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1 RUMBLER CONTENTS 19 JAMESTOWN 47 GHOSTS OF N.DAK LOOKING TOWARDS CLASSIC CAR CLUB Sanish North Dakota 2 THE FUTURE 20 NEW CAR REVIEW Club President "Skovy" 2015 Ford Mustang CLUB APPLICATION CLASSIC CAR 2 BIRTHDAYS (Jan) 21 3 ACTIVE MEMBERS SUMMARY 1978 Datsun 510 3 AWARDS BANQUET Wagon 4 DICK LANDY RARE FINDS 6 RUMBLER MINISTRY 23 1969 Chevy Scott W. Block Camaro Z/28 BRIAN KAMLITZ CLASSIC CAR 25 8 Dual Carburetors, SUMMARY Drag Slicks & Race 1946 Ford Custom Gas LOST DREAMS 9 FORD MUSCLE CARS 27 Mysteries of the 1971 Ford Torino missing GM Last of the Breed MOTORAMA Cars 11 DEVILS RUN CLASSIC CAR 31 12 AROUND MILL HILL SUMMARY Dinner: S&R Truck 1959 Chevy Impala Plaza 34 ENOUGH TO MAKE A 13 Show: Unbroken GROWN MAN CRY A BREED APART CLASSIC CAR 36 14 1971 Hemi Road SUMMARY 1953 Cadillac Runner 'Elegante' 17 JAMESTOWN ELKS 38 1949-'52 CHEVYS TIME WARP Gaining in collectability 18 1969 Chevy 42 Upcoming Events Nova SS L78 46 SWAP SHOP P a g e | 2 LOOKING TOWARDS Bronc” motor scooter. Hope you THE FUTURE have fun with it Jamie. Story & Photos by Skovy At the meeting on January 14th, we will be issuing Pastor Scott Block a check for reimbursement of a bullet proof vest. He is the Crisis Pastor in the Jamestown area and was expected to pay for the vest with his own money. At the Awards Banquet it was put to a vote and agreed that we pay for that. Scott is a great friend and as MEMBERS BIRTHDAYS you know writes an article for the What a wonderful start to a new “RUMBLER” each month. Keep Ann Marie Houge 01/01 year. Where in knowing that in a up the good work Scott and keep Martha Tracy 01/02 short 3 to 4 months our cars will safe. Kathy Anderson 01/07 emerge from the safety of the Della Dewald 01/07 warehouses and garages around Verdell (Jake) Jacobson 01/07 North Dakota to bath in the Viril Layton 01/10 splendor of the spring sunlight. Laura Williams 01/13 Candace Gums 01/14 Yuk! Where did that come from? Richard VanFleet 01/16 Realizations amiss, we know that Ruth Johnston 01/19 in this part of winter we are Cliff Calheim 01/24 collecting parts and getting ready Brian Kamlitz 01/24 for the spring to come to install Emmy Swedlund 01/24 all those new and shiny parts Kevin Thoele 01/25 onto our cool rides. Allen Huber 01/30 Stan Orness 01/30 2014 was a fantastic year for the James Valley Street Machines. Miss your birthday? Please We introduced new fun stuff for Around Mill Hill reappears in the contact me at 701-202-7067 members to do. The Dakota “RUMBLER” after a few month whereas I can update your Blacktop Tour was a complete hiatus. It comes with an records. success. I’ve heard rumors there additional twist though. Along will be over 40 cars participating with dinner evaluations, Around in our 2015 Dakota Blacktop Mill Hill will also rate current Tour when we invade South movies playing at the Bison 6 Dakota and have a blast with our Cinema. Thank you Lyman & neighbors to the south. Cory for this cool idea. Read of our discovery in the Our awards banquet was the best “RUMBLER”. Thank you all and ever! Over 100 people were in have a prosperous 2016! attendance and our fund raising auction brought in enough money Want to get on the “RUMBLER” to pay for all our 2014 email list? “RUMBLER” issues adventures. Thank you for all. to date … 9629! Jamie Meidinger won the “Bustin [email protected] P a g e | 3 Houge, Jason & Ann Marie Seher, Jeff Huber, Al & Sue Specht, Gary & Margaret Jacobson, Verdell (Jake) & Linda Specht, Leslie & Debra Jangula, Duane Speckman, Dale & Pamela Jaskoviak, Steven (Skovy) Stromberg, Bryan Jensen, Paul & Sue Swedlund, Troy & Emmy Johnson, Brandon & Sonia Thoele, Kevin & Kim Kamlitz, Brian Thomas, Troy & Tricia Karn, Dale & Sue Titman, Nick Keim, Lyman & Darlene Tracy, Dean & Martha Kessler, Michael & Mary VanFleet, Richard Kleinknecht, Delno & Phyllis Vining, Taylor ACTIVE MEMBERS Kolb, Dale & Nidia Wegenast, Colin & Toni Allmer, Michael Kummer, Jeffrey & Erin Westerhausen, Leon & Mary Jane Andersen, Jeff(Andy) & Karla Lade, Joshua Wiest, J.P. & Judy Anderson, Bruce & Kathy Lang, John (JR) Wilhelm, Jeff Anderson, Roger & Meleia Layton, Viril & Mary Wilhelm, Rod & Sandy Anderson, Scott & Kim Loose, Larry & Bonita Willman, Casey & Jessica Bachmeier, Donovan & Karla Lulay, Bob & Alma Wolf, Cameron Balvitsch, Wayne Lynn, Randy Wolff, Clayton & Beverly Behm, Earl & Connie Lynn, Tyler & Pauline Wonnenberg, Douglas & Robyn Bensch, Paul & Janis Martin, Randy & Patti Berg, Wayne & Tami Mathias, Roger & Bonnie 2014 AWARDS BANQUET Beyer, James McCreedy, Terrance