Published by Lee Thevenet October 13, 2015

HORSELESS CARRIAGE REPLICA NEWSLETTER

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Sixth Annual Dallas, NC HCRB Meet

Special Pictorial Issue

From the Editor

Hi HCRB Builders & other readers,

I guess we were very fortunate in having fine weather for the Dallas, NC HCR Meet for five years. It was bound to change sooner than later. This year’s weather did not cooperate as in the past. Knowing on Friday morning of the 70 – 80% chance of rain predicted for Saturday’s car show, the decision was made to do a condensed version on Friday morning along with the Obstacle Course planned for later that day. As in previous meets, Friday morning numbers were issued to the Members that had brought their carriages and the carriages were lined up for the show. In past meets, the Friday mornings are usually spent in a “Meet & Greet” format mostly for the Members discussing their various set ups in drive trains, painting methods, trailers and other topics involving HCR carriages. Even though the amount of spectators was less on Friday, we did manage to receive enough votes to determine 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place winners.

While the condensed version of the car show was going on, my wife Elaine and Daphene Peach (wife of the late Jim Peach) collected votes from spectators and the guy’s helped set up the cone markers for the afternoon’s Obstacle Course. The course was run and winners determined later in the afternoon.

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The HCRB Group was well represented with Members from nine (9) states. We wound up with thirteen (13) carriages and one (1) tractor replica. This year we were only plagued by a few things, the worst was the rain on Saturday, others were one carriage was hard to start cold (yours truly), one shear pin failure and two flat tires, all taken in stride. The tractor replica (very well done) was built by Louie Frick and was well received by the other Members and spectators alike...

The following pictures were sent in by the various Members attending the Meet…

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Let’s see, did Lee say “Tires on the line” or just next to it?

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Wait, Wait, I’m not finished, there’s more…

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Louie Frick’s CDO & Tractor

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Lee Thevenet’s “REO”

Gary Hammond’s “TRAP”

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Louie Lippo’s “CDO”

Bob Ferry’s “Turn of the Century Horseless Carriage”

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Johnny Kistler’s “Turn of the Century Horseless Carriage”

Larry Cook’s “EV Moore Quadricycle”

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Jim Peach’s Collectables & two antique “Homelite” chain saws displayed by Larry Cook

HCR Carriers in various colors…

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Wait, wait, I think I see the others…

Man, I never thought I’d catch up with you guy’s…

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I think I see the others on the next block…

Try to keep up guy’s…

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Obstacle Course Dallas, NC 2015

Looks easy but don’t let it fool you…

First Up: Terry Wright…

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Second up: Gerry Hale…

Third off & running: Richard Huffman…

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Fourth runner was Louie Lippo…

Fifth runner was Johnny Kistler…

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Sixth was Bob Ferry…

Seventh was Mark Kunkle…

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Eighth was Julian Bankston driving “Rugby”…

Ninth was Gerry Hale putting the “Valmobile” through the course…

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Tenth was Larry Cook driving his EV Moore Quad…

Additional pictures of Obstacle Course Run

At random

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Carriage Show Winners Are:

First Place Peoples Choice

Gary Hammond

“TRAP”

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Second Place Peoples Choice

Johnny Kistler

“Turn of the Century Horseless Carriage”

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Third Place Peoples Choice

Louie Frick

“CDO”

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Obstacle Course Winners are:

First Place

Louie Lippo

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Second Place

Terry Wright

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Third Place

Mark Kunkle

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Miscellaneous Pictures

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It’s not “The New Guy”

It’s just “Bob”

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By the time we finished, we had quite a crowd of onlookers watching…

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Even with bad weather, the spirit of the HCRB Members will not be broken…

All Smiles…

The rain came as predicted on Saturday morning so we made the best of it by discussing plans for next years HCRB Meet and take care of some unfinished

business…

Punishment:

You will write 1000 times

“I will never again promise to

Attend a HCRB Meet

And show up five years later”

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When even bad weather can not break our spirits it only goes to show, you gotta love it…

All in all I believe we reached another goal with this HCR Meet. I hope those of you that were not there will join us next year in Dallas, NC for the

Seventh Annual HCR Meet in beautiful Dallas, NC…

I want to thank the Members for attending and submitting these pictures for others to view…

CYA next year…

Lee Thevenet