NOV - DEC 2019

Volume 48, Issue 10

Inside this issue:

10/29/19

This newsletter is a publication of the Vernon L. Nash Antique Auto Club of Fairbanks, which is the most northern region of the Antique Automobile Club of America.

Where source permission is not cited with an article, material may be reproduced if credit is given to the author, the source is cited as being this publication, and our club is provided an emailed copy at vlnaacf@gmail.com. All photos used with permission, and all by Rick Larrick unless other credit is given.

If you have material you would like to contribute, please contact our editor, Rick Larrick, at the club email address : vlnaacf@gmail.com

Nash’s News

2018

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Antique auto news from Alaska’s largest car club and most

northern region of AACA COVER STORY 2

BARRETT - JACKSON 2

HERSHEY 2019 3

NATIONAL NEWS 4

CALENDAR 4

BIRTHDAYS & ANNIV. 4

PRES. HEADLIGHTS 5

“BEAR” SCHMIT 5

NEW TO THE BOARD 6

2020 ELECT RESULTS 6

2019 CHARITIES 6

MINUTES 7

IN THE KID’S VIEW 8

HOLIDAY PARTY 8

EDITOR COLUMN 9

PARTY RES. FORM 9

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Photos by Scott Grundy

Everybody followed Charlie to the Ester Park, but nobody would follow him down the slide…

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BE SURE AND EITHER TURN IN OR MAIL YOUR ANNUAL MEET-ING / HOLIDAY PARTY RESER-VATION FORM

AND MONEY BY THE 25TH OF NOVEMBER!

(SEE PG 9)

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If you ever get locked out of your house, talk to your lock calmly. Because communication is key.

Photo by Scott Grundy

SUNSHINE REPORT: A sympathy card was sent Thursday the 17th to Karmen and Greg Shoemaker for the passing of Karmen's Mother.

- Tracy McLeod

Tracy McLeod is the Sunshine Contact. Please send her an e-mail if you know of a club member who could use a little "sunshine". e-mail: tksplits@yahoo.com . For a postal mail address contact Tracy or a Board member.

Random Runaround By Scott Grundy

August 28, 2019 was our last runa-round adventure for this season and the weather was beautiful! We gath-ered at Pioneer Park and found our leader, Charlie Bourque, a bit flustered because his planned destination to see the completed Taste of Alaska Lodge had not been confirmed by its owner. After a short deliberation, we agreed a run to the Ester Community Park would be fun. Charlie led the way after announcing we would regroup at the Justa Store on the Chena Pump Road. Well, some of us need more assis-tance than others. President Jeff Creamer and I were at the rear of the procession and were delayed by traffic lights. Normally not an issue, but Jeff and passenger, Melinda Harris, fol-lowed this ol’ bird down Airport Road only to find access to the Parks High-way was under construction and blocked! Our leader, of course, recog-nized we should have turned north onto University Avenue and blew by me in his high horsepower Mercedes to take the lead. Well, rather than fol-low Jeff’s lead, I took what I thought to be a superior route only to encounter more roadblocks! I had just decided to abort the fun tour, when my phone rang; Don Oines asked where I was. I explained that I could be there in three to five minutes. When I finally arrived, I was greeted with many smiles. The remainder of the tour up Che-na Ridge and down the backside to Ester was beautiful. We all were im-pressed with the community park. Charlie, the “oldest kid” in our group, even demonstrated how to slide down through the playground tube! (see cov-er). Great cars, great people and a fun event. Thanks, Charlie!

