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International Peerless Meet


Richard Lichtfel

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  • 2 weeks later...

We had a great tour. We had a few showers on Friday but we were on the brewery tour and we did not get wet. The second oldest continual operating brewery in the USA. Then the cheese factory tour and cheese museum. We now know everything there is to know about cheese. Even had cheese fondu. Saturday was a bright sunny day, 75 degrees with slight breeze.

Couldn't ask for better weather. We were all touring together on back roads to Broadhead in the morning and heard a radial engine overhead, it was Bill Knight in his 1931 Waco bi-plane welcoming us to Broadhead, what a site!!! We had coffee and donuts at Bills auto museum and shop. Bill landed and drove his Peerless back to the shop and joined us. We proceeded about a mile down the road to the airport and had a special parking area for us with the planes. This is the largest grass airport in the USA with three runways. There were about 250 antique aircraft there. What a site. Bill took several Peerless members up in his Waco. We spent most of the day there. On the tour back to the chalet we stopped at a Swiss cheese factory and purchased cheese and home made ice cream, made it back in time for cocktails and banquet. Sunday we all headed for home. Great gathering of Eagles. We have over 100 pictures and will put them into our next special Co-Operator. RHL

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Howdy Bob,

Welcome to the Peerless Forum! Drop in anytime. I like the heading on your profile: "1932 Peerless Owner". Not too many can say that. I hope that someday you can show your '32 next to the Crawford Museum's '32 at a car show. No doubt you would find that enjoyable.

The CLEVELAND ALL STARS Meet will be JUN 12-14, 2015. After holding a one-marque meet this year, the Third Annual Peerless Meet will be a multi-make meet again: for all Cleveland- and Northern-Ohio-made autos. Contact Bernie Golias. Email: berniegolias@aol.com , PH:# (330) 635-2784.

Others reading may not know the numbers of Cleveland automakers, 80+, or Northern Ohio automakers, 115+. Some of these companies only made a handful of cars, but a few stand out, like Winton, White, Jordan, Chandler, early Packards, Star, Baker Electric, Rauch & Lang Electric, Owen-Magnetic, Peerless, Stearns-Knight, Hal Twelve, Rollin, and Cleveland.

----Jeff

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Howdy Bob,

Welcome to the Peerless Forum! Drop in anytime. I like the heading on your profile: "1932 Peerless Owner". Not too many can say that. I hope that someday you can show your '32 next to the Crawford Museum's '32 at a car show. No doubt you would find that enjoyable.

The CLEVELAND ALL STARS Meet will be JUN 12-14, 2015. After holding a one-marque meet this year, the Third Annual Peerless Meet will be a multi-make meet again: for all Cleveland- and Northern-Ohio-made autos. Contact Bernie Golias. Email: berniegolias@aol.com , PH:# (330) 635-2784.

Others reading may not know the numbers of Cleveland automakers, 80+, or Northern Ohio automakers, 115+. Some of these companies only made a handful of cars, but a few stand out, like Winton, White, Jordan, Chandler, early Packards, Star, Baker, Owen-Magnetic, Stearns-Knight, Hal Twelve, and Cleveland.

----Jeff

Our Cleveland meet is coming along. We will have a special meeting room in order to have a Peerless board meeting and discuss the future. We will spend one day touring the area visiting the sites of the factories and homes of the prominent auto manufacturers. Another day will be a car show of the Cleveland built cars and trucks. Our banquet will be in the Crawford museum. Plan to spend an extra day to visit the library at the Western Reserve Crawford museum. Back in 1953 I drove my 1916 Peerless to Cleveland for the start of the Glidden Tour. We didn't have Interstate roads then, just state and US highways. My parents followed in their new car just in case my high school restoration didn't make it.

We made the trip and tour with no trouble.The car was PEERLESS. I brought my Peerless back to Cleveland in 2001 for the 100 year meet and

will again next year. I hope to see a lot of Peerless people there. RHL

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Our Cleveland meet is looking good. We have eight Peerless cars registered so far. Another "Gathering of Eagles". The oldest is a 1913. I am re-building my water pump and replacing the hoses on my '16. Getting it ready for the May hill climb, Memorial Day parade and then on to Cleveland for our June show. I don't know how many of the other makes are registered but it should be a good turn out.

This should be fun and historical, hope to see you in Cleveland. RHL

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