Officers President
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Bob Klingensmith 607-761-0897 Co Vice President
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Joe Vaglica 607-760-9200 Secretary Rich McConnell 607-785-3590 Treasurer Charlie Kuhlman 607-754-6861 Historian Matt Vaglica 607-760-3991
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Howard Seymour
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Our April meeting will be held at the Tioga County Office Building in the Conference Room The date is April 15, 2013 at 7:00 PM. Several new ideas have been suggested for club activities this summer. Most of these ideas comprise less than one day tour.
We will also have a good idea as to the success of our Winter Flea Market. As of right now it appears that we had a huge success but the final figures have not been completed.
need to know who will be making the trip and if we need more or less rooms for this trip by the April meeting. The motel people tell us that May is their busy time of the year so Cheryl has made res- the availability of ervations at Microtel rooms is limited. Our early response will for eight rooms for guarantee rooms for our upcoming tour those who are going. to Rochester. We
Publicist Danel Vaglica 607-760-3991
Spring is Here Spring is here, it’s time to start thinking about getting the fun car out of it’s winter rest. Is the Registra-
tion current? What about the inspection? When was the last time you changed the oil? Are the tires still
safe? Summer Fun is just a few nights sleep away. See you at the first tour!
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Presenting the $400.00 check to Kaye Hartwell, Office Manager of the Owego Boys & Girls Club
March Meeting Our March meeting was sabotaged by “Mother Nature” but there were still eight members who made it in. Rich was feeling under the weather, so there will be no secretary's report this month.
Presenting the $100.00 check to Sister Mary O’Brien, Director of Tioga Rural Ministries
Because there was some left over baked goods from the flea market, Emily brought in the goodies and Joe stopped by Dunkin’ Donuts for a Box O’ Joe. The treasurer’s report was read and approved, then we agreed after a brief discussion to make three donations to Tioga County charities. Four Hundred Dollars was given to the Owego Boys and Girls club. The club is in need of a new roof and the uniforms are need-
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ing to be replaced. One hundred dollars was awarded to Tioga Rural Ministries., and another hundred went to Tioga Opportunities.
man for this car show.
Newark Valley Historic Society is interested in starting a monthly cruise in the first Saturday of After a review of our the month beginpast car show sound ning Saturday June system limits it was 1,2013. There will decided that we be Ice Cream, car should try another related videos, approach. Brett tours of the railworks with a memroad depot, and ber of a band called also a tour of the “Heritage” who play caboose that is on 50”S through 80”s permanent display. music. They also have This is not a cruise their own sound in that is limited to equipment and will just our membermake needed anship but open to all nouncements interested parties. throughout the enMark your calentire show for just dars also for the one hundred dollars Newark Valley pamore than we were rade on August 10, paying for just a DJ. 2013 starting at We agreed to bring 11:00AM. this group in to replace our old sound
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Old Car Trivia 1. in 1949 how many Volkswagen Beetles were sold in the USA? 2.What was the first official White House Car? 3.Who opened the first drive-in gas station?
rent dynamo? 9. What was the first car fitted with a replaceable oil filter? 10. What was the first car to be offered with a “Perpetual Guarantee”?
4. What city was the first to use parking meters?
11. What American luxury automaker began by making cages for birds and 5. Where was the first drive-in restau- squirrels? rant? 12. What car first 6. True or false, The referred to itself as a convertible? 1953 Corvette came in white, red, and black. 7. What was Ford’s answer to the Chevy Corvette and other legal street racers of the 1960’s?
13. What car was the first to have it’s radio antenna embedded in the windshield? 14. What car used the first successful series-production hydraulic valve lifters?
8. What was the first car fitted with an alternator, rather 15. Where was the than a direct curWorld’s first three
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colored traffic lights installed? 16. What type of car had the distinction of being GM’s 100 millionth car built in the U.S.? 17. Where was the first drive-in movie theater opened , and when? 18. What autos were the first to use a standardized production keystart system? 19. What did the Olds designation 44-2 stand for? 20. What car was the first to place the horn button in the center of the steering wheel? 21. What U.S. production car has the quickest 0-60 mph time? Answers page 7.