Cover: Las Vegas

Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction

October 3-5th - Jeff Cook

Along with a few others from Fair-banks, I attended the Barrett-Jackson auto auction in Las Ve-gas from October 3 through 5 at the Mandalay Bay Resort. It was quite a show and lots of security in view of it being the two year anniversary since the horrific shooting at the resort. And it was announced security will be even a bit tighter at the January 2020 Barrett-Jackson auction in Scotts-dale. People will only be allowed in with a one gallon clear plastic bag with their belongings or a small clutch purse. No video cam-eras allowed and of course no weapons. People can expect long

lines for security clearance. The auction in Las Vegas was

fascinating with some very high prices and record sales for a Barrett-Jackson auction. The top sale at the auction was $1.54 million paid for a 2017 Ford GT ’66 Heritage Edition. Four other late model exotics all topped the $300,000 price level. A 1957 Dodge Power Wag-on custom pickup sold for $203,500. I did not buy anything but enjoyed watch-ing the auction and the people. The 1950 Buick in the attached photo sold for $35,200. A few of the car club mem-bers who saw the 1955 Studebaker wagon photo I posted on Facebook were very impressed with that vehicle in the photo attached. It was the only Stu-debaker I saw at the auction and sold for $20,900.

Check out the video attached to this newsletter distribution email to listen to the auctioneer’s chatter!

Jeff is a “Buick Guy”, here with the 1950 Buick that sold at the auction.

Only Studebaker was this ‘55 Conestoga Wagon

I went bald early in life, but I still have my comb; I just can’t part with it!

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Photo by Scott Grundy

HERSHEY 2019 - Willy Vinton

Hershey 2019 was a very good trip. The weather was great, with a little drizzle for one day, cool mornings, and nice afternoons. There were lots of vendors and a full car corral as well. We had Mike Lecorchick, with Bub Larson and Rochelle Larson,

along with Wilma and myself. We sure did a lot of walk-ing, and wore Bub out a few times (not that I ever got tired…. LOL). The Thursday night auc-tion was a lot of tired cars out of the Merrick museum; all but 3 were pushed across the stage, and half of them had flat tires and looked like they needed lots of “TLC”.

Friday brought out the good cars and boy were there some nice ones. We ended up with one car and it was one of the best buys at the auction. There were a couple others we went after, but didn’t win. Our trip on Sunday to the Coolsprings Power Museum was worth the

trip. Chris Austin and a couple others were great hosts that gave us a private tour of the entire collection of over 250 rare engines, and Chris even fired up the 600hp snow engine - what a site that was to see and hear. I asked him where the exhaust was, and found out it was plumbed under the floor and out into the woods. Lots of good times with good friends and lots of good food. ‘Till next year.

- Willy

This is the prize we are bringing home for the Fountainhead Museum. One of two 1927 Lincolns built in this configuration. It is a stunning car that will add a lot tot the collection at the museum. It should be arriving in the next couple weeks, so make sure to come see it when we get it on the floor.

This is a great 1910 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost that Bub and Rochelle Larson got to take a ride in. It is a rare car, and the ride was a rare opportunity to meet some-one special. The owner of the car is John Dollan, the owner of the Cleveland Indians. I have taken rides in this car a couple of times before, and certainly John Dollan is a very nice guy! I think Bub Larson and daughter, Rochelle, had a good time at Hershey!

Hershey 2019 had lots going on. Photo above is when we went to the Cool-springs Power Museum to see the en-gines that came from Fairbanks. Al James (in photo with Mike Lecorchick) collected these engines and brought them into Coolsprings from the Alaska villages where they were used for the wireless telegraph system. They have all three of the engines restored and running now. Coolsprings Power has over 250 engines restored and running, and a visit is recommended!

Photo above is a great 1940 Lincoln Zephyr that was at the Auction on Friday night. I bid on it, but decided to let it go when it went over the number I had on it. It is probably one of the best Lincoln coupes I have seen. Oh well, next time, maybe..

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Vernon L. Nash Antique Auto Club

NOVEMBER

BIRTHDAYS

1 - Rick Crisenbery Mike Lecorchick 2 - Joyce Tekin 4 - Dale Oines 5 - Pat Crisenbery 7 - Dan Tempel 8 - Rhonda Morgan 10 - Stella Carpenter Randy Britschgi 15 - Beccy Monsma 19 - Eugene Reed 25 - Jeff Cook Kelly Oines Ruth Haynes 27 - Rochelle Larson 29 - Donna Wojciechowski

• Note: CarsNCoffee time is 9:00 to 10:30 am each Saturday at Great Har-vest Bread at the Bentley Mall.

