The Running Board
The Edmonton Antique Car Club Newsletter
Vol. 53 No. 11
December 2015
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all old car aficionados.
Member of the Specialty
Vehicle Association of Alberta
In This Issue
Splinters From the Chair……...……....……………. 2
Schedule of Events……………………………..…... 3
Wonder Woman …………………………………... 4
Babbitting ………………………………………… 8
Swap Meet…………………………………………. 14
Old Bob’s Photo Corner….…...…….………...............15
The Bamfords’ Garage Page……………...………...16
General Meeting
DON’T
FORGET
December 2
Annual Banquet
December 11
Deadline for Jan/Feb RB
January 10
Splinters From The Chair
H
ello everyone. We can be assured we are going to have
winter after all. Up until a few days ago it looked like
several years ago when no snow fell till Christmas. It is
amazing how quickly the year has gone. Now for sure it
is time to park the oldies.
At our November meeting we had reported on our meeting
with the NAPDA and all has gone very well for EACC. Our
rent for meetings and the banquet for ’16 is all agreed to and we
must say we are very privileged to have this happen to us,
thanks to the management of NAPDA. We will be renewing our
membership with them in January and encourage other EACC
members to consider added their name to our list.
Our tours are all but done, but, thanks to Arend Stolte, we
have one more coming up. I hope that before the winter is over
by Ron Bodnar
a few more members can host a garage visit to see what going
on behind the scenes. We have had a very good year of tours
and events thanks mainly to Chris Bamford, Verna Hill and
Ron Eagleson.
As always at this time of year we begin the job of finding
new candidates to fill next year’s Executive. I feel that we have
a very solid, active club. Our membership reflects that, however
we do need people to run it, so without taking any wind from
Vice President Bert’s sails, please consider a term on the executive and give the “regulars” a year or two off.
The International ‘Be Seen in’16’ committee did not meet
in November. We have the major events planned and should
have our registration forms done early December for mail out in
the New Year, 2016, yes 2016. Registrar, Ken Huff had a pre-
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The Edmonton Antique Car Club
The Edmonton Antique Car Club is registered in the Province of Alberta as a
nonprofit society, interested in historical motor vehicles and related collectible
items. Our club is dedicated to the acquisition, restoration, preservation, salvage, maintenance of and promotion of interest in cars from the following
categories.
The Horseless Carriage Era (1892 to 1905)
The Brass Era (1906 to 1915)
The Vintage Era (1916 to 1927)
Early Production (1928 to 1935)
Late Production (1936 to 1948)
Classics (1925 to 1948) (Defined by The Classic Car Club of America.)
General Meetings are usually held on the first Wednesday evening of each
month, with tours and events being dispersed throughout the calendar year. The
Annual General Meeting is held each year in January.
Our club members participate in a variety of events and activities which promote social interaction among members, and give them an opportunity to drive
their cars and display them to the general public. Annual events include the
Klondike Breakfast, the Corn Roast, and Mystery Tours. Senior visits are a
way for our club to give back to the community. Members also participate in
community events such as Sunday in the City , Father’s Day in the Park, and
Harvest Festivals. Our club participates in the annual International Meet in
which members from all corners of Western Canada and the Northwest United
States come together for a wonderful exchange of camaraderie, trophies and
good old-fashioned fun.
Our objectives also include encouraging the retention of such vehicles in Alberta, promoting driving tours, displays and other activities our vehicles can
participate in, and educating the general public in the historical contribution of
the automobile in the development of our Canadian heritage.
Our club publishes a monthly newsletter, The Running Board. Members are
encouraged to submit articles and other items of interest to the editor for publication. As a member you are entitled to receive a copy of each issue and to run
free classified ads in the “Swap Meet” section.
Our membership is varied as to careers and cars, and extends country wide. To
qualify as a member, new applicants must be at least 14 years of age; must
complete an application form (which is submitted to the club executive for
approval), and pay a nominal membership fee of $40.00 per year (spousal,
additional $20). It is not necessary to own a vintage car, but merely to have an
interest in antique auto memorabilia.
Club members as a group have a wealth of experience and knowledge of all
aspects of the antique car hobby which they will share with you. Bring your
particular problem to our membership and you will be probably be directed to
an expert in that field.
The EACC Website
http://clubs.hemmings.com/eacc
Past editions of The Running Board can be found on this site.
Please send articles or pictures to The Running Board Editor.
Your 2015 Executive
President
Past Pres.
Vice President
Rec. Sec.
