March - VCCC

VCCC – Kamloops Chapter Newsletter Box 239 Kamloops, BC V2C 5K6
Email [email protected]
Editor: Dave Dickinson
National Website: www.vccc.com
---------- April Issue Deadline for Classifieds & News- April 16th ------------------- May Issue Deadline for Classifieds & News- May 14th ----------
Calendar of Events
*Mar. 16th
Mar. 20
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*Mar. 24th
Mar. 26-27th
*Mar.28th
*Apr. 1st
*Apr. 4th
*Kamloops Chapter Events
Swap Meet Meeting @ Chick Bucks 7:30 pm
The Doo Wopp Swap Meet Kelowna (pre -70) (250 860 0044)
CUT OFF DATE FOR BUS TRIP to Red Deer Swap Meet
Sun Valley Speedway Swap Meet Vernon (250 308 4701)
Spring Garage Tour [Leave Valleyview A & W 9:30 am]
Easter Parade Committee visits MIDDAY TV Program 12 noon [Watch for it]
40th Easter Parade & Pancake Breakfast {if you can help call Dick Parkes 250 573 5740}
*Apr. 7th
Executive Meeting Steve Bell 2604 Galbraith Drive.
…April 9-10th Portland Swap Meet
*Apr. 11th
Adopt A Road [see ad for details inside]
*Apr. 17th
52nd Annual National General Meeting in Merritt 1:00 pm
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April 18
Maple Ridge Swap Meet (604 941 7791)
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April 24
South Okanagan Swap Meet Penticton (250 462 2111)
*April 29 – May 2nd Bus tour to Reynolds Museum and Red Deer Swap Meet {See ad} {need 34 to make it a go}
May 21-24th May Tour at Maple Ridge. “Chariots on Tires” Registration [email protected]
May 28-29th Coastal Swap Meet at the Abbotsford Tradex Center
*June 5th
Swap Meet 26th Annual Kamloops
*Jun 11-13th
4th Back Road Tour “Summerland”
NOTICE: - The executive after much discussion has decided to accept business card size ads for the
Kamshaft. Hoping to replace the income we no longer get from Mall shows. Ads will be $100 for a 12 month
period. This offer is open to members first. If any member should be interested please contact Mike Collings
250 374 -2443 or [email protected].
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LETTERS to the EDITOR
Re Studebaker: - I found it was interesting to read Ed's Shaw story about the '25 Studebaker as I was with him
when we found it in Cranbrook and brought it home. As I recall, we had gone chasing a “Moon” car, but came
home with the Studebaker. DP
It would be nice to have some articles in the Kamshaft or programs at the meetings for the ladies.KH {Ed’s
notes: - Open for suggestions ladies}
{More Letters to the Editor continued on P11&
→The young fellow in the February “Old Photo Corner” is your vice-president Bob Gieselman.
→My apologies to those that do not get the Kamshaft by e mail as some of the pictures may come
out a little dark in the printing process.
→If any member is missing any of the following items such as a President, Past President, or
Governor Pins, Year Bars or Name Tags please contact Ken Hoshowski Membership.
→Thank you to those that supplied items for this issue.
→I understand that some members have one computer at work and one at home. If you would like to add the
second computer to the Kamshaft e mail list please contact me with the additional address.
→This your last chance to sign up for the Bus Trip as March 24th is cut off date.
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VCCC MEMBERSHIP PIN PRESENTATION
Ken Hoshowski our Membership Director will be presenting the following members with their
VCCC membership pins and bars at the meeting this month. If your name is listed it would be
nice if you and your spouse could attend the meeting to receive your pins in person.
We currently have 95 members and the average year of membership is 17 years. That is a lot of
experience and says something for our club as I sure a lot of other chapters and clubs do not have such a
record.
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5 yrs [16 members 1 – 5 yrs.]
Terry & Heather Davidson
Jim & Liz Gunnarson
Carolyn & Wolf Obieglo
20 yrs [18 members 11 – 20yrs.]
