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1 Volume 7 Issue 3 Left: John and Mary Etta Hershey in their new 1914 Ford Model T. Below: Betty Swann in her and Joe s Model A. ZOOM!!!

2016 Susquehanna Valley Region HCCA Calendar October 5-8, 2016: October 9-10, 2016: October 29, 2016: AACA Hershey Flea Market

AACA Reliability Tour of the Low Country Host Ralph Tolman March 4, 2017: April 6-8, 2017: May 21-25, 2017: June 25-30, 2017:

Brass and Gas Tour Inside this Issue... President s Message pg. 4 HCCA National News pg. 5 6 The Train Always Wins pgs.

2 2016 Susquehanna Valley Region HCCA Calendar October 5-8, 2016: October 9-10, 2016: October 29, 2016: AACA Hershey Flea Market and Car Show Hershey Hangover Susquehanna Valley Region Fall Foliage Tour and Meeting Details forthcoming November 5-11, 2016: AACA Reliability Tour of the Low Country Host Ralph Tolman March 4, 2017: April 6-8, 2017: May 21-25, 2017: June 25-30, 2017: Susquehanna Valley Region Spring Meeting National Bakersfield Tour and Swap Meet 16th Annual BBC Flea Market and Tour New England Brass and Gas Tour Inside this Issue... President s Message pg. 4 HCCA National News pg. 5 6 The Train Always Wins pgs. 7-8 The Great American Road Trip pgs Rough and Tumble pgs Just for Fun pg. 14 Announcements pg. 15 Classifieds and pgs Resources 2

Susquehanna Valley Region HCCA Contact Page Join the Susquehanna Valley Region Horseless Carriage Club of America: Contact: Mike Romano Email: m.romano@rcn.

3 Susquehanna Valley Region HCCA Contact Page Join the Susquehanna Valley Region Horseless Carriage Club of America: Contact: Mike Romano Home phone: Officers for 2015 President Jeff Lesher Vice President Butch Arnold Treasurer Don Barlup Secretary Philip Jamison Web Master & Newsletter Tracy Lesher Membership Chairperson Mike Romano Your Susquehanna Valley Region HCCA Editor can be reached via at: Check us out on Facebook at Susquehanna Valley Region HCCA! Upload pictures of your brass car adventures and projects to our page. 3

President s Message Early Fall 2016 Susquehanna Valley Region HCCA Members- I just finished the last update to the Hershey Hangover registrations and it looks like we will have yet another successful

4 President s Message Early Fall 2016 Susquehanna Valley Region HCCA Members- I just finished the last update to the Hershey Hangover registrations and it looks like we will have yet another successful little tour with 33 vehicles registered! Kudos to Bob Ladd for his efforts in making a funny little idea become a reality five years ago. I also want to thank Gil the Elder for his efforts to make a Creepy Crawly happen for one and twos. Gil only got a few vehicles for his little tours but maybe Tracy and the boys and I will follow his routes as I know I ll be recovering from Hershey. Speaking of Hershey everyone should have received their flea market stickers by now and don t forget to stop by the HCCA National tent at space RWO 30. Bob and his committee do a great job of hosting the HCCA membership with a cookout at noon on Friday and it is a great way to spend some quality time with our national officers. Speaking of our officers, please make sure you vote in this year s national election. The ballot and return envelope is in the latest edition of the Gazette as well as the biographies of the candidates. Please take the time to read the bios and vote it s your club! We also have our fall meeting quickly approaching the last weekend of October so as to not interfere with anyone travelling to the Reliability Tour in Savannah, Georgia. Pat Gamble has graciously offered to host the meeting at a special venue in Hershey and to get there we will actually be doing a small Fall Foliage mini-tour. We get one last weekend to get the cars out and do some touring. The meeting flier should be out next week. That s about all I have to say, it s been a fun and very busy summer and I can t wait for Hershey and the Hangover. Please vote and don t hesitate to offer a ride to or at least a front seat photo opportunity the next time someone walks up and admires your Beautiful Brass Car! Happy Cranking, Jeff 4

