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October 2011
The Buick Running Board
ORANGE COUNTY
CHAPTER OF THE BCA
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OFFICERS FOR 2011 ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER OF THE BUICK
CKUB OF AMERICA
DIRECTOR Sheridan Bishop III 714-997-2390 [email protected]
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Jim Anderson 714-527-6763 [email protected] TREASURER Garry Toulson 714-838-0750 [email protected] SECRETARY Gary Martin 714-812-7713 [email protected]
Irene Foster 714-828-0942 [email protected] EDITOR Sheridan Bishop III 714-997-2390 [email protected]
DIRECTOR AT LARGE Lee Wangerin 562 –920 920-1611 No “E”mail DIRECTOR AT LARGE Larry Minery 714-639-1137
[email protected] WAGON MASTER Richard Brewbaker 714-772-1793
the2brewsatearthlink.net SPEAKERS John Dyke 562-430-2711
[email protected] HOSPITALITY Bruce Andren 714-317-1110
HISTORIAN Fred Rawling 562 644-4670 [email protected]
STOCKROOM
Regular Monthly meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month at Spires Restaurant at the Southeast corner of Golden West and Garden Grove Blvd. Westminster. Contact them for Di-rections 714-636-0442. Meetings start at 7:00P.M. For those of us who have dinner there please try to be finished before 7:00 Membership dues are $20.00 per year, and you must also be a member of the National Buick Club of America. Dues are due July first of each year. Any member who shall have failed to pay their dues within two months after they have become due shall cease to become a member. Articles to be printed in the Running Board need to be in the Editors possession no later than the Sun-day following the meeting.
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The following
people have
Birthdays in
OCTOBER
FROM THE ORANGE
COUNTY BUICK CLUB Bruce Andren October 30
Jeanne Dyke October 2
Sam Engle October 7
Crraig French October 20
Patty Glaub October 12
Dave Goodrich October 17
Bibi Loos October 6
Dave Wilhelm October 12
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Cars and Parts for sale
Your ad will run for three months and then will be de-
leted unless you renew it. Call your editor to renew
your ad.
September 2011 For Sale: Three doors for a 1959 Buick four door. Complete with glass and door handles, no rust or dents. $50.00 each Sheridan Bishop III 714-997-2390
August 2011 For Sale; 1964 Buick Le Saber 300 ci 250hp with a 4 barrel carb. Model 4439 post. ht. Power Steering, Power brakes. Poor paint, Poor Interior, Fair Chrome, minor right rear damage. 150,000 miles, not running Photos available. Lee Wangerin 562-920-1611 Free to a Buick lover. Best offer to others.
September 2011 For Sale 1985 Chevrolet El Camino Super Sport 350 engine good transmission, good rubber, quad headlight style. Purchased from the original owner. $3,450.00 Contact Gary Martin 714-812-7713.
September 2011 For Sale; 1965 Buick Riviera 401 engine, origi-nal condition, good rubber, drives great, Gary 949-307-5894
September 2011 For sale: 1983 Cadillac Seville Hi mileage, but well maintained. Recent new fuel pump installed by Wally’s Shop. The original engine has been replace, and the original engine is apart and available with the car. $2,950.00 OBO. Garry Toulson 714-838-0750 “E” mail [email protected].
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Directors Message
Tuesday September 20 was our General membership meeting . Our speaker was Ray Brown , Who gave a highly researched and very informative talk on a 1930s G.P.S for navigating the high-ways of the day. Read the article on page six. We as club members have the opportunity to purchase watches with our club name and logo on them . The price is $15.00 plus about one to two dollars shipping. The minimum order is twelve, and we have commitments for at least ten at this time. If you have a interest please call me, or Garry Toulson so we can put your name on our list. They also make great gifts.
Dues were due July First. If your dues are
not in our treasurers possession before Oc-
tober 20, 2011 your name will not appear in
the 2012 Roster.
I need to apologize to the following people who I have left out of our news letter. First Eddie Rusnak for not getting her Birthday correct. Second to Michele Minery who was left out of the news letter as attending the meeting. Third to Bruce Andren who was left out of last months news letter as attending the meeting. If you have a corrections please notify me (preferably by tele-phone) of the change I need to make.
Our car show has been well publicized over the last several
months thanks to the people who have volunteered their time.
We expect a good turnout of cars. See page seven for more details.
Keep driving those Buicks
Sheridan Bishop III Director.
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Secretaries notes
OCCBCA Monthly Meeting Minutes September 20th
2011 Members present: Sonny Bishop, Gary Martin, Eddie Rusnak, Larry Minery, Irene Foster, Kenn Foster, Garry Toulson, Bruce Andren, Jim Anderson, Scott Anderson, Steven Anderson, Ray Brown, Baron Night, Sam Engle, Fred Rawlings, John Dyke, Rich-ard Brewbaker, Nancy Brewbaker , The Meeting was called to order at 7:17 p.m. by Sheridan Bishop III Director. Richard Brewbaker gave a report on the train trip to Encinitas The group decided the Swappers are to be located the S/E corner of Crevier Classics for our show. Nancy Brewbaker passed out paperwork to all present as a re-minder of their Jobs at the car show. If you were not at the meeting and have volunteered for a job or would like to volunteer contact Nancy at 714-772-1793. October 2nd 2011, at 11:00 am is the date to load items at Baron’s for the show the following week. Sonny will bring folding tables and pop-ups for the show. Contact Sonny to purchase wrist watches with the OCCBCA logo on them. Ray Brown showed a short film on the production of a 1936 Chev-rolet, from atart to the finished car being driven away. The second part of this presentation was on Time Controlled Indicators. They were invented by Lillian Huffaker and were an early moving map display for the automobile. They had an internal transmission to set the average speed of the car. Ray showed pictures of Highway 101 circa 1936, Lee gave a short talk on the Automotive Section of the Natural His-tory Museum and their display of un restored cars. Lee won the 50/50 for $10.00 The Meeting was adjourned at 8:44 p.m. by Sheridan Bishop III
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Wallys Shop has worked on many of our cars, new and old, and has a excellent reputation for good work and fair prices. Send your family and friends to Wally for their service needs
As you know our news letter has been posted
on the BCA national web site http://
www.buickclub.org/orangecounty/ since May
of this year, and will continue to be posted
each month. Check out July news letter for
help in getting it. Please call or “E” mail me
so I wouldn't continue to send copy. This will
save the club money, and keep our treasurer
happy .
