April 3rd 2010 Cruise-In

The Cumberland River Cruisers held our April Cruise-In, it was the first of 2010. As the day began, the weather forecast was for rain and this may have held the attendance down slightly, but there was still a good turnout. The rainy weather moved on before noon and by the afternoon even the clouds were gone, it was a perfect day for the cruise-in. Members began arriving a little after 2 PM and even a few nonmembers from out of town came driving in to show their cars and trucks. We had a few members pay their dues, buy shirts and a new member, Kent Cooper signed up while the cruise-in was happening. Door prizes were given away and the prize money for the 50/50 drawing was awarded. There are several pictures below of cars and trucks that you might not have seen before. You can see all the pictures by following this LINK.
  
  
  
  
  
In total, there were 27 vehicles brought out for our first cruise-in of the season and it seemed as if everyone had fun.
Readers can see all the pictures by clicking HERE.

June 5th 2010 Cruise-In

Saturday was hot and the sky was fairly clear when several of the CRC members arrived and began setting up the equipment for the June Cruise-In around 2:15 PM. Some people began arriving before the 3 PM start time and some didn't arrive till the cruise-in was nearly over. Members and their guests signed in and were awarded prizes during the afternoon. The new "Cruisin' the Square" t-shirts sold fast and a few of the colored CRC shirts were also purchased. By late afternoon the clouds were moving in and it looked like it could rain at any moment, so the 50/50 drawing was held a few minutes before 5 PM.
   
  
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Nearly as soon as the prize money was handed to the winner, the rain began to fall. It was a light rain and it gave people a chance to roll up their car windows and put things away before they were soaked.

You can view more and larger images at this LINK.

J&D Cruise-In

Several CRC club members attended the J&D Cruise-In at their restaurant on the south end of Burkesville. There was a nice turn out of cars, trucks and people listening to the band play music.
  
Jimmy had a real nice Chevelle parked out front of the restaurant and was talking to people about some of the things that had been done to the car.
 
There were old cars, race cars, trucks and restored vehicles of several vintages.
  

  
The J&D Restaurant was open and was serving supper specials to the customers attending the cruise-in.
 
There are more pictures in small, medium and large sizes at this LINK. 

Citizen's Bank Celebration

Citizen's Bank held a celebration for their 10th anniversary in business Saturday evening. Several of the C-R-Cruisers were in attendance and a few had brought their cars and parked them in the bank's front parking lot.
  
Citizen's Bank employees were passing out free hot dogs, hamburgers and there were coolers of cold drinks for people to pick up a drink too. During the evening there were two musical groups that played music on a portable stage with a crowd of people setting under a tent and on the rear parking lot in their own lawn chairs.
 
When the musical groups would take breaks, there were ticket drawing for savings bonds and a flat screen TV was also given away. People were also playing Corn Hole in the drive up banking area. It looked like the crowd was between two and three hundred people while I was there.
 

Green River Kruzers' Columbia Car Show

A few of the Cumberland River Cruisers members went to the Green River Kruzers' "Run"dezvous XII 2010 Car Show at the fair grounds in Columbia. It had rained Saturday morning and the sky looked like it might rain again, so the turnout was lighter than normal.

CRC club members Red Thrasher, Brenda Smith, Carol & Dave Neff and Dave Norris all received trophies for each of their entries in the car show.
  
  
Many other participants also received trophies. The Kruzers also had a 50/50 drawing, gave away grab bags and dash plaques to all participants and had drawings for door prizes.

You can view all of the pictures at this LINK.

CRC August 7th Cruise-In

Carol and Dave Neff were in town early sitting up things for the cruise-in when Linda and I arrived. Julie and Sam Wait found a nice cool corner of the square to register the cruisers and several other members helped to get things setup as the cars began arriving. The temperature was just a few notches under 90 degrees at 3 PM. Some pictures of the cars that haven't been to the Cruisin' The Square cruise-in are below.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 

You can see all the larger pictures at this LINK that includes club members' cars. We drew for door prizes at 4 PM and again at 4:30 PM and gave away everything we had for prizes. At 5 PM, we let Julie Norris, age 3, draw the winning ticket out of the jug for the 50/50 drawing and presented the money to the winner.

September Cruise-In

Saturday the weather was beautiful for the CRC Cruise-In. The traffic was heavy around the square in Burkesville with boats and motor homes headed to the lake and camp grounds, but the turnout for the cruise-in was low because of it being a holiday weekend and club members were out of town or busy with friends and family. We had enough cars that the visitors driving by noticed our club was having a cruise-in though. Some of the cars that attended are shown in pictures below.
 
