Upcoming Events

46th Annual Tulsa Swap Meet. Sponsored by the Tulsa Regional Group #39. Website: www.tulsaearlyfordv8.com The Swap Meet will be held at the Creek County Fairgrounds located at Highway 33 and Route 66. Approximately 5 miles West of Sapulpa, Oklahoma.
Early Vendor Set-up after Noon on Thursday 4/19. Swap Meet hours Friday and Saturday 7am to 6 pm. 80% car related. Free parking and admission for buyers. For more information and Vendor Registration Forms go to our website, or call Kat Conrad at 918-625-5464, or P.O. Box 2151 Owasso. OK 74055

The 16th Early Ford V-8 National Meet, May 4 to 7, 2018 will be held in Renmark, South Australia.
There is plenty to see and do in the Riverland with mild weather at this time of year in May.
Come for the four days or make it a great holiday by staying the optional extra 2 days. Catch up with fellow enthusiasts and their Ford V-8s.
Please book your accommodation in any of the many motels in Renmark.
Entry forms will become available later this year.
Sponsored by the South Australian Regional Group # 94

The 45th Annual Seattle Auto Swap Meet will be held on May 19th & 20th, 2018 presented by the Puget Sound Regional Group of the Early Ford V8 Club – www.efv8psrg.org.
FREE admission for visitors at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds – 14405 179th Ave SE, Monroe, WA 98272. 1,500 stalls and over 1,000 vendors. For registration and information please visit www.seattleautoswapmeet.com

44th Annual Petaluma Swap Meet sponsored by the Redwood Empire Regional Group of the Early Ford V-8 Club. May 20,2018 at the Petaluma fairgrounds located at Hwy 101 and Washington St in Petaluma, California. Gates open at 5:00am. Free parking and admission for buyers. A 20'X20' swap space is $30. For more information contact Dave Peterson at 707-527-9183 or e-mail;1davepete@comcast.net. This is one of the longest running swap meets in northern California.

Pennsylvania Dutch Country Spring Time National Driving Tour.
The Hawk Mountain Regional Group # 68 invites you to join us for five days of enjoying the beautiful Pennsylvania countryside. We will have three separate tours mapped out with turn by turn instructions provided. Participants can follow in a group led by a Regional member, or go on the routes at their own pace, spending as much or as little time as they want at the many attractions this area has to offer. Each route covers approximately 100 miles, ending back at the host hotel. There will be a free day where you can do as you please. There are several major attractions in the area worth the trip.
Go shopping in historic Lititz, Intercourse, or Bird-in-Hand. Spend the day in Paradise or Adamstown searching for that special antique. Or simply just relax.......
Mark your calendars for the week of May 21st through the 25th. The Tour starts off with an informal Welcome Party at the host hotel on Monday evening. The Farewell Dinner on Friday evening will be held at a beautiful Victorian Farmhouse out in the country. Tour programs will be distributed as participants check in with Hawk Mt. members at the host hotel.
Tour information now attached.
Info: Lois Dries - Tour Chairperson -- email: calodries@ptd.net -- 610-966-5127
or
Rick Slegel - email: rickscrim@aol.com -- 610-926-3061

Bring your favorite Ford, Mercury, Lincoln, or Edsel. Free admission for spectators. Free swap meet! $5 show car admission. For sale signs permitted. Concessions available. Public welcome. Parking available for non-Ford vehicles. MSRA Safety Inspection. Rain or shine. Co-sponsored by The Early Ford V-8 Club and The Mini Birds.

"Sneak Peek" - stop by the Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum and see the progress on the new addition. Lunch will be available. Sponsored by the Blue Oval Regional Group #169. It's on the way to the Grand National Meet in Dearborn. Dearborn is 3 hours away. Hotel information available. More details --- 585 -748-1604 or www.fordv8foundation.org

2018 Grand National Meet
The Early Ford V-8 Club of America announces "Dearborn's The Scene in 2018" - our 55th Anniversary Homecoming, to be held June 11-15, 2018 in the hometown of Henry Ford, Dearborn, Michigan.
Complete registration is available now - download the fillable PDF forms. Paid registrations will receive information about making reservations at the host hotel. Full registration, tentative schedule, event information, and merchandise information is now available.

