QuarterTanker
Kimball Farm Wrap-up
There were questioning looks on the faces of the participants when our erstwhile cruise leader past blame to his navigator even before we departed. Mr. Wenzel does not have a stellar record for navigation, having come in dead last at last years Bug Juice Rally. But everyone got behind our lead dog and headed off to Kimball Farms. The ride was scenic and the weather was “top down” perfect. The route was imaginative back roads but it did differ from the instructions. But, in the end we all arrived at the same, rather amazing, location.
Kimball Farms has food, ice cream, shopping, bumper boats, batting cages and lots more. We all had lunch and topped it off with some of the best ice cream we have ever had. And for this group of ice cream lovers that is saying a lot. Some even tackled the Banana Split although not without help. After lunch, rain drops were felt and it sent everyone scrambling back to the Vettes to get the windows and tops up. The few drops then turned into a downpour. We stayed dry and watched brave souls continue to ride the bumper boats in the rain. For some reason, this gave encouragement and bravado to some of our members to man the boats. We took the opportunity to crash into our friends without worry of anything more than a return splash. The storm was gone and we headed home as another event became a memory.

More photos of the QuarterTanker to Kimball Farm can be found here.

Quarter Tanker Run to the Famous
Kimball Ice Cream Stand
On Sunday, June 27, we will be making our first Quarter Tanker Run. A “QT” is a trip that will take about a quarter tank of gas or less. For our inaugural run we are going to Kimball Farm in Westford, MA. This is NOT the Kimball Farms we went to last fall.

Famous since 1939 for their legendary ice cream, Kimball Farm has become a perfect place to visit, have fun and relax. With 36 holes of adventure style mini golf, a bumper boat pond, farm animals and live animal shows, there’s lots of excitement for everyone. Kimball Farm also features a Driving Range, with both mat & grass tees and a par-3, 9-hole Pitch & Putt golf course.

Hungry? Their Luncheon Grill & Seafood Shack serves incredible fried seafood and hot-off-the-grill BBQ. Visit the Country Store for shopping, or to indulge in one of their homemade pastries, soup or gourmet sandwiches. We can top off our visit with their delicious homemade ice cream! You can check out Kimball Farm here.

Meeting times and places
We will meet in Weymouth at the Building 19 parking lot starting at 10:00 am. We will leave promptly at 10:30. Our next stop will be Joe’s American Bar and Grill parking lot in Dedham. We will leave Joe’s at 10:45 sharp. We will be taking some scenic back roads to Westford and should arrive at Kimball Farm about noon. Just in time for lunch.

Toad Hall
Father’s Day Cruise Wrap-up
Roy and Judy Charron’s daughter Terri Charron put together an amazing day for us all to celebrate Father’s Day. The weather cooperated and the tops went down and the roofs came off. We gathered first at the Rockland Park and Ride for a journey to an eclectic collection of mostly English sports cars. We made a stop at the Totem Pole rest stop to pick up more members and then a ride down to Hyannis Port with warm breezes was the start of a perfect Corvette day.

Toad Hall is an experience that makes you want to stop and tell strangers about it. It began when we were greeted by collector and owner Bill Putman who graciously answered all our questions about the cars. We were able not only to look and photograph, but to touch. Bill gave us permission to open the doors and sit in the cars. His collection is vast, all red and mostly English. There were a few Datsuns, Porches, and a BMW.

Cars are more than just transportation. Cars have the ability to be albums of memories. You catch a glimpse of an old car and the floodgates of memories are opened. Many of us shared a story of some long ago experience that was triggered by seeing a car in the Toad Hall collection.

Following our visit to Toad Hall, we went off to the Hearth and Kettle for lunch. Thank you to all the members, sons, daughters, wives and dads that attended and an especially big thanks to Terri Charron for a wonderful day. View more photos here. Thanks to Tom Meehan for many of the photos.

