Saturday's Grand Classic Show Day and Awards Banquet, by Grace Gluck

As beautiful as the two previous days were, Saturday was exactly the opposite.  It was cold and wet.  The many people that stayed at the hotel came down early and new plans were formulated.  Formal portraits of the cars, photographed by Steve Gluck, assisted by his dad, Bob Gluck with Norm Arbour and Frank Goodhart, were taken in front of the hotel using the portico for protection from the rain.  After the cars were photographed, our well-planned parking lot plan was scrapped and cars were parked in the most convenient space with some attempt at keeping the classes together.  Pat Caruso roamed the field with his camera and took many candids of cars and people.  In spite of the weather, spirits were high and everyone pitched in to make our show day a grand success.  The rain stopped or slowed long enough to get all the cars judged in the field.  The judges, led by John and BarbaraAnna Kefalonitis, did a remarkable job of doing their task with 31 cars being judged.  The scores will be printed in the June issue of The Classic Car.  From the 74 cars signed up, close to 50 were on the showfield.  It was certainly a grand showing of beautiful Full Classics®. 

And, now we present the 2006 Metro Grand Classic Show Field

Cars are presented in order of their registration number...

#1 - 1930 Cadillac Sedan, Madame X (Peter & Sharon Sanders)

#2 - 1926 Cadillac Phaeton (Gene & Peg Feyl)

#4 - 1941 Cadillac Sedan (Mike & Jo-Ellen Greene)

#5 - 1947 Cadillac Sedan (Dan & Elaine Danielson)

#6 - 1936 Cadillac Sport Phaeton (Robert Straker)

#7 - 1947 Cadillac Convertible Coupe (Charlie & Cheryl Eggert)

#9 - 1929 Cadillac 341B Close Coupled Sedan (Rick & Marie Stoeber)

#10 - 1934 Packard 1100 Sedan (Dave Czirr)

#12 - 1941 Packard Sport Brougham (Stephen & Phoebe Wolff)

#14 - 1937 Cadillac Convertible Sedan, Fleetwood (Chuck & Mary Jane Mitchell)

#15 - 1941 Cadillac Convertible Sedan (Bob & Grace Gluck)

#17 - 1941 Cadillac 60 Special Sedan (Bob & Grace Gluck)

#20 - 1927 Rolls-Royce Playboy Roadster PI, Brewster (Jim & Marion Caldwell)

#22 - 1931 Cadillac Roadster 370A Fleetwood (Woody & Fran Rohrbach)

#23 - 1936 Cord Phaeton (Jeff Guss)

#25 - 1941 Packard Sport Brougham, LeBaron (Frank & Joan Goodhart)

#27 - 1947 Cadillac Convertible Coupe (Bob & Natalie Rooke)

#29 - 1929 Duesenberg J-223 Phaeton, LeBaron (Bob & Natalie Rooke)

#30 - 1934 Lincoln KA Roadster, Dietrich (Joe & Cathy Cannizzaro)

#31 - 1936 Rolls-Royce Limousine (Garth & Karen Story)

#32 - 1932 LaSalle RS Coupe (Jim & Bernadette Norton)

#33 - 1947 Cadillac Limousine (Richard & Shirlee Marrs)

#35 - 1947 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet (John Rich)

#36 - 1941 Cadillac 60 Special Sedan (Frank & Nancy Bramante)

#37 - 1932 Chrysler Convertible Roadster CL Imperial, LeBaron (Joe & Maureen Morgan)

#38 - 1941 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet (Jerry Beard)

#39 - 1939 Cadillac V-16 9033 Imperial Limousine (Andy & Andrea Jacoby)

#43 - 1927 Bentley 3 Liter Harrington Tourer (Dennis & Ann Marie Nash)

#45 - 1941 Packard Darrin Convertible Victoria (Ralph & Adeline Marano)

#48 - 1947 Cadillac Coupe (Tom & Carol Kidd)

#49 - 1926 Cadillac 7-Passenger Touring (Jim & Janet Belote)

#50 - 1936 Packard Convertible Sedan (David & Sandra Howard)

#51 - 1927 Packard Roadster (John & Carol Baron)

#54 - 1941 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet (Charlie Wills)

#58 - 1947 Cadillac Convertible Coupe (Dan Gernatt)

#59 - 1931 Cadillac 355A Opera Coupe (Dan Gernatt)

#65 - 1936 Packard Phaeton (Frank & Loni Buck)

#66 - 1929 Packard RS Coupe (Bill & Maureen Kay)

#67 - 1939 Packard Formal Sedan (Jim Fields)

1947 Packard Sedan (Angelo Petrelli)

#74 - 1941 Packard 1907 Formal Sedan (Bob & Sunny Turnquist)

#95 - 1929 Packard Sport Touring (Albert Nippert)

#99 - 1931 Auburn Cabriolet (Rich & Debbie Fass)

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#1 - 1930 Cadillac Sedan, Madame X (Peter & Sharon Sanders)

Because of the weather, everyone (spectators, participants and judges) was in and out of the hotel, creating a great feeling of camaraderie, fun and laughter.  I’m convinced many more people talked and laughed together than would have on a sunny day.  One got the feeling of great friendships enjoyed even though they only met on that day.  The Wyndham Garden Hotel, where we were the only event, rose to the occasion doing an excellent job of servicing everyone’s needs from hot coffee to a full meal.  The Hospitality Room, compliments of Bill Hirsch, did a booming business all three days of the event, but particularly on Saturday where snacks, soft drinks, and good conversation were always available.  

The tabulators, led by Karen Story, performed their job flawlessly, turning in their scores, with the computer printing out the results.  As the day wound down, many of the cars were back in their trailers and everyone felt the show was a great success.  We now looked forward to the evening’s banquet and awards ceremony.

Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres were available to the 108 guests before dinner was served in the ballroom of the hotel.  Laughter was heard at every table as everyone watched the excellent slide presentation of the events from the previous three days, put together by Steve Gluck.  Along with the slides, door prizes of wine were drawn throughout the dinner for the pleasure of the lucky recipients.  Then finally, the moment of reckoning, the judging results.  Bob Gluck, director of Metro and John Kefalonitis, head judge, presented the awards to the many happy car owners.  As the awards were presented, Steve Gluck flashed a picture of the car receiving the prize to the delight of the enthusiastic audience.  We had two 100-point cars and a number of high point first place winners.  Our hearty congratulations to the winners and to everyone who showed their car.

Our show proved the point of a famous CCCA member who said, “the cars bring us together, but the people keep us together.”  That certainly was true this weekend, where many new friendships were formed and others renewed.  Thank you everyone for making the Metro Region Grand Classic a terrific success!