2018 Member Event Memories

11/10/18 – FALL GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING!
The November Fall Membership Meeting was held on 11/10/18. It was an evening of shopping with lots merchandise – hmmm, Christmas gifts – chatting with friends, making new friends, and of course – the much anticipated Board nominee’s speeches.
Just prior to Paul Swanson calling the membership meeting to order, Joe Karpowicz spoke to the membership about two very special flags he brought to the meeting for our use and to display: a service flag presented at his father Vincent Karpowicz’s military funeral, and one which belonged to Sue’s father Roy Lindvall.
Thank you to Loran Mogensen and Joe Karpowicz for preparing the meeting, the MSRA committees who set up their tables, and to the approximately 150+ members who attended.

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10/27/18 – Halloween Party
What a fun evening!!   Great costumes, delicious food,  Music, fun and dancing!!  Thank you to Loran Mogensen,  and all the volunteers who helped make this a fun evening for our MSRA members and their families.

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9/30/18 – Fall Foliage Picnic
It was a nippy morning, but that never deters our members from another great turnout for the MSRA Fall Foliage picnic! The COY nominees were parked by Porky’s for all to view, new buildings and vignettes to explore, the gardens were beautiful, and it was truly a MSRA Friends+Food+Fun+Fellowship.  Though the day was cloudy and a bit nippy the attendance was really good and all were served a delicious lunch by Tinucci’s. And thank you to everyone who brought desserts – Yum!
Thank you to Tom Vollbrecht Sr., Tom Vollbrecht, Jr., Ted Jacobson, and their entire committee for another fabulous event!

Thank you to everyone who as submitted photos! We have TWO slide shows. The first contains Cars and People. The second contains photos of the property gardens, buildings, etc.!

CARS and PEOPLE

GARDENS, BUILDINGS, etc.

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9/21/18 – Friday Night Picnic
Rain-rain go away …. and it did! It was a sunny, but bit nippy, Fall afternoon and a great turnout for the Friday Night picnic! Friends+Food+Fun+Fellowship! Oh, and did I mention … Food!
Thank you to our very own grill-masters for cooking the steaks and hot dogs, to those who brought desserts and veggie trays to share, and to Dick Kinnan, Blaine Gartner and their committee of volunteers who helped plan and prepare for the picnic, and who helped set up, clean up, and tear-down. Great job everyone!

 

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9/7/18 –9/9/18  FALL CAMPOUT and VOTING EVENT
From Dale Sohlstrom We just wrapped up the 2018 Fall Campout and what an event this was! The Northern Cruisers Car Club really had a fun-filled, action packed weekend all set for us. MSRA filled the Itasca County Fairgrounds with 59 camping units, and we filled the town with 500 people who registered for the event. Great friends, great food, and a great time! Thanks to everybody in the Northern Cruisers – you are fantastic folks!!!
Thank you to Dale Sohlstrom and Dave Lemke, the Fall Campout coordinators; to Wally Burchill and Dick Kinnan who helped with the Voting Event; and, all the members and their families who attended this year’s Fall Campout.
Click here to view the names of the nominees

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8/24-8/26/2018 – SSFR and VOTING EVENT
They were racing at SSFR! It was a a beautiful weekend for the MSRA member event at BIR! What a fabulous time at Brainerd International Raceway (BIR) that was shared by the MSRA members attending this year! Some members camped, some stayed at a local hotels, others drove up for just one day and all agreed … SSFR is all about Friends+Food+Fun+Fellowship! Friends+Food+Fun+Fellowship!  Thank you to Tom Vollbrecht, Jr., Dave Lemke, Joe Karpowicz, Ted Jacobson and their entire committee of volunteers for this always anticipated and favorite weekend for MSRA members!
– click here to view he names from the voting event!

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7/7/18 HERITAGE DAYS CARS HOW – MSRA VOTING EVENT
Those who attended the  27th Annual Heritage Days Car Show, held in Two Harbors, experienced great weather and a fantastic turnout of cars! Thank you to the North Shore Classics for hosting the Voting Event!. Congratulations to the MSRA  nominees Click here to view the names from this voting event!
Thank you to Loran Mogensen for sharing his photos from the car show!

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4/20/18  62ND ANNUAL GSTA ROD & CUSTOM SPECTACULAR  April 14-15th
In spite of a record-setting 22″ snow fall it was a great weekend at GSTA! The MSRA display was well represented with 10 beautiful cars!  Thank you to Dave Lemke, Dick Kinnan, the members who brought their cars, and all the members who helped set up, work the booth, and tear down. Congratulations to all the award winners! Great job everyone!

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4/18/18 MSRA at PRIME STEEL CAR SHOW, Grand Forks, ND April 14-15th
From Dale Sohlstrom: MSRA had a fantastic display at the Prime Steel show in Grand Forks this weekend. And I believe it was a “first”. This is the first display featuring all lady owned and driven hot rods! We had a four car display consisting of the street rods of Liz Kitzul (23 T bucket), Barb Balanyk, (34 Ford Pickup), Kathy Milne (38 Chevy), and Julie O’Hara Tronson (52 Plymouth Belvedere 2 door hardtop). Liz, Barb, and Kathy drove their rods to the show – all the way from Winnipeg and beyond. That includes Liz driving her T bucket! And Julie solos while pulling Plymouth behind in a trailer. All these gals are top notch in my book, and hardy street rodders!
The entire show was well executed, and the weather was great for an indoor show. Lots of great cars and I had a chance to meet with the wonderful members from North Dakota and Canada. We also had a chance to promote Back to the 50s, and judging by the response I got, many folks from the outstate will either be bringing their cars, or coming to see the cars!

