Frankfort Car Club

Welcome

Welcome to the Frankfort Car Club web site. Come join us every Thursday evening through the summer in downtown Frankfort. Bring your classic or antique car - or just come and look. It's a great way to spend a "family" evening.

Art Wennerberg passes- see news page

Upcoming Special Dates

 July 25th Super Sunday

Benefiting Frankfort Food Pantry

Frankfort Car Club Members will have their cars on display 4-8 PM on Kansas Street with trunks open for your Frankfort Food Pantry donations! Dave "Elvis" Thomas will perform from 5-6, then the  Meteors play at 6:30. 

After the event pics-

 Mayor Holland brings a bag of items to place in trunk of Chuck's 55 'Bird.  

Members delivered all the collected items to the food pantry the next day.

President Ron gives $229 collected to Marifran Drymiller, pantry coordinator.

August 3rd, Tuesday 

 Camp Quality

Kids with Cancer

Meet us in the Trolley Barn parking lot  (Kansas & White streets, enter in rear) 6 PM for police escort drive to pick up the kids & companions at the camp, 2 milles away. Once everybody is in the cars, it's back to theTrolley Barn (Colonel Sweet Tooth), with ice cream for everybody! Then a drive back to drop off the kids. We need 80 or so collector cars to help us out!

This is a rain or shine event.

update- wow, 87 cars showed up to carry the kids and companions. The weather held and we didn't get wet! Thanks to everybody that came out, the kids loved it!

President’s Message

  Ron Bernier 

     We are now more than half way through our cruise season. Where does the time go? So far, our cruise nights have been well attended both by participants and spectators without any unpleasant incidents. This is due in most part to the dedication of members like John Nystrom, Rich Plummer, Gary Ross, Dave Mosier, Fred Sears, John and Helen Pathe, Bob and Karen O’Connor, Dave Hecker, Mike Amwoza, Ralph Nieland, and the voice of the Frankfort Car Club- Larry Claypool. We are also very fortunate to have our own FCC “paparazzi” in Gary Ross. Week after week he treats us to great cruise night photos as seen in our newsletters. “Thanks” to all of you for being available to insure that the job gets done.

     On July 17^th about fifteen FCC members put on a car display for Autumn Leaves of Orland Park. The alzheimers and dementia residents and their families were treated to a private car show by our club and all went well. Just to see the smiles on the faces of some of the residents made the effort of being there all worth it. While we were there our club members were treated to lunch and refreshments compliments of Autumn Leaves. I hope that the opportunity to do more of this is in our future. Thank you to all who participated. Your acts of kindness will be rewarded tenfold.

     The Bettenhausen Car Show seems to be snake bit. Yep, another rainout. They’ll try again on September 4^th, but there’s a change. It will be held at their Tinley Park dealership. Check their website for more details.

     Please make sure you don’t forget to get our club picnic on your calendar. It will take place on September 18^th at the Pam and Ray Garritano estate. The meat dish, sweet corn, and drinks will be provided by the club and all attendees are asked to bring a side dish or desert to share. Pam and Ray have a large barn that we will be using, so come rain or shine it will take place on September 18^th. We will have more details at our August and September membership meetings.

     Bob Behounek from Kustom Kulture kicked off our July meeting with a great demonstration of his pin striping techniques. If you were not at the meeting, you missed an opportunity to meet a very talented man. At the end of his presentation he left our club with a beautiful piece of artwork that will be framed and mounted in our meeting room at the Township Building.

     Please keep the good health of our members and their families in your thoughts and prayers. I hope to see you all at our next membership meeting on August 11^th at 7:30pm at the Frankfort Township Building.

Cruise Nights Continue! Some scenes below from recent Thursdays in Frankfort.

 Race Car night-

Truck Night

Corvette Night

Street Rod Night