Last year I stumbled into the
First Oak Hill Neighborhood Association's Cruise and Blues
festival and took my jeep. This year was different in that
we had four members attend the Second Annual event and the
location had moved to a larger venue.
Arriving mid-morning, John K brought in his '45 MB and found a
good spot. About noonish, Danny K driving his '70 M151A2 and
M416 trailer along with me driving my '53 M38A1 arrived and
located a good spot. A bit later in the afternoon, Herb T
drove his '44 GPW over and parked with Danny.
The event had a large number of tents setup that had arts &
crafts for sale, a large contingent of politicians, the Rotary
club, many different food vendors and food vendors. The
church doubled as the big-screen tv room for the annual Red River
Shootout between the University of Texas and the Oklahoma Sooners.
In the back area was the car show. The entry fee was
minimal at $10 for such a good time. Having grown
considerably since last year, there were a tremendous number of
car clubs. The Chevy Impala's appeared to be the best
represented. There were street rods, custom rods,
quarter-mile cars, motorcycles and pick-up trucks.
About 4pm the judging was over and around 5pm the awards were
given out. Sad to say, none of the us received any hardware
this time, but we all had a grand time answering questions about
the vehicles and the club.
Around 6:30pm or so, Danny and Herb took off.
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