Re: New Org, 2017 Tour Date Change, Keys to Success, Hershey Reservations, Publication Awards Notice, Business Resumption Plans, Next Board Meeting, New Century Plaque Address Issue: 2016-08-26 #08

5 Re: New Org, 2017 Tour Date Change, Keys to Success, Hershey Reservations, Publication Awards Notice, Business Resumption Plans, Next Board Meeting, New Century Plaque Address Issue: #08 New Local Organizations Who says that there is no interest in Brass Era Vehicles In 2015 and 2016 the following new Regional Groups and Affiliated Registries were formed Great Plaines Brass Touring Registry, Founder Chris Paulsen Chalmers / Chalmers Detroit Registry, founder Bob Ladd Southern Wisconsin Regional Group, founder Thomas Edfors For more information on the local organizations visit the HCCA Web Site. All of these clubs are new and they are looking for new members 2017 Tour Date Change The dates for the 2017 New England Brass and Gas tour in Maine have changed / A week later Arrival will be on Sunday June 25, 2017 and the closing Banquet will be June 30, 2017 Keys to Success Do you know that your dues pay for more than just a great magazine? Because of the high standards that HCCA demands, the organization s insurance coverage is designed to offer protection to all officers, directors, event leaders and all members of the organization for a long list of different liability situations. The HCCA has two policies to protect the club and its members from different type of situations (personal liability, advertising, injury, misrepresentation, improper allocation of resources, contractual mismanagement, conflicts of interest, discrimination of membership criteria and many others). Most members are not concerned about insurance until it is needed, and then it is too late. To keep the liability insurance to a level that is needed, the service needs to be paid for and efforts need to be taken by all members to minimize unreasonable risks. Hershey Reservations The due date for submission of registration forms for display of a vehicle have to be postmarked August 15, Reservation by local car clubs to use the HCCA Hershey tent for a meeting or event will be reserved on a fist come first service basis. For reservations, contact the HCCA executive secretary, Sharon Gooding. 5

HCCA National News Continued- New Century Plaque Address In July 2016, the administrator of the program, Carl Pate moved from CT to 26 Washington St, Rocky Hill, NJ 08553.

6 HCCA National News Continued- New Century Plaque Address In July 2016, the administrator of the program, Carl Pate moved from CT to 26 Washington St, Rocky Hill, NJ During the August transition, there may be some delays in mailing out of new Century Plaques. Release delay of this issue was due to move to NJ and PC connections delays by internet vendor. Share, Educate and Pass It On Carlton Pate / anpcop@aol.com HCCA National President If you are attending any Brass Car events I would very much appreciate your willingness to snap pictures and write an article for the next newsletter. I am always looking for material. Send articles and pictures to Tracy at: edsvrhcca@gmail.com 6

7 Sassy Brass a publication of the Susquehanna Valley Region HCCA Strasburg 2016 Pictorial: The Train Always Wins! SVR Member cars on display at Strasburg Railroad s Antique Autos Event. Nell Deardorff gives us a wave hello. A Model T moving along the tracks. 7

8 Sassy Brass a publication of the Susquehanna Valley Region HCCA Top right: Lee and Helen Turner with their Reo. Above: A view from the dash. Below: Jim and Barbara Reinhold s Model T. Above: Two of the three Steamers that drove up from Auburn Heights. 8

The Great American Road Trip From Walt Whitman to Thelma and Louise, Amanda Foreman looks at the history of the American road trip In 1903, physician Horatio Nelson Jackson (at wheel) and his driving

9 The Great American Road Trip From Walt Whitman to Thelma and Louise, Amanda Foreman looks at the history of the American road trip In 1903, physician Horatio Nelson Jackson (at wheel) and his driving partner Sewall K. Crocker became the first men to drive an automobile across the U.S. PHOTO: ISC IMAGES & ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES By AMANDA FOREMAN July 13, :28 p.m. ET The Great American Road Trip was born in 1856 with the publication of Walt Whitman s poem Song of the Open Road. Or at least that s where the idea of such a journey came into being, since 160 years ago there were no states between Texas and California, let alone cars, highways or motels. A lone traveler s creature comforts back then consisted of liberty and opportunity: Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, / Healthy, free, the world before me, / The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose, the poet wrote. 9

