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SSMMOOKKEE SSIIGGNNAALLSS April 2007
Volume 44, Issue 4
The Official Publication of the ANKOKAS Region AACA
National May 10th – 12th, AACA Spring Meet, Southeastern Division, New - Bern, North Carolina, 252-637-2319 June 2nd – 7th, AACA Founders Tour, Western Vermont, Green Mountain Region, 802-244-7536 June 15th – 17th , AACA Spring Meet, Central Division, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, 412 Lakes Chapter, 218-847-1415 June 28th – 30th, AACA Spring Meet, Eastern Division, Binghamton, New York, Tioga/Iroquois/Onaquaqa Regions, 607-724-3627
Local Every Wednesday, 6:00PM, Silver Diner, Route 38, across from Cherry Hill Mall, Cherry Hill, NJ. Trophy Night on April 25th – 5:00pm. Info: Peggy – 856-910-1240 or email: [email protected] Tuesday, May 1st, 6:00PM, Checkers Restaurant Trophy Night, Cross Keys Road, Sicklerville, NJ. All makes and years. Info: George – 856-629-5886
Upcoming Events
In This Month’s Issue:
Upcoming Events 1
Steppin’ Up 2
The Prez Says… 4
For Sale/Meeting
Programs 5
1907 International
Harvester 6
March Meeting
Minutes 8
Sunday, May 6th, 5:00pm, Crispin Square Cruise Night, Crispin Square Shopping Center, corner of Church Road & Church Street, Marlton, NJ. All makes, models, and years welcome. Food, trophies, door prizes, oldies tunes. Tom – 856-524-2588 May 26th & 27th, 10:00am to 5:00pm, Millville Wheels & Wings Air Show. Millville Airport, Millville, NJ . millvilleairshow.com We are planning to go as a group with our cars on the 26th…more details to come in May’s issue…
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CARMASTERS
1920-1970’s
Collectable Car Repairs &
Maintenance
Electrical Specialists
538 Main Street Lumberton, NJ
08048
Tel: 609-267-5234 Fax: 609-267-5100
Steppin’ Up By Carl Grossman
E. Gilbert Jordan
ASE Master Engine Machinist
an Automotive Machine . Head Work, Cyl. Boring & Honing, onnecting Rod Work, Flywheels
urfaced, Complete Motor Rebuilding
aine Avenue Tel:609-261-2636 lock off Rt. 38w) Fax:609-261-2636 sport, NJ 08036
ear readers, when last we met I was cruising in my blue '52, in hich I had a million adventures, some great, some not so great, and ome mildly "X" rated. Anyone remember "Little City"? But I digress. ld Blue was a great car, but my brother had moved on to a '54 ontiac Star Chief Custom Catalina convertible. When he decided to ell it, I stepped up, because the top went down. As you should ecall, he gave me my first car as a gift when I turned sixteen. Once as enough. He sold me the car with the single caveat…."Don't buy
his car". I didn't listen….I was in love with the idea of a convertible. ith a 124 inch wheelbase, this car was the largest land vehicle I
ad ever seen. It was 18+ feet long and close to two tons. sthetically, it was perfect. Glossy black enamel exterior with a snow hite vinyl top. The interior was equally pristine, with red and white,
olled and pleated, imitation leather, and courtesy lights verywhere….under the hood, in the trunk, on both sides of the front
loor, and even a light on the back bow. This baby was all original ncluding the owner's manual held by clips to the top of the glove box nd the white top boot in its original black vinyl bag in the trunk. CRS eat your heart out. It had the illuminated amber Indian chief ead on the hood and more chrome than was seen on a car till the
58 Oldsmobile. I immediately took all necessary steps to get the boat
eaworthy, on the cheap, of course, since I was still a poor high chool student. "Couldn't live without" accessories included: adding wo rear radio speakers; a tachometer (after all, it was a stick shift) uilt by a friend of mine in shop class at school; a J.C. Whitney "Y" ipe with flexible tubing and two twelve inch chrome exhaust tips to imulate dual exhausts and the crowning touch…..'59 Caddy bullet ail lights, courtesy of midnight auto supply.
