JUNE 2015 YOUR CLUB OFFICERS PRESIDENT Mark Strango 699-3878 THE ROUTE 66 CAR CLUB IS A QUALIFIED 501 (3) CHARITY MEETINGS General Membership Wednesday July 8 2015 at 7 PM, Sizzler Restaurant - East Route 66. VICE PRESIDENT Mike Ebersole 699-8757 TREASURER Kathy Strango 607-9115 SECRETARY Alana Velez 853-6629 MEMBERSHIP Kathy McKee 853-0912 MEMBERSHIP LADIES LUNCHEON Planning & Executive Board Meeting TBD Membership dues of only $35 are requested for 2015. Mail In address: Route 66 Car Club of Flagstaff, PO Box 30066, Flagstaff, AZ 86003. As of June 10, 61 members have re-joined. 12:00, Tuesday, June 16, at Monsoon Restaurant located on Aspen at the Heritage Square in downtown Flagstaff.. NEWSLETTER EDITOR Jon Wiedenheft 818-693-3307 HISTORIAN Sean Evans 699-5872 CRUISE COMMITTEE The Route 66 Car Club Cruise Committee Co- Chairpersons are Sallie Page, Kathy Perkins and Pat Wiebe. Please submit your suggestions BOARD OF DIRECTORS Steve Haws ( Website Editor) 351-7177 Maggie Bortree 607-6792 Robert Penaker 527-6844 Jim Velez 699-1400 Pat Wiebe 779-2236 FRIDAY EVENINGS WEB-SITE EDITOR S NOTE Club members have been gathering at the Crown Rail road Café on Route 66, just west of the Museum Club. Starts about 5:30 PM Check out our Web-Site for the latest club news and event updates: www.route66carclub.com Share your classic car history with the club. The Courier will try to carry a Garage Tales story each month, but we need your stories. Please submit your story to route66carclub@gmail.com.
June 13 Sat ROUTE 66 COURIER CLUB EVENTS Riordan Days of Summer Car Display - 9:00 AM PAGE 2 June 19 Fri July 4 Sat Friday Night Cruise to Zeke s Prescott Valley (Old Walmart Shopping Ctr), Leave ADOT 3:30 PM in afternoon 4th of July Parade Flagstaff, Parks Details to follow July 11 Sat Gunslinger Car Show Holbrook,leave Country Club Mobil 6:30 AM July 19 Sun Route 66 Car Club Picnic Fort Tuthill Ramada 12:00 PM Aug 8 Sat Cool Country Cruise In Williams 7:00 AM @ ADOT Aug 22 Sat Thunder over Flagstaff Air/Car Display Pulliam Airport This replaces the Valle car/plane show which has been discontinued. See Flyer page 10. We understand that Jeff Bryan was a BIG HIT at the May 16th Flagstaff Cruisers Car Show held at the China Star/ Diamond Auto Glass parking lot. It seems that Jeff s 1939 Ford won not only Best Paint and Best Interior, and also Best In Show! Way to Go Jeff!! 2015 EVENT s of INTEREST (not Club Sponsored) DATE DAY EVENT LOCATION 6/25 Thurs Great Race Runs Thru Flagstaff Ck in on Aspen @ 4:30 They will lunch in Winslow 12:15 prior to driving to Flagstaff 7/5 Sun Babbitts Classic Car Ford Display Babbitt Ford on 66 7/26 Sun Farmer s Market Car Show Farmer s Mrkt on 4th St. 8/12 Sat Walnut Creek NM Display Walnut Creek Nat l Mon.
