KINGMAN, Ariz. – The Pharoah Car Club of Kingman Saturday, Oct. 24, hosted a Poker Run and Car Show to honor its founder, Mike Goodwin, who passed in April from cancer and to raise money for charity.
“It’s a huge turnout, everyone paying tribute to Mike and raising money for cancer. I couldn’t be more pleased,” said Lisa Goodwin, Mike’s widow. She said he had a very rare, aggressive bile duct cancer.
Mike’s father, Bob Goodwin, presented the Michael Goodwin Award to a winner selected by Von Hot Rod of California.
Kingman City Councilman Smiley Ward was at the car show. “Mike and I started this club together about 2019,” said Ward. “He wanted to start it and asked if I would help because I knew all the hot rodders.”
“Mike was the driving force behind it. There were a lot of car clubs aging out and he wanted a car club everybody could go to. He wanted it to be easy going, not a lot of rules, no mandatory meetings, where people could participate as much or as little as they wanted. It’s a family-friendly club,” Ward said.
They’re always welcoming new members into the Pharoahs, Ward said. “It’s a one-time $120 for a lifetime membership. For that you get two tee-shirts, stickers and a drag plate.”
He said if one spouse joins, the other automatically joins free of charge.
Earlier in the day, members met at the Craft House on Hualapai Mountain Road for breakfast and a fun Poker Run which would lead them to final stop at Mother Road Harley-Davidson where Matt Curtiss is the General Manager.
Kingman Pharoahs president Jim St. Pierre said Curtiss had been very kind and gracious to the Pharoahs by allowing them to have this and other car shows there. “We are so grateful to Matt and Mother Road Harley-Davidson,” St. Pierre said. “We can’t thank them enough for all their help and support.”
“They have five stops. It’s a 70-mile loop and none of them know where the stops are. They buy a card here, or as many as they want to play. The first card is $20. Each additional card is $10. At each stop they will find out where the next stop will be. Also at each stop, they will pull a card and collect a poker hand,” St. Pierre said. “They have until 1 p.m. to complete the trip. At the end, there was a prize for the best (poker) hand and the worst.”
He said the other four stops were the Hackberry General Store, Fire Station #2 at Harrison and Andy Devine, Pawn World, and Kingman Visitor Center. He said the idea is for each player to spend a few minutes at each stop, have fun and meet for the car show.
At the car show, the players or anyone stopping by, could buy lunch for $10, raffle tickets for various prizes, and a 50-50 drawing.
There were vendors, cars, motorcycles and Kingman’s Young Marines opened the car show with their color guard and singing the National Anthem.
Proceeds of the event will be given to Kingman’s Cancer Care Unit, according to St. Pierre. He said a check will be presented to them at a later date.
“I think Mike would be very pleased. Ward said. “He’d be very happy.”
