March 2015 Runningboard Ramblings

March 2015
Number 3
Antique Auto Club of America Tulsa Region
Runningboard Ramblings
A message from Daniel King
PRESIDENT’S NOTES
Dear Fellow Club Members,
CENTRAL SPRING MEET - JUNE 4-6
(aaca-kc-events.org/AACA-KC-Event/Welcome.html)
The Kansas City Region will be hosting the AACA Central Spring Meet from Thursday, June
4th through Saturday, June 6th. On Thursday there will be two tours. The first tour will be to
the Armacost Museum, a private establishment of 44,000 square feet housing approximately
80 antique automobiles. It also features pedal cars, bicycles, art, gas pumps and gas-powered
toys. There is also a Skelly Station and 1950s drive-in diner. The second tour is to Arrowhead
Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs. This will include a visit to a private suite on the
club level, the Penthouse, press and broadcast booths, the locker rooms. and a walk on the
field. On Friday there will be a guided tour to the Bingham Waggoner Estate which is on the
National Register of Historic Homes, and Friday night the host hotel will be serving awardwinning barbecue from Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que. The car show will be on Saturday with
the awards banquet that evening at the host hotel, the Hilton Garden Inn.
REGION TRIP TO BARTLESVILLE
David Turner is working on a potential Region trip to Bartlesville on a Saturday yet to be
determined. The route wwill be along slower roads from Tulsa to Bartlesville, with hopefully
nothing over 50 mph. David has a friend with a barn full of brass era cars, and perhaps
we will get permission to visit the collection. Lunch may be at Dink’s World Famous Pit
Barbecue in their back meeting room. Additional activities might include a tour of the
Phillips Petroleum Company Museum, the Tom Mix Museum in Dewey, and the Frank
Phillips Mansion or the Price Tower complex.
POSSIBLE GARAGE TOURS
Joe Smith is working on garage tours and his tentative list is as follows:
Saturday, March 7th - Tulsa Private Collector
Saturday, May 9th - Bartlesville
Saturday, June 13th - TBD
Saturday, September 12th - TBD
Saturday, November 7th – TBD
Details for the March 7th event will be given at the March 1st general club meeting.
continued on page 3, see PRESIDENT’S NOTES
2015 AACA TULSA REGION CALENDAR
MONTH DATE ACTIVITY PLACE PERSON
RESPONSIBLE
MAR
Richard Holmes
3/24
3/1
Board Meeting
General Meeting
Holmes’ home
Joanna Cooper’s
APR
4/7
Board Meeting
TBD
Dan King
4/12
General Meeting
Joanna Cooper’s
MAY
5/28
5/3
JUN
Board Meeting
General Meeting
May 9
June 4th – 6th
TBD
Joanna Cooper’s
KEY DATES
TBD: Quarterly Garage Tour
Teresa Wilkinson
GARAGE TOUR - BRADY DISTRICT
CENTRAL SPRING MEET, INDEPENDENCE, MO
6/9
Board Meeting
TBD
Jim Jones
TBD: Krispy Kreme Fund Raiser
June 13 GARAGE TOUR - TBD
6/14
General Meeting
HAIKEY CREEK
CAR SHOW
JUL
7/30
7/5
Board Meeting
General Meeting
TBD
Joe Smith
Joanna Cooper’s
AUG
8/28
8/2
Board Meeting
Ice Cream Social
TBD
Joanna Cooper’s
TBD: Quarterly
Garage Tour
Dan King
August 30th – September 4th GLIDDEN TOUR
SEP
9/8
9/13
Board Meeting
Hamburger Cook-Out
TBD
Holmes’ Home
Richard Holmes
Richard Holmes
OCT
10/29
Board Meeting
TBD
Joe Smith
TBD: Party
10/4
General Meeting
Joanna Cooper’s
Fall/Halloween
NOV
11/27
Board Meeting
TBD
Phil Judkins
11/11: Veterans
11/1
General Meeting
Joanna Cooper’ss
Day Parade
DEC
12/1
Board Meeting
TBD
David Turner
TBD: Christmas
12/6
General Meeting
Joanna Cooper’s
Party
President: Dan King
Vice President: Joe Smith
Treasurer: Teresa Wilkinson
Secretary: Jim Jones
Board Members at Large:
David Turner; Richard Holmes; Phil Judkins
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Board Meetings
7:00 p.m.
General Meetings
2:00 p.m.
PRESIDENT’S NOTES
continued from page 1
GLIDDEN TOUR gliddentour.org
AUGUST 30 - SEPTEMBER 4
The 70th Revival AAA Glidden Tour
is being hosted by the Okie Region.