• Nov 12th: Board of Directors Meet-ing, Denny’s Restaurant Sled Dog Room; Meeting 6:30 pm (dinner be-fore).

• Nov 14th: Membership Meeting, Denny’s Restaurant Sled Dog Room; Meeting 7pm (come early for dinner before)

• Dec 3rd: Board of Directors Meet-ing, Denny’s Restaurant Sled Dog Room; Meeting 6:30 pm (dinner be-fore).

• Dec 8th: Annual Meeting / Holiday Party, Fountainhead Auto Museum (see pages 8 and 9)

• Nov 13th: AAMA Regular Meeting

• Dec 7th: AAMA Christmas Party

• November 6-9: AACA Western Fall Nationals, Fallbrook CA

Antique Auto Mushers

National AACA Events

NOVEMBER

ANNIVERSARIES

No joint member anniver-saries, but Wally Olsen better

buy flowers on November 10th...

I told my wife to embrace my mistakes… she hugged me.

DECEMBER

BIRTHDAYS

5 - Ron Dane 6 - Ralph Moore 9 - Brenda Wilbur 13 - Paula Beal 14 - Lori Hinchsliff 17 - Lisa Casey 26 - Dan Portwine 30 - Laurel McLaughlin

DECEMBER

ANNIVERSARIES

15 - Wilma & Willy Vinton 17 - Susan & Jeff Cook 22 - Angie & Don Oines 30 - Maria & Walt Mingus

CALENDAR LEGISLATION

Marty Roth

Vice President - Legislation

Some of our best times have been with friends

and old cars, and when you combine them, everything just gets better and bet-ter.

It seems like every time you turn around there is another attempt by a city, county, or state to legislate, or to limit our use and enjoyment of our old cars. That’s where my job comes in – and where each of you can make a difference. As VP- Leg-islation, part of what I do is to try to follow legislative efforts which affect the antique vehicle hobby. Contact with our SEMA representative Colby Martin and the SEMA Action Network helps to maintain aware-ness of issues nationwide, as well as State-to- State.

You and your Region can step up and keep us aware of what is going on in your part of the United States and Canada that the rest of us may not know about, and how it can affect the hobby.

The hobby, with the support of many legislatures just celebrated Collector Car Appreciation Day on Friday, July 12th.

(https://www.semasan.com/legislative-alerts/national/sema-applauds-introduction-congressional- resolution-recognizing-july-12 )

I hope that you and your Region participated in some way. Here in Louisi-ana, our many varied clubs had planned to converge on Baton Rouge to visit the Old State Capitol. Regrettably, Hurri-cane/Tropical Storm Barry made that im-possible as much of the southern part of the state was shut down, and driving any-thing was discouraged. A follow-up event is planned.

I encourage you to look into the SEMA Action Network at this link http://www.semasan.com, and to subscribe to receive updates from them.

You are welcome to share, or to discuss legislative-related issues on our AACA FORUM: https://forums.aaca.org/

DUES Dues are now DUE for the 2019 year. They are payable by returning

payment to the club post office box (preferred), dropping it off at Larson’s Locksmith, or bringing payment to the November club meeting. Dues are to be paid by Decem-ber 31 for the following year.

Individual dues are $55.00 $40.00 for National AACA (paid through our local club), and

$15.00 for local dues Joint Membership dues are $70.00

$40.00 for National AACA (paid through our local club), and $30.00 for local dues for you and your associate or spouse

Please pay promptly - Thanks, Rochelle Larson

Beginning November 2, 2019, our Saturday CarNCoffee meetings will start at 9 AM for the winter months.. Our location remains the same at the Great Harvest Bread Company, Bentley Mall, Fairbanks. Join fellow club members at our weekly gathering of ideas, opinions, answers, and general b.s. No agen-da, no expectations. Just good old fashion camaraderie. Great Harvest provides free house coffee to VLNAACF members at-tending. Join us. Guests welcome.

- John McCarthy

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President’s Headlights - Jeff Creamer

Fellow Members,

As we ease into the winter months of life in Fairbanks, we reflect on the past sum-mer season and see what we did, how it bene-fited the community in which we live, and for myself, I ask, “What can the Club do better next year?”. That’s where You come in!

