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June Program The June Meeting on Monday the 27th is the Annual Strawberry Social in Marymoor Park. Steve will have a short discussion on plans for the NW Meet (More info on Page 7).�

A Billion Dollar Investment, A Watershed Year, and an American Classic

By Dave Haddock

This was the year that 1) gasoline was only 29.9 cents per gallon, 2) a first-class postage stamp was only 3 cents, 3) the Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the NY Yanks in the World Series, 4-3, 4) On the Waterfront nearly swept the Academy Awards winning Best Picture, Best Actor (Marlon Brando), Best Supporting Actress (Eva Marie Saint), and Best Director (Elia Kazan), 5) Gunsmoke made its debut on

CBS (and went on to become televi-sion’s longest running western), 6) James Dean starred in the movie Rebel Without a Cause (he dies later this year in a car accident at age 26), 7) two fa-mous scientists, Albert Einstein and Alexander Fleming, died, and 8) in Os-hawa, Ontario, Canada, 79,030 Chevro-lets were manufactured by GM of Can-ada (dwarfed by the U.S. production of an incredible 1,736,723 Chevrolets). There was a good reason for this huge production run in 1955. In October 1954, GM’s President, Harlow H. Cur-tice, rolled out the 1955 Chevrolet, the result of a $1 billion investment to transform Chevrolet from the “reliable but stodgy” nameplate of the thirties, forties, and early fifties to the “Hot Ones” of the late fifties and early six-ties. (cont. on p. 5)

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Puget Sound Region VCCA

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The Puget Sound Region of the Vintage Chevrolet Club of America (PS-VCCA) is dedicated to the preservation, restoration, fun and enjoyment of vintage Chevrolet cars and trucks. Members are not required to own a Chevrolet. PS-VCCA chapter membership is open to all Chevrolet enthusiasts who are members of the Vintage Chevrolet Club of America (VCCA). All Chevys from 1911 through 1980 may be registered with the region. General meetings are held on the 4th Monday of the month at Tillicum Middle School in Bellevue . Meetings in September through May are from 7:30PM to 9:30PM. June and August meetings are announced in this publication. No meetings are held in July or December. You can learn more about the club by visiting the website. You can see color photos of previous tours, parts for sale, wanted, etc. and there is a link to view our Monthly Newsletter “Tappet Clatter.” You can find the PS-VCCA website on the World Wide Web @ http://pugetsoundvintagechevrolet.org/

Wanted Reward! We are still seeking “Spotlights” of club member’s cars for 2005 Tappet Clatters. Please take the time to write up the history of your car and include two pictures and send them to Dave Haddock. Do it the way that suits you the best, but if you can do as an attachment to an e-mail that helps Dave put it to-gether. See the past ones as examples. Reward? – You will get a professionally-printed, color copy of your edition and help us produce an interesting monthly publication. THANKS.

Directors Jerry Brownell

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Bob Helgeson

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Asst. Directors Jim Martoza

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Lee Folsom

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Secretary Jim Farris

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Activities Coordinators Don Comstock

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Ana Maria & George Haley

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Treasurer Sallie Comstock

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Editor Dave Haddock

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Club Store Dave & Betty Roberts

Historians Will Borhauer

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John Strampher

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Don Boltz

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First I would like to mention for all that could not attend the memorial service for Tommy Frankhouser that the Puget Sound Region was well represented, with many driving their vintage cars. Tommy will certainly be missed (see photo below). Now on a lighter note, at our last General Meeting Steve Grissom, our dedicated Northwest Meet Chair-person, announced that he has retired. He brought his 35-year service award to show the members. A scale model of his ‘54 Chevy mounted on a diamond plate stand. Can I assume that he retired to dedi-cate more time to the Northwest Meet and other club activities? The month of May has come and gone and we are now well into June. May was a busy month with tours, the Garage night, fundraiser at Monroe Swap Meet, plus three planning sessions for the NW Meet. Yes, a busy month. Now as the Northwest Meet comes closer, members who are in charge of major tasks can now better de-fine their support needs. There are a lot of easy jobs like directing traffic out of the hotel parking lot, helping with the tours, spending a few hours in the hospitality room, helping with the judging or making cookies for the hospitality room. Most of these jobs are supported with others working along side of you. So, when you are at the Strawberry Social at Marymoor Park, if someone asks you for a little help to support the NW Meet just say “yes, I would be happy to". Thanks in advance for supporting our club and I’ll see you at the Strawberry Feed, Helgy.

Tommy Frankhouser (left, with his 1959 El Camino sweater) and Don Boltz at the January 2005 Annual Banquet.


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The store will be open again at the September meeting. Enjoy the summer!!!

Dave & Betty Roberts ANNIVERSARIES!

BIRTHDAYS!

