Is anyone in the club alive?

This year has been kind of a downer for me with lots of home projects and more to come. Damn heat didn’t help either. I plan to organize a cruise September or later. I would like to set up a breakfast for a meet up, then a cruise. This could get more members out that can’t commit to both. Or maybe do the cruise culminated by a dinner. We do need more participation at events. Thoughts?
 
Demanding work schedules and traffic congestion conspire to make cruising meet-ups tough for this area. On the other hand, there's great cruising roads out there.

Maybe the key is planning way ahead. It would be great to have a calendar on this site populated with a menu of scheduled cruises, cars & coffee, poker runs, and cars & cigars, two or three months in advance With the prime cruising weather coming up in the fall, the calendar idea might jump start some cruising interest.

Three cruises we've done in the recent past that might be worthy for consideration for the fall include:

- Lunch cruise to Warrenton
- Snickersville Turnpike cruise and lunch at Monk's Barbecue in Purcellville
- Octoberfest lunch cruise to the Bavarian Inn, Shepherdstown, WV

Another one I've been eyeballing (but haven't done yet) is route 7 west, south on River Rd (along the Shenandoah River) to HWY 50 east, then lunch in Middleburg.
 
I'm still here in Hamilton, VA with the FFR Mark II that Stephen Price built. 18,500 miles now and still runs great! The baffles are now completely blown out of the pipes so my neighbors love me. A few CACC members come regularly to the CandC in Leesburg on Sunday mornings. I would love to Participate in another October run to the Bavarian Inn if anyone is up to it.
 
JWEHR said:
I'm still here in Hamilton, VA with the FFR Mark II that Stephen Price built. 18,500 miles now and still runs great! The baffles are now completely blown out of the pipes so my neighbors love me. A few CACC members come regularly to the CandC in Leesburg on Sunday mornings. I would love to Participate in another October run to the Bavarian Inn if anyone is up to it.
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I’m in depending on when I’m October.
 
What we really should plan is a Tail of the Dragon cruise. That would be worth setting aside life to do. No, I'm not planning it. I'm the idea guy. 1723168711168.gif
 
Hot Rod said:
What we really should plan is a Tail of the Dragon cruise. That would be worth setting aside life to do. No, I'm not planning it. I'm the idea guy. View attachment 4635
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Interesting. The Georgia Cobra Club cruised the tail of the dragon this week. They had 12 cobras caravan through the dragon (based on photos in FB). I grew up about 40-50 miles from there. After going through the dragon proceed to Fontana Dam...very scenic.
 
Me and a few riders road the back of the dragon in June. I was a blast.
 
I scooted over to the 60th GT40 Reunion at the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. I met up with old friends including Rex Turner and his son Evan.
A goos time was had by all. Roughly 60 GTs showed with one original 1965, P1030. Here are some pics.
There was something for everyone in attendance. A lot of the original scheduled cars didn't make it. Most of the original cars are parked in museums. David Hobbs the guest speaker bailed out as well. However, it was a great weekend, fun watching the races with boys out on the track cranking it up.20240728_110855.jpg20240727_164140.jpg20240727_164225.jpg20240727_163309.jpg20240727_163309.jpg
 
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The original GT40 guys are getting long in the tooth or have already existed the planet. Explained why there was only one original GT40 in attendance. The owner was from Massachusetts, looked like Jerry Garcia from the Grateful Dead, but was a mellow fellow. Nice and approachable and not a young man either. His car is the blue one in the previous post. The car had a history of being a Ford marketing car, which had been sent all over the world and had been in many advertising campaigns for numerous companies. It had its original 289 Hipo and complete original equipment to include the Boroni wire wheels with knockoff hubs.20240727_130342.jpg20240727_112410.jpg
 
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