Interview with Jason Taylor Plunk by Newt Rayburn
Photographs by Jim Hendrix
On Saturday, May 18, the north side of the Oxford Square will fill up with scores of automobiles. Rows of colorful cars, trucks, and vans will beckon gearheads and casual folks alike to peer under their hoods and into their cabins.
For the tenth year, Destination Oxford founder Jason Plunk has organized this car show, and it has grown from around fifty cars in the Oxford Convention Center parking lot to upwards of two hundred on the north end of the Square.
Plunk, who has owned and operated Bullseye 95.5 for nearly thirty years, has always been a “car guy,” starting with his first car, a 1963½ Galaxy 500. He now has a wedding car service called Alpha Transport, serves on the board of Visit Oxford, and as Chairman of the Board of the Oxford-Lafayette Chamber of Commerce.
This year, there will be a stage set up where KC & The Moonshone Band will play in the afternoon, along with DJ Groovy who will emcee the event throughout the day. There will be prizes and goody bags, and a wealth of cool cars to ogle. It’s guaranteed to be a great afternoon to spend downtown Oxford with your friends and family.
Local Voice Publisher Newt Rayburn, who graduated from Oxford High School in the same class as Plunk (1989, to be exact), caught up with him for a chat about cars, memories, and Oxford.
How long have you been doing Destination Oxford?
This is the tenth year. We started out at the Conference Center and ended up on The Square only to get parking lots., But it grew to where the City let us block North Lamar in an area from Ya-Ya’s to the gas station in front of The Graduate.
So, it’s been three different shows, and this will be the third year that we’ve closed the street down for the show.
How is it working with the City of Oxford?
When I approached the City to ask for it, I really expected to be told no. After discussion, it was decided that we wouldn’t do it on Memorial Day anymore. We found out a couple of things.
Memorial Day, because there’s so many older people that have cars, you know, retirement guys in their dream car, they have to be home cooking burgers for their grandkids, or they have to be with family, or they’re going somewhere, or they’re hosting somebody at home.
So, me being the in bar business in years past, I knew that the week after Graduation was one of the slowest weeks on The Square. I asked Mayor Tannehill, “What do you think about if we shoot for the week after Graduation every year?”
That ended up being on the 18th of this year and it’s been very steady. People seem to like it more on The Square. We see more couples come in a car rather than just the gentleman. The wives will walk around The Square and shop. It’s not unusual for a group of wives to all get together and go have lunch and just leave their husbands there.
Of course, Rosati’s is across the street. That’s great for a piece of pizza. But it’s not unusual to see the husbands eating their wives’ leftovers because they’ve been to Oxford Burger Co. or anywhere. Ajax was another popular location.
How many cars are in the show now?
We have open registration the morning of, so we don’t do any pre-registrations. We say registration starts at 8 am. We get there at six. And there’s usually a couple of cars waiting on us. In the early days, about 50 cars, and we have reached almost 200 now, so you know my goal is always as many as we can have. I hate to forecast because you don’t ever know.
Last year we had to change the day at the last minute because of rain in the forecast, and we have to watch the weather 30 or 40 miles around us, because we draw from other counties. If it’s raining in Pontotoc, we’re probably not going to get anybody from the east of Oxford to come this way.It’s hard. You pick a date, you stick with it, and then you wait as long as you can to cancel.
We’ve only had to move it—knock on wood—one time and that was last year. Moving it is a bit of an issue because we have to get an agreement from the City to move it, and then you have to get another permit. We moved last year and that was one of our slower shows.
You know what? I take that back. We moved it twice. We moved the COVID show from May to August, and we had a real good show. Everybody was so ready to get out and it was outside in those days. The more things that could be held outside, the better. And since it was an outside show and plenty of room for social distancing, we did well.
But last year’s show having a 70% chance of rain on a Saturday, we decided on a Thursday night, with the Mayor and the Board of Alderman’s permission, to move it to a couple three weeks away, but it was still a good time.
So you you’ve done almost 200 cars, how many could you possibly do?
We have the Something Southern lot (I call it the City Cleaners lot). We have Monroe. We have the area behind the Chancery building. We have all of North Lamar, and we have all of the Chancery building parking, and we have parking for trailers off site.
So, we can do a lot more than 200 cars. I can safely say we could do 250 to 300 cars. And what is so good about having a progressive board like ours is if I show 300 cars this year and show that it’s growing, I feel like the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen would work with us to get more room.
