Message from your Board, June / July 2026

Hello fellow WPC members!!
Please mark your calendars for next year’s 2027 WPC National Meet. The dates for the national event are June 15-June 19, 2027, in Hays, KS. Hays is near the Ellis, KS which is where the Walter P. Chrysler Boyhood Home & Museum is located. Other tours and events are being planned, as well our car show and banquet on Saturday.

We have some “preliminary information” regarding the Hilton Garden Inn, located in Hays, KS. They are willing to set aside a block of 25 rooms for the dates of June 15 through June 19, 2027, for our National WPC Club Meet attendees. This is for a mix of double and king rooms. The room rate will be $139.00 per night, which isn’t bad by today’s standards. We can adjust the block of rooms up if needed as we get closer to the event.

With that said we would like to extend an invite to our members, we are looking for a few members to join our National Meet Committee – “To assist with the planning, organization, and continued success of our National Show”. Please feel free to email one of the board of directors about this opportunity.

Fun fact…. Within our members’ portal there are 2390 various years, makes, and models of Chrysler product’s. The oldest being a 1909 Maxwell Model A Runabout and the newest being a 2025 Chrysler Pacifica. Let’s see if we can get more listed within our portal, newer and older.

We hope you were out and enjoying your summer activities with your families! Carlisle Chrysler Nationals event just passed us by. We are grateful to utilize Building R for the WPC Club, the Imperial Owners Club Intl. II, and the AACA Museum. The availability of Building R truly offers an excellent venue for a high-caliber display and enables us to showcase automobiles that would not be drawn to a tent or outdoor setting. For instance, Phil Mazor’s stunning 1931 Imperial, a genuine concours-quality high-end Imperial, would not have been present if it could not have been displayed indoors was, unquestionably, the hit of the Imperial display, a true work of art! Thank you, Robert Soule!!!

Other club news, we are getting ready to form two other committees. Oversight Committee – To provide guidance, accountability, and help ensure the organization continues to operate effectively and in the best interest of its members. Election Committee – “To assisting with the administration of the election process, verifying candidate eligibility, overseeing ballot distribution and counting, and helping ensure that all election procedures are followed in a fair and impartial manner.

Again, please feel free to reach out to any board members for one of the opportunities. Until next time – “The WPC board of directors”



Message from the Editor, WPC News

Greetings, fellow Moparians,

Summer is flying by. I am pretty well recovered from my broken hand and hip replacement. Trying to make up for lost time by cruising in my Mopars.

This month, here in the Detroit area, is what car crazies have been waiting for all summer. The annual Woodward Dream Cruse on Detroit’s mother road is gearing up. Cool cars are making their runs up and down the Avenue, building up to that Christmas morning for all of us car folks on Saturday, August 15. 40,000 cars jam the 16 mile stretch of Woodward Ave from Ferndale to Pontiac, with probably 1,000,000 spectators lining both side of the road, hoping for burnouts and rumbling engines. There will be the Road Kill Nights, powered by Dodge, where a section of Woodward will be turned into a dragstrip for the speedsters who will blacken the pavement with burned rubber. This is the 31st annual celebration event of the automobile and it’s impact on the history of Detroit.

As always, WPC NEWS welcomes new members. Great to have you aboard. This issue is devoted to our recent National car meet that was held in Minnesota this past May. Although small in number of cars, they were all outstanding examples of what Chrysler Corporation produced in its century of existence. It proved to be a great event that showcased the land of 10,000 lakes. There are photos of all of the participant cars as well as pics of the award winners. We spent time driving around the area and we visited some really cool car collections. There was a great paddlewheel boat tour of the St Croix River that we thoroughly enjoyed.

We have a new contributor to the NEWS. Norma Saken, Lee Iacocca’s personal assistant, who will be recounting her time with Chrysler’s iconic leader in a series of articles.

Chris Vitale writes about a local fellow who is driving his 73 Chrysler on our nation’s mother road, Route 66, a celebration of its 100th anniversary.

We hear from Rich Truesdell in his Rear View Mirror column, this issue, too. Well, get ‘em out there, Fire ‘em up and hit the roads. Maybe see you on Woodward….
Frank Pascoe, Editor WPC NEWS