Rods & Relics of Lincoln Hills, P. O. Box 93, Lincoln CA 95648

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1 Rods & Relics of Lincoln Hills, P. O. Box 93, Lincoln CA Volume 6, Issue 10 October 2013 OPINION ON THE CALIFORNIA AUTO MUSEUM At our September business meeting it was mentioned that our club membership in the California Auto Museum was due to be renewed but no action was taken. I recommend we renew our membership. Club membership is only $ per year. Our membership includes one free admission per year for each of our members and the opportunity to display a Rods & Relics informational plaque showing we support the Museum. And although we would need to purchase a wall plaque or banner I am not sure why we have not taken advantage of this opportunity to get the Rods & Relics of Lincoln Hills name out, since this was one of the reasons we joined the museum in the first place. Our Mission Statement states we have an interest in the restoration, preservation and enjoyment of collector vehicles. What better way to support this mission than to support the California Auto Museum that shares the same mission and provides an opportunity to educate people, young and old, about cars so they can see them and learn about the development of the automobile and its influence on our lives. One thing that makes our museum great is that it is what I would call a working man s Museum since it displays cars we can all relate to, as opposed to High End Super Cars or cars we like to look at but could never afford. If we do not support the Museum who will? Ray Geiger MISSION STATEMENT The Rods & Relics Of Lincoln Hills Car Club is a non-profit organization formed by individuals with an interest in the restoration, preservation, and enjoyment of collector vehicles, such as Original, Antiques, Classics, Street Rods, Muscle Cars, Special Interest, Modified, and other American or Americanpowered vehicles 1972 and older. We use this strong interest to facilitate fund raising and community service to non-profit organizations and people in need. CLUB OFFICERS Julie McVey- President?-Vice President Craig Kirkpatrick-Treasurer Ed Branco-Secretary Norm Penrice-Membership Alan Taylor-Activity Director Mark Fink-Member-at-Large Happy Birthday Mike Novosel Dennis Malone Marlin Anderson Rich Ragan Dave Baxter Eva Alves CT Gargis Craig Kirkpatrick Dwight Johnson Club Meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 6:30 PM at Strikes 5681 Lonetree Blvd Rocklin. Everyone Welcome 1

2 CAUGHT IN THE HEADLIGHTS GETTING TO KNOW PAUL AND PEGGY CELILLO We were both born in San Francisco and lived near the airport. Our parents moved to South San Francisco when we were very young. Paul and I met and became sweethearts in We were married on August 8th We have three great kids: two daughters and a son, who have given us six Grandkids and one Great -Grandchild who is now 3 and a half. Paul was the owner of his own electrical company for 20 years in South San Francisco. Then moved his job to Sacramento to join with a friend to create BCE, Inc. One of the largest electrical companies in the area. He retired after 35 plus years in the electrical building business in January of We have lived in the Sacramento area for close to 23 years, currently we live in Del Webb Lincoln. We were introduced to the Rods N Relics by Walt Ernst, founder of the club. Paul is currently plagued by Parkinson s disease and it is taking away so much of his ability to do what he loves. We will be celebrating our 50th Anniversary next year. We bought our little 53 Merc-o-Matic in We had searched for one for a long time. It is the car we went on dates in through High School and thought it would be fun to have one again. It is all original and has been restored to almost NEW looking. We only had to re-chrome it and do a few minor fixes to the mechanics. It runs like new and we both love it. We look forward to doing as much as possible with the Club, depending on Paul s health. Paul & Peggy Celillo 2

