This convention was pretty close to us, so my wife Lorraine and I attended with two of our cars. We chose to NOT have them judged. We just wanted to have fun, and actually this allowed me to be a judge in the 1957-1957 class.
By the way, also attending without their 1957 DeSotos were David Kirkel, Dean Mullinax, Dave and "Sis" Bruner (who brought their 1959 DeSoto), Barry Tosh, and Mike Singer.
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