Cruising this weekend to Parkers Prairie, MN for another small town gathering

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Since I can’t make the 4th annual C-body meet close to Chicago this weekend (ok after driving through there on the way to Indy last weekend I am not up for an 8 hour one way drive) I decided I would drive a couple of hours through Minnesota Lakes country to go to Parkers Prairie,MN for a car gathering. It is close to Alexandria MN so within a couple of hours from MSP if any members in MN are interested. I have no idea if there will be 10 cars or hundreds of cars. If anyone is in area it will be a nice day for a drive. Plus they have a decent local brewery there, Thousand Lakes Brewery Thousand Lakes Brewing - Thousand Lakes Brewing that has Crowler’s and Growler’s to go.
I have become fond of the PPE (Pandemic Pain Eraser) which is A 9% Belgium Ale, so maybe need to pick up a couple more bottles.
Anyway nice weekend for a drive.
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Nice day for a cruise. Took my big camera in case some Photo op’s came up. I took all back roads through farm and Lakes country.
About a 2-/2 hour drive to the show.
Not too many bugs with the breeze, but my bug catcher did it’s job.
If I can get my big camera to communicate with my phone, I will post some beauty shots.
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Not too bad of a turn out. About 60 or so cars. Only one other Mopar. An old Dodge Pickup.

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A couple Plymouth’s rolled in.
‘68 Fury III. And an older Belvedere convertible.
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First Polara I have seen at a show. ‘67.
Guy does Upholstery work in Henning, MN.
 
Here are some pictures of my car on the way there and on the way back. I used my hi res 22 MP camera. Not sure how far I downsized when transferring to my phone.

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I forgot the Cordoba. It was owned by the same guy that had the Fury III. He said it’s s pretty much his daily driver.
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245 miles round trip. Averaged 12.7 mpg. My gas gauge was between 1/8 and bouncing to the E mark when taking off. I put in 19 gallons meaning I had about 5 gallons left. Probably only 4 usable. The metermatch for my gauge seems to be pretty accurate.
Better than what I was getting last year. I need to keep it under 70 and use the kickdown less. But it is so much fun to kick it down and zip around other cars.
 
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