March 2015 Number 3 Antique Auto Club of America Tulsa ...

March 2015 Number 3
Antique Auto Club of America Tulsa Region

Runningboard Ramblings

A message from Daniel King

PRESIDENT’S NOTES

Dear Fellow Club Members,

CENTRAL SPRING MEET - JUNE 4-6
(aaca-kc-events.org/AACA-KC-Event/Welcome.html)
The Kansas City Region will be hosting the AACA Central Spring Meet from Thursday, June
4th through Saturday, June 6th. On Thursday there will be two tours. The first tour will be to
the Armacost Museum, a private establishment of 44,000 square feet housing approximately
80 antique automobiles. It also features pedal cars, bicycles, art, gas pumps and gas-powered
toys. There is also a Skelly Station and 1950s drive-in diner. The second tour is to Arrowhead
Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs. This will include a visit to a private suite on the
club level, the Penthouse, press and broadcast booths, the locker rooms. and a walk on the
field. On Friday there will be a guided tour to the Bingham Waggoner Estate which is on the
National Register of Historic Homes, and Friday night the host hotel will be serving award-
winning barbecue from Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que. The car show will be on Saturday with
the awards banquet that evening at the host hotel, the Hilton Garden Inn.

REGION TRIP TO BARTLESVILLE
David Turner is working on a potential Region trip to Bartlesville on a Saturday yet to be
determined. The route wwill be along slower roads from Tulsa to Bartlesville, with hopefully
nothing over 50 mph. David has a friend with a barn full of brass era cars, and perhaps
we will get permission to visit the collection. Lunch may be at Dink’s World Famous Pit
Barbecue in their back meeting room. Additional activities might include a tour of the
Phillips Petroleum Company Museum, the Tom Mix Museum in Dewey, and the Frank
Phillips Mansion or the Price Tower complex.

POSSIBLE GARAGE TOURS
Joe Smith is working on garage tours and his tentative list is as follows:

Saturday, March 7th - Tulsa Private Collector
Saturday, May 9th - Bartlesville
Saturday, June 13th - TBD
Saturday, September 12th - TBD
Saturday, November 7th – TBD
Details for the March 7th event will be given at the March 1st general club meeting.

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2015 AACA TULSA REGION CALENDAR

MONTH DATE ACTIVITY PLACE PERSON
RESPONSIBLE KEY DATES

MAR 3/24 Board Meeting Holmes’ home Richard Holmes
3/1 General Meeting Joanna Cooper’s

APR 4/7 Board Meeting TBD Dan King TBD: Quarterly
Garage Tour

4/12 General Meeting Joanna Cooper’s

MAY 5/28 Board Meeting TBD Teresa Wilkinson
5/3 General Meeting Joanna Cooper’s

JUN May 9 GARAGE TOUR - BRADY DISTRICT

June 4th – 6th CENTRAL SPRING MEET, INDEPENDENCE, MO

6/9 Board Meeting TBD Jim Jones TBD: Krispy
June 13 GA RAGE TOUR - T BD
Kreme Fund Raiser

6/14 General Meeting HAIKEY CREEK
CAR SHOW

JUL 7/30 Board Meeting TBD Joe Smith TBD: Quarterly
7/5 General Meeting Joanna Cooper’s Garage Tour

AUG 8/28 Board Meeting TBD Dan King
8/2 Ice Cream Social Joanna Cooper’s

August 30th – September 4th GLIDDEN TOUR

SEP 9/8 Board Meeting TBD Richard Holmes
9/13 Hamburger Cook-Out Holmes’ Home Richard Holmes

OCT 10/29 Board Meeting TBD Joe Smith TBD: Party
10/4 General Meeting Joanna Cooper’s
Fall/Halloween


NOV 11/27 Board Meeting TBD Phil Judkins 11/11: Veterans
11/1 General Meeting Joanna Cooper’ss Day Parade

DEC 12/1 Board Meeting TBD David Turner TBD: Christmas
12/6 General Meeting Joanna Cooper’s Party

President: Dan King Board Meetings
Vice President: Joe Smith 7:00 p.m.
Treasurer: Teresa Wilkinson
Secretary: Jim Jones General Meetings
Board Members at Large: 2:00 p.m.
David Turner; Richard Holmes; Phil Judkins

