Day 5, Nashville, TN

View From Hotel

Raffle Room

Donna Sells the Winning Tickets?

Sunday was warm and cloudy but gladly there was no rain. After relaxing in the morning, people broke into groups to check the sites of Nashville. Many traveled to downtown Franklin for some antique shopping while others visited Music City and strolled though the museums and famous Nashville music locations.

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Most of us visited the private car collection of Don Meadow’s fabulous Model A & T collection in White Bluff, TN. His collecting began in the 80’s and consists of dozens and dozen sand dozens of cars, primarily A’s &T’s. In his collection are three Model A mail trucks. The amazing thing is his main display “barn” is not even finished but he filled it with cars just for us and will move them out too complete the building. Everyone was amazed at his generosity and collection to say the least.

Later that evening we had our kick-off dinner where the raffle winners were announced. MAFFI raised around $6,000 for the Model A Museum. About half was raised when a guest (not affiliated with MAFFI) challenged people to make donations right there. We were running around collecting $100 bills! These generous donations totaled almost $3,000 in additional cash.

Cy Keeps everyone Laughing

The other highlight was Cy Tortoric from the Red Stick Chapter of Baton Rouge, LA.  Mr. Tortoric shared a little about himself. If you have never had an opportunity to meet and talk to someone raised in the bayou, you can’t begin to imagine the fun.