July Celebrations

2005 Northwest Meet– Not Too Late For Gifts!!! Please, please bring more items to the June meeting. Please, we need "new" gifts and gifts that can be given to either the ladies or to gentlemen. We have about 3/4 of our goal. Time is running out!!! Thanks!! Ana Maria

Call For Volunteers & Planning Committee Staff July 10th Sunday - 1:00 - 3:30 PM Fairwood Library, 17009 140th S.E . Renton 98058 (see map above) We need your help!!!! This is the meeting to put together the registration packets and we need all the help we can get - Steve

BETTY ROBERTS 7/19 JOHN STRAMPHER 7/5 DENNIS DYNES 7/8 JIM DARBY 7/21

MIKE & KATHY CURRIE 7/1 WALT & SALLY BLAIR 7/11 BILL & GRACE WEGENER 7/14 FRANK & RICKEY BURLANDO 7/17 JOHN & MARILYN CAMPBELL 7/31

Just a note to say “thank you” to all the Puget Sound Region members that volunteered to work at the Monroe Swap Meet. I had a very good response from the membership though we did-n't get too many working hours this year from the organizer. But every penny counts. I very much appreciate the Early Ford Club giving us this wonderful opportunity to raise some funds for our Club. I realize that some of you didn't get to work but I really appreciate your efforts. The team for this year (shown on right) was: Don & Sallie Comstock, Steve & Kay Grissom, Bob Hel-geson, Dick Jones, Dick Olson, Donna Onat, Dave Roberts, Evie & Rod Schein and me. Let’s make this an annual event! Ana Maria Haley


A Billion Dollar Investment, A Watershed Year, and an American Classic(cont. from p. 1)

Chevrolet’s motto in ’55 was New Look!!….New Life!!…New Every-thing!!, and they weren’t kidding. With eyebrows over the headlamps, and a vertical pillar wraparound wind-shield, it strongly resembled its top-of-the-line corporate sibling, Cadillac. Its “egg crate” grille, reminiscent of an expensive Italian Ferrari, gave it an exotic aura, and the belt line dip just aft of the front door was a nice styling touch that seemed to accentuate low-ness. Chevrolet stylists had reached that touchstone of excellence in American styling; they had made the car look longer, lower and wider all at once, although its dimensions weren't much different from the 1954 model. It had the same 115-inch wheelbase as the previous year, and was actually almost 1 inch shorter over-all, al-

though it was a few inches lower thanks to a flatter roof profile. With its exciting redesigned “Body by Fisher”, a new 12-Volt electrical system, a choice of 7 new power options including the new “Plus-Power Package” (180-HP V8 engine), and other exciting options like air conditioning, self de-icing wiper blades, vacuum-powered ash trays, and a 12-Volt electric razor, this “motoramic” Chevrolet made a bold statement and dominated the new car scene. Back in Oshawa, Ontario, one of those 79,030 Chevys was a 4-door “210” sedan painted a brilliant Empress Maroon manu-factured on February 18, 1955. If you weren’t aware of this particular color there is a good reason for it. You didn’t hear of “Empress Maroon” Chevys in the U.S. because GMs marketing folks preferred the more mundane term of “Copper Ma-roon” for the U.S. market. But that wasn’t the only difference between vehicles manufactured in Canada and vehicles manufactured in the U.S. The U.S. vehicles had the VIN tag located on the driver’s side post while Canadian vehicles still had the VIN tag on the cowl. Canadian cars also had other different paint color and trim options, 1-piece bumpers (most U.S. bumpers were 3 piece), green starter and generator tags indicating manufacture by McKinnon Industries of Canada (not GM Delco), and use of Philips head screws (not the standard “clutch head” screws). By now you’ve probably guessed that this story has something to do with a Canadian-manufactured 1955 Chevrolet 210. Well, I have been interested in ‘55 Chevs for a long time and started looking for a ’55 or ’56 to use as my ”winter” car in early 2003. I was concerned about driving my slightly leaky and rust-prone ’51 convertible to club events during wet win-ter weather but I didn’t want to drive my Toyota either. I was looking for a project car with a project car price tag. Some-thing that I could fix up in a year or two and be able to use as a winter driver. Of course, a number of candidate cars in Ten-nessee, Oklahoma, or Mississippi caught my eye on Ebay. But did it make sense to buy a car without kicking the tires first?? Can you really expect everyone on Ebay that’s selling an old car to be honest? Most appear to be great folks who are just selling grandpa’s car that has been stored in the barn for 30 years. But they still post those “where is, as is” state-ments. And it certainly didn’t make sense to me to spend several hundred dollars to travel and view each candidate car. Af-ter all, I was only looking for a project car. Finally, an Ebay listing for a car on Whidbey Island. The pictures presented a car in reasonable shape and the listing said it ran well. What could be better? I could even drive it home. I called the owner and was told a good story about how he had used the car as a driver until very recently when he was relocated to the Midwest. As much as he loved the car, he had de-cided to leave it behind and sell it. I arranged to preview the car at his friend’s house on the afternoon before the auction ended. Well, I arrived and found the car to be a little different than the car in the pictures on Ebay. Oh yes, it was the same car but the pictures had been taken months (or years??) before and the car had been left under a fir tree most of the winter. The friend handed me the key and mentioned that the car was a little finicky to start. He said that he had tried to start it on Friday and was unsuccessful (probably carburetor problems). Well, to make a long story a bit shorter, the car didn’t start that day and even though I didn’t bid on the car, I did learn a lot about the perils of purchasing a classic car on Ebay. (cont. on p. 8)