John & Karen Buck
Gerry & Vicki Wallin
25 yrs [5 members 21 – 25]
Virgil & Karin Lysgaard
10 yrs [27 members 6 – 10 yrs.]
Roger & Marilynne Blagborne
Clark & Susan Borth
Ken Friesen & Shelley Chmielewski
Robert & Shirley Hand
Jack & Mary Herman
Tom Lafreniere & Donna Mellquist
Ron & Bev Smith
Rick & Jeanne Wourms
30 yrs [5 members 26 – 30 yrs]
Bob & Jeanne Chambers
Bob & Nancy Eacrett
35 yrs [13 members 31 – 35 yrs]
Ron & Chick Buck
45 yrs [11 members 36 – 45 yrs]
Dave & Noella Dickinson
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Past Kamloops Easter Parades
#1 – Overall picture by the Fort 1972
#2 – Ed & Elaine Shaw 1917 Buick Touring
#3 – The Johnson’s & Parkes visit city hall to promote the
Easter Parade
#4 - Dick Parkes gets car ready for parade [Year unknow]
#5 – Parade leaving Sahali Mall
#6 - Parade on route
#7 – Ed Shaw’s Packard
#8 – Gene Johnson promotes parade
#9 – Ed & Elaine Shaw in newspaper.
#10 – Couple of cuties unknown
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#5 – Ed Shaw’s Rolls Royce
#6 – 1912 Detroit Electric from Victor visits
parade
#7 – Rick Ford with Model T
#8 – Easter Bunny helps with traffic control
#1 - Jerry Wallin repairs 1911 Buick
#2 - Marion McConnell
#3 -Michael & Nickalus Bouwmeester
#4 – Darrell & Duane Dickinson sitting in rumble
seat of 1928 Hupp [1972]
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Ev Gallagher pretending to be Granny Clampett riding in Jay‟s Ford.
Over the years many different things have been tried such as members having out
of town billets, a dinner & dance along with a Suit Case
Swap Meet at the Barnhartvale Hall, then it was
breakfast at the Peppermill restaurant and now we have
the club cook trailer we do our own pancake breakfast at
Westsyde Park.
I understand at one of the Banquets that there was a dessert contest for the men.
Glen Gallagher was winning with his car shaped cake until the judges tried the icing
and found out that it was grease. No Glenn did not win!
There was a time that more people took time to dress in Vintage Clothing and the
ladies wore Easter Bonnets. Hoping you can do that this year in order of our 40th parade.
Over the years like so many other things our Easter Bunnies have also changed from small young bunnies to
larger bunnies (riding in truck in picture next page) including one year we had the pleasure of three playboy
bunnies. (Sorry guys no pictures)
I do not know how many years Dick Parkes has been chairman however we have had it cold and windy but I
do not believe rain for any parade so we are leaving him in charge again this year to insure good weather.
Our plan has always been the same to have only Vintage Cars 25 years and older participate. (No rods or
customs)
1994 we started featuring a different “Marque” each year and this year it is Lincoln. 1985‟s will be allowed in
the parade this year. For some of us it is hard to believe that a 1985 is considered a Vintage Car as you can see a
number of them on the street being used as daily drivers.
Hope you can get your car out, dress vintage and join in to make the 40th Anniversary of the Easter Parade a
great success. Editor
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Gene Johnson was telling me that he and Ray Ford had a heck of time trying to keep Ed Shaw’s 1903 one
cylinder Oldsmobile running so it could make it through the parade.
Ed Shaw’s 1903 Oldsmobile
Doug Pitman’s Packard & Ed’s Oldsmobile
Gene Johnson’s Packard & Stanley Steamer
Gallaghers car adapted to a police car.
Another interesting event one year was when coming down from Sahali Mall Gene‟s Stanley lost the brakes
on his Stanley Steamer the Columbia street hill and ended up in the hospital yard straddling a cement wall. The
Stanley went up for sale a short time later.
