Look­ing to change things up a lit­tle and with an eye towards shaky weather, I took a shot at attend­ing the Agawam Cruise Night spon­sored by the Val­ley Cruis­ers.  The weather was mar­ginal at best, with some large dark clouds float­ing around.  My route to the show took me over the Memo­r­ial Bridge in down­town Spring­field, and as I was nav­i­gat­ing over the span I couldn’t help but notice the angry look­ing storm clouds to the south­west, it made me very ner­vous.  This was the same bridge fea­tured in many you tube videos when the tor­nado struck Spring­field on June 1st.

Well, I expe­ri­anced no rain, but the threat of bad weather keep many away.  The event was very sparsely attended, and I felt kind of out of place as most of the atten­dees were club mem­bers.  No awards tonight, but it was fun to get the “Gray Lady” out and roll her around a bit.  Our weather has been awful and event after event have been rained out or resched­uled.  Our busy upcom­ing week­end looks to be a washout again.  We are sched­uled to be in Stoughton, MA at Long Cadil­lac for “Cadil­lac Day” spon­sored by the New Eng­land Region Cadil­lac LaSalle Club and then Sun­day in Man­ches­ter, CT for the “Crusin’ On Main Street” event which can attract upwards of 2000 cars.  Time will tell.

Fin­gers crossed.….

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It has been a slow week, wanted to do cruise nights on Tues­day and Fri­day, but weather man­aged to nix both of them.  Tues­day was just to hot to bother, and Fri­day again saw the threat of severe thun­der­storms.  good thing we can­celed Fri­day because a very severe band of storms ran through, with trees down, large hail and very heavy rains.

My sched­ule is so messed up!  I com­pletely for­got about a show I wanted to attend in Stafford Springs, CT on Sat­ur­day, which was a beau­ti­ful day by the way.  Busi­ness and Board meet­ing com­mitt­ments have really messed with my mind, it’s not like me to miss a great day for a show!!

Sun­day I had the oppor­tu­nity to attend “Cars Of The World” in War­wick, RI or a big show on the Con­necti­cut shore, I opted to skip both in favor of a local show to ben­e­fit the Shriners Hos­pi­tal and children’s can­cer char­i­ties.  While it was for a good cause, it was a ter­ri­ble day.  I won’t name the show, in an attempt to pro­tect those who are doing the right thing, for all the right rea­sons in a very bad way.….  It was sunny and very hot when I arrived to find we were park­ing on an asphalt lot, great, hours in the blaz­ing sun, with no shade in temps that were 90+  Low bud­get DJ and not a lot of activ­ity all con­tributed to a few hours of my life I will never get back.  The top­per was when they announced the top 10 awards and best of show.  The major­ity of win­ners were all Chevro­let, I’m told, just like what hap­pened last year.  The stun­ner though, was the best of show, a car that shall remain un-identified, it was not a Chevro­let.  It was a con­vert­ible, met­alflake pur­ple, that was painted in his garage for $300.00, had rusted bumpers and an orig­i­nal shred­ded inte­rior that was holier than a cathe­dral on Easter Sun­day!!!!  In fact, not 20 min­utes before the award I was talk­ing with the owner of the car who was admir­ing our paint job, when he was telling me how they painted it.  OMG, what were they think­ing, OK I get it, you want to give your buddy an award, so put him in the top 10, but “Best Of Show” are you kid­ding me.  We will send a check next year because it is a really good cause, but there is no way we’ll be attend­ing again, I’d have more fun tak­ing a nap!  Pho­tos show a cou­ple of beau­ties that were awarded noth­ing and com­pletely over­looked.  The ’33 Lasalle was an obvi­ous stand­out in that field and did not even get in the top 10!

Hope­fully, the com­ing week will be bet­ter, we are really look­ing for­ward to “Cadil­lac Day” spon­sored by the New Eng­land Region of the Cadil­lac LaSalle Club and Long Cadil­lac out in East­ern Mass­a­chu­setts on Saturday.  Sunday will find us down in Man­ches­ter, CT where they close 1 mile of Main Street and could attract hun­dreds if not thou­sands of cars.  Fin­gers crossed for bet­ter weather.

Talk later.….

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