We did receive a few calls throughout this summer for the club to take part in activi-ties in the community that we were unable to help with due to other pre-planned events. There are several of us that have connections within the various segments of our town such as the army post, airforce base, youth sports, senior events, and so many more that would enjoy having us partake in their group events, but it takes long range planning to make it happen.

I encourage any of us that know of these events to reach out to the hosts/sponsors early so we can include them in our February planning meeting and have more ex-posure in the community as a result. Now is the best time to start with this task.

On the same thought line, while thinking of future events, your board of directors and club officers need to hear from you about where you see the club going in the upcoming years, decades, or even further. Is the status quo sustainable? Do we need to grow? Are we too large? Too restrictive, or too relaxed? Or is this something that will eventually fade as our generation(s) leave this life to our de-scendants? These are things we need to hear about from you, our members, as without you, there is no Club. Please give this some thought and reach out to myself or other mem-bers of the board with your input.

In closing I would like to thank several

members for their contributions to the Club: Carl Westphal, thank you for your service for the last two years as a member of the Board of Directors, and the many other contributions in helping with various activities. We look for-ward to having your input and assistance in the future!; Jerry Mustard and Bruce McIn-tosh, welcome to the Board, we look forward to serving with you, thank you for accepting the nomination to serve.; Scott Grundy, The-resa Chase, Phil Sanders, Wilma Vinton, and Dale Durrwachter for your nominations of the worthwhile charities we had to chose from for this year’s donation gift. All were deserving of our consideration, thank you for bringing them to our attention. Finally, to those unnamed, unsung heroes that help with all the chores and activities that make serving as your Presi-dent bearable, Thank You! (Please don’t stop!)

Safe and happy travels,

Jeff Creamer

Special Note:

Paul Tekin called to check on Bear Schmit this weekend, and found out that Bear has been hospitalized for the past week, and is not doing well. Bear asked that a note be put in the newsletter stating that “Everything in the gar-age is for sale”, and members should call him if interested in anything. Bear’s phone number is 347-7049.

- Rick Larrick

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I had a dream about mufflers. I woke up exhausted.

2019 CHARITY

DONATIONS At the October meeting, the

membership voted to award three charity donations this year. Of the five charities nominated, the membership chose Friends of Creamer’s Field, Alaska Health Fair Screening Equipment, and Guys Read Gals Read. The vote was close, and after two recounts of the first ballot, one of the five was eliminated and a second vote was taken to select three from the remaining four. The two charities which were nomi-nated, but not selected, were the Kiwanis Tanana Lakes Playground and the Fair-banks Community Food Bank. Each of the five charities had written a letter to the club, and each of the five had a club mem-ber sponsor who nominated them and wrote a letter of support.

Each of the three charities voted will receive an equal check with the mon-ies coming from our 50/50 raffle proceeds, charitable funds which were budgeted, and over $6000 coming from the donation from the proceeds from the sale of the 2012 Ford Fusion which was so generously do-nated to the club by Sarah Crawford. Each charity will receive about $2400 (exact amount to be determined by the Board at their November meeting). The awards will be made at the December An-nual Meeting / Holiday Party at the Foun-tainhead Museum on December 8th. A representative from each of the three char-ities will be invited to attend the meeting, receive their check, and speak briefly to our membership.

The Friends of Creamer’s Field donation will be to support their education programs at the Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge. Creamer’s field is on College Road within the city limits of Fair-banks, and all year long thousands of peo-ple use the Refuge, which some described as being Fairbank’s “Central Park”. As Scott Grundy explained in his nominating letter of support, “the Friends operate the Visitor Center, work with the school district to lead school children on field trips to view and identify migratory waterfowl, lead na-ture walks, help maintain trails, host events like the annual ‘Sandhill Crane Fes-tival’, organized and conduct a ‘Camp Habitat’ each summer for children, and so much more.”

