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Santa Fe Vintage Car Club
Newsletter- March 2013
SFVCC – 1008 Old Santa Fe Trail – Santa Fe NM 87505
Email: [email protected] Website: www.santafevintagecarclub.org .
President
Ed Baca 310-0381
Vice President Buddy Roybal 820-7622
Youth Rep
Michael Roybal 231-1517
Treasurer Charley Yonker 466-4643
NL editors Warren Berg 955-0546
DorLisa Berg 660-2629
Last chance!: Membership dues are due and payable for 2013. Please send your
check for $20 to Charley Yonker at 8 Calle Perezoso, Santa Fe, NM 87506. If
your dues are not received by April 15th you will not receive the April
newsletter!!!!
Last Drive: Alan Jager, a member of our club, passed away on Jan. 1, 2013.
You may remember him driving his
green 1929 Model A Roadster. We
never knew he was driving a car that
was the same age as him! Alan was born
in his home at Kalamazoo, MI on August
14, 1929. Alan was a dedicated
supporter of children’s literacy. His
family is asking for donations to be
made in his memory to Cesar Chavez
Elementary School. Helping One
Student to Succeed (HOSTS) c/o
Debbis Maas. 6251 Jaguar Drive, Santa
Fe, NM 87507. 505-995-3390
Last month’s meeting (Feb. 23rd) : Was attended by: Hans Bolle, Wayne
Swinson, Russell Call, Jim Fox, Sam and Mary Jackson, Juan Quintana, Geno
Gallegos, Fred and Elaine Wilmarth, Mark Pitman, Dick Sundt, David Mullin, Larry
Icerman, Brian Johnson, Art Gabaldon, Pat M. Lopez, Henry Marquez, Phillip and
Patricia Sanchez, Sheila and Norton Bicoll, Oru Bose, Don Schultz, Dan
McCollum, Warren and DorLisa Berg, Brother Ron Bartusiak, Jack Sullivan Rich
and Charlotte Blake, Frank and Mary Chacon, Alex Czeto, Roger Wilbur, Bill
Donnell, Bob Zachry, Bob Chavez, Leroy Clarke, Buddy Roybal, and Charley
Yonker
Meeting notes:
Ed and Barbara were not in attendance
as they were in Florida visiting Barbara’s
brother and going to Daytona. The
truck on the right did make it though!
We missed them, but Buddy did a good
job covering for them. He announced
that we have $2700 in our account.
Buddy also said that your dues are due
and if you don’t pay by April 15th you
will be dropped from our email list. He thanked Warren and DorLisa for doing
such a fantastic job on the newsletter and also thanked Charlie for doing a good
job with our website and roster. Everyone clapped for us. The club is looking
for sponsors to go on the back of the Cruise Night t-shirts. That costs $200.
Dan mentioned that there was going to be a birthday party on April 6th at La
Plancha for the daughter of the owner’s who take such care of the club. He and
Ed would like it if members showed up with their old cars (call Ed Baca 310-0381
for details). Dan also announced that there was going to be a car show on May 18
at Santa Fe High School to raise money to send some kids to Washington DC.
Leroy stood up and talked about the SEMA Organization and that they send out
an email about the auto world and what’s going on. This email talked about
Senate Bill 344. Leroy won the free breakfast for March’s meeting.
Member profile: Richard and Charlotte Blake:
Richard was born on March 8, 1937.
Another Pisces! Warren’s birthday is
March 7. A friend and former SFVCC
member who died last May also had the
birthday of March 8- Richard
Sandoval. Richard Blake was born in
Berkley Springs, West Virginia. He
only lived there for 6 years and then
his family moved 20 miles away to
Martinsburg, West Virginia. He lived there until he graduated from high
school. Then he was off to college at RPI in Troy, NY which I googled and
found out stood for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute- an engineering school.
At RPI he majored in physics. He was in the Navy ROTC and joined the Navy.
(My father taught Air Force ROTC at the University of the South when I was
a child.) The Navy paid for his undergraduate degree. After graduating he
served in the Navy for four years. While in the Navy he worked at the Naval
Research Lab in Washington DC and there he became a Racketeer Astronaut. I
just love doing these interviews because all of you have led such interesting
lives! After leaving the Navy he went to graduate school at the University of
Colorado in Bolder and then to the University of Chicago studying in the
Astronomy Department and got into the Rocket Astronomy Program. In 1974
he took the Rocket Astronomy Program to Los Alamos and moved there. He did
astronomy and physics for 25 years
with 19 of them being in Los Alamos.