2005 Club Meetings & Auto Events Calendar �� 11 Yakima, WA. Annual Yakima Swap Meet & Car Show, 509-453-2119 � 19 Graham, WA. Annual GM Picnic (see below) � 25 Seattle, WA. Greenwood Classic Car Show, 206-789-1148 � 27 Annual Strawberry Social/Feed at Marymoor Park (see page 7)

�� 4 Des Moines, WA. 4th of July Parade (more later via email) � 4 Annual Club 4th of July Picnic at the Folsom’s (see page 7) � 13 Garage Nite (see page 7)

� 17 Issaquah, WA. Camaro and All Chevy Show, XXX Drive In, 253 838-7011 � 23 Seattle, WA. Classic/Hot Rod Show on Alki Beach, 206 767-4929

� 24 Kirkland, WA. Classic Car Show, 360 654-1539 � 25 No General Meeting in July

�� 3-7 Bellingham, WA. VCCA 34th NW Meet, 425-228-3670 � 14 Port Orchard, WA. Cruz 2005, 360 876-3505 � 22 Issaquah, WA. XXX Drive In Club Social (see below)

�� 16-17 Winthrop, WA. 30th Classics in the Cascades, 888 463-8469 � 16-17 Overnight Tour to Winthrop, WA. (more info later) � 26 General Meeting (this may be our Fall BBQ, more info later)


Don, George, & Ana’s 2005 Events

Note: Fall & winter events and dates are preliminary but they give you something to think about. Keep watching your Newsletters for updates.

June 19, 2005 GM Picnic in Graham. Club to tour and park together. Meet at Renton Park and Ride at 8:00 A.M. Tour via HWY 167 and Meridian to the fair grounds in Graham. There is a fee for this event.

July 4th. There is a parade in Des Moines in the morning, Ana will handle. Folsoms will open up their lower field for a picnic in the afternoon

July 10th. Vashon Island Parade. Ana is organizing and needs a list of participants by June 24th.

August 3- 7, 2005 Puget Sound Region Sponsored Northwest Meet in Bellingham.

August 22, 2005 Meet at XXX Drive In in Issaquah at 6:00 P.M. for social and limited car show.

September 16, 17, 2005 is the overnight tour to Winthrop, WA. It is called the 30th Classics in the Cas-cades. Ana will be the contact person for this tour.

September 17, 2005 is also the 2nd Annual Pacific NW Oil & Gas Swap Meet in Seattle.

October 23, 2005 Joint activity with the Mount Rainier Region, Picnic, Pumpkin carving, and games. Don will be the contact for this event.

November 13 or 20 2005. Boeing Museum of Flight tour.

December 2005 Annual Christmas Party date, time and location to be determined by the host, yet to be determined. Volunteers needed.


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June Meeting– We’ll meet at Marymoor Park in Redmond at 7:30 PM on June 27th for our Annual Strawberry Shortcake event (map below). Look for us at the covered shelters on the south end. Steve Grissom will run through the plans for the 2005 NW Meet in Bellingham. See you there!!

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Fun on the Fourth!! Spend a quiet and peaceful time at the Folsom's woodland picnic area on the 4th. Hotdogs and other basics will be provided. Bring whatever else you would like for your gang, or to share. Come anytime after 12:00 noon. Woodinville, WA. (360) 668-4016

Garage Nite at Aker’s Dick Olson’s Garage Nite

Wed. July 13th Garage Nite will be at Rod Schein’s in Ballard. Call for directions.


Then came a business trip to Portland in January 2004. I had been watching a beautiful 4-door 210 that Memory Lane Motors had displayed on their web site for quite a while. It was really more than a project car and their asking price was too much but I decided that it never hurts to look. I stopped by and took it for a drive. Surprisingly, it actually looked better than the pictures on the web page and drove much better than I expected; but it was still too much money. Since I knew this had been in their inventory for nearly a year, I decided I would make a low-ball offer. What did I have to lose? Again, surprisingly the salesperson I was working with took the offer to the owner who agreed to sell me the car for $200 over his direct cost. He showed me his invoice from a dealer in Victoria, B.C. that happened to be the same low-ball price I had offered (after converting from Canadian to US dollars). So for $200 more than what I believed was a great deal, I drove the Canadian-built and partially Canadian-restored car home to Seattle.