10 Whitman saw the (future) American Road Trip as a metaphor for democracy. In the new republic, a man could go anywhere. But for decades after Whitman s poem, America s long brown paths went nowhere. In 1903, when Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson, his dog Bud and a mechanic named Sewall Crocker set out in a red Winton touring car to claim America for the automobile, barely 150 miles of paved road existed in the entire country. A friend had wagered Jackson $50 that it would take him at least three months to drive from San Francisco to New York. In the end, it took 62 days of hard slog. Jackson s feat quickly inspired imitators like the Murdocks, the first family to drive across America. In 1908, Jacob, Anna and their three children successfully navigated the journey with the help of a personal mechanic for the car and a Winchester rifle for the coyotes. Not to be outdone, 22-yearold Alice Ramsey led the first all-female road trip in 1909, tearing across the country at speeds of up to 42 miles an hour when not being towed by horses. The road situation remained a literal mess when Dwight D. Eisenhower joined a military convoy on a trip across America in At times the drivers averaged a mere 6 miles an hour. Those two months on the road helped to convince the future president that a complete overhaul was needed. His answer was the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 and the construction of the Interstate Highway System. The law spurred millions of Americans to take to the open road and legions of filmmakers and novelists to write about it. The Great American Road Trip once again became a social metaphor though less, this time, as a Whitmanesque celebration of democracy than as critique of the human condition in general and America s failings in particular. Explaining the point of On the Road (1957), Jack Kerouac wrote that the novel tried to recapture a sense of meaning: Its protagonists were embarked on a tremendous journey through post-whitman America to FIND that America. John Steinbeck took on a similar quest of rediscovery and reconnection with his driving companion a poodle and wrote about it in Travels With Charley in Search of America (1962). The author finished his journey with his hopes dashed, feeing lost and worried about the rapid changes overtaking his country. Still, Steinbeck fared better than most film characters who attempt the Great American Road Trip. In Easy Rider (1969), Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper are pursued by murderous bigots; in Thelma and Louise (1991), the problem seems to be every American male. Fortunately, today s family road trips don t require a confrontation with the moral abyss just a full tank of gas and a great playlist. Reprinted from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 10

The latter two should not come as surprises, we were deep in Amish Country. The only potentially detrimental event was our 1913 Buick losing a washer.

11 A Rough and Tumble Good Time John and Mary Etta brought their new 1914 Model T (once belonging to Stanley Groy) out on its inaugural voyage. Along the first leg of the trip, we passed several cycling clubs, encountered numerous road apples and spied an Amish phone booth. The latter two should not come as surprises, we were deep in Amish Country. The only potentially detrimental event was our 1913 Buick losing a washer. Ernie, Augie and Jeff all heard it ping onto the macadam. Jeff still isn t sure which washer it was. (And, we did manage to get to Kinzers). President Jeff and Augie visiting with David Deardorff fellow SVR member. Not only did we have picture perfect weather for a run down to Rough and Tumble in Kinzers, we also had a substantial group in attendance. Mike Romano, John and Mary Etta Hershey, Butch and Vicky Arnold, Ernie and Rhonda Spittler, the Lesher family, and a bunch of Model A s ventured south to Kinzers. Ernie and Rhonda recruited some of their local Model A friends to join us. We had a solid ten vehicles leaving from Adamstown. David and Nell Deardorff, Joe and Betty Swann, Pat Gamble and Jane Grove and Clay Green met us at Rough and Tumble. Passing on the right. John and Mary Etta drove in the T without a hitch. The day at Kinzers was a steam lovers paradise. We toured the sheds with multiple displays of steam engines, hit and miss engines, indulged in all kinds of yummy treats, listened to the steamers let their whistle go at noon, and socialized. The flea market provided all types of treasure too. 11

Sassy Brass a publication of the Susquehanna Valley Region HCCA Pat Gamble drove Jane Grove s EMF and the Swann s drove their Model

When I first spied Clay Green and his Pierce-Arrow, I thought, Gee, there s Clay giving a mechanical lesson!