ROUTE 66 COURIER PAGE 3 OUR 2014 SPONSORS Without their help we wouldn t have a show! Findlay Flagstaff Toyota Scion Jax Wax of Arizona Leading Edge Auto Paint Peabody Investments Corp Peace Surplus, Inc Snap On Tools-Vance Naaktgeborn Terry Marxen Chevrolet Cadillac MAY LADIES LUNCHEON By Kathy McKee Here is a picture from our May Ladies Luncheon where we celebrated Helga Dinwiddies s birthday at the Oakmont Restaurant-it used to be called Jakes on the Green. About half way through her meal, Sallie Page noticed an unwanted visitor in her salad, waving his little, green legs at her! The manager came out and apologized to her and gave her a huge, hot cookie (with ice cream) in a cast iron skillet to try to make up for her obvious discomfort! We all enjoyed sharing it with her, especially several of the ladies who decided that they didn t feel like eating the rest of their salads either. Those who attended were: Maggie Bortree, Mona Keksis, Helga Dinwiddie, Kathy McKee, Jann Blankenship, Ann Miller, Sallie Page, Candy Howard, Jackie Clark, Alana Velez and Shirley Rohr. 4R Holdings All Awards Armour Self Storage Babbitt Ford Baskin Robbins Big O Tires Burger King Cinder Hills Boarding Kennel Coconino Auto Supply Coconino County Courtyard by Marriott Express Yourself Signs, LLC Golightly Tire Graceland Portable Buildings Interiors Plus Ken s Import Service Mama Burger Mountain High Plumbing Muffler Magic Napa Auto Parts Niles Radio O Reilly Auto Parts Stage Left Deli TSB Undercar Specialist Transmission Man June Birthdays 6/2 Ed Wiebe 6/2 Juergen Burmeister 6/7 Andy Keksis 6/8 Alexandra Bakovych 6/9 Sallie Page 6/13 Melinda Auten 6/17 Ken Mannila 6/19 Claudia Haden 6/30 Michael Hernandez July Anniversaries 7/3 James & Judith Lukas 7/? Joe & Pat Policastro MEMORABLE EVENTS June Anniversaries July Birthdays 6/1 Kelly & Suzanne Krietsch/ Daiss 6/6 John & Bonnie Zink 6/12 Bob & Maggie Bortree 6/19 John & Cheryl Ossenfort 6/24 Ron & Ruth Fisher 7/4 Dale Auten 7/21 Kennedy Torel 7/23 Edith Ball 7/30 Mike Whittaker 7/31 Ron Dinwiddie 7/31 Debbie Castleberry
PAGE 4 OH! WHAT FUN THE FUN RUN WAS Either as participants or just well wishers, a number of Club members enjoyed the launching of the ROUTE 66 FUN RUN which started in Seligman on May 2 and finished the following day at the Colorado River. And here is some Breaking News...Not one but TWO club members won awards at the finish line. Juergen Burmeister took the Best German Car award with his BMW while Joe Policastro took the Best English Car Award with his 1952 MG TD. (Too bad we don t have any French Citreon owners in the club.) 825 cars actually participated in this years Fun Run. Lots of Corvettes and Mustangs of course, but tons of special interest cars (and bikes), too many to photograph for this story. Now, about those rewards, Joe Policastro reigned supreme in the British car arena with his red 52 MG TD. Juergen Burmeister took the Best German Car award, but as he had already taken off for home when the prizes were given, he enlisted Sean Evans to pick up his plaque, however Sean was not going to be able to assist, so the Canadians graciously accepted the task and took possession of it. Later Sean received in the mail a well packaged trophy, along with an application to the Canadian Car Club for Juergen to fill out! Sean presented the trophy to Juergen at our May meeting. Here s Vern Phannenstiel, Sean Evans and Juergen Burmeister waiting for the send off in Seligman. Note Sean & Juergen s appropriate Route 66 themed shirts. Check this one out; a GMC El Camino, complete with the original swivel seats and two tone paint. No, your eyes are not failing.that is a mini car posing as a Mercury. You should have seen the gyratics it took for the driver to get in. Not sure if he ever got out.
