THE DIRECTORS CORNER

The month of July brought us our first car show held at Metro Molded Parts in Coon Rapids. Doug, at Metro welcomed our show and opened up his business establishment to serve our needs.

Metro is coming out with a new catalog and guess which club will be featured on the cover? Yes sir the Northstar Region will have our group of cars right on the cover of their new catalog! Metro will give the NSR enough catalogs for our membership and will make them available at our meets.

Thank-You to Doug at Metro for their hospitality. It was nice to have a lawn to park the cars on. And what a great turnout of cars! There were V-16’s and lots of V-8’s represented. It sure looked nice to see all the Cadillac’s and LaSalle’s.

We gave out eight trophies. The cars were all excellent and the judging was difficult. The cars came within one point of each other. And there was only one winner in each category. The winners were:

Hank Wienstock  -  Best Closed Pre-War Car

Dick Gold  -  Best Open Car Pre-War

Frank Smisek  -  Best Closed Car Post War

Don Voss  -  Best Open Car Post War  &  Best of Show

Jim Sand   -  Special Award

Dick Welsh  -  Longest Distance Travelled

Gary Seever  -  Hard Luck Award

What a beautiful day it was for a picnic! Metro Molded Parts has invited us back next year for our second big car show.

August brought us our steak fry hosted by Norm and Marion Vaness. Our cook was the famous cuisine director, Cliff Anderson. Judging by the way the steaks disappeared off the grill as fast as they could, says something good about the chef. The weather was not the greatest but the enthusiasm made up for it along with the pleasant surroundings at the Vaness’ home. Many brought desserts to share with fellow Cadillac enthusiasts. The corn was fresh and delicious.

I guess we will have to do it again next year. Many Thanks to Norm and Marion for inviting us to their home.

October will bring us our overnight which was re-scheduled from September. This will be a combined meet with the Classic Car Club. Wyatt Peterson and Dick Gold are chairing this event. A flyer has been mailed. This will be our final event for the driving season. So let’s everyone turn out for one final big bash before we put our cars away for the year.

Until then . . . . . . . . . . .

Good Motoring

Bob Campbell

Northstar Director