CENTRAL KANSAS CORVETTE ASSOCIATION
CKCA Members-Only Drive & Dine to PJ's Bar & Grill
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Little River, KS
– Hosted by CKCA Members Wayne & Marcia Strawder
CKCA Members-Only Drive & Dine to PJ's Bar & Grill
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Little River, KS
– Hosted by CKCA Members Wayne & Marcia Strawder
ITINERARY:
Meet at Atwood's/Kwik Shop at 30th & Lorraine in Hutch at 10:15, depart at 10:30.
Please advise the Strawders that you are planning to attend no later than Wednesday, February 18, 2026;
their contact information may be found in the Membership Roster.
Thank you Wayne & Marcia!
https://www.facebook.com/p/PJs-Bar-Grill-100084093516543/
https://pjsbarandgrill.com/
Please advise the Strawders that you are planning to attend no later than Wednesday, February 18, 2026;
their contact information may be found in the Membership Roster.
Thank you Wayne & Marcia!
https://www.facebook.com/p/PJs-Bar-Grill-100084093516543/
https://pjsbarandgrill.com/
RECAP:
Doing a Drive & Dine in February is always a gamble. All week had been so warm and pleasant, but of course Saturday fell to the 20's and snowed a light covering over roofs and grasses. Arriving at PJ's in Little River, they had our tables set and waiting for us. Drinks and food soon followed.
Thanks to those attending: Deegie Wray and her friend Nancy Hughbanks, Keith Ferguson, Lee Spence and Paula Payton, Cindy and Steve Nichols, Wayne and Marcia Strawder, Terry Dowers and Pam Shirley, Denise and Gerald Haughton, Jack Martin, Anita and Bill Barnhart, John Denney, Curtis and Susan Tobias and their fellow Corvette friends and Lyons, Kansas neighbors Mike and Brenda Johannsen.
– Contributed by Wayne & Marcia Strawder
Thanks to those attending: Deegie Wray and her friend Nancy Hughbanks, Keith Ferguson, Lee Spence and Paula Payton, Cindy and Steve Nichols, Wayne and Marcia Strawder, Terry Dowers and Pam Shirley, Denise and Gerald Haughton, Jack Martin, Anita and Bill Barnhart, John Denney, Curtis and Susan Tobias and their fellow Corvette friends and Lyons, Kansas neighbors Mike and Brenda Johannsen.
– Contributed by Wayne & Marcia Strawder
– Photo contributed by Wayne & Marcia Strawder
Marcia Strawder photographs the group upon our arrival to PJ's Bar & Grill in Little River. Left to right: Marcia Strawder (foreground), John Denney, Nancy Hughbanks, Deegie Wray, Keith Ferguson, Lee Spence & Paula Payton, Cindy & Steve Nichols, Wayne Strawder, Terry Dowers & Pam Shirley, Denise Haughton, Jack Martin, and Anita & Bill Barnhart. Note the light snow on the ground!
– Photo and caption contributed by Gerald & Denise Haughton
– Photo and caption contributed by Gerald & Denise Haughton
NOTE: Click on photos for larger versions and captions
– Photos and captions contributed by CKCA members Gerald & Denise Haughton
"Tell that to the Corvettes that rumbled into PJ's, a parade of American muscle rolling right through the heart of town.
"Tell it to the disc golf players filtering into The Market, stocking up on supplies and chatting about wind speed and impossible holes.
"Tell that to everyone heading to the Nelson's Annual Shed Party tonight. Because yes, we celebrate sheds here, and we do it with the joy you can't find anywhere else.
"This is what Saturday looks like in Little River, KS.
"Boring? Not from where we stand."
– The Market at Little River – Feb 21, 2026
– Original Facebook reel and caption source: The Market at Little River, https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DGG2E3xkR/
– YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTKoMjSyz54
– The Market at Little River, website: https://www.themarketatlittleriver.com/
– YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTKoMjSyz54
– The Market at Little River, website: https://www.themarketatlittleriver.com/
Post Scriptum: Denise and I sold our Polo Green Metallic 1996 LT1 Coupe in mid-December and picked up a low-mile but well-used 1977 L48 Coupe in Classic White. It was becoming more and more problematic to extract myself from our C4 after a drive somewhere (anyone who's ever fallen into – and then tried to gracefully climb back out of – a C4, with it's ultra-wide and high door sills, knows exactly what I'm talking about).
Of late, it had gotten so bad I had AAA set up on speed dial on my cell phone ("Hello? I need help getting out of my Corvette!")
