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Well here we are still going strong. Robert LaFavor, Dennis Griggs and I went to the valley to Harbor Freight and Costco. Maguire’s let us down; all they sent was little packets of wax, so in a panic off to the valley we went for goodie bag items. We have put the car show behind us, thank you all who worked so hard on the car show. Now it’s time to attend to the club and the members. Mary Cailey has a schedule of things to do, so I guess it’s time to fire up the car’s and help make Mary’s job pay off. The last two runs sure looked good with all those colors going down the highway. Happy Mothers Day Ladies! Butch
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THE RIM COUNTRY CLASSIC AUTO
CLUB IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION
FOR THE PURPOSE OF:
Providing social, educational and recreational activities for its membership.
Participating in and supporting civic activities for the betterment of the community.
Encouraging and promoting the preservation and restoration of classic motor vehicles.
Providing organized activities involving the driving and showing of member’s cars.
RCCAC meets at
6:30p.m. on the first
Wednesday of the
month at
Tiny’s Restaurant,
600 E. Hwy. 260
in Payson
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Traveling with the
Payson ArizonaPayson Arizona
From President
Butch Tucker
2016 RCCAC PIT CREW President Butch Tucker 480‐694‐1229 [email protected] V.P. Bob LaFavor 928‐363‐0260 hotrodrob86u@gmailcom Secretary Sandi Gunderson 928‐476‐2168 [email protected] Treasurer Tina Dychkowski 920‐216‐0830 [email protected] Ac vi es Mary Cailey 928‐474‐35‐3560 [email protected]
Director Byron Gunderson 928‐476‐2168 [email protected] Director Carl Cur s 928‐468‐8018 [email protected] Director Steve fowler 928‐478‐6676 & Web Master [email protected]
Car Show Directors‐ Butch Tucker, Robert La Favor & Julius Zezima [email protected] 214‐563‐2214
Newsle er Margie Fowler 928‐478‐6676 [email protected]
Who was the first
woman to drive
across America?
See Page 7
NEWSLETTER HELP
Every club member has a classic with a story to tell about their ride.
I’m looking for new stories to use in upcoming newletters under the heading
IN THE HEADLIGHTS.
Please send your stories and pictures to Margie Fowler see e-mail to the right.
9‐ Nancy Miller 15‐ Larry Gilbert 28‐ MJ Hall
If we missed your birthday this month we are sorry. We have several members we don’t have updated paperwork on to tell us.
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FROM THE GLOVEBOX
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MAY 12th An e-mail will be coming out on where the gals will be meeting this month. Happy Mothers Day!
UP COMING ACTIVITIES
MAY AT A GLANCE
4th Membership meeting 6:30 8th Happy Mothers Day Sunday, Mother's Day Lunch 12th WOW 11:30 TBA 18th Wednesday, BBQ at Rumsey Park with the VMCCA 21st Saturday, cruise to the Martin Museum in Phoenix with lunch
COMING IN JUNE 9th WOW 19th Father’s Day lunch at “Diamond Point” Restaurant on 260 1:pm 25th Saturday “Show n Shine” in the Auto Zone parking lot 5:pm to ??
The move is voted on at the monthly club mee ng.
It’s always on a Saturday at 10:am and is announced via e‐mail. Make sure your e‐mail is up to date!
$7.00 gets you the movie, a small drink and a small popcorn.
See you at the Movies!
George Benne 928‐951‐3330
MOTHER’S DAY LUNCH
Mother's Day, Sunday, May 8th, at "THAT Brewery Restaurant" on 87 just before you enter Pine on the left (west). We'll meet at 12:15 in the parking lot in front of the DMV (Dept. of Motor Vehicles) and Subway on 87 just around the corner from Basha's. We need to be there at 1:00 pm. We'll be eating outside, under cover, as they don't have room inside for a group our size. They will have a special menu for our group including chicken and steak sandwiches, a cheeseburger, a salad, plus yummy desserts. An 18% tip will be added to each check.
Mar ns Auto Museum Saturday May 21st Mee ng 8:45 AM at the Casino parking lot depar ng at 9:00—traveling 94 miles.
$5.00 dona on to the museum and $7.00 per person for pizza for lunch. For those interested we will then go to the Pavilions for their car show.