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PRESIDENT’S NOTES If your name is not shown here and Jenny has driven it as often as the
continued from page 1 you would like to help with the weather allowed. Now if we can
Hospitality Room, please let me or just get her to come to some of the
GLIDDEN TOUR gliddentour.org Joe Smith know. All workers are club meetings and participate in our
AUGUST 30 - SEPTEMBER 4 invited to a meeting in Oklahoma events for 2015!
The 70th Revival AAA Glidden Tour City on August 15th, so mark your I look forward to seeing you all at
is being hosted by the Okie Region. calendar. Volunteers should think the general club meeting on March
The Glidden Tour is the oldest and about when they would like to 1st. We will talk about the events
largest automobile touring event in work - mornings and/or evenings coming up that will make for a
America. The 2015 tour will be a hub - Sunday August 30th evening memorable year.
(single host hotel) and spoke (travel through Saturday September 5th We have several new members but
up to 65 miles out from the host morning. we need even more. We also need
hotel and back) tour. WINTER PROJECT RESULTS to reach out to our community
Between 200 and 250 pre-1943 As a follow-up to last month’s and get as much public awareness
automobiles are expected to partici- newsletter, I can happily report as possible. One of my goals
pate (450 – 600 people). Please check that both of my winter projects is to see how we can improve
the website often for updated info. If have been successfully completed. communications through the use
you register through the website, the The Edsel now has nice, round of the growing technology of social
tour committee will send newsletters tires and wheels, and the ride is media.
periodically with updates. as smoothe as you please (thanks I regret to give you the news that Ted
Our Hospitality Room volunteers to: 3 Point Wheel in Broken Arrow Beard, long-time AACA Tulsa Region
are: Gene Griffith, Clyde & Debbie and Robertson Tires). Also, the ’48 Club member, passed away on Tuesday,
Harding, Richard & Lina Holmes, Dodge now has a rebuilt engine, and February 17. His service was at 10 a.m.
Jim Jones, Phil & Laura Judkins, I have made a solemn vow never to on Saturday, February 21, at the Shrine
Daniel & Jenny King, Chuck & run for long distances at highway Temple in Tulsa.
Carolanne Mahan, Fred & Paula speeds at the top of the temperature Our prayers are with his family at this
Narrin, Robert & Carol Parker, Joe & gauge and expose that engine to time.
Joyce Smith, David & Betty Turner, damage again. Two thumbs up to Sincerely, Daniel King
and Russ & Becky Wolf. It appears Midwestern Engine Rebuilders AACA Tulsa Region,
we will have one worker from (midwesternengine.com). 2015 President
Chickasha and all others from the If any of you have a winter project
Tulsa Region. story you’d like to share with the
club members, or simply had a
good experience with a supplier and
mechanic, just let me know and we
can follow up on Richard Holmes’
idea of giving them recognition to
the rest of the club members.
THE QUEEN’S MUSTANG
Finally, as some of you may know,
Jenny found the car of her dreams,
and last September we bought her
’66 Mustang. Our mechanic says that
the car is in very good shape, and
that we bought a good one. We’ve
shown it once (last September) when
we’d just gotten it. Since then

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70th Revival AAA Glidden Tour AACA TULSA REGION

August 30 - September 4, 2015 General Meeting Minutes
February 1, 2015
REGISTRATION to anyone participating in the
We will send out registration tour with a 1915 or older model The Feb. 1, 2015 Tulsa Region AACA
packets on April 15. Your reg- vehicle. general meeting was convened at
istration cannot be postmarked ADVERTISING 2:00 PM by President Dan King.
prior to May 1, 2015. We will If you know anyone that would There were two guests: Mike Lasser
only accept registration forms like to advertise in the participant and Jim Niessen.
via US Mail. The first 200 book or the tour book, we are The minutes from the December 7,
spaces on the tour will be filled selling ad space in both. 2015 general meeting were read by
by the first 200 registrations (by $500 full page ad Jim Jones and approved as read. No
postmark (in case of tie, furthest $250 1/2 page ad treasury report was given due to
distance from Oklahoma City)). $100 1/4 page ad absence of Teresa Wilkinson. Joe
After the first 200 slots are filled, $50 1/8 page ad Smith reported that the treasury
a waiting list will be established. HOST HOTEL amount was over $7,000.
The committee, at it's own The host hotel Wyndham Gar- Dan said there were Memorials of
discretion, may choose to accept dens Oklahoma City is taking $75.00 for both Roger Baumann, and
additional applicants. reservations. Their number is Charles Schaeffer, and that Anita Ward
TENTATIVE COST (405)685-4000. Mention Glid- had also passed away.
$275 per driver and $225 per den Tour to get the room fate of David Turner spoke about the Cen-
passenger over 14. Our commit- $89.00 plus tax. This rate includes tral Spring Meet in June and will help
tee has done a great job of rais- a hot breakfast for two each promote it.
ing money from corporations to morning. There are many other Joe Smith talked about the Glidden
help lower the cost of this year's hotels within a quarter mile of Tour, and that he was trying to get
tour. This price will include all the Wyndham (2101 S. Meridian other car clubs involved. He is get-
three banquets, 5 lunches, all Ave, Oklahoma City, OK 73108). ting other garage tours set up for this
tour stop fees, tour book and the ANY QUESTIONS year.
color participants book. Please send them to Fred Narrin left word that he would
DISCOUNT [email protected] follow up on the new car show.
We are offering a $50 discount With no other business, the meeting
was adjourned at 2:35 PM
Ann Sherman had slides from her
book on car collections of Oklahoma.
Respectfully submitted
Jim Jones, Secretary

CORRECTION:

Roger Baumann’s passing was inadver-
tently published in the RunningBoard
Ramblings as January 11. Roger passed
away on January 8.