The MOTOR MUSTER is an annual car show held at historic Greenfield Village each June. Your Grand National Committee, in partnering with theHenryFord for 2018, specifically scheduled the GNM to coincide with the Motor muster so that GNM attendees could take advantage of attending both meets while in town.
The theme of this coming year’s event is “Iconic Power Plants” and the V-8 Ford will be a featured vehicle of the Muster. Participating Early Ford V-8 Club members will be honorary guests of the Village. To that end, any and all entry fees, etc, etc are being waived for us and each entry will be afforded four (4) weekend passes to the entire Henry Ford/Greenfield Village facility. Furthermore, eligible entrants (defined as Rouge, Concourse and Touring Division vehicles) will be spared the formal registration process and will register and be assured a spot in the show by utilizing a special section of our GN Meet Registration Form. Names, hometown, and a description of each vehicle entered will be supplied by us to the Village to facilitate credentials and also serve as the basis for the narrated portion of the "Pass in Review" of our vehicles that will be conducted each day.
For those of you not familiar with the Motor muster or who have heard of it but never attended, please take a minute and watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecEk4Cy7hn0 ;
This event is arguably the premier show of its kind in the Country and our featured status in 2018 a truly unique, once in a lifetime opportunity that many of our GNM entrants can experience.....for free! Please also note that the Motor Muster is normally limited to 1933-1976 vehicles. To facilitate complete acceptance of our Club vehicles as well to provide complete coverage of the Early Ford V-8 Era, restrictions on 1932 Fords will be waived for this one time only event.

The Early Ford V-8 Club has designated the 3rd Saturday in June as Drive Your V-8 Day. Members are encouraged to dust off your V-8 and drive it somewhere. Better yet, ask a fellow V-8'er to join you. Take some pictures and send them and a short story into the editor of the V-8 TIMES. *** Note: this year the National Drive Your V-8 Day is on the anniversary of the incorporation of the Ford Motor Company -- June 16, 1903.

The 2018 Scandinavian Ford V-8 Meet in Denmark. The Danish Ford V-8 Club invites you to the Annual Scandinavian Ford V-8 Meet. The Meet will be held at Comwell Hotel Kellers Park. Comwell Kellers Park is located in Borkop, H.O. Wildenskovsvej 28, 7080 Borkop. Comwell Hotel Kellers is a beautiful place and the people there are looking forward to welcoming us to their lovely premises and restaurants. Ford V-8s will be parked outside in front of the hotel entrance, in "our own area". The picnic trip on Saturday will be driven on the lovely area around Vejle inlet. Contact: Charlotte Jorgensen +45 2129 6947 e-mail: charlotte.jersie@pc.dk or Rie Kamp +45 2334 3561 e-mail: multikamp@webspeed.dk

2018 Fall V-8 Fall National Driving Tour
Tour Through Montana’s Lewis & Clark country
August 26 through 31, 2018, hosted by the Big Sky Regional Group #153.
The Big Sky V-8 Regional Group #153, invites you to join us in a step back in time to the Lewis & Clark, Core of Discovery in 1804 to 1806. We will start in Billings with a pitch fork fondue on Sunday evening, with old V-8 friends.
We will have the opportunity to see Pompey’s Pillar, mining towns of Neihart and Monarch. Giant Springs, Great Falls of the Missouri, Glacier National Park and Going to the Sun Highway. Enjoy seeing Flathead Lake. Tour Regional Group member Lyle Achelstede’s Flathead museum of 32-53 restored flatheads. See Nine Pipes, the head waters of the Missouri at Three Forks and then back to Billings. Six days & 1300 miles of history and beauty in our Flathead vehicles.
More information now available. Mark your calendars. The Big Sky V-8 Regional Group wants you to see their beautiful part of the country.

2018 Southern New Mexico National Driving Tour -- sponsored by the Tumbleweed Regional Group # 79. The Tumbleweed Regional Group # 79 invites you to their 2nd National Driving Tour. Starting in Socorro New Mexico and ending near Carlsbad Caverns. More information to follow.