Mary Jane Pokojni
37 Ridgewood Rd.
Easton, PA 18045
LEHIGH VALLEY REGION
OFFICERS
PRESIDENT
VICE PRESIDENT
SECRETARY
TREASURER
ALAN FENSTERMACHER
RON LITTWIN
PATRICIA HECKMAN
DAVE ORAVEC
610-849-2087
610-759-6295
610-438-5779
610-253-5097
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(AGNES STACY, DALE HENDERSHOT, RON HECKMAN, and MARYANN MASON, SERVE 2015- 2016)
(RICH HEATER, DAVE HAGENBUCH, and PUTT OLSON SERVE 2015) (JOHN MITZAK 1 YEAR 2015)
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE
HISTORIAN & PHOTOGRAPHER
WEBMASTER
PUBLICITY
TOURS
John Mitzak, Joe Pokojni, Charles Bauder, Bob Frey, Ed Dietrich,
Mary Jane Pokojni, Robert Frey, Alan Fenstermacher, Don Jones
Joe Pokojni, Dave Oravec
Cindy & Dave Oravec
Mary Jane Pokojni
Alan Fenstermacher, Dave Schomp, Ron Heckman, JoAnne Homa, Ron
Littwin,
PICNIC
CAR SHOW COMMITTEE
EASTON HERITAGE DAY
MEMBERSHIP
CHRISTMAS PARTY
CRUISE NIGHTS
HALLOWEEN DINNER DANCE
REFRESHMENT COMMITTEE
HOSPITALITY-SUNSHINE
Ed & Alice Dietrich
Alan Fenstermacher, Ron & Debbie Heckman, Dave & Jackie Schomp,
Putt Olson, Agnes Stacy, Dick Varga and a lot of other members.
Willis Sigafoos, Ken Meyers
Mary Jane Pokojni
Mary Jane & Joe Pokojni
Ron Heckman (Chairman) Rich Heater (Assistant) Debbie Heckman, Putt
Olson, Agnes Stacy, Dick Varga, Jackie & Dave Schomp, Ginny Procanyn,
Chip Kalnas, Willis & Gloria Sigafoos and anyone who wants to help.
MaryAnn Mason
Gilda Hendershot & Dottie Littwin
Putt Olson – 610-252-2606
LEHIGH VALLEY REGION DUES are $15 for member and spouse, and $10 for individual due January 1st yearly. Members must be a member of parent
organization-AACA. SEND TO: Mary Jane Pokojni 37 Ridgewood Rd. Easton, PA 18045 Please write your AACA # on your check made payable to: Lehigh
Valley Region (AACA National is due Dec. 15) Members 80 yrs. or over are free but MUST be members of the National Organization each yr. Please notify if
you are 80 yrs of age and want to remain on our mailing list. LVRAACA Meetings are held on the second Sunday of winter months at 2 p.m. and the 2nd
Wednesday of the month from April to October at the Palmer Library, Newburg Rd. Palmer Township, Pa. Please check the Calendar for dates and times of
meetings and events. www.lvraaca.com
Thoughts from your President
Hello everybody. I hope everyone is having a great summer. It’s hard to believe we are almost
through July and going into August.
Speaking of July, I just want to personally thank everyone for a great Christmas in July car show. We
had about 156 cars including members cars, a truly huge Tricky Tray, and a great group of members who
helped set up, run, and take down the event. Again thank you to the members who helped run the event
and to those who showed up for the fun.
Next up will be Meuser Park, which we will be discussing at our next meeting. I am still waiting to
hear from vendors. I am hoping that will be very soon.
Please be sure to welcome our new members when you see them.