VMCCA BBQ Wednesday May18th NOON Rumsey Park– Please bring a dessert.
$5.50 per person for BBQ Bring your classic car to join with the VMCCA club.
Contact Ken Michel or Carl Curtis if you are planning to attend.
Head count needed!
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We had a great time visiting at the WOW luncheon today at Macy's Grill..
There were 8 women present.. Frenchie.
Our President, Butch, led a caravan of 14 cars to Jake's Corner on Highway 188, on Saturday, April 16th for our monthly luncheon cruise. 30 Club members enjoyed the Centennial Celebra-tion festivities at Jake's that included stage coach rides, dancing, music by "Junction 87", and a quick historical run-down of how Jake's started and changed over the last 100 years by its own-er, Robin Heppler. We had our own private room off the main dining area, away from the cigarette smoke, yet within hearing of the band.
The food was typical highway bar fare but the many people who were there enjoyed the cama-raderie of the music, food, drink, and friends.
Our next luncheon cruise will be Sunday, May 8th to "THAT Brewery" in Pine for Mother's Day and then on Saturday, May 21st to the Martin (Auto) Museum in Phoenix.
We hope more members will join us in these monthly activities.
Mary Cailey
Thanks Carl & Judy for the pictures
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This year’s 190 entries were down some 50 cars from last year, with vehicles ranging from 1929 to 1990. Our weather on Friday was rain, rain and more rain during the cruise, Saturday we got lucky BUT, had to move the awards up to 2:00 PM because of more rain. Welcome to the Beeline Cruise, Swap Meet and “CAR WASH-YEAR THREE”. Thanks to our members who secured sponsors, donations, awards and contributed their time to make the 2016 show a success. Doug Magnuson, Jim Winters, Mark Salem, Larry Bertram, Steve Fowler, Dottie Gossard, Andy Caillau, Robert La Favor, Bob Halgren, Ron & Virgina Horejsi, Bruce Boushon ,Tina Dychkowski, Sandi & Byron Gunderson all secured major sponsorships which put our show in the BLACK. Special thanks to Carl Curtis for our show set up. Sandi Gunderson for securing 21 food and nonfood vendors. Dick Hedman, Dennis Griggs and Butch Tucker for the goodie bags. Sam Schwalm tallied the votes while Mark Salem captured the show’s photos. Ken Gunderson set up this year’s cruise. Ken and Carlo Tozi for registration, Bob LaFavor who handled our swap meet.
Set up Begins
Registra on
Friday Cruise Around Town with a FREE rain car wash!
Friday Burger Burn At the Elks lodge
Thanks to Carl & Judy Cur s for the pictures.
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Byron Gunderson secured the Elks Club which served over 120 guests and members at the burger burn. Our RCCAC ladies had an array of sweets on hand for the burger burn, thank you ladies. Special thanks, to our new members who stepped up Darrel Wallace who handled parking and Tina Dychkowski took on hospitality and nailed it. New this year was the Kid’s Cardboard Cars with 8 entries, allowing parents to get involved and hoping new membership in our club will follow. Congrats to Bruce Boushon who won Fridays 50/50. Saturday’s 50/50 of $420 was won by Steve Crane of Gold Canyon, AZ and he donated it back to our Rim Country Charities. At our May meeting we look forward to your suggestions as to what Rim Country charities should be offered donations . Our club may want to re-think a new show date due to the weather pattern changing, in addition to naming next year’s show chairman. Our 2016 sponsor plaques and t-shirts will be available for members who secured a “Best Of”, or “Top 20 Award” for you to drop off and thank individuals and businesses for their support. Until next year, thank you for all your hard work! 2016 Car Show Committee
Saturday Morning Parking
Swap Meet
Kids Cardboard CAR build winner
Mayor Kenny Evans
Pick
AWARDS
BEST OF SHOW
HOSPITALITY
For Sale– 350 TURBO HYDRO Good condition $75.00 or OBO call Tom Gossard 928-472-3327
For sale, two lo-back Poly bucket seats and seat covers and lap style seat belts. New. $75. Two 15X7 steel wheels in dual 4.5 and 4.75 bolt pattern. Excellent shape. No rust. $45. Rear seat for 77,78,79 Chrysler Cordoba. Red. excellent used condition. $30. Stock fuel tank, straps and sender for 77,78,79 Cordoba. This is the hard to find tank for factory dual exhaust cars. $50. Call John Cailey at (928) 474-3560.