Corr. Sec.
Treasurer
Tours/Events
Membership
Publicity
Historian
Editor
Assistant Editor
Dir.@Large
The Running Board
Ron Bodnar
Steve Bemount
Bert Hoogewoonink
Nels Anderson
Ed Surbey
Marilyn Huff
Chris Bamford
Bill Agnew
Melvin Reid
Bob Callfas
Arend Stolte
Jerry De Jong
Peter Wieler
Official Publication of the
Edmonton Antique Car Club
Box 102
Edmonton, Alberta. T5J 2G9
Arend Stolte, Editor
email [email protected]
Reprint permission:
Granted to non profit car clubs and related groups.
Please credit EACC’s “The Running Board “
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Schedule Of Events
liminary registration form done and e-mailed to the committee.
It didn’t take too long before the comments and suggestions
were made to complete it. That’s where we are with today’s
communications worlds with iPhones and e-mail. We will resume planning meetings in February.
This is the time of year when banquets and Christmas parties are the norm. Our banquet is just around the corner and we
hope to have good attendance, a good supper and some good
entertainment to close off another good year for EACC.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you from
Danin and myself.
December
Wed
02
Wed
09
Fri
11
Habitat for Humanity
Tour
by Chris Bamford
On Saturday Nov. 21, nineteen EACC members enjoyed a
fascinating tour of the spacious Edmonton production facility of
Habitat for Humanity on 128 Ave at 141 St. At 62,000 ft2 (the
former Delton Cabinets factory) this is the largest Habitat for
Humanity operation in Canada. Part One was a pre-fab shop
tour where we saw volunteer crews building walls, stairs and
floor systems. These subassemblies are trucked out to various
Northern Alberta locations and erected on site by staff and volunteers. Shop and site work is supervised by staff; however, all
permits for plumbling, electrical etc " must be pulled by a licensed tradesperson. The trades often provide a discount or
provide the service as a donation to Habitat for Humanity. Part
Two of our tour was an interesting boardroom presentation by
Habitat for Humanity staff on the history, goals and structure of
the organization, and ways that folks like us can get involved.
General Meeting General
Meeting @7:30 Old Timers’
Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd.
Executive Meeting Meeting hosted
by Chris Bamford at 7:30, River Park
Place 8220 Jasper Ave.
Annual Banquet and Awards
Night @Old Timers’ Cabin, 9430
Scona Rd. Cocktails 5:30, Dinner
6:30, Music 9:00.
2016
January
Tue
19
Annual General Meeting @7:30
Old Timers’ Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd.
February
Habitat for Humanity International was founded in 1976
(1985 in Canada) with the goal of giving hard-working families
in need a "hand-up" into affordable home ownership. Selected
families contribute 500 hours of volunteer labour as their down
payment and then purchase their home at fair market value with
interest-free mortgage payments that are never more than 25
percent of their household income. Some families are able to
eventually move into "conventional" homeownership (typically
around five years later) and receive their total equity payments
back to use as, for example, the down payment for their next
home. Their former home goes back in the Habitat for Humanity pool to be purchased by another deserving family. The Edmonton affiliate served 52 area families in 2014 and every five
and one half minutes (yes, minutes!) a family receives the keys
to a Habitat for Humanity home somewhere in the world.
Wed
03
Wed
10
General Meeting General
Meeting @7:30 Old Timers’
Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd
Executive Meeting
March
Wed
02
Wed
09
General Meeting General
Meeting @7:30 Old Timers’
Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd.
Executive Meeting
April
Wed
06
Many organizations and individuals donate new materials
and/or volunteer labour to Habitat - 100 percent of these donations go toward building more affordable housing. All fundraising administration costs are covered through income from
"ReStore" locations, which sell donated new and gently-used
home improvement items and tools, etc. Three of Canada's 90
ReStore locations are here in Edmonton.
Wed
13
Wed
04
Please click on www.hfh.org to learn more about this wonderful organization.
Wed
11
General Meeting General
Meeting @7:30 Old Timers’
Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd.
Executive Meeting
May
3
General Meeting General
Meeting @7:30 Old Timers’
Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd.
