Woo-Hoo! SDC's Indy Chapter met today at Brownsburg's Pit Stop Barbecue.
And who should grace the meeting, under his own power and looking good?
None other than our very own Dale "Lark Parker" McPhearson:
Dale is holding a "gift" passed along from Iowa SDCer Duane Miller. It's intended as kind of a traveling trophy, if you will, to be installed on walkers or other ambulatory devices for folks on the mend.
Duane forwarded this some time ago, to be given to Dale for his recovery. Today was yours truly's first opportunity to bequeath it to Dale for use and safekeeping. So, Duane, it is now in Dale's care and custody.
Dale is doing well and reports being back up to 155 pounds. That's a sizable increase from a year ago, heading for 180, he hopes. He's walking a little slower with only a cane for assistance. Further, he ordered the full rack of ribs with all the trimmings and left so few scraps that most mongrel dogs wouldn't interrupt a nap to retrieve them.
Dale said he has been following much of our goings-on on the forum and such... but his computer has been down and out for repairs a couple weeks. So feel free to post greetings and he'll see them sooner or later.
He is doing well, with dialysis continuing "as advertised" and few additional problems. If he isn't all the way out of the woods, he's certainly at the edge of the clearing. Dale's wife Barbara, "The Lovely Daytona" from the tales of Lark Parker, was also in attendance, having a good time attacking her own rack of ribs.
We had another welcome visitor at today's meeting, the guy who was on the business end of this calling card at Snider Auto Service, authorized Indianapolis Studebaker dealer until the last 1966 model was sold:
And here was that very gentleman (Bill "Slim" Mitchell) today, on the left, viewing a photo album with restoration progress on SDCer Tom Lawlis' (R) 1957 Golden Hawk 400:
Bill took a moment to pose with yours truly before sitting down. About 49 years ago, almost to the day, I was 17 years old, watching this man at his immaculate work station at Snider Auto Service, overhauling the first Paxton supercharger I had ever seen disassembled:
(I've been in touch with "Slim" through the years, but it had been a few before today's encounter. He and his wife still live in the same home in Speedway Indiana, barely a mile SW of The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, as when he worked at Snider.)
Finally, Brownsburg's Pit Stop Barbecue eatery has a racing theme decor. All manner of racing memorabilia adorn the walls, including the framed poster of Ted Harbit and The Chicken Hawk, of which many SDCers have a copy.
The Pit Stop's copy is permanently displayed at an eye level even comfortable for youngsters. Today, Ted posed to the left while Pure Stock Drag Racing mechanic John "Ace" Kern posed on the right of the poster as displayed at The Pit Stop:
Overall, it was a great "Meet & Eat" today with many good friends, attendance being somewhere north of 40. The remark was made that sick bay report was unsually small in that "they're all here!" The promise of food and fellowship in Brownsburg IN can do that to you, and especially friend Dale "Lark Parker" McPhearson.
'Good to see you out and about, Dale; lookin' good and eatin' well. BP
And who should grace the meeting, under his own power and looking good?
None other than our very own Dale "Lark Parker" McPhearson:
Dale is holding a "gift" passed along from Iowa SDCer Duane Miller. It's intended as kind of a traveling trophy, if you will, to be installed on walkers or other ambulatory devices for folks on the mend.
Duane forwarded this some time ago, to be given to Dale for his recovery. Today was yours truly's first opportunity to bequeath it to Dale for use and safekeeping. So, Duane, it is now in Dale's care and custody.
Dale is doing well and reports being back up to 155 pounds. That's a sizable increase from a year ago, heading for 180, he hopes. He's walking a little slower with only a cane for assistance. Further, he ordered the full rack of ribs with all the trimmings and left so few scraps that most mongrel dogs wouldn't interrupt a nap to retrieve them.
Dale said he has been following much of our goings-on on the forum and such... but his computer has been down and out for repairs a couple weeks. So feel free to post greetings and he'll see them sooner or later.
He is doing well, with dialysis continuing "as advertised" and few additional problems. If he isn't all the way out of the woods, he's certainly at the edge of the clearing. Dale's wife Barbara, "The Lovely Daytona" from the tales of Lark Parker, was also in attendance, having a good time attacking her own rack of ribs.
We had another welcome visitor at today's meeting, the guy who was on the business end of this calling card at Snider Auto Service, authorized Indianapolis Studebaker dealer until the last 1966 model was sold:
And here was that very gentleman (Bill "Slim" Mitchell) today, on the left, viewing a photo album with restoration progress on SDCer Tom Lawlis' (R) 1957 Golden Hawk 400:
Bill took a moment to pose with yours truly before sitting down. About 49 years ago, almost to the day, I was 17 years old, watching this man at his immaculate work station at Snider Auto Service, overhauling the first Paxton supercharger I had ever seen disassembled:
(I've been in touch with "Slim" through the years, but it had been a few before today's encounter. He and his wife still live in the same home in Speedway Indiana, barely a mile SW of The Indianapolis Motor Speedway, as when he worked at Snider.)
Finally, Brownsburg's Pit Stop Barbecue eatery has a racing theme decor. All manner of racing memorabilia adorn the walls, including the framed poster of Ted Harbit and The Chicken Hawk, of which many SDCers have a copy.
The Pit Stop's copy is permanently displayed at an eye level even comfortable for youngsters. Today, Ted posed to the left while Pure Stock Drag Racing mechanic John "Ace" Kern posed on the right of the poster as displayed at The Pit Stop:
Overall, it was a great "Meet & Eat" today with many good friends, attendance being somewhere north of 40. The remark was made that sick bay report was unsually small in that "they're all here!" The promise of food and fellowship in Brownsburg IN can do that to you, and especially friend Dale "Lark Parker" McPhearson.
'Good to see you out and about, Dale; lookin' good and eatin' well. BP
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