Mystery Tour - May 20-21, 2000Even though the Mystery Tour was coordinated by three different people, Max Phillips, Bill Lowry, and Rollon Weaver, it seems that since Max led the tour, he got most of the credit. It was Saturday morning in Georgetown when Max gave everyone a copy of a map and told them to guess where we were going. We had prizes to give away! This was before we even left the parking lot, but as soon we turned south, people were on the CB wanted to change their guesses. I don't think so!
1931 Model A Ford Slant Windshield Fordor Sedan owned by John S. Then Max explained the "secret word" game: The first person who said the secret word got a prize. We tend to chat on the CB, giving directions and point out usual and unusual things that we see on the side of the road. We saw deer, turkey, emus, and a zebra in Zephyr, Texas. It turns out that the secret word was "zebra."
1931 Model A Ford Tudor Sedan owned by Bernie K. I made up a game out of logos. I had a page of 26 car logos like the blue oval with Ford in script. (I gave them that one - I had to tell some people that they would not get credit if they didn't write it down.) From Lincoln, Mercury, Honda, Acura, Chrysler, and the Rover, we had lots of fun with that game.
1930 Model A Ford Coupe owned by Rollon W.
1930 Model A Ford Coupe owned by Harry W. The mystery was solved when we arrived in Brownwood, Texas. We got there by 12:30 to eat lunch at Underwoods which is famous for their hot rolls and cherry cobbler. Dinner was at the Section Hand. The Trout Almondine with bacon and mushrooms looked wonderful. Too bad the person who ordered it was not expecting mushrooms. It wasn't described in the menu!
1931 Model A Ford Tudor Sedan owned by Ken S. On Sunday we headed home by a wonderful back road. We were touring along easily until we heard on the CB that someone was having problems. Something to do with not having any gears? That sounded bad. We had to leave that little car in the yard of a country house. We told the lady of the house that we had car trouble and asked her if it would it be OK if we left it in her yard until the owners could come back later with a trailer? She didn't even bat an eyelash. That's "Texas Friendly."
1931 Model A Ford Slant Windshield Fordor Sedan owned by Bill S. We started splitting up soon after that and going our separate ways to where ever we call home. Another Mystery Tour come and gone.
1931 Model A Ford Tudor Sedan owned by Rick C.
1930 Model A Ford Coupe owned by Tom P. Created on May 30, 2000 Last updated on
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