Merry Christmas from the Gents Auto Club

by Dean Carriveau

On December 11, 2024. members of the Gents Auto Club took a truckload of toys to the Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital to be distributed to the kids in residence. The toys were donated by Gents members at their annual Christmas awards banquet a week earlier. Here’s to a Merry Christmas and Happy, healthy New Year from the Gents Auto Club.

Gents Auto Club 2024 Charitable Donations Presentation

by Dean Carriveau

The Gents Auto Club presented checks of $2,000 each to representatives from our our three major charities, Providence Children’s Hospital, Providence Rehabilitation “Providence Saints” wheelchair basketball team, and Spokane’s Second Harvest food bank. The money given was the result of the hard work Gents members did at our three summer car shows and from the tremendous support from our local car community that attended those shows. Thank you Spokane.

SPOKANE FALLS CARE FACILITY BARBECUE AND CAR SHOW

by Dean Carriveau

  

Members of Spokane’s Gents, Pharaohs, C.AR.S. and other car clubs attended a well-run and relaxing event at the Spokane Falls Care campus on July 25, 2024. We were treated to a wonderful barbecue and welcoming hospitality by the residents and staff. Special thanks to facility administrator Danielle Daniels and the hard work of the facility staff. We appreciate everything you did to make this show a success and look forward to doing this again with you folks.
by Dean Carriveau

2024 Willow Grove Assisted Living July Fourth Celebration
Members if the Gents and Pharoahs car clubs joined the good folks at Willow Grove Assited Living for their 2024 4th of July celebration, actually held on June 27. We had a lot of fun with the staff and residents and they more than fed us well. Plenty of activities for the kids and families too. Thank you Willow Grove, hope to see you again next year.

West Valley Alumni

by Dean Carriveau
Former West Valley graduates attended the West Valley High School’s Senior All-Nighter fund raising open car show on Sunday, April 28, 2024.  The Gents Auto Club began at West Valley in 1963 and seated in the front row are some of the founding  and still active members.   Starting third from left: Lon Hansen, Dale Gibson, Paul Inman,  Ben Curtis, and Scott Messmer.

Spokane Speed and Custom Show

by Dean Carriveau
The Gents Auto Club will also celebrate their fifty-first birthday with our ” Gents Through the Years” club display. We hope to see you at the fabulous Spokane Speed and Custom Show, April 12 – 14.

2024 INCCC Show-No-Shine Banquet

by Dean Carriveau

The 2024 Inland Northwest Car Club Council’s annual Show-No-Shine Banquet was a huge success with 287 tickets sold for the event. This year’s theme was “Stars and Cars”. Three tables of Gents joined our fellow area car enthusiasts on February 24th at the Mirabeau Park Hotel grand ballroom and contributed three raffle baskets. There were some amazing raffle and silent auction items to be had and the Kevin Shay band provided music to dance the night away. The event was one of the best, most well-organized and well-attended INCCC awards banquets to date and will be hard to top next year. Kudos to the Miss Shifters and the entire Show-no-Shine committee for a truly outstanding job

Gents 2023 Most Improved Car – Dale McHargue

by Dean Carriveau
Most improved car award recipient Dale McHargue is flanked by club VP Ben Curtis and Gents President Paul Inman at the 2023 Christmas banquet. 
 Dale completed  work on his 1966 Dodge Coronet including extensive fabrication of body panels, frame and racing equiipment plus complete rebuilding of the beefy drive train.