THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN KNIGHTS OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY
By Art Bigelow
Vice President
Southern Knights of Central Kentucky Car Club was started in July 1989 in a small living room in Scott County by Bob Metcalf , Jim Mulchay and Bill Sexton . The first meeting was at Dairy Freeze Restaurant in Georgetown, Kentucky. Within three months the meetings had to be moved to Frisch’s Restaurant in Georgetown due to the number of people joining. Our First Car Show was held in June 1990 at Cardome Center in Georgetown with 204 cars attending (30 classes and 10 Specialty Trophies ) and Charlie Napier as the “DJ to the Cars”. This would become an annual event for some years to come. Our First Cruise was held July 1990 at McDonalds Restaurant on Connector Road in Georgetown with 58 cars attending and Charlie Napier spinning those “Moldy Oldies”. The membership by the middle of 1991 had grown to 55 families and it was time to find a larger meeting place, so Golden Coral Steak House was the next stop.
Ronald McDonald House was also taken on as our club’s main charity in 1991.
In 1993 the club had grown to a staggering 123 families and it was time to move the meetings to a very much larger place, Cardome Center in Georgetown. In 1995 the club was asked by Cardinal Hill Hospital to help with the car show at Fort Boonesborough State Park ( Better known as the Greasers Car Show) the Greasers did the show for Cardinal Hill Hospital for many years before electing not to do it any more. In 1996 Cardinal Hill Hospital dropped the show 7 weeks before the gates open. The Southern Knights of Central Kentucky elected to take on this show and put it on using the same dates, with no backing whatsoever and only a few hand out items from Valvoline because it was so late in the year. It took a BIG SET of U KNOW WHATS to try and pull this off. This show is now known as the” Boonesborough Boogie”, by the year 2000 the show had been covered by national magazines and had achieved the status of a “National Event”.
Major sponsors for this event are O’Reilly Auto Parts and of course McDonalds Corp. At this time the Southern Knights of Central Kentucky have been able to give $116,000 to the Ronald McDonald House in Lexington, Ky.— $6,000 to Toys for Tots and $2,100 to S.C.A.R.S. (Scott County Amateur Radio Service) from this event.
Remember, “Never Drive Faster Than Your Angel Can Fly”
Thank You
Art Bigelow —– Vice President
Southern Knights of Central Kentucky
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