We have an interesting speaker lined up to recount his latest motoring adventure. Chowderhead Jim Shelly has been trying to finish in the Hemmings Great Race for a number of years now. He’s usually tried in a prewar beastie, a 1939 Buick. His breakdowns along the way have become the stuff of legend - at...
We have a great program planned. Knowing that every chowderhead is likely to have a collection of automobilia - magazines, photos, paintings, models, oil cans, and a half a million other possibilities, we have as our speaker one of the world's greatest authorities on Automobilia. Our speaker is a long time chowderhead, Marshall Buck. Marshall...
Please join us at the usual spot, at the usual time, for our 67th Annual Holiday party. The lunch will be the traditional buffet and we have gotten Sardi's to keep the price to within one dollar of last year's cost. We aren't certain that everyone is getting our emails yet, so please reach out...
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Our speaker will be Mark Steigerwald, the Director of the International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen. There is much happening there these days and they have come a long way since the center opened. The first Chairman of the Board of the Center was a Chowderhead. It was Syd Silverman. Chowderhead Mike Stott...
“As Lerner and Lowe’s Guinevere reminded us in Camelot, “It’s May! The lusty month of May! That lovely month when ev'ryone goes Blissfully astray.” Thus it’s the perfect time for Chowderheads to gather and find an excuse to “go astray, preferably in a loud motorcar. The Chowderheads shall gather, as is our custom, at the...
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At the IMRRC we would see a movie on the development of racing at Watkins. Bill Green, the Watkins Glen historian would provide a talk and insights into his recollections of having attended nearly every race there. Bill would lead a tour of the old course that was used from 1948 to 1952. It’s just...
Chowder Society members and their guests are invited to the famous Madison Avenue Sports Car Driving and Chowder Society picnic starting at 10:30-ish AM on SATURDAY AUGUST 23 at the Malcolm Pray Achievement Center in Banksville, NY (just up the road from Greenwich). No charge. BYO Food & Drink. The picnic will run through the...