ChowdaQ VII 2014

September 2014 we once again gathered for ChowdaQ

Dimitri and Jon were back, this year Jon had his 250S. Not only a gorgeous car but Jon was regularly driving it from Maine to NYC.

Angie gave "Chef Coleman" an appropriate apron and stuffed clams were warmed in the Coleman oven

Its always a thrill to see the cars lined up by the road

Everybody is glad to renew old friendships and make new ones

The demise of Photobucket

You might have heard about Photobucket and their recent requirement for $40/mo to host the pictures that were on this blog. All of the ChowdaQ pics are now hosted on Google Photos, hopefully we won't go through that again...

ChowdaQ VI 2013

Truly a year for interesting vehicles, Dimitri was back, this year he brought girlfriend Kerry and his Pagoda

John joined us for the first time with his crazy Astro van

Normally nobody would be interested in an Astro van but this one has an OM616 from a 240D stuffed inside.

Many folks drove it, everybody was amazed, some were also horrified.

An old Coleman stove cooked burgers, we'd learned our lesson on trying the grills.

An even older stove heated water for Fred's tea.

Curt had suggested the lighting of the stove would be exciting, it wasn't as exciting as advertised...

ChowdaQ V 2012

Our fifth annual ChowdaQ! This year with a contingent from Maine. We'd known Dimitri from talks online but had never met him in person before, he brought his china blue 240D which made a nice pair with Dwight's 300CD. Dimitri's car was so nice we gave him an award.

Jon came along with Dimitri and brought an equally nice 300D

Sam brought a gasser but we didn't hold that against him, at least not much.

More fire for the clam cakes didn't result in more people eating clam cakes. We also discovered that the big burner didn't like the wind, especially when running at part throttle.

Once again Angie organized food and once again we discovered that the grills at Goddard aren't the greatest. They work but require a lot of charcoal.

As always the dogs are really the stars of the show

ChowdaQ IV 2011

Another year, another Q

An attempt was made a t-shirts

It wasn't a great attempt, most of the shirts were white one the front, the printing should have been on the front and not the back and it should have been bigger. Much was learned about t-shirts...

This was a breakout year for food, clearly Angie was in charge:

Curt dedicated a year of his life learning to make french fries and produced way more than were reasonable:

Sam made clam cakes and felt the disappointment when not everybody likes your favorite things as much as you do. The clam cakes were lovely though.

 Hoods were raised, cars were gazed at, possibly lies were told.

ChowdaQ III 2010

2010 saw some interesting changes, Curt bought Dwight's 1978 240D,

Dwight bought Fred a hat:

The Peachparts guys brought some cars:

and Karen brought a Saab.

Dwight and Burt gave out trophies,
Curt the master chef:

Corey had a nice car:

Tom once again brought the jalopy everybody loved and we rewarded him for it:

ChowdaQ II 2009

Buoyed by the success of the previous year we looked to make the Q bigger and better. The idea came for awards, farthest traveled, worst jalopy present. The weather was miserable but Buster the ChowdaQ mascot was prepared:

This was the year we met Tom and his 300D:

it belched smoke, dripped oil and coolant and had to be shut off with the lever under the hood, we loved it.

Burt and Lorraine were prepared with an umbrella:

We had more people, more cars and more food, this was a Q on the rise.