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The Shenandoah Region of AACA
May 2016
Volume 29 NO. 5
President’s Column
Calendar
 May 5: General Meeting.
 May 6 & 7: Apple Blossom
Meet. (see committee list
on page 2.)
 May 19: Board of Directors’ Meeting.
 June 4: The 27th annual
Orphan Car Tour.
 June 2 – Membership
meeting & Annual Auction.
 July 16 – Museum of the
Shenandoah Valley Car
Show and Family Day.
 August 20 – Kern Motor
Company Car Show Celebrating 70 years of family
owned business.
Hi all,
I will see everyone at the Apple Blossom Parade and at the meeting. My knee is fine and I'm back in action.
Don't forget we need cars for the Saturday Grand Feature Parade.
See Jim Tillery for registration.
I am also pretty disappointed that no one would step up and handle the Poorman’s tour. If we don't have enough interest in participating, maybe we should tell the Queen City Region it's canceled.
The Apple Blossom Car Show is two weeks away! We need to get
the cars ready and we need help. Field set up requires many people to
get the area laid out.
Birthday Wishes!
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This is our busy time so please volunteer and help where you can.
Dicky Sandy
Terri Howser
Margaret Fera
Gerry Sandy
Hubie Kline
Verne Critchfield
Pat Stover
Sally Wolfe
Bill Sandy
Isaac Boyce
Jerry Kerr
Ron Dailey
Your Ever Faithful Servant,
President Mark Dinsmore
Inside this issue:
UPCOMING EVENTS
2
APPLE BLOSSOM SHOW
2
MAY MEETING DATES
2
BULLETIN BOARD ADS
2
HOPPER BENEFIT SHOW
3
UPCOMING CAR EVENTS
3
APRIL 3 FUN RUN REPORT
4
UPCOMING FUN RUNS
5-6
Show up for Apple
Blossom Show Set-Up!
General Meeting
Apple Blossom Car
Show Field Set-Up on Wednesday, May 4 at 4:00 p.m.
Location: Fellowship Hall,
Round Hill UMC
Meeting Hosts: Peter
Ford & Eric Kirk
Members are needed to help
lay out the show field and flea
market field, and paint space
numbers on the grass.
This is a “potluck” meeting. The
Club will provide the meat entrée. Please bring a “covered
dish” (appetizer, salad, veg side,
dessert) to share, and your own
dinner plate, tableware, tablecloth and beverage.
Don’t forget the serving spoons!
Everyone who is available and
able to walk the fields, please
come and help. More hands gets
the job done quicker !!
May 5 @ 7:00pm
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Apple Blossom Show Committees
FOR SALE —1928 Chevrolet
Pickup. Motor overhauled.
Transmission and rear end are
OK. Runs great. Body and interior needs complete restoration.
Must sell due to poor health.
Contact Gerald (Jerry) Smith:
540-545-7002 or 703-727-2793
FOR SALE — 1967 Pontiac
Catalina 2-door hardtop. Green.
A/C, P/S, P/B, A/T. Good driver,
all works. Asking price $10,500.
Contact Art Bragg at 540-5501496 for further info.
FOR SALE — 1963 Cadillac
Sedan DeVille Original Car, 2nd
owner 57,000 Miles Great
driver.. Contact Bill Carl 540247-3750.
FOR SALE — Sliding garage door hardware-- 20Ft. of
rail and the brackets to install to
a building. Two sets of rollers,
with bolts and hasp. Will hold a
door weighing up to 500 lbs.
$125.00. Eric Kirk 667-4483.
FOR SALE — 1957 Hudson
May 2016 General
& Board Meetings
The General Meeting is
set for May 5 at 7:00 p.m. See
information box on the front
page for details and page 3
for directions.
The board of directors
meet at Perkins Restaurant
on May 19.
FOR SALE – VA Vintage Tags
Hornet 4 door sedan. 327 CID
engine- V-8, 4 brl. dual exhaust.
New interior. Includes continental kit not installed. Comes with
extra parts. Is bronze and pink
outside and black, silver and
pink inside. RARE car with only
4180 cars being built, in this last
year, for Hudson. $7200.00.
