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Cruise'n with E-Rider car show

By Skip Peterson, Wheels of the Week Updated 12:50 PM Thursday, October 8, 2009

The car looked a bit out of place, with lots of hot rods and muscle cars on the scene, but the Corder brothers of Brookville continued to clean up and detail their 1934 Chrysler Airflow.

“We haven’t had it out much this year; both of us have been pretty busy,” explained Dan Corder. “But this show in Englewood is always nice, so we got here early and found a good shady spot.”

The strictly stock, dark green Airflow is not a common sight — only 7,200 of the cars were built. Ray Corder explained how the brothers ended up with the car.

“It belonged to our uncle, and he used to bring it to family gatherings. He bought the car in 1968. He had it restored sometime in the mid 1980s and then it pretty much just sat in the garage for about 12 years. He died a few years ago, and he had willed the car to us, so now we have it back in good mechanical shape and we take it to a few shows each year, plus family events. The car really is like part of the family.”

“It’s not perfect, but it sure gets a lot of attention,” Corder added. “It looks so different,  and it’s really fun to drive. It’s got a 298-cubic-inch straight-8 in it. It goes pretty good for a 75-year-old car.”

The car show was held in conjunction with the Englewood Arts Festival, and featured awards in 12 classes, plus raffles and an auction. The event is the brainchild of Ray Slone, better known in the car community as E-Rider,  the host of a weekly TV show called Cruise’n with E-Rider.

“This is our fifth year for the show, and we’re expecting about 200 cars or more,” Slone said. “We also have a Pin Stripers Panel Jam where local pin stripers paint panels and other items and donate them for an auction. All of the money we raise goes to The Children’s Medical Center of Dayton,” Slone added. “We couldn’t do this without the support of the city, plus help from Home Depot, Ace Hardware and Alley Katz.”

When Slone isn’t organizing this car show, he is busy attending shows and cruise-ins all over the area, videotaping the cars and interviewing the owners for his half-hour weekly show.

“I do about 30 shows per year, which are seen every Saturday at 2:30 p.m. on My Network, which is digital channel 45.2 or 746 on Time Warner.”

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