On this edition of Pierce-Arrows behaving badly.

Butch and Vicky Arnold, John and Mary Etta Hershey, and the Leshers followed Jeff s route to the all important ice cream stop.

12 Sassy Brass a publication of the Susquehanna Valley Region HCCA Pat Gamble drove Jane Grove s EMF and the Swann s drove their Model A. Along with Clay, all three vehicles had the best parking spaces at Kinzers in the shade! When I first spied Clay Green and his Pierce-Arrow, I thought, Gee, there s Clay giving a mechanical lesson! Unfortunately, this was not the case. His Pierce was having magneto issues. The stress was cigarette inducing. On this edition of Pierce-Arrows behaving badly... A scene from Kinzers Top: Jane Grove s EMF Most of the group left Kinzers around two in the afternoon. Butch and Vicky Arnold, John and Mary Etta Hershey, and the Leshers followed Jeff s route to the all important ice cream stop. We rattled along without incident even with the worry over that lost washer. En route through Brecknock township we drove past Uncle Henry s Pretzel Factory. Uncle Henry s is one the traditional pretzel bakeries that call Berks County home. It is nothing much more than an Amish farmstead. Bottom: Joe & Betty Swann s Model A 12

13 Sassy Brass a publication of the Susquehanna Valley Region HCCA Above: Parked at Boehringer s Drive-in Below: Daytime running lamps The end of the day s tour included a stop at Boehringer s Drive-in in Adamstown for some much needed treats. John and Mary Etta showed off their Model T s brass headlights with working daytime running lamps. A chorus of OH's and AH s followed. An impressive ending to a great day of driving in brass cars. 13

14 Just for Fun Zits by Jerry Borgman and Jerry Scott The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn 14

15 Announcements to Nell Deardorff for your contribution to Sassy Brass! I cannot do this job without your help. Who will be the next contributor for My 100 Year-old Car? It could be you. Be ready. 15

Classifieds 1954 Harley /Davidson Servi Car with tow bar, all done. Contact: Clay Green cgreen3rd@comcast.net 215-313-2734 1955 Chevrolet Convertible for sale.

net 215-313-2734 WANTED: For a 1914 Model T Stewart speedometer road gear # 1322 with three mounting holes Stewart swivel joint 2 1/2 to 1 model 1913 cast steel Jon Brown

16 Classifieds 1954 Harley /Davidson Servi Car with tow bar, all done. Contact: Clay Green Chevrolet Convertible for sale. Contact: Clay Green WANTED: For a 1914 Model T Stewart speedometer road gear # 1322 with three mounting holes Stewart swivel joint 2 1/2 to 1 model 1913 cast steel Jon Brown headlights, lens, burners, connectors Contact John Hershey at (cell #) Next classifieds submission deadline is November 1 to be included in the next newsletter. Ads should be words in length and can include photos. Ads maybe submitted by via to edsvrhcca@gmail.com or mailed to Tracy Lesher 475 West Route 897, Reinholds, PA

stateprov=pa Brad-Penn Oil can be purchased at Cumberland Truck

17 Resources This link has an index of pure gas stations for Pennsylvania and all 50 states. Brad-Penn Oil can be purchased at Cumberland Truck Equipment Co. Locations in Ephrata, Carlisle, Chambersburg & Nottingham 17

Upcoming Activities Schedule for Philadelphia, PA

Sassy Brass Fall 2012 Volume 3 Upcoming Activities Schedule for 2013 February 6-10: February 16-20: March 2: April 11-13: May 4: May 19-23: July 7: September 8-13: October 8-12: October 12-14: AACA Annual