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Rochester Tour Shaping Up The tour to Rochester has begun to take shape. We have found three new friends from the Genesee Region who not only are helping us to have a great tour, but also are planning to come to the southern Tier for a tour of their own. Our tour will be on May 18th and 19th with us meeting at the Newark Valley Railroad Depot Museum at 7:00 AM. There will be a stop for fuel or other necessities along the way, and we will be at the transfer point for busses to the Lilac Festival about 10:00AM. We will return to our cars about 11:45 to travel to Cornerstone restaurant in Fairport,
N.Y. We have reservations at Eastman House at 2:30 PM for the tour of the house and grounds. This will be an exclusive tour for our members, there will be no other persons with our group. If we have more than 25 in our group, they will split us into two groups with guides for each. Our overnight accommodations will be at the Microtel motel in Victor, N.Y. Sunday morning we will go to Pat Thorpe’s home where we will see his collection of about 25 cars and trucks. Two of the trucks are fire trucks that have been totally restored one a hook and ladder, the other the last fire truck manufactured and sold to non military companies at the start of
world war 2. Both came from the same fire department After lunch we will go to the Bob Malley collection in Penfield N.Y. where we are invited to ride on a 1949 Flexible Bus that Bob has meticulously restored. This bus was used for the 2010 AACA Eastern Spring Meet in Canandaigua, N.Y. to transport the then President of AACA to the show from the airport.. Cheryl and I still have some scouting to do for restaurants that we will use for our meals on the tour. We will have those results ready for our April meeting. We would love to see this as the largest tour we have created.You will make this event the best. JOIN US!!!!!
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Trivia Answers 1. In 1949 Volkswagen sold 2 Beetles.
they closed in 1911.
2. In 1909 a White Steamer ordered by President Taft
11. The George N. Pierce Co. of Buffalo made the cages as well as iceboxes.
3. Gulf opened the first station in Pittsburg in 1913
12. The Thomas Flyer had a removable top.
4. The first parking meters were installed on July 16, 1935 in Oklahoma City. 5. Royse Hailey’s Pig Stand opened in Dallas in 1921 6. The 1963 Corvette was only available in Polo White. 7. Ford’s answer, Carroll Shelby’s Mustang GT 350 8. The 1960 Plymouth Valiant had the first alternator. 9. The 1924 Chrysler had the first replaceable oil filter. 10. In 1904 Acme from Reading, Pa offered a perpetual guarantee,
13. The 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix had the first windshield imbedded radio antenna. 14. The 1930 Cadillac 452 was equipped with the first V16 which also had hydraulic valve lifters. 15. In 1919 Detroit, Mich. Installed the first three color traffic lights, three years later they experimented with synchronized lights. 16. The 100 Millionth car manufactured by GM was an Olds Tornado rolled out on March 16, 1966. 17. The first drive in
movie opened in Camden, N.J. in 1933 18. The first standardized production key start system was installed in the 1949 Chryslers. 19. Oldsmobile’s 442 indicated 4 barrel carburetor, 4 speed transmission, and duel exhaust. 20. In 1915 the ScrippsBooth model C placed the horn button in the center of the steering wheel, the car was also the first car with electric door latches. 21. The 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS 409 did 060 in 4.0 seconds. Thanks to Howard Seymour for the information about these trivia bits.
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A New Outing Although there were few members present at our March meeting, several ideas for outings were suggested. It was decided to implement the first of these suggestions on April 20, 2013.
to Humdinger Ice Cream for our desert. This will be the first “Tioga Region Night Out”
Other trips will be planned once each month of the summer. Suggested outings included a trip to the A&W in We will meet at Cortland, and the Sonic Restaurant first Saturday of on Upper Front each month breakStreet in Binghamfast at the Moose ton in our collector Lodge in Owego. cars. When the club We also don’t want have all been to forget the tradiserved their choice tional round of Golf of 1950’s treats, we at Route 96 Mini will then proceed Golf with the ac-
companying soft Ice Cream across the road! We will be filling you in about the times and locations for these nights out as soon as we know the locations. If you would like to suggest your favorite destination for one of these outings, just let one of your officers know and we will include it in our plans. Lets have some summer fun!!!!
Strawberry Festival Parade June 15, 2013 is the date for the Strawberry Festival Parade, and although we have not as yet received informa-
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tion or registration information, we plan to once again be a large portion of this event. There is always a
little delay in the paperwork for this parade, but we always fit in in the end.
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License Plates 1893– France became the first country to issue “Number Plates” to vehicles 1901-New York mandated license plates for vehicles,
but car owners were expected to produce their own until 1909. These early plates were usually leather pads or felt metal plates with at-
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License Plates 1903-Massachusetts became the first state to provide state issued license plates. The very first, featuring the number “1”, was issued to Frederick Tudor. (One of his relatives still holds an active registration on this plate.) 1906 West Virginia and Pennsylvania produced the first stamped metal license plate. 1921-Although Alaska was not yet a state and had few roads, it’s territorial government produced a license plate now considered the Holy Grail of historic plates by hobbyists and collectors. In 2000, a reported $60,000 was paid for one of the few surviving examples of a genuine 1921 Alaska license plate. 1928– Idaho license plates appeared with the words “Idaho Potatoes,” now regarded as the first license plate slogan in America. 1931– Pennsylvania became the first state to issue customized license plates, which were limited to a driver’s initials. 1936- the iconic “Bucking Bronco”, still in use today, first appeared on a Wyoming license plate. 1944 The metal shortage caused by WW2 forced states to use alternative materials for plates, Namely embossed fiberboard, cardboard, and soybean-based plastic.
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