posted 06-23-2007 12:55 PM                  

Friday June 15. It was still raining some when we left the hotel in the morning to the unearthing broadcast. The rest of the day the weather was great. The seats to the unveiling were great and actually were better than the reserved seats on the floor which sold for $25 each. The Prowler Club got mentioned twice during the days activities. Once during the unearthing broadcast and again at the unveiling in the evening. We were the only club specifically mentioned. I was not surprised at the condition the the 57 Belvader and actually thought it made the unveiling more interesting than if the car was in pristine condition.

Saturday June 16. Saturday was sunny and hot. The open car show was fun. It was really a sight to behold with 62 Prowlers and Marty's SSR attending the open show. There was one Prowler in the indoor show. It was the only post 1988 model year car allowed in the indoor show. The Tulsarama people set up a video shoot of us leaving the show at 3:00PM. They It will be including this in the Centennial video the are producing. It should be available in about 60 days. I will confirm that we are in the video and post a link on how to purchase it. Many people donated items and we held a raffle in the parking lot. We raised just over $1.500. $1,000 was given to a police officer in Zacks deapartment who had a liver transplant and has exceeded his insurance coverage. $500 will go to the POA.

Sunday June 17. The weather for the Cruise around north east Oklahoma was perfect. We had police escorts 90% of the time and managed to keep 60 plus Prowlers together. The food at lunch stop at the Restaurant of the Cherokees in Tahlequah was great. We had turkey, beef , stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans just to mention a few of the items. The whole meal including drink and gratuity was only $10. What a bargain. The escort from the restaurant was a Prowler first. The lead escort vehicle was a fire truck with an American flag flying from the rear. The fire truck controlled the traffic lights so they were always green when we passed.

Monday June 18 Our weather luck did not hold out this morning. It was raining hard when we left the hotel to cruise route 66 to Oklahoma City. When we hit the city of Bristow it poured. 4th avenue in Bristol was flooded. We did some serious Prowler surfing through the city. After that the skies cleared up and the day turned out to be sunny and hot. In fact one of the hottest days so far.

Tuesday June 19th. Most people checked out on this day. Of the bunch who stayed people broke up and did their own thing. Linda's brother lives in OK and he came to visit so we spent the day with him and hit some of the points of interest on Route 66. Some people went to a National park in AK and others went to Oklahoma City. This evening was the worst weather of all. It poured buckets and with the extremely high winds it was raining sideways. Parts of Tulsa received hail. Linda and I were back at the hotel and were really worried about everyone else. The group that went to AK hit really really bad weather and even managed to get two Prowlers stuck at the park. I'll let them tell the story. Gary and Tami Knepper got stopped by a really very bad storm coming back from OK City. Wind gusts over 70 mph and hail forced them to sit under an overpass. I guess they thought they were going to die. Again I'll let them provide details.

Wednesday 06/21. The roads were still wet when we left from the hotel. A small group of us went to Afton to the Daryl Starbyrd museum. We got to meet Daryl himself. We ate in a really small restaurant. The food was excellent. It was a really good day.

I hope everyone had as good a time at the Tulsa event as Linda and I did. Thanks to everyone who attended. We hope to see everyone at Woodward.

posted 06-23-2007 02:02 PM                  

Do did a FIVE STAR performance on planning and follow through on this Tulsa event.

We all appreciate your long hours and dedicated hard work in putting this huge event together! Thank you all,,again,,,,,from all of us!

posted 06-23-2007 10:19 PM                  

I want to thank Rich, Zack, Linda, and Kelly for all there hard work and planning. This was a great vacation for both of us.

Thanks Phil for the pins, hope your feeling better.

From the ride out from the east, breakfast in the courtyard , the cruise to lunch, the dinners with friends and the parking lot at night, we had many memorable moments. I got to meet a lot more people this time.

And thanks to the Lucid Eye for meeting us at the Route 38 Diner. He explained the Larry had to clean up the yard as it was getting pretty deep. I still wondered why Alley Cats picture was hung above the urinal though.

posted 06-24-2007 11:11 PM                  

Thanks Rich for posting just how it all unfolded day by day.

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Originally posted by Marty Usher:
I may need to ditch the SSR and get another Prowler before the next event as it was wasn't near as much fun running at the back of the pack on all the cruises.

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I didn't know you were at the back of the pack all the time. I actually thought Meancat was helping out back there with his strobe lights.

posted 06-25-2007 10:03 AM                  

We arrived home late last night and had a good trip back. Drove the scenic way home thru Banson Mi then across the Ozark mountains, took a ferry over the Mississippi river onto Fort Wayne, Sania, Toronto then into Ottawa. One way total 3,417.4km (2,118 miles). Good run for One Kool Kat. Many thanks to Zak and Rich for an outstanding event. Will fondley remember the underbody and overbody muddy car wash rain storm. Looking forward to seeing everyone again at Woodward Dream Cruise.

posted 12-12-2007 02:08 PM                  

I remember that spot and believe I shot the cars coming out of town across that bridge for the Tulsarama dvd.

posted 12-12-2007 02:10 PM                  

The roads to spavinaw are tight and good a lot of corner hugging not flat...to Talequah is boreing...

I am out of storage space on flicker or I would repost the rest..I also made a Prowler Group on flickr

Thanks Again.....

posted 12-15-2007 08:49 AM                  

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