Executive Meeting
Early Automotive Wonder Woman—Part 4
Joan Newton Cuneo
by Steve Bemount
In the first installment of our “Early Automotive Wonder
Woman” story (Dec 12), we learned of the accomplishments of
the amazing Florence Lawrence: inventor, real-life heroine,
and, by 1910, the most famous movie star in the world. Part 2
(Jan-Feb 2013) told the story of Alice Ramsey who at age 22
became the first woman to drive an automobile cross country
from New York City to San Francisco in 1909. Then in Part 3
(Dec 13) came the harrowing adventures of Harriet White
Fisher who in that same year of 1909 launched an automobile
tour—Around the World in Three-hundred and Eighty Days. In
this episode, we turn to the perilous world of early auto racing
and Joan Newton Cuneo who, between 1905 and 1912,
achieved national celebrity due to her success as a daring racer
competing against all comers, both male and female, and proving the equal of the very best. Joan was winning races, setting
women of affluence. Joan even acquired skills driving a sixhorse team and operating the family's narrow-gauge short-line
steam locomotive. Joan was an independent sort, granted extraordinary freedom from a very early age, which goes a long
way to explaining her fearless demeanor in later years.
Joan's parents realized that Joan needed to curb her tomboy
tendencies and sent her off to several boarding schools to learn
the accomplishments necessary for a Victorian lady. In 1898,
Joan married Andrew DeMartini Cuneo (b. 1873), the wealthy
adopted son of millionaire banker Antonio Cuneo. They would
have two children: Antonio Newton Cuneo (b. 1899) and Maddalena DeMartini Cuneo (b. 1901). They made their home in
New York City. Andrew was understanding of his wife's inclinations. Though he had no interest in automobiles, he bought
his wife a little steam car, a 1902 Locomobile. This would be
the beginning of Joan's life long love of driving an automobile
and the faster the better. Shortly after, a young Louis Disbrow
was hired as a mechanic and part-time chauffeur and it was
from Disbrow that Joan would gain her remarkable understanding of mechanics. Soon Joan was doing all of her own driving.
Within a year, the Locomobile proved to be too tame for
Joan who upgraded to a 1903 White Model C steam touring car,
designed for four passengers. At first Joan found the car's size
challenging, equating its operation to "handling a huge ferry
boat." However, by 1905 she'd stepped up to an even more
powerful White steam car with 15 horsepower, a full 50 percent
increase over her previous White. This car was acquired after
Joan's dramatic proclamation: Joan would drive in the inaugural
1905 Glidden Tour.
The Glidden Tour was the brain child of Colonel Jasper
Glidden, intended to popularize the auto while proving its reliability. Joan Newton Cuneo sent in her application, which was
promptly rejected by the American Automobile Association
(AAA), the sanctioning body for the tour, because only male
Joan Newton Cuneo finds a new passion.
speed records, and irritating gentlemen racers of the day from
the very beginnings of the sport.
Joan Carter Newton was born July 22, 1876, in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, the youngest of four daughters born to John
Carter Newton (1838-1899) and Lela Fredericka Vulte (18351896). Joan's father was a self-made millionaire, both an industrialist and land developer. He indulged his youngest daughter,
treating her more like a son, allowing her to take part in activities
not considered proper for a young Victorian girl. Joan embraced activities such as bicycling and horseback riding, often
considered inappropriate or perhaps too dangerous for young
Joan and 1903 White with friends and family at Vermont retreat; Joan is in back behind the driver.
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"second class certificate of participation." However, Joan received something even more valuable. There had been news
photographers along the route, particularly at the narrow bridge
accident. Suddenly, Joan was a celebrity with newspapers posting images of the daring woman driver on their front pages
throughout the Northeast.
At the strong encouragement of those newspapers, Joan
began competing in various races and gymkhanas for automobiles, appearing at local tracks with noted male drivers including
Barney Oldfield and Ralph De Palma. She gained fame by setting a number of speed records. Joan had purchased a new car
early in 1906, a Maxwell Speedster, and she was initially
pleased with her petro powered Maxwell. At the Danbury Fair
in 1906, Joan was driving full speed in a gymkhana with two
women passengers when the car caught on fire. The passengers
bailed out the back of the car but Joan calmly shut off the engine
and turned off the gas before jumping out. Although she suffered painful burns and singed hair, she shrugged off the event
as nothing unusual.
Joan return to the Glidden Tour in 1907 driving a 1907
Rainer with 35 horsepower. This time the route was 1,570
miles. Rule changes meant that only a club associated with the
AAA could win the trophy. Joan had not been asked to join
such a club and thus had no chance of winning. Nevertheless,
Joan competed to win, encountered several hardships, once
again finished the event and set her sights on the following year.