Marylynn, I apologize for the error.
These dates are important. Our prayers
are with you. Lina Holmes, Editor.

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2015 AACA NATIONAL MEETS & TOURS

March 6-8 Winter Meet Guaynabo, PR
March 20 Tucson, AZ
March 18-21 Annual Grand National Tucson, AZ
April 9-12 Charlotte, NC
April 30-May 2 Western Spring Meet VA Beach
May 4-6 Pigeon Forge, TN
May 7-9 SE Spring Meet Auburn, IN
June 4-6 Independence, MO
July 16-18 Eastern Spring Meet Louisville, KY
July 27-31 Lancaster, PA
August 24-28 SE Division Tour Santa Rosa, CA
August 30-September 4 OK City, OK
September 14-18 Special Spring Meet NE Ohio
October 7-10 Hershey, PA
November 5-7 Central Spring Meet Houma, LA

SE Fall Meet

Vintage Tour

Western Division Tour

Revival AAA Glidden Tour®

Founders Tour

Eastern Fall Meet

Central Fall Meet

From the Editor of BIRTHDAYS
MARCH
RUNNINGBOARD RAMBLINGS
5 Sandy Berenson
Please send your articles or photos to: [email protected] 17 Carolyn Plucknett
24 Helen Bruce
ALL PHOTOS SHOULD BE ATTACHED SEPARATELY AS JPG FILES. 31 Jim Jones
PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR PHOTOS WITHIN A WORD
DOCUMENT. APRIL
If you only have hard copies, I can scan them.
15 Chuck Mahan
BE SURE TO CHECK THE AACA NATIONAL WEB SITE FOR EVENTS 19 Russ Wolf
BEING HELD ALL OVER THE COUNTRY 21 Kay Tan
27 Sheri Blair
WWW .AACA.ORG

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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY

by Randy Beeson

Naval events and marine the British battle cruiser HMS carburetor fame. The engine,
disasters dominated the news Inflexible and cruiser HMS a valve-in-head unit with the
during this month of February Irresistible struck mines in cylinder banks cast at a 45o angle,
1915. On March 2nd, a British the Dardanelles campaign. was the most interesting feature
fleet began bombardment of Irresistible sank while Inflexible of the vehicle. Schebler had
Turkish forts guarding the was beached and later towed designed the engine to run on
Dardanelles, in preparation to Malta for major repairs. Two either bank of six cylinders or on
for the landing of Australian days later, the French battleship all 12 cylinders. The design was
troops at Gallipoli. The U.S. Bouvet also struck a Turkish apparently successful as the car
Navy commissioned its first mine in the Dardanelles action had 30,000 miles on the odometer
minesweeper, the U.S.S. and sank with the loss of 640 at that point. And this was
Baltimore on the 8th. In crewmen. all accomplished without any
retaliation for Germany’s On the 25th, the U.S. Navy’s computer controls!
declaration of a blockade of Great submarine F-4 sank 1.5 miles off
Britain the previous month, the Honolulu, HI, resulting in the
British announced a blockade deaths of her 21-man crew. This
of German ports on the 11th. was the first sinking of a U.S.
However, given the size of her submarine.
fleet and the geographic location In other news, the U.S. National
of Germany’s ports, Britain’s Advisory Committee for
blockade would be effective. Aeronautics, predecessor of
Pursed by British ships, with her the National Aeronautics and
engines nearly worn out and Space Administration (NASA)
her coal bunkers nearly empty, was established on February
the only German naval unit to 3rd, while the Federal Trade
survive the Battle of the Falkland Commission was organized on
Islands, the light cruiser SMS the 16th.
Dresden, was scuttled off the The March 25, 1915 issue of
coast of Chile by her crew on Motor Age carried an article
February 14th. On the 16th on the 1908 Schebler V-12
automobile that had been built
for George Schebler of early

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AACA RUNNINGBOARD RAMBLINGS

Runningboard Ramblings AACA Tulsa Region 2015 Officers

is published by the Tulsa Region of the Antique Automobile President Daniel King 918 865 4399
Club of America (AACA). Vice President Joe Smith 918 346 9877
The Tulsa Region is a non-profit organization Secretary Jim Jones 918 261 5993
chartered by AACA, Hershey, Pennsylvania. Treasurer Teresa Wilkinson 918 261 9062
Tulsa Region dues are $20 annually. Members at Large David Turner 918 333 7864
To comply with legal and insurance requirements, Richard Holmes 918 232 5821
membership in National AACA is mandatory. Phil Judkins 918 493 6577
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