Because not only do we love to have people from out of town come to us, to enjoy it and spend the day in Oxford, we’d love to have another reason for people that live in Oxford and in Lafayette County to come out on Saturday, wake up, go get some Bottletree, get one of those wonderful bear claws or that big Turkey croissant, then stay long enough to let the kids have a piece of Rosati’s pizza and then eat at the Creamery or then go to Ya-Ya’s.
If I can wear my Visit Oxford hat for a second, it’s just another great reason for people to come to Oxford and spend the day. You want an event to be successful in various ways. You want it to be financially gaining for the City, you want it to be extremely financially advantageous for the businesses around The Square because we’re taking up a lot of their parking. Now that we have the parking garage, it’s easier. There’s, a lot more parking than there was before.
There’s several things to be gained, you know. Oxford is loved by so many people. My idea when I started this was to get it big enough to hopefully hand it off to Visit Oxford. Cruise in the Coast had to start with a single car, and now they’re a week long and there’s thousands of people that flock to the coast. There are scores of people from Oxford that go. I could name five, six, or seven people off the top of my head that keep a standing reservation down there. They can tell you when the hotel starts booking for October, and they go, and they sit in their lawn chairs, and they watch the cars drive by every day.
You know, you drive over to Pascagoula or or Ocean Springs and they have different things, different nights. There’s just so many things that we could add to this. We could have a stage with live entertainment on the Friday night before. The sky is the limit for Destination Oxford.
Are you thinking about doing that?
Maybe. You know what I learned being on the Visit Oxford board when we had to cancel Double Decker was: Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. There’s 52 weeks a year and there can be 52 reasons to come to Oxford. Not just Double Decker. Not just six or seven football games. This will hopefully one day be a major thing on Oxford’s map, and another reason to come to town. Blue Suede Cruise in Tupelo, they brag on 1,000 plus cars. They had to start somewhere!
How many people do you think it’s bringing in, besides people who are showing cars, the people who just like to come and look?
It’s in the thousands. So many people exercise, you’ll see strollers, and people jogging will stop to walk around, people that have come up town to shop or to eat. It’s a great father and son deal. To see a young father with his five to ten year old, they come up and look at the cars, and it’s always been such a cool thing to see. And some of the older men that are grandfathers and great grandfathers, they love to talk about their cars, and they love to be interacted with. They love to have questions asked about their cars.
Mr. Martin is a gentleman that built one of my cars. He built it 25 years ago, and he’s 80, and I’ve known him as long as I’ve been going to car shows, and he’s always been such a fountain of knowledge. Look for a little orange 35 model Ford truck. He built that thing over 40 years ago and that’s that’s what he drives to shows. He’s had countless other vehicles through the years, but that’s always been his one standby, and he loves to talk about it and talk to other car guys that he’s never met before about why he chose to go this direction and they can look at his engineering, or how he put a modern motor in a 35 vehicle.
That was 40 years ago, because certainly there’s new, more modern ways of buying pre-made front ends and all these other—I don’t know the terminology for them—there’s so many more modern ways of retrofitting these old vehicles with motors and putting LS swaps in them, and putting computers on the old cars, you know, none of that was available 40 years ago when he built it. But his is still out there. Not only does he come in a vintage car, but it’s a vintage restoration. So that just makes it doubly cool.
Especially for somebody that’s got a little bit of a working knowledge of cars, you can see so many different vehicles and talk to the owners. Why did you choose to go in this direction?
Johnny Shanoff, who will be there, has a Nova. Great car, but it’s got the running gear of a Corvette in it, or a 5.3 liter, which is famous for one of the big catch phrases now is “swap”. If you’re going to drive in it, you’ve got to “swap” it. So a lot of the cars that are coming in no longer just have the old Chevrolet chassis that they once did. Now they’ve got the LS swap, that actually has a computer on it. It’s fuel injected.
It’s one of the phrases that guys say, “If you’re going to drive it, you need to swap it!” It just makes it easier to drive. You know there’s no more pumping the gas pedal to try to get the carburetor to work on a cold morning. You know, you turn the key, and it cranks just like new pickup.
What are the rules for entering a car? Or are there rules?
Well, in the beginning there were rules. State of Mississippi says that a street rod is in 1948 or older, but that rule has been in place a long time. In the early days, we decided 1971 and back. I picked that strictly because I was born in 1971 and I figured the car needed to be older than me.
You and I graduated in high school in the 80s, so the new trucks we drove in the 80s are now antiques. So for the next generation cars that are in the late 70s and in the 80s or even in the early 90s, they’re all they’re all viewed as an antique, not street rod, but anything 25 years or older is considered an antique car by the State.