Call Eric Kirk , 667-4483.
– Tom Rissler (540) 662-9020
FOR SALE — Wood for your
FOR SALE: Four (4) Eldorado
car project. Ash, Cherry, Walnut,
Maple, Oak, Pine, and Cedar.
Price varies by type and quality.
$4.00 to $9.00 a linear foot. Call
Eric Kirk 667-4483.
Golden Fury GFT tires, P225/
75R15, 2-inch white walls. Not
new but still good tread left.
$200 for all 4. Contact Jim
Tillery, 540-678-1565.
IMAGINE YOUR AD HERE.
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Club members in Hopper Top 25
On April 10, a very bright,
sunny, but very cool day, the
Hopper's Auto Club hosted
their spring "Cars-For-A-
Cause" auto show at Shenandoah University.
Jerry won top 25 plaques for
their cars.
There were plenty of antique stock, hot rods, and
modified cars at this years
show. The Shenandoah Region Club was represented by
Jim Tillery, with his 1955 Plymouth Belvedere Club Coupe
and Jerry Lunt, with his 1935
Ford Deluxe 5-Window Rumble Seat Coupe. Both Jim and
Way to go Jim & Jerry.
Upcoming Car Event News
 ANNUAL CLUB AUCTION — June
2 – Membership meeting at our car
club shelter, Jim Barnett park. It’s
also our AUCTION night. Start now
collecting your items for this exciting
event. Auctioneer will be Todd
Bragg.
 June 4 — 26th annual Orphan Car
Tour, known this year as the
"Arundel Steeple Chase". Morning
car show at 10:00 a.m. ("The Orphan Car Showcase"), the traditional
afternoon driving tour which starts
at noon, and a 4:00 p.m. buffet dinner. (The public is welcome to attend the car show.) The Tour is
open to antique "orphan" (no longer
manufactured) vehicles, and will be
held rain or shine.
Participants will meet at the Annapolis Moose Lodge at 1980 Crownsville
Rd. starting at 9:00 AM. At noon,
after the two-hour "orphan" car
show, cars will be released onto the
Have an event, a story, an ad
or something else to share for
the Split Rim? Send it along to
tour one by one. Drivers are given
printed directions and can proceed
at their own pace along a scenic
route. Registration is $10 per car
and drivers can register on the day
of the tour. Dinner is extra and
dinner reservations must be made
by May 28.
Further information is available
from John Boksz, (443) 791-1198
MARL6567@aol.comor at
www.orphancartour.org . Day of
show only, officials may be contacted
at (703) 986-8785.
General club meeting
Starting just west of Winchester Medical Center,
from the intersection of
Route 37 and Route 50 -Drive west on Route 50
(Northwestern Pike) for approximately 2 miles.
(Round Hill Road). At 0.3
miles, turn right at Church
rear driveway (Trinity Lane)
into the parking lot. The
Fellowship Hall entry is at
the bottom level, rear of
Church, off the parking lot.
Shortly after crossing Nat’l
Lutheran Blvd., turn left on
Rte 654 (Poorhouse Rd)
If you are driving east on
Route 50, you can turn right
directly into the front driveway of the Church. Proceed
around the building to rear
parking lot.
At 0.2 miles, just before
Round Hill Fire Station,
turn right on Rte 803
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SRAACA April Fun Run lives up to name
On April 3rd, the Shenandoah Region of the AACA
launched the 2016 season
with a “fun run” to the Washington County Rural Heritage
Museum located at the Agricultural Education Center in
Boonsboro, Maryland.
through Shepherdstown , arriving at the museum
after a delightful
trip through the
byways of West
Virginia and Maryland.
The intrepid group met at
the Triple J 7-11 near Berryville at 1300 to begin the trip.
We were led by Art Bragg
and Eric Kirk, who together
checked out the route and
provided extensive, thorough
directions for the day’s run.
The museum is
a three-building
complex, with the
first being the 19th
century family
building (how they
lived). There were several
sample rooms showing how
farm life existed then, including a one-room schoolhouse,
complete with teacher. There
were also several demonstrations going on at the same
time, such as a weaving demonstration, and quilting.
