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On The
Road, Again!
VOLUME 9
NUMBER 1
APRIL 2005
An AACA Master Editor
Award Winning Publication
BRASS-NICKEL
TOURING REGION AACA
BRASS-NICKEL
TOURING REGION AACA
http://www.aaca.org/bntr/
Email: bntr@hotpop.com
1998 - 2004
PRESIDENT
Floyd Barnes, Jr.
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VICE-PRESIDENT
Dan Fuccella
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Secretary-Treasurer,
Web & Newspaper Editor
Judy L Edwards
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Ex-Officio
John Cheek
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Art Fillyaw
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The Brass-Nickel Touring Region is a nongeographical region of the AACA.
Membership is open to all members of the
AACA who have an interest in motor
vehicles 1931 or older. The main emphasis
and focus of the region is touring. Annual
dues are $10.00.
On The
Road,
Again!
On the Road, Again! is printed in
an 5½ by 8½ inch booklet format
with the cover being printed on an
8½ by 14” paper. This index
appears then on the inside flap.
In This Issue!
April 2005
Volume 9
Number 1
Page Topic
Front
Inside About the BNTR
1 A Note from Floyd
2-3 From the Back Seat
4-6 Down the Road
7 Brady Jefcoat
Museum
7-10 News from National
10 2005 AACA Events
11 In The Kids Korner
12 Things You Auto
Know
13-14 In The Automotive
News
15 Legislative Alert
16-17 And From the Web
17 The Model T Man
18 Tinkerin’ Tips
19 Activity Request
Card
20 Membership Cards
Inside In Memoriam
Back
BRASS-NICKEL
TOURING REGION
On The
Road,
Again!
VOLUME 9
NUMBER 1
APRIL 2005
BRASS-NICKEL
TOURING REGION
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Happy Spring!
The calendar says it is spring and I am ready for it to come. How
about you? Maybe the out of doors will soon agree!
Tours are being planned for our group and I hope we will see a lot
of you out on the roads with us. If you are interested in planning
and having a tour in your area please do let us know as we would
like to get more areas involved.
Hope also to see you at some of the car shows that will starting
soon. Get that car out and dusted off and see you at the first tour of
the Spring.
Floyd Barnes
2005 President
FROM THE BACK SEAT
WITH JUDY
Original 1905 Ford that was
on display in the Trade Show
THE PHILADELPHIA REPORT
Well, you know a new year has
started when it is time for the AACA
annual business meeting held each
year in Philadelphia in February.
Once again, Barker and I made the
trip as I was fortunate enough to
win the Master Editor award for the
third year in a row for the BrassNickel newsletter. I also was a
presenter at the Youth seminar
highlighting the Junior AACA web
site for which I am the web editor.
Barker and I also worked the AACA
web site booth, which is part of the
trade show. Throw in a couple of
seminars, an auction benefiting the
AACA Museum, a couple of dinners,
and an award banquet and the
weekend seems to fly by.
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Jim Raines registering at
the AACA website for the
Gainesville Meet
‘NOTHING COULD BE FINER
THAN TO BE FROM CAROLINA’
This was particularly true this year.
There was a large contingency from
the Old North State including the
BNTR’s own Larry Rucker and
Brenda Lane. Also spotted were
Roger and Paige Lyons who were
receiving a National award for their
1915 Dodge and a large group from
the NC Region who were making
donations to the AACA library roof
repair fund.
Once again this year, three of the
twenty Master Editor awards given
out this year were from North
Carolina - our On the Road, Again,
Jean Soehnlein from the NC Region
for the NC Region News, and
Brooke Davis for the Hornet’s Nest
newsletter the Member Parade. To
add to that we now have three
national directors from North
Carolina - Hulon McCraw from the
Great Smokey Mountain Region in
Hendersonville, Herb Oakes from
New River Chapter of the NC
Region and Jim Raines from the
BNTR and Hornet’s Nest Region. So
you see it is true ‘Nothing could be finer than to be
from Carolina’.
BOARD MEETING
Well, another touring season is
about to begin. The Board met on
March 20th and came up with some
interesting tours (see Down the
Road on pages 4-6 for details). At
this time, some tour details are
missing but dates have been
assigned to each tour. More specific
information will be published in
future issues.
In other business, the Board also
decided to purchase a set of walkietalkies. In the past, we have relied
on the use of personal cell phones
while touring. Quite often there are
dead spots in the cell phone service
area which make the use of cell
phones inoperable and impractical.
To rectify this situation the Board
decided to purchase a set that has a
range of 10 miles. This particular
set also uses either a rechargeable
or standard triple A batteries. The
Board also decided to look at
getting a banner that would be
displayed on the last car of a tour
indicating that a ‘antique car tour’ is
ahead.
So, all is GO for the season. We
have a calendar, the weather is
getting better, the days are getting
longer, we have a set of walkietalkies, and we will be getting a
banner. All we need is you, your
family, and car. Hope to see you on
the road somewhere this season.