3 MINUTES of the SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 GENERAL MEETING 6:00 PM SPEAKERS FOR THE 2014 CHARITIES Alan Taylor represented - The Ride to Walk Donna Kirkpatrick represented - The Assistance League Kent Parsell represented The Boy Scouts Angela Pontiac represented The Light House Counseling & Family Resource Center Heather Haskins represented National Down Syndrome Coalition James Zavala represented Orange Crush Youth Wrestling Club Following the presentations, the votes were counted. The National Down Syndrome Coalition, The Light House Counseling & Family Resource Center, and The Ride to Walk, a program of therapeutic horseback riding were selected by the membership to receive support from our 2014 Car Show. PRESIDENT JULIE MCVEY Julie called the formal General Meeting to order at 7 PM. SECRETARY S REPORT ED BRANCO Ed asked if everyone read and reviewed the August General Meeting Minutes. Fred Krohn moved to approve and Dennis Malone seconded. Secretary s Report was approved. TREASURER S REPORT CRAIG KIRKPATRICK Craig reported the month and year to date activity and balances for both the Club and Car Show accounts. We have $1,345 in Club Merchandise. Ed McVey is selling the excess tee shirts, at $10 each. Contributions total $14,300 for the year and $77,658 to date. Rich Ragan moved to approve and Carl Hillstead seconded. Treasurer s Report was approved. Ralph Garcia moved for the Club to order 10 Plaques now for new members to see when they join our Club. Ray Geiger seconded, majority agreed and the motion passed. ACTIVITY REPORT ALAN TAYLOR Alan reported that the Car Show/Events Schedule for September December 2013 is out. Here are some of the upcoming Events: September 20 Lincoln Meadows Care Home September 21 Rocklin 20 th Annual Hot Chili & Cool Cars September 26 Final Club Cruise to Swabbies on Delta September 28 Wheatland Annual Car Show Shows and Events for October: October 3 Auburn Oaks Care Center October 10 The Beal AFB Event October 12 NASCAR K & B in Roseville October 12 - Vietnam Veterans of America Chico Car Show October 26 October Fest Car Show & Toy Run, Capital Cruisers in Citrus Heights Another Tahoe Joe s fund raiser may be set up again in October as it raised a good amount of funds last time. 3

4 MEMBERSHIP REPORT NORM PENRICE Norm reported that there were two prospective member guests present, Daver Cunningham has a 1930 Ford and a 1955 Chevy and Dave Hemingover has a 1970 Chevelle and a 1957 Chevy. Norm also will donate a $20.00 Gift Certificate to Ray Geiger in recognition of his great work taking out our Show Fliers. Murrill Conley thanked everyone for the bouquet he received from the Club when he had surgery recently. MEMBER AT LARGE REPORT MARK FINK Mark had nothing new to report at this time. OLD BUSINESS JULIE MCVEY Julie asked Kent Parsell to tell us about the Plaque our Club received from the Little League and the City of Lincoln for our donation to the Little League. Kent and Ray Geiger have met with the City in regards to our signs and banners for our 2014 Car Show. A second meeting is proposed. NEW BUSINESS JULIE MCVEY Julie announced that Dennis Doane has resigned his Vice Presidency. Volunteers interested in the Vice President position can send in an to Julie. The term remaining is about one and one-half years. Most of our Membership made it clear that we would like very much to have George Funk run for the Vice Presidency. Ray Blasquez suggested we could vote by . The VFW thanked us for our Car Show and our donation. Our California Museum membership renewal is put on hold until our next meeting. Dan Larsen has set the cut-off date of October 11 for the apparel purchases. Ray Geiger called our attention to the Sun City News article on the wall. We all recognize Elna Ragan for her great work promoting our Club. The Sacramento Bee will have a notice of our General Meetings on the Friday before our meetings. Dennis Malone asked for the dates of the following: Christmas Party December 7 th or 8 th. Our Car Show - June 7 th Please let Julie know of your Car Show Awards for the Newsletter, pictures are also welcome. Meeting adjourned at 7:50 PM. Respectfully submitted Ed Branco, Secretary (Please see Alan s Supplemental Activities Calendar for updates and changes) 4