The group of eight vehicles
set out with Art in the lead,
and with Eric bringing up the
rear to ensure the group’s integrity. We traveled through
Summit Point, and on to and
A docent from the museum
provided some classic church
music on the Moller pipe organ in the hall. The Moller
organ was built in nearby
Hagerstown, and was a great
example of the instrument.
(See Fun Run on page 6.)
89th Shenandoah Apple Blossom Grand Feature Parade
As in year's past, our club
will once again participate in
the Apple Blossom Grand
Feature Parade. The parade
is scheduled for Saturday, 30
April at 1:00 p.m.
We will be in the preparade, so the cars move
fairly quickly through the parade course, (helps to reduce
over-heating). Prior to the
parade, I will inform all participants of exact location of
departure point and time.
Don’t miss
your chance
to be part of
the 2016
Apple Blossom experience!
This is a great time to
showcase our club and our
cars to thousands of locals
and visitors so lets get those
cars out of mothballs and onto
the parade field.
—Submitted by Jim Tillery
(540) 678-1565 // TilleryJD@gmail.com
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Upcoming Events
(continued from page 3)
The Orphan Tour is held annually in
the greater Washington-Baltimore
area.
Orphans are defined as cars or
trucks at least 25 years old produced
either by now-defunct manufacturers, or by the discontinued divisions
of surviving companies. Tour sponsored by Mid-Atlantic Packards (a
region of The Packard Club), the
Potomac Chapter of the Studebaker
Drivers Club, the Keystone Region
Chapter of the S.D.C., the Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the HudsonEssex-Terraplane Club, The DeSoto
Owners Club of Maryland, and the
Potomac Ramblers chapter of
the American Motors Owners Association and AMC Rambler Club.
 July 16— Museum of the Shenandoah Valley Museum Car Show and
Family day, Amherst St. Winchester
 August 20— Kern Motor Company
Car Show — Celebrating 70 years of
family owned business. 2110 Valley
Avenue, Winchester. Display limited
to vehicle brands (23) sold by them
through these 70 years.
 September — Poorman’s Tour
 September 17 —41st annual Edgar
Rohr Memorial Antique Car Meet at
the Manassas Museum, 9101 Prince
William Street. Antique and street
rod cars and trucks — over 150
vehicles last year! — may take
part. Fifty "class" trophies and 12
special awards are awarded. Flea
market, car corral, door prizes, and
silent auction are also planned.
Other highlights include two ModelT Ford assembly demonstrations.
Free trailer parking, free spectator
admission and free garage parking
across from show field. Sponsored
by Bull Run Region, AACA. held rain
or shine! Additional information —
Darryll Baker at (571) 294-7853 or
darryllbaker@aol.com. flyer at
www.bullrunaaca.org/ .
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Start your engines!
Monthly Sunday Fun Runs
* May 22: “A Look at the Past”— Meet at 1:00
p.m. Winchester Frederick County Historical Society,
1340 S. Pleasant Valley Road.
Directions: Turn off Pleasant Valley Road by the visitors’ center. Enter lower entrance of the
Hollingsworth Mill next to Abrams Delight.
We will see many interesting items at the
Hollingsworth Mill. A time to reminisce of businesses
in Frederick County and Winchester. Shenandoah
Region member Art Bragg has loaned them 124 items
for this exciting display. After Hollingsworth, we’ll go
next door to Abrams Delight Museum built in 1754,
the oldest House in Winchester.
From there we’ll motor downtown to visit George
Washington’s Office Museum. This small log cabin
located on the corner of Braddock and Cork Streets
was his office between September 1755 and December
1756. Experience the “George Washington and the
West” exhibit.
Once we finish our tour of George Washington’s office
you will receive information for our next surprise visit
in the Kernstown area. We are expected there between 3:30 and 4:00 p.m.
I expect a good turnout of region members and prospective members for this Sunday run and all those I
have planned for May through August.
Don’t disappoint me!