ACTIVITY REQUEST CARD
I will be trying something a little
different this year in regards to the
activity request card. In the past, I
have included a postcard that you
could mail back to the tour
chairman. This has always been a
problem in how to include it using
the current format of the newsletter. This year, I will include the
activity request card on a page of
the newsletter. It will be perforated
so all you have to do is remove it
and mail it the address listed on the
back. Please let me know if you like
this vs. a postcard.
POCKET GUIDE
Please make the following corrections and additions to your 2005
Pocket Guide to the BNTR.
Gerald Elkan - cell number
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Max & Louise Morton
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Anthony & Teresa Bright
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BNTR NEWSLETTER
www.aaca.org/bntr/
Starting this year, the Brass-Nickel
newsletter will be on-line. To access
the on-line e-zine, go to our web
page, click on publications, and
then newsletter.
Currently available: October and
December 2004 & April
2005.
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LET’S RIDE IN
2005!
seems
to
be
an
appropriate slogan for
this year. The Board
met on March 20 and
came up with some
interesting tours. The
dates have been set but
some of the tour details
will be forthcoming in
upcoming issues of the
newsletter.
The first tour of the year
will be the -
WARREN COUNTY
TOUR
Date: April 23, 2005
Tour Chairman:
Riley & Sandra Reiner
(919) 557-1198
r.reiner@att.net
Meet: Winn Dixie
parking lot at the intersection of US
1 North and NC 98 in Wake Forest.
Their address is 931 Durham Rd.
Time: leave parking lot at 9:30 AM
and return approximately at 4:30
PM.
Agenda: The tour will start and
end at Winn Dixie in Wake Forest.
Ample parking for trailers is
available as well as a gas station,
Bojangles, and McDonald’s for
breakfast coffee, etc.
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The tour route will cover
approximately 100 miles
with a morning gas and
restroom break and a
similar afternoon stop.
A morning stop of
special interest will be
the Greystone Quarry
overlook, which opened
in 1835 and is still
operational. Stone in the
NC Capital was dug
here. For the Millers,
the tour will include a
drive through Cokesbury, Warren County
(Bob and Lynda live in
Cokesbury of Harnett
County).
Afternoon
stops include the Norlina Railway Museum,
the antique shops of
Warrenton, the grave of
Annie Lee, daughter of
Robert E. Lee and a
great lunch stop at the
Hardware
Café
in
Warrenton.
The tour is on paved
roads with mild hills
and almost all farm
country. Time permitting, a driving
tour of downtown Warrenton to see
the many anti-bellum homes may
be included. The Warrenton stop
will be 2 and 1/2 hours which will
include lunch.
Motel Information: All three
motels are within a mile of the start
point but reservations must be
made as individuals.
Holiday Inn Express
11400 Common Oakes Dr
Raleigh, 27614
(919) 570-5550
The rate is $65 per night. Calling
direct rate is $74.70 with AARP or
AAA. Walk-in rate is $82.99.
Hampton Inn
12318 Wake Union Church Rd.,
Wake Forest, 27587
(919) 554-0222
www.hamptoninn.com
The rate is $67.49 with AARP or
AAA. or you may call direct for this
rate. Walk-in rate is $74.99.
Sleep Inn
12401 Wake Union Church Rd.
Wake Forest 27587
(919) 556-4007
Call direct for a rate of $65 per
night but no other discounts apply.
They have a nice indoor pool.
A former Seaboard Coastline
railroad dining car, which now
serves as the Norlina Railway
Museum
RSVP: Please notify Riley if you are
planning on going either by phone,
email, or the activity request card
on page 19. Need help with
directions or you are running late,
call Riley or Sandra Reiner at (919)
554-1158 or cell phone (919) 8194447.
INTERESTED IN A TOUR TO
THE OUTER BANKS?
The Brass-Nickel Touring Region
and the Triangle Chapter are jointly
exploring the possibility of a
weekend tour to the Outer Banks
May 20-22, 2005. The early plans
are to assemble in Manteo on
Friday, May 20th and spend the
night. Saturday morning will be
spent touring the attractions on
Roanoke Island. After lunch, the
tour will travel south on the Outer
Banks to the Cape Hatteras Light
House Park and other attractions
on the southern banks. The tour
would return to the same motel for
the second night. Sunday morning,
the tour would depart Manteo and
travel north along the banks to Kill
Devil Hills, The Wright Brother’s
Monument and the Currituck Light
and Coast Guard Station. The tour
would return to the motel around
2:30 Sunday afternoon to load
trailers, etc. and head home. The
drive from Raleigh to Manteo is
about 4.5 hours.