Stallard’s McConnell’s delivery truck was sold to the BC Transpo Museum
Club Wrecker before the restoration.
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Pictures from Past Parades
Valleyview Shopping Center at the end of the 1979 Parade
Bob & Jeanne Chambers
Stallard McConnell (from Salmon Arm) on the left
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Suitcase Swap Meet
Riverside Park 2008
40th ANNUAL EASTER PARADE
I urge all members to get your vehicle ready for our first big event of the season. The
feature marque this year will be “LINCOLN” and we hope to have a few of those up front
leading the procession. There will be the usual pancake breakfast ($3.00 per person) at
Westsyde Centennial Park from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM and the parade will start at 1:00
PM from the Westsyde Shopping Center at 1:00 PM. We will be needing assistance with
the tech check, parking control, coffee & cookie sales, etc. and a help list will be passed
around at the meeting. If you can help please contact Dick at 250 573-5740 or
[email protected] .
When Doug Smathers‟ dad was not
riding his sulky while plowing the
field with the horses on the family
farm in Baytree, Alberta (12 miles
east of Pouce Coupe, BC ) Doug
(playing dog) and his bros Bud &
Lloyd (horses) would give the
neighbours daughter a ride around
the yard.(picture was taken 1945)
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Notices To Up Coming Events
Sunday April 11th
Coffee @ Dickinson‟s
9:30 am
4015 Davie Rd. Rayleigh
Clean Up Starts @ 10:30 am
Hamburgers & Pot Luck Lunch to
follow @ Dickinson‟s
Please bring a dish of something to
add to the lunch
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Also Lawn Chairs, Plate & Utensils
Welcome to Our New Members: Jim & Pat Johannson
2135 Fleming Place Kamloops BC
V1A 1A3
They have a 1970 Land Rover
5 door safari station wagon
If you know call 250 578 8884 or e mail
[email protected]
If you know any member that needs a little
sunshine please contact Elaine Jones Our
Sunshine Girl. [email protected] 250
376 3841. Elaine sent cards to the following
members: 50th Anniversary – Gordon & Jean Woldum
Get Well: - Bernie Kent
Watch April issue for answer.
February Kamshaft
All we know is it is Ammeter
Do not know where it was used.
Sorry No Winner ?
Letters to the editor continued: - Hi everyone, from Prince George,
Judy and I thought we would let you know what we have been up to
since we moved back to Prince George. Yes, it‟s cold and snowy at
times but we have had a pretty mild winter this past one. But being close
to family again makes it worthwhile.
December 2008 we purchased another car, this one a 1963 Nova SS.
We didn‟t tour too much with the car in 2009 just taking in some local shows as the motor and other things needed some attention.
Judy especially likes this car because she can reach the pedals to drive it unlike the Chevy 11. The motor had to be rebuilt so we took
the engine down to Valley Speed in Kamloops where we had the motor done for the 64 Chevy 11. Craig Beddie helped us out
providing his superb knowledge to Rob at Valley Speed, moving the motor over to the painters after it was rebuilt and helped again
when we picked it up this past December. Craig is a pretty helpful guy, thanks Craig much appreciated.
We now have the car running and ready for this touring season when we plan to let the Chevy 11 rest this year for the long trips.
Depending on the weather we are planning to get down to Kamloops for the Easter Parade, hopefully our early spring will continue
and some of our famous potholes, rocks and gravel in the north will disappear earlier than the norm. Thanks climate change.
Last year we attended a few shows with the Chevy 11, the Prince George British Car Clubs show early in the spring where we won
most original, Prince George annual Fathers Day Show and Shine, Williams Lake Spring Roundup, Quesnel, Vanderhoof/Ft St James
Hooterville Hoot, MacKenzie, Hixon, Langley Cruise In and the Red Deer Super Run in Alberta.