* June 26 – Art Bragg Collection, Brucetown, VA
* July (TBA) – Strasburg Nash Garage to see Troxell
restored facility and then ice cream at the Stup Farm.
* August 28 – Burchill Collection, Jefferson, MD
—submitted by Art Bragg
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April Fun Run
The second building is the
farm building (how they made
their living). It is chocked full
of farm machinery which
traced the development of machines, such as a threshing
machine, a reaper of the Cyrus
McCormick type, plows and
other tools that the farmers
made use of from the late
1800s into the early 1900s.
There was also a static demonstration of hog butchering,
milking, butter churning and
several other displays of farming.
The third building is the
transportation building (how
they traveled). In this building are antique cars, bikes,
trucks, etc.
Here are the only two Dagmar automobiles known to exist, the Norwalk Underslung,
built in Martinsburg, Eric
Kirk’s own Paige, and several
other cars and trucks, some of
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(From page 4.)
which have participated in our
Apple Blossom shows in past
years.
The Thomas collection of
memorabilia, such as sleigh
bells, Good Humor truck bells,
harness bells, along with
spark plugs, keys and many
more items of automobile interest are prominently displayed.
The carriages
are from the
Estate of the
Daughren’s of
Washington
County. Admiral Daughren
was the Navy
Admiral for
Abraham Lincoln. The carriages were
donated to the
Museum from
the estate of
Shenandoah Region member
Charles R. “Bud” Smith.
Along with the cars in the
museum, there was a truck
show on the grounds nearby,
with numerous over-the-road
tractors on display. The
trucks shown covered a wide
range of marques, such as Diamond T, Peterbilt, Ford and
several Macks, having had
their birth in Hagerstown.
The trucks were as polished as the cars, only much
larger! Antique farm tractors
were also on display.
After spending a couple of
hours, the group reassembled
and struck out for Bonnie’s
Diner at The Red Byrd where
they had set up a large table
in a back room for all 22 of us,
no doubt to keep us away from
the real customers!!
We had a very fine dutch
treat meal, and lots of storytelling, and general good conversation. After the meal, and
the conversations, our group
departed for home, splitting off
into several directions. It completed a delightful day, with
ideal, although chilly weather.
Again, we owe great
thanks to Art and to Eric for
planning and organizing this
trip. Well done!! And, to use
a much used and abused
phrase, a good time was had
by all!!!
In case you missed the “fun
run” and would like to visit the
museum on your own, the museum is open Saturdays and
Sundays from 1:00pm to
4:00pm. Weekday hours are
available by appointment by
calling 240-420-1714..
There is no admission
charge, however donations are
gratefully accepted.
For more information and
lots of photos, visit their website www.RuralHeritage Museum.org.
SHENANDOAH AACA 2016 OFFICERS
President
Mark Dinsmore
235 Lick Run Crossing
Stephenson, VA 22656
(540) 514-4097
Vice President
Bob Engle
501 Brill Road
Star Tannery, VA
22654
(540) 465-8680
Secretary
Linda Comontofski
1501 West King Street
Martinsburg, WV 25401
(304) 267-6471
Treasurer
Bonnie Catlett
5601 Middle Road
Winchester, VA 22602
(540) 869-6668
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Duane Catlett
5601 Middle Road
Winchester VA 22602
Craig Comontofski
1501 West King Street
Martinsburg, WV
25401
(304) 267-6471
Barry Smith
104 Launchris Drive
Winchester VA 22602
(540) 667-9275
Jim Tillery
1502 Spring House
Court
Winchester VA 22601
(540) 678-1565
David Wilkins
6319 Middle Road
Stephens City, VA 22655
(540) 869-7639
SUNSHINE LADY: Josie Engle, 501 Brill Road, Star Tannery, VA 22654 — (540) 465-8680
NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Donna Smith, 2work4good@gmail.com
SHENANDOAH REGION
AACA
P.O. Box 3326
Winchester VA 22604
shenandoahregion@gmail.com
www.sraaca.com
Apple Blossom Show!
May 6 & 7
Info on pages 1 & 2
or www.sraaca.com