In the 1908 Glidden, Joan drove a 1908 Rainer rated at 50
horsepower. The Tour was now almost 2,000 miles long. Joan
was a member of the Chicago Motor Club 2 team, and despite
the numerous hardships encountered during the race, managed
to finish with a perfect score of 1,000 points. Even more impressively, Joan had driven the entire tour herself while other
entrants, too tired to press on, called for the services of relief
drivers. Joan received a silver cup from the other entrants for
her sportsmanship and "pluck," as well as a gold medal from the
AAA and a second cup from the Chicago Motor Club for her
efforts on its behalf.
Now well known in the world of motorsports, Joan entered
the 1909 Mardi Gras Races in New Orleans driving a Knox
The accident with 1905 White at the 1905 Glidden; Joan is in
the duster standing on the bridge.
drivers were allowed. Joan, already a member of AAA, sent her
application back pointing out that no-where in the rules did it
state that women were excluded. She was right and the AAA
very reluctantly allowed her to enter.
Joan was the only female entrant in that first Glidden Tour,
which attracted a lot of attention. It also almost certainly made
her the earliest female motorsport competitor in the United
States. The Glidden was an endurance contest held on mostly
primitive roads. This first installment ran just over 870 miles,
starting in New York City and winding a circuitous route before
eventually returning to New York City. Her team included her
husband Andrew and Louis Disbrow as riding mechanic. Joan's
introduction to competitive motorsports was almost short-lived.
On the second day of the event, Joan swerved to avoid another
competitor driving in reverse at the entrance to a narrow bridge.
Harlan Whipple, that other driver, was doing so to avoid a dynamite blast about to be set off by a road construction crew. In
avoiding Whipple's car, Joan lost control of her own, sending
the White down an embankment and tossing it on its side in a
stream. Joan, Andrew and Louis were thrown free and escaped
serious injury. After her car was righted by nearby spectators
and workman, it was reported that Joan re-lit the car's burners
herself while the White was still in the water. Joan was then
able to drive the White up out of the ditch and she and her team
continued on its way.
Joan's obstacles were not over; she was about to experience
the first discrimination in her racing career. She received a
speeding ticket (the first of many) and was banned from ascending the road up New Hampshire's Mount Washington. The
AAA deemed the ascent up the steep and winding carriage road
"too dangerous" for the woman driver, likely a result of complaints delivered by her male counterparts. Driving a car at that
time required considerable strength and racing required indifference towards bodily injury. That a woman could drive as well
as a man was more than a little emasculating. Joan and her team
finished the event, but the Mount Washington ban meant that
she didn't "complete" the 1905 Glidden, excluding her from a
"first class certificate of completion" and leaving her only with a
Joan Newton Cuneo in about 1910 with her 1909 Knox
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both knack and strength and one can tell only by one's automobile sense whether more knack or more strength is needed at the
precise moment." Henry M. Leland, head of Cadillac, had been
listening. In 1911 he gave engineer Charles Kettering the task
of developing an electric starter. The self-starter was introduced
on the 1912 Cadillac. By the 1920s, starters would come standard on nearly every new automobile making cars easier and
safer to operate, especially for women.
Joan continued to make appearances and attempts to break
records until 1915. Andrew Cuneo's bank and businesses came
close to failure. In 1915 Joan's marriage ended in divorce due to
Andrew's scandalous involvement with a showgirl. In 1917, she
and her daughter moved to Vermont. Then in 1923, Joan followed her childhood sweetheart James Francis Sickman to
Ontonagon, a small town in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
There she lived out the rest of her life in rural obscurity. Joan
and James married in 1928. Six years later, Joan died on March
24, 1934 at the age of 57. The obituary of Joan Newton Cuneo
Sickman in the Ontonagon newspaper did not mention her racing career. She had been the most experienced female racer in
the United States between 1905 and 1912. She had the respect
of her male rivals who often let her drive their race cars after
women were excluded from racing. She remained an important
spokesperson for women drivers and better roads for a decade.
Joan with her new 1911 Knox “Giantess” meeting the people in
Wilmington, VT, 1911
Giant with 50 horsepower. After beating her previous five-mile
speed record of 6:04 with a time of 5:05, Joan entered a 50 mile
event where she finished second to the legendary Ralph De
Palma. Ralph had completed the distance in 51:37 while Joan
finished in 52:40, a mere 63 seconds behind. No other driver
was even close to Ralph and Joan and few could argue with her
skill behind the wheel. During the three-day festival, Joan
would go on to establish several speed records for women as
well as capture three wins and two second-place finishes. Despite Joan's achievements, the AAA was growing increasingly
uncomfortable at the presence of women in the sport, and by the
end of 1909 banned women from entering events it sanctioned.
