July 2015 - Fallbrook Vintage Car Club

Fallbrook Vintage Car Club
Region of the AACA
The Talepipe
Materials
for the
Talepipe
can be sent to:
[email protected]
or call
The TALEPIPE
is the newsletter of the
FALLBROOK VINTAGE CAR CLUB REGION
of the AACA
Incorporated as a California Nonprofit
Mutual Benefit Corporation
P.O. Box 714
Fallbrook, CA 92088
www.fallbrookvintagecarclub.org
(special thanks to Jennifer Moosa for research and layout and
to Chuck Tillotson and Craig Smith for article submissions)
Kathleen Stiles
Vintage Car Club Pioneer
Paul; Stiles, Kathleen’s late husband, was
the first Fallbrook Vintage Car Club President
back in the early 60’s. After the car show,
Chuck Tillotson stopped by Kathleen Stiles'
home to drop off some prints of photos he
took of her while she was at the car
show. She was in high spirits because
when she went to church that morning, everyone was coming up to her and shaking her
hand and saying how great the Village News
article was about her being involved in the
car show. She said she felt like a 'celebrity'
and couldn't thank the Car Club enough for
including her in the celebration of our 50th
anniversary. She had a great time and
thanks to the club the event was memorialized forever in the newspaper.
The 1929 roadster pick truck she is
standing beside was originally owned
by Paul Stiles as an everyday truck and
eventually it was parked at rest. Just
before Paul passed away, he wanted to
sell, by then, bucket of rust that the
truck had become so he got ahold of
Les Von Nordheim and he worked out a
sale with the proviso that Les restore it
to original rather than make a hot rod
out of it. Les lived up to his word and
won the award for the Best of Show in
the Pre-1920 Model T's & A's Class.
Kathleen recognized the vehicle as
soon as she saw it on the show field.
In the first photo she is with Les, in the
second with her daughter, Kerith.
Page 2.
A Bird’s View of the 50th Car Show
An overhead view of the Fallbrook Vintage Car Club’s fiftieth anniversary show pictures most of
the 400 vintage cars entered in the show. A very large crowd was present to view the vintage
vehicles on view today at the Pala Mesa Resort driving range. Vendors booths lined three
sides of the show.
Credit photo: Kenneth Ray Seals
Car and owner
at The first public
Fallbrook
Vintage Car
Club Car show
in
1965.
50 years later...
the belly’s bigger, the hair
thinner and grayer...
but the car’s
still the same.
Page 3
Thousands attend 50th annual
Fallbrook Vintage Car Show
By Debbie Ramsey on May 24, 2015
The 50th annual
Fallbrook Vintage
Car Show, Sunday,
May 24, drew thousands of spectators
to the large-scale
event held on the
grounds of Pala
Mesa Resort.
The morning began
Attendees at the Fallbrook Vintage Car Club show
today paused to observe the National Anthem during
with the Fallbrook
open ceremonies. A large crowd tuned out to view
A 1954 restored Corvette is admired by some the thousands of
Firefighters Associ- more
than 400 vintage cars entered in the show which
attendees at the Fallbrook Vintage Car Club today at Pala Mesa
ation cooking panResort. More than 400 vintage cars were entered in the show,
was held on the golf course at Pala Mesa Resort.
which was the club’s fiftieth anniversary.
cakes, the
Fallbrook High School rock band playing atop a stage and visitors streaming in steadily to view the approx. 400 classic vehicles on display.
In the afternoon, a Beatles’ tribute band took the stage as the
crowd continued to thicken.
With 60 swap meet booths and numerous others educating
the public about community organizations and a free children’s play zone, the
event offered something for the entire
family.
A large crowd turned
out today to see
more than 400 vintage cars entered in the Fallbrook Vintage
Car Club fiftieth anniversary show at Pala Mesa Resort.
The cars in the show were judged for prizes as they were
parked on the
driving range of
the Pala Mesa
golf course.
Page 4
50th Annual Car Show Breaks Own Records
By Linda McIntosh3:53 P.M.MAY 26, 2015
FALLBROOK — Back in the mid-1950s, a hand full of car buffs got together at the Fallbrook Tractor Store to talk
about their vintage vehicles and ways to show them off. That was the start of the Fallbrook Vintage Car Club.
The community-oriented club put on its 50th
Fallbrook Vintage Car Show Sunday at Pala Mesa Resort and broke the event’s previous records.
The event showcased 420 cars, attracted some
25,000 spectators and had 74 swap meet booths.
By all measures every existing past car show record of the club’s was broken, said longtime member Chuck Tillotson, who compiled the statistics.
