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Ingram motors 593 - 6700 I don't know the area code but found this info on the video I have. Remember it's in Alabama Kurt.

I vacation there every summer, and stay in Plant City. I have family that lives in Tampa. The wife wants to move there when the kids grow up, so I have about 13 years before I get there...LOL!

Originally Posted by youther

I vacation there every summer, and stay in Plant City. I have family that lives in Tampa. The wife wants to move there when the kids grow up, so I have about 13 years before I get there...LOL!

Youther, do you go to the Plant City Cruise-In on the 3rd Saturday of every month when you're down here?

Mike

Originally Posted by Mike52

Youther, do you go to the Plant City Cruise-In on the 3rd Saturday of every month when you're down here?

Mike

No I haven't. Where do they have it at? I'd like to go if we hit it on the right weekend. Of course our days are busy and we usually don't get back til late by the time we drive back from Orlando, but we take a day off once in a while. That might be a good day to take the break...LOL!

been coming down since 84 been living here 4 years, now i need a winter hat when it gets down under 50.. but still you can run the hotrod or golf everyday of the year...what a paradise...... ill go back to michigan in 11 days to go 800 miles on the snowmobile, what a rush 0-90 in the blink of an eye ...will be ready to get back to 75 and sunny... car shows and cruizins all the time.......great for the 68 camaro...

Trade that snowmobile for a jet-ski and you won't have to go tolerate the cold...

Been here for almost 29 years; best decision the wife & I ever made. People ask,"Don't you miss the change of seasons?" My answer,"Not just no, but hell no!" Besides, we have seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer, & Christmas. Florida is home now; Indiana (where I was raised) has become a strange and unfriendly place.

Originally Posted by yenkoss396

been coming down since 84 been living here 4 years, now i need a winter hat when it gets down under 50.. but still you can run the hotrod or golf everyday of the year...what a paradise...... ill go back to michigan in 11 days to go 800 miles on the snowmobile, what a rush 0-90 in the blink of an eye ...will be ready to get back to 75 and sunny... car shows and cruizins all the time.......great for the 68 camaro...

Got a picture of that Camaro?? I've probably seen it at Fisherman's village or one of the many other Cruises/shows around here...

South Florida here. Pompano Beach which is just north of Ft. Lauderdale.

I'm an Air Force brat, and my dad was stationed at Mcoy AFB for the last couple of years before it was closed down (or given to the Navy ) that ought to make some of the old timers think. Then I was stationed at NAS Jax from 77 - 80, then moved to Melbourne. So I pretty much consider my self a Floridian, melanoma and all But the wife is a born, and raised Floridian cracker.
Mike

Originally Posted by eticket

I'm an Air Force brat, and my dad was stationed at Mcoy AFB for the last couple of years before it was closed down (or given to the Navy ) that ought to make some of the old timers think. Then I was stationed at NAS Jax from 77 - 80, then moved to Melbourne. So I pretty much consider my self a Floridian, melanoma and all But the wife is a born, and raised Floridian cracker.
Mike

guys, im curious, and although i am a true floridian never knew the answer to this question...how did the term "FLORIDA CRACKER " originate ?

thanks..leonard

According to the tour guides in St.Augustine, the term "cracker" came from the early settlers who were cattle farmers. They used a lightweight sort of bullwhip to drive the cattle by making it "crack" in the air behind the cattle. They didn't actually whip the cows, just used the noise as a controlling and driving device. The term "cracker", of course, referred to the cattle drivers who "cracked" the whips. The term has evolved to mean someone who was born & raised here.

Don't know if that's 100% correct, but that's what they told us...

From Wikipedia:
Cracker Cowboys

The Florida "cowhunter" or "cracker cowboy" of the 19th and early 20th centuries was distinct from the Spanish vaquero and the Western cowboy. Florida cowboys did not use lassos to herd or capture cattle. Their primary tools were bullwhips and dogs. Florida cattle and horses were small. The "cracker cow", also known as the "native cow", or "scrub cow" averaged about 600 pounds, had large horns and large feet.


Modern usage
The term is used as a proud or jocular self-description. Since the huge influx of new residents into Florida from the northern parts of the United States, and Latin America, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, "Florida Cracker" is used informally by some Floridians to indicate that their family has lived there for many generations; and/or that they were born and raised in the state of Florida. It is considered a source of pride to be descended from "frontier people who did not just live but flourished in a time before air conditioning, mosquito repellent, and screens."[]

Ok class dismissed

thanks for the explanation guys on 'FLORIDA CRACKER."

i have heard that term for many years...

leonard

Originally Posted by Mike52

Youther, do you go to the Plant City Cruise-In on the 3rd Saturday of every month when you're down here?

Mike

I'm also debating on coming down at the end of Feb for the Strawberry Festival. Do they have any car shows during that?

Just checking in. Moved from New York STATE almost 24 years ago, still in Gainesville. About the only thing I miss about the Northeast is skating on a frozen pond under a full moon at night (just something about the skates cutting the ice), and trout fishing in the rivers and streams. They can keep the snow and the liberals.