Joan continued to drive the 1909 Knox Giant in exhibition
runs and speed trials throughout 1909 and 1910, continuing to
better her own speed records. Despite official disapproval, she
was still a popular figure and a draw for spectators. In 1911, the
Knox factory built her a new Giant, which was christened the
"Giantess" in her honour. Muscling large heavy automobiles in
the brass age with minimal suspension and brakes on the horrible roads of the time was no mean feat for any woman. Many
who interviewed her were surprised to meet a small woman, just
5 feet 2 inches, with a steady gaze and low voice instead of a
powerful Amazon. Joan had longed for a self-starter. Regarding trying to start these cars with a crank, she had said , "It took
Sources:
Mad for Speed: the Racing Life of Joan Newton Cuneo, Elsa A.
Nystrum, 2013.
Racing Heroes - Joan Newton Cuneo, Kurt Ernst, 2013.
Speedqueens: Women in Motorsport from 1898 to the Present
Day, 2014.
Ancestry.ca
More adoring fans in Wilmington, Vermont, 1911.
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What Place is This?
by Arend Stolte
Holiday Art by Rich Eagle
by Steve Bemount
Rich Eagle, the Old Car Artist, prepared this oil
painting in celebration of the holiday season. It
could be entitled “Christmas Surprise” or perhaps
even “Dad, Didn't Mama Tell You to Put that Car in
the Barn?” Rich Eagle resides in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Thanks very much, Rich, for sharing.
I understand that many members had trouble identifying last month’s “Where Is It?”, which was surprising to
me. The flu bug prevented me from enlightening you at
the last meeting. As is clear from the caption (which I
cropped), the place is Calgary City Hall and the occasion
is the “Peace Celebration and Hanging the Kaiser and
Crown Prince (in effigy)” on November 11, 1918. It’s the
victory celebration at the end of “The Great War”. I
chose this photo as a tribute to Remembrance Day.
Unlike Edmonton which has gone through a series of
city halls, Calgary still has the original.
This month’s challenge (upper right) may be difficult.
As before, we have the historic photo and the modern
equivalent from Google Earth. Two clues: it’s a Central
Alberta town and the big building on the left has disappeared to become an intersection.
I hope to quiz the membership at the next meeting.
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The Babbitting Process
Repouring Crankshaft and Connecting Rod Bearings
by Keith Robertson
lurgist from Taunton, Massachusetts, who invented a high
wearing bearing surface in 1839 to support the work load of
overhead belt driven driveshafts in factories and industrial applications. It was a natural progression to use this process once
the internal combustion engine came on the scene en masse in
the form of the automobile.
Editor’s Note: Our thanks go to Keith Robertson from Calgary
for this informative article on rebabbitting. Keith is a long-time
old car nut who recently took over the babbitting service previously offered by the Alberta Pioneer Auto Club in Calgary. He
can be reached at [email protected] or 403-970
-3265.
For anyone in the automotive hobby who owns vehicles,
machinery or stationary engines built prior to the mid 1950s,
they most likely experienced the need to redo the babbitt in the
engine. Simply put, babbitt is the term used for poured style
bearings found on crankshafts and connecting rods, just to
name a few applications. This was the standard method for providing engine bearing surfaces until the throw away shell insert
found its way into the mainstream in the mid-fifties.
In time, though, machining advances that precipitated out
of the Second World War and the need for faster, less time consuming engine rebuilding resulted in the development of the out
of the box replacement bearing inserts and babbitting soon became a thing of the past. Luckily, the process is still available to
those of us in the hobby and the following is a brief overview
on what the process of pouring bearings entails.
Babbitt is named after its inventor Isaac Babbitt, a metal-
Babbitt furnace, tiger torch and related tools
One of two anvils for die setting rod and cap moulds.
Melting old babbitt out of connecting rod cap.
Sizing cap with proper mould die.
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Top pour plate through which babbitt is poured.
Plate held in place on anvil – getting ready to pour.
Preheating anvil and cap to 350° F.
Molten babbitt ready to pour from furnace.
Pouring into cap mould until babbitt pools at the top.
Pour complete and left to cool down before extraction
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Now the connecting rod is set into its die mould.
Larger pour cap which creates thrust side surfaces.
Preheating mould and cap to 350° F.
Pouring molten babbitt into rod mould.
Completed babbitt bearing on connecting rod.
Once cooled, mould cap is released.
