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In this issue:

Editor’s Corner 1

New Members 2

Sick & Sympathy List 2

President’s Letter 3

Minutes 4

Upcoming Shows– Flyers 5

Needless to say, the month of April was a very emotional time

for our club, the loss of two of our most beloved members Mary

Nell and Dwayne has left such an emptiness in our hearts,

however, the month ended with a bang!!

Victory Junction is such an amazing place, and those that were

able to see that for the first time will tell you that. Our little

excursion to North Carolina was filled with joy, happiness,

excitement, plenty of food, and yes, some tears were shed, and

that was just on the trip over there. Well, not really! Our most sincere

thanks and gratitude to Ken Solomon for driving us there and back, I

believe, he enjoyed it also. We began our stops at the Ray Everham

Museum, and guess who was there, Ray, himself. He was a joy to meet

and so personable. He even signed a few autographs for us. The

Darryl’s in Greensboro will never be same after having our crew there,

the food was mighty good. Then came the stop at Victory Junction,

where 125 bears are now available for the campers to enjoy. CEO, Chad

A. Coltrane [second from left], was our tour guide for the day, only been

on the job for 3 months, but the way he spoke and all of his passion made

it seem he had been there for years. He was a bevy of information and was truly thankful for what we have

accomplished. Oh yea, we also got to meet Austin Petty ,Kyle and Patty’s son [ picture on left in plaid shirt],

who was truly thankful too, and also gave us some photo ops with him. I am truly amazed of the workings of

this camp and what joy it must bring to all that attend. Of course, I could just ask Brooklyn Jade, she could

tell me about her recent trip as a camper to Victory Junction. One great time was had by all that attended and

it was truly heartwarming of all the love that is given to each and every child that attends. We ended that

little excursion at the Petty Museum, where we were granted our personal tour with our good buddy, Tony

Hancock, leading the way. Thanks Tony, it was really appreciated !! Make your plans for 2016 !

On Wednesday, we went to JR Motorsports, where I think Theresa bought one of everything in the store,

heheheheh!!!! They were loading up the haulers for Talladega, was great to see them in action in preparing

the haulers for the race. Those things were huge!!

Then it was off to Penske Racing we went, it is hard

to fathom the process that it takes to build and get

these cars ready to race. Amazing is all I can say.

One last thing, I am so glad that Gwen Porterfield

went on this trip with us, just to see her smile made

my day. We will always have our precious memories

of Dwayne and Mary Nell.

Much love and happiness to all of you!

Lisa

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Sponsor Spotlight

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ABOUT HCCC

Hamblen County Car Club organized in the summer of 2002. We are a

non profit corporation dedicated to the promotion of a safe, family-

oriented enjoyment of Classic and Custom cars and trucks through club

camaraderie, monthly meetings and scheduled special events.

HCCC meets on the third Thursday of each month except December at

Shoney’s in Morristown. Come at 6 pm for dinner and our meeting

starts at 7 pm. Club membership is open to persons age 18 or older

who are interested in the restoration and maintenance of American

Made cars and trucks. Dues are $25 annually, payable on September

1st.

Cruise “N” ews is the official publication of the HCCC and is printed

and distributed monthly. All news articles, photos and items of interest

are welcome for consideration for publication, subject to editing. Sub-

mission deadline is the first Tuesday of each month.

If you like to receive your newsletter by e-mail, please let me know.

Send newsletter correspondence to:

Lisa Grooms

928B Jarnigan Ave

Morristown, TN 37813

lgrooms8@gmail.com

2014-2015 Club Officers

President: Don McGinnis

423-581-1728

Vice-President: Butch

Grooms

423-258-4368

Secretary: Deedra Hall

423-327-1125

Treasurer: Jerry Kloos

423-586-5959

Chaplain: Gene Honeycutt

423-312-6972

Public Relations Director:

Gene Honeycutt

423-312-6972

March newsletter items

are due no later than

Tuesday, June 2nd I

always appreciate items

as early as possible

Welcome New Members:

James and Kristy Knipper

Steve and Rhonda Masoner

Sick and Sympathy List

We would like to keep all car club members informed of their car club family members who are sick or have had death in the family. If you know

or hear of anyone experiencing illness or death in the family, please help us by notifying Gene Honeycutt at 423-312-6972.