You and I are sitting here doing this interview, and I’m looking out the window at my 1986 Chevrolet pickup. That’s not a vintage car in my brain, but to many of the younger people it is. And so for that reason, some several years ago, we shortened it up. If you got a car, you’re proud of it, if you love it, bring it.
You brought your van one year. What is it a 94 model?
Yes, a 1994 Chevrolet G-20.
But it’s a custom van. It’s a 94, it’s got cool paint on it, the lines are cool. You shouldn’t be excluded from being in the show because of your year model. It’s a cool looking car! People are interested in it, so we opened it up.
We do ask for two things. We ask that you keep your stereo turned down, and we ask that you keep your pipes to a minimum. We just ask everybody, don’t rip it up. It will wake a baby, it will startle people. And it’s just not what we want for our show. And we’ve never had a problem; never ever in ten years have we ever, ever had to ask anybody twice. Everybody complies. They get it.
My van is thirty years old now, and the year that I had it in the the show, I got asked so many questions. People were very interested in it. Would that be one of newest models that you’ve had, or you can you think of one that is newer than that.
Well, we have been sponsored by Belk Ford and Oxford Toyota every year. They will bring out their latest offerings, and I don’t know what they’ll bring this year. They bring what they have in stock, really.
They brought that Steve McQueen Mustang one year that they released, which was a real low number car. They will bring some really, really cool looking car. They brought that Raptor truck when it was brand new that everybody was talking about.
They’ll bring something electric this year. I don’t know what, it just depends on what they have on the lot.
That’s gonna be my next question. Have you had electric vehicles in the show?
I can’t think of any, but they’re welcome. You know, I think Sebastian Borda will bring his. He’s got a very small foreign car that he has converted into a car wash van. He has everything in this little bitty car necessary to clean the vehicle inside and out, including the generator and the pump. Sebastian is the young man that does “Cars & Coffee”. He’s an exemplary young man and all those guys are. I call them the fast and furious crowd because they have the smaller, newer cars.
I went to one of his Cars & Coffees and I went my 48 Chrysler. It was neat to have some of the younger guys come over and look at it. I had a group of guys that, I don’t think they spoke much English. There was these great little cats that came up, and they were just smiling. I don’t know where they were from. They looked like they were from Central America or somewhere. So I would point to a motor, and I’d go, “Chevy”. And they’d smile and shake their head and I’d go, “350”. They’d shake their head, and I’d walk around the car and I would just pick out key points. Ah, it’s so neat to have a younger generation come up.
We always have one or two new Corvettes. Somebody has bought one and they want to show it off because they are neat. They’re mid engines now and they’re spaceship looking. We’ll have a new Corvette.
Moving over into some of the cooler cars that we’ve had and the awards that we give. We don’t do for the best and coolest car. We don’t have classes because what we learned was everybody has a different opinion.
So the awards that we give are: who drove the farthest, the youngest owner, the oldest owner, who’s owned their car the longest? And some others that I can’t remember.
We give away $1000 in cash and we give away a piece of Satterfield pottery. We moved over to a piece of Satterfield pottery and not a trophy, because it seemed like the wives enjoyed winning a piece of pottery, and it let the husbands be cool when they go home after hanging out with the boys all day. “Here, honey, I won a piece of pottery”. So that seems to be good. Michael started doing that for us, and this will be the third year that he’s done it for us.
A lady one time came and she was driving her father’s 1954 model truck that he bought brand new and that she inherited from him. And she still had the open title in the glove box where it was owned by him. So it was a one-owner vehicle from 1954. Still ran great.
We got a guy that comes over from the Marks area. He’s well in his 80s and he likes Studebakers. He’ll come in a Studebaker every year. Interesting guy. He rebuilds all the AM radio, so he’s just a fascinating guy to talk to.
There’s a gentleman here that moved to Oxford from California that’s got an old T model and I’m sure a lot of people have seen it riding around town. He comes in here every year.
What is the farthest somebody has come to the show to bring a car?
674 miles, from somewhere on the other side of Dallas. In terms of the farthest anybody has ever driven and the worst luck all in the same story! I can’t think of the gentlemen’s name, but he showed up in a Chevy II, two years ago. His daughter goes to school here, so he and his girlfriend are going to drive in from Texas.
