A few of the digital pics from Old Town (Kissimmee, FL) meeting. We had about 10 Elky's show, and probably would have doubled that had hurricane Charley not messed up our August date. :mad:

An auspicious start, but a start nonetheless, so now that we can place a few faces & vehicles together, and we can 'grow' from here...

Peter O'Rourke took more photo's than I did, they are now scanned, and I posted them as well....

Note: I was unable to get other vehicles due to some camera problems, also, I do not have all the attendee's names or photo's, so if you want your name on here or your car photo, please send it to me via PM or email, along with your ECC screenname, and I will credit it to the proper picture - thanks!


starting with the famous 'Studemino' of Tom Brissette in Daytona Beach:
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(By the way, the Studemino is for sale at $17,000 or reasonable offer, and Tom's number is 386-258-6915, so here's your chance :wink: )


and here's Rich, from Daytona with his sweet '83 Elky (nice color):
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here's Bob 'Mac' MacInerney, from Plant City, with his beautiful 1960 El Camino:
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and here's Jonathan Torres (Punk Rican) with his terrific 1970 Elky:
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Nice ride for a 16 year old, huh? LOL

update 9/23/04

here is Joe (Sarasota Speeder) and Donna (and their dog Pebbles :) ) with their super nice 71 Elky:
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updated photo's from Peter O'Rourke 9/24/04

the entrance to Old Town has a semi-permanent collection of cars...one of which is a 5th Gen Elky (86?) that is owned by one of the owners, we think:
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here's some of the gang at Red Lobster for a quick bite and a pic....
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looking down Old Town's brick main street, first is Brent Dietz's '66 Elky, then Joe and Donna's '71 (see above), and Mac's '60 (see above):
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from other direction of main street, Tom Brissette's '86 Studemino (see above), the red striped hood belongs to '85Elcamino' (Jesse) with his very nnice 85, and the farthest one (silver) is Rich's '86 (see above):
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here's a few more that showed up, and got in behind the ones in the photo above...Merle Ahren's in-progress '86, and Rudy Wichmann's nice 1970 SS 454, then an unknown one, and you can barely see the 'studemino' and the cars above:
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and this one is just for fun....our intrepid Regional Director trying his Fred Flintstone impersonation to move his sweet '59! :P
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LOL, actually this is what was missing....his new 'Hurricane 409' engine for the '59! 8O
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I hope you all enjoy all these....lets work hard to get many more next time!

man i look stunning...i mean we, we look stunning, cant forget to include the elky :P

you are right!!!.....all were stunnig...... many thanks to all who attended

Very nice!
Good job, guys.
Hope those darn 'cains leave you alone for the rest of the season.
-dan

Impressive turnout despite the incredible streak of bad weather!
Hope you all made at least one new friend. The next get-together will be twice as easy now. Especially if you can figure some way to control the gods of bad weather.
Keep up the good work! Great looking Elky's.

Hey, I went out to old town saturday night, but didn't see anyone showing that they were members. I walked around but I guess I missed the silver 83 and the purple studmino. I ask a few folks and they didn't seem to know either. I am sorry I missed you fellows, would have like to meet and talk. I hope that there will be another time, I have read perhaps at the Turkey Rod meet in November. I would sure would have liked to see that 83, that is the same year as mine. I will be going to Daytona in October for Octoberfest. Maybe you will be out and about then, and I could take a look at your car.

Hey, I went out to old town saturday night, but didn't see anyone showing that they were members. I walked around but I guess I missed the silver 83 and the purple studmino. I ask a few folks and they didn't seem to know either. I am sorry I missed you fellows, would have like to meet and talk. I hope that there will be another time, I have read perhaps at the Turkey Rod meet in November. I would sure would have liked to see that 83, that is the same year as mine. I will be going to Daytona in October for Octoberfest. Maybe you will be out and about then, and I could take a look at your car.

we had a banner there for a while, but several members had to leave early in the afternoon, so you might have missed it. Sorry about that. The Elky's were parked on the streets within Old Town, not on the side lot where all the rest of the cars parked....did you drive your elky?

no, it is in the garage with body parts off. i am painting it and didn't get it done because of those hurricanes.

update photo added above

hey.... fl elky, I know what you mean.....never build your car during a hurricane ...on the other hand I'm calling my engine hurricane 409, it's been through three of them maybe soon to be a forth....

That is a good idea. Use the Hurricane Flags Logo and attach 409 to it and put it on your air cleaner. That would look cool. It looks like I not going to get much done this weekend either. Get yourself ready in case that thing moves north a little bit.

more photo updates above.....

enjoy

damn, sorry i couldn't make it guys. My house got flooded, and computer ruined. Just got a new one today, first time being on the site since Francis. I'll be at the next one for sure, and the turkey run is another sure thing. You guys have some nice looking cars....and that 409, 8O 8O , awesome.

looks liek a lot of cars arrived and left before i even got there....whyd tehy all leave? i didnt see liek ahlf those cars, what the heck?!?!

i was there from the very beginning lik at 9 but left around 2 or 3 and good thing too cuz on the way back heard some noise stopped in a mcdonalds parking lot and found id lost a wheel bearing so i had to have my elky towed 29 miles back to tampa but i fixed it the same day but i sat in a parking lot for 2 hours