I came across a flyer for a public auction if anybody is looking to add some vehicles to their collection. I
know I’d like to if I could. Here’s the info:
Sunday, September 27, 2015 - 0900
6287 Hunters Hill Rd
Germansville, Lehigh Co, Pa
Auctioneers: Dennis/Tracy Wagner
610-562-7445/610-741-3828
www.wagnerauctioneers.com
More info: 484-221-1315
1954 B71-B Mack tractor: #45 out of 500 made between 54-58, 220 Cummins diesel,10 spd duplex trans,
also available 20 spd quad trans, dual exh w/heat shields, red w/black fenders, 5th wheel & trailer hitch,
controller for electric brake trailer, VERY RARE MACK
1958 B42-B Mack:673 diesel, 10 spd duplex trans
1957 Fruehauf Stainless Tandem Trailer: very rare torsion bar suspension
1949 Fruehauf Stainless Tandem Trailer
1985 Great Dane Stainless Trailer
1948 (Anglia) Prefect English Ford: vintage drag car converted to street rod, street legal
1933 Chevy Sedan Delivery Street Rod
1969 z-28 Camaro: Blue w/white stripes, 4-spd, console w/guages, m-22 rock crusher trans, 4 brand new
original Firestone tires, 1970 Z-28 block, 1969 original block included
If anyone is interested check them out online for photos/updates/details.
I will be going on a much needed and deserved vacation soon and one of our destinations will be the
National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green Kentucky. I’ve had 2 opportunities to visit this place, both
times during a move to relocate to a new home. This time I’m not going by Penske rent a truck, but with an
actual car, I can’t wait.
In closing I would like to say one last thing. Last newsletter I wrote about some AACA members
referring to a members car as a Parking Lot Car at one of the AACA events. This was of course denied by the
AACA in the magazine. Well here we are with the newest AACA magazine we have some members (not
ours) calling some members cars Used Cars to which the person the insult was given countered with the fact
that all AACA cars technically are Used Cars. Good for her.
Why isn’t the AACA attracting new members, or YOUNGER members? Maybe the insults are just one
reason. Other reasons would include Barret-Jackson, Meecum, and the endless TV shows where people pay
STUPID amounts of money for some of these vehicles. The other night I watched Car Crazy and listened to
Barry Meguiar talking to car collector Bruce Meyer and his comment was “Before Pebble Beach ANYONE
could buy a hot rod. Today??? Lets face it…a lot of the younger generation just can’t afford some of these
cars and the older generations of people who do won’t be around forever.
I remember reading in a magazine many years ago about a father and son. The son had bought a
Corvette and together with his dad built it up into a pretty nice street machine.
The son was in the military and was sent off to fight for his country. He was killed. His father kept the car
for awhile, but then thought his son would appreciate it if he sold it for someone else to enjoy, so he took it
to a show. He could have sold it for at the time 35k, but he held off for some reason until a young man
approached him and they started talking about the car. In short, the young man really liked the car but he
only had about 8k to spend. Now the father could have sent him on his way, but he saw the young mans
love for the car, his appreciation for the car and the things that were done to it. Needless to say the father
sold the car to that young man.
ALAN
FYI! - Check out our web site – www.lvraaca.com
Would you like to write an article about your car? Or do you have anything of interest for
this spot, if so send it to: [email protected] or mail to Mary Jane Pokojni 37 Ridgewood
Rd. Easton, PA. 1804
Donation Request from our Tricky Tray Chairman!
Each year there are more and more fundraisers making it difficult to obtain
donations from local businesses for our charities.
Members are requested to solicit donations from business they frequent
(restaurants, fast food, shops, hairdressers, barbers, service stations etc.
Also many of us have items we have either received as gifts or items (gently
used, like new) which we are no longer using which could be useful for our basket
raffles.
Your help would be greatly appreciated. Help us make our fundraisers a
success.
Thanks, Agnes
Raub’s Farm Saturday 10/3/2015 – (11 to 3) 1459 Tatamy Road, Easton, PA
Antique and Classic Cars only (15 years or older) we will be participating in a car show at
“Raub’s Farm” again this year like we did last year. They will supply food, snacks, beverages,
a free hay ride (weather permitting) and the corn maze. Time will be from 11 to 3
Phoebe Nursing Home Saturday 9/19/2015 (12 to 3)
We will meet at the Ritz Bar B’Q (302 North 17th St. Allentown, PA 18104) located at the
Allentown Fair Grounds at 11:30 AM and travel as a group to the Phoebe Nursing
Home(1925 W. Turner St.) Everyone who brings a car will receive a food voucher. Hot dog,
Beverage, DJ, Rain Date Sunday 9/20/15
MARK YOUR CALENDAR - 2015
Please check the calendar monthly - dates and times are subject to change
ONLY CLUB EVENTS ARE POSTED ON THIS CALENDAR
SUPPORT YOUR CLUB BY ATTENDING THESE EVENTS!