5 The California Auto Museum s New Home The New Home for the Museum is alive and progressing contrary to some rumors and misinformation currently circulating. Paul Snyder, a long time Sacramento area auto dealer (Suburban Ford, Elk Grove Toyota, etc.) has committed to the purchase of the current site and the demolition of the current structure and the construction of a two story joint use museum facility of approximately 180,000 square feet. Sixty thousand square feet will be for a new natural history museum and the remaining space will be common area and the CAM. The City, the current owner of the land and building has agreed to a purchase price for the land, however, the City Council must ratify the agreement and the plans have to be approved through the Planning Commission and the City Building Department. At this time, the parties are not ready for the Council. The preliminary plans are being redrawn at the current time to incorporate some suggested design concepts of the city and others. Although there have been some objections from some groups, such as the Humane Society the project is still moving forward but on a slower time schedule. Initial plans looked to a spring, 2014 demolition and commencement of construction but that is now it being set further out. I ll keep the Rods and Relics updated as we move forward. See the new website at sacramentowaterfrontmuseumproject.com for further information. Bill Van Gundy EARLY IRON CAR CLUB IN UKIAH The Early Iron Car Club has been around for 32 years and has been sponsoring a wonderful car show for the last 23 years. The Club starts the weekend rolling with a band at the Pear Tree Shopping Plaza which is full of beautiful cars and friends from all over the state meeting & greeting. Some of them come every year, from many miles away. Early Saturday morning the parking crew was out putting up signs for the different classes of cars. Each car must be registered by the 1st of September and from the information the owners send in, they are placed in their specific category. Each car has a sticker with the information so the parkers know where to put them. It was raining just past gentle when Ed & Steve headed out to help with the parking. By the time Margie & I arrived it wasn t too bad and folks were just looking at donuts & coffee to get them started. There were many friends catching up from last year when they were at the Ukiah Show. The cars were very clean because every time it stopped raining and the sun came out the lovely Show vehicles were stripped of the water that had fallen. The trophy ceremony was short & sweet but always nice because you get to see which cars won & their owners. Sunday was coffee & donuts before we lined up for the poker run around Ukiah which also turned out to be a great history lesson. Then onto lunch at the Elks Hall where the winners of the Trivia Game and best Poker Hand, were announced. We had a nice time telling our husbands which way to go. J McVey 5

6 SWABBIES ON THE RIVER In the interest of doing different things with our cars, other than just going to car shows, we had a fun time going to Swabbies, a fine restaurant, on the river. There were eight of us heading out from Strikes and we met Chuck & Gloria along the way. I was leading, big mistake, although we got to see the new Sacramento Airport on the way. We avoided the freeway and had a casual drive over to our destination. Ralph Garcia, Ray Geiger, Carl & Lorry Hillstead, Al & Eva Alves, Kent Parsell, George Funk, and Dennis & Donna Malone made up the party that went. We played a trivia game and had a good lunch right by the river in a great setting. This time of year it's not crowded. In fact, there was only one other foursome in the entire place. The weather was great and after lunch we headed home. They have great fish Tacos. Alan Taylor LINCOLN MEADOWS CARE CENTER As our car season comes to an end, we had a great experience at the FEEL GOOD SHOW at Lincoln Meadows Care Center. This facility hosts a great show. The weather was perfect. They had coffee in the morning for us, cooked hot dogs & hamburgers for lunch, and they topped it off with Root Beer Floats. The music was great, hosted by a Disc. Jockey. We had 21 cars and boy did they get a lot of attention! The senior citizens here needed a lot of assistance. I took great pleasure in wheeling several of the senior citizens around, describing the different cars to them. It warms my heart to see the joy we bring these seniors each year. It is something I am proud to be a part of and want to thank everyone who took the time out of their schedules to display their cars. THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE WHO ATTENDED. SINCERELY, ALAN TAYLOR. Excerpt from. ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA CAR CLUBS NEWSLETTER From the time I was a kid I have always been a complete car fanatic, so when I got an invite to the Downtown Lincoln Car Show on June 1st I jumped at the chance. The Show had more than 450 cars on display, but I m a muscle car guy, so when I saw Robert Ball s absolutely gorgeous Dodge Challenger I saw a clear winner. I presented Mr. Ball the Senator s Trophy for having my favorite car. Thanks to Rods & Relics of Lincoln Hills and Lincoln VFW Post 3010 for inviting me to be a part of the fun! Hobby Friendly Senator Ted Gaines 6

