http://ocac.cc

Recurring Club Activities

General meeting: Every 2nd Wednesday, 7PM, Z’s Classics, 2049 E. Yellowstone, Casper.

Friday night dinners: 6:00 PM, Check with Skip Hoffman, 277-0818.

Breakfast Sunday Morning (We order at 7:30 AM).

Dec - Western Grill

Jan - Johnny J's East side.

Special Events

January 1: OCAC Membership breakfast buffet. Best Western Ramkota. 9 AM.

January 22: Car show committee meeting, 6:30 at Goodwin’s.

May 24-25: OCAC Cruizin’ With the Oldies Car show.

The Blown Gasket is published every month by the Oil Capitol Auto Club Inc. Editor reserves the right to edit all copy for length, grammar, and or style. Deadline is the 15th of each month. Meetings are held at 7 PM every 2nd Wednesday at Z’s Classics, 2049 E. Yellowstone. Dues are $20 per year - payable January 1st.

Dates and times are subject to change. Club web site: http://ocac.cc.

Oil Capitol Auto Club

P.O. Box 1861

Mills, WY 82644

2013 January 2014

Volume 16, # 1

The Oil Capitol Auto Club's

Blown Gasket

2

OCAC 2013 CHRISTMAS PARTY. Many thanks to Pat Potter for her hard work on the party.

For more photos, see ocac.cc. Photos by Mike Kennedy

3

Forrest Raymond Schindler (HCCA)

March 2, 1923 - December 3, 2013

Forrest was born March 2, 1923 in Ulysses, Kansas

to Andrew George and Kezia Frances (Johnson)

Schindler. He attended school in Kendall, KS,

through the 10th grade, the first year in a one room

school house. He was the second of six children and

the only one to serve in the military.

On February 3, 1943, at the age of nineteen, he

enlisted in the United States Navy in Kansas City,

Missouri, and was sent to Boot Camp at Farragut

Naval Training Center in Idaho, transferring to

Machinist’s Mate School in San Diego at the Naval

Training Station in July of 1943. He then boarded

an ocean liner that the military used as a troop

transport headed for Hawaii. His orders sent him to

the New Hebrides Islands in the South Pacific. Here

he helped repair equipment, planes, and ships, build

roads, barracks, and airfields. He received his

Honorable Discharge in Norman, OK on November

26, 1945.

While on leave he married Fern Lucille Wadley on

August 7, 1945 in Hotchkiss, Colorado. After his

discharge he worked construction jobs in Kansas

and Colorado until moving to Mills, WY in 1954.

He was a member of the Carpenter’s Union in

Colorado and Casper, WY. The family moved to

Alcova, WY in 1972 where he worked for the

Bureau of Reclamation at the Alcova Power Plant

until his retirement in 1986.

Forrest enjoyed restoring old cars and taking his

grandchildren on great adventures in those cars.

Sometimes they had to walk home because the car

often stalled when the gas was on one side of the

tank when they were on an incline. They all have

fond memories of Grandpa and the old car rides. He

participated in the Pony Express Anniversary where

he drove his Model A Coupe to deliver the mail

with his grandson Trent. He was asked to drive

Wyoming Governor Ed Herschler in the July 1976

Central Wyoming Fair Parade.

Forrest is survived by his son, Ronald (Helen)

Schindler of Mills, WY and daughter, Joyce

Grantham, Peoria, AZ. Also surviving are sisters,

Maxine Watson, Miami, OK and Mary Marriott,

Chetopa, KS. He has four grandchildren: Stephanie

Grantham and Trent Grantham, Andrew Schindler

and Krista Schindler Greipel. He has seven great

grandchildren and eight great-great grandchildren.

Forrest was preceded in death by his wife, Fern

(2008); parents; daughter, Doris Schindler

(September 1987); sisters, Evelyn Kahm and Edna

Efaw; and brother, LeRoy Schindler.

4

5

LOST CAR

The above VIN is for a 1969 Hemi Super

Bee. The second owner is hoping

someone in Wyoming can help determine

the current whereabouts of the car.

Paul Jelinek of Bozeman, MT bought the

Super Bee from the original owner in the

early ‘70s. As was the case with many of

us, he let it slip away in the late ‘70s.

Paul has some documentation originally

found in the glove box, including the

owner’s manual along with other

explanatory cards in the vinyl bag. Paul

wishes to reunite these items with his old

car. Contact the Editor if you can help.

Thanks.

6

OCAC/HCCA Archival info

courtesy of Connie Bryant

7

CASPER CHRISTMAS PARADE, NOVEMBER 30, 2013

8