The Alaska Health Fair donation will provide much needed funding to ac-quire needed equipment for the screening work they do with Fairbanks populations

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New Board Member, Bruce McIntosh

NEW TO THE BOARD: Bruce McIntosh Bruce was nominated and then

the nominated slate was elected by accli-mation at the October Membership Meet-ing. Bruce is a retired fishery biologist, having worked for the Alaska Department of Fish & Game for 33 years, most recent-

ly overseeing salmon sonar projects in the Yukon and Kuskokwim river drainages.

Bruce was introduced to the club by John McDonald, after Bruce bought a 1955 Ford Victoria from John a few years back. Bruce already had a ‘49 Hudson coupe, which was the predecessor to the mighty Hudson Hornet which came out in 1951. When asked, Bruce said the ‘55 Victoria was his favorite car “because, well, I simply like the mid-fifties Fords!”.

Bruce’s first “antique car” was, of course, a Ford. It was a 1955 Town Sedan, bought from a Craigslist ad in 2011. Bruce says “It was mostly an impulse buy, as it didn’t run. I managed to wrangle a co-worker into taking the afternoon off to help me drag it home - although at the time, he didn’t realize it was going to be actually dragging it out of its resting place and up onto a rented trailer with ropes, come-alongs and a fair amount of grumbling. I think he got a kick out of my idea of fun!”

In the coming couple of years, Bruce is hoping to be available to contribute time and energy, hopefully helping to take some of the load off of the core of volun-teers who currently keep the club active and going. He said he is eager to look for ways to increase member participation and interaction in the club, particularly with new-er members and during the “off season” in the fall and winter months.

Editor note: Welcome Bruce! Next month we will profile the other new board member, Jerry Mus-tard, also elected in October to serve the 2020 through 2021 term.

2020 OFFICERS & DIRECTORS

PRESIDENT - Jeff Creamer

VICE-PRESIDENT - Ralph Moore

TREASURER - Wilma Vinton

SECRETARY - Donna Wojciechowski

PAST-PRESIDENT DIRECTOR - Mike Lecorchick

DIRECTOR (Term expires 2020) - Phil Sanders

DIRECTOR (Term expires 2020) - Joe Procell

DIRECTOR (Term expires 2021) - Bruce McIntosh

DIRECTOR (Term expires 2021) - Jerry Mustard

We all know where the Big Apple is, but does anyone know where the Minneapolis?

It’s a beautiful car Volume 48, Issue 10 Page 7

President Jeff Creamer brought the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m.

There were 26 members present.

A MOTION WAS MADE BY THE-RESA CHASE AND SECONDED BY PHIL SANDERS TO AC-CEPT THE MEMBERSHIP MINUTES FROM THE SEPTEM-BER MEETING. PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.

Donna Wojciechowski read the minutes from the BOD meeting.

MADE BY THERESA CHASE AND SE-CONDED BY KELLY OINES TO CLOSE NOMINA-TIONS. PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. The club's 2020 Board of Director's, by declaration, is President-Jeff Cream-er, Vice President-Ralph Moore, Treas-urer-Wilma Vinton, Secretary-Donna Wojciechowski, Past President-Mike Lecor-chick, Phil Sanders-Director, Joe Procell-Director, Jerry Mus-tard-Director and Bruce McIntosh Di-rector. Charity Letters - Each charity/

sponsor letter was read in front of the membership. Charity letters were from Friends of Creamer's Field, Fair-banks Lion's, AK Health Fair, Guy's Read Gal's Read and Fairbanks Com-munity Food Bank. There was a vote by ballot and the results were Friends of Creamer's Field, AK Health Fair and Guys Read Gals Read. The charity amount will be announced at a later date. Charity donations will be presented at the annual meeting. The club will buy the meals for the recipi-ents. 50/50 - The amount for the 50/50 was $100 and the lucky winner was Phil Sanders. The next BOD meeting is November 12th and the next membership meet-ing is November 14th at Denny's Res-taurant. A MOTION WAS MADE BY PHIL SANDERS AND SECONDED BY JULIO MERCED TO ADJOURN THE MEETING AT 8:10 P.M. PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. Submitted by Donna Wojciechowski, Secretary

