. It's going to be a potluck so please call Harry and Lori at 876-0123 to RSVP and to find out what you need to bring. It will be a good time for all! Directions to Harry and Lori's: from Silt go north on First Street until you get to County Road 233. Turn Left on 233 until you pass County Road 229. The address is 6025 County Road 233 on the right side.
MOAB CAR SHOW - ANOTHER SUCCESS: Last weekend many of our members attended the Moab Car Show, this was a great way to kick off the season. There were about 500 cars in the show and it seemed the cruises had more people than ever. The weather was somewhat cool, but great compared to what was going on at home! Many of us met together for dining out, visiting and having a great time!One of the highlights of the show was that Cliff was finally sold his ranchero! Congratulations to Angie and him! His patience paid off. The people who bought it live in Moab so hopefully we will see it at the show next year.
RIFLE RENDEZVOUS CAR SHOW: The Rifle Rendezvous car show will take place in Rifle on Saturday, May 14, 2011. The show will start at 10:00 a.m. On 3rd street just off Railroad Ave. in downtown Rifle. Please call Brook Loving at 309-1872 for more information on the show . Hopefully we can get as many of our members there as possible. It would be nice to see a good representation from the club. I know I mentioned this show in the past, however this is the first real information I have gotten on it. Sorry for the late timing of this. CECIL AND BETTY WIN AT THE TAMMY ALLEN SHOW: Congratulations to Cecil and Betty! Their '57 Ford Retractable was awarded a 2nd place in the category of classic cruiser at the high end Tammy Allen Car Show in Grand Junction.
CAR SHOW UPDATE: Our car show is coming along very well. I am including a copy of the donation form for each of you to use and make copies as needed, it would be great if each member could get one donation for the trophys. The donation amount per award is $50.00 and every donator will have their named displayed on the award and on a board at the show. The first part of June we will need people to hang posters in their areas for the show. Please let your friends know our reason for moving the car show out of Carbondale. I've been getting many questions about that lately. With everyone's help we'll make the Grand River Classic Car Show a success!!
REDSTONE RALLY: At our last meeting the club members voted to donate for a place at the Redstone Rally. We are going to have an area to set up for our cars at the Hightower in Redstone. I hope you'll give serious consideration to bringing your cars to this show. The club has already paid for the spaces and it would be a shame if we didn't fill them. The cars will be on display Saturday June 25, 2011. This is a good time to get the word out about our club and maybe to recruit some new members.
MONTROSE AND GYPSUM CAR SHOWS: As you may already know, unfortunately, the Montrose Car Show and The Gypsum Car Show are on the same day. Many of our members usually attend both shows. I'ld like to ask anyone who isn't going to Montrose to try and make it to the Gypsum Show. As you may know the show is sponsored by Big Steve's Towing. He is one of our major sponsors, also, and I believe we need to show our support. I'm not asking you not to go to Montrose, I am asking only if you don't have plans for the weekend to try to make the Gypsum show. They're BOTH great car shows!
UPDATED CAR SHOW EVENTS: Please check the car show list, I have added several more shows on it for this month. I hope the list is helpful for you to plan which shows you may want to go to. As always, please let me know of any shows you'ld like to see included on the list.
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Sponsorship Donation Form
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APRIL 2011
my email:
valleycruisers@sopris.net
website:
www.valleycruisers.org
NEXT MEETING:
The next club meeting will be at Duffy's Garage in Glenwood and will be on April 20, 2011 starting at 7 p.m. Hope to see you there.
NEXT CRUISE NIGHTS:
The next cruise nights are Friday April 15th at the 19th Street Diner in Glenwood and Friday April 29 at the New Castle Diner. The cruise nights in May are May 13yh, 19th Street Diner and May 27th New Castle Diner.
Please remember that the Charcoal Burger will be starting up cruise nights again soon. I don't have the schedule yet. If the above dates conflict, we will be going to the Charcoal Burger instead. BBQ COMING IN MAY:
Please mark your calendars for Sunday May 15th, at 12 noon for a BBQ at Harry and Lori's house. Also, we would like to take pictures of all the cars for the Valley Cruiser's calendar. Yes, we are still working on getting a decent calendar for the club! If you want your car included on the calendar, please bring it the day of the BBQ. There will be a great background to take some very nice, high-quality pictures. More information will be in the May newsletter. NEW MEMBERS:
We want to welcome Lee Duddley to the club, he recently purchased Chuck's 1953 Chevy and will be joining us for the shows and cruises. We also want to welcome back Vonda Williams, who has rejoined with us. Great to have you back, Vonda! CRUISE TO MOAB:
Some of us will be cruising to Moab on Thursday, April 28, 2011. We will meet at the New Castle Diner for breakfast at 10:00a.m. and cruise to Moab from there. If you want to join in the cruise but cannot be in New Castle let me know and we can make arrangements to meet you on the way. Hopefully the weather will be great for the trip and the entire weekend. Please let me know if you have any questions. On Friday we'll meet at the City Park at 2p.m for the Moab cruise. From there we'll cruise to Arches National Park for a hike. This will allow us to get out and enjoy some of the natural beauty of the area. We'll also have a great backdrop for some really nice photo shots of the cars. Hopefully you'll consider joining us - even if you don't hike - come for the scenery pictures.
