By: Scott S.I think we have a new club event that
must be the smallest number of entries in total. This year that honor has
to go to Manor for their annual Lions Festival parade. I made my way over
to Manor about 8:30am or so and much to my delight, Barry F was there with
his wife Bianca. Barry brought his Servi-Car trike and had it unloaded and
warming up when I arrived.
I unloaded my jeep and fretted over getting blocked in but that simply
wasn't going to be the case for this one. The parade organizer came over
and gave us our staging number of 9 and said we'd be after the big Fire
Truck. Well, the parade was to start at 10:00am and by about 9:50, everyone
was lined up and ready to roll.
So with a whopping 12 entries in this years parade, we headed into town.
Driving up the main avenue was fun as there were a ton of people on both
sides of the street. This event has been like that over the years. Since
the parade is a 'tossing event', most entrants tossed candy to the sides of
the road that was snatched up by the kids and adults. I tossed 7.62 brass
and think everyone got a huge kick out of it instead of candy. One parent
commented "very appropriate".
We also learned Barry's Servi-Car doesn't like to idle and move at a
walking pace. So to keep some airflow over the engine, he kept doing
circles in front of me with Bianca holding on for dear life but with a big
old grin the whole time. On the way back, his engine heated up to the point
that he had to pull off to let it cool. I received an email from him later
that day indicating everything was just fine with his trike too.
After the parade, I loaded the jeep up and headed back into town.
The little old jeep ran perfectly on this sunny, short parade day.