Scuttlebutt WWW.SOONERMODELA.ORG Happy Birthday America Model A Friends We had a good turnout for the two 4 th of July parades this year (Bethany and Edmond). Several of our members also attended the picnic at the Powell s home with the Heartland A s. We appreciate them inviting us the past few years to share in their celebration picnic. It is a great place to cool off, have a good lunch and visit with friends. The Tulsa Model A Club has announced the Fall Tour will be in the Hugo, OK area the weekend of October 27, 28 and 29. The hotel information is on the Activities page of this newsletter. It is best to get your reservations early as the rooms do go fast. The room rate is only $79/ night. We always have a great time at the Fall and Spring Tours. If you have never attended, it is a great time to get to know the club members better and have great food and fun. Sign up now before the rooms are gone at this rate. We also had a good attendance at our third Steering Committee Meeting for the 2017 MAFCA National Awards Banquet. Please continue to contact business for raffle items. If you have questions about raffle items, Don and Marilyn Mitchell and chairing the raffle and would be glad to talk with you. Registration forms and hotel reservations may also be made at this time on our website, MAFCA website or directly with the hotel. We will be having our ice cream social at the July meeting and we are a little short of volunteers to bring ice cream and desserts. If you were not at the June meeting to sign up, you may contact Sheryl Hoyle or just bring ice cream or desserts to share. Come to our July meeting and enjoy. See you there. VaughnCille Weidner - 2017 President Tamara Brooks sent me a news bit this A.M. and confirmed my earlier report. The whole family left O.C. June 19 and drove the Cabriolet to Dubuque to the Tri-State Antique Auto Show, where the Cabriolet took third and Tamara won a third place trophy in the fashion show. They went on to Milwaukee and stayed with friends in the Mil. club drove home via Chicago in the Cabriolet all the way. Lots of fun!!!!! The Best of Show was won by Robert Schnieder of Tulsa our sister city, so we are close. From Scuttlebutt, June-July 1968 Volume 50, Issue 7 July Meeting Tuesday, July 18 7:00 pm Will Rogers Garden Center 3400 N W 36th St Oklahoma City 2017 Officers & Committees President VaughnCille Weidner 405-470-4789 VP...Sheryl Hoyle 405--830-8439 Secretary Michael Downes 405-919-4552 Treasurer Phil Wolfenbarger 405-210-5198 Editor Jim Yates 405-341 6539 Directors: Bill Harris 405-6308546 Will Langford 405-812-8131 Committees: Refreshments...Greg Hoyle Membership Steve Talley Activities Sheryl Hoyle Sunshine.. Kaye Sage Demonstrations Bob Bordwine Name Tags.. Merchandise..Don & Marilyn Mitchell
Page 2 Scuttlebutt 2017 ACTIVITIES AT A GLANCE (Subject to Change) *Maps available on soonermodela.org website. See Calendar Let the good times roll in your Model A July 4 7:30 AM Prestaging, Liberty Fest Parade, Edmond 4 8:45 AM Liberty Fest Parade begins. 4 8:00 AM Breakfast Braum s, 6821 NW 23rd, Bethany, OK. West of MacArthur 4 9:00 AM Centennial Freedom Festival Parade LINE-UP! Bethany, OK, NW 41st & Mueller. 4 10:00 AM Centennial Freedom Festival - PARADE STARTS! Bethany, 4 11:30 AM Lunch with the Heartland Model T Club at the home of David & Te resa Powell, 7801 NW 38th Street, Bethany, OK 405/789-5455BBQ and drinks will be provided by Sooner & Heartland T clubs. **Please bring your favorite side dish or desert. **Bring Lawn Chairs. **Inside dining available for those who need to cool off. 18 7:00 PM Club Meeting and Ice Cream Social, Will Rogers Garden Center, 3400 N W 36th St., OKC 29 Brake Machine Demo, Harris Garage, 6718 NW 50 th Bethany, time TBA. 29 Ladies Luncheon, time and place TBA August 1 6:30 PM Board Meeting, 6718 NW 50 th Bethany 15 7:00 PM Club Meeting - Will Rogers Garden Center, 3400 N W 36th St., OKC 26 Club Activity TBA September 5 6:30 PM Board Meeting, 6718 NW 50 th Bethany 19 7:00 PM Club Meeting - Will Rogers Garden Center, 3400 N W 36th St., OKC 30 Club Activity TBA Tiny Tips: Wheel Balancing. When balancing the tires on 1928-1929 type wheels, I used a strip type weight that is now used on the new mag or aluminum wheels. This weight comes by the roll and has a pressure sensitive backing and is marked in half-ounce segment. We removed the hub caps and used a modern tire balancing machine, stuck the weights on the inside of the wheel and painted the weights the same color as the wheel. I don t get any out-ofbalance sensation and have driven as fast as 70 miles per hour. Submitted by Dale Gale, Claremont, California