Merle and Sharon Myers Our Service Men and Women

Don Brooks David King Tony Hayes Georganne Russell

Gwen Porterfield Don McGinnis Dixie Beede

Ronnie Hopkins Carolyn Seals

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President’s Letter—May 2015 by Don McGinnis

Spring is here, and Cruise-in Season has arrived. Our first Cruise-in was a

good one, the weather was extra nice. Just a great evening to get the old cars

out. It was good to see the old familiar faces, their cars plus several new

ones, that really looked sharp. Every year seems to bring more classic auto’s

which is good for our hobby. The Car shows have started, I think there is at

least one every week through Oct. We have plenty of shows to pick and

choose. I do hope everyone supports and participates in the club activities

and sponsored shows.

Butch has a few weeks open for trailer attendees. Make sure you sign up to

help work the trailer this cruise-in season. Our Fun Run trip to Victory Junc-

tion in Randleman N.C. was a huge success again this year. So sorry I was

not able to make the trip, I just have to get this new knee healed up so I Can

participate in other club activities this summer.

The Winter Expo Show committee had a meeting earlier this month, plans

are for this years show in Jan. to be much greater than last year with the ad-

dition of a huge swap meet to be held in the adjoining building.

Remember next month is our annual club election of officers. In June nomi-

nations will be made from the floor. If you are interested or know someone

who is, start campaigning. It has been a pleasure being your President these

last two years. I can’t think every member enough for your support, but it is

time for me to step down. New officers with new ideas will be welcome. I

will help the club in any way I can as we continue to be a vital part in this

community. We have helped a lot of charities, made a lot of kids happy at

Christmas and most of all we had a lot of fun making all this happen.

MONTHLY CLUB MEETING EVERY 3RD THURSDAY AT

SHONEY’S

EAT AT 6:00 -----MEET AR 7:00 /////// HOPE TO SEE YOU

THERE.

Don

Morristown Tire & Performance Center

Complete Transmission Rebuild

Synthetic Blend Oil Changes only $24.95

Best Price On Tires In East Tennessee

423-586-7035

Tim Goins

Think Gwen liked this part of the tour!

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Minutes— April 2015 - Deedra Hall

The Hamblen County Car Club met on April 16th at Shoney’s with 32 members and quests present.

President, Don McGinnis called the meeting to order with Gene Honeycutt offering the opening pray-

er.

Motion to accept the minutes of the last meeting as published in the newsletter was made by Robert

Russell with a second from Ted Kalagian, minutes were accepted.

Jerry Kloos read the treasurers report, motion to accept the report was made by Gene Honeycutt with a

second from Paul McLain, report was accepted as read. Jerry Kloos reported that we now have 103

members.

A thank you card from the Rescue Squad was read by Don McGinnis, thanking us for the GPS Sys-

tems that we recently purchased for them.

Gene Honeycutt reported the meeting with the representatives from the Jefferson County Fair has not

been held at the present time.

Butch Grooms gave the cruise in report; the Sign in sheet to host the cruise in was passed out. Butch

and Jerry have cleaned out the trailer and everything has a place.

Butch, Jerry and Ted gave an update on the Jr. Club activities.

Jerry Kloos gave latest update on 2016 Winter Angel Expo.

Theresa Blanken gave a fun run update, April is the Victory Junction trip and May we will go to Cades

Cove, we will leave Ingles (East) at 1:30 pm on May 17th.

Old Business: None to report

New Business: Don announced officer election will be held at our June meeting.

Guest Stacy Hayes announced a car show on June 20th to benefit Serenity House, to be held at Food

City.

Butch announced upcoming local shows.

Betty McLain won drawing for meal at Shoney’s.

Jerry Kloos made motion to adjourn, Ted Kalagian seconded motion, and meeting was adjourned.

