Club Activities

Besides the monthly meetings, the club enjoys a monthly "driving" activity and several special tours and activities throughout the year.

These activities include the annual Ma & Pa tour which began in 1990. The Ma & Pa Tour is named after the old Mt. Pleasant / Paris rail line. Later the tour expanded to include the car clubs in Greenville, & Texarkana. Future plans are to include the Bonham Car Club.

Although most tours are made in the old cars to areas in Northeast Texas or Southeast Oklahoma, the club has toured to such places as Palo Duro Canyon in west Texas, Branson, Missouri, Hot Springs, Arkansas, Natchitoches, Louisiana, and Beaver Run, Colorado as well as Fredericksburg, Texas. In fact, the club enjoyed a Caribbean cruise - without the cars, of course.

While not designed as a civic club, Honkers participate in a variety of community events. The Club works with the local Chamber of Commerce helping to host visiting car clubs, which are increasingly finding Paris a popular destination.

Members regularly organize a tour of area nursing homes where we take our old cars and let the residents there reminisce.

Honkers not only donate money but also their time to ring the bells for The Salvation Army each Christmas season as well as Meals On Wheels.

Honkers also participate in the annual 4th of July parade in Paris. click HERE for pictures of the 2010 parade.

One of the main events that the club has reinstated is the annual car show, a tradition that began early in the club's history.