The Glidden Tour is the oldest and
largest automobile touring event in
America. The 2015 tour will be a hub
(single host hotel) and spoke (travel
up to 65 miles out from the host
hotel and back) tour.
Between 200 and 250 pre-1943
automobiles are expected to participate (450 – 600 people). Please check
the website often for updated info. If
you register through the website, the
tour committee will send newsletters
periodically with updates.
Our Hospitality Room volunteers
are: Gene Griffith, Clyde & Debbie
Harding, Richard & Lina Holmes,
Jim Jones, Phil & Laura Judkins,
Daniel & Jenny King, Chuck &
Carolanne Mahan, Fred & Paula
Narrin, Robert & Carol Parker, Joe &
Joyce Smith, David & Betty Turner,
and Russ & Becky Wolf. It appears
we will have one worker from
Chickasha and all others from the
Tulsa Region.
If your name is not shown here and
you would like to help with the
Hospitality Room, please let me or
Joe Smith know. All workers are
invited to a meeting in Oklahoma
City on August 15th, so mark your
calendar. Volunteers should think
about when they would like to
work - mornings and/or evenings
- Sunday August 30th evening
through Saturday September 5th
morning.
WINTER PROJECT RESULTS
As a follow-up to last month’s
newsletter, I can happily report
that both of my winter projects
have been successfully completed.
The Edsel now has nice, round
tires and wheels, and the ride is
as smoothe as you please (thanks
to: 3 Point Wheel in Broken Arrow
and Robertson Tires). Also, the ’48
Dodge now has a rebuilt engine, and
I have made a solemn vow never to
run for long distances at highway
speeds at the top of the temperature
gauge and expose that engine to
damage again. Two thumbs up to
Midwestern Engine Rebuilders
(midwesternengine.com).
If any of you have a winter project
story you’d like to share with the
club members, or simply had a
good experience with a supplier and
mechanic, just let me know and we
can follow up on Richard Holmes’
idea of giving them recognition to
the rest of the club members.
THE QUEEN’S MUSTANG
Finally, as some of you may know,
Jenny found the car of her dreams,
and last September we bought her
’66 Mustang. Our mechanic says that
the car is in very good shape, and
that we bought a good one. We’ve
shown it once (last September) when
we’d just gotten it. Since then
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Jenny has driven it as often as the
weather allowed. Now if we can
just get her to come to some of the
club meetings and participate in our
events for 2015!
I look forward to seeing you all at
the general club meeting on March
1st. We will talk about the events
coming up that will make for a
memorable year.
We have several new members but
we need even more. We also need
to reach out to our community
and get as much public awareness
as possible. One of my goals
is to see how we can improve
communications through the use
of the growing technology of social
media.
I regret to give you the news that Ted
Beard, long-time AACA Tulsa Region
Club member, passed away on Tuesday,
February 17. His service was at 10 a.m.
on Saturday, February 21, at the Shrine
Temple in Tulsa.
Our prayers are with his family at this
time.
Sincerely, Daniel King
AACA Tulsa Region,
2015 President
AACA TULSA REGION
General Meeting Minutes
February 1, 2015
The Feb. 1, 2015 Tulsa Region AACA
general meeting was convened at
2:00 PM by President Dan King.
There were two guests: Mike Lasser
and Jim Niessen.
70th Revival AAA Glidden Tour
August 30 - September 4, 2015
REGISTRATION
We will send out registration
packets on April 15. Your registration cannot be postmarked
prior to May 1, 2015. We will
only accept registration forms
via US Mail. The first 200
spaces on the tour will be filled
by the first 200 registrations (by
postmark (in case of tie, furthest
distance from Oklahoma City)).
After the first 200 slots are filled,
a waiting list will be established.
The committee, at it's own
discretion, may choose to accept
additional applicants.
TENTATIVE COST
$275 per driver and $225 per
passenger over 14. Our committee has done a great job of raising money from corporations to
help lower the cost of this year's
tour. This price will include all
three banquets, 5 lunches, all
tour stop fees, tour book and the
color participants book.
DISCOUNT
We are offering a $50 discount
to anyone participating in the
tour with a 1915 or older model
vehicle.
ADVERTISING
If you know anyone that would
like to advertise in the participant
book or the tour book, we are
selling ad space in both.
$500 full page ad
$250 1/2 page ad
$100 1/4 page ad
$50 1/8 page ad
HOST HOTEL
The host hotel Wyndham Gardens Oklahoma City is taking
reservations. Their number is
(405)685-4000. Mention Glidden Tour to get the room fate of
$89.00 plus tax. This rate includes
a hot breakfast for two each
morning. There are many other
hotels within a quarter mile of
the Wyndham (2101 S. Meridian
Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73108).
