Darryl Tuggle, of Montogue, Calif., right, and Jim Golightly, of Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., sit in the back of Tuggle’s blue 1942 Ford during the Early Ford V-8 Club of America’s 2012 Western National Meet on Thursday at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds in Redmond. Today’s events include a grand tour starting at 8:30 a.m., in which club members will cruise around Central Oregon, and a swap meet at the fairgrounds from 8 a.m. to noon. In attached photo, Bill Macaulay, of Henderson, Nev., looks under the hood in a row of 1940 Fords on display at the fairgrounds.