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First Cars & ( Bring Your Own) Coffee of 2023

was a Frigid, Polar Bear Club, Affair

If you were anticipating the early spring weather wore on, winter weather wouldn't let go of its
from the beginning of March would be present on hold. Sun, meet the wind, wind meet the
March 18th when Cars & Coffee returned to the temperature, and enthusiasts, welcome to
club event schedule at a new location, the Christ WI ND CHI LL.
Community Church in Franklin, you were in for a At the old location off Mallory Lane in front of
chilly reality. It was 23 degrees Saturday morning, the theatre, frosty weather merely meant a
with a promise that Sunday morning, the 19th, was quick trot across the asphalt to the welcoming
going to be worse. The weather forecast said that warmth of a McDonald's and its prize winning ,
the projected low temperature was going to match law suit famous, cups of coffee-- now requiring
the date-- a frigid 19 degrees. printed warning labeling that --'Coffee is HOT".
How cold was it on Saturday? Cold enough that Who knew?
Chip Hanback, the keeper of the cones that mark
At the new location there isn't a coffee stand
out NBCC territory, didn't get any photos of the
anywhere in sight but, the back parking lot, out
event. He was wearing gloves and couldn't
where the Eskimos gathered, has plenty of
manipulate the phone camera, although he did
trees handy as wind breaks . Unfortunately, the
count the members of our first Polar Bear Club
trees missed the message and in protective
excursion. Seven hardy souls, including one
mode hadn't leafed out sufficiently in the
non-member, showed up, prepared to shiver in a
previous warm weather to provide any help for
good cause.
the March diehards who gathered to talk cars
Even when it got just a tad warmer as the morning in a wind tunnel.

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