Volume 50, Issue 7 Page 3 2017 Regional and National Tours September 24-29, 2017 MAFCA National Tour, Paso Robles, CA Nov 29-Dec 2, 2017 MAFCA National Awards Banquet, Oklahoma City July 28-30 August 18-20 Swap Meets Hill Country Swap Meet, Lady Bird Johnson Municipal Park, Highway 16 South, Fredericksburg, TX. Ozark Antique Auto Club, Ozark Empire Fairgrounds, For Sale! A 1931 rolling Chassis rebuild engine. Call Jerry Sloan 918-245-5558 Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford For Sale! 1929 Rumble seat coupe (tan). New engine (Herman Cambell) Signal lights, rebuilt carb, distributor, water pump, starter. New tires and tubes, new clutch, pressure plate and throw-out bearing. A1 condition, $14,000. Jack Ogle 613-8030 For Sale! I am selling Antique Automobile Parts of all kinds, makes & models on ebay. My Seller Name is TPIBoxman. I will have about sixty items for sale and new items will be listed weekly. Thank you, Gary Clonts. For Sale! Solid restorable 1931 Tudor. It runs and drives. The interior is decent. There is some rust, but would be easy restoration. $10,000. Call David Miles 405 639 7940 For Sale! 1929 Roadster Pickup. It is disassembled. Call Dan Marsh for details. 405-392-3688 Ju- 3 Ed & Diane Foust 3 Daniel & Janet Marsh 3 Rocky & Mary Jane Simmons 10 Chuck & Lisa Ramsey 24 Mike & Debi McClendon 24 Steven & Linda Shaw 29 Scott & Sheri Waugh 31 Nolan & Pat Morgan SHOP WITH OUR ADVERTISERS ly July 2 Rusty Swain 2 Laurie Morris 4 Tom Marcotte 7 Diane Foust 8 Linda Angie 12 Darla Blackwell 12 Connie Hudson 14 Rocky Simmons 22 Jerry Conrad SHOP WITH OUR ADVERTISERS
Page 4 "Tour to Hugo October 27-29, 2017 This year s Fall Tour is taking us down to the southeast corner of Oklahoma to the town of Hugo. Hugo has a history in lumber and as a railroad town but is know still today as a town where traveling circuses winter. For years, various circuses would travel around America with their huge tents offering shows of animals, acrobats and clowns plus much, much more. The people of Hugo really made the circus people feel at home and several circuses established roots in Hugo during the non-traveling winter months. Scuttlebutt but hotel reservations can now be made. Refer to attached information sheet for details. Ken and Tory Brust and Kent and Jeanne Washburn are the tour leaders. Call Hiway Inn Express, to reserve Friday and Saturday nights, discount rate of $60+tax/ night, 1-580-326-5100. Mention that you are with Tulsa Model A Ford Club. Tentative Agenda Meet Tulsa club at Pete s in Krebs for lunch Friday. Check into hotel Dinner and entertainment TBA. In 1993, one circus established the Endangered Ark Foundation as a home for some of the older elephants. We will visit on Saturday morning this Endangered Ark Foundation which offers a retirement home to the second largest herd of Asian elephants in North America. We will experience elephants in a very intimate and close up environment while the staff delivers an interactive educational presentation. Further details will be provided on our Hugo Fall Tour itinerary as more info is available, Saturday tour elephant sanctuary from 10am - 12:30pm ($20) Afternoon tours TBA Dinner and entertainment TBA. Sunday Depart for home Possible tour of Packard collection Lunch in Wilburton July Refreshments Ice Cream Social SUNSHINE COMMITTEE Rusty Swain is recovering from a fall. George Sarinopoulos has been under the weather. Will and Vicki Langford had a death in the family. Will and Vicki s grandson, Hunter Butler, has been under the weather. Let Kaye Sage know if you are aware of a member who is ill. We would like to send a card and let them know we are missing them.
