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Route 66 Cruisers Car Club - Archived News & Events...

Old Club Minutes - Note Club Minutes are no longer available to the public on our website, they are posted in the Club Members only Facebgook Group Page
 
The Route 66 Cruisers Car Club - 2016 Akdar Shrine Donation - $3,000!With your support of our Route 66 Cruisers Car Show and Claremore Swap Meet we were able to make a $3,000 donation to Akdar Shrine for their Children's Transportation Fund & Stocking Fund. This will help transport the kids to the Shriner's Hospitals for treatment, and also put some smiling faces on those children for Christmas. Thank you for continued support and we look forward to seeing you at our car show September 30th, 2017!

 

 
The Route 66 Cruisers Car Club is proud to announce our donation to Rogers County Youth Services! "Believing in the potential of youth, Rogers County Youth Services serves the community by strengthening youth and families."  The Route 66 Cruisers are honored to help support our community!

L-R Richard Hodges club VP, Jim Anderson - RCYS, Dwayne Caldwell club President, & Debbi Bennett club secretary.

 
 

Pictures of Route 66 Cruisers Car Club Claremore Christmas Parade entry

 
Thank you Thunderbird Youth Academy for your services at our Route 66 Cruisers Car Show.
This great group of young ladies and gentleman helped us guide our traffic, park show cars and they did a fantastic job! What a fine and outstanding group to work with!
 
The Route 66 Cruisers Car Club is proud to announce our December, 2016 donation to Totem Pole Park owned and operated by the Rogers County Historical Society.
Totem Pole Park has hosted the Route 66 Cruisers during our Car Show Cruise-In night and we are happy to support this special place located just off Route 66 in Foyil, OK
Pictured (L-R )Richard Hodges Route 66 Cruisers Car Club Vice President, David Anderson Director of Totem Pole Park, and club member Pam Hodges .
 
The Route 66 Cruisers Car Club of Claremore, Oklahoma is proud to announce our donation of $500 to the Will Rogers Foundation.

All proceeds will benefit the Will Rogers Memorial Museums and programs supporting the Will Rogers Memorial Museum, Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch, and the legacy of Oklahoma’s Favorite Son.”  The Route 66 Cruisers Car Club believes in supporting our local community and are happy to help support the Will Rogers Memorial Museum, Will Rogers Birthplace Ranch & Will Rogers legacy. Learn more at www.wrmfoundation.org

 
 

Route 66 Cruisers take part in The Great Food Truck Race Season 6 Episode 5

  The Route 66 Cruisers won 2016 Pontiac Cruise Night Staff Picks award!

Pontiac Cruise 2016 Pictures taken by Jim White.

 
2015 Christmas Party Pictures taken by Jim White. Click Here
 
Jim & Pat White's Bowling Ball Yard Art trip pictures: Click Here
 

Tally's Cruise Pictures Click Here

 

The Route 66 Cruisers Car Club donated $4,000 to Akdar Shrine for the Sponsored Children of the Akdar Shine. $2000 went to the Stocking Fund and $2000 for the transportation fund per Paul Kelsey's request. We would like to thank everyone involved with the club, everyone who attended our Car Show, Swap Meet, & Toy Run and the Claremore Community for your continued support. Together we made a significant difference in 2015 and put big smiles on the faces of kids being treated at Shriner's Hospitals. Our goal as a car club is to not only cruise and have fun, but to stop, help those in need, and make a difference in the lives of children along the way. Thank you for being a part of our journey. 

Click Here Pictures at Presentation Dec. 10th

Click Here for Valentine's Day Cruise pictures taken by Denny Rhett & Jim White. If you missed this cruise, don’t worry we now have a cruise committee and will be very active this year!

Akdar Shrine Check Presentation: The Route 66 Cruisers Car Club presented a check on December 11th, 2014 for $4,000 to Akdar Shrine for their transportation fund for the Sponsored Children of the Akdar Shine.  Click here for pictures taken by Sharon Coldren

Route 66 Cruisers in the Claremore Progress: By Kristy Sturgill posted on Sep 14, 2014
"Route 66 Cruisers Car Club is gearing up for its seventh annual car and motorcycle show Sept. 26-27 at Claremore Lake." Click here to read the article!

 

Thank you FFA: March 11th the Route 66 Cruisers Car Club presented the Claremore FFA with a plaque and $100 for their help with our 2013 Car Show.

Congratulations to Denny & Delma Rhett, they won a trophy at the Carthage, Mo show!
Click Here for pictures Denny took at the show

Thank you for joining us on the cruise to Hominy

We had a great time and look forward to many more great club events in 2014!

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Photo credit Jim & Pat White

Ratrod-O-Rama 2013 Grants Pass
Featuring Bill Holden's song "Rat Rod Rumble"

 Click Here for pictures of Roger & Loretta Patton's "NEW" 1962 Studebaker Lark Daytona !