Coming across Arkansas, the air conditioner quit. So now his girlfriend, a wonderful woman, wasn’t really used to riding down the Interstate with the windows down. So they got here, and I got him hooked up with Tony Deal and they fixed the part. The good thing was his car was fitted with modern air conditioning. So they bought the parts from Napa, fixed it for him. So he’s good to go.
At the end of the show, he called and said do you know a locksmith? “Uh, why?” My daughter locked the keys in the car. So we found him a locksmith. Bid him adeu, see you later, man. Good luck!
Got a call from him the next year. He said, “Hey man, I sold my car, but we’re coming in. I bought one and I had it delivered to Memphis. We’re flying to Memphis and we’re going to drive down! Man, we’re excited!” Then he calls me from Memphis, “Hey, somebody broke into my new car and broke the glass out of it!”
“Well, what did you buy?”
A 68 Camaro!
So I said, “Oh, let me call you back.”
So I call my buddy Dexter, who loves 68 and 69 Camaros. I said, “Hey, you got a driver window by chance, because I got a guy that’s got some bad luck. Do you have one or not?” Yeah, that’s all you need to sell it. You don’t need to make a killer because this is the right thing to do.
So I just called him back. Said, “Y’all just knock the big pieces of glass out of the way. Drive down here to the shop. We’ll put you a glass in it, when you get here. It won’t look new, but it’ll be a glass. It’s an original, you know, it’s got some scratches on it.”
So he showed up in his Camaro, and we put him a glass in. But he had lost all his luggage, because he picked his car up and stayed in Memphis and broke in it, and they took a majority of his bags. But they were happy! They were happy. He’s got some bad luck, but they were all super happy. And they came to the show and had a super time.
Wow, that is a typical Memphis story!
Yeah, he said, “Next time I come, I’m coming through Vicksburg!” (laughter)
We had an 18 year old that entered with his Mustang that his grandfather bought brand new and gave him. Actually, his grandfather had died and the car was put in storage until he turned 15. And then he got his car. And his granddaddy saved for him. Yeah, that was a good story. That that kid had a blast, and it was an all original Mustang. It was very popular.
An old guy drove a rat rod, which is a form of saying you just built it out of spare parts. This guy drove, he won one year, 147 miles. He drove with no floor pans in his car. So, it looked like The Flintstones! They were just rusted out. It ran fine, but it looked so incredibly ugly that you would look at it and think it won’t crank. This guy drove from somewhere south of here, drove it up here, 147 miles, just because he wanted the adventure. Yeah, riding a motorcycle would be easier. (laughter)
I don’t know what George Lynch will bring this year. You know, he has several cars that he bough brand new. He’s local, he’s got a 75 Corvette and he has 28,000 miles on it.
He has his 1966 Chevrolet pickup he bought brand new with all of the paperwork. He bought it from Rebel Chevrolet and had the air conditioner added because it was a dealer option. It’s an all original truck that up until recently had all the original parts. He’s recently changed it out to all modern gear. There’s some really cool looking cars with great stories from the county that we only get to see once a year.
George Lynch tried to buy my van from me, but I wasn’t having it! (laughter) What’s been one of your favorite cars?
I like cars that they call “survivors”, ones that haven’t been restored. Ones that haven’t had any work done to them. They’re simply as they were. A dude named Weaver Kane, and he’s got his father-in-law’s truck. It’s an 86 model Chevrolet with 48,000 miles. Other than where his father-in-law parked it under the garage and the tailgate stuck out. So the paint’s bad on the tailgate.
Other than that, it looks like a brand-new car. You can still see the plastic on the inside when they didn’t pull the plastic up quick enough, so there’s old plastic on part of the original carpet. Seat’s perfect. Dash is perfect. It’s the color of Mark Tutor’s old truck, if you remember the blue and then the gray stripe, and then it has kind of the reddish orange pinstripe on it. It’s a real cool looking color.
Love that truck. I love when it shows up because it’s a truck that’s considerably old, but it’s still… It doesn’t have a computer, it doesn’t have all of this other nonsense on it to go bad. It’s just carborated, naturally aspirated, V8 motor that as long as you keep gas and oil in it will run indefinitely. That’s one of my favorites to see.
The old guy, the old Studebaker guy. He’s got a red pickup that he still drives that he’s owned since the 60s. Probably it’s a 64 or 65 model. I mean, been his truck. He’s never bought another truck. He’s never needed to. He’s had it painted, and when he needed to, had it had the motor work done on it, one time, when he needed to. Other than that, it’s just a testament of the way cars were built once upon a time.
Let’s talk about some of your cars. Do you enter cars too, or bring them up there?
