2010 National Meet – June 7-12: Branson, Missouri.
We will be joining forces in a joint National meet with the Winged Warriors group in Branson. Winged Warriors will host the event this year, and DSAC will host the 2011 event. For this year, Stuart Sutton and Larry Roper are our hosts.
Our headquarters hotel is the Ramada Inn Area 57. Our special room rate is $54.95 per night; call (417) 334-1000 and ask for the WW block of rooms. The Ramada rooms surround their own large parking lot where our cars will be on display. The hotel is very nice and offers wireless internet, a work-out room, excellent hot breakfast buffet. While there are activities planned through the week, most days will have free time that you can check out the many attractions that are in Branson. Here is the schedule:
Monday, June 7: arrival day and free time.
Tuesday through Thursday, June 8-10: A trip to Springfield to visit the huge Bass Pro Shop and wildlife museum, stop at Lamberts (home of the throwed rolls) in Ozark for lunch; Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede; cruise on the Branson Belle Showboat; the new Branson Auto Museum. There will be free time each day to see things on your own.
Friday afternoon, June 11: raffle and pizza party at the Ramada. Drive-in movie after dark.
There are endless shows and entertainment in the area. Some recommended shows are: Toni Roi (Elvis impersonator), The Haygoods (amazing brothers/sister musical show); Legends in Concert (Marilyn, Elvis, Shania Twain, Blues Brothers, etc), Baldknobbers (comedy, music), The Duttons, Six (six brothers a cappella), Rankin Brothers, Acrobats of China (highly recommended very amazing show!), Shoji Tabuchi (fiddler/comedian). To learn more about the shows, schedules and ticket prices visit www.explorebranson.com There are links to most of the performer's websites.
There are also lots of attractions in the area including Silver Dollar City, The Titanic, Hollywood Wax Museum, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Toy Museum, Dinosaur Museum and Haunted House. Or you can play miniature golf, race go-karts, ride the Ducks, enjoy a 40-mile train ride in vintage rail cars on the Branson Scenic Railway, fly from a 100' tower or take a helicopter ride over Branson. There are numerous outlet malls, specialty shops, restaurants, and ice cream shops around the area. Come to the meet and make it your family vacation
Keokuk Racers Reunion – June 19th – Keokuk Iowa
Join us in Keokuk for the 3rd Racers Reunion event. In the 1960’s, Keokuk was a hotbed of name drivers that made it on the professional racing scene. There will be a wonderful group of vintage race cars and personalities to see and visit with. It will be held at the Keokuk Mall from 10 to 5 on Saturday. There will be room inside the mall for the cars, and of course our club cars as well. Drivers Ramo Stott, Don White, Ernie Derr, Lem and Gordon Blankenship will be there, among others. Quite a bit of old memorabilia will be brought out for display. The drivers and their families come out for this, and it’s a great time. We’ll be staying at the Super 8 in Keokuk. Call 319-524-3888 for reservations and ask for the Racers Reunion rate. Load in at the mall will be Friday night after 5 PM and early Saturday morning. For more info, call me, Doug Schellinger at 414-687-2489 or email to superbirdclub@yahoo.com
More info as I receive it in the next issue.
Monster Mopar Weekend – September 10-12
St Louis Missouri
I expect we will have a full Ford and Mopar Aero Car display at Monster Mopar this year. The event is back to its traditional date for 2010. More details to follow.
Talladega & Spoiler II Reunion – October 1 & 2, 2010 Kingsport TN
Richard Fleener and Jason Thompson are working with Tim Lapata and his Forge Muscle Car Show to put on a very special “Family Reunion” for the Ford Talladega at this fall’s Forge Muscle Car Show. The Forge is held in Kingsport Tennesee. There will be an indoor show with a portion of the larger muscle car exhibit devoted to the rarest of the rare Ford Talladegas; display is by invitation only. For example, both Banjo Matthews prototype Talladegas are expected to be in attendance. If you think you own one of the rarest of the rare, and have not been invited, please contact HYPERLINK "mailto:richard@legendarycollectorcars.com" \o "legendary Collector cars" Richard@LegendaryCollectorCars.com or Jason at HYPERLINK "mailto:thompsons122@charter.net" thompsons122@charter.net. Jason’s phone number is 865-621-4012. (continued on the next page)
Forge Musclecar Show – continued:
For those that own a regular production Talladega or Spoiler, there will be an outdoor show featuring all the Talladegas we can round up! Both shows are open to the public and speaking from past experience you will see cars of a very high quality you will may never see again. If you don’t own a Talladega but wish you did or just want to see the best there is be there this fall. Richard will be publishing updates on the meet on his LegendaryCollectorCar.com website as to what cars have accepted invitations and what key individuals in the car’s history will be there to chat with you! Don’t miss out. Put this on your calendar now!
For more information on the events, please email us at superbirdclub@yahoo.com , or call 414-687-2489.
