Letters

September 23, 2006

Mission Valley Cruisers
P.O. Box 401
Pablo, Montana

Attention: Car Club Officers and Members

Our 1941 Cadillac Coupe “Pension Check” was honored this year by receiving “Best of Show” at your wonderful car show. We would like this time to tell you how we came to enter your show, how much we enjoyed your show, the festival and what this award means to us.

First of all we had seen your advertisement and entry form in the Northwest “CruZin’” magazine. My compliments on an especially attractive and eye catching ad!

We sent in our fee and entry form, got on-line and reserved a room at a Polson hotel and this is where our excitement began!

Information had been given to us that Hwy 93 was under construction, so I looked at a map to check out alternative routes. I saw that Hwy 135 off of 90 looked interesting. So we planned 90 to 135 and then 200 East to 28, then to Elmo and down on 93 to Polson. What a beautiful drive! The road was excellent and the entire route shouted “Welcome to Montana”. The Cadillac purred and the scenery was breath-taking.

Flathead Lake welcomed us with its awesome views…and Polson…well, we were so “in awe” of your little town, that we drove around for hours just finding where everything was and to feel our way around. First things first…FOOD! Then we went and checked into our motel.

We went on the Poker Run (this was a first for us) and the merchants that participated were GREAT! Our personal rating of the Poker Run is an A+++!

The "Bop a dips"  performance in the park was so enjoyable and we particularly got a bang out of a bunch of gals dancing that cruised in from Seaside, Oregon decked out in their “Bikini Ladies” T-Shirts. Sitting on the grass and watching the show with the river in the background was just spectacular.

The Car show we thought was well run and organized and you certainly had a huge crowd of people enjoying the show. We met people from all over the Northwest region! The people from the Flathead Lake area made us feel welcome and were the nicest and friendliest we have ever encountered. So, with this prideful feeling and happiness in our hearts…we didn’t think we could be much happier – Until we came back from lunch at the Bakery and were notified that our car had won “Best of Show”. I don’t think I have ever seen Mel more choked up and nervous in our 46 years of marriage! What a highlight of our journey to Polson!!!

We took in the Jan and Dean concert and the Mud Races and just thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!

Please tell the club members, Show organizers, merchants, Poker Run organizers, and anyone else I may have left out – CONGRATULATIONS ON A JOB WELL DONE!

We will be back to your show next year and also to return the traveling TROPHY! We have had so much fun over the Electrolux! It is an AWESOME AWARD! The guys that put it together are pretty creative…we would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when they came up with the idea! Ha, ha!

One last question – we noticed that last years Best of Show recipient’s name wasn’t on the trophy yet. If we can EXACTLY match the others and you could send us His name and car information we will see that it gets on the trophy and we will have ours put on also…then it will be all done when we come next year. We would love to donate the cost to do it.

If we can’t for some reason match the name tags exactly…we will not attempt to do so and will see that you get the trophy back well ahead of the show time to have them both done!

Until we hear from you we remain two people from Mount Vernon, Washington that returned from the 2006 Mission Valley Cruiser’s Car Show with the biggest smiles on our faces and so much happiness in our hearts.

Thank you again…and again, congratulations on a wonderful show!

Sincerely,
Mel and Pattie Pleas