7 WHEATLAND CAR SHOW Every year car shows seem to grow and the Wheatland Show did just that! From around cars last year, to approximately cars this year. Car Shows located in the downtown area are the best venues, we all know that from our Downtown Lincoln Show. Craig & Tami & friends sure know how to put on a great show. They reserved spaces for our cars, we had 17 car members at the show, not a bad turnout. There was shade all behind our cars, the pancake & sausage breakfast was great; just a good all-around day. Congratulations to the following members whose cars won awards: Dennis Malone, Bob Fish, Ralph Garcia, Dan Larsen, Rich Ragan, Al Alves, Murrill Conley & a BIG CON- GRATULATIONS to EMILIE RIGHETTI, her 1949 Ford won BEST OF SHOW. Her car will be on the Wheatland Show event T-shirt next year. A great car show in a great setting: nothing better than a car show in the country! Thanks again to Craig & Tami. Congratulations to those bringing home trophies from the Wheatland Car Show. Left to Right, Bob Fish, Dan Larsen, Rich Ragan, Alan Taylor, Dennis Malone, Murrill Conley, Emilie &Gary Righetti, and Ralph Garcia. All the cars were winners and everyone had a good time and that is what really counts. 7

8 Trivia Question: What year did the Ranchero switch from the full size platform to the Falcon Platform? Answer below NOTES FROM THE GLOVEBOX Breakfast at the Waffle Farm has become a regular tradition for many member families. Everyone is welcome to attend, sunny days bring your show ride. Waffle Farm Breakfasts for the month of October are the 8th and the 22nd. We don t caravan anymore, we meet up at the Waffle Farm, 815 Twelve Bridges Dr. Lincoln at 8:15 AM for a fine breakfast with a bunch of really nice folks who have even better cars and love to talk about them. (Come earlier if you want a good seat!) OTHER ACTIVITIES IN OCTOBER GOING STRONG ALL YEAR LONG October 3rd Auburn Oaks Care Ctr., 3400 Bell Rd., Auburn. Club will travel together starting at the Chevron Station at Sierra College & Hwy 80@9:15 AM October 12 from 10 AM to 3 PM, Rain or Shine at Mel s Diner, 1730 Grass Valley Hwy, Auburn Ca Info: Alex ( ) Pete Paulsen s 24th Annual Camp, 1504 Bowman Rd. $35 Registration. October s Home Center in Citrus Heights Octoberfest Car Show & Toy Run, hosted by Cap City Cruisers 10 am to 3 pm Registration $20 plus a toy. Lots of food, good music, and awards. Heaven s Latest Neophyte Signaled left Then turned right Burma-Shave Strikes in Rocklin, 1st & 3rd Wednesday of each month, 5 PM till dark. Food & drink specials, live DJ, all years, makes & models, 3 top awards, 50/50 drawing North Highlands, every Saturday, Hot Rod Gathering, Café Le Monde, 5404 Dudley Blvd, McClellan Park, 7-9am, info:cole or Matt RUNS ALL YEAR! Placerville every Monday, Hot Rod & Cool Bike Cruise, 38 Main St., 4:30 - dusk, every 2nd & 4th Monday of each month, weather permitting. Folsom Cruise In Raley s Center, 705 E. Bidwell, 5-9 PM, info: Every Wednesday of each month, starts April 17th with no end in sight. Folsom, Red Robin Cruise Night, 1011 Riley St., 5-9 PM, pre 73 vehicles, music, awards, raffle, info: Every Wednesday Trivia Answer : 1960 Ford Falcon Ranchero 8