Be sure to visit our NEW

website:

www.hamblencountycarclub.org

And “Like” us on our Face-

book page The Ham-

blen County Car Club

May June July August September October

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Kloos (2) Lovin (2)

Yount (2) Hall (1)

Sawyer (2) Sawyer (2) Wruck (2)

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Kloos (2) Beede (2)

Kalagian (1) Honeeycutt (1)

Grooms (2) Yount (1) Hall (1) Porterfield (1) Kalagian (1)

Combs (2) Reynolds (2)

Mclain (2) Russell (1)

16 20 18 15 19 17

Kloos (2) John Zieba

Combs (2) Reynolds (2)

Sawyer (2) Sawyer (2)

Grooms (2) Yount (1) Hall (1) Wruck (2)

Blanken (2) McGinnis (1)

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Kloos (2) Kalagian (1) Lamb (2) Mclain (2) Russell (1)

Grooms (2) Yount (1) Hall (1)

Blanken (2) McGinnis (1)

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Mclain (2) Russell (1)

Lovin (2) Williams (2)

HCCC

Trailer

Schedule

2015

What lies behind

us, and what lies

before us are ti-

ny matters com-

pared to what

lies within us

Ralph Waldo

Emerson

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Our tour guide Tony Hancock, whom

was presented a plaque for his participa-

tion in our Winter Angel Expo. Thanks

Tony!!!!!!

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V i c e - P r e s i d e n t L e t t e r - M a y 2 0 1 5

B u t c h G r o o m s -

Greetings HCCC!

Can you imagine how busy a 3 legged cat can be with diarrhea? Well, that’s me!! But this is what

we love.!!!! CRUZ N TIME IN TENNESSEE !!!

Just enjoyed the best fun run ever with my two wives, Lisa and Gwen, to Victory Junction! Also, a

bunch of my best HCCC friends tagged along too! It will be hard to ever top this annual trip. Please

make plans to attend our next one in 2016. Thanks to Ken Solomon for driving and providing the bus! Honorary member there for sure! We should have a special report and guest speaker at the

May 21st meeting to give us more insight on what value Victory Junction has.

Next show coming us up May 16th at Fountain Plaza with the FOP; I am scheduled to be in the dunk

tank at 12:30 pm. Here’s your chance! Also, May 15th, there will be a softball game at Frank Lori-

no Park at 6pm between the Morristown Policemen and the Sheriff’s Department. This will be a laugher. We will try to cruise over to the Strawberry Festival for a mini cruise in during the show.

Next in line is Otis’s Memory Lane on May 23rd, David Sawyer wants a HCCC cruise that morning

up there and involves a biscuit, I think. Check with David!

Thanks to all that helped and attended the Downtown show on May 2nd. It turned out to be a good

show; this is giving us free publicity with area merchants and great in showing HCCC in the com-munity involvement. Also, they are having a Young Patriots Parade, Downtown, June 13th, 8am-

11am that we are assisting in. We’ll still be able to go across the street to the 1st Firetruck show.

Johnny just told me the truck is rolling on all four wheels now!! First time in many, many years!

Next WAE meeting is May 19th at Shoney’s at 2pm. Please attend if you can and also our website

and history committee is meeting at the same time.

Jim and Barbara Webber, that was so instrumental in our website has retired from it to pursue camp-

ing and other retirement chores. Thanks for all the progress and work !! Brian Wruck will now be heading up this program. Wish him luck as he works to expand our web-sites and assist our scrap-

book.

Thanks to all that have signed up to work the trailer, there are still a few spots left. Hope you like

our new set up at the cruz n’s this gives you more shade and makes you more visible.

Still remember our sick, shut ins and mourning members in your prayers! Heaven not only has a

heck of a rock and roll band, they’ve got a HCCC, Heaven County Car Club!!!

Also, thank you for the help in the Jr. club show! Even in rain, it was a success! Thanks again to

my soldiers Paul, Ted, Dan, Brian, Lisa, Jerry, William, Gene and everybody else I missed ! Big

shout out to Mr. Harden on the great job on the engine !!

REMEMBER HCCC ELECTION IN JUNE

HAPPY CRUZ N !!!

Butch

Hope you enjoy all

the pictures

Even Victory Junction has a Wal-

Mart!!!! This is where we dropped

the bears at their new home.

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Jr. Club Meeting Minutes The Hamblen County Jr. Car Club was called to order by Vice President Adam Ehrat on May 6,

2015 with 6 Jr. members, 1 Sr. member and Mr. Hardin in attendance. Prayer was led by Butch

Grooms with Adam Ehrat leading the pledge to our flag. Butch read the April minutes with Kaitlyn

Purkey making the motion to accept with Noah Burchett seconding, minutes were approved as read.