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Model A crankshaft caps – before.
Poured caps after - ready for machining.
Completed set of rods & caps before machining.
Mould bar for Model A crankshaft babbitt bearings
New main bearing surfaces poured in the block...
Raw edges prepared and now it’s ready for line boring!
Next issue will continue with a photo-feature story on the line boring process for crankshaft bearings.
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Five surgeons are taking a coffee break...
1st surgeon: "Accountants are the best to operate on because
when you open them up, everything inside is numbered."
2nd surgeon: "Nah, librarians are the best. Everything inside
them is in alphabetical order."
3rd surgeon: "Try electricians! Everything inside THEM is colour coded."
4th surgeon: "I prefer lawyers. They're heartless, spineless, gutless and their heads and their butts are interchangeable."
5th surgeon who has been quietly listening to the conversation:
"I like British car restorers... they always understand when you
have a few parts left over at the end."
British Old Car Humour
Editor’s note: I think this made the rounds on the e-mail circuit
some time ago. Just some stuff to fill an empty page.
"My wife phoned me just before the autojumble, and she said,
"I've got water in the carburetor." I was suitably impressed. I
asked, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the river."
I was in out in my Austin Healey the other morning when my
boss rang up and told me "You've been promoted". And with
that I swerved.
And then he rang up a second time and said "You've been promoted again.”
And I swerved again. He rang up a third time and said, "Now ...
you're managing director."
And I drove into a tree. Then a policeman came up and humorously asked, "What happened to you?"
And I said, "I've careered off the road."
So back in the day around 1948, a businessman was driving
through the country in his new Cadillac and ran across an old
boy in a Model A sedan with a bad fuel pump. The business
man asked if he could help and the old boy asked for a tow to
the next town. They decided he'd honk if there was any trouble.
Well, the business man turned on his radio and after a while got
it up to a pretty good speed, and flew by a gas station. Well the
gas station attendant called the sheriff and told him about a
Cadillac that passed his station doing about 80 or 90 mph. The
sheriff said ,"So what?” to which the attendant replied, “ Well,
there was a guy in a Model A right behind him was honking to
try to pass. You should pull him over.”
The police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and
let the other one off.
Jonnie was driving home last week when his car phone rang.
Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him,
"Jonnie, I just heard on the news that there's a car going the
wrong way on the M4. You must be careful." "You are right."
said Jonnie, "But it's not just the one car, it's all of them!"
A man in a Jaguar passed a Mini that had broken down by the
side of the road. Being a kindly driver, he stopped and fixed a
tow-rope to it and began towing it to the nearest garage.
After 10 minutes of towing, a Porsche passed them at high
speed. The Jaguar driver was not going to be outdone by a Porsche, so, forgetting that he had a Mini in tow, slammed his foot
down and the Jaguar and Porsche indulged in a high-speed race
down the road, the Mini and it's occupant trailing wildly about
at the end of the rope frantically trying to attract their attention
and failing.
A police car saw them and gave chase. The police driver radioed back to Headquarters. "Sarge, you'll never believe this. I've
just seen a Porsche and a Jaguar neck and neck doing 150 mph and a bloke in a Mini flashing his lights, blowing his horn and
trying to overtake them!"
Jonnie was driving down the road and a saw a 1962 Classic
Rolls Royce Silver Cloud coming the other way. Although
there was room to pass easily, Jonnie manoeuvred such that the
oncoming Roller was forced to slow down. Jonnie wound down
his window and shouted 'Pig!'. The Rolls-Royce driver looked
in his rear view mirror raised his fist and swore profusely. With
that the Roller then hit the pig.
What kind of car does a lady in a pantomime drive? - A dameler.
A bobby pulled over a classic car driver and said, “I'm arresting
you for going through three red lights.”
“Yeah, well, I'm colour blind,” said the motorist.
“In addition to that, you were exceeding the speed limit,” said
the policeman.
“So what?” said the motorist.
“And on top of all that you were going the wrong way down a
one-way street,” added the officer.
“I always did have a lousy sense of direction,” said the motorist
with a smile.
At that point, his wife leaned forward from the back seat and
said, “Don't pay any attention to him, Officer. He always talks
like this when he's had a few drinks.”
There was this car that was driving very slowly down the highway. A State Trooper pulls it over. "What have I done wrong,
officer?" the driver asks.
"You are going 26 mph on a major highway. There is a law
against that," the officer says to the driver. "You must go at
least 50 mph."