The Toad Hall Gang

Father’s Day Cruise
Father’s Day this year (June 20) will incorporate the essence of the day. The SSCC Father’s Day Cruise is being planned by and conducted by daughters and sons of our members. To get your offsprings involved, have them send an email to the link at the bottom of this page. It will be forwarded to the SSCC Father’s Day Cruise Committee. All members are invited to attend this event. If you would like it to be a Father/Daughter, Father/Son, Uncle/Nephew, Uncle/Niece, Husband/Wife or Solo cruise that is fine. What is important is that as a family club, out sons and daughters are planning the event.

Please join us this Father’s Day, Sunday, June 20, 2010 for a cruise to the Toad Hall Classic Sports Car Collection at The Simmons Homestead. It is located in Hyannis Port, MA. Toad Hall consists of an eclectic collection of over 50 sports cars. Many are English, all are RED. Click here to visit the Toad Hall web site.

Meeting times and places:
First meeting place: Rockland Park & Ride
(leave by 8:30 a.m. sharp)
Second meeting place: Plymouth, Exit 5 aka Totem Pole
(leave there by 9:45 a.m. sharp)
Our goal is to get to the museum by 10:30 a.m.
There is an entry charge of $ 8.00 per person
If you’re available to stay after touring the museum we will gather for lunch in the area.

Bennington, VT
Weekend Getaway Wrap-up
All who attended the weekend trip to Bennington, VT owe a round of applause to Roy and Judy (aka Joy and Rudy) Charron. They planned and gently oversaw a wonderfully pleasant weekend. Bennington, a small college town, best know as the home of Hemmings Motor News offered a variety of activities for us to explore. Judy and Roy located a nice selection of restaurants to keep us nourished.

A number of new terms were coined this weekend including iKey and iFob. As the weekend progressed, an outsider would conclude that our group were life long friends. They would be surprised to know that we all met only a few short years ago, all because of a love of a very special car. Read more about our weekend here in Judy’s Journal. And located here are some photos.

Hemmings Weekend Getaway
We’re off to the Green Mountain State
A weekend getaway has been planned by South Shore Corvette Club members Roy and Judy Charron. The destination is Bennington, VT the home of Hemmings Motor News. We will be leaving Weymouth on Friday, June 4 and returning Sunday, June 6, 2010. If you can’t get away for the entire weekend, you are welcome to come up for a day or just an overnight.

Our tour guides, Roy and Judy, have already made a reconnaissance mission to Bennington and have mapped out the route, the lodging and most important, the restaurants. There is a block of rooms available at the Paradise Inn and the rates are very reasonable. Other lodging is available and many restaurants are near by. There is a variety of places to visit and sights to see. More information is here.

Tax Run Wrap-up
Russ and Judy couldn’t have planned a more perfect event. The weather cooperated and we are hoping that this is just the beginning of a great 2010 SSCC event schedule.

We met at the Rockland Park and Ride and close to 20 Vettes made it out for the 2010 kickoff. Our meandering ride over to Hull took us through Norwell, Hingham, Scituate and Hull. Russ and Judy picked scenic back country roads that make the South Shore such a paradise. Russ stopped many times to keep us all together and we all made it to the Red Parrot in Hull for a Jazz Brunch. Some of our members wore a path in the carpet going back for seconds, thirds and yes, even forth helpings.

Now that you have had the Vette out for a little leg stretching, a great meal and lots of talking over brunch, you can go back to the calculator and the box for receipts.

Tax Run on Sunday, April 11
It’s time to put away the calculator for a couple of hours and fire up the Vette for the kick off cruise of 2010. Russ and Judy Erikson have planned a nice little cruise for us to Hull for brunch. They always make it a scenic tour and the Red Parrot has great food and equally great views. We're meeting at the Rockland Park & Ride lot across the street from Home Depot at 9:30 am. Then we'll go on a meandering ride through the back roads to the Red Parrot in Hull for brunch. This is a rain or shine event.

