Dateline: 5.7.22 – The Lake Country Cruisers crew and other volunteers will be managing the Caladium Festival Car and Bike Show this year, as Bob Larson has stepped down after many years of running the Car and Bike Show portion of the annual festival.
So, that got us to thinking; we all love machines and many of the Cruisers have motorcycles, so why not expand the Lake Country Cruiser shows to include motorcycles? After all, two and three-wheel motorcycles are very popular in our area.
So, if you have a motorcycle, in addition to your cruiser car, bring your bike! And if you have friends that have motorcycles, tell them that the Lake Country Cruisers car shows are now “Car AND Bike Shows”!
Dateline 4-10-22: It was a spectacular day for a car show and a good time was had by all and a 180-degree turnabout from March’s total rain-out. What was amazing about last month’s rain-out was that despite the dismal weather, THIRTY cars showed up! The Lake Placid Wawa donated coffee and Dunkin Donuts provided yummy D&D donuts. So, the car show turned into a handout for an hour or so.
Officially we had 51 cars registered for our April show, which considering that the big “12 Hours of BBQ” event was going on at Fireman’s Field in Sebring, was very good.
We had four special guests at the show. Ellen Beers from the South Central Florida Car Club stopped by for a visit. It was a good day for Ellen, as she was our 50/50 Runner-Up winner and took home a $50 gift certificate from The GC Grill House. Thanks for coming up from LaBelle, Ellen!
Dateline: 2.24.22 – At the last Lake Country Cruisers Car ShowGary & Peggy Pixley brought us a very sweet, hand-made by “Kathy’s Top 1940s”, 1940 Ford Cookie Jar. The convertible top” is the lid to the cookie jar. It even has a “Certificate of Title for Street Rod”. The “Title Number” is 064-1992, which leads us to guess that the cookie jar was made in 1992.
George Silsby said, “Maybe we should raffle it off?” Then I said, “This should be filled with bright-colored Jolly Rancher candies.” Pete went pie-eyed and said, “We could fill it up with those little booze bottles!”And we all said, “Yea!”
So, here’s the deal, Cruisers. We were able to stuff 17 little bottles of Cheer into our 1940 Ford Convertible cookie jar! REALLY! The bottles that are not sticking up, are under the hood and trunk areas.
At our next Lake Country Cruisers Car Show at the American Legion (March 12, 2022), we will be raffling off this sweet 1940 Ford Convertible Cookie Jar Full of Cheer, for just $5 per ticket.
Dateline: 2.18.22 – After weeks of mostly crummy weather, what a delight it was to have a classic Winter-in-Florida beautiful day. By around 1 pm it actually started to get to be low-80s warm, yea, just the way we like it!
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Using our military-grade crowd-estimator, the data showed that Dick and Marilyn’s 1931 V12 Cadillac was by far, THE crowd favorite! They had more people around their car than anything else. This big beast of early 1930s Cadillac luxury is a visual feast!
I’d venture to say that most of the crowd hasn’t seen a car such as this in a long time, if ever. I know it wasn’t easy getting this old beauty to run, but Dick, you got it done. Hope to see your old Caddy again soon.Continue reading “Lake Country Cruisers February 2022 Car Show”→
Lake Country Cruisers had a great time at Dock 933!
Dateline: 2-16-22 – We are happy to announce that Lake Country Cruisers’ first “Meet’n Eat” luncheon at Dock 633 was a happy, successful event. We had 14 cars and 20 guests for lunch. After nearly a week of chilly, overcast weather, it was a delight to have warm sunshine.
Let’s Festoon the American Legion With American Flags!
Dateline: 2.10.22 – Hey Cruisers, this popped into my head the other day, and it will be SO EASY to do.
The Highlands County area has a rich car culture, especially considering how rural it is here. “Car Culture” as we know it, is a uniquely “American” creation and we are all part of it. (yes, we like foreign cars too)
Lake Country Cruisers has the perfect place for American Car Culture, the Lake Placid “American” Legion, Post 25. And we always start our show with our 11 am Pledge of Allegiance.
So, if you are planning to be at this Saturday’s Lake Country Cruisers Car Show, BRING SOME AMERICAN FLAGS!
That’s about the right amount of flags!
Bring what you can, and let’s light up the show with the Red, White, and Blue!
Hope to see you This Saturday!– Scott, Pete, & Ron
Dateline: 2.7.22 –Hey Cruisers, just a quick update about our first Meet’n Eat Event, this Thursday, February 10 at DOCK 622 from 2 pm to 4 pm, is a GO! As of this morning, we have 10 members signed up.
The weather forecast for this Thursday in Lake Placid is “Mostly Sunny, with a high temp of 71-degrees”, so bring a light jacket.
If you are going to be there, first, let us know (send an e-mail to… lightoak@comcast.net), and second, bring your machine!
And when you park, DOCK 633 would like us to park out front, and back into your parking spot so we can get a group shot of all the cars in front of DOCK 633! We’d like to feature the photo on the Lake Country Cruisers Facebook page… https://www.facebook.com/lakecountrycruiserscarshows/
After the event, we will be announcing the date and place of our March Meet’n Eat.