"But when I turned on the highway, the sign said 26!" the driver
replies.
"HA HA HA!" The officer laughs out loud. "That is because
this is Interstate 26! The 26 isn't the speed limit!"
The driver leans back in her car seat and the cop sees another
woman sitting beside her. She looked as pale as a ghost.
"What happened to her?" the officer asks.
"I don't know, but she has been that way ever since we got off
of Interstate 160."
Why did the Classic Car Owner install a rear window heater
even though it wasn't an original factory feature? So his family
could keep their hands warm when pushing!
How do you half the worth of your classic car? Buy some more
parts.
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HOW AN AUTOMOBILE
GOT ITS NAME
Soichiro Honda
Soichiro Honda started as an auto mechanic in the 1920s, and
he built engines for bicycles before manufacturing motorcycles.
The first bikes hit the U.S. market in 1959. Car production
started in 1963 with the S500, a two-seat roadster. Oddly
enough: Honda, not Toyota , was the first Japanese automaker
to build cars in the U.S.
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Editor’s Note: another Internet goodie to fill extra space.
William Crapo Durant
William C. Durant created GM in 1908 and lost the company to
bankers in 1910. To get back in the game, Durant had a member of Buick's racing team create a new car. Louis Chevrolet
obliged but left the company shortly after the car was launched
in 1912. Oddly enough: The first V8-powered Chevrolet was
produced in 1917, not 1955 as is commonly thought.
Wilhelm & Karl Maybach
Wilhelm Maybach engineered the first Mercedes. Son Karl
topped him, producing a series of more exclusive, more expensive Maybach luxury cars. Production ended in the 1930s. Mercedes-Benz revived the brand in 2004. Oddly enough: Father
and son first teamed up to produce engines for airships built by
Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
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Walter P. Chrysler
Mercedes Jellinek, Karl Benz
Walter Percy Chrysler rose through the ranks of GM until 1919,
when he quit his job as Buick's president. Walking out with $10
million, he landed at Willys-Overland before taking over Maxwell Motors. There, in 1924, he launched the Chrysler. Oddly
enough: Willys built the Jeep during World War II. Jeep is now
owned by Chrysler.
The world's oldest car company dates to 1886, when Karl Benz
produced the first modern car - the Benz Patent Motorwagen. A
separate company, Daimler, introduced the Mercedes in 1901,
named for the daughter of Daimler dealer Emil Jellinek. The
companies merged in 1926. Oddly enough: Mercedes-Benz cars
were sold in the U.S. by Studebaker dealers during the 1950s
and '60s.
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John and Horace Dodge
Ransom E. Olds
The Dodge brothers had made a fortune producing engines and
transmissions for Oldsmobile and Ford. As Henry Ford moved
production in-house, John and Horace decided to build their
own car, which debuted in 1914. Oddly enough: In 1920, both
brothers died: John of pneumonia, Horace of cirrhosis.
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Ransom Eli Olds' future was assured when a fire ripped through
the Olds Motor Works in 1901. The only car rescued - the
seven horsepower Curved Dash Oldsmobile - was a huge hit
and became the first mass-produced car in America. Oddly
enough: Olds left Oldsmobile in 1904 to start Reo, builder of
the Reo Speedwagon truck. The rock band came later.
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Edsel Ford
Charles Stewart Rolls, Frederick Henry Royce
Henry Ford's only son, Edsel, imbued Fords of the '20s and '30s
with a sense of style that his father, Henry, lacked. Edsel died
of cancer and undulant fever in 1943. His son, Henry Ford II,
named a line of cars in his memory in 1958. Oddly enough: A
car derided for its ungainly looks was named for a man with an
impeccable taste in design.
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When a Decauville automobile he had bought proved unreliable, Henry Royce decided to build a better one. By spring
1904, he produced his first car, which caught the attention of
Charles Rolls, who locked up the rights to sell it. Oddly
enough: The Rolls-Royce hood ornament, named the Spirit of
Ecstasy, was modeled after actress/model Eleanor Thornton.
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Henry Ford
Kiichiro Toyoda
Until Henry Ford gave the world its first affordable car, the
Model T, automobiles were playthings for the wealthy. The T
changed that. Fifteen million were built from 1908 to 1927.
Prices dropped to $290 in 1924 from $850 in 1909. Oddly
enough: Ford Motor Co. was Henry's third company. The second was renamed Cadillac after Ford left.
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The success of the Toyoda Automatic Loom Works led Sakichi
Toyoda to nurture son Kiichiro in a different line of business.
