We were asked by the Leander Excellence in Education Foundation to participate in a parade and carshow as part of a fundraiser for their organization. 

The parade was scheduled to begin at noon, with an 11:30 formup at the ACC Cypress Creek campus in Cedar Park.  Close to 11am Jeff L with his M35/M105 and Rory with his M813 were in the parking lot.  Shortly thereafter Jeff M and Glen V arrived in their Jeeps, followed by John SS in his M35.  Getting close to noon, with no signs of any parade preparations or other attendees, Jeff M and Rory went in Jeff’s MB to find “someone who knew”.  Some Cedar Park PD officers were found, and it turned out that they knew nothing of a parade.  Once noon came and went, and knowing that the carshow was to be held at the Cedar Park high school, we had our own private parade and convoyed over there.  We parked our vehicles, checked out the classic cars, and chatted with the Marine recruiters.  After about an hour, a parade of sorts was organized.  This entailed everyone who wanted to participate lining up, then driving over to the ACC campus, turning around there and coming back to the high school.  With no traffic control and with red lights to contend with, this would more accurately be described as cruising rather than parading.

Once back at the school, we lined up next to the Marines to tie our two displays together a bit.  Clint D, less his M38 but with son Colton, came by for a while.  Several hours were spent chatting with the visitors while they checked out the vehicles.  The kids in particular enjoyed the MV’s because they could climb up in them, unlike most of the classic cars which were strictly “hands off”.

Part of the fund raiser was selling raffle tickets, $1 for one, $5 for 10, or “wrap your vehicle in tickets” for $20.  Jeff L took them up on it (though he did make a good extra contribution) and they duly went the whole way around his Deuce and trailer, to the tune of some 1500 raffle tickets!  Needless to say, he did fairly well on the drawings.

Around 3:30pm Glen and Jeff M called it a day to go do some trailer work.  Shortly after 4pm, with events winding down, the rest of us fired up and left.