   
   
   
   
   
We would like to thank the guys and gals from Russell Springs, KY that made the cruise down to Burkesville.

Thanks for coming down!

Blue Grass Festival & Drive-n-Park

The Burkesville Blue Grass Festival is being held on Saturday, September 18th and our members have been asked to cruise-in and park their vehicles at the walking track inside the park.
If you plan on attending, try to have you vehicles there by 10 AM. It is strictly a "Drive-n-Park" event. There will be no trophies, no door prizes and no music provided by the Cumberland River Cruisers. It will be a nice place to park your car while watching the shows and listening to the music.



After 2 PM, several members are planning a road trip to Russell Springs to attend a Ol' Boys Toys cruise-in. The "ol boys" have brought their vehicles to our "Cruisin-The Square" events several times and it would be nice if we could make a good showing by having several members and their vehicles at one of their events. A possible route to Russell Springs and back to Burkesville is below. If you don't make it to the Blue Grass Festival, but want to ride over to Russell Springs, meet at the park in Burkesville by 2 PM.
   

Cruising To Russell Springs

 
The Bluegrass Festival had invited the CRC members to cruise-in and park our cars inside the fence during the festival.

Several members also showed up to drive to Russell Springs for the Ol Boys Toys Cruise-In behind Sonic Drive In Restaurant. We formed a line and left the festival around 2:15 PM. We rode east on KY 90, then took curvy KY 127 north across the Wolf Creek Dam through the rolling countryside. We passed through the edge of Jamestown KY and then into Russell Springs. As we pulled into the parking lot, members of Ol Boys Toys greeted us and pointed out locations for parking. They also let us know they were cooking free hamburgers and hot dogs for everyone that attended the cruise-in. We spread out and roamed through the rows of vehicles at our own pace after registering. Eventually, we gathered together under the awning at Sonic and were talking while enjoying a cold drink.

As the sun was getting lower in the sky, we moved back to our lawn chairs near the cars and waited for the drawings. Julie and Sam Wait were the first club members to be drawn for a door prize, then Marie and Weldon Rowe's ticket number was drawn. The Ol Boys continued drawing for door prizes until they announced the Top Five cars. The drivers brought their vehicles to the announcers tent and were presented trophies. The announcer then called Carol and Dave Neff as the Peoples Choice Winner for their Willy's. They drove to the tent and were presented a nice plaque.

The pictures of some of the vehicles at Ol Boys Toys September Cruise-In at Russell Springs are HERE.
After the presentations, we folded up our chairs and everyone headed back towards Burkesville.

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.

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.

Marrowbone Christmas Parade

Some of the Cumberland River Cruisers met in front of the Justice Center in Burkesville and cruised over to Marrowbone to be in the Christmas Parade. Several of the Cruisers were already in line when we cruised into the parking lot in front of the church. It was a cool but beautiful day for the parade and there were quite a few people that showed up to participate in the event.

The Cumberland County High School Band was warming up in front of the church before the parade started.

People were standing around talking and enjoying the friendly atmosphere as parade organizers were completing the arrangements before signaling everyone to form a line and begin the parade.
  
There were crowds of people along the highway as we wound through town and threw candy to the kids. Everyone was shouting "Merry Christmas" as they threw the candy or picked it up along with the kids.
You can see all the pictures by clicking HERE. 

Albany Relay For Life Car Show

A few of the Cumberland River Cruisers attended the Albany Relay For Life Car Show on Sunday. The rainy weather had caused the event to not be held on Saturday and the turnout was lower because of the show being on Sunday. They made the best of a bad situation and still had a fairly good showing.
   
   
   
   
  
   
Two CRC Club Members, Craig Coe and Jackie Booher, won trophies for their respective entries.

NAPA - CRC 2011 Spring Car Show & Swap Meet

This weekend, April 30th was the NAPA-Cumberland River Cruisers Spring Car Show and Swap Meet at the Park in Burkesville, KY. The Swap Meet opened it's doors at 7 AM and individuals could sell their car related items for a $10 Setup Fee. The 2011 Spring Car Show began registering cars a little before 10 AM.

There were booths selling food for breakfast and later in the day another group was selling hotdogs, chips and drinks.

There was NO ENTRY FEE and Free Dash Plaques were given to the first 100 vehicles registered.

There were 120 vehicles that registered and about 30 others that chose not to register and didn't want to be voted on for the trophies. Anybody that attended the event was able to vote for their top 3 choices for Best Of Show.
 