I will. Yeah. I love to go to car shows! I love to go to car shows. Usually the first car show of the year is the one in Batesville. Show and shine. I think it’s same guys who put it on for 35-40 years, Mr. Darrell, I was talking about earlier. There’s always a great show in Senatobia. That’s the second week of May. Usually right before the Oxford show is the Senatobia show.
They’re kind of the way I’d love to see us end up because they have a car show that ends with a humongous bandstand and music that afternoon. You know, they start their day off with somebody coming out to do calisthenics, you know your armchair aerobics or whatever, and have a lot of fun with it.
I have a 1959 Rolls Royce that I bought locally from a gentleman. He said that he and his wife decided it was just time to sell. I love that car.
My favorite car will always be my 1948 Chrysler. That I bought from Darrell, he built it. My Chrysler has never been off the road. It’s been driven since it was new in some form or fashion. But Mr. Darrell rebuilt it, sold it, rebuilt it for a guy. And the guy called back a couple of years later and said, look, you got to come get this car right. It was a great idea for me to have it done. I spent all that money on it. My wife hates it. So, Darrell ended up buying it back from him, and he’s had it, and we knew going to car shows if you saw Darrell showing up in his Chrysler, that meant his wife was with him. The Chrysler’s got air conditioner, and the Ford truck doesn’t, so if she was coming to the show, she was coming in air conditioning, so I loved it. I loved to see that car show up for years before and then he decided that he was going to downsize and I had a chance to buy it. I shook his hand, I said well, I know you. Your cars are…special, part of your life.
So we made the deal. He gave me a price and I made him a deal. As long as your alive, and I hope you live 25 more years, I’ll never sell that car. So you’ll know where it is. You’ll know how long as you’re on this Earth. I’ll have good custody of this car. Having said that, I ain’t selling it back to you! No, no. You’re not getting your car back! Don’t call me in a month and say you miss your car, because I’ve wanted this car for a long time.
(laughter) How many vehicles do you own?
Right now, for the wedding car service, we have four. And then I have one that we are offering for sale, one that I bought for the wedding car service that isn’t a popular choice. I don’t have any sentimental value to it.
We have four. A 48 Chrysler Windsor. I have a 1957 Bentley that I just bought. It’s a right hand drive, so it’s kind of neat looking. You have to teach your mind to drive again. You’re on the wrong side of the road. I have a 1965 Thunderbird that is a real popular choice. It’s a convertible. And I have a 1959 Rolls Royce.
All of my cars are named after females strictly for shorthand, as Eleanor, Jolene, Liza, Lucille, and Whitney. And then my suburban’s name is Charlie. I don’t know. It’s just shorthand. Once you get so many vehicles in the yard, you have to give them names.
Yeah, like guitars.
Right! Yeah. There you go. Exactly.
What’s the police crusier you have?
Ah, Dodge, made that wagon 05, 06, and 07. They made that wagon three years, a Dodge Magnum. It has a Hemi motor in it. If I were from Boston, I’d say, “It’s wicked fast”. And I needed it.
My radio station van had lived a good life. I’d owned it for a number of years, but it was starting to show signs of life. Because I like cars, that one, I just found the cruiser. It was for sale, so I bought it and it already had rims and it had everything on it. I put amber and white lights on it. You can’t have red or blue lights. When we do remotes, I’ll take it to the remote and we’ll leave it there and the station wagon is big enough to carry the radio station with us.
When I pulled up, I was like, why are the police here?
Uh, huh. You can see the hood is cracked just a little bit. Because I do not have a steady hand, I went to open the hood and I pulled the release too much and the broke the plastic off. Parts are ordered.
You’ve been a car guy for as long as I’ve known you, but I cannot remember what was your first car?
My first car was given to me by my great grandmother. That was a 1963 1/2 (cars just come out in 1/2 years) 1963 1/2 Galaxy 500.
That’s right! I remember now.
And it only had 81,000 miles on it. Then it was a 22-year-old car. But my great grandmother didn’t do a lot of driving. She was from a from an age that women just didn’t drive a lot. But my grandfather carried the mail. He bought it and he was going to carry the mail in it.
But he didn’t think it all the way through. The window went straight up and down and it was a small hole and he could not get his arm out of the window because it had to roll out the smoking window because of the way it was he couldn’t use it to to carry the mail so he ended up keeping it for my great grandmother to drive.
Then she moved in next door to us in ‘81, so it was just an extra car, so they agreed to let me have it.