Several people have expressed an
interest in this tour, but before final
plans are made, the planners need
to know if there is any sincere
interest. Please call Dan Fuccella at
(919) 349-5911 or email him at
dan@ati-engineers.com or Sandra
Reiner at (919) 554-1158 and email
at r.reiner@att.net as soon as possible to express your interest. We
need to know approximately how
many motel rooms to secure. If you
want to join the tour at noon on
Saturday, please let us know and a
meeting point will be
established. Depending
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on your response, plans
will be made for this tour and
specific details will be in the May
issue of On the Road, Again.
Touring with the old cars is fun and
the Outer Banks is the early history
of North Carolina. Plans must be
made within the next two weeks to
get the best deal on motel rooms.
Call Now!
Operators are standing by to
record your interest.
Please fill out the activity request
card on page 19 if you are planning
on going on this tour.
CHERRYVILLE TOUR
New Bern NC the weekend of
August 20th. New Bern is the
second oldest town in North
Carolina and is situated where the
Trent and Neuse Rivers meet. New
Bern is abound with history around
every corner with over 150 historic
landmarks, the magnificent Tryon
Palace, Birth Place of Pepsi and a
157,000-acre national forest. More
details to come.
SELMA RAILROAD DAYS
This is an optional activity for the
Brass-Nickel on Saturday October 1.
We are negotiating with Selma but
the last time we participated we
received $25 per car that we
furnished. This is a great way to
supplement the club treasury.
RAVEN ROCK
Barker and I will be planning the
July 16th tour to Cherryville NC.
The highlight of the trip will be to
the C. Grier Beam Truck Museum,
which is one of only three truck
museums in the US and tells the
history of the Carolina Freight
Lines. Housed in the original gas
station where Carolina Freight had
its humble beginnings, you explore
over 7500 square feet of vintage
trucking memorabilia from the last
seven decades. More details to
come.
NEW BERN TOUR
Larry Rucker, Brenda Lane, and
John and Susan Baldwin
will be planning our tour
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to the historic town of
Our last event of the year is a tour
to and a picnic with the Fayetteville
Model A club Saturday October 29
at Raven Rock State park in
Lillington NC. Last year they had
invited the Brass-Nickel along with
several other Model A clubs to join
them for their annual car display &
picnic. I believe the final number of
participants was 33 Model A’s and
nine non-A’s.
Well-as I promised we have some
interesting tours lined up. I hope
that you will be able to make them
all. Remember-if you plan on attending either the Warren County
tour or the Outer Banks tour to fill
out the activity request card. The
following is also an optional event
you might want to go to. We just
couldn’t work into the calendar.
BRADY
JEFCOAT
MUSEUM
The BNTR has been invited to
attend the 4th Annual RoanokeChowan “Pork Fest,” which will be
held at the Brady Jefcoat Museum
of Americana in Murfreesboro NC
on Saturday May 14. Unfortunately, it did fit into our calendar
but I encourage you to participate
on your own if you can. This is a
fund raiser for Museum and many
activities have been planned.
Many items have been added since
the BNTR visited the Museum in
2000. The Museum now contains
over 11,000 items including the
largest collection of washing
machine equipment, dairy equipment, irons, and music boxes in
the United States. There will be 14
teams competing in the Bar-B-Q
cook off.
Date: May 14, 2005
Location: 201 West High St in
Murfreesboro NC
(252) 398-5653
Time: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
NEWS
FROM
NATIONAL
2005 NATIONAL OFFICERS
David Zimmerman, from New
Jersey, was elected as President for
2005 with Robert ‘Bo’ Croley from
Tennessee as his executive Vice
President. Hulon McCraw from
North Carolina, Herb Oakes from
North Carolina, and Bo Chiotti from
California
were elected to the
Board of Directors. The following
incumbents Directors were reelected to the AACA Board - Peter
Gariepy, Joe Gagliano, and Michael
Jones.
AACA ANNUAL REPORT 2004
Every year the national AACA
annual business meeting is held in
Philadelphia. Friday afternoon is
the general membership meeting
where the various Directors make
their committee reports and next
year officers are elected. The
following are highlights from the
2004 Annual Report.
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Earl Beauchamp
Admission: Advance tickets are
$15.00 & includes all events including “all you can eat” Bar-B-Q meal
($20 day of event, if available). The
deadline for tickets is May 6.
Mail to - “Pork Fest”
P O Box 3
Murfreesboro NC 27855
AACA began 2004 with a new
Executive Director. Steve Moskowitz. We have been working with
television personalities, with an eye
toward advancing our cause with
one or more new
television programs that
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will enable viewers
worldwide to see the value of
restoring antique automobiles.
The first National Sentimental Tour
was held and was extremely
successful. Tours were revamped to
assure that a reasonable number of
tour would be available each year to
satisfy member needs in all eras of
vehicles.
AACA remains strong and is
stepping into the new century with
plans to keep us the largest most
inclusive and best old car club in the
world.
NATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Sharon Lee, Vice President
With six Tours, ten National Meets,
and an Annual Grand National
Meet, the AACA offered a wide
range of activities for its members
in 2004. All Regions and Chapters
are to be commended for offering to
host these upcoming events for all
AACA members to enjoy.
