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Antique Auto Club of America
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Tulsa Region July2015 Number 7
Runningboard Ramblings
A message from Daniel King
PRESIDENT’S NOTES
Dear Fellow Club Members,
June was an eventful month with the AACA Central Spring Meet held in Independence,
Missouri from June 4th through June 6th. Several Tulsa region members were in attendance
as you will see in the article below. June 14th was our annual Haikey Creek car show and
although the rain was off and on we managed to present a good many cars. And thanks to
Joe Smith, David Turner, and Phil Judkins the rest of 2015 will have many more opportunities
for us to get together and go places with our cars.
Be sure to look at the club calendar for more details, but we have scheduled a garage tour
of Basil and Ann McLaren’s home. August 30th through September 4th is the all-important
Glidden Tour. Then a garage tour to Bartlesville, followed by an over-night trip to Miami’s
Coleman theater.
I’m looking forward to all these activities and more, so I hope to see you all there.
Sincerely, Daniel King
2015 AACA TULSA REGION CALENDAR
MONTH DATE ACTIVITY PLACE JUL
6/30
7/5
Board Meeting
General Meeting
PERSON
RESPONSIBLE
TBD
Joe Smith
Joanna Cooper’s
KEY DATES
TBD: Quarterly
Garage Tour
JULY 18TH – GARAGE TOUR – BASIL AND ANN MCLAREN’S HOME
AUG
7/28
8/2
Board Meeting
Ice Cream Social
TBD
Joanna Cooper’s
Dan King
AUGUST 15TH – GLIDDEN TOUR HOSPITALITY ROOM WORKERS MEETING OKC 1:00 P.M.
SEP
AUGUST 30TH – SEPTEMBER 4TH GLIDDEN TOUR
9/8
Board Meeting
TBD
Richard Holmes
SEPTEMBER 12TH – GARAGE TOUR – BARTLESVILLE
9/13
Hamburger Cook-Out
Holmes’ Home
Richard Holmes
OCT
9/29
10/4
Board Meeting
General Meeting
TBD
Joe Smith
Joanna Cooper’s
TBD: Party
Fall/Halloween
OCTOBER TBD – COLEMAN THEATER – MIAMI
OCTOBER 24TH – GARAGE TOUR – TBD
NOV
10/27
Board Meeting
TBD
Phil Judkins
11/1
General Meeting
Joanna Cooper’s
DEC
12/1
Board Meeting
TBD
David Turner
12/6
General Meeting
Joanna Cooper’s
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11/11: Veterans
Day Parade
TBD: Christmas
Party
AACA TULSA REGION
General Meeting Minutes , June 14, 2015
The June 14, 2015 Tulsa Region
General Meeting was convened by
President Dan King at 1:00 p.m. at
our annual Haikey Creek Car Show.
The minutes were read by Jim
Jones and approved as read. Teresa
Wikinson gave the treasury and it
approved as presented.
Dan reported on the Central Spring
Meet. We had six members at the
meet.
Phil Judkins said there would be a
silent movie at the Broken Arrow Vo
Tech on Friday, June 19, at 7:00 p.m.
David Turner reported on the
Tour to Bartlesville scheduled for
September 12, 2015. We will have a
tour of the Wright Tower, and lunch
at Dinks BBQ. Our garage tour is the
collection of Neil Conover, which
consists mostly of Brass Era cars.
Conover buys, sells and restores cars.
Joe Smith reported on our tour to
Basil and Ann McLarin’s scheduled
for July 18, 2015.
Richard Holmes said there would
be a show at the new Heart of Route
66 Auto Museum in Sapulpa Oct. 3,
2015. He also said that the museum
should be open by the first of the
year. Richard also had raffle tickets
for a MGA race car which was
donated to help raise money for the
new museum.
There was discussion about the
Glidden Tour. It was reported that
the only money spent by the Region
would be on an ad in the program
and for a banner which will hang in
the reception room.
Phil Judkins said we could have the
tour to Miami any time we wanted;
there is a motorcycle, and a car
museum to see before the Coleman
Theater tour.
With with no other business, the
meeting was adjourned at 1:40 p.m.,
and everybody enjoyed all the cars at
the show.
Respectfully submitted
Jim Jones, secretary
Trip to Coleman Theatre in Miami
Phil Judkins has arranged for our club to visit the Coleman Theatre in Miami.
We have not set the date as yet, but the Coleman starts tours every day at
10:00 AM, and no reservations are necessary. Phil said we will be able to
show a silent movie accompanied by the theater organ, which would be
really, really fun. We’re thinking of showing the 1923 Harold Lloyd comedy
Safety Last! which includes one of the most famous images from the silent
film era, namely, Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles
from the outside of a skyscraper above traffic moving in the street far below.