 
Voting ended at 3 PM and those ballots were collected and tabulated. The Generations band began playing music at 3 PM. When Generations took their break, the Cruisers took over and there were drawings for several nice door prizes and then the Top 20 vehicles were announced and their owners presented trophies.
 
There was a Long Distance Trophy awarded to a family that drove down from Evansville, IN the day of the show.

The Best Of Show Trophy was then presented. Finally, half of the 50/50 Prize Money was given away. Generations resumed playing and the club members began packing up our stuff. We had very little trash to pick up as the attendees of the event had really kept the park clean.

The Cumberland River Cruisers would like to thank NAPA and especially Robert Hay for the support and sponsorship of the Spring 2011 Car Show and Swap Meet. We hope we can work together in the future and the event will grow even larger to bring more people into Burkesville.
The Cruisers would also like to thank the Burkesville/Cumberland County Events Committee for their sponsorship of the music for our event and thanks to Citizen’s Bank and James Long for the use of the stage.
Thanks to WKYR Radio for promoting the event.
We want to thank First Place Trophies of Albany for the nice trophies they put together for our show and for donating the Long Distance Trophy and the Best of Show Trophy.
Our club also wishes to thank the various merchants in town that have donated merchandise and money to help provide the door prizes that were presented to those participating in the car show.
Thanks to the Cumberland River Cruiser club members that helped with the logistics of running the event.
Thanks to everyone for attending and making it the largest car show or cruise-in ever in Burkesville, KY!
The Cruisers hope everyone enjoyed the event and will participate to make the next one even better.

More pictures are located HERE.

Please leave us a comment about what you liked or didn't like about the car show.

Cruise To Fountain Run

The Cruisers went to the Rolling Rods' Third Annual Classic Car Show in Fountain Run on May 21st. The CRC Car Club left the Courthouse Square in Burkesville at 8:30 AM and headed to Fountain Run. We followed each other west on KY 90 and turned south on KY 163 through Tompkinsville, then we went west on KY 1366 to Fountain Run. After about an hour an a half, we pulled into the field where the Rolling Rods were holding their car show. We were directed where to park and pointed to the tent where they were registering vehicles. After registering and receiving a 'goodie bag', we came together for a group picture and then set out walking around the grounds checking out the other vehicles that were at the show.

Members of the Rolling Rods told me they had 87 vehicles that had registered at the end of the time period.
   
The judges made their rounds and the points were added up and then the Rolling Rods began giving away door prizes and awards. Kendra Coe was a door prize winner.
 
Carol & Dave Neff received a Top 35 award as did Kent Cooper and Red Thrasher.
  
Bob Rudig won a Trophy for Best Unrestored as our group looked on. Then Mike Shoopman won for Best Older Mustang.
   
The Best of Show trophy went to Mike Burton, from Albany, for his Yellow Chevy Deuce
  
It was great weather and the Rolling Rods conducted a nicely done car show and they gave away a lot of nice trophies and awards. The Cruisers had a good time at the car show, there was plenty of food available and a friendly atmosphere. The Cruisers had a few trophies and awards to haul home too.
 

Readers can view all the car pictures at this LINK.
After you look at the pictures, you can come back and leave us a comment.

Green River Kruzers' Car Show

A few of the CRCruisers left Burkesville at 8 AM and headed north on SR 61 to Columbia to participate in the Green River Kruzer's 2011 Car Show.
 
The Cruisers parked in the lot, set up their canopy and entered their cars in the car show. The temperature was slightly over 90 degrees and the shade provided by the canopy was welcomed. The canopy became even more necessary when the rain began. We all huddled under it, inside a ten foot square, for about a half hour, then the rain stopped for a while. The Green River Kruzers quickly passed out the trophies during the time there wasn't any rain falling. Our Cumberland River Cruisers Car Club won the "Club Participation" trophy for having the most entries from a single club.
  
Several of the CRC members were awarded trophies for showing their vehicles.
  
  
The picture below and to the right is with all the special class winners.
  
The CRC members were happy with the "gold" we were able to take home to Burkesville.
 

You can see all the pictures from the Green River Kruzers' 2011 Car Show by clicking HERE.

Alex Montgomery Car Show 2011

The weather was a bit chilly and a little breezy, but the sun was out and sky was partly cloudy when the day began. Cars began arriving before 9 AM and kept coming till about noon. The Cumberland River Cruisers started registering the vehicles around 9:30 and completed the day with at least 50 entries. Terry Riley, the manager of Alex Montgomery, had broken his leg a few weeks before the car show and was limited to moving around the car lot in a electric golf cart, so Shawn and James took his place for most of the day, helping with the setup and providing drinks and food for the car show entrants. At 2 PM, voting was closed and the ballots were counted while tickets were drawn and several door prizes were given away to start the awards.

