PCC Road Trip Hosted by Les and Kelly Rhoades
2025 Route 66 Mother Road Festival, Springfield IL

Six couples from our corvette club drove to Springfield Illinois, all excited to attend the 2025 Route 66 Mother Road Festival. (Sept. 24-29) We were on a 6-day road trip adventure to see the land of President Lincoln and travel along some of old Route 66.  We saw many sights and attractions: a section of old Route 66, now a rough two-lane brick road, and Silo mural, Sugar Creek Covered Bridge, Route 66 Mother Road Festival weekend events, like the 2000+  Friday night vehicle parade in Springfield, We attended Saturday’s 1100+ car show in downtown Springfield, many museums visited, President Lincoln’s home and neighborhood,  American Giants Museum, lots of Murals in all the small towns, A private tour of the Ace Sign Co. Sign Museum in Springfield, Some of us visited a Frank Lloyd Wright designed home, we paid our respects at the Lincoln’s family Tomb, the newly famous Route 66 Legends Neon Park (at night), eating a corn dog at the Cozy Dog Drive-In, drinking a morning coffee while devouring lots of glazed donuts from Mel-O-Cream Donuts, We drove around Route 66’s notorious Dead Man’s Curve, visited the Pontiac Oakland Auto Museum, and more! All this, while covering just about 156 +/- miles of Old Route 66 in Illinois.

Illinois stops: Mt Olive, Auburn, Chatham, IL, Springfield, New Salem, Williamsville, Lincoln, Atlanta, Bloomington, Normal, Towanda, Lexington, Pontiac, and more.

Mike Ingrassia, PCC club founding member and long-time club website administrator, steps down from that position and was presented an award of appreciation for 14-years of outstanding service to the Plateau Corvette Club. Our thanks for everything you have accomplished while promoting our club.

Our annual car show, “Cruisin’ out of Summer”, held on Saturday September 13, 2025

• Drone pictures courtesy of Richard Sanson

2025 Plateau Corvette Club’s Annual “Cruisin’ out of Summer” car show.

Video footage complements of Bill & Kristi @ “Meandering Across America”.
Video produced and edited by our PCC website administrator.

If you missed our “Cruisin’ out of Summer” car show on Saturday September 13th, check out this video that features some of the great vehicles in attendance.

More adventures from Meandering Across America can be found on their YouTube channel.  

Video Length: 4-Minutes / 2025 PCC Annual “Cruisin’ out of Summer” car show.

John and Reggie Leppien hosted a Tennessee back roads pop-up ride for club members on Wednesday September 3rd, 2025. The group of four Corvettes faithfully followed John and Reggie over rolling hills and sweeping corners, as they found their way down the road from Crossville to Westel. Passing the home of the new Flatrock Motorsports Park, the journey continued north to the town of Wartburg.  The caravan continued west to Clarkrange on what I can only imagine was following a wonderful section of Tennessee Route-68. The lunch stop on this journey was at Embers Grill in Clarkrange.

On September 1st, 2025, we had a wonderful turnout from club members to attend the 10th Annual Labor Day Cruise-in at the Netherland Church of Christ. The club ride to the show was organized by Les and Kelly Rhoades. We had eight Corvettes and fifteen club members in attendance. The morning started out a little bit overcast with some glimpses of blue skies, which gave us hope for the day.  Unfortunately, shortly after leaving our stating point on the drive from Monterey to Rickman, we drove into some light rain. Luckly, the last few miles of the drive was dry, so the cars had enough time to mostly dry off. A minor meteorological event met with positive attitudes. The show parking lot was packed with classic cars and trucks, along with some more modern Corvette horsepower. Our ears were treated to some great authentic bluegrass music from the band, “Conspiracy to Kill a Possum”. A big thanks to Gary and Jan Edwards for bringing some snacks to share. Jan’s Charcuterie board which was covered with crackers, sausage and cheese and apple slices was a big hit. Also, several of the members enjoyed a free hotdog and soda offered by the church. The church members treat everyone with gracious respect and even came over to our group and thanked us for attending the show. After the show, we drove to the town Livingston for lunch at The Steel Coop restaurant.

Come to our next monthly meeting in Crossville Tennessee to meet local Corvette owners in your community. Join us as we plan events and drives, so we can fully enjoy our Corvettes.
We come for the Corvette, but stay because of the people. We hope to see you at our next meeting.

Next Monthly Club Meeting: Thursday October 2, 2025 at 5:30pm
Location: Fair Park Senior Center, Crossville TN,  1433 Livingston Rd, Crossville

First 1953 Corvette Vin number 1

Corvette ZR1X

Kindig’s V12-Powered ’53 Corvette “TwelveAir”