CAR SHOW UPDATE: Plans for the car show in July is going well. You'll be happy to hear that the area for the show will also include a block on 7
th street to the Grand Ave. bridge. This doubles the space from last year. We're going to be asking for members to help getting posters up and also assist with parking on the day of the show. Harry and Lori are planning the poker run and may need some volunteers as well. We will contact you as the time approaches. We've sent out post cards for the show. The posters are done and look fantastic.
THE BUILDING DREAMS CAR SHOW:
Several of us attended the first car show of the year in Rifle last month, the weather was nice and it was good to see a lot of the cars come out from their winter hidding places. Congratulations to Cecil, his '57 took home an award.
REDSTONE RALLY:
We have been requested to join in this years Redstone Rally to take place June 24-26. We would have our cars on display on Saturday June 25th. The Rally had 300 plus motorcycles last year and they
would like to involve some cars this year. I'll get more information for you in the next newsletter and at the next meeting. All proceedes go to military family charities.
FOR SALE:
1953 Ford 1 ton flat bed, no motor, all badges are in glove box. Clear title, asking $1,000.00 OBO Call 970-876-2286
As we are finally in the last stage of winter, I am seeing a lot of classic cars running around the area. If you know of anyone who would like to join in with us, please let me know and I will get them set up. Also, I have added several new car shows to the show schedule so be sure to look at it.
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MARCH 2011
my email:
valleycruisers@sopris.net
website:
www.valleycruisers.org
NEXT MEETING
We are going to start our monthly club meetings again this month, our next meeting will be on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at Zancanellas Office in Glenwood. We will meet starting at 7p.m., hope to see many of you there.
NEXT CRUISE NIGHTS
Our next cruise night will be March 18, 2011 at the 19
th Street Diner in Glenwood. On April 1st our cruise will be at the New Castle Diner and on April 15th at the 19th Street Diner.
MARCH BREAKFAST
Our next breakfast will be Sunday March 27, 2011 at the Rivers Resturant in Glenwood. We will meet as usual at 10:00 a.m.
ANNUAL CLUB DINNER
For those of you who were able to join us for the Annual Dinner last month, thank you, I hope you had a good time. We had 27 people attend the dinner and the food and service was excellent. Rivers did a very good job setting up a great menu for us and an area where we could be pretty much by ourselves. I believe it was a success and a great way to kick off the new year and car season.
CAR SHOW UPDATE
I am attaching a copy of the proposed poster and logos for the upcoming Grand River Classic Car and Motorcycle Days. We have all of our major sponsors again joining us to help put on the show. Our next meeting will be March 28
th at the Flower Mart in Glenwood and will start at 2 p.m. Anyone who wants to is welcome to attend to help plan the event. At this point it looks like everything is falling in place for the show to be a success.
UPCOMING CAR SHOW IN RIFLE
The first show of the season will be this next weekend March 12, 2011 in Rifle. I sent out flyers on this show a couple weeks ago by email. If you have any questions please call me 970-945-1008. If the weather will cooperate this will be a good way to kick off the season. I hope some of us will be able to attend. I am beginning the new Car Show schedule for this year. If you know of any shows, please let me know so I can add them to the list.
Hope everthing is going well for you all, I look forward to seeing everyone this season and cruis'in together soon.
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FEBRUARY 2011
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FEBRUARY BREAKFAST
Our next breakfast will be Sunday, February 27 at the Elk Creek Mining Company in New Castle. We will meet as usual at 10:00 a.m.
NEXT CRUISE NIGHT
Our next cruise night will be in March because the next February date is too close to our annual dinner.
MARCH CRUISE NIGHTS
The dates for the cruise nights are March 4th and 18th. We will be at the New Castle Diner on March 4 and at the 19th Street Diner on March 18. We'd like to see a good turnout.
ANNUAL CLUB DINNER
You still have time to RSVP for the annual dinner on February 19, 2011 at the Rivers Resturant in Glenwood Springs. The cost is $26.00 per person and there are several menu items to choose from. It's going to be the kickoff for another great year for the car club.
CAR SHOW UPDATE
The next meeting for the car show is going to be on Monday, February 21, 2011 and will be held at the Flower Mart in Glenwood. The meeting will start at 2 p.m. And anyone interested in attending is welcome to do so. We will see the new combined logo for the show and discuss the flyers and artwork for them. We will also come up with the budget for the show. Even though we are not doing our own show we are still going to need plenty of help from the club to get the show going and make it a success. If you have any questions please call me.
SWEETHEART DANCE FUND RAISER
I have attached information on a fund raiser for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. Two of our members, Julie Allmon and Lori Bentzler are presenting it in Silt. Hopefully some of you will be able to attend as this is a very worthy cause. Please RSVP before February 10th.
Even though the weather is like Alaska!!!, spring and the car show season will be here before you know it, so hang in there and think Spring. I am going to begin to compile the show schedule for the upcoming year, so if you know of any shows the members would be interested in please get the information to me and I will include it in the list.