All of our Meet’n Eat gatherings will be with local Lake Placid restaurants that are supporting Lake Country Cruisers Car Shows with generous gift certificate Door Prizes. DOCK 633 has contributed $50 Gift Certificates! NICE! This is our way of saying,“Thanks!”
Hope to see you This Thursday! – Scott, Pete, & Ron
PS – For those of you that might not know where DOCK 633 is located and want to use GPS, the address is; 633 Lake June Road, Lake Placid, FL, 33852-5671.
Never been to a Lake Country Cruisers Car Show??? Here’s what you’ve been missing!
Dateline: 1-28-22 – At our last Lake Country Cruisers Car Show on January 8, 2022, we had a surprise guest. Sean Dever, Host & Producer of the YouTube channel, “Junkyards and Barn Finds with Sean” just happened to be driving along Rt. 27 on that beautiful afternoon when he saw our show at the American Legion.
Sean was surprised to see so many cars here in Lake Placid, “America’s Most Interesting Town” (according to Reader’s Digest Magazine!), where we might have more cows, gators, and other critters than we have people! I’m sure Sean thought to himself, “Where’d all these cool cars come from???”
Well, lucky for us, Sean never leaves home without his video recorder. He pulled into the show and got right to work. Sean’s video starts off with a shot of Jim Maze’s charming 1956 Chevy Cop Car,“Aunt Bee” (as in The Andy Griffith Show), and runs for almost 27 minutes.
Alan Greiger’s supercharged small-block, custom 1978 Monte Carlo is featured nicely.
If you have family and friends that don’t live in this area and have been hearing you talk about the Lake Country Cruisers Car Shows, but have never attended, send them this post!
Also, on February 10 we will have our first Lake Country Cruisers “Meet’n Eat” event at Dock 633, on Lake June Road in Lake Placid. If you’d like to attend, email me with an RSVP at; lightoak@comcast.net . We will have seating for 30.
Enjoy the video and a BIG THANKS to Sean Dever at the YouTube Channel, “Junkyards and Barn Finds with Sean”. – Scott, Pete, & Ron
Dateline: 1-23-22 – We are very happy to announce our first Lake Country Cruisers “Meet’n Eat” event at Dock 633, in Lake Placid on Thursday, February 10, from 2 pm to 4 pm. We will have the use of Dock’s new screened-in back porch that can seat a maximum of 30. Please RSVP by January 31. Send your RSVP to Scott at: lightoak@comcast.net .
For a few months, we have been kicking around a social event for our Lake Country Cruisers members. Since we kicked off our Show Car season last October, Dock 633 has been one of our supporters with very generous $50 Gift Certificates for lunch or dinner at their restaurant.
During the week, the 2 pm-to-4 pm time slot is perfect because the early dinner crowd arrives around 4:30 for early dinner. Dock 633 has agreed to let us use their new screened-in outside porch space in the back of the restaurant. The porch holds 30 people. If you’d like to attend, send your RSVP to Scott at:lightoak@comcast.net .Continue reading “ANNOUNCEMENT: Lake Country Cruisers 1st “Meet’n Eat” Event!”→
Another Spectacular Lake Placid Florida Winter Day For a Car Show!
Dateline: 1-14-22 –Don’t you just love winter in Florida? We sure do! The days are mostly cool-to-slightly warm, low humidity, and a gentle breeze – PERFECT weather for a car show! We racked up 61 cars that registered and a handful that were not. And a BIG THANKS to our friends at the Lake Placid Dunkin Donuts for the coffee!
Here’s a Slide Show overview of the sights of the show. To see the below images BIG, just click on one, and the Slide Show will launch.
Our 50/50 Take-Home was $235 (not too shabby!). And the Cruiser that went home very happy was Scott & Patti Sortor. (2005 Corvette Convertible)
Our 50/50 Drawing Lady, Elizabeth pulled the lucky 50/50 number!
And we now have a 50/50 Runner-Up prize of a $50 Gift Certificate to Dock 633! And our Runner-Up Winner was Jack Murphy (2006 Corvette Coupe).
The next show you attend, don’t zoom off after the 50/50 drawing because there’s one more prize! If no one claims the Runner-Up number, we will draw another number. So, hang out with the Cruisers just a little while longer, it could be your Lucky Day!
We had our Cruiser of the Month drawing, and our Winner was; Sam Wolf, with his 1966 Austin Mini Pick-Up.
Sam’s “Mini” (a proper English Mini, not a modern BIG “Mini”) will be our Feature Display Cruiser of the Month and will be parked sideways next to our sign-in tent.
We even had some Rolling Thunder rumble through the show!
And lastly, our Kettle Corn man, Norn Zintz was very happy because we nearly cleaned him out of Kettle Corn. So much so, he’ll be back next month!
To see the below images BIG, just click on one, and the Slide Show will launch.
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We also want to thank everyone that got lunch in the Legion’s Mess Hall Kitchen. Doing so very much supports the Legion. Legion Commander, Fred Pierce, Chief Cook Dwane, and the rest of the Mess Hall Kitchen crew appreciate your business.