Kiichiro decided to build automobiles in the 1930s under the
name Toyota. Oddly enough: Why the name change? Toyota in
Japanese takes eight brush strokes, Toyoda requires 10. Eight is
considered lucky; 10 is bad.
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Swap Meet
Services
Old Steering Wheel Repairs (0809)
Ted Nordquist ([email protected] ) 780-466-1456
For Sale
Vintage Ford Car and Pick-up parts. 9502 - 90 Ave.
Morinville Business Park. (0809)
Dale McFarland
780-939-3247
1929 Acme Truck. Quite
complete. Needs restoring.
Good winter project. (1015)
Call Jim Boomer for more
info and photos .
780-919-1938
Antique Radio Repair, (auto or household.) Licensed
electronics technician. (0809)
Jack
780-470-3157
Insurance Appraisals Antique, Classic. Post War. (1009)
Springfield Restorations.
Lorne Schmidt
780-464-0204
1931 Model A Ford Rumble
Seat Sport Coupe. Previous
owner Hugh Cambell. Body
restored 1990. Recent mechanical restoration by present owner Engine is balanced and counter-weighted.
Asking $20,000. (1115)
Glen
780-913-5958
I'll Clean Your Clock
Antique clock restoration available. Clock parts and restored
clocks for sale. [email protected] (1209)
Larry Hill
780 464 1878
Collector Automobile Motor Oil has been designed to meet
the unique demands of vintage, preserved, restored, and classic
automobile engines. (0110)
Bob 1-403-249-8107
Ron
1-403-242-0569
Mark’s Upholstery. Auto Interior, Motor homes, Boats, Seat
Covers, Furniture and more. Reasonable Prices (0410)
Mark
464-6663 (Bus), 464-0794 (Home)
1948 Buick Roadmaster
Convertible. Very Rare car.
Straight 8 cylinder engine,
power windows, seat and top,
Dynaflow automatic transmission. All original paint
and seats. Mileage is 73,001
original. (0515)
Ross
780-466-2949
Bruce & Bob’s Appraisals. Appraisals of Antique, Classic,
Collector & Modern Automobiles.
Bruce England 18 Dawson Drive, Sherwood Park.
780-464-0421
Bob England #412–161 Festival Way, Sherwood Park.
780-467-1044
1967 Buick Special. All original 14,000 mi. New tires, batt,
Original owner. Excellent condition. Always stored indoors.
$7,900 OBO (0515)
Louise
780-458-2086
Heated, secure, indoor storage for antique cars, rods, motorcycles. Secure fenced outdoor storage for autos, RVs, and
boats. 24/7 access, manned 10:00 - 4:30 M-F.(0712)
Dale McFarland
9502 - 90 Ave, Morinville
New Original old Ford Model A parts. Also some used parts.
Sell individually or as a lot. Reasonable Price. (1015)
[email protected]
Dave Kjorlien
780 469 6150
Penrite Oils & Lubricants for Vintage Cars & Motorcycles.
Formulated to meet original specifications but utilizing the best
of modern technology. (0315)
Bert van Riel, Sports Car Centre, 780-440-9426
Wanted
Note: Printing the above ads does not imply an endorsement
by EACC.
Need help with a 1928 Model A Ford to get it finished.
There could be cash, beer, or trading of work on your restoration. That may get us both motivated to finish neglected projects. (0715)
Bob Sandercock
780-469-5571
1929 Essex Parts Required (0515)
Waide
780-478-8454
Seeking parts to finish the restoration of a 1949 Buick Super, 2 door sedanette. I require the heater core for under the
front passenger seat, a radiator and a 15 inch rim with 5 bolts to
use for the spare. (1015)
Katherine
780-645-9713
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Old Bobs’ Photo Corner
Restoration Corner
By Bob Callfas
Tony’s Progress Report
by Tony Podlosky
Last Saturday I skinned my thumb so I decided to stay in
the house and assemble one of the complicated wheels. I am
glad I had a spare for a sample. I started with short spokes. That
did not work. I had remove them and installed all the long ones
leaving them loose and then doing the short ones. Then I had to
remove every sixth long one because the short ones crisscross
underneath. It took about three hours. The others should go
faster.
It is so hard because the spokes have a bend.
"Seasons greetings from Texas, thus the lack of snow"
Finally after every thing is made, patched up and sand blasted,
I am ready for paint and assembly. I am getting there.
These are new gauge faces and stainless steel spokes (36 short
ones and 24 long per wheel).
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