It was a beautiful sunny afternoon when we parked our '67 Dodge Dart 270 on Trophy Row just about 3 pm. Gary had his '07 HHR Sherrod parked by the stage and was beavering about taking care of the “set up” with Mesha’s assistance. Bill & Doris arrived in their '79 T-Bird, Dave arrived in his '83 Grand Marquis Esther & Asa would join him in a little while, Larry parked his '93 Chevy Pick Up, Gator was on her way. We took care of a couple of errands before heading to Flippers were John took care of us, Allan & Scotty were busily zipping about. Tommy arrived to set up his keyboard, Tom & Bunny joined us after they parked their '66 Malibu on Trophy Row, Ray drove by in his '32 Ford Coupe.

When we got back to the car daughter Shannon, Grandson Marcus and Granddaughter Alexis were waiting for us and Mike was parking his '92 Sonoma, Wolfman & Sue arrived in their '03 F150 "Wolfwagon", Ted arrived in his daily driver, Juan was in his '66 VW Notchback, Jeff in his '85 Vette and Miguel in his '68 Fairlane. Tony & Marsha arrived in her '73 Datsun 240Z followed by James in his '67 Galaxie, Steve & Amanda arrived with daughter Heather and her friend Kayla, after parking their '56 Chevy 210 they headed off to meet their son John and his fiancé Amanda. Rosemary & Dan were in her 2000 Mustang Convertible, Joe, Tammy & Jeffrey were in their '68 Firebird, David & Nancy in their '67 Pontiac GTO, Kenneth brought out his '80 International P/U and friend Charlie, Tony & Donna were in their '65 Mustang, Harrell had his '73 Mustang, Mike & Annette in their '63 Corvair Spyder, Laura was in her '98 Firebird, Pete & Mary were in their 2005 PT Cruiser and met up with Family & Friends who had come out to enjoy the evening. Old Town's '57 Belair had been shined up to lead the cruise tonight Ted had the privilege of driving it followed by 24 cruiser cars, a nice turn out for a weeknight.

The spectator crowd included “Jazzmine and The Tropical Breeze Group”, Radio Check Ins included Graham G4HFG, Emil KJ4GNH, Tony K4AVD, Kevin KM4FSU surprised us with a personal visit. “The Blue Suede Review” with Sonny standing in for Shawn as lead guitar, Tommy on the keyboard, Jimi on the drums and Paul on bass guitar were set up, Bill & Karen had the memorabilia table set up, Mike Singer KJ4GNI was at the controls of the “Blue Room”, Dwight & Vicky arrived and everyone was ready to enjoy his performance. Dwight announced that he had won a contest in Omaha over the weekend.

After the first set Steve awarded Cruiser of the week to Cruiser # 110 Mike Ferraiolo with his '92 Sonoma.
Bunny did a great job selling 50/50 tickets Tom from Orlando had the winning ticket for the $60 jackpot.
Cruiser # 33 Bill Hall was not out so the Cruise-A-Matic goes up to $50 next week.

Thank You to Old Town for inviting us out every week, to the Old Town Merchants Association for sponsoring “A Tribute to the King”, to Out of This World Embroidery/Custom Tags, The Old Town General Store, Knives & Things, Toy Time, Electronic Town, The Gold Hut, Kandlestiks, Wound ‘N Around and Old Town Leather, to Tracy Old Town’s Events Director who brings us the “Rock at the Clock” event to Gary & Dave our volunteer TCB guy’s and to all of the Spectators and Cruisers with or without their cars, who come out “Rain or Shine, Hot or Cold” to make this a great evening in our “Home Town”.

An additional Thank you is extended to the Old Town Staff who volunteered their services so that our cars could cruise up the bricks.

See you all Next Week “Same Time, Same Place”, then the following week Wednesday August 5th at 8:30 pm we are scheduled to cruise up the bricks again.
 

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