NEXT MEETING:    Tuesday July 1, 2025

Ty Aker’s Shop, 12919 W Charles Rd, Nine Mile Falls, WA 99026

                 If you get lost call  Ty.  509-995-0811  -   Remember to bring your own chairs!

Social starts at 5:30  Meeting starts at 6:30pm

 

DUKES FRIENDS & FAMILY PICNIC:        Sunday June 29, 2025

REMINDER: This event is just for friends and family and is NOT open to the general public.

Pounder’s Field, 15704 N Juneberry Drive

  • North bound Division St (SR 395) past Wandermere area, veer right down Wandermere Road past the golf course entrance to Dartford Dr, take a left down to the river, go right on Little Spokane drive, continue 2 miles, to Juneberry Dr, turn left and follow short gravel road (100 yds) to the field on your left.

If you get lost call Dale Walker 509-939-6273  -   Remember to bring your own chairs!

UPCOMING EVENTS

6/3/2025

June’s meeting was up in Suncrest. Lots of cool cars showed up.

5/17/2025

We had good representation at Lost In The 50s up in Sandpoint. No car pictures. (Sorry)
But we did get a nice group photo of our judges along with Dennis Gage of “My Classic Car”

5/6/2025.  We’ve switched to our summer meeting schedule where we visit member’s shops.  Thanks Jade for hosting us.


March Garage Crawl
3/22/2025

Starting to see more hot rods at our events. Spring is right around the corner.
Hosted by Derek Sose. Thanks!

Crawling two months in a row. 2/22/2025
Swag hosted and even had a bonfire to keep us warm when we ventured outside. We’re on a roll.

2025 Crawl #2

Pretty sloppy weather so limited hot rods.
The white Ford F250 with the ’56 Chevy project is Danny Anderson’s latest purchase. The green Ford F250 is Jade’s current project

2025 Kickoff Garage Crawl


1/25/2025:
We had a little get-together at Ty’s shop today.
Treated to a little raw horsepower with a MOPAR 340 on the engine stand.
Then a little free lunch
A couple of the guys took advantage of the dry weather and brought hot rods.
Just another good time.
First, Fastest, Finest

Bigelow Gulch Dedication

Local Leaders Celebrate Opening of Bigelow Gulch-Forker Road Urban Connector

Bigelow Gulch Event 10/29/2024

SPOKANE COUNTY, WA – The Spokane County Board of Commissioners were joined today by a crowd of more than 50 city and state officials, and most notably, 5th District Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers for a ceremonial ribbon cutting to celebrate the completion of the Bigelow Gulch-Forker Road Urban Connector. The $74.6 Million project stretches eight miles from Spokane Valley to the north side of Spokane’s light industrial/distribution hub.

https://www.spokanecounty.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=5325

We were invited to give a little hotrod/historic vibe to the event.

Hot Rod Hall of Fame;

The Dukes were well represented by this exemplary group at the Washington State Hot Rod Assoc. awards dinner in Seattle last Saturday night (9/28/2024). 

Meeting 8/6/2024

We had a good meeting attended by 45 members. Our host was Dale Walker and he shared some of the highlights of his beautiful property. Our esteemed President kept the meeting moving and got us on the road home in under an hour. Sadly we have lost two members this month. RIP.

We had a great time at Franklin Park on June 30, 2024. 172 cars showed up and 250 lunches were served. We are happy to host this free event.

Dukes Picnic 2024

Dukes at the Fair 2023

September 12th was “Dukes Day” at the Spokane Interstate Fair.
We displayed about a dozen cars and later got to enjoy the Clint Black stage show.

Dukes winners at the 2021 Goodguys Show.

Congratulations to all 8 Dukes winners! Good job representing our club, you have made us very proud to be Dukes! Thanks to Mike Weltz & Larry Splater for the pics.

2021 Goodguy’s Spokane Show

Mike Weltz shared 140 awesome photos of this year's Goodguys show in Spokane. Thank you Mike!

Lynn Main’s Shop Tour

Thank you Lynn Main for hosting a last minute shop tour during the Goodguys show. It was a huge success!

Thanks to Mike Weltz for the pictures.

2021 Goodguy’s Puyallup

Thank you Mike Weltz for the great pictures!

2021 Rockford Car Show

Dukes at the Rockford car show. Last year's Best of Show winner gets the honor of being on this year's Dash Plaque. Congratulations John & Lorri Clarizio, on being on the Dash Plaque!

Thank you John Clarizio for the photos.

Meeting At Ty Aker’s Shop

Thank you Ty for hosting our meeting at your awesome shop! Thank you Mike Weltz for taking the pictures for me.

Great Speed & Custom Show this year!

A Big thank you to Lynn Main & the display setup crew and thank you to Mike Weltz for sharing his photos.

Dukes Award Winners at the Speed & Custom Show Congratulations to all!

Thank you Darrin Marion and the Hot Rod Girls for the very cool photo!

Great turnout for our 2nd meeting in over a year.

Thank you Jade for hosting the meeting at your awesome shop!

Pictures courtesy of Mike Weltz, Thank you Mike!