PWD 2009 Dinner Meeting & AfterTour

[Mark Shaw]

PWD Dinner Meeting Thursday July 2nd 2009

Pete Phillips will be guiding us to the BCA PreWar Division dinner meeting on Thursday July 2nd starting at 6:30 PM at the Old Depot Restraunt only 4 ½ miles from the National Meet in Colorado Springs. I know that Derek Thille & Jack Gerstkemper & I will be there, and would like to know what other PWD members plan to attend. You can check out the menu and cool location here:

http://www.giuseppes-depot.com/

Please email me if you are planning to attend: durcodude@comcast.net

Prewar Buick after tour- July 5- July 7, 2009

Our AfterTour leaders Ed & Sandi Lappin are still busy working on the AfterTour. Any BCA member can register to participate in the PWD AfterTour with any year Buick or their everyday driver. However, our tour leaders may have to limit the number of cars on the tour and give priority to prewar Buicks. So, go ahead and register for the AfterTour with whatever car you bring to the BCA National. But you may get bumped only if there are too many postwar cars registered on or before June 19th.

The hotel for the PWD AfterTour will be the Pikes Peak Drury Inn, 8155 N. Academy Blvd. Colorado Springs, CO. Ed & Sandi have arranged a special rate of $85 per night for arrival on Sunday July 5th and departure on Wednesday July 8th. You should make your own reservations directly with the hotel under the PreWar Buick group number 2049394. You can check out the hotel at the following web address:

http://www.druryhotels.com/properties/pikespeak.cfm

These are some (not all) of the activities currently scheduled the AfterTour:

Sunday July 5: First we will move from the BCA National Meet host hotel to the Drury Inn at the north end of Colorado Springs. Then we will take a leisurely drive up Pike's Peak and return to the Drury Inn to complete our hotel check-ins. We will end the day with and group dinner mixer to get to know each other.

Monday July 6: Drive to a cat house (www.serenityspringswildlife.org) and tour a cool museum for everyone to enjoy.

Tuesday July 7: We will drive to and tour The Cherokee Ranch and Castle and have lunch and browse museums & antique shops in Castle Rock.

http://www.cherokeeranch.org/history.htm

Please cut registration info. below and and paste it into an email to Ed & Sandi Lappin.

Buick Club of America 2009 PreWar Division AfterTour Registration

Driver’s Name ___________________________________________ (please print)

Evening Phone ___________________ e-mail____________________________

Address __________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

Year of Buick __________Model_____________________________

Passengers' Names: _________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________

Please send your application information to:

Ed & Sandi Lappin, slap1741@comcast.net. Or call Ed & Sandi 303-898-9490

Hotel check in will be Sunday July 5th and departure on Wednesday July 8th. Please make your own hotel reservations at the Pikes Peak Drury Inn, 8155 N. Academy Blvd. Colorado Springs, CO 80920. You can make reservations directly with the hotel by calling 800-325-0720 and ask for the special group rate of $85 per night under the PreWar Buick group number 2049394. The tour and hotel Registration Deadline is June 19th, 2009.

Due to insurance requirements, participants must be members of The Buick Club of America. If you need an application please go to http://www.buickclub.org/ and Join online or print an application and mail it in before the registration deadline. (All AfterTour costs will be pay as you go)

[Mark Shaw]

Meeting is over.