Red Deer was an awesome show with over a thousand vehicles, I don‟t think we saw all the cars in the two days we attended but
there was a wide variety of everything you could think of. The rod run they held downtown was great, you cruise for a bit, find a place
to park, watch for a bit, cruise again and so on, lots of fun. There were about eight couples from our Crusin Classics Club along on the
trip, some driving, some trailering. Please see our local Cruisin Classics website at www.cruisinclassics.ca for pictures and other
events and news in the Prince George area.
The only bad part of the Red Deer trip was a thunderstorm, hail, rain and wind we have never seen the like of before. It happened
on the Saturday night at the dinner-dance, some cars that were left on site had water running through the doors, and storm drains were
overflowing, bubbling back with water shooting out like geysers. Luckily before we left our motel I noticed the clouds coming in and
as an afterthought asked one of our friends if we could put our car in their trailer as our windshield leaked a bit, they had left their car
on site so it was no problem so our car basically escaped the storm.
The Brandon Manitoba Club ( [email protected] ) selected our Chevy 11 for a free registration (one of two) to the
Super Run in Brandon Manitoba July 30 to August, 2010. We asked if we had to bring the Chevy 11, and they replied that we could
bring anything we wanted so Judy and I have decided to take our freshly rebuilt 63 Nova to the show and make a holiday of it. So we
are going to Brandon then coming back through Kamloops to attend the Hot Nite the next weekend.
Langley as always was a big show and hard to see everything, the weather cooperated but it was a long day staging at 05:30 and
leave the show around five in the afternoon. We‟re glad we made it the last two years as it has been cancelled for next year.
We have other shows we would like to get to this season as well. The Penticton show where we have already registered. Besides
Hot Nite in Kamloops, Penticton and Brandon, I think those will be our longest runs this year.
Recently we were given a 1965 Mustang. It needs tons of work inside and out, but the seats and some other stuff are in good shape.
The previous owner had rebuilt the inline 200 ci six motor, so that‟s done. It‟s one of those when I get to it projects. I can see it taking
awhile? When I retire? We‟ll see……. Cheers for now. Hoping to see you all in early April for the parade, damn, just looked outside
and it‟s snowing got to get the sled back out I guess. Wayne and Judy Clarke 
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1939 Cadiallac Wheel Discs
1924 Model T Steering Wheel & Pinion
Virgil Lysgaard 250 851 0243
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1980’s Chevy Short Box Pickup
Ray Henry 250 578 8513
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1941 Chev 3Speed Transmission
Bob Gieselman 250 372 0469
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CHILI MAKERS One or two people to provide
chili for Garage Tour [Club pays for the
ingredients] contact
Bob 250 372 0469
New Windshield $250 #W414 Fits: - Packard „57
& „58 4 dr sedan & wagon, ‟58 Packard 2 dr HT
(except Hawk) Studebaker ‟55 –‟57 2 & 4 dr sedan
& wagon with wrap around windshield. Studebaker
‟58 All except 5 pass coupe & Golden Hawk.
Ed Shaw 250 579 5475
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1928 Model A Tudor $3,000
All together needs restoration
Bob Gieselman 250 372 0469
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1973 Chev pick up $1,000 obo project with parts
1951 Chev 2 dr. drivers side $100.00
Greg Jones 250 376 3841
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Model A Ring Gear & Pinion $150.00 Standard
(Just like new) *Clark Borth 250 377 4596
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1966 Lincoln Continental $2500.00 New engine &
lots of extra parts
*Alan Havisto 250 372 8754
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1964 Ford GalaxieXL500 $14.500 Reconditioned
John Foley
250 573 4256
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Wheels $450 4 16” Chev 8 bolt ¾ ton Chrome
slotted factory wheels fit GMC also Excellent
condition
Steve Bell 250 828 0620
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New 6volt Alternator $165.00
*Mike Collings 250 374 2443
A Thought to Remember until next time:
Whatever you want to do,
do as there are only so many tomorrows.
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