Let’s Go Bowling
On Sunday, March 28 at 11:00 a.m. we will be having a little fun at the newly renovated Boston Bowl in Hanover, on Rt. 139. If you like to bowl, have bowled before, have never bowled, are a really good bowler, have never been inside a bowling alley, hate to bowl, are embarrassed when you bowl, like to show off when you bowl, or watched Candlepins For Cash, you qualify and are invited. We will start at 11:00 a.m. After bowling, we will head to the Alumni Sports Cafe in Pembroke for lunch.
A viewing of Kingpin or The Big Lebowski may be in order to get you into the proper spirit.
Please email to the link at the bottom of this page if you will be attending.

The long winter nap...
Corvettes today are generally treated somewhat gentler than Vettes in the ’50s. Our Vettes are now in storage getting that trickle of life from the BatteryTender, their paint protected by a car cover that, by the way cost more than that 600 thread count set of sheets on the bed and their propellant augmented with Sta-bil for a quick start in the spring. But the pilots and co-pilots can’t hibernate till spring. The staff here at the SSCC Website has put together a reading list for you to get you away from the glowing box in the corner. These are all car books, not necessarily specific to the Corvette, but just wonderful stories about cars and the people who love them. To see our reading list and recommendations click here.

Mill Wharf Brunch
We are returning to the Mill Wharf Restaurant where member Carmine Carlucci (Yellow C6 Convertible) is Executive Chef.
We have always had a large turnout for this great event. If you have not participated in the past, you are missing one of the best brunches on the South Shore. We are meeting at the Mill Wharf on Sunday, March 7 at 10:00 am. The Mill Wharf is located in picturesque Scituate Harbor at 150 R. Front Street. The cost including all, tax, gratuity, food and beverages is $23.00 per person. you read that right, Carmine is including beverages!
This is one of the most complete brunch menus you will find anywhere. The buffet has everything from Eggs Bennie to pizza. You can have an omelet made your way and do not miss the desert table.

So, if you like fresh fruit, granola, and yogurt, caesar salad, pasta salad, fresh baked danish, eggs benedict, homefries, bacon, sausage, stuffed shells,spinach canneloni, baked haddock,seafood newburg, carribean jerk chicken, bbq spareribs, primerib, honey ham, omlets and eggs to order, belgium waffles, pancakes, french toast, pizza, and of course a full dessert bar, call or email Carmine or Elaine to attend.

February Meeting-Mangia Night
Show up hungry and you will not be disappointed. Plans have been made for the February meeting to be an Italian Feast. In addition to the food, we will have information about our upcoming events. Plans have been made for the Tax Day Run, the annual Shakedown Cruise, News about the Father’s Day Outing and our weekend getaway to Hemmings in Burlington, VT.

We will again be conducting the Food Panty donations. Last month’s donation went to the Weymouth Food Pantry. For February, Marshfield will be the beneficiary. For those that missed the announcement, will would like you to bring a can good or other non perishable food item to the meeting. We will then present contents of our collection box to one of the local south shore food pantries.

Bring your questions, suggestions and appetite on February 25 to the Weymouth Elks at 7:00.

First Business Meeting of 2010
The turnout was high, the pot luck spread would make a caterer envious and the news from the front of the room was great.

The big news was the change of venue for Cruise Night. After two years at the Monponsett Inn, the officers decided to move Cruise Night to a location that was closer to where the majority of our membership reside. Cruise Night impresario Steve Boyajian gave all the details of our negotiations with the Abington Ale House. SSCC held its Cruise Night the Abington Ale House for many years and left on good terms. We look forward our return. We will again hold Cruise Night from mid May through the end of September. Let’s all show up on opening day and have a record turnout.

Vette Season Wrap-up
For some 2009 will be remembered as the year without a watering ban. Yes, even Norwell, a town that has had watering bans every year since the first lawn sprinkler was invented let you dump as much water on your lawn as you chose. Read More...