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4/10/18 – MSRA at TOPPERS, Fargo, ND – April 7-8th
From Dale Sohlstrom: MSRA had a great presence at the TOPPER’S show in Fargo this past weekend. We had a display of seven member’s vehicles, along with our information table. We answered lots of questions, got many folks all fired up for the huge Back to the 50s show, and generally had a fabulous time. Our thanks go out to all the Toppers for producing the show, which was the 60th anniversary! Also, thanks to those who brought their cars to be shown: Russ Peterson, Dan and Brenda Zeimet, Kari Myhre (and Gary), Barree Boettcher (and Roger), Art and Donna Pavlish, Terry Nystrom, and Darrick and Jane Nystrom. Terry and Darrick are father and son, so it was pretty cool to have both of them showing their hot rods! Fargo was a great time!
MSRA Members –  Toppers Award Winners: –
From the MSRA display – Custom Award winner – Roger and Barree Boettcher – 62 Nash Metropolitan; Outstanding entry – Art and Donna Pavlish – 33 Plymouth; Sickies Pick award winner – Russ Peterson – 50 Buick;
Other known MSRA member winners: Outstanding entry – Jerry Gruwell – 57 Pontiac; Top Ten – Gerald Swaser – 38 Plymouth
Thank you to Dale Sohlstrom and the MSRA volunteers who helped set up, tear down, and worked at the booth.

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3/27/18 – MSRA at MOTORHEAD MADNESS, Duluth, MN – March 24-25th
From Dale Sohlstrom: MSRA had a presence at Motorhead Madness in Duluth last weekend. The show was fantastic, and we had a great display with 12 cars and a classy runabout showing. Thanks to Russ Peterson, Jerry Gruwell, Jack Hunker, Larry Hosaluk, Larry Watczak, Dennis West, Horace Hargrave, Dan Waterhouse, Tom Maruska, Tim Cook, Mary Green, Bill Lewis, and Reggie Petrich for bringing your cars to show with us! MSRA won the Best Club Display Award! This was a great show with some fabulous cars and lots of people.
Thank you to Dale Sohlstrom and the MSRA volunteers who helped set up, tear down, and worked at the booth.

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3/27/18 – MSRA at WORLD OF WHEELS. Mnneapolis, MN – March 23-25
From Loran Mogensen: This years, 2018 World of Wheels, show was a great win for all the MSRA participants. Thursday set up day went smoothly with the major help of Fred Romo, Lon Burris, John Thorpe, Butch Pream, & Bill Sampson. Thanks Guys!

On Friday morning over one hundred auto class students from local schools were allowed early entry to the show to look at the 170 plus entries in the show. They asked a lot of questions from our members who sat at the table about our club and our hobby and handed out over 100 LineChasers. Our members really enjoyed this part of the show, and it is a fantastic way to attract new members.

We had eight entries, and all were show stoppers. The list is as follows:
Ken Ingram – Radical Custom – 2nd Place – Best Interior
Roger & Barree Boettcher – Full Compact Custom – 1st Place
Jerry Forness – Restored Class 35-48 – 1st Place
Jeff Brody – Conservative Hardtop – 2nd Place
Ben Boyum – Radical Pickup – 1st Place
Molly Boyum – Custom Wagon – 1st Place
Dick Walters – Street Machine Custom – Best Rod
John Skoff – Rod Pickup – 1st Place and Altered Street Rod – 1st Place
MSRA was awarded Best Club Display!.

And a special thanks goes to Bruce Tschida guiding me thru the show. Thanks Bruce!

We would like to thank Loran for all he did on this event,  our members for showing their cars, and the volunteers who helped over the weekend.

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January 27, 2018 – Annual Winter Awards Banquet was combined this year with the 2017 Back To The 50’s Volunteer Banquet.

An exciting evening of special recognition, friends, food, fun and fellowship as together we celebrate all that is MSRA! This is a very special year-end event as we say thank you to our volunteers, recognize our volunteer members who are retiring after many years of service, say thank you to the 2017 Board of Directors, meet the new 2018 Board of Directors, and announce the winners of 2017 Street Rod of the Year and 2017 Custom of the year. Thank you to Tom and Judy Vollbrecht, Tom Vollbrecht, Jr. and their entire committee for all they do to put on this banquet!

To view all the Cars of the Year winners and nominees – click here!

The below links are to the 2018 Awards videos that have been posted on Facebook. You do not need to have a Facebook account to view them. If you get a pop up box to set up a Facebook account, just go to the bottom of the box and click on Not Now.  Enjoy!

This video (courtesy of Linda Lucas) is of the Car of the Year Awards only
CLICK HERE!

The two below videos are of the entire Awards program. Thank you to Joe Karpowicz for taping it.

Part 1 –  CLICK HERE!

Part 2 –  CLICK HERE!