Pre-1920’s domestic Stock Award winner Bob Walter
with his 1910 Locomobile 30
Veteran club member Kathleen Stiles, wife of the
club’s founder Paul Stiles, spoke about the early
years of the group when it was only a small gathering of men with an interest in cars and a desire
to start a car show that would raise money for
needy folks in the community.
This year’s display of vintage cars 25
years or older ranged from models
Model A’s and T’s, woodies and hot
rods to domestic vehicles, stock cars,
trucks, motorcycles and unrestored
models.
Twelve 1965 model vehicles from different manufacturers were selected by
the show committee from the show
car entry list to be the featured cars
that represented a cross section of the
autos manufactured 50 years ago,
commemorating the year of the club’s
first car show.
In the spirit of the 1960s, the Sgt
Peppers Beatles Tribute Band concert performed.
Planning for this year’s show began
in October when a car show committee of 20 members was formed, led
up by co-Chairmen Mike McGuire
and Doug Allen.
Page 5
The Strangest Concept Car Ideas That Failed
Dodge Deora
If you collected Hot Wheels cars in the 1960s and 70s, you
might have seen a bizarre half-truck, half-car creation that
looked like nothing else on the road. That car was the Dodge
Deora, introduced as a concept vehicle at the 1967 Detroit Autorama. Built off of a Dodge A100 pickup, the Deora was customized by a pair of brothers to feature a front-entry
hatch instead of side doors,
an engine under the truck
bed, and some seriously swank styling. Dodge leased the car and used it at shows
for a few years, but never made the jump to production.
L’Automodule
Europe in the 1970s was a time of great experimentation, with designers and artists
drawing inspiration from science fiction to create the technology of the future. French
engineer Jean-Pierre Ponthieu wanted to push cars out of their comfort zone by creating a spherical vehicle that seated three and boasted four wheels supported by
hydraulic masts. That variable wheelbase allowed the Automodule to adjust its height
off of the ground to deal with a wide variety of terrain. Only one Automodule was ever
built, sadly.
Nissan Land Glider
One of the fun things about concept cars is the fact that nothing is sacred. Don't want to deal with traditional steering
mechanisms? Throw them out, like Nissan did with the Land
Glider. In 2009, with a mandate to create new zeroemissions vehicles for urban use, the design team debuted
this unusual ride that ran on electricity and seated two people, with the passenger behind the driver. The biggest
change the Land Glider brought to the table was the cornering system, which saw the wheels not attached to the steering
system by any physical machinery – just electronics. Like a motorcycle, turning in the Land Glider involves tilting your body and the car itself.
Chevrolet Astro III
The space race was incredibly inspiring for America's automakers – if we
reached the stars, surely our land vehicles should be just as futuristic. Designer Bill Mitchell at Chevrolet used aerodynamic inspiration to create a highperformance vehicle that boasted a dramatic tricycle-style wheel arrangement.
The driver used pistol-grip levers to guide the two front wheels, and a rear
view camera served instead of mirrors. Alas, the Astro was too beautiful for its
time, and the III was the last of its line.
Rinspeed X Dream
Swiss car company Rinspeed is notorious for their way-out concept
cars, but the X Dream might be the cherry on top of the sundae. First
shown in 1999 at the Geneva Auto Show, this banana-yellow puppy
isn't like anything that's ever hit the open road. The basic concept is
simple: it's an open-top pickup truck sporting a beefy 5.5 liter Mercedes
engine that could hit a top speed of 147 miles per hour. But it was the
extra features that put the X Dream in the hall of fame. A hydraulic lift in
the back deployed a personal hovercraft so you could hit the water.
Page 6
Aurora Safety Car
Not all concept cars come from the big automakers. Some are the result of
hobbyists who want to change the world themselves. One such man was Catholic priest Father Alfred Juliano, who was concerned with highway safety
enough to devote his life to creating a more durable automobile. The Aurora
was introduced in 1957 and was set to retail at $12,000. The fiberglass-bodied
car was outfitted with side impact bars, a collapsible steering wheel, a roll cage
and numerous other features designed to keep occupants safe in case of a
crash.
Honda Fuya-Jo
Originally making its debut at the Tokyo Motor Show in 1999, the Fuya
-Jo was an attempt by Honda to diversify out into the party vehicle
business. The unusual design was created so that passengers in the
back could party hard, with a low floor making it easy to enter even if
you've had a few and a spill-proof non-slip floor to repel booze. The
interior was designed with features intended to evoke a DJ booth and
the doors house massive speakers to ensure that your rolling party
would be bumping until the cops eventually pulled you over.