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5:00 to 9:00 PM Dairy Queen Cruise
12
7:00 PM LVRAACA meeting Palmer Library
27
7:00 PM LVRAACA B.O.D. meeting Palmer Library
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5:00 to 9:00 PM Salvatore’s Cruise
September
9
7:00 PM LVRAACA meeting Palmer Library
12
4:00 to 8:00 PM Dairy Queen Cruise
13
LVRAACA 39th Annual LVR Car Show (new location Meuser Park)
19
Phoebe Nursing Home Cruise 12-3 – Rain date Sunday Sept. 20, 2015
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7:00 PM LVRAACA B.O.D. meeting Palmer Library
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3:00 to 7:00 PM Salvatore’s Cruise
October
3
Raub’s Farm –more info in this issue
10
2:00 to 7:00 PM Dairy Queen Halloween Show
14
7:00 PM LVRAACA meeting Palmer Library
18
LVRAACA Fall Tour (?)
22
7:00 PM LVRAACA B.O.D. meeting Palmer Library
31
6:00 to 11:00 PM – Halloween Dinner / Dance
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Easton / Phillipsburg Halloween Parade
November
8
2:00 PM LVRAACA meeting Palmer Library
11
7:00 PM LVRAACA B.O.D. meeting Palmer Library
December
13
LVRAACA Christmas Party
9
7:00 PM LVRAACA B.O.D. meeting Palmer Library
If you haven’t been to a meeting lately you may not know about the
Hot Wheels. Bring a new Hot Wheels car to any event. The cars will
be used for the Meuser Park Car Show. This will be a guessing game
where the winner will win the hot wheels. Come to our meetings and
Cruise Nights to see what this is all about.
BEHIND THE MOTOMETER ©
BY
BOB FREY
In America today tomatoes are available year round. In winter they are strip mined down in Texas,
sorted electronically, at 20 per second, shrink wrapped on Styrofoam and sent north with all the taste
and consistency of raw potatoes. Along the middle of February I’d give anything for a nice soft squishy
“Big Boy” tomato. Just the kind you’d love to throw at the neighbor’s cat…if only you could get a
good firm grip on it. Did you ever wonder what happens to all those soft squishy tomatoes every
summer?
Years ago Campbell’s had a big cannery in Camden, N. J. Baskets of dead ripe tomatoes came in by the
truckload to be processed into Campbell’s soup. (The Campbell Kid wasn’t smiling in those old ads..he
was smirking).
Farmers would contract with Campbell’s and when the tomatoes were ripe would go the poor section of
town in the cool early morning, knock on doors and ask if any body wanted to work. This was before
the Great Society with unemployment compensation, relief payments, food stamps and aid to dependent
children. It was always possible to get a pickup truck load of eager workers. Seventeen cents a basket
was pretty good money then and despite the fact some of the workers did not show up the next day, the
word was out and somebody else was always willing to work. The one half bushel baskets were loaded
on flatbed stake body trucks and stacked so that the bottom of the baskets rested on the top rim of the
previous layer.
“Jay” hauled tomatoes for a produce
trucking company. Campbell’s did have
their limits, however, and refused his load
as being just too soft and squishy. Jay
called his boss who said to take the load
over to Palm, Pa. where there was a
processor that would take anything.
Just as Jay got the 1951 Ford F-6 truck up
to the toll booth of the Tacony Palmyra
Bridge the traffic was halted when the toll
bridge raised to allow a ship to pass up the
Delaware river. When Jay stopped, the
fruit flies caught up to his truck. They
filled Jays cab, they filled the toll booths,
they called in reinforcement from Camden
County so that there were fruit flies everywhere as the truck sat oozing tomato juice in the boiling hot
sun.
The bridge cops abandoned their toll booths, surrounded and started examining the stake body truck.
When the drawbridge finally came down and Jay paid his toll, one of the police said to Jay, “If you ever
come through here again, we’re going to impound your truck!!
It’s the honest truth or so they told me.
THE FLYER FOR THE MEUSER PARK CAR SHOW IS ON THE WEB SITE
WWW.LVRAACA.COM
LOOK FOR FORMS AND FLYERS AND IT IS ALSO ON THE CALENDAR.