Unfortunately, it was all original under the hood as well. The ast iron straight eight, with standard transmission, put out 122 orsepower. Not quite sufficient to power a two ton behemoth. At
east it was a stick shift. At school I encountered another student with similar boat. His '54 was a classy orange coupe, with a very stylish actory sun visor. No, not the little slats on the inside above the indshield , we're talkin' a huge chrome and painted roof extension
ooking like the bill on a baseball cap. His was an automatic, which as rated at 127 horsepower (must have had a blower, or sumthin'), nd whenever we encountered each other on the streets around chool, we would engage in duel to the death drag races, squeezing hose straight eights out to the limit. Sometimes during these events, ittle kids on bicycles would ring their bells and pass us. I think we nvented slow motion. Oddly enough, I never met the other driver, nor
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to this day do I know who he was. Perhaps that orange Star Chief was a ghost ship sent by the gods of Detroit to test my mettle. Like its predecessor, Black Beauty had some quirks. I discovered that the only thing between theright rear passenger's shoe leather and the highway was the red floor carpet; the actual floor having rusted away sometime earlier. Since I didn't drive from the backseat, I was unfazed. I put a piece of solid wood across the hole under the carpet. I didn't use cheap plywood. After all, this was a safety issue. One endearing quality was the car's consistency. On cold winter mornings, it NEVER started, owing to its anemic six volt electrical system. This engendered a morning ritual whereby my buddy would stop by with his dad's car and give me a jump start and return home. I would let my car warm up, and then pick him up on the way to school. By the afternoon, the temperature would rise and we never had a problem getting home.I drove that car to college and had several adventures in it, including the time, with the top down and the radio cranked up, I came head to head with a police car on a single lane, one-way street. Guess which one of us was going the wrong way. Good guess! I drove Black Beauty till 1963 when I purchased my first new car, but that's another story. Stay safe, see ya next time.
April Meeting Program: Geothermal Heating & Cooling
WE ARE CMS GEOTHERMAL, A FAMILY OWNED MECHANICAL SERVICE COMPANY, LOCATED IN HISTORIC BORDENTOWN, SPECIALIZING IN GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING. YOU MAY WONDER WHAT IS GEOTHERMAL? IN A NUTSHELL, WE USE THE EARTH NATURAL STORED ENERGY TO HEAT AND COOL YOUR HOME. (WE WILL HAVE A MORE DETAILED PRESENTATION ON APRIL 19TH'S MEETING.) WHICH IS 40%-60% MORE EFFICIENT THAN CONVENTIONAL HEATING / COOLING SYSTEMS. THIS ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY METHOD OF HEATING / COOLING YOUR HOME TRANSLATES TO LOWER UTILITY BILLS. IF YOU HAVE ANY UP COMING PLAN'S TO UPGRADE YOUR HEATING / COOLING SYSTEMS, OR BUILD ING A NEW HOME, PLEASE FEEL TO BRING A SET OF DRAWINGS (PLANS) FOR US TO DO A HEAT GAIN / HEAT LOSS FOR A QUOTE. (QUESTIONNAIRES WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE MEETING TO HELP WITH GATHERING INFORMATION FOR THE A QUOTE) LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING ALL OF YOU. SINCERELY, CHARLES R. JONES PS: PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE : www.CMSREFRIG.com OR CALL 609-298-3018
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Thanks to Bob Schuman & Tom Amendola for this month program. They have an interesting speaker who will discuss a way to reduce Global Warming. The next Directors meeting will be at Tom & Karen Giangiuli’s home on May 1st at 7:30PM. If you plan to attend please let them know. I look forward to seeing you at the next meeting on April 19th at 8:00 PM.
The Special National Show is moving along with committees being formed. Be sure to sign-up for what you would like to do rather than be assigned a job. This event will require the co-operation and full support of the club. Fred Young has started getting the ball rolling with a letter to AACA. They will be sending these out to the marquee clubs so they will be aware of the event and what cars are eligible to participate. We need help with tours, parking and traffic control, merchandize, registration, car cruise, road rally and much more. You will be hearing more about this as each month until June of 2008. Be sure to check out our web site www.Ankokas.com, George has been working hard to make this a valuable site for the club to disseminate information to members, potential members & guests. The site includes our present roster, old & new newsletters, photographs of past events, application forms & much more. If you see anything that needs correcting, updating or just a suggestion please contact George Reinis.
I am sitting here writing this as we are experiencing heavy April Showers. We celebrated our 42nd birthday with the annual Charter Luncheon on the first of April (no joke). 49 members attended and enjoyed a terrific meal, music, awards and lots of conversation. Of those in attendance, three were Charter Members, Coles Roberts, Bob Rees and Walt Hansen who was kind enough to tell us about his new car. Carol Amendola had a great slide show which was running continuously. Thanks to everyone for attending and a special thanks to Carol Mc Larney for organizing the entire event. The Old Courier Post Show, now the Ankokas June Show, will be held at the Stadium on the Cooper River. This looks like a great venue for about 300 car, with the Park Department providing the stage and food vendors. We will continue to make this a Judged Show but will add a day of show class which is not formally judged but will be awarded trophies based on a group review.
The Prez Says……. By Tom McLarney
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Thank You
Thanks to everyone who attended this year’s Charter Luncheon.
I hope that you all enjoyed yourselves. A special thanks to Walt Hansen, Carol Amendola and
Janet Haegley for their help during the event. Carol Mc Larney
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For Sale/Wanted
Five (5) tires for sale. Wide white wall Coker tires. Size H78 X 14 bias ply. Four (4) have less than 1000 miles - $70 each. Other is brand new -
$95. Call Carl Villone – 609-870-2723 or 856-227-3006 after 5:00pm
1978 Blue 2 Door Delta 88 Royal, 350 V8 Engine, Power Brakes, Electric Windows, Air Conditioning, 40,000 original miles, garage kept.
