Make New Friends but Keep the Old

We left Columbia SC in the morning.  We made a few stops on the way.  the country was beautiful.

We arrived in New Bern at 12:30 pm. After parking the rigs and unhooking the excursion we registered the cars. We tried to register at the hotel.  They were not ready for us.

Jim looked at me and said what do you want to do.  I knew I had time in the afternoon scheduled for  touring a car collection.

So we left the hotel and drove across town to se the Joe Alcoke collection.  The cars were stored in an old dealership.  The showroom had a lot of nice cars in it.

I loved the old building and all the cool memorabilia that was all over the place.

There were a lot of muscle cars.  One car struck me it was 32 coupe.  The car was the same car that Joe Alcoke had used to leave his wedding.

After Doug showed us some of the cleaning products that he uses on the cars he took us out to the shop where he is working on restoring some of the vehicles.

the guys really enjoyed when they would get to uncover another vehicle to find out what it iss

 After spending an hour or more at the old dealership we went back to the Columbia and Zeno and Jim went to their hotel. Everybody was ready for a break and a shower before the dinner.

Darrin and I went and got the golf cart out.  We drove around and found the show entrance and also where the cars would be parked.

We went up to the convention center and ran into Connie and David Wright. We met them on the 25th Anniversary Founders Tour 3 years ago.  They jumped in the golf cart with us a drove around New Bern.  We took them over to see the river front and the rig.

We dropped then back off at their car and we went and got ready for the Carolina Pig Picking.

When we arrived for dinner in the golf cart we all posed by the statue of the founder of Pepsi.  New Bern proudly has that claim to fame.

At dinner we sat with Mike Krause who owned a 67 Impala Convertible, Jim from Pittsburgh an AACA judge, willy Jim's friend, Joey and Kaye Moore from Birmingham for dinner.  Kaye is a beautiful fun lady married the a very outgoing man.
 There was a buffet line that you would go through and they loaded your plate up with food.  chicken, BBQ, hush puppies and slaw.

Conversation was just like we had know each other for ever.  Of Course Jim had known so many already.

Kaye and I hit it off right away.

The chicken at dinner was very good. The event was awesome.  When it was over we all went back to the Columbia and Zeno and Jim headed back to the hotel.

Darrin and I decided we wanted to go sit by the river and watch the boats go by before going to sleep.