ROUTE 66 COURIER PAGE 5 More Fun Run shots, just to provide a glimpse of the variety of participants. Yup, there goes Randy
PAGE 6 FUN RUN FOLLOW UP On the way home from seeing off the participants of the Fun Run in Seligman, Paul Wilk and Jon Wiedenheft came upon this stranded bronze colored Mustang on the side of Highway 40, a few miles west of Flagstaff. As the passenger door of the Mustang was open, and the hood not up, Paul and Jon were thinking the worse. Suddenly a head popped up from the Ford and yes, it was Sallie Page. Apparently she heard a loud pop under the hood and decided to pull over to the side of the road. A puddle of green fluid under the car and a hole in the top of the air conditioner the size of a half dollar confirmed that something evil had happened. She had called for a tow truck an hour before and expected it in 20 minutes. The hole So Paul and Jon waited with Sallie for awhile, when Ken and Candy Miller stopped to help out. Meanwhile Sallie got on her phone and was assured that the tow truck would be there in about 20 minutes. Well, needless to say the group had a very nice visit for over two hours when finally a tow truck pulled up. The driver was actually on his day off and called in to support an overly active Saturday. He was nice enough that he took their picture..so they could remember this special outing. Random thoughts as I age As submitted by Kennedy Torel for our amusement Wouldn't it be great if we could put ourselves in the dryer for ten minutes; come out wrinkle-free and three sizes smaller! Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven't met yet! I don't trip over things, I do random gravity checks! I don't need anger management. I need people to stop pissing me off! Old age is coming at a really bad time! When I was a child I thought Nap Time was a punishment... now, as a grown up, it just feels like a small vacation! The biggest lie I tell myself is, "I don't need to write that down, I'll remember it." Lord grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can & the friends to post my bail when I finally snap! I don't have gray hair. I have "wisdom highlights". I'm just very wise. My people skills are just fine. It's my tolerance to idiots that needs work.
PAGE 7 SAM S CLUB CHARITY CAR SHOW With dark gray rain clouds threatening, the Route 66 Car Club still provided an excellent showing with 14 cars Saturday May 23 in the Sam s Club parking lot. And two trophies were won by club members. Mike and Marva Hernandez blue Ford pick-up truck took 3rd Best in Show while Jeff Bryan s 39 Ford took Best Interior.
PAGE 8 SAM S CLUB (Con t) Randy Travis posted this Memorial for Dick Gordon on the rear window of his new Nova Eric Sommers displayed not one but two cars (ctr & right) Jeff Bryan receiving his Best Interior Award Congratulations to Jeff & Mike Mike Hernandez was awarded 3rd Place Best in Show Discover Route 66 Archives! In collaboration between the National Park Service sroute 66 Corridor Preservation Program and cultural institutions across the Route 66 states, the following website has been put on line. www.ncptt.nps.gov/rt66archive Here you will find the history of Route 66 with postcards, photographs, maps, oral histories, government documents and more.
PAGE 9 SEDONA COFFEE POT RESTAURANT AND CRUISE TO JEROME The run was from ADOT down the 89 to Sedona on May 16 where a awesome breakfast was had at the Sedona Coffee Pot Restaurant. Afterwards a number of club members ventured down to Jerome to the Museum where they had a very enjoyable and informative time. Cruise members were Pat & Ed Wiebe, Ron & Helga Dinwiddie, Candy Howard, Bob & Maggie Bortree, Randy Travis, Cecil & Lela Gary, Mike & Marva Hernandez, Doug & Judy Bischoff and grand daughter, and Jon Wiedenheft.
PAGE 10 WHERE DID THIS EMBLEM COME FROM? By Bob Bortree I was not aware of the history behind our club emblem until recently. I asked questions and realized that the thought behind the design of our emblem would be of interest to our members. The official emblem for the club had previously been the standard Route 66 insignia with Car Club written across it. Around 1990-1991, our club became aware that a Route 66 Car Club in the Chicago area was using a similar emblem. A committee ( Kaye Roper, Dick Weaver, Gail Tever and Ken Starr ) was assembled and they designed the current emblem that we have today. Ken Starr worked in a Graphics business and, according to Dick Weaver, also designed the current National Street Rod Association emblem. Thoughts behind the design of the new emblem were: Copper Turquoise White Route 66 Red Arizona emblem with state color copper. Represents the stone prevalent in Northern Arizona the light Aqua color that surrounds the state of Arizona in the emblem. Standard Route 66 emblem. Defined Route 66 with stops from the Eagles song. Just a reminder...get those antique planes and classic cars ready for this big show which replaces the Valle Thunder over Coconino show. Last Page