It Started at DQ

There were a few guys with Corvettes and other snappy cars around our area here in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia who knew each other.  Some of them have gone on the Power Tour sponsored by HotRod Magazine.  Others are kin or are local friends.

This is the original group:  Gary and Mary Suter, Orden and Reba Harman, Galen and Susie Shank.  (Wilmer and Shirley Shank were with us but might have slept in that morning.)

Galen Shank started telling folks, mostly ones he knew from the Power Tour, that he would be at the local Dairy Queen on the outside patio on Sunday evenings.  This simple idea started with the Power Tour people but has generated some new friends who also love Corvettes.

One Sunday evening someone observed several Corvettes parked in a row and realized that all of the owners were raised in the Mennonite church.  Thus was born our whimsical name "The Mennonite Corvette Club."
 
This summer we made day trips to the Homestead near Hot Springs in VA, the Greenbrier in WV,  Canaan Valley in WV, the Peaks of Otter on the Skyline Drive, and Graves Mountain Lodge, north of Charlottesville, VA.

This photo is a treasure. It is at Graves Mountain Lodge, our largest group yet - 18.  There was a buffet filled with home-cookin' and it was a beautiful day for a ride. 

This was October 17, 2021.

We sat Mennonite style at the tables -
which means the women sit together and the men sit together.  

Anyone knows that guys want to talk about manifolds and alternators, while women like to talk about "Feelings!" EEEUUUU!!  

Galen and Susy Shank
are the instigators, errrr..., make that
initiators
of our delightful "Mennonite Corvette Club." 

Click on pic for a closer view.

Larry Martin, Marietta and Richard Barnhart, Gail Martin, Karen and Arlan Blosser, Becky and Bill May, Reba and Orden Harman, Susy and Galen Shank, Shirley and Wilmer Shank, Mary and Gary Suter, Sharon and Whit Menefee.

Here are a couple of links from past years:
What is the Power Tour?    Power Tour in 2017 Corvette