Fallbrook Vintage Car Club donates to Fallbrook Historical Society

FALLBROOK — Fallbrook Vintage Car Club (FVCC) President Monty Voigt and his wife Joan attended the Fallbrook Historical Society (FHS) board meeting in July to present a check from the car club to assist the society with maintenance costs. The club had given money last year to the society’s barn building fund. This donation is the fifth similar gift made to local nonprofit and youth groups from proceeds from the May car show at the high school, an annual affair that shows about 300 cars and is free to the public of about 10,000 visitors.

FHS Directors Judy Gillespie recruits and schedules museum docents for Sundays and Thursdays from 1 to 4 p.m., and society secretary Sandy Baxter did the landscaping and other work with her husband Bob on the new and popular model train exhibit in the museum. Jane McKee has assisted with exhibits and heads up the volunteer group, who are currently inventorying and entering the collections data into the society computer.

The Car Club is a charter member of the Society, joining early in 1977. The club has its own display case filled with club trophies and other memorabilia in the “Ford Room” of the museum. Also, each year the club has donated a framed car show poster to FHS. These are displayed near the society’s Model A Ford Roadster, given to the museum by Bob and Arlyne Ingold. The Model T Ford in the same room was a gift to FHS by owners Paul and Kathleen Stiles. The Ingolds and the Stiles are charter members of the Society as well as old-time members of the Car Club.

At the FVCC July board meeting at the home of Lynne Burch, President Voigt announced the good news that the high school stadium will be the site of the May 2006 show. The schedule for updating of the athletic fields at the school has been uncertain, but recent negotiations by President Voigt with the school administration have assured the Car Club of the use of the field again for the Memorial Day Sunday show. Past-president Tom Long will serve as car show chairman, and other veterans of many shows Marv Van Voorst, Glen Patterson, John Waugh and President Monty Voigt volunteered during the meeting to serve again. Fishing in Alaska at the time of the meeting but promising to help is Past-president and Past Car Show Chairman Fred Ragland. These talented and hard-working men will offer the community another fine show.