The trip will include an overnight stay in Miami rather than try to squeeze
the trip up and back along with our activities all in one day. The date has
not been set but will probably be some time in October or perhaps early
November. www.colemantheatre.org
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70th Revival AAA
Glidden Tour
August 30 - September 4
Our hospitality room volunteers
are as follows: Gene Griffith,
Clyde and Debbie Harding,
Richard and Lina Holmes, Jim
Jones, Phil and Laura Judkins,
Daniel and Jenny King, Chuck
and Carolanne Mahan, Fred and
Paula Narrin, Robert and Carol
Parker, Joe and Joyce Smith,
David and Betty Turner, Russ
and Becky Wolf
If your name is not shown here
and you would like to help with
the hospitality room, please contact Dan King or Joe Smith.
All workers are invited to a meeting in Oklahoma City on August
15th. So mark your calendar.
Many of you volunteers have
already given me your preferred
work times, and we have a tentative schedule for Sunday, August
30th all day (8:00 am – 5:00 pm)
and mornings (6:30 am – 9 am)
and evenings (3:00 pm – 9:00 pm)
for monday august 31st through
friday september 4th.
Any questions? Send them to:
Gliddentour@intelebill.Com
For more information visit the
web site: Gliddentour.Org
AACA Central Spring Meet
The AACA Central Spring Meet was held in Independence, Missouri from June 4th through June 6th. On Thursday,
June 4th there was a tour of Arrowhead Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Armacost Museum, the
private car collection of Robert S. Armacost who opened a Studebaker dealership in Kansas City in 1930. On Friday,
June 5th there was a tour of the Bingham Waggoner home which traces its roots back to 1852. From 1879 to 1978, it
was the home of the Waggoner family, owners of the Waggoner-Gates Milling Company which manufactured flour.
The home contains original furnishings and paintings. Saturday, June 6th was the show and with heavy rain falling
that morning things did not look good. But by about 10 AM the rain stopped and everyone wiped their cars dry
and the show proceeded. There were a great many cars from all decades. Saturday night was the awards banquet.
Joanna Cooper won the First Place Kid’s Choice Award, where the young people in attendance voted for their
favorite car in the entire show. I think Joanna enjoyed that award more than any other. Just look at that big smile.
Below is a list of club members from our Tulsa Chapter who attended this event along with their AACA award and
the car they brought:
Charles and Helen Bruce
Class 27Q 1st Junior
1987 Cadillac
Ron and Jean Hardage
Class 25B
Repeat Preservation 1967 Mercedes-Benz
Walter and Marjorie Knickerbocker Class 35B
Repeat Preservation 1981 DeLorean
Joanna CooperDPCDriver Participation
1956 Oldsmobile
Dan and Jenny King
Class 27C
3rd Junior
1958 Edsel
David and Betty Turner had registered their 1968 Chevelle, but it came up lame the week before the meet and they
did not take it. David attended the judges school and participated as a judge for the first time.
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HAIKEY CREEK CAR SHOW
Many thanks to David Turner for taking charge
of our annual Haikey Creek car show which was
held on June 14th. And thanks to Fred Narrin
who set up the road signs and Jim Jones who got
there early to help with the preparations.
Club members in attendance were
Jim Jones – 1970 Subaru
Basil and Ann McLaren – 1988 Pontiac
Joe Smith – 1937 Cord
Ron and Jean Hardage – 1967 Mercedes-Benz
Dan and Jenny King – 1958 Edsel; 1966 Mustang
Phil Judkins – 2004 Ford Thunderbird
Clyde and Debbie Harding – 1957 Chevrolet
Charles and Helen Bruce – 1987 Cadillac
Walter and Marjorie Knickerbocker – 1958 Edsel
Teresa Wilkinson – 1931 Model A Ford
Richard Holmes – 1956 MGA Race Car.
Other club members in attendance who did
not show a car were David and Betty Turner,
Alex Wilson, Fred and Paula Narrin, Mary Jean
Schaeffer, and Ron Scott.
Non-club members in attendance were
Jim Brewer – 1966 Chevrolet
Mike Osborn – 1959 GMC 2-ton truck
Bob Strattan – 1930 Chevrolet
Wayne McFadden – 1962 Studebaker Hawk
Solomon Coulter – 1978 Alpha Romeo
Gary and Mary Baxter – 1957 Ford Thunderbird
Greg Bise – 1961 MGA
Jeff Peterson – 1963 Corvair 8-door van
Don White – 1967 Chevelle
Ken and Marsha Aikins – 1955 Chevrolet
Jay Whiteside – 1978 Lincoln Mark V
Steve Lyle – 1972 MGB
Andrew Hobbs owns a 1987 Mercedes-Benz but
did not show it. Solomon Coulter, Jay Whiteside,
and Andrew Hobbs all expressed an interest in
joining the club.