PROGRAM AND YOUTH
DEVELOPMENT
John Walker, Vice President
The AACA Youth development
program has continued to have
successes. We have a large group of
members who are very active
supporters of our youth programs.
We now have 131 student members
and 196 youth members. In 2004,
we launched a CHIP program where
kids are rewarded for completing
“auto related activities” with a
specially designed award called a
CHIP for each different
project they complete.
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This year we had over
100 youth register and participate
in the CHIP program and we
awarded over 450 CHIPs. Again this
year the AACA will be presenting at
the annual meeting scholarships to
the younger members who were
active in the hobby.
REGIONS AND CHAPTERS
Joe Gagliano, Vice President
New region established in 2004:
West Virginia White Water Region
located in Beckley, WV. A new
chapter of the Ohio Region
established was Friends of the
Packard Museum in Warren, Ohio.
As of December 31, 2004, the AACA
had 331 Regions and 63 Chapters
for a total of 394 affiliates. Region
operations remained strong for
2004.
MEMBERSHIP
James Cook, Vice President
Total paid memberships as of
December 31, 2004 is 59,390. This
number includes 196 junior
memberships and 125 student
memberships.
There were 35 new Life members
for a total of 2,623 life members.
The “I got a Member” program
generated 1,351 new memberships
by 993 sponsors including 358 first
time sponsors.
JOE GRIGGS
AACA Museum President
New exhibits are the feature of the
Museum for 2005. Our current
presentation of the early muscle
cars “Thunder Before the Storm” is
now on display in the Cammack
Gallery. Opening May 14 is our
salute to Corvettes. The Flo In Diner
is now completed and will be
dedicated April 24. Education programs are in full swing and the
Museum is the favorite place in
central Pennsylvania to have a
special event. In 2004 over 80
events, were held and we expect to
do many more in 2005.
been reorganized and Professional
Vehicle Classes have been added.
Peerless 8-cyclinder vehicles have
also been added to the list of
Specific Class Vehicle Classes.
PUBLICATIONS
Sherman Carey, Vice President
Last year saw 24 more cars being
donated to the Museum bringing
our total to over 120.
The magazine, Antique Automobile,
continues to be a leader with a new
design and a new editor, West
Peterson. The Publications Committee selected 159 regions & chapters
to receive awards for 2004.
We hope that you plan for your
Region to come see the excitement
at your Museum this year.
Award of Merit—45
Award of Distinction—55
Award of Excellence-39
Master Editor-20
Coming soon-online: gift shop sales.
AACA LIBRARY AND
RESEARCH CENTER
JUDGING
Jeff Lesher, President
Bo Croley, Vice President
More than 4,000 vehicles were
shown at 10 national meets in 2004.
These vehicles were judged by
2,050 AACA judges including 17
judges who attended all 10 meets.
Judges Training Schools, were
offered to members at 9 meets
including the Hershey Fall Meet.
Over 1,000 judges attended these
schools. Continuing Judges
Education courses were completed
by 744 judges.
A major revision of the “Official
Judging Rules and Guidelines”
manual and the judging forms have
been completed and will be
available for the 2005 National
Meets.
The Motorcycle Classes and
Commercial Vehicle Classes have
The AACA Library and Research
Center was a busy place during
2004. 1,163 requests for
information were received. This
included 32 requests received from
POCI members and 20 form
SPAAMFAA members. We had 490
recorded visitors in 2004,
representing 36 states, Puerto Rico,
the District of Columbia, Argentina,
Australia, Canada, England,
Ireland, and South Africa. The
following groups toured the Library
& National Headquarters in 2004:
Gettysburg, NYS Allegheny Valley,
Roanoke Valley, Peconic Bay, Pocono, and Pottstown Regions, and
the POCI Keystone Region, and the
Cars and Parts Garage Tour.
Literature donations valued at $34,337.95 have
been received in 2004.
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200 books were catalogued and
added to the collection in 2004,
bringing the total number to 4,546.
Computer input is progressing with
over 42,000 records entered in the
system. Highlights of the year
included our new outdoor signage,
donated in honor pf Margaret and
George Vital by the AACA Peconic
Bay Region, the Hagerty grant and
adding the Society of Automobile
Historian and the Lincoln Motorcar
Foundation to the organization
whose collections we house.