Club Members if you would like to add your car pictures to the website & club's facebook page email them to Brian Hodges at Route66CruisersOK@gmail.com, please include information about your car- year, make, model etc.

Pictures of Walt Chomosh's 1955 Cadillac & 1955 Airstream! Walt has been working hard restoring his 1955 Airstream and making it shine- he pulls it with his 1955 Cadillac.

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Pictures of the Route 66 Cruisers participation in the Route 66 Marathon 2013- Tulsa,OK.

Thank you Ted Hancock for sending in the pictures.

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Thank you for coming to our Swap Meet 2013!

** Pictures from Swap Meet**

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Thank you all for coming out to support the Route 66 Cruisers Toy Run and the sponsored children of the Akdar Shrine! Together we contributed to a truck load of toys and we will help to put some big smiles on the kids faces! Pictures from Toy Run 2013

Youtube video from Toy Run 2013

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Club Member Donovan Cooper won top 50 at Grove VFW car show 9/21/13.

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Congratulations Route 66 Cruisers! The winners at the Owasso FFA Car Show were: Holden, Hancock, Caldwell, White, Patton, Bennett, Coldren and Hodges.
 

Thank you Sharon & Denny Coldren for taking these pictures !!!

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Congratulations and Thank you to the Route 66 Cruisers Car Club members who went to Jay Cruise Night 2013!

The Route 66 Cruisers won Largest Car Club Participation Award & $100 cash!

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Congratulations to Route 66 Cruisers Car Club member Kenneth Metzinger! He won his class with his 1966 Barracuda then won Top Eliminator at the Tulsa Raceway Park Old Time Drags!
Top Eliminator is where they race off all the winners from the other classes for the overall winner.

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Congratulations James & Donovan Cooper for their Top 20 at Cars for Critters

August 3rd, at Grove in their 2008 Malibu!

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News & Pictures: Route 66 Cruisers Car Club brought home 12 plaques from Collinsville Car Show!!! Dwayne won Celebrity Choice!

Pictures of Hogs N Hot Rods- courtesy member Jim White

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 Route 66 Cruisers Cruise to Clinton!

Click Here for Pictures from Jim White & Sharon Caldwell.

Also Checkout the picture that was in the Clinton Daily News- lots of club members !!! Click here for their picture

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Pictures: Route 66 Cruisers Club Cruise to the U.S.S Batfish courtesy of club member Jim White. Thank you Jim!

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Here are a few pictures courtesy of member Richard Hodges, and the report from Mrs. Hodges was everyone had a great time! Woolaroc Cruise Pictures (4-13-13)

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Click photo to enlarge.The Route 66 Cruisers Car Club, Paul Kelsey were presented a “Certificate of Appreciation for all of the successful Toy Runs” from the Craig County Shrine Club.

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Route 66 Cruisers Club Members !!!  Be sure to check out the January 2013 Issue of Hot Rodder Journal-Hometown Heroes Section- pages 44-45!
Club President Dwayne Caldwell nominated the Route 66 Cruisers Car Club and the Hot Rodder Journal has a great club write up with pictures!

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Note: This picture was taken as members were coming and going, and we appreciate every one of you for helping out!

Thank you all for helping the Nickerson's with the cleanup from their shop fire. We have a great group of club members who support the community and each other!
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Thank you everyone for coming to the 2012 Route 66 Christmas Party! Thank you also for helping to fill up our food donation boxes, the American Legion Auxiliary will use it for their Christmas food baskets, and they greatly appreciate it.
We all had a great time, the food catered by Country Cottage was excellent, and Dirty Santa was a lot of fun this year!

Route 66 Cruisers Food Drive for American Legion

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Route 66 Cruisers Toy Runners, Keystone Lake House Boaters, and everyone who helped donate Toys to the Akdar Shrine, thank you for your help in making a difference in the lives of children!

Pictures from Akdar Shrine Kids Christmas PartyClick to enlarge this picture !

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*** Pictures from the Club Christmas Party 2012 ***
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Thank you everyone for supporting the Route 66 Cruisers and Akdar Shriners on our Toy Run 2012!
We had a great turn out, the weather was awesome, and most importantly we will bring smiles to children’s faces when they receive their new Toys this Christmas.

Toy Run on YouTube!

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Dwayne says "Get over to our Facebook Page Quick and Like Us!!"

See what you have been missing on our  Facebook Page!

Latest News, Latest Pictures, Latest Events...

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Route 66 Cruisers won first place for the largest car club participation at Jay Cruise-We won $100.00 and a plaque! Plaques were also won by the following members: Gayanne Bantle, Johnny Faught, Jeff & Valerie Brown and Dick McGuire. Congratulations!!!

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Fort Gibson Car Show-  club members were there:  Gayanne Bantle. Congratulations to them all for winning a trophy. Pictures for us and they can be Viewed Here!
 