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Call Gary Martin
At 714-812-7713
For details on this
Product.
Continued from September
1977 - An automotive milestone a Buick exclusive - the intro-duction of the world's first mass-produced turbocharged V-6 engine for upcoming 1978 models.
1979 - The new front-wheel drive Riviera, equipped with the turbo V-6 powerplant, is named "Car of the Year" by Motor Trend Magazine.
1980 - January - The Engine Plant builds its 100,000th turbo-charged V-6 engine.
1980 - April - Buick builds its last 350 V-8 engine - weight of this V-8 is 567 pounds. Produc-tion started in 1968. The total production of this engine was 4,167,514.
1980 - April 20 - All Buick pro-duced engines are now V-6's with an engine weight of 395 pounds. Total number of V-6's produced from July 1968 through April10, 1980 3,071,923.
- The Engine Plant has built a total of 16,741,318 engines from the beginning of the 1953model through April 10, 1980.
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Tours and events
Sunday October 9th from 9:00am to 3;00pm We be having Our annual car show at Crevier classic collection located at 365 Clinton Street Costa Mesa. See last months news letter for the flyer . Further information is on the next page.
November No tour this month.
December will be our Christmas Lights tour. Plan to attend this event. Its always fun and a great show of lights.
Keep driving those Buicks, especially to our tours, and to our
monthly meetings
Our tour on Saturday September 17 to the Woody show in Encini-tas was great. We boarded the Metro Link train in Orange and ar-rived in Encinitas at 11:25 after changing trains in Oceanside to the Coaster. (The Metro Link does not stop in Encinitas.) The weather there was perfect. We stopped for breakfast before going to the show , which was a short walk down the street. We viewed the Woodies, which were beautiful. Every kind and condition you can imagine. Mostly in excellent condition, however there were a few that were un restored. We saw Paul Riker’s woody, and had a short talk with his wife and friend who were relaxing under a tree behind the car. We then walked the short distance to the downtown area where a bazaar was being held. After walking around the bazaar and buy-ing a few of their goods, we headed back to the train station. We-had a enjoyable ride both ways. We arrived in Orange at 6:PM.
Richard Brewbaker Wagon master
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The Ticonometer
A 1930's Automotive Navigation Device
by Ray Brown
In 1932, Lillian Yancey Huffaker, filed a patent for a device that used a combination of clockworks and map to provide a means of navigating select major highways. She named her invention at Ti-conometer from the TIme Controlled instruments METER. She formed a company in 1933 located in the Wilshire Professional Building in Los Angeles and contracted with Seth Thomas Clock Co. in Tomaston, Connecticut to build the hardware. Lillian de-signed several unique straight-line maps to use with her invention including maps for El Camino Real or Hwy 101, Hwy 99, and Route 66 from LA to St. Louis. Her maps included the major route, with distances and points of interest such as hotels, inns and other information including historical sites and key industrial and agri-cultural areas. The Ticonometer has a five speed "transmission" that was used to select the average speed of the car so the map
would advance and keep the current location visible in a window.
Member Ray Brown, through searches on the internet, was able to piece together a history of Lillian and her invention. Ray described the working of the Ticonometer and then we had a "Road Trip" from LA to San Francisco using Lillian's Hwy 101 Ticonometer map as our guide. Ray showed pictures of key places called out on the 1933 map and showed then and now pictures for those places still around after nearly 80 years. Ray also passed around two working Ticonometers with maps of Highways 101 and 99 plus a clockworks from another so members could see how the clock-works could be used to drive the map at different rates. Thank you Ray for the great presentation at our meeting and this article Sheridan Bishop Editor
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On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Chapter of the Buick Club of America, I cordially invite you to attend our Show and Shine Buick only Car Show to be held on October 9th at the Crevier Collection, 365 Clin-ton St. Costa Mesa, between 9: OO am and 3-00 pm. This year there will be no peer-judging and no awards so the admission per car at the gate is only $5. This is planned to be a leisurely event with random parking, nostalgic mu-sic and with good food available from a caterer at extremely reasonable prices. All Buicks are invited even if their own-ers are not members of the BCA. From the entry fee of $5 we are again supporting the Ronald McDonald House Charity and invite participants to voluntarily donate any additional amount for which we will provide a Donation Tax receipt for Income Tax purposes. If you have not seen the Crevier Classic Car Collection be-fore, this is an excellent opportunity to see these wonderful cars at no additional cost. I also take this opportunity of thanking you for the renewal of your membership in our Chapter. Garry Toulson Board member and Treasurer OCCBCA. (714) 838-0750 [email protected]
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