Any idea how many vehicles you’ve owned over the years?
I don’t think I could count.
I remember you had a some kind of car in high school and you chopped the the roof off.
Oh, I had a 1972 Electra 225, or the more colloquial name, would be a deuce and a quarter.. It was a car that had lots of miles, and the seats were ripped up, and it didn’t have a matching tire on it. It was a car that needed to be taken to the junkyard. It just still cranked. I paid a guy $200 for it.
We took it to Keith Shackelford’s shop. Got the torch out and cut the top off. We ended up catching the back seat on fire when we were cutting the top off, so there were two lawn chairs in the back seat.
Couldn’t probably do that today, mainly because there’s video phones and if anybody had any video evidence of us driving around in that car it would have been impounded, and I probably would be giving you this interview with glass in front of us.
(laughter) It was hilarious when you did that! My favorite car story is kind of personal with you. When I got my license, my grandparents gave me a…
A 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88!
And you talked me into letting you drive it! We were at the mall.
Well, that’s not my fault!
I did not know what I was getting in to, but you put the pedal to the metal from standing still and let that tire spin and left a skid mark down the mall parking lot and I was like, “Oh my God, we’re going to crash!”
Whatever do you mean? That certainly doesn’t sound like anything that I would do! Well, there’s no video evidence. How about that? We’re still hated by mall cops everywhere.
You wanted to see what that car could do.
It had a 455 in it. It arguably could have been the ugliest color green that Oldsmobile ever produced. And it had an almost a white interior, very light tan interior. A great car! Bless your grandmother. She took care of that car. That car didn’t know what it was in for when we got in. But we could fit what? Eight or nine of our closest friends in the car?
Definitely it was big. (laughter) I wish I still had it.
Thank you so much to Robyn Tannehill for clearing the the way for us to move to The Square.
We love when kids come out, they love cars and the owners love to talk to kids.
It’s a city street and it’s a city sidewalk, so we cannot say no dogs allowed. But if I had my wish, nobody would bring a dog. If the dog jumps up on one of those old cars and scratches it, and it’s going to ruin somebody’s day. You never know what will happen with dogs. It can get really crowded up there. I will probably get some kind of fallout from saying, “I wish folks wouldn’t bring their dogs”, but I stand by that statement. There’s 364 more days a year that you can bring your dog to The Square.
I would also suggest that people bring sunscreen and an umbrella because you’re gonna be standing around a lot and there’s not a lot of shade.
Napa Auto parts generously brings us about 1000 bottles of cold water. So there’s a cold water for everybody.
We’ve got wonderful sponsors. The Mad Hatter is sponsoring our live entertainment this year. KC & The Moonshine Band on our little stage. I have a a 22-foot trailer and we’re bringing in a DJ this year called Groovy, from Groovy’s Garage. He’s a promoter who is very familiar with cars. He’s done a lot of car shows in the area, so Groovy’s Garage, you can throw, shout out to him.
KC & The Moonshine Band is the house band on Thursday nights at at The Mad Hatter. KC is a wonderful, wonderful horn player, and they the only time I’ve ever seen crowds get up and dance to “Sanford and Son” and “I Dream of Jeannie”. He does an excellent job of both of them. They’re going to come and play for about an hour.
During the day?
During the day, yeah.
We have swag bags for the 1st 100 people that register. If anybody has anything they want to put in a swag bag, reach out to me and we’ll come get it. Restaurants, if you want to put your menu in there any, anything, you want to brag about your business in Oxford, we’ll put it in the bag. If you have a menu or you have a sales item or coupon. Last year somebody brought me 100 little screwdrivers. What a great thing, little pocket screwdriver with the name of this company on it. So if anybody has anything they want to put in, we will hand those out, you know, just need a hundred of them, or as many as you have.
Do you want to talk about any of your other sponsors?
CB’s Customs. They’ve been our sponsor for several years. It’s always exciting to see what they’re going to bring because they’re a Body Shop that does work on new collisions, but they also restore automobiles. It’ll be exciting to see what they bring. For the last two years, they’ve brought examples of their work and it’s top notch stuff. Last year they had a square body Chevrolet. They brought in Henry Jenkins truck that is I think a 1968. Looked like a brand new automobile and it’s just it’s from the frame off. Everything was brand new, so they’ll have some cool examples of their work. It’s neat to know that we have people doing that kind of work one county over. If somebody’s interested in having a car restored, you don’t have to ship it off out of state, you literally can get it done in the next county.
Great interview and story!