2004 FINANCIAL REPORT*
2005
AACA
EVENTS
A
P
R
I
L
M
A
Y
J
U
N
E
J
U
L
Y
A
U
G
EXPENSES
Meets, Tours & Events ..$ 240,417
Antique Automobile......... 355,051
Cost of Sales ....................... 73,785
General Administration ..... 31,865
Headquarters Bldg............ 34,348
National Headqrtrs Ops...375,838
Total Expense : $1,311,304
2004 Net Income*: $ 145,101
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30 Cape Fear Ch, Wilmington
5-7 Southeast DN Spring Meet,
Roanoke VA
Year Ending December 31, 2004
* - Pending Annual Audit
INCOME
Dues.............................. $ 934,606
Sales .................................... 15,551
AA & Internet Ads............... 67,711
Meets, Tour & Events...... 235,904
MBNA.................................42,407
Interest/Gain-Investments45,998
Donations............................11,703
Miscellaneous....................... 2,525
Total Income : $ 1,456,405
Abbreviations:
D-Division N-National Ch-Chapter
16 NC Region Spring Meet
Catawba NC
S
E
P
T
O
C
T
N
O
V
7 Triangle Ch, Raleigh
14 Alamance Region Meet
26-28 Eastern DN Spring Meet
Greensburg PA
29- Founders Tour
June 3 Myerstown PA
11 Coastal Plains Ch, Washington
17-18 Central DN Spring Meet
Rochester MN
7–9 Central DN Spring Meet
Warren OH
29 AACA Grand National
Northglenn CO
30 Western DN Fall Meet
Northglenn CO
6 General Greene Ch Greensboro
14-18 Eastern D Tour
Shelter Island NY
29- Vintage Tour
Sept 2 Solomons MD
10 San-Lee Ch, Sanford
First Capital Ch, New Bern
11-16 Glidden Tour, Altoona PA
17 Charlotte AutoFair
Morehead City Ch
22-24 Southeastern DN Fall
Meet, Jeffersonville IN
24 NC Region Fall Meet Pinehurst
1 New River Ch, Jacksonville
5-8 Eastern DN Fall Meet Hershey
8 Southeastern Ch, Mt. Olive
15 Furnitureland Ch, Spencer
2-5 Southeastern D Tour
Palatka FL
IN THE KIDS KORNER
Q1. Where is the best place to eat
while traveling?
Q2. Why wouldn’t the grizzly
bear walk on a gravel
road?
Q3. Why are geese poor
drivers?
Q4. What do you get when you cross
a stop sign with a cat?
Q5. Why was the clown sitting
at the stop sign?
Q6. What did Tennessee?
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Answers to ‘In the Kids Korner’
A1. Where there is a fork in the road.
A2. It had bear feet.
A3. Because all they do is honk!
A4. An octa-puss!
A5. He was waiting for it to say - GO!
A6. The same as Arkansas.
THINGS YOU
AUTO KNOW
If you count only roads, says
Richard Forman, a Harvard
professor of landscape ecology, the
number is .06 percent, an area
roughly half the size of Virginia. If
you throw in parking lots, sidewalks, building foundations, and all
other “impervious surfaces,” the
number doubles to about 1.29
percent. That figure may be lower
than you expected, but the local
effects of too much hardtop can be
huge, particularly on the weather.
THE COLOR OF TIRES
WHY TIRES ARE BLACK
The first car tires were white! One
tire manufacturer wanted his tires
to look more distinguished than
other tires. He asked the Peekskill
Chemical Company in Peekskill,
New York, to see what they could do
to make a tire that was a silver gray
color.
Joseph Binney had founded the
Peekskill Chemical Company in
1864 and specialized in producing
black and red colors and paints. The
red he created was used on barns all
across the American
countryside and was made
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with the same red iron
oxide that the cavemen had used to
make their red paint. The Peekskill
chemists succeeded in creating a
darker color for the tire manufacturer. More importantly, they
discovered that by adding carbon
black as an ingredient to the rubber
they not only got a darker tire, but
one that lasted four to five times
longer than white ones! And from
there you know how this story ends,
except for one little detail. The
Peekskill Chemical Company later
became known as Binney & Smith,
the makers of Crayola Crayons!
NICOLAS CUGNOT
The very first self-propelled car was
built in 1769, when Nicolas Cugnot,
a French military engineer designed
a steam powered road-vehicle. The
vehicle was built at the Paris
Arsenal, and was used by the
French Army to move cannons. It
had three wheels with the engine in
the front along with the boiler.
While Cugnot's 'car' was capable of
attaining speeds of up to 6 kms/
hour, it was far too heavy and slow
to be of practical use.
Nicolas Cugnot made another steam
driven vehicle 2 years later, also at
the Paris Arsenal. The machine
reportedly ran quite well, although
on one occasion it ran into a wall,
thus recording the world's first
motor-accident. The vehicle may
still be seen today in the
Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et
Metiers in Paris.
IN THE
AUTOMOTIVE
NEWS!
HISTORIC $3.2 MILLION CAR
On January 29, 2005, a 1954
Oldsmobile F-88 Concept car was
auctioned in Scottsdale Arizona for
a winning bid of 3.2 million dollars.
The XP-20 project, commonly
known as F-88 was a pet project of
Harley Earl. Four cars came out of
the project, but only styling order
#2265 (this car) survived.
