VOLUME 16 FEBRUARY 1990 SAN DIEGO REGION

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1 PACKARDS INTERNATIONAL MOTOR CAR CLUB VOLUME 16 FEBRUARY 1990 SAN DIEGO REGION INSTALLATION BRUNCH Our annual meeting was held at the Escondido Country Club on a day that started out with rain, but changed to wonderful by afternoon. 10 Packards arrived with their loyal drivers and guests including Kay and Victor Gates. Mrs. Gates worked for Earle C. Anthony for many years and they shared some stories with our members. Another guest, Ella Grove, was from South Bend, Indiana, the home of Studebaker and the new Studebaker-Packard Museum. Our membership is currently 86, and the President challenged for us to get 100 by January 20, National Membership is at an all time high of Committee Reports; TOURS - Tony Acierno reported the Hagen Ranch Tour, with the Pierce-Arrow Society, was voted the highlight of the season. The Garage Tour to Mario's Tires, Bryan Packard Repair and George Cataline's potluck was second. HISTORIAN - Linda Bitmer brought in Scrapbooks of pictures for all to see and asked for additional information on some of the incomplete items. PROJECTS - Reminder: the BIG THREE SWAP MEET is coming Feb San Diego Region and National will be togethe.r (see Tour info) George ('2t<>li'le's 1936 Twelv~ COt!pe Roadster will be there. Look for it In concert with the president's goals to get more cars on the road and INVOLVEMENT of members, special recognition was given to these members for ON THE ROAD THE FIRST TIME IN Tom Thurston, 1933 eight sedan, Ginger McLean, 1949 Station Sedan, Rich Madsen, 1938 six 4 door sedan, Phil Burgess, 1948 Station Sedan, Mark Ballerini, 1936 '120' Business Coupe, and Casey Groenendal, 1937 ' 11SC' six 4- door sedan (a prize winner) INVOLVEMENT included introduction of the ALL-CAL Committee with thanks from the Region: James Dahmann, Tony and Claudia Acierno, Linda and Rick Bitmer, Tony Collins, Dorothy Hagen, Karl Ramsing, Ginger McLean, Mark Rothermich, Theresa and Casey Groenendal, Lloyd King and Chair B. J. Hill. RECOGNITION FOR ELEGANCE THIS YEAR: So Cal Concourse (at Gen. Lyons) 2nd in Class, Casey Groenendal 2nd in Class, Tom Thurston Fallbrook Show 2nd in Class - Chris Rinker other previous recognition was remembered and recognized: Lloyd King, National Best of Show, 1978 ( Coupe) Joe Whitaker, National Tour prize, ( Cavalier) ~. -: <1) 0'::-" Presentations went to the Board Of Directors with thanks from the club Each was presented with a gift of dinner at Black Angus. A special award of $100. was given to tony Acierno for his fine work on Tours and providing refreshments at meetings. Antique GAS PUMP PEN SET awarded to Linda Bitmer for her service as secretary. SPARK PLUG Award given to Tony Collins and Mark Rothermich for projects. PETE BRADLEY Award presented to Rick Bittner. GEORGE CATALINE received a video tape and three page letter from Nissan for use of his car in educational tapes for mechanics.

2 President: Vice President: Secretary: Treasurer: Membership: Projectsffechnical Publications/Museum Tours/Activities National Board Rep BOARD FOR 1990 B. 1. Hill Tony Acierno Claudia Acierno and Theresa Gruenendal Ken Yankee Lloyd King Mark Rothennich James Dahmann Casey Groenendal Tony Acierno Ginger McLean Rick Bittner SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS Monthly meeting, first Wednesday evening at 7:00 pm. We meet at the S.D. Automotive Museum in Balboa Park. The meeting room is open and is now our regular meeting place. Assorted topics will be discussed as required. We will try to highlight things of interest to all, and have guests from time to time. February 7 March 7 April 4 May 2 June 6 No meeting in December or January at Museum July 4? NO MEETING! DUES REMINDER From your MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN Lloyd King Once again it is the time to pay for our association. Our dues have held the line for many years, and for this year we will stay at $ Last year was a verygood year for membership; we ended the year with 86 members, and that is the most the San Diego Region has had in its history. You should have renewed your National Membership already. This is your reminder to renew with your local club. To do this, before you forget it, please drop your check in the envelope I sent you, and mail it to: Lloyd King 3267 Mohican Avenue San Diego, Calif PRESIDENT's MESSAGE DEAR MEMBERS HAPPY NEW YEAR and BEST WISHES for 1990! The membership/installation brunch was an outstanding success with 34 members and guests and TEN PACKARDS even on a rainy day! You will note a very special award was made again this year. The Pete Bradley Award was established in 1988 and given for the first time in January Pete believed that Packards should be driven. The Board established FOUR criteria to be used in determination of the award. Two of those criteria; bringing cars to meetings and to events, can be measured if we have someone keep good records. This year the minutes will include those persons who drive their PACKARDs to meetings and the PREDICTOR will list those persons driving to the events. This will make the President's decision based on very clear information on these two items. The last announcement of the day was a request for participants to enter the Le Cercle Concours d' Elegance. This year PACKARDS will be featured. It is being held in the Wilshire District of Los Angeles on 23 September 1990; please read the letter of invitation and let me know if you are interested in /~, attending. -ears will be judged oniy- if you -wish, and they need not be show quality to be in attendance. Let's bring home some of those trophies! Happy Packarding. Remember, being involved makes the difference. Respectfully, BJ. Hill PACKARDS at the Installation: Tom Thurston eight, 4 door George Cataline twelve, roadster Tony Acierno six, coupe Max Fields eight, 4 door Custom Lloyd King eight, Mayfair James Dahmann eight, Mayfair Rick Bittner eight, Patrician Tony Paradowski V8, Clipper Ken Yankee V8, Four Hundred Joe Whitaker V8, Executive WELCOME NEW MEMBERS John J. Santori 3540 Roselle Street Oceanside, California 92056