Now one of the disadvantages of buying a car from a dealer is that you often lose that direct connection with the history of the car. In this case, the Portland dealer only knew that it was purchased from the Victo-ria dealer. They had no knowledge of how this car ended up in Victoria, where it had been before then, and who had begun the restoration work on the car. I may never know the answers to those questions. To my delight, however, I am finding that whoever did the previous restoration work knew a thing or two about Chevys and more importantly Canadian Chevys. When I purchased the car I knew that I liked the beautifully repainted two-tone white over bright fire-engine red color and the quality of the paintwork. What I didn’t know at the time was that these colors are the origi-nal Greystone White over Matador Red

used on Canadian-manufactured cars in 1955. So, on it goes. I putter a little and repair or replace this or that. I’ve been driving it a lot this year and enjoying it very much. 1955 was a remarkable year for both General Motors and Chevrolet. General Motors went on to build their 50-millionth car, a Chevrolet Bel Air, and the Chevrolet Bel Air convertible earned the pace-car spot at the Indianapolis 500 Motor Speedway. 1955 was truly a watershed year of “out with the old” and “in with the new”. Like the ads said, New Look!!….New Life!!…New Everything!! I am privileged to own and enjoy a wonderful 50-year old American icon that represents that billion-dollar investment made by GM in 1955 to transform Chevrolet and the American automobile industry. It is rather ironic though that this particular “American” icon bears a stamp that says “Built in Canada”. What a concept, multinational car makers building cars in the country they sell them in! I guess Toyota and Honda learned from the best!!

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‘64 Chevelle SS, White, 2-dr HT, new paint & engine, Tom Asaif, 360-659-7553 ‘60s to ‘70s 1/2 or 3/4 ton pickup sideracks, homemade but works to extend load, Jim Seiber, (425) 392-7865 ‘38 Chev Coupe, Master Deluxe, $11,500, Bill Barker (425) 643-0698 ‘33 gas tank $75, 1934 head $50, ‘47-’48 engines $100, call Don Comstock (253) 863-0420, [email protected] ‘36 Chev 4 Dr/stock, Open to offers, call Don Boltz (206) 242-4636 or email [email protected] ‘52 Chev, Powerglide transmission, call Dick Jones (425) 736-8798 or email [email protected] ‘89 Chev 3500, 2WD, 454, call Wally Martin (425) 876-3475 ‘50 Chev 2 Dr/hdtp, No engine or transmission, call Don Boltz (206) 242-4636 or email [email protected] ‘57 Chev 6 cyl. Engine, complete, call Don Boltz (206) 242-4636 or email [email protected] ‘48 Sedan Delivery, I hope to find someone in the club that would appreciate a great daily driver. The car ap-praised in Jan 98 for $12,000 by Walt Blair and I am ask-ing $13,500. Dick Selin (206) 547-9697 or (206) 369-7843 ‘29 Chev P.U. rear end, hubcap to hubcap, also front brake drums 11.5 “ dia., FREE– If this doesn’t find a home it goes to the dump, George Eadie, (425) 481-4238, cell (425) 269-0265 ‘36 Chev Parts, wheels, radiator and shroud, hood, John Aryes 425 870-4086 ‘36 Chev 2-dr front seat, $100; ‘53 235 60,000 orig. mi., $350; ‘31 Chev truck 4-spd, 2 for $75; Chev 350 Turbo 350, $525; Misc. 53/54 Chev parts; Contact Mike Smith (253) 640-0337 or (253) 476-0741

‘29 or ’30 Chev 6, Need a valve cover, Bill Damm, 425-746-5721 Rims for ‘27 Chev, Bob Stamnes, 206-365-1482, [email protected] Whole Front End, for ‘78 El Camino or Malibu Clas-sic, Frank Borlando, 253-931-1358 ‘51 to ‘54 powerglide rear end, Don Comstock (253) 863-0420, [email protected] '63 Impala 2 Dr Hardtop - friend is looking for one to restore. Must be running! Donna Onat 425-643-0762 ‘55-56, 1/2 ton, short-bed PU, Prefer 235, V8 Ok, David White, (206) 999-8138, [email protected]

‘47 Chev Master Cylinder, Don Boettiger, (425) 641-6843, [email protected]

Trailer Hitch, 1 7/8 in. for 2 in. receiver, Jim Seiber (425) 392-7865, [email protected]

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A Billion Dollar Investment, A Watershed Year, and an ...members.doubleknot.com/vccapsr/tcjune05.pdf · 1954, GM’s President, Harlow H. Cur-tice, rolled out the 1955 Chevrolet,