The General Motors concept car
lasted through a fierce bidding war
to become the highest selling car
ever at the Barrett-Jackson auction,
beating a 15-year record of $2
million given for a 1932 HispanoSuiza J12 Binder. The new owners
are Maureen and John Hendricks,
who is founder and Chairman of
Discovery Communications which
includes ownership of the Discovery
Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, The
Travel Channel, The Science
Channel among its many digital
networks. The car will be on display
at the Gateway Colorado Auto
Museum, now under construction
and scheduled for an early Fall
2005 grand opening. This museum
will be devoted to understanding
and celebrating the history, science,
design, and social impact of the
American car. Only American cars
will be featured in the new
museum, which will display 32
classic vehicles organized in a
timeline.
OPTIONS
Color - Gold
Transmission - Hydro
Cylinders - 8
Engine Size - 324
Horsepower - 250
The car was designed by General
Motors's godfather of automotive
design, Harley J. Earl and was
unveiled at the 1954 Motorama.
Many auto historians consider the
F-88 to be an archetype of modern
car design with a racy fiberglass
body, bullet taillights, open top and
lightweight structure. The F-88 has
distinctive large vertical exhaust
outlets for its "Rocket" V-8 and a
prominent wide-mouth grille.
However, due to lukewarm sales of
the newly released 1954 Corvette,
GM refused to give the green light
for its Oldsmobile division to
produce another sports cars. The F88 and four other cars developed
during the XP-20 project were
ordered destroyed as was standard
for concept cars not making it into
production. As legend has it,
however, this one gold-tone pet
project of Harley Earl was given or
sold piece-by-piece to E. L. Cord
(Auburn- Cord-Duesenberg owner) in 1955 to be
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reassembled as the sole-
survivor of the project. In fact,
hundreds of GM internal documents and original blue prints are
still with this car. Museum curators
are hoping to find out more of this
unique car's history from these
documents and records.
MEGUIAR’S MAN OF THE YEAR
http://www.meguiars.com
In early February, it was announced
that the Meguiar’s 2005 Man of the
year is Bill Smith, former President
and Executive Director of the
AACA. The Meguiar's Award was
created to honor those individuals
who have done the most to improve
the quality, visibility and growth of
the collector car hobby.
Since 1995, the Mequiar’s Company
has been giving this award to
pioneers and leaders in the
automotive hobby. Former winners
include 1995-Chet Krause, Founder and
Chairman of Krause Publications
1996-Bill & Chip Miller, Carlisle
collector car events
1997-Jay Leno, entertainer and car
collector
1998-Jules Heumann and Lorin
Tryon, these two men helped
turn a regional California car
event into the world famous
Pebble Beach Concours
d'Elegance
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1999-Bruce Meyer, has commissioned the restoration of many
legendary vehicles including the
Pierson Brothers' coupe, the SoCal belly tank racer, the
Agajanian Special and a Doane
Spencer roadster that won best
of class at Pebble Beach
2000-Robert Peterson, founder of
Petersen Publishing which
publishes over 77 periodicals
including Hot Rod, Motor Craft,
& Car Craft. Also owns the
prestigious Peterson car
museum in California
2001-J B Nethercutt, car restorer
whose vehicles have won Best of
Show at the famed Pebble Beach
Concours d'Elegance an
unprecedented six times.
Founder of the San Sylmar car
museum, which is often credited
as being the most breathtakingly
beautiful automobile museum in
the world
2002-Bill Warner, founder of the
Amelia Island Concours
d'Elegance
2003-Steve Earl, one of the
founding fathers of the American
vintage race movement
2004-Corky Coker, president of
Coker Tire
The awards ceremony will be April
9th at 7 PM (PST) at the Kodak
Theater in California. Although I
have not been able to verify the air
time, Speed TV is suppose to be
airing the show. Please check your
local listings for air times. Note: The
Maguair Company has for over 100
years has been creating the finest
quality surface care products for
you and your car.
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LEGISLATIVE ALERT
PROPOSED LAW
Note: the following is a bill that is
currently making it’s way trough the
NC Legislature. It currently only
effects the cities of Henderson &
Louisburg but once one
municipality gets a law passed,
others are such to try & follow. It
has passed both Houses and is now
back in the House for approval of
Senate changes. The proposed
changes are underlined.
HB 75 (SB 164)
Junked & Abandoned Vehicles
Status: Filed in the House on
February 3, 2005; passed 2nd and
3rd readings on March 3rd; sent to
the Senate on March 7 where it was
assigned SB 164; passed 2nd and
3rd reading on March 17 and sent
back to the House.
Title: A bill to be entitles an act
effecting the regulation of
abandoned or junked motor
vehicles in the City of Henderson
and the Town of Louisburg..
