CRC Visits Alex Montgomery 5th Annual Cruise-In

Several members of the CRC car club made the short trip east of Burkesville on 90 to Alex Montgomery Chevy-GMC to attend their 5th Annual Cumberland River Cruise-In. The cruise-in began at 9:30 and we arrived shortly after it started. There were already quite a few vehicles lined up around the parking lot. The employees were fixing food and there were coolers with drinks for the people that attended. A band played music during the cruise-in and also announced the winning numbers for the door prizes that were given away. The weather couldn't have been nicer, it was really nice with hardly a breeze blowing. Plenty of people from in and out of town cruised in and enjoyed the music, food and friendship. There were many different types of vehicles, including antique cars, street rods, pickup trucks, convertibles and race cars.

Below are a few of the pictures taken at the cruise-in, there is a link below to all the pictures.
  
  
  

Thanks to Alex Montgomery Chevrolet-GMC and their employees, including Craig, Shaun and Manager Terry Riley for hosting the cruise-in and providing food and drink for everyone.

All the pictures are HERE. I hope you enjoy the pictures and feel free to download any you like. Choose the largest size and then simply right click and choose to SAVE PICTURE AS.

Cruising To Byrdstown

As the Alex Montgomery Cumberland River Cruise-In was coming to an end, several members decided to ride over to Byrdstown and see what was going on at the cruise-in at the Shell filling station. A few members stopped and filled the gas tank, then drove back out to the Chevy dealership and met the other club members that were going to the Byrdstown Cruise-In. We formed a line and followed each other through Albany, across the TN-KY state line and then on to Byrdstown. There were plenty of vehicles already parked at the Shell station and the band was warming up when we parked. Our group got together and took a picture of the members that went, then I began taking pictures of some of the vehicles that had cruised in.
   
   
   
One of the sharpest cars at the cruise-in was a VW with a Chevy engine, extremely wide tires in a tubbed rear wheel area and a beautiful interior.
  
The band began playing and they sounded pretty good. We even asked about their rates for them playing one of our cruise-ins. After the sun went down, the weather changed and the wind began blowing cold air. We raised the top on the Mustang, told a few of the other members we were leaving, then put our chairs in the trunk and headed back to Burkesville.

Good Guys Vintage Drag Racing & Car Show

Carol and Dave Neff left home at 3 AM and drove over to Bowling Green, KY to attend the Good Guys Vintage Drag Racing & Car Show.

They met up with some of their family and had a beautiful day of picnicking, checking out the cars and watching the racing on the drag strip at Beech Bend Raceway.


Click HERE to see the pictures that Dave took during the event.

Friday Night Cruisin' The Square

The Cumberland River Cruisers brought their cars to the Courthouse Square Friday evening at 6 PM. The Burkesville Bicentennial Celebration Committee had dash plaques for the CRC to pass out to the first 50 vehicles that attended the Friday Night Cruisin' The Square. Club members setup a table and played music through the PA system, gave away door prizes, handed out the dash plaques, and furnished free spiced apple cider to those in attendance.

The Square was a crowed place with an exceptional amount of traffic passing through town and attending various events being held in conjunction with the Burkesville Bicentennial Celebration. At 7 PM the Cruisers shut down their music and the Burkesville Bicentennial Celebration began a street event on Hill Street. First were the cloggers, then "Big 'T' and the Twisters" began playing live music a little after 8 PM.

The crowd size was probably over 500 people milling around the cars, listening to the music and watching the girls in their "poodle" skirts twisting the night away.

It was a unique event and everyone seemed to enjoy all parts of it. At 9 PM the band paused and a small fireworks display was set off near the river.

Pictures are on the web page linked HERE.

Bicentennial Car Show

There were a lot of early arrivals for the Burkesville Bicentennial Celebration Car Show at J&D Restaurant Saturday morning. The Cumberland River Cruiser Members were helping with the logistics of running the show. We started registering vehicles as soon as we were setup and ready.

Jimmy Patterson had the building open and James Pruitt and some of his family were cooking during the day. Kelsey Bow was helping with the door prizes and parking.

During the day, an announcement was made about Jimmy's wife, Dorothy, concerning her health problems. The show organizers decided to forgo the usual 50/50 drawing and take donations for Dorothy. The people in attendance gave generously. Most of the people attending the show took time to walk over to the edge of the highway and watch as the Bicentennial Parade passed by. At 2 PM, we had 78 cars when we closed the registration. Several more pulled in after they had drove in the parade. Kelsey Bow passed out door prizes to people with the tickets drawn at random. Votes were being counted in the 7 categories as the door prizes were being awarded. Jimmy came out of the restaurant and shook hands with each person as he presented the winners with their trophies.
 
 
 
 
After the last trophy was presented, Phillip Davidson announced that we had collected a donation for Dorothy. Linda Norris presented the money to Jimmy and the crowd also gave Jimmy a nice round of applause as a thank you.

It was an emotional time, as Jimmy and Dorothy have sold the restaurant, their house in Cumberland County and are moving back to Georgia to deal with Dorothy's health problems.

You can view the pictures taken at the Burkesville Bicentennial Celebration Car Show by clicking HERE.

Burkesville Bicentennial Celebration

I have posted pictures of the Burkesville Bicentennial Celebration events that include the Friday Night Cruisin' The Square and Saturday's Car Show at J&D's Restaurant. I've also posted the links to all the Burkesville Bicentennial Celebration pictures that I took below with a short description of each set of pictures.

Click HERE to see the pictures of Thursday's Burkesville Bicentennial Celebration events.
Click HERE to see the pictures of Friday's Burkesville Bicentennial Celebration events. This slideshow includes the Friday Night Cruisin' The Square pictures.
Click HERE to see the pictures of Saturday's Burkesville Bicentennial Celebration events. This slideshow includes the parade and Car Show at J&D's Restaurant pictures.
Click HERE to see the pictures of Sunday's Burkesville Bicentennial Celebration events.

Club Dinner November 6 @ 6 PM

CRC Club Dinner - November 6th @ 6 PM

· The annual dinner will be held at the CC Grade School Cafeteria.
· It will be a 'pot luck' dinner with the club furnishing the ham, drinks and table service. Members and their guests should bring a covered dish.
· Nominations for next year’s club officers will be taken and several items of club business will be discussed.

Items of Interest from the October Meeting
Next year's cruise-in schedule is being finalized. The club has decided on doing about 3 cruise-ins/car shows during the next year. We are planning on our first one being in April. The second will be the 4th of July Independence Celebration Car Show in the park. There will also be one in October. A date and time for the April event will be set after contacting the Chamber of Commerce and reserving a date. Organization of a Swap Meet to be ran along with the car events has started. Alex Montomery is now one of the sponsors for the CRC web site. Three new members joined the club at the recent events held in conjunction with the Bicentennial Celebration. Those new members are Donald G Cash, Earl Morrison and Joseph Sewell. Please make them welcome as our newest members.