3 EVENTS AND TOURS Friday, SAT, SUN Feb.2, 3 and 4, 1990 The NATIONAL MEMBERSIllP Meet, Orange Co. National mailed infonnation to each individual for this event. Briefly, the schedule is the same as in the past: Friday, welcome cocktail party; Saturday, SWAP MEET and registration at the hotel; evening dinner/dance. Sunday; Car Show and,banquet. This is usually a BIG SHOW, with 40 to 50 quality PACKARDS, and will be well worth attending. It will be at the DOUBLETREE INN AT THE PARK, on City Drive, just off Freeway 5. It is held, without delay, come rain or shine I If you have a few PACKARD parts to sell, like not enuf for a full swap space, we will display them at the CLUB's space for you. Just CALL MARK. SATURDAY, SUNDAY February 17 AND 18, 1990 BIG THREE SWAP MEET, S.D. Stadium. The largest Swap event in San Diego for vintage parts and automobiles. We will have the same booth space as last year for our projects, (SECTION G, ROW D, SPACE 33) and we will sell parts for members as well. National will have the booth next to ours; (SECTION G, ROW D, SPACE 34, 35) Prepare now. We will display some Packards. Call Mark Rothermich, if you want us to display your excess PACKARD parts. SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1990 REGENCY PARK Retirement Home, 5740 Lake Murray Boulevard, we will entertain the folks there by giving them rides in our PACKARDS. For a day of FUN and FELLOWSHIP, we will meet at FOCUS in Mission Valley at 9:20 for coffee and doughnuts and leave at 10:00 am for the Retirement Home. Once there we will let the folks look at and ride in these choice old cars of a bygone era. At around noon, we will go to the PACKARDs cafe, the GROENENDAL's. The Cafe' is a first class food joint, but will serve it second class st y i~. There are 23 items to choose from, for example; t. quack grass, 2. fence post, 3. pie eyes, 4. landing net, 5. lovers delight, 6. underground Ball. The management will also offer TUMS for the tummy. You are invited to dress in costumes of the era of your car, if you can, and of course, bring your PACKARD. WE need a headcount by March 24 so the cafe won't run out of food. The Cafe is at Lake Cayuga, S. D (it's near Lake Murray) Phone TOUR CALENDAR Undetermined date, APRIL Hagen Ranch Bar-B-Q jointly with Pierce-Arrow Society. Third year (we'll get it right this time) 27 MAY, MEMORIAL DAY, SUNDAY Fallbrook Car Show and swap meet, 6am to 3pm. We will also be guests of Rita Bradley. More Later 24 June - 1 July SUN National Tour to: optional Uune) 10 JUNE SUN Deer Park Concours 17 JUNE SUNDAY CHV AlFathers day, Temecula area 24 JUNE Sunday Society of Automotive Historians 28 ml Y Saturday ALL-AMERICAN PICNIC Joint Tour MUSEUM NOTES January 10, 1990, Car Club Council Old Business and new: Minutes from last meeting read and approved. There were only about 14 members present. Council President Sandy Sanford was ill and did not attend. discussion centered around the Volunteer effort needed for the Vintage Race weekend to be held at San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium in May. There is going to be an auction in conjunction with the race weekend, and volunteers will be needed for this and all events at the Stadium.