$3,000 Call 856-829-4109
The ANKOKAS is the South East Region of the AACA
dating back to 1964.
Ankokas Region PO BOX 343
Riverside, NJ 08075
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TOM MCLARNEY, PRESIDENT [email protected]
856-461-6688 M AMENDOLA, VICE PRESIDENT
EORGE REINIS, TREASURER [email protected]
856-424-4243 CKIE FLECHTNER, SECRETARY
856-429-2709 TOM GIANGIULIO, DIRECTOR
BOB PETTERS, DIRECTOR [email protected]
856-7674438 DAVE HANN, DIRECTOR
JEFF SCHULTE, DIRECTOR [email protected]
856-234-1623 WARD STEINBERG, DIRECTOR
Meeting Programs
4/19 – Geothermal Heating and Cooling
5/17 – Spitting Image Enlargements
6/21 – Tailgate behind Haddonfield Boro Hall
Any ideas for Sept, Oct., Nov. and next year, please contact Bob Shuman.
Home: 856-810-8245
We’re on the Web! See us at:
tp://www.ankokas.com/
ular meetings are held on the 3rd ursday of each month at 8:00pm
on the second floor of the ddonfield Municipal Building.
ector meetings are held on the 1st
sday of the month at the home of one of the officers.
All are welcome.
OTE: No meetings in July, August, or December
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1907 International Harvester Model B Farmer’s Auto By Jeff Bliemeister, Museum Curator
At the beginning of the 20th Century, the industrialized world was at transportation crossroads. Theautomobile was in still its infancy, but it was catching on fast and would soon supplant the horse asthe primary mover of people and goods. It was truly an age of experimentation as hundreds ofmanufacturers applied electricity, steam and internal combustion power to a wide variety of vehicle platforms. The Museum’s current temporary exhibition, “Top Brass: Horseless Carriages 1890 to1915,” serves as a showcase of this formative era. We also have a permanent reminder of thisperiod in the 1907 International Harvester Company Model B Farmer’s Auto. The International Harvester Company (IHC) was a well established manufacturer of farmequipment. IHC was formed in 1902 as a result of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company’smerger with four other farm equipment machine firms. Stiff competition among approximately 2,000different farming manufacturers and a general lack of capital for development had paved the way forthis historic merger. In 1907, IHC released two automobiles for public sale: the two-passenger Model A Runabout and the four-passenger Model B Farmer’s Auto. The new IHC vehicles were clearly inspired by the buggies they were designed to replace. Buggies,after all, had served town, country and rural people for years so why ruin a proven design. Inreplacing the horse with a two-cylinder engine, IHC created their entry in the emerging classificationof motor cars called “high wheelers” or “auto-buggies,” the names linked directly to the vehicle’slarge, spoked wheels equipped with solid rubber tires. The new car sold for $600.00. International Harvester’s were solid, well-built and easy to maneuver. Approximately 4,500 unitswere manufactured between 1907 and 1911 when the company ended automobile production toconcentrate on trucks. The company’s early vehicles, such as this Model B, were built in a Chicagofactory that also produced the famous International Harvester farm wagon, a horse-drawn utility vehicle whose design remained virtually unchanged for a century. This was truly a period where thepast and present collided. The Museum owns a completely refinished IHC Columbus Wagonmanufactured at about the same time as its Model B Farmer’s Auto. This Model B was given to the AACA Museum by Hollis Henderson of Lincolnton, North Carolina.Mr. Hollis restored this vehicle in the 1980s and it went on to earn a series of AACA awards,culminating with a Senior Grand National in 1986. International Harvester went on to build a seriesof memorable trucks, including the renowned Scout, a four-wheel drive vehicle viewed as one of the predecessors of the modern sport utility vehicle. The company ended light truck production in 1975.IHC lives on today as part of the Navistar International Corporation, based in Chicago, Illinois.
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1907 International Harvester
Manufacturer: International-
Harvester Co. – Chicago, Il
Model: Model B Farmer’s Auto Base Price: $600
Engine: Two-cylinder, 16 hp
The International Harvester Company is best known for manufacturing farm equipment. This model is also known as a “Highwheeler” or “Autobuggy.” Using the philosophy that the buggy had served town, country and rural people for years, the company replaced the horse with a two-cylinder engine. The result was a solid, popular vehicle that sold 4,500 units between 1907 and 1911 when IHC ended automobile production to concentrate on trucks. This example was restored in 1970. It has won numerous AACA awards, including a Grand National in 1986.
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Ankokas Region
PO. Box 343 Riverside NJ 08085 Web Site: Ankokas.com
ROSTER CHANGE
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Mail changes to: Bob & Susan Gundersen, 13 Dorado Road, Laurel Springs, NJ 08021
SMOKE SIGNALS Michael Sisto, Editor 20 Huckleberry Way
Turnersville, NJ 08012
Your April Issue of ANKOKAS Region AACA Newsletter has arrived……
Next meeting will be on April 19th at 8:00pm on the second floor of the Haddonfield Municipal Building.