SECTION 1. G.S.160A‑303.2(a)
reads as rewritten:
(a) A municipality may by ordinance regulate, restrain or prohibit
the abandonment of junked motor
vehicles on public grounds and on
private property within the municipality's ordinance‑making jurisdiction upon a finding that such
regulation, restraint or prohibition
is necessary and desirable to
promote or enhance community,
neighborhood or area appearance,
and may enforce any such ordi-
nance by removing or disposing of
junked motor vehicles subject to the
ordinance according to the
procedures prescribed in this
section. The authority granted by
this section shall be supplemental
to any other authority conferred
upon municipalities. Nothing in this
section shall be construed to
authorize a municipality to require
the removal or disposal of a motor
vehicle kept or stored at a bona fide
"automobile graveyard" or "junkyard" as defined in G.S. 136‑143.
For purposes of this section, the
term "junked motor vehicle" means
a vehicle that does not display a
current license plate and that:
(1) Is partially dismantled or
wrecked; or
(2) Cannot be self‑propelled or
moved in the manner in
which it originally was
intended to move; or
(3) Is more than five years old
and appears to be worth less
than one hundred dollars
($100.00). five hundred
dollars ($500.00)."
The bill also amends G.S. 160A-303
(b2) as reads as rewritten:
SECTION 1. (3) Is more than five
years old and worth less than one
hundred dollars ($100.00); five
hundred dollars ($500.00); or
SECTION 3. Section 1 of this act
applies only to the City of Henderson and the Town of Louisburg. Section 2 of this act applies
only to the Town of Louisburg.
SECTION 4. This act is
effective when it becomes
law.
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AND FROM THE
WEB
THE FAIRMOUNT
PARK MOTOR
RACES,
1908–1911.
For four years,
early in the last
century,
the
Fairmount Park
Motor Races were
run on an eight-mile course in
Philadelphia’s West Fairmount
Park.
BY MOTOR TO
THE GOLDEN
GATE
Is he story of
Emily
Post’s
historic
1915
journey by car
from New York
to California.
This issue I have two on-line book
stores to talk about.
AACA BOOKMOBILE
www.aaca.org
The AACA Bookmobile is now online. AACA members receive a 20%
discount on every book purchased
and your Club receives a significant
donation for every book you
purchase. AACA members receive
FREE UPS ground shipping on any
order above $75.00. They continue
to add titles all the time so check
back often.
MCFARLAND BOOKS
A RELIABLE CAR
AND A WOMAN
WHO KNOWS IT
THE FIRST
COAST-TO-COAST
AUTO TRIPS BY
WOMEN, 1899–
1916
www.mcfarlandpub.com
This year at the trade show in
Philadelphia a publishing company
was featuring their automobile
books. To my surprise, it turned out
that they were from Jefferson NC.
Doing a quick search on automobile
on their web page revealed that they
have at the time of this printing
thirty-five books listed.
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Some titles of interest are
-
chronicles the first coast-to-coast
trip by women. Detailed accounts of
five coast-to-coast drives make up
this lively history.
MY FIRST
FORTY CARS
This automotive
memoir includes
a chapter for each
of Bolan’s first
forty cars, includ-
ing photographs of the actual vehicles where possible.
WILLIAM
HOWARD TAFT
AND THE FIRST
MOTORING
PRESIDENCY,
1909–1913.
This is a meticulously researched
reappraisal of the oft-maligned Taft
presidency focusing particularly on
his cars, his relationship to the
automobile and the role of the
automobile in the politics of his
day.
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IN THE NEWS (CONT.)
RALPH LAUREN CARS
From March 06 through to July 03,
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
will display Ralph Lauren's classic
cars under the title "Speed, Style,
and Beauty: Cars from the Ralph
Lauren Collection." The MFA Web
site explains it this way: "In its first
exhibition devoted to car design,
the MFA displays sixteen
magnificent automobiles from the
collection of world-renowned
designer and car enthusiast Ralph
Lauren, featuring some of history’s
most memorable cars." He is
especially noted as the owner of a
rare Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic
Coupe, arguably one of the most
beautiful sports machines ever
made.
THE MODEL T
MAN
By Roy Wheeler
What a beautiful thing is a
tapered spring,
What sights and sounds inspiring;
The curve of the guard,
the advance and retard,
The gallant old cylinders firing.
Let other men squander their skill
and their time
On sporting or some other folly.
He finds his joy and
expression sublime
With a spanner and hammer and
dolly.
He stands in his shed and he gazes
around
At the junk he's collected and
storing.
Thinking ahead his heart gives a
bound
For the rapturous years of
restoring.
There is artists' and artisans' blood
in his veins,
Simplicity in his devotion,
His vision reveals, from his labours
and pains,
A glorious poem of motion.
What a beautiful thing, what joy it
will bring,
A Model "T" Ford is inspiring.
The leisurely pace, the effortless
grace,
The gallant old cylinders firing.
1938 Bugatti
Type 57SC
Atlantic Coupe
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the same hole. They won’t hold as
well the second time around. Try
using boat nails. These are bronze,
ring shank nails of about the same
penny size as the original steel body
nails. Being bronze they will not
rust, and being ring shank they will
hold well in the slightly oversized
holes.