The Good Ol' Boys car club had the most members attending the car show and they were given the Club Participation Trophy from the Cumberland River Cruisers.

Shawn used a computer in the office to determine which entry had came the farthest that day. It was Clifford Norris from Bowling Green that received the Long Distance Trophy and he had driven 1.6 miles farther than the owner that had came the next farthest.
 
The votes cast by all the vehicle owners were totaled and a Top Ten Trophy was passed out to each vehicle owner that had placed 2 through 11 in the vote totals. Terry, James and Shawn collaborated on which vehicle to receive the Alex Montgomery Dealer's Choice Trophy. Their selection was made, and Anthony Flowers was presented the Dealer's Choice award for his 1930 Model A.
 
The top vote getter was then announced and Don Thompson was presented the Best Of Show Trophy for his Blue 1957 Chevy BelAir.
 
Terry was able to join all the trophy winners for a group photo near the end of the car show.


Click HERE to see the pictures from the Alex Montgomery Car Show 2011.

The Cumberland River Cruisers would like to thank the Alex Montgomery Dealership, employees James and Shawn, and especially manager Terry Riley for the support during the year and their sponsorship of the Alex Montgomery 2011 Car Show. The Cruisers hope we can work together again in the future and that the event will grow even larger. We also want to thank First Place Trophies for the nice trophies they put together for the car show and for donating our Club Participation Trophy. Our club also wishes to thank the various merchants in town that have donated merchandise and money to help provide some of the door prizes that were presented to those participating in the car show. Thanks to the Cruiser club members that helped with the logistics of running the event. Thanks to all the people that came to the event and brought their vehicles.

Heritage Days: Sock Hop / Cruise-In

A couple of the things the Events Committee had been planning were a Sock Hop & Cruise-In. They had lined up a DJ and wanted several of the Cruisers to bring their cars to the Hop. The Cruisers parked their cars on the Courthouse Square with several other old cars and trucks from out of town. The DJ began playing 50's & 60's music about 6:30. A little bit later, they started the various dance contests and gave prizes to the winners.
  
   
The Cumberland River Cruiser President Dave Neff and wife, Carol, won the costume contest. They were dressed like they were right out of the 1950's.
 

Heritage Days: Parade / Car Show

The Cumberland River Cruisers had been asked to put on a Heritage Days Car Show for the Burkesville/Cumberland County Events Committee after the Heritage Days Parade wound through town. A few of the CRC members drove their cars in the parade.
  
  
  
  
  
  
While the parade was going on, other members were busy setting up the tables, door prizes and trophies for the Heritage Days Car Show in the Park. After the parade had made the trip through town, the people pulled their cars into the Park and then registered for the Heritage Days Car Show and were given a Dash Plaque.

There was a DJ playing music and people could buy items from over 25 vendors in the Park. There were also several food vendors. At 2 PM, the Cruisers began counting the votes and giving away over $100 worth of door prizes. After the numbers were drawn and the door prizes given away, the trophies were awarded to the appropriate vehicle owners.
  
 
  
 
 
After all the trophies had been awarded, we gave away half of the 50/50 Money.
 

The Burkesville/Cumberland County Event's Committee did a nice job organizing the activities for Heritage Days, the parade was nice and there were lots of things to see and do during the weekend.
The Cruisers wish to thank the Event's Committee, especially Judge Executive John Phelps, for their help and sponsorship of the Heritage Days Car Show.
The Cruisers would also like to thank Mayor Riddle for his cooperation in putting on this entire event.

It was 3 beautiful days at the Park in Burkesville!

Country Cafe Car Show & Supper

A few of the Cruisers drove to Russell Springs and then went East on 80, then turned South on 76 and ended up at the Country Cafe. Carol & Dave, Chris, Randy, Stacey, Linda & Dave went to the Country Cafe to be a part of the small cruise-in they have on Tuesday nights. We arrived just before dark and were met by Darrell Smallwood and asked to park and fill out entries for our cars. It was a free event and mainly just to bring in customers for the Country Cafe. There were probably 30 cars, but some of the pictures of the dark colored cars didn't turn out well enough to be posted. The ones that showed up are below.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
A nice 55 Chevy pictured below with the owner and the Best Of Show Trophy .
 
After the awards were passed out, the Cruisers went inside and enjoyed some of the Country Cafe's 'cat fish' before cruising back towards Burkesville.