HERE - Arizona Classic Car Club

described as a multicolored layer cake with a variety
of hues in the sandstone and mudstone layers. Resultant
colors are red, orange and pink as well as blue,
gray and lavender. All these colors were visible in
driving through the southern parts of the park.
Leaving the Park, there was a 75 mile drive
through the towns of Pinetop and Lakeside to the
Hon-Dah Resort and Casino on the White Mountain
Apache Reservation. In the Apache language Hon-
Dah means welcome, or be my guest. In the 1800's,
tribal leaders of the White Mountain Apaches realized
that it was fruitless to openly fight the arriving
white settlers and soldiers, so they avoided conflict
and provided scouts for the U.S. military in their
fights against other Apache Indian tribes.
The three days of après-drive cocktail prohibition
now being over, our group dinner was preceded by
the usual CARavan gathering. One of the highlights
of the evening was provided by Apache dancers in
their traditional colorful paint and costumes.
There were two Kokopeli awards on this night,
one for a lost dip stick by Robert Olsen and the other
to Cheryl Ossenfort. The lost dip stick was a mystery
for some time. Bill Ingler had possession of the lost
item, but didn’t know which 1941 Cadillac was
missing this important part until someone overhead
Robert Olsen on the phone calling the prior night’s hotel,
looking for the wayward dip stick. Mystery solved.
Cheryl wanted to be first in line for the ride into Canyon
de Chelly, so hopped on a bus and saved a spot for
John. Only problem: the bus was headed to Denver—
not a canyon tour! She got off the bus.
Very few of the CARavaners spent time (or money!)
in the Hon-Dah casino, as smoking was permitted and
heavily practiced there. As a sovereign nation, the
White Mountain Apaches are not required to comply
with Arizona’s no smoking laws.
Facing page top: Russ Turner’s 1941 Cadillac 60
special and Tom Crook’s 1933 Packard at Hubbell
Trading Post; center: Classics lined up in front of
the Trading Post; bottom left: Gene Perkins’ 1937
Packard coupe roadster; and bottom right: Max
Fields’ 1947 Packard sedan at the Petrified Forest
Visitor Center. This page, below left: Bill Burchett
(1928 Packard), Bill St. Clair (1931 Duesenberg)
and Bob Joynt (1932 Packard) stop along the
Painted Desert drive; bottom left: Bill Crumrine’s
1937 Pierce Arrow coupe; below: Apache dancers
were our dinner entertainment; bottom right: Lyle
Reiswig with his rig, AKA Trouble Truck #2.
Arizona Classic Roadrunner, May-June, 2007
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