Ford MA
Thinking about the environment is a popular trend in industrial design, but
the Ford MA takes this to a whole 'another level. Designed by the company's vice president of design, the MA is constructed from bamboo, carbon
fiber and aluminum and is assembled without a single weld, instead being
held together by 364 bolts. A zero-emission electric engine keeps the MA
from polluting the air, and when you're done with it the machine is 96% recyclable, with no industrial adhesives and very little paint preventing you
from returning it to raw materials.
Italdesign Machimoto
When the Italdesign Machimoto first bowed at the 1986 Turin Motor Show, the
press didn't know what to make of the thing. A bizarre fusion between a car and
a motorcycle, the Machimoto was built around a Volkswagen Golf chassis with
the top opened up and three rows of seats added in. Passengers would sit motorcycle-style and the vehicle could even be expanded to increase the total capacity to nine people. The steering system was also unusual – drivers could opt
for a traditional wheel or motorcycle handles. The world has still never seen
anything quite like it.
Ford Nucleon
Of all the cars on this list, we should probably be happiest that the Ford
Nucleon never made it into production. The desire to move away from
traditional internal combustion engines didn't start with the Prius – all the
way back in the 1950s, Ford was investigating other options. In '57, they
dropped a concept car that ran on that most modern of energies – nuclear. The Nucleon was designed around the idea of a small fission reactor
in the trunk that would allow the sedan to travel as far as 5,000 miles on
one chunk of uranium. Needless to say, once the dangers of radiation
became a little more known Ford shelved the idea.
Page 7
Calendar of Car Club Events
June 28, 2015
Car Club Barbecue at the home of
Ron and Bev Mintle
3773 Diego Estates Drive, Fallbrook, Ca. 92028,
760-728-2947
July 14, 2015
Board Meeting: 7pm
Hosts: Joe and Jeanne Cusimano, 144 Amigos
Way, Fallbrook, Ca. 760-723-4085
July 28, 2015
General Meeting : 7pm
Community Baptist Church 731 South Stage Coach
Lane Fallbrook, Ca. 92028
Hospitality: Lella through Mauri
August 11, 2015
Board Meeting: 7pm
Hosts: Doug and Sharon Allen, 516 Hilbert Drive,
Fallbrook, Ca. 714-742-2305
General Meetings
Monthly membership meetings at the Community Baptist Church 731
South Stage Coach Lane Fallbrook, Ca. 92028 (right on the corner of
Stagecoach and Reche), on the 4th Tuesday of each month unless
otherwise scheduled in advance. Meetings begin at 7:00 PM.
Board Meetings
Board Meetings are normally held at a member's home the 2nd
Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM, unless otherwise scheduled.
All FVCC Board Meetings are open to all members. There is
more to the Fallbrook Vintage Car Club than just a Car Show. Come
and join us at the Board Meetings to get more involved with your club
or just to socialize.
If you need more information please contact one of the club
officers or committee chairs.
Membership Information
Membership information may be obtained by mail or from any FVCC
officer or chairperson. Membership Applications are also available on
our
website at Fallbrookvintagecarclub.org.
Our email address is:
[email protected]
2014-2015
Board of Directors
President... Roy Moosa 760-723-1181
Vice President... Mike McGuire 760-728-6430
Secretary…Wayne King 760-451-2006
Treasurer…Lee Johnson 760-723-8286
Member at Large: …John Waugh 760-723-0705
Committee Chairs
Membership
Valerie Long 619-895-0919
Programming
Car Show Committees
Car Show Co- Chairs
Car Show Feature Car Committee
Car Show Poster and Major Sponsors
Car Show Program
Car Show Registration
Car Show Field Parking
Car Show Swap Meet
Car Show Public Parking
Roy Moosa 760-723-1181
Car Show Judging
Public Relations
Car Show Sale Items
Chuck Tillotson 760-805-1281, Craig Smith 760-728-0954
Outside Activities
Glen Patterson 760-723-2818
Car Show Signs
Car Show Raffle
John Waugh 760-723-0705
Car Show Set Up
Donations
Car Show Volunteer Coordinator
Pat Stein 760-728-0954
Special Events Set Up
Fred Ragland 760-803-8971
Merchandise Sales
Lee Johnson 760-723-8286
Communications
Jeanne Cusimano, Molly Conley, Christine Moosa
Website
Bill Muno 760-723-7200
Newsletter Editor
Roy Moosa 760-723-1181
R.O.M.E.O. Men’s Social group
Doug Allen 714-742-2305
.J.U.L.I.E.T. Women’s Social group
Connie Waugh 760-723-0705
Car Club Family Picnic
Lee Johnson 760-723-8286
Car Club Christmas Party
Louise Patterson 760-723-2818