ANY QUESTIONS
Please send them to
[email protected]
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The minutes from the December 7,
2015 general meeting were read by
Jim Jones and approved as read. No
treasury report was given due to
absence of Teresa Wilkinson. Joe
Smith reported that the treasury
amount was over $7,000.
Dan said there were Memorials of
$75.00 for both Roger Baumann, and
Charles Schaeffer, and that Anita Ward
had also passed away.
David Turner spoke about the Central Spring Meet in June and will help
promote it.
Joe Smith talked about the Glidden
Tour, and that he was trying to get
other car clubs involved. He is getting other garage tours set up for this
year.
Fred Narrin left word that he would
follow up on the new car show.
With no other business, the meeting
was adjourned at 2:35 PM
Ann Sherman had slides from her
book on car collections of Oklahoma.
Respectfully submitted
Jim Jones, Secretary
CORRECTION:
Roger Baumann’s passing was inadvertently published in the RunningBoard
Ramblings as January 11. Roger passed
away on January 8.
Marylynn, I apologize for the error.
These dates are important. Our prayers
are with you. Lina Holmes, Editor.
2015 AACA NATIONAL MEETS & TOURS
March 6-8 Winter Meet Guaynabo, PR
March 20 Annual Grand National Tucson, AZ
March 18-21 Western Spring Meet Tucson, AZ
April 9-12 SE Spring Meet
Charlotte, NC
April 30-May 2 Eastern Spring Meet VA Beach
May 4-6 SE Division Tour Pigeon Forge, TN
May 7-9 Special Spring Meet
Auburn, IN
June 4-6 Central Spring Meet
Independence, MO
July 16-18 SE Fall Meet
Louisville, KY
July 27-31 Vintage Tour
Lancaster, PA
August 24-28 Western Division Tour Santa Rosa, CA
August 30-September 4 Revival AAA Glidden Tour® OK City, OK
September 14-18 Founders Tour NE Ohio
October 7-10 Eastern Fall Meet
Hershey, PA
November 5-7 Central Fall Meet Houma, LA
From the Editor of
RUNNINGBOARD RAMBLINGS
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BIRTHDAYS
MARCH
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Sandy Berenson
Carolyn Plucknett
Helen Bruce
Jim Jones
APRIL
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Chuck Mahan
Russ Wolf
Kay Tan
Sheri Blair
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY
by Randy Beeson
Naval events and marine
disasters dominated the news
during this month of February
1915. On March 2nd, a British
fleet began bombardment of
Turkish forts guarding the
Dardanelles, in preparation
for the landing of Australian
troops at Gallipoli. The U.S.
Navy commissioned its first
minesweeper, the U.S.S.
Baltimore on the 8th. In
retaliation for Germany’s
declaration of a blockade of Great
Britain the previous month, the
British announced a blockade
of German ports on the 11th.
However, given the size of her
fleet and the geographic location
of Germany’s ports, Britain’s
blockade would be effective.
Pursed by British ships, with her
engines nearly worn out and
her coal bunkers nearly empty,
the only German naval unit to
survive the Battle of the Falkland
Islands, the light cruiser SMS
Dresden, was scuttled off the
coast of Chile by her crew on
February 14th. On the 16th
the British battle cruiser HMS
Inflexible and cruiser HMS
Irresistible struck mines in
the Dardanelles campaign.
Irresistible sank while Inflexible
was beached and later towed
to Malta for major repairs. Two
days later, the French battleship
Bouvet also struck a Turkish
mine in the Dardanelles action
and sank with the loss of 640
crewmen.
On the 25th, the U.S. Navy’s
submarine F-4 sank 1.5 miles off
Honolulu, HI, resulting in the
deaths of her 21-man crew. This
was the first sinking of a U.S.
submarine.
In other news, the U.S. National
Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics, predecessor of
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA)
was established on February
3rd, while the Federal Trade
Commission was organized on
the 16th.
The March 25, 1915 issue of
Motor Age carried an article
on the 1908 Schebler V-12
automobile that had been built
for George Schebler of early
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carburetor fame. The engine,
a valve-in-head unit with the
cylinder banks cast at a 45o angle,
was the most interesting feature
of the vehicle. Schebler had
designed the engine to run on
either bank of six cylinders or on
all 12 cylinders. The design was
apparently successful as the car
had 30,000 miles on the odometer
at that point. And this was
all accomplished without any
computer controls!
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