Ron Trainor has a friend in Chino Valley who has a 1973 Triumph Spitfire for sale. It’s in pretty good shape, it has 110K miles on it. For a non car person she has taken pretty darn good care of it and had a lot of work done to it. She said she loves it, and hates to sell it, but she can’t push the clutch very well anymore because of the arthritis in her feet. She’s asking $3950 Call Ron at 602-763-5569 NOTE: If you want to advertise please send an e-mail to [email protected] not the clubs e-mail.
Looking to sell parts OR Looking for parts!
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Not actual vehicle file photo.
JOHN & STEVE'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE A year ago the Caileys and the Fowlers had planned to attend a car show in the San Diego area. They set out Wednesday April 27th for a timeshare in Ramona CA., crossing the big burning desert. Thursday they checked out the Craftsmanship Museum in Carlsbad with it’s spectacular collection of miniature engines and other machining marvels. A must see! Afterwards, the guys checked out several WWII aircraft that were on display at the Palomar Airport, on the way to the Flower Fields of Carlsbad, where the couples toured the nearly 50 acres of flowers, which will all be harvested and gone by Mother’s Day. Upon returning to Ramona, they got to view the Thursday Night Cruise down the main drag, a new feature in town. On Friday, the rods were both put into service as they travelled to the Ramona Café for a cinnamon roll featured on Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives then down the hill to Deer Park Winery and Car Museum, just north of Escondido. This hidden treasure has a large collection of convertibles of practically every make and year up through the 60’s, displayed with much more memorabilia, it is a great destination. Afterwards, they checked out Hot Rods and Custom Stuff, a high level rod shop in downtown Escondido before heading to Grand Avenue for
their famous Friday Night Cruise. Luckily, two adjacent spaces were found and they settled in and checked out all the cars displayed throughout the downtown area. Later, while waiting for the cruise to get going, the boys were approached by one of the show organizers, who said that if they were willing to hang around till the end of the cruise, he’d like to give the 33 Plymouth and the 53 Stude each one of the five
“pick” awards that are handed out each week. That was an offer too good to pass up, so both received the recognition and the plaque that went with it. They are also invited to return late in September to be featured in a roundup of all the winners from the season’s cruises. What a day! Saturday found the crew on the road again, this time to the Motte Historical Museum in
Menifee for a car show there. Lots of nice cars, a neat mostly all car museum, good music and lunch in a Chinese Restaurant in an old railroad car, then heading toward home with an over-night stop in Blythe, CA. It was a very fun mini-vacation with lots to see and do along the way. A most excellent adventure!
Who was the first woman to drive across America?
In 1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey (1886-1983) became the first woman ever to drive from coast-to-coast. Horatio Nelson Jackson (and his dog, Bud), who had made a San Francisco-to-New York drive in 1903, inspired interest in the challenge; Ramsey was the first woman who opted to take it on.
Alice Huyler was born in Hackensack, New Jersey and educated at Vassar. By 1909 when she made the cross-country trip, she was
married and had a two-year-old son.
Ramsey loved being out on the road on horseback, but as the number of cars in her town began to increase, her husband, John, began to think she would be safer in her own automobile. At that time, very few women drove, but in 1908, Alice’s husband John presented her with a new Maxwell as a gift. (Ironically, John Ramsey never learned to drive.) That first summer she had her car, Alice drove all over New Jersey. She loved exploring, and when the men at the dealership heard about Alice’s love of the road and how far she had driven in just a few months, they suggested she enter an automotive endurance test they planned. The test involved a 200-mile course on unpaved roads. Alice Ramsey handled her vehicle well and came back in record time.
The Ideal Maxwell Promotion This gave the sales manager an idea for what might be a huge coup for Maxwell… to show that their car was so well-built that even a lady could take it across the country. The Ramseys were approached with the idea. The Maxwell Company offered to provide a new 30-horsepower four-cylinder touring car and would cover all expenses. They would also alert Maxwell dealers across the country to make themselves available to help with repairs and provide navigation. (Most of the country was unmapped at the time; there were also very few paved roads.) Alice and her husband struck a deal with Maxwell. Alice was able to bring along three other women –two sisters-in-law and a young friend. Maxwell sent along another car carrying a press person who arranged stops for Alice to meet and chat with local townspeople. Of course, Alice also was made available for local press interviews.