He said that originally it was a fine
scientific lab but then the Department
of Energy took over and things
changed. He moved from Los Alamos
to Santa Fe in 1986. Then he moved to
Eldorado in 1994. In 2000 he moved
to his current house South of Santa Fe. He retired from Los Alamos in 1993
but then worked as a Consultant doing Research and Development Services
until 1999 when he retired for good. Richard has been married three times.
He said that his first two marriages were fine but there was no legacy. He has
no children but he does have a stepson from one of his previous marriages and
Charlotte has 4 children, 10 grandchildren, and 6 great grandchildren. His
stepson’s name is Aaron Sandoski and he creates medical companies. Richard is
very impressed with this achievement. Aaron has two children. Richard and
Charlotte have been married since July 2011. I asked him how they met. He
said at a car club in Albuquerque- the Veteran Motor Club. He joined that club
in 2003. They have about 50
members. They have their meetings
on the second Thursday of the month.
I asked him if Charlotte had any
vintage cars. Man has she! Over the
years she’s had a 1961 Studebaker
Silver Hawk, a 1926 Duisenberg Model
A, a 1935 Auburn 850, and a 1936
Cord Westchester. How he can
remember all these cars? I have no
idea! Today her son that lives in Phoenix owns and drives the Cord and Auburn
on a daily basis. It’s so nice keeping the cars in the family. Richard and
Charlotte have 8 vintage cars but are buying a new one today, 2/23/13, after
our meeting. It’s a 1993 Dodge Dakota pickup from Charlotte’s sister that has
owned it since it was new. Their other 8 cars are: a 1963 Pontiac Grand Prix, a
1965 Chrysler New Yorker, a 1966 Cadillac 60 Special, a 1970 Lincoln Mark
III, a 1974 Imperial, a 1991 BMW 750, a 1995 T-bird Super Coop, and
Charlotte still has her 1961 Studebaker Silver Hawk. I can’t believe how he
recited all of their cars and in order from oldest to newest. Richard is quite
impressive. I asked him where he kept all his cars and then I remember seeing
his 9 car garage when he had the club out to his house. He has been a member
of the SFVCC since 1980 which is vintage in itself! Today Richard enjoys
collecting rocks, taking photographs, taking care of wild birds, and archeology.
He spent 7 years doing a lot of digging at the San Lazaro Pueblo which is a 57
acre site and is about 20 miles from Santa Fe. He has found a zillion things
there. Excavation at the site has revealed as many as 5,000 rooms and
thousands of items that experts agree are only the tip of the iceberg. The
Owner of the pueblo has a museum of artifacts. Once Richard was there
digging with the Owner of the Pueblo, and a group of mostly disadvantaged
students from Wyoming and they found three kivas! The Owner found one, the
students found one, and Richard found one! Every summer they bring up the
students from Wyoming and they spend a week or two learning how to work
together as a group and in a community. Richard thinks that it’s an excellent
program and is happy that the students are paid for their work. Richard’s on
facebook. After interviewing him I went to his page. Of course he has an
interesting page. Under About Richard it says: Never too old to make more
mistakes………… Try to avoid them…… His religious views: discourage nonsense
(Which I totally agree with.). Political views: Prefer straight thinkers (Which
I agree with too.). Favorite Quotation: Driving down life’s highways, always
try to show a little class. And that’s what Richard’s all about- class!
Blast from the past:
Here's a club member next to his
Sunbeam Tiger taken “some” time ago.
That’s a V-8 under the hood. I will only
give you two hints. He still has his
youthful figure and he often drives a
truck to meetings that is older than
most of our members. Please send new
submissions for “Blast from the Past” to
[email protected]
Seen around town!
This old Dodge is up on Mesa Vista
street which is off W. Alameda. There
are quite a few cars tucked away on the
side streets in this area.
Upcoming events
April 27th
April 27th
May 19th
June 28th
July 4th
July 26th
August 23rd
Sept. 27th
SFVCC monthly meeting at La Plancha (7 Caliente Rd.) at 9:00 am
Rio Rancho Park in the Park $35 entry Info 505-891-5015
New Mexico Council of Car Clubs Museum show
Cruise night on the Plaza
Pancake breakfast car show
Cruise night on the Plaza
Cruise night on the Plaza
Cruise night on the Plaza
March Classified Ad
It is time for Norton Bicoll's collection to be reduced. We are selling '95
Corvette, 23 Rolls Royce, 61 Rover P-4, 61 Jaguar MK IX, 55 Buick Century-also
many duplicate tools and dental cabinets Please call 466-4854 or Sheila's cell
660-6900. You can make an appointment to see any of the above, just call Sheila
first. Thanks.