Northern Illinois Regional Group #8

of the

Early Ford V-8 Club of America


 

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Our club newsletter, Road Chatter, is published monthly by the Northern Illinois Regional Group and issued to all NIRG members.  The Road Chatter won first place in the Early Ford V-8 Club U.S. newsletter competition in 1982, 1983, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, and 2018 and received Golden Quill Awards from Old Cars Weekly in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2020.   We participate in the newsletter exchange with other regional groups of the Early Ford V-8 Club.  If you are the editor of an Early Ford V-8 Club newsletter and your regional group would like to exchange newsletters with NIRG, please e-mail the Road Chatter editor.

Go to Road Chatter for:  2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022

2019

Photo of the Month
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Featured Articles
January

2018 Holiday Luncheon

Montana National Tour

February

2019 Installation Dinner
California Dream - John Emmering's 1951 Fordor

March

Valentine's Luncheon
Starved Rock Winter Getaway Weekend

John Scheve's 1937 Ford Standard Tudor

April

Dick Livingston's Original 1938 Ford Coupe 
35th Annual MARC Winter Parts Swap

Pizza Meeting 

May

Rich Harvest Tour
Eggs & Eights

June John Emmering's 1949 "Shoebox" Restoration Project 
July Drive Your Ford V-8 Day 
August

National Driving Tour - Drive the Driftless
NIRG Annual Picnic
Jay Hinshaw's 1940 Ford

September

Friendly Ford Customer Appreciation Day

Terry Elliott’s 1950 Ford Custom Fordor

October

2019 Central National Meet - Auburn, Indiana
Portland Tractor and Steam Show - Portland, Indiana
Duals Night - Buffalo Grove

November

12th Annual Lake Geneva Poker Rally
Fall Colors Tour - Jim Manz Collection
Joe Serritella's 1941 Ford Coupe

December

14th Annual V-8s & Veterans Luncheon
6th Annual M.A.R.C. Turkey Dinner

Ed Crane's 1941 Ford Super Deluxe Convertible

 

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