We arrived just before 3:00 in our 67 Dodge Dart 270 to find Wolfman & Sue’s '03 F150 "Wolfwagon", Gary’s '07 HHR Sherod and Ron’s '66 Corvette already parked. Allan and Gary were on patrol taking care of last minute set up details. Butch was standing in for Scotty tonight and brought out his Friday Nite Cruiser a '83 El Camino. We made our way to Flippers early as we were optimistically expecting a busy night, Mike took care of us and we watched Bill & Doris drive by in their '79 T-Bird, Dave in his '83 Grand Marquis, Esther joined him later with friend Carol & Mesha.

We got back to Trophy Row as Oscar arrived in his Friday Nite Cruiser a '93 Ford Taurus SHO, Bert & Ernie in their "Elvis Tribute" PT Cruiser, Darrell was in his daily driver, "Mustang Mike" & Emma arrived in the  '64 Greenbrier, Mike & Carol in their '74 Dodge Dart, Ray in his '32 Ford Coupe, Tom, Bunny, Jim & Joy in the '66 Malibu, Bob in his '68 SS396 Chevelle, Jim in his '69 Firebird, Joe in his '65 Thunderbird, John & Sandy in their '53 Mercury, "Bumble Bee", Steve & Carolyn in their '71 440 Barracuda, Rosemary & Dan in her 2000 Mustang Convertible, Sue & Steve in her '08 "Elvis Tribute" PT Cruiser, during Dwight’s first set Sue made a presentation to Dwight Icenhower and "Blue Suede Review" on behalf of the Elvis Presley Continentals fan club for their participation in last weekend’s charity fund raising event.

It is good to have “The Wookie” cruising his '83 Mustang with us again, Ann brought out her '92 Corvette and was accompanied by 20 Residents of the Elite Resorts at Citrus Valley Camp Ground who chose “Rock at the Clock” for their weekly social evening.

Tom & Joanne were in their '61 Bonneville Convertible, Butch was in his '96 Mustang, Ted arrived in his 06 Nissan "Red Racer" with his camera, Ken & Wanda arrived in the '78 "Indy Pace Car" Corvette as the band started the introduction for Dwight’s first set followed by Laura in her '98 Firebird, Larry, Karen & Friends in "ITZA40" and last but not least Bill in his daily driver, we had 28 cruisers parked on Trophy Row tonight and a very large spectator crowd that included "Jazzmine and The Tropical Breeze Group”, a VIP who was a personal friend of Elvis’, Patti Parry, Ted Torres who joined Dwight on stage during his third set to sing a duet for Patti. The Blue Suede Review was a little different tonight Charlie was lead guitar and Shawn was on the keyboard with Jimi on the drums and Paul on bass guitar. Bill wasn’t feeling good but did what he could helping Karen at the memorabilia table and Arne was at his post.

Dwight did an encore tonight ending the evening with an emotional rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” accompanied by the entire audience, in honor of the son of regular spectators Mary & Larry a Navy Veteran, Anthony who had spent the evening with us before being posted overseas.

Mike Singer, KJ4GNI, was at the controls of the “Blue Room”, Tracy was kept busy all evening, Radio Check Ins included Graham, G4HFG, Emil, KJ4GNH, Tony, K4AVD, T Rod, KT4ROD and Ed WB8BHL.
 

Emma & Mustang Mike were at the Ticket Table and just before the drawing were very busy during "last Call". Thank You

Jennifer a spectator from Kissimmee had the winning ticket for the $166 50/50

The Cruise-A-Matic rolls over to $75, Cruiser # 42, Larry Vliet wasn't with us tonight. AWWWWW

Cruiser of the week was awarded to Cruiser # 61 Jim & Deb Thirkelson in their '69 Firebird.

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 Tracy Old Town's events director that brought us the "Rock at the Clock" event and to Gary & Dave our own TCB guys for giving us the time that they do and to all of the Cruisers that are starting to come out on a Wednesday Nite. Come on out, "Rain or Shine!" Cruisers, if you don't want to bring out the car because of the weather come on out anyway, lets build the audience on our own. Remember good entertainment and good friends makes a great evening in our "Home Town".

Newsletter #231 is on sale, still only $2

"Mustang" Mike will no longer be associated with the running of the "Duke" Davis Memorial, Wednesday Nite Cruise-In. It was a hard decision for him to make. With the return of Mike Singer and the loss of the Saturday then the Friday Nite announcement positions at Old Town it is very hard to take the extra time off work to make his way home, then back to Old Town on a Wednesday to volunteer his time to run this Cruise-In.

Gary, Dave, Steve & Linda will continue to volunteer their time and the event will stay just as it has been since the move to Old Town.

See you all "Out There"