Volume 50, Issue 7 Page 5 Omaha Regional 2017 Jim and Vicky Yates At about 9:00 AM Sunday June 4, Vicky and I set sail on our adventure to Omaha Nebraska for the 2017 Nebraska Regional Meet. We had hoped to convoy with other Sooner members but circumstances forced the other members to cancel their Model A drive. The Tallys attended, but drove a modern car because of engine trouble with the A. So Vicky and I were on our own. We left our home in south Logan county and drove through Guthrie on highway 77. We continued on north through Mulhall, Orlando, Perry, Tonkawa and Blackwell. The temperature was in the low seventies with intermittent rain showers. It was quite comfortable. Vicky just about died laughing every time I turned on the vacuum wiper. It would wipe vigorously going down the hills and stop while going up the hills. In Kansas we went through Arkansas City, Winfield and El Dorado. We had lunch at Braum s in El Dorado. Five miles east of Eldorado we turned onto 177 to drive through the famous Flint Hills. The Flint Hills are scenic and the road is curvy, unlike most Kansas roads. We drove through a heavy shower near Strong City. We had to close the windshield to keep our feet dry, but it didn t last long. We bounced up and down on the brick streets in Council Grove, turned right on 56 to 75 and found a room at a Day s Inn in Topeka. We were tired, but it was a pleasant drive. The next day s drive to Omaha was quite a bit warmer with temps in the high 80 s. We drove up to our hotel, a Red Lion Inn, at about 2:00 PM with 494 miles on the speedometer. The Meadowlark Model A Club did a great job. The regional was well organized with interesting tours and great buffets with charming entertainment. The main tours were to the Strategic Air Command (SAC) Museum, Boys Town, Lincoln Highway, Omaha Zoo, and the Claas tractor factory. We were given a booklet that described the tours including detailed maps and driving directions both to and from the attractions. Also included in the booklet were tours to secondary attractions like the Union Pacific Museum in Council Bluffs Iowa. We went to all the featured tours except the zoo. We went to the Union Pacific Museum with the Tallys and the Brusts. We had one glitch. The first tour was Tuesday 6th to the Strategic Air Command museum. Our car wouldn t start for the first tour to the SAC Museum, but we able to hitch a ride with Ken and Fran Coleman from Iowa. Later figured out the cause was operator error. I wasn t turning on the Pop-Out switch correctly. The Okie contingent from our Sooner Club and our friends in the Tulsa Club had a good showing at the regional. Ralph and Connie Hudson won first and second place in the Hubley races. The Tallys won recognition in the car games. Best of all, Chuck and Lisa Ramsey took Peoples Choice with their AA Express Truck. The ride back home was not nearly as pleasant since we had 25 40 mph southerly winds and temperatures in the mid 90 s. We arrived home after 494 miles and were pleased that our A performed so well.
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Volume 50, Issue 7 Omaha Regional in Pictures Page 7 SOONER MODEL A CLUB P.O. BOX 83148 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73148 The SOONER MODEL A CLUB is a non-profit organization affiliated with the Model A Ford Club of America. All correspondence for the club should be sent to the address above. General Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of the months of January thru November. Meetings commence at 7:00 p.m. and are held at Will Rogers Garden Center at 3400 N.W. 36th in Okla. City. All members are welcome to attend the club s Board Meetings, which are held on the first Tuesday of each month at a location designated by the President and advertised in the Scuttlebutt. Membership dues are $20.00 per year. The primary requirement for membership shall be an interest in the objectives of the organization and a desire to participate in its activities. Actual possession of a Model A Ford is not a necessity. A member must be of good character as to be of benefit to the club, its functions and activities. An active member must be a member of the Model A Ford Club of America.
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