Our new '77 had been languishing in a garage up in South Dakota for some time. (How long? Well, the tires on it were 26 years old...). Although the car is a pretty good looker, it had (and still has) quite the laundry list of deferred maintenance items requiring attention.
I've been scrambling almost non-stop for the past two months trying to get our Corvette ready for it's maiden flight: oil and filter change, of course, along with belts, new fuel pump, heater blower motor, brake master cylinder, left-rear caliper and trailing arm hard line, R&R both seats (we found a build sheet under the carpeting under the passenger seat!), adjust the telescoping steering wheel mechanism, four new tires (which I refused to have mounted until I painstakingly restored and polished the uber-cool factory RPO YJ8 aluminum wheels), and just an incredible amount of rubbing and scrubbing and wiping and cleaning and detailing and polishing.
(About the tires: Midway Motors Chevrolet in Hutch quoted me the same price for a set of BFGoodrich Radial T/A's as all the local and online tire sources advertise, so with our club discount it was a no-brainer to source the tires from Midway and have them mounted and balanced there, as well. Go see Maddie in Service; she has a great attitude and will treat you right. Tell her the Central Kansas Corvette Association sent you.)
If you've ever installed a new brake master, you know it has to be bench-bled before you chuck it up on the car. Well, I guess I over-stroked the internal piston assembly while I was bench-bleeding it (although I didn't realize this at the time) and damaged the seals. After installing the master on the car, and after swapping out the left-rear caliper (snapped both bleeders off the old one, and had to cut the trailing arm hard line off with a hacksaw - grrrrr...) and bleeding all four corners of the car about a zillion times, I still had spongy brakes and way too much pedal travel.
Rats.
As much as we wanted to show it off to the club today, because of the soft brakes it just wasn't safe to do so. We drove Denise's car instead, her super-top-secret (shhhh!!!) C9 Corvette prototype SUV-EL (slow utility vehicle-extended legroom edition).
Our Corvette is back on the QuickJacks, again, waiting for a rebuild kit to come in so I can get the master refreshed and bench-bled properly this time.
Wayne & Marcia: Thank you SO much for organizing this Drive & Dine. What an awesome, fun-loving group of people we had in the mix today. Y'all rock!
– Gerald & Denise Haughton
Of late, it had gotten so bad I had AAA set up on speed dial on my cell phone ("Hello? I need help getting out of my Corvette!")
Our new '77 had been languishing in a garage up in South Dakota for some time. (How long? Well, the tires on it were 26 years old...). Although the car is a pretty good looker, it had (and still has) quite the laundry list of deferred maintenance items requiring attention.
I've been scrambling almost non-stop for the past two months trying to get our Corvette ready for it's maiden flight: oil and filter change, of course, along with belts, new fuel pump, heater blower motor, brake master cylinder, left-rear caliper and trailing arm hard line, R&R both seats (we found a build sheet under the carpeting under the passenger seat!), adjust the telescoping steering wheel mechanism, four new tires (which I refused to have mounted until I painstakingly restored and polished the uber-cool factory RPO YJ8 aluminum wheels), and just an incredible amount of rubbing and scrubbing and wiping and cleaning and detailing and polishing.
(About the tires: Midway Motors Chevrolet in Hutch quoted me the same price for a set of BFGoodrich Radial T/A's as all the local and online tire sources advertise, so with our club discount it was a no-brainer to source the tires from Midway and have them mounted and balanced there, as well. Go see Maddie in Service; she has a great attitude and will treat you right. Tell her the Central Kansas Corvette Association sent you.)
If you've ever installed a new brake master, you know it has to be bench-bled before you chuck it up on the car. Well, I guess I over-stroked the internal piston assembly while I was bench-bleeding it (although I didn't realize this at the time) and damaged the seals. After installing the master on the car, and after swapping out the left-rear caliper (snapped both bleeders off the old one, and had to cut the trailing arm hard line off with a hacksaw - grrrrr...) and bleeding all four corners of the car about a zillion times, I still had spongy brakes and way too much pedal travel.
Rats.
As much as we wanted to show it off to the club today, because of the soft brakes it just wasn't safe to do so. We drove Denise's car instead, her super-top-secret (shhhh!!!) C9 Corvette prototype SUV-EL (slow utility vehicle-extended legroom edition).
Our Corvette is back on the QuickJacks, again, waiting for a rebuild kit to come in so I can get the master refreshed and bench-bled properly this time.
Wayne & Marcia: Thank you SO much for organizing this Drive & Dine. What an awesome, fun-loving group of people we had in the mix today. Y'all rock!
– Gerald & Denise Haughton
Page last updated: 02/22/2026
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Hutchinson, KS
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Hutchinson, KS