Thanks to everyone who participated and my
humble apologies to anyone who attended but
I’ve overlooked.
more photos on page 7
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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY
by Randy Beeson
The big story of the month was the
saga of Frank Holt. After planting
a time bomb that exploded in a
U.S. Senate reception room, Holt, a
Cornell University German language
professor and peacenik, attacked and
shot financier J.P. “Jack” Morgan, Jr.
in his Glen Cove, Long Island home
on July 3rd. Morgan and his servants
restrained Holt who committed
suicide in jail three nights later by
climbing up the latticework of his
cell and diving head first into the
concrete floor. Holt had also managed
to plant a time bomb on the steamer
Minnehaha carrying 15,000 tons of
ammunition to Britain. The bomb
exploded on the 8th and the ship
radioed Cape Race, Newfoundland
that she was on fire and diverting
to Halifax, NS. Fire out, she docked
on the 9th. After his death, Holt was
identified as Harvard professor Eric
Muenter who had disappeared in
1906 after murdering his wife with
arsenic. Morgan would recover from
his wound.
On July 11th, a note was sent to a New
Orleans newspaper claiming that
additional bombs would be placed
on munitions ships sailing to England
and France. The author claimed to
be Holt’s successor and vowed to
kill Morgan and British ambassador
Spring-Rice. Holt’s death seemed to
trigger a rash of copycat saboteurs
and heightened public awareness of
sabotage. On the 17th, Mayor George
Quigley of New Britain, Connecticut
requested assistance from the Secret
Service in the investigation of a
suspected plot to blow up local arms
factories.
On the eastern front, Von
Hindenberg’s army had been
reinforced with an additional 150,000
troops as he prepared to attack
Russian forces near Warsaw. The
German attack succeeded and on the
30th, Warsaw and Lublin fell to Von
Hindenberg. The Cunard liner Orduna
reported an attempt on July 16th
by a German submarine to torpedo
her outside the Liverpool harbor as
Germany continued unrestricted
submarine warfare against the
western allies.
On July 8th, the U.S. Navy took
control of the German-owned
commercial radio station at Sayville,
L.I., based on suspected violations of
U.S. neutrality laws. Coded messages
would no longer be accepted for
transmission.
Tragedies dominated the news the
latter half of this month. On the 24th,
the excursion steamer Eastland sank in
20 feet of water near her Chicago pier,
taking 852 passengers to their deaths.
On the 26th, 275 miners were trapped
and feared dead in an underground
coal mine explosion at Christopher in
southern Illinois.
Famous births this month included
physicist Charles Towns, developer
of the laser, in Greenville, SC on the
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8th. Author Saul Bellow was born in
Montreal, Canada on the 10th.
This month’s Popular Mechanics
magazine announced the use of
slightly concave aftermarket accessory
rear view mirrors that could be
mounted on the front fenders of an
automobile to provide the driver with
a view of both sides of the street to
his rear. In Europe, allied forces were
using a unique armored car developed
in the U.S. This vehicle was equipped
with fore and aft driver controls and
could be driven from either end. In
addition the vehicle’s hand crank was
located inside, eliminating the need
for a driver to crank a stalled vehicle
outside while under fire. The car also
featured a machine gun in a topside
revolving turret.
REGION TRIP TO
BARTLESVILLE
September 12th
The garage tour and trip to
Bartlesville is currently set for
September 12th.
The plan is to tour the Frank
Lloyd Wright designed Price
Tower in the morning. We will
have lunch at Dink’s Pit Bar-BQue restaurant and then proceed
to David’s friend’s barn and see
his brass era cars. From there,
David will point us in the right
direction back toward Tulsa.
From the Editor of
RUNNINGBOARD
RAMBLINGS
Do you have a favorite old car
story? Or have you been on a
recent car trip? Is your old car
getting some special attention or
going to a car show?
Let me know!
And please send photos.
I really appreciate the input!
THANK YOU!
Please send your articles or photos to:
LinaHolmes1@mac.com
ALL PHOTOS SHOULD BE
ATTACHED SEPARATELY
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PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR
PHOTOS WITHIN A WORD
DOCUMENT.
BE SURE TO CHECK THE AACA
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THE COUNTRY:
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BIRTHDAYS
JULY
20 Dan King
22 Carl Richardson
AUGUST
7
8
18
22
25
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John Winkle
Fred Narrin
Kathy Fender
Jerry Aldridge
Ron Hardage
Jack Ireland
AACA RUNNINGBOARD RAMBLINGS
Runningboard Ramblings
is published by the Tulsa Region of the Antique Automobile
Club of America (AACA).
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chartered by AACA, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
AACA Tulsa Region 2015 Officers
President
Daniel King
918 865 4399
Secretary
Jim Jones 918 261 5993
Vice President
Treasurer
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membership in National AACA is mandatory.
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