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announcement: the Best in Show. What an experience. It was well worth it: a family
reunion, new friends made with VP Autoparts, and
And whose Volvo was that? You guessed it ?MINE.
lovely prizes to always remind us of a weekend like
Martin Stickley?s green 1961 PV544! won the top
none other that we have had as a family.
prize. While the awards to the class winners
were ribbons (white for third, ? for second, blue For all this, we are very grateful.
for first) the award for Best in Show is a gorgeous
Martin Stickley
Orrefors Swedish bowl engraved with an outline
13 September, 2022
of North Carolina with Hickory on the map and
then the words ?2022 National Meet, ?Rolling Editor's Note: Several NBCC members have Volvos
Through Carolina?, BEST IN SHOW?followed by the and we've always suspected that Dr. Stickley's 1961

seal of the Volvo Club of America. PV544 was in a class of its own. Now it's been made
official and he has the bowl to prove it.
t
Well, I couldn? believe it. What an evening that
Congratulations and thanks for bringing your Best in
was! After a few more words by John Holtzapple,
Show to our most recent cars and coffee.
the dinner came to an end. We retired to the bar
at our hotel and celebrated for a few hours before A hint to others who might undertake a similar trip
calling it a night. with windshield wipers that might not always be
reliable--coat your windshield with RainX before you
The next day, Sunday, Sept 11th, was rainy with
start your journey and if it rains and the wipers go out,
numerous showers on the lengthy drive back to
you'll still be able to safely see the road ahead of you.
Nashville. Unfortunately, the drive was
RainX was originally developed for race cars that didn't
interrupted three times with typically 30 minute
have wipers and I guarantee you, it works better than
slow downs each time. We were continuously
advertised.
shifting gears from first to second and back to
first, but we made it, taking nine hours to drive Since it's October and we're thinking Swedish rather
the 380 mile distance back home among the than British after reading this story, here's a clip of The
trucks and pelted with water. Swedish Chef and Pumpkin Carving. Don't try this at
home.

Above: A now fully functional driver's side windshield
wiper was pressed into service to hold the information
sheet for this award winning PV544. Casual passerbys at
Cars and Coffee would have had no idea about the
drama that came with discovering that your windshield
wiper doesn't work when you're 380 miles from home in
a 61-year-old car. All they noticed was the handsome
ribbon that recognized the excellence of the Volvo in
front of them. (Never let them see you, wet!)

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