Frankfort Car Club

Frankfort, IL 60423
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Welcome to the Frankfort Car Club web site.

Changes to Cruise night parking- see Cruisin 2012 page

Ace pinstriper Bob Behounek presented the club with a plaque reflecting his work which is now permantly mounted in the meeting room at the township building.

2012 Scholarships Awarded

The Scholarship Committee of the Frankfort Car Club has made their selections for the 2012 school year graduates. The applicants came from all four Lincoln-Way Schools, 3 from North, 2 from Central and 1 each from East and West. The committee met at the Tinley Bowl on Monday evening, 4/9, and unanimously selected the fol-lowing individuals for scholarship receipt:

West, Alex Ribarchik

East, Cody Leonard

Central, Mitchell Popularum and Robert Murphy

A vote will be taken at the May meeting to raise the amount of each scholarship.

Golden Quill Winner

Congrats to FCC newsletter editor Doris Bernier for scoring a win in Old Cars Weekly newsletter competition!

From FCC President – Ron Bernier

Fellow FCC members

Spring is here and you know what that means—Thursday Cruise Nights. From what I’m seeing and hearing, all of our hopes and wishes are happening. Our sponsorship and advertising has been finalized with more support than ever before. What seemed like a "pipe dream" just a few months ago, our wish to expand cruise parking at the White Street municipal lot is really shaping up. With the help of Mayor Holland, it looks as thought the municipal lot on the former Fox Lumber site will be completed in time for our first cruise night on May 17th. With the completion of this lot, we will be allowed to use the existing White St. lot for cruisers. The new lot will accommodate approximately 100 spectator cars and the White St. lot will give cruisers an additional 45 spaces. I remind all FCC members and our guest cruisers that we have a "first come, first served" parking policy, which means "no saving spaces." If we allowed our members and guests to save spaces for friends and family, it would certainly get out of control. Our past cruise nights have taken place with very little confrontation, and that’s the way we like it. Cruise night should be fun for everyone involved.

Doris tells me that we are finally receiving classified ads from our members. This a great way for you to get rid of some of your auto related stuff, make a few bucks, and get it to someone who is in need of it. If you’re looking for advice while working on a project car or just a general classic car maintenance issue, email or send it to Doris and she’ll get it in the newsletter. One of our members may be able to help you.

Dennis "Idea Man" Heywood is trying to organize a convoy of FCC classics for a trip to Pontiac, IL in June. We would all meet at our cruise lot at 9:00 am in our classics, caravan to Dwight, IL. for a brunch at the Country Mansion then on to Pontiac to visit the Pontiac-Oakland Auto Museum and Route 66 Hall of Fame & Museum. We will all return to Frankfort later that day. Sounds like a great trip to me. We’ll talk more about it at our May membership meeting.

Dennis has another good idea. He calls it "White Trash Night." It’s where we caravan our classics to Illiana Speedway on a Saturday evening and put on a FCC Classic Car Display in their parking lot. Maybe we could use a little influence from club member Steve DeNovi (sponsor of car #16, D. J. Weltmeyer) and be part of the racing program’s flag ceremony? We’ll take in the evening’s races and caravan back to Frankfort on Rt. 30. Illiana Speedway is located on Rt. 30, two miles east of Rt. 41 in Schereville, Indiana. Let’s make this happen. Thanks to Dennis for two great suggestions. It’s activities like these that makes this club fun to be a part of.

Our cruise night flyers have returned from Mike’s Copy and they look great. Lets make sure that all of our sponsors get some to pass on the their customers. Thank you once again to Chuck VanderVelde for sharing his talent in providing the layout for this year’s flyer, as he has done in past years.

In closing, we are in need of cruise night raffle items. If you have any sug-gestions, please email or call me. I hope to see all of you at our next membership meeting.

Garage Tour

4/29- Pete "Todo" Collection