The treasurer report was given by Mr. Hardin, Gauge Satterfield made the motion to accept the re-

port with Dylan Hurley seconding. The engine report by Mr. Hardin stated that Glenn Phillips of

Dandridge was the winner of the engine and donated another $100 to the club when he picked it up.

Profit was right at $1000 on the engine! Great job by all !

Old Business: The Jr. Club purchased 25 Turbo Spoke Units for trophies for the Brooklyn Jade

show at $25 each. Drag Strip plans at in the works for June and September. Motion by Noah and

seconded by Kaitlyn for the club to pay the set up fees and $25 each for club jackets. Members will

pay the difference.

New Business: Mr. Hardin suggested the club purchase a new engine for the next project. This

will give a warranty and be able to start selling tickets at cruise ins with engine there to run. Actual

cost should be about the same . Meeting set for May 19th at 3:30 pm to discuss.

Motion to dismiss by Gauge, seconded by Kaitlyn

Trailer sponsors renewals will begin soon –we

appreciate all of our trailer sponsors and hope

you will come back!!

Just a reminder that at our June 18th

meeting, we will be electing our officers

for the 2015/2016 year, come out and

make your vote count.

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Events in red are HCCC events EVENT CALENDAR Revised 3/17/15

May-October: HCCC Every Saturday Night Cruise-In at College Square Mall

May and October: 5p-8p June through September: 6p-9p

If you know of other events, please contact Lisa Grooms at email lgrooms8@gmail.com

JUNE 2015

6/13/20/27: HCCC Cruise Ins @ College Square Mall (5pm—8pm)

5-7: Pontiacs in Pigeon Forge Classic Car Show—Pigeon Forge

6: Big Bubba’s Fun Run—Moshiem

6: Blue Springs Baptist Church 9th Annual Open Cars Show & Fish Fry—956 Hwy 92, Rutledge,

TN—9am-3pm—$15

7: HCCC Annual Picnic—Don McGinnis’ Home—See Theresa Blanken for details

13: 3rd Annual—Morristown First Fire Truck Fund Car Show—Fred Miller Park, Morristown

13: Ridge Runners Annual Car Show @ Big Lots—Greenville, TN

13: Randall Anderson Charity Auto Show—Knoxville, TN

18: HCCC Meeting—7pm—Shoney’s, Morristown—Election of Officer is to be

held

19-20: Moonshine Run—Newport

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Non-business ads will run for 3 months unless re-

newed. The date at the end of the ad is the month

the ad was placed or renewed. (8/11=ran in Aug

newsletter) Business ads will run as long as you are

a member, unless you remove/change it.

Classif ied

Ads are free to Car Club members. To

place, renew, change or cancel an ad, con-

tact:

Lisa Grooms 928B Jarnigan Ave

Morristown, TN 37813 lgrooms8@gmail.com

423-258-4367

Need a Flag

Veterans of Foreign Wars

(VFW) Post 5266

Flag Sales-Supporting Post

Honor Guard

USA, Branch of Service, MIA/

POW, Vietnam Veterans

3x5 flag $10—4x6 flag (USA

only)

$15

Call Robert Russell 586-6731

Cakes by Linda: Homemade Wedding Cakes &

Special Occasion Cakes. Call Linda Williams at

423-235-4726

Lil’ “T” Beauty Salon. For appointments call

Terry Kloos at 423-586-5959 or on cell phone at

423-748-4917

Hookers & Hunters Campground

Bait & Tackle, Propane Exchange

Dan Gelacek 423-581-7915

Extreme Car Audio

Buddy Beckner

423-289-5912

Restoration and

Fabrication

Art Larson

204 Bowlin Drive

Bean Station, TN 37708

865-804-6199

Little Red Rod Shop

7155 Blue Springs Pkwy

Mosheim, TN 37818

423-470-5886/423-588-0474

Gary Bancroft

Hyd Brakes-Wiring-Carburetor-

late models as well

King Auto Glass

Owner: David A. King

1095 Arden Lane—

Morristown

423-438-9528

Car Storage Space Available

Talbott, TN

Spencer Hogan

610-295-9060

$45 per month

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Hamblen County Car Club

928B Jarnigan Ave

Morristown, TN 37813

www.hamblencountycarclub.org

The Hamblen County Car Club

If you or someone you know wants to put an ad on the trailer,

Please contact Don McGinnis—581-1728