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What a beautiful day for cars and fellowship at the Route 66 Cruisers Car Club Fish Fry 2012!
 

Everyone had a great time and we can’t thank you enough for being part of the club!

 Pictures from the Catfish Fry Click Here

 

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Route 66 Cruisers presented a $500 check for the Honor Flights to Donna Lee representing a WWII veteran who will be going to Washington D.C. . We will have more information on the send off as it becomes available. Honor Flights Network .

 

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One of our guest speakers was George Kohlhofer from the Claremore and Southern Model Railroad, he gave a great presentation. They are open the 2nd Sat. of the month for tours and directions and a map are on their website, as well as neat pictures in the "Gallery" section!  http://www.csrailclub.com/
 

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Gary sent in this great picture of club members who went to the Sock Hop.

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We just picked up our new Route 66 Cruisers Banner. It will be used at the Starbird show, as well as other Route 66 Cruisers events!        (click on picture to enlarge)

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Checkout the Route 66 Cruisers on You Tube!   This is a great movie clip produced by Tad Jones and the Grand Lake Association and was filmed during our Route 66 Tour earlier this year.     Click Here to View Video on YouTube

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Route 66 Cruisers Car Club presented a check for our donation of $6,500 to the Shriner's Hospital Children's Transportation program. Thank you to all of our club members and everyone involved with our Route 66 Cruisers Car Show for helping us make this happen. This will help the Akdar Shriner's improve the lives of children by getting the children in need to one of the 22 Shriner's Hospitals.

 

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Route 66 Club Members, here is a picture of the Thank You Ad that we ran in the Claremore Sunday paper-11-20-11.

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Pictures from the parade .

Claremore Veteran's Day Parade 11-11-11

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 Thank You all for supporting Toy Run 2011! We had a great turnout and collected a lot of toys for the Shriners!

 Thank you also to Dunlap Wrecker Service for following us, and the Craig County Cruisers & Endless Memories Car clubs.

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Pictures from the October 8th Cruise to Inola Car Museum can be found on our facebook page

 

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Thank you to Scott Youtsey Illustration for the T-shirt design for this years 4th Annual Route 66 Cruisers Car Show...He also designed our new Club Logo!!

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The Route 66 Cruisers 4th Annual Car Show was a huge success! We would like to thank everyone who came to see the show and each and everyone involved in making the show happen. We had a great turnout with over 250 cars & motorcycles.
Our car show benefits the Tulsa Akdar Shrine who in turn help the kids… and that’s what it’s all about- The Kids!
We hope to see everyone again at next years Route 66 Cruisers Car Show.

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Jason Anderson at Anderson Classics & Kustoms in Claremore, OK provided the Rat Rod Trophies again this year.
He does a great job and these are highly sought after in the Rat Rod classes at our Route 66 Cruisers Car Show.

Thank you again Jason at Anderson Classics & Kustoms!!!

 

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Our pedal car for the 2011 Route 66 Cruisers Car Show raffle is here as well as our new club sign over at Anderson Classics & Kustoms!!!

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Route 66 Cruisers Car Show 

September 24th, 2011

Claremore Lake!

Fun for the Whole Family  Food, Arts & Crafts!

Click Here for information & registration form .pdf

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Lots of Route 66 Cruisers winners at the Bluegrass & Chili Festival Car Show on Sept. 10th:  Floyd Chambers, Dwayne Caldwell, Don Kirkendall, Terry Carbonneau, Sharon Edgar, Rex Roush, Ron Novotny, Frank Ratliff. 

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Route 66 Cruisers met with Tulsa's Akdar Shrine and were honored for our Route 66 Cruisers Annual Car Show.

 The Route 66 Cruisers proudly support the Tulsa Akdar Shriners so please help us make this year our biggest car show yet! 

Akdar News: August, 2011 “We are honored once again this year to be the sole recipients of donations from the Route 66 Cruisers Car Club...“

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Cruisin' Down Memory Lane

Cruisin' down Memory Lane with some of our first rides!

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Route 66 Cruisers Fish Fry pictures now on facebook! 

 

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Dwayne & Sharon Caldwell, Richard & Pam Hodges and Sharon Edgar took home Trophy Plaques at The Route 66 Blowout Car Show in Sapulpa. Tony & Linda Ward were there along with Bill & Carolyn Holden. We all had a great time!

 Dwayne CaldwellRichard HodgesSharon Edgar

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Grand Lake Fun Website: Has a nice little write up on the Route 66 Cruisers Car Club's Miami Cruise...
 

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Picture from our 2010 Club Christmas Party

 

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The Route 66 Cruisers Presents a Check for $2,500. to the Gateway Foundation at the Will Rogers Downs Cherokee Casino from Car show Proceeds.

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Shirley Flint's 58 Ford  Article in Claremore Progress

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