VNAACF Monthly Membership Meeting

Denny’s Restaurant Oct. 12, 2019

President Jeff Creamer brought the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. There were 26 members present. A MOTION WAS MADE BY THERESA CHASE AND SECONDED BY PHIL SANDERS TO ACCEPT THE MEM-BERSHIP MINUTES FROM THE SEP-TEMBER MEETING. PASSED UNANI-MOUSLY. Donna Wojciechowski read the minutes from the BOD meeting. Treasurer's Report - No report was giv-en. Membership Report - No report was giv-en. Events/Committees: Annual Meeting - Ralph Moore gave us an update. The date for the annual meeting is December 8th at the Foun-tainhead Antique Car Museum. 4:00 will be social time with a cash bar. 5:00 will be dinner with the meeting to fol-low. After the meeting we will have a gift exchange. A copy of the menu was passed out to members. The cost of the

dinner for members is $23.50. A MO-TION WAS MADE BY RICK LAR-RICK AND SECONDED BY PHIL SANDERS FOR THE CLUB TO SUB-SIDIZE THE CHILDREN'S MEALS AT HALF PRICE. (Children's age is 12 yrs. & under) PASSED UNANI-MOUSLY. Most Improved Vehicle - Sugges-tions were made on vehicles to be looked at. October 18th is our Saturday to volunteer to pack boxes at the food bank. We will leave cars & coffee at 8:45 to arrive at the food bank by 9:00. Theresa Chase gave members a challenge to donate 100 turkeys for the food bank for Thanksgiving. The food bank will need the turkeys by the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. OLD BUSINESS: Nomination Committee - Joyce Tekin gave us an update. Nomina-tions to fill vacant positions from the floor were open. Nominations from the floor were Jerry Mustard and Bruce McIntosh. A MOTION WAS

EDITOR’S LEFT

(on) BLINKER - Rick Larrick

Volume 48, Issue 10 Page 8 Wasn’t it?

I ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon. I’ll let you know which comes first.

Mark your calendar for the annual business meeting to be held on Dec. 8th at the

Fountainhead Auto Museum.

There will be a cash bar starting at 4pm with music provided by Dan & Sue Schaaf. A buffet meal will be provided at 5:00pm.

The meal will be buffet style including the following :

Tossed or Caesar salad

Prime Rib

Chicken Marsala

Red Potatoes

Vegetables

Coffee, Iced Tea or Lemonade

Dessert Tray (4 different)

As decided at the May membership meeting, cost of the meal for members is split 50/50 between the member and the club; there is no reservation fee this year - but meal money

must be paid by the deadline to reserve your spot at the table.

After the business meeting a Chinese Auction gift exchange will be held. If you would like to exchange please bring a gift valued at about $20 (you may spend more if you like).

Come for the Social Hour and check out the collection at the Fountainhead Auto Muse-um. Your host for this event is Ralph Moore. Please contact him if you have any ques-

tions.

Hope to see everyone there for a fun evening and the last meeting of the year.

- Ralph Moore

HOLIDAY GIFT EXCHANGE

If you wish to participate in the “Chinese Auction” type Gift Exchange at the Holiday Party Dinner, don’t forget to bring a gift. One gift per person partici-

pating—can be marked for “Man”, “Woman” or non– gender. Cost should be about $20 or so. Bring a gift and then choose a gift (and try to keep it). And -

if you have children coming, give Joyce Tekin a call so we can make sure there is a gift for them from the club.

NOTE: No alcoholic gifts are allowed this year, as policy at the Fountainhead Museum is that NO personal liquor can be brought on the premises (even as

an unopened gift).

who do not have much access to health care. They outlined a very specific needs list which totaled about $10,000 – so our contribution will put them a big step toward their equipment funding goal. The equip-ment is very specific for their vision and hearing screening services. They were nominated by club member Wilma Vinton.

Guys Read Gals Read was nomi-nated by Katie & Phil Sanders. This pro-gram has over 80 volunteers who visit 4th grade classrooms and read. 4th grade is a key point when both boys and girls often stop reading for fun. By re-introducing them to serial novels targeted to their age, the volunteers re-kindle an interest. At the end of the book being read, most class-room listeners are eager to get the sequel book in the series. If again “hooked” on reading for pleasure, many will continue the habit for the rest of their lives.