The women departed from New York City on June 9, 1909 amidst a heavy downpour. The women were dressed in rain slickers, and Alice wore a rubber helmet and visor—the only protection she would have against mud that easily few above the inadequate windshield.
On the Road
None of the other women knew how to drive but they were as helpful as they could be with navigation and some efforts at car repair. For directions, the Maxwell Company had provided Ramsey with what was known as the Automobile Blue Book, a Guide for Bikers and Road Travelers. These guides were long on advertising, and maps were printed on an “as available” basis. Many of the directions concerned which way to go at certain landmarks, because most roads weren’t named and didn’t have numbers.
Once Ramsey and her passengers crossed the Mississippi, the maps were even more primitive. They had general directions to Maxwell dealers along the way, but it was a long distance from town to town (or dealership to dealership). In her book, Veil, Duster and Tire Iron (1961), Ramsey wrote that in the West they primarily followed the
telegraph poles. At a crossroads, they would follow the poles carrying more wires, assuming that would take them to the larger population center.
Challenges of the Road-Along the way, the Maxwell Company would take out newspaper ads in advance of the women’s arrival. The ads stressed the durability of the Maxwell. The reality for the women was that there were plenty of crises along the way. The car had to be cranked to start—already a physical challenge, and any number of things went wrong, often when they were far from any Maxwell dealership. Alice cleaned spark plugs and changed a dozen flat tires, and all the women took turns filling up whatever receptacles they had in order to add more water to the radiator when the engine overheated.
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Meeting Minutes can be reviewed on the clubs website: http://clubs.hemmings.com/rccac/
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At one point they found themselves surrounded by Indians and were quite worried, but it turned out the Native Americans were out hunting jack rabbits and the women and the car were mere curiosities to them. Another time they came upon a sheriff’s posse out hunting a killer. These men, too, were simply interested in the oddity of finding women in a car along the road.
In Iowa and Nebraska they hit particularly rainy weather, making the un-graveled and unpaved roads particularly difficult to navigate. When the water in rivers rose too high to cross, they camped nearby and waited for the water to recede somewhat before driving across.
If the automobile was hung up in a gully, or the tires were stuck in a particularly rutted area, they had to find a way to get going again. Sometimes they could maneuver by getting a board under the tire; other times they relied on a friendly fellow traveler with a horse and wagon to pull them out. Very occasionally there would be another car and driver that would help them.
Ultimately the trip took 59 days. They had covered 3800 miles, and only an estimated 152 of those roads were paved. When they arrived in San Francisco on August 7, 1909, big crowds awaited them. The Maxwell Company couldn’t have been happier; sales that year more than doubled.
Going Home
Alice Ramsey and her friends returned home by train. The following year Alice gave birth to a daughter . A few years after that, John Ramsey became a Congressman and represented the people of Hackensack, New Jersey for two terms (1917-1921).
Alice Ramsey’s life became much less publicized but that didn’t mean she was at home. She went on to repeat the cross-country drive at least thirty more times.
In 1960 she was named “First Lady of Automotive Travel” for her trek across a “trackless land” as the Automotive Manufacturers Association put it. On October 17, 2000 Alice Huyler Ramsey was the first woman to be inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame. WHAT A GAL!!!
Upcoming Car Show
May 6 - 8 Albuquerque, NM. Cruzin Main Street U S A 28 Blast from the Past Alpine AZ 28 Prescott Valley, Sally B's Café Spring Classic Car Show
June 4 Show Low Days, Show Low AZ 4 Dewey, Az. Orchard Ranch Car Show 11 Holbrook Route 66 Festival & Classic Car Show
July
23 Snowflake Pioneer Days Car Show
August
6-7 Annual Car Exhibit, & Parts Exchange at Watson Lake
September 16- Apache County Motor Sports Days, St. Johns AZ
October
15 - Tucson Classics Car Show - Tucson
November 18-20 Good guys Southwest Nationals—Scottsdale
For more information on more shows and registration forms visit the web sites below:
www.cruisearizona.com
www.cruisinarizona.com/carshows.html
If interested in going as a group contact Mary Cailey our Activities gal to see if something can be arranged.
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