The Tinkerin’ Tips this month were
taken from Restoration Tips by
Tom Reese. These articles were
originally published in the Antique
Automobile from 1971-1985.
GENERIC RUBBER GROMMETS
At times one needs to come up with
rubber grommets to cushion
electrical wires where they come
through metal panels. If your car is
from the 1920s or 1930s, modern
grommets just don’t look right.
They are too shiney and have forms
that look like later. A possible
source of such grommets is no
farther away than your nearest tire
shop. They will have lots of rubber
valve stems bases lying around. In
replacing these, they usually nip off
the old ones and punch the base out
of the wheel. These bases have a
center hole and a convenient ridge
for mounting. A little sanding will
smooth off the nip marks.
BOAT NAILS
When replacing metal body and
door panels on wood frames, after
having them off to repair and reglue the wood, you
inevitably end up with
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your nails going back in
ELECTRICAL TERMINAL CUFFS
From the late brass era through the
advent of vinyl, low tension wires
often had a rubber cuff that covered
the wire connection to the terminal.
These used to be available in bulk
form. In recent years, I have no
longer been able to find them. I now
buy several different diameters of
rubber windshield washer hose and
lop off the appropriate length to
replace these cuffs when rewiring.
STORAGE OF MURIATIC ACID
If you plan to use Muriatic acid for
cleaning corroded parts, make sure
that when storing, you cap it tightly
& store it away from anything metal
that you care about. The vapor pressure of this liquid is such that it will
release acid to the atmosphere
easily. It will then act as a catalyst,
speeding the rusting of any unpainted iron or steel in the area.
Such items as drill chucks and bits,
garden tools, stored fasteners, &
hand tool all soon grow a fuzzy
coating of ugly red ferrous oxide.
ACTIVITY REQUEST CARD
WARREN COUNTY TOUR - APRIL 23RD
I want to reserve a spot on the Warren County Tour.
I will be driving my
Coming with me will be
OUTER BANKS TOUR - SEPT. 21 & 22
In order to help with the planning for the tour please indicate what
car and how many people will be traveling with you.
Car
# People
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND MAILING ADDRESS
IS ON REVERSE SIDE.
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ROAD SHOW FYI
I sent out an email early February
notifying you of a new PBS series
Antiques Roadshow FYI which
filmed segments at the 2004
Eastern Division Fall Meet in
Hershey last October. The original
air dates were-
However, on February 23rd, PBS
was in the middle of their annual
Festival, which is a fund raiser for
the station and did not show the
segment on independent cars. I
have not been able to find out when
the show will be broadcasted but
keep checking the local listings.
Independent Car Segment:
February 23, 2005 @ 8:00 EST
Petroliana: May 18, 2005 @ 8:00
EST
Classic car, Milestone car, and
Antique car: TBD
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My cell phone number is
Mail to:
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Thanks for renewing your
membership in the BNTR !
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In
Memoriam
John Z DeLorean
John Z. DeLorean was one of
Detroit's best-known - and most
controversial-automotive innovators. DeLorean died March
19 at Overlook Hospital in
Summit, N.J., at age 80. He had
suffered a stroke late Thursday
at his home in Bedminster, N.J.,
his family said.
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CAREER
HIGHLIGHTS
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hired as an engineer by
Chrysler in 1952, though he
left less than a year later to
work for Packard Motor Co.
When Packard was acquired
by Studebaker Corp. in 1956,
DeLorean took a job with the
advanced engineering group
at Pontiac. His patents
included the recessed windshield wiper and the overhead
cam engine.
By age 40, DeLorean led
Pontiac, and four years later
became the youngest head of
GM's giant Chevrolet division.
He was credited with creating
what some consider the first
muscle car in 1964 by cramming a V8 engine into a
Pontiac Tempest and calling it
the GTO, dubbed the "Goat"
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by enthusiasts.
he quit in 1973 to launch the
DeLorean Motor Car Co. near
Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Eight years later, the
DeLorean DMC-12 hit the
streets. But the factory
produced only about 8,900
cars in three years. The
company collapsed in 1983, a
year after he was charged
with conspiring to sell $24
million of cocaine and money
laundering to salvage his car
venture. DeLorean claimed
entrapment and won acquittal
on the charges in 1984.
Through the 1980s and into
the 1990s, he battled tax,
fraud, racketeering and
bankruptcy charges and
avoided extradition to Great
Britain and Switzerland to
face charges of defrauding
investors in his car plant.
He declared bankruptcy in
1999.
Note: The radically futuristic,
gull-winged car he produced,
the DeLorean, gained
worldwide recognition as the
time machine in the "Back to
the Future" films.
Brass-Nickel Touring Region
Judy L Edwards, Editor
116 East Front Street
Clayton NC 27520-1913
Summer touring season
is right around the corner!