Our June 10th tour started at Loafer’s Glory, greeting 52 members with 25 cars with hot coffee and doughnuts. It was a beautiful sunny morning with no rain in site!! (It never rains on a car function)!!! We started our tour about 8:45 and traveled only a few miles to our first stop. As we toured through the home and garage we saw some very rare gas and oil signs, cans, gas globes and other car memorabilia. Most were very rare if not the only ones known to exist. They have an amazing collection that has taken years to accumulate. Their home is filled with an array of antique furniture and furnishings from their years hunting and collecting antiques.
From there we were on to our next stop at Puckett’s Market in Leiper’s Fork. As advised or warned at the beginning we had to make a lot of turns through the beautiful Tennessee country side. We weaved our way around Brentwood and Franklin by a very carefully routed directions from our tour master Russ Barnes. Along the way we saw several horse farms, many manicured fields, and fabulous homes as we approached Leiper’s Fork from the back roads. At Leiper’s Fork we were able to find enough parking for our group which had been an early concern. We enjoyed a good lunch, music and some shopping while we were there. After lunch we headed west toward the Natchez Trace Pkwy. At this point some missed the turn so we waited for them to backtrack to the right route and we had one temporary break down. Once we got our group back together we got on the Trace for our 13 mile journey to Hwy 100. Getting off of the Trace we passed the world renowned Loveless Café. (My Dad and I dug the post holes and set the sign back in the 60’s), It’s good to see it still there. We traveled on to view an absolutely amazing collect of Neon porcelain signs from old car dealerships from around the country. We viewed several survivor cars that have never been restored and look all but brand new with most having less than 2000 miles on the odometer!!
After visiting the collection some members went on to an unscheduled stop at Larry Arrowood’s log home to view his collection of Buicks and memorabilia from his family’s store and gas station.
I feel very fortunate that we were allowed into these private collections because this was the first time that anyone except close friends have been invited to view these collections.
What an awesome day to be a Honk Rattle and Roll Club member!!!