We will hear more from each of these three charity recipients at the Annual Meeting / Holiday Party at the Fountain-head Museum on December 8th (see arti-cle this page and form on page 9).

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In the Kid’s View -

Leaving cars and coffee yesterday morn-ing and my son, Clifford was giving me a hard time about what we were doing:

"Bunch of old boring guys telling boring stories about cars they haven't fixed yet, blah blah.... Jokes that aren't funny. Can't even take me home because we have to go look at more boring junk cars for parts for someone else's boring cars they aren't going to fix anyway..."

"Yep bud that pretty much sums up my average weekend plan."

- Carl Westphal 10/13/19

Not much to say. Looks like we are well set with a Board and Officers going into 2020.

Next issue won’t be until for Jan - Feb, issued at the end of December. We’ll have photos from the Annual Meeting / Holiday Party, and hopefully some more interesting articles from members on their auto-related travel! Have Fun! - Rick Larrick

Photo credit: Jeff Creamer

Holiday Party Dinner (Vernon L. Nash Antique Auto Club Annual Meeting & Dinner)

Please return this form with your meal fee(s) and guest payments at the

November 14th club meeting, or to Larson Locksmith, 1249 Noble St.,

or mail no later than Monday, November 25, 2019 to:

VLNAACF

Box 71253

Fairbanks, AK 99707-1253

DINNER at the Holiday Party will be a buffet meal at the

FOUNTAINHEAD AUTO MUSEUM on Sunday, December 8, 2019

Social Hour (Cash Bar) 4:00 pm

Dinner 5:00 pm

Program 6:00 pm

Gift Exchange

MENU: Prime Rib or Chicken Marsala, Red Potatoes, Vegetables, Tossed or Caesar Salad,

Dessert Tray (4 different), Coffee, Iced Tea or Lemonade.

Please indicate number of persons attending and meal fees paid:

________ Members @ $26.50 = $ ________

________ Adult Guests & Children 13 years old & older

@ $53.00 Meal Cost = $ ________

________ Children under13 @ $13.25 = $________

TOTAL = $ ________

MEMBER NAME (S):_______________________________________________

QUESTIONS / SPECIAL DIET NEEDS?: Call Ralph Moore

Make your check payable to:

VLNAACF

Volume 48, Issue 10 Page 9 - Burma Shave (1953)

NEXT MEETINGS The Membership Meeting is Thursday, Nov. 14th - at Denny’s Restaurant on Airport - we will meet in the back room (The Sled Dog Room). Meeting starts at 7:00 pm.; Come early in time to be served and finish dinner by meeting time!

The Board Meeting is Tuesday, Nov. 12th — at Denny’s Res-taurant Sled Dog Room. Meeting starts at 6:30 pm, with dinner before. Board Meetings are open to members.

VLNAAC Website: http://fairbanksaaca.org CONTACTS: President Jeff Creamer 378-9061 jcreamer@gci.net

Vice-President Mike Lecorchick 322-7525 Mike.lecor@gmail.com

Treasurer Wilma Vinton 388-7766 wlvinton@gmail.com

Secretary Donna Wojciechowski 490-6740 culligan@gci.net

Director (past President)

Director (term expires 2019) Ralph Moore 347-1675 flatheadv81947@gmail.com

Director (term expires 2019) Carl Westphal 322-1760 westphal78@hotmail.com

Director (term expires 2020) Phil Sanders 479-5920 Sanders.phillip@gmial.com Director (term expires 2020) Joe Procell 488-5802 No email

Membership Chair Rochelle Larson 590-8593 rochelle1987@hotmail.com

Merchandise Rochelle Larson 590-8593 rochelle1987@hotmail.com

Newsletter Rick Larrick 457-4344 larrickrick@gmail.com

Website Michael Farrell 328-8434 mrfarrell2@alaska.edu

Sunshine Club Tracy McLeod 456-7877 tksplits@yahoo.com

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