Our next Car Show at The Legion will be on February 12, from 11 am to 2 pm. Thanks for being with us, and we’ll see you next month. – Scott Pete, & Ron
PS – Do you have any car friends that have NOT been to a Lake Country Cruisers Car Show? BRING THEM WITH YOU next month!
Dateline: 1.10.22 –The Lake Placid American Legion Post 25 has been home to the Lake Country Cruisers (and Highlands County Corvettes) for several years now. As part of Lake Country Cruisers Community Outreach, we are joining the Lake Placid American Legion in their support of Veterans Services of Highlands County.
We are very happy to announce that thanks to your support of our car shows, last month Lake Country Cruisers was able to make a$500 donation to Veterans Services of Highlands County!
When we made our donation on December 21, 2021, at the monthly meeting in Sebring, we were all impressed with the team that runs Veterans Services of Highlands County. The only person in their organization that is monetarily compensated is the Secretary. Everyone else is a volunteer.
Here is some information from the County Office website…
About the Highlands County Veterans Services:
The Highlands County Veterans Services, located in Sebring, FL, provides support for veterans of the US Armed Forces. Veteran Services connects veterans with several government agencies and nonprofit organizations at the federal, Florida state, and Sebring level. These services include veteran benefits assistance, services for veterans with disabilities, and information about medical care, insurance, and education benefits. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) also provides veteran services in Sebring.Continue reading “Cruisers Club Supports Veterans Services of Highlands County!”→
Cars, Coffee, Cookies, Soft Pretzels, Door Prizes, and a Tidy 50/50 Payout!
Dateline 1.3.22. 2022: It was a delightful late Autumn day, partly cloudy, 80-degrees, and breezy; PERFECT for a car show!
Perhaps it was the attendance of our Snow Bird Cruisers that increased attendance as we had 77 cars registered. That’s a nice bump from November’s attendance of 56 cars. Thanks, everyone for coming out!
This month we also enjoyed coffee, soft pretzels, and chocolate chip cookies, courtesy of the generous folks at the Lake Placid Wawa store.
Click the below images to start the slide show.
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Our Door Prize Winners were; Justin Donahue, Bill Test, Marvin Garwood, Jack Murphy, Kikki Hoadley, Charlene Wood & Mark, Alan Geiger, and Dick Roddie.
Our 50/50 winner was Craig Vedernjak, owner of a Metallic Gray 1955 Ford Fairlane. Craig’s take-home was $300
And lastly, our Lake Country Cruiser of the Month was, Donald Meitz, owner of a black 1972 Chevelle Coupe. We don’t have a photo of Donald and his Chevelle because he escaped before we could get a pic, so he’s still at large.
At the next car show, don’t be surprised if the air smells somewhat sweet!
Our next Lake Country Cruisers Car Show will be January 8, 11 am-to-1:30 pm. Same great place, the Lake Placid American Legion Post 25. See you there! – Scott, Pete, & Ron
PS – Later that day, as part of the Lake Placid Christmas Parade, Bob Larson and his wife were honored as Masters of Ceremony for all their years of service to the Lake Placid community for their successful running of the Lake Placid Caladium Festival Car Shows.
Pete Richie will be running the Caladium Car Show for 2022.
Greetings Everyone! Lake Country Cruisers is very happy to announce our first website, http://www.LakeCountryCruisers.com. All Lake Country Cruisers announcements and events coverage will happen here. When we publish a new post (announcement), our “newsletter” (RSS e-mail feed) will be sent to everyone on our e-mail list with brief announcements or overviews. We do not sell, rent, or lend our e-mail list and you will only hear from us when we publish.
For those of you that have been coming to our Cruisers shows since last October, you have noticed some changes. Pete Richie, Ron Ellerman, and I are co-managing the club. Beginning with last October’s show, we started asking for a $5.00 entrance fee/donation. This not only enables us to get nice car guy door prizes, but it also pays for the gas cards and Lotto tickets.
We have decided to take Lake Country Cruisers into the direction of, not just better door prizes and bigger 50/50 payouts, but the direction of “service to the community”.
Lake Country Cruisers is hitching our cart to the Lake Placid American Legion, Post 25 in their support of the Veterans Council of Highlands County. We could have gone with one of the fine national organizations but we chose to help our Vet neighbors in Highlands County. We believe that you will be pleased with what we have done, thanks to you! More to come soon!
If you’ve never been to the Lake Placid Christmas Parade, you will find it is 110%-pure Americana! It doesn’t get any more Small Town USA than this. BIG FUN!
Lake Country Cruisers will have approximately 10 cars representing the club. So, come on out, support the Cruisers and have a big slice of Americana pie! Kids of all ages are welcome. Bring a folding chair and your camera!
Dateline: 12.7.21 – The weather in south-central Florida broke early this year and we lucked out with perfect weather for a car show; sunny, breezy, low humidity, and around 78-degrees.
As usual, the show was held at the American Legion in Lake Placid, FL where we had 56 cars and over 100 people.. Our Door Prize Winners were; Mark Taboda, Gary Dahlhofer, Jim Maze, Roger Davis, and Susan Cavera.