4 .... ', ECCF serving the community since 1965 Dec. 21, 1989 B. J. Hill President - San Diego Chapter Packards International A Dunbrook Rd. San Diego, CA Dear B. J.: This letter is a follow-up to today'~ phone conversation, in which I told you of Le Cercle's plans for our September 23rd, 1990 show. Le Cercle formed a partnership last year with the well established Eddie Cantor Charitable Foundation, of which I am a director. I am also an 18 year member of Le Cercle, and as of next month I am also a director on its board. Our show in September was a big success, and I am enclosing a copy of a story that appeared in the L.A. Times the day before the show. I am a friend of the automotive editor there, and was responsible for their doing the story. I am also enclosing one of our programs. from that show, in which an insert was put in with the list of the 200 cars plus 24 motorcycles that appeared. For 1990 we want to start featuring a particular car, and we have --'--decided ' to start wi'ih Packard. I have contacted the Southern California chapter of Packards International, and it was suggested that in order to do our most complete job that I would want to also be talking to your chapter, which I am happy to do. &lthough we will b~ featuring Packard, and quite naturally we will want as many nice examples as we can obtain, everyone need no t be_ a Classic, and they need not be in Concours condition. We would be pleased 'to have pre- or post-classic examples~ and cleaner unrestored or older restoration are most welcome. Please pass this part of the invitation to your fellow members, as we do not want that misunderstood. We will have judging with ample trophies available, and if:. your group wants your cars judged exclusively by your own judges that is fine. Otherwise I will assure you our judging team is qualified and will judge with complete impartiality. Let us know what it would take to have your involvement in our show on September 23rd. We will do most anything to have your cars at the show! ~~~ J;.:rry Fields Show Co-Chairman Eddie Cantor Charitable Foundation 9869 Santa Monica Blvd, Suite 205 Beverly Hills, CA (213) FAX (213) J

5 CARS FOR SALE CARS FOR SALE 1953 PACKARD PATRICIAN, PIS, PIB. Will run, restorable. PLUS one complete 327, 9 brg. 4 bbl Patrician engine, needs rebuild. 11ario (619) days (Oceanside) ~; door, everything working, engine starts on 12 volts, runs on 6V, has windshield visor, good chrome. Interior and body good, needs new home. (non-member, Orange Co.) Kenny, 3446 Orange St.,in Long Beach. Asking $2000. (213) , 23rd Series, 4-door sedan. Ready for touring. Good upholstery and chrome, Overdrive Trans. Asking $ ario, (619) PACKARD PARTS WANTED NEED 1937 Junior Trunk Rack ~ " Steve Vegh (714) rrie Lane Garden Grove, Ca ". PACKARD PARTS FOR SALE 1950'S straight eight engine, call for details Don Gladhill Clipper Custom Sedan, donated to club is being parted out. 11any good parts still available, all moneys will be donated to the club treasury. Call 11ark Rothermich (619) PACKARD: door, no engme'. condition unknown, been sitting 17 years. In the dtsert. Offer? Lon Beale, (619) (San Ysidro) CHANGE OF ADDRESS Andrew Cmss argerum Avenue San Diego, California I MARIO'S TIRE CENTER It:ii/I;!;~) ANTIQUE DOMESTIC IMPORT Reproduction Parts Used Parts S. HILL OCEANSIDE, CALIF JUNIOR MOOE\.S 8< SENIOR MARK (619) MARIO WALLACE WALMSLEY 1619) BANCROFT ST. 1/7 SAN DIEGO. CA 92116

6 LEMON GROVE PLATING 1400 CLEVELAND NATIONAL CITY. CALIFORNIA To Packards International Members: Over the years we have established a reputation for quality plating, and a quality car deserves quality plating. I own a 1928 PACKARD Roadster and know the value you place on your parts. If you have a plating need, come In and.... Looking for a new home for your P ACKARDs? (p.s. and yourself?) As a PACKARD owner and Realtor. I understand your needs both for good affordable housing and ample garage space for your carts). My real estate background extends back to and for over 12 years now I have been a full time realtor serving all of San Diego County. If you need to sell your present home. and/or purchase another. please call me. I can help you in an honest and professional way with all your real estate needs. My computer has the ability to pinpoint your exact requirements. Ask the woman who owns one Ginger McLean Great Western Real Estate (619) Ask The Man Who Owns One,,~ I BILL RHODES President (619) ="'-- FEBRUARY 1990 Address Correction Requested International I... SAN DIEGO ~ REGION Rich Madsen 9936 Via Daroca San Diego, CA 92129