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NORTHWEST

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clcpnwr.org

Jan-Mar 2020

Volume 44

Number 01

A Few Highlights of the 2020 Leland Dinner

What a beautiful winter day for Henry Leland’s birthday dinner at Verazano’s Italian

Restaurant. The CLC and Lincoln Club joined for the event. The great weather brought out

several classic’s as you see below. Don Miholovich once again treated us to an event cake

with his personalized decorations. Anthony Kennedy brought up the idea for a raffle and

donated some of his collection along with Don Miholovich, Bobby Lecoque and Myself.

Thank You! We enjoyed seeing all of you although not enough time to chat with everyone!

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NORTHWEST STANDARD is published by the

Pacific Northwest Region of the Cadillac &

LaSalle Club. The purpose of this club is to

exchange information, encourage the

maintenance, preservation and restoration of

Cadillac and LaSalle Automobiles & to promote

social fellowship & fun among it’s members.

OFFICERS:

President Robert A. LeCoque V.P. Joni Reis Treasurer Jerry Leighton Secretary Membership Jerry Leighton National Rep. Don Miholovich Webmaster Jack Looney Editor Joni Reis BOARD: Ted Barber– Hon. Jack Looney Scott Anderson Don Miholovich

OUR WEB SITE: www.clcpnwr.org

NATIONAL: www.cadillaclasalleclub.org

We are also on Facebook

STEERING COLUMN

It’s 2020 and what a different world we have right now! I hope things

start to settle out and we can get through this. As with many organi-

zations, we will not be organizing any events for the foreseeable fu-

ture until this COVID-19 virus settles down and we get an all clear. We

just learned that the 2020 GN in Kansas City has been cancelled. If

you already have made any arrangement for this event, please see the

National CLC Website for more information.

The weather is getting nicer and I’m sure we would all rather be driv-

ing our Cadillacs & LaSalles. I have had several of my cars out lately

for some exercise during the recent good weather. What a joy it is!

So, check the vital fluids on your cars that have been sitting all winter

and keep up on your own vitals and continue to be safe and sensible

during our quarantine. Myself, I have been enjoying a new favorite

drink, the Quarantini! An martini that you enjoy alone. Bob L.

Dan’s CTS Wagon

Bradley’s House

2020 Events

Sunday June 28th, 2020: Cadillac & LaSalle Club/Lincoln &

Continental Club Joint Car Show between 9am-3pm. Triple XXX Root Beer Drive In Restaurant Issaquah, WA:

National Events

Grand National Overland Park Kansas: June 13, 2020 …. More information forthcoming! — CANCELLED 3/25/2020

National Driving Tour August in Oregon: August 22-28 2020

Fall Tour Gilmore Michigan: September 20 2020

Additional information and registration on our National website: www.cadillaclasalleclub.org

This may change so go to either our local CLC website or the National CLC ... Listed above.

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2020 Grand National cancellation

4 hours ago

Dear CLC Members: Well, the COVID-19 crisis has completely upended our plans. This is the message I did not want to have to send, and you did not want to receive. The Club has reluctantly decided to cancel our 2020 Grand National meet we planned to hold in Kansas City in June. Given all of the issues and uncertainty surrounding the impact of the COVID-19 virus, and the demographics of our Club, we felt we had no choice. The local county where the meet was to be held, had already cancelled all events exceeding 10 people currently ending only two weeks before our event. The State of Kansas has cancelled school until the end of August. It wasn't looking good for our being able to proceed as planned. We were already receiving requests to cancel registrations, and the number was beginning to grow. As of today, I understand some of you are in areas that are currently minimally impacted by the virus crisis. However, many of us are, and some are in areas that are unfortunately, severely impacted now; and, your situa-tion may change between now and June 9th. Given the Club's potential liability under the event contracts, the potential for member disillu-sionment by our holding a less than stellar, poorly attended event, and the most important, the potential health risk to our members, I determined cancellation was warranted. This is not what we planned, and not what we wanted to do. But, it is a necessity given the world we currently live in. Hopefully, this pandemic will subside soon and we can all safely get back to our lives, and automotive pursuits. We’ll be back next July in Albuquerque. It’s going to be a great event, hope to see you there. Until then, stay safe. Glenn Brown CLC President

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Per Jose, the owner of the Triple

X X X Root Beer Drive-In:

Our Annual Cadillac & LaSalle Club/

Lincoln & Continental Club Joint Car

show will be ...

Sunday June 28th, 2020 9am-3pm.

This specific date is

now confirmed. Please send out notification to your club membership in

advance so that we all can reserve the day and plan.

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When in Gettysburg on the 2019 CLC Driving tour we had the honor to view Frank Bucks collection. It is our understanding that he

has completed a museum on his property to house his this collection. In addition to cars he has a collection of WWII military vehi-

cles. It’s good that he lives on a large pre Civil War farm because as you probably know, these are huge vehicles. Being the collec-

tor he is, he also compliments his collection with vintage military helmets and clothes, toy trucks and trains. If you have the op-

portunity to see his museum, when in Gettysburg, you will be wowed like we were.

The Packard Club was staying at our hotel and we ran into them on several tours. They opted to park on a scenic hill . It was a

large group that traveled together and we enjoyed watching them file in.

Below Packard Club Parking

Above, few of our Club Cars.

Below a couple 1/18 scale trucks made

by Smith Miller.

To the right he had multiple helmet's lined up and the dark area below are uni-forms. 3 of his race dars.

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MEMBERSHIP / RENEWAL FORM

YOU MUST BELONG TO THE CADILLAC & LASALLE CLUB

(www.cadillaclasalleclub.org) TO BELONG TO A REGION

VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND LINKS TO

THE CLC: clcpnwr.org

REGIONAL DUES are $35.00 for one year. Mail this form along with your check to:

CLC-PNWR MEMBERSHIP, 26510 8th Ave. S., Des Moines, WA 98198

NAME___________________________________________SPOUSE_________________________

ADDRESS________________________________________________________________________

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(Is your mailing label the way you want it? Please correct if necessary.)

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National Membership Number_________(It’s on your Self Starter label and in the National Directory.)

Membership / Renewal dues enclosed: $_____________(US Funds). Make check payable to: CLC-PNWR

Cadillacs and LaSalles owned:

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