Downtown Orleans was the setting for the Orleans Cruise, Blues and BBQ Car Show on April 13th. Several club members attended the show: Ed & Barb, Jim, Mason and Tim & Sam with Tim & Sam winning the Best Ford trophy .
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Mason did an extraordinary job on his first Broughton Family Classics car show on April 6th, there were 112 cars and trucks. Couldn’t have asked for better weather, sunny and temps in the 70’s. FCMC had 15 Mustangs winning the Club Participation Award. Congratulations to all the winners: Top 40 Trophy winner were Amy & Lewie, Brandon, Craig, Glenn & Pat, Kamos, Tim & Sam. Winning Best of 1990’s was Bill, winning Best of 2000’s were Marty and Brenda, Winning Best Ford was Heather and Mark, Congratulations to Mason and his family for a job well done.
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The 1st MCA National held in Huston TX at the Lone Star Flight Museum March 29 – 31. The weather was the coolest that I’ve had in the last three years of going to Huston in March. At least the rain side-stepped the actual show field. As part of the show the museum offered flights on some of their aircraft. A B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Mitchell, P-51 Mustang and a Stearman biplane. When the flights took off they circled around and flew over the show field. MCA national director Tim Hahn piloted the last B-17 flight on Sat. A side from the usual nice selection of Mustangs, there was one that totally jumped out at me. There was this one 1970 Warbird Tribute Mustang. It started out by me over hearing someone say “He’s going to start it”. From about thirty feet away I heard what sounded like a P-51 airplane starting. I was thinking, I got to see how they stuffed a V-12 Merlin into this car. To find out the car only has a 302 in it. But what the car does have is one heck of a sound system and some assume sound tracks of an actual P-51. The 302 sounded pretty good all by its self. Thanks to some bad ass cams and other internal goodies. It has wheels the match the P-51, custom steering wheel & dash and exhaust that exited thru the fenders. I’m trying to see if I can get some video of this car to bring to a club meeting later on. Bill the owner told me that he also had some very impressive sound tracks of the machine guns firing. He was instructed not to play it during the show. The very dirty 1967 Shelby GT 350 is a 1 of 1 barn find. Wonder what it will be worth when restored. Then to top it all off, during the awards presentations, when Steve Prewitt got to the ODF class awards, he called Roland Rodriguez’s name. He then proceeded to instruct him to bring a friend, or two, or three. Steve then proceeded to inform the crowd that Roland had 21 cars entered in the show. Roland racked up a bunch of gold and silver awards. I managed only one gold, but that brings me to needing just two more points to get my first medallion………..Kamos
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Mustangs & Mustangs, Lakeland FL. On Saturday Feb. 23rd I attended this 22nd annual show. The show got off to a very slow start. Crazy Horse the P-51 was 2.5 hours late getting to the show because of FOG. I met up with my friend from Florida with her # 99 HPGT. Like last year the airport put on a bit of an air show right above the show field...……….Kamos
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On Sunday Feb 24th I drove to Fort Myers for a cruise in the Historic Downtown part of Fort Meyers. I just love these Florida shows that are held in town, they have a very homie feel to them. There are plenty of shops and restaurants to choose from, including the original Fords Garage Restaurant. In attendance at the show were some different cars. There were two street legal Bumper Cars, one gas and one electric. A “Radio Flyer” that had a 350 V-8 to get it going. But this one wasn’t as big as the one we spotted in Mississippi at Cruising The Coast a couple of years ago. There was a half Cessna 172 airplane, half VW car...………….Kamos
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Towards the end of the week I headed toward Key West. On my way I stopped at Homestead Miami Speedway. Upon walking thru the front gate I was shown the 2019 Black Bullitt that will be the pace car for this November Championship race. I could still see the doughnuts that Joey Logano left on the front straight after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Championship the past November, IN A FORD. The next day I concord the 7-mile bridge (Go Janet). So, so far I’ve had my GT/CS down to the southernmost spot of the continual U.S. Also had to get me some Everglades chicken “Gator Tail) while Iwas down there. It might have been this gator’s cousin...………….Kamos
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On March 2-3 I went to the NMRA Spring Break Shootout in Bradenton FL. Drag racing, with a car show on the side. Lots of Cobra jets and Mustangs that could for sure get you improper acceleration tickets in Somerset, were there. The Candy Apple Red fastback looked real good in the sun. Oh, it got best paint. The white Shelby GT-300 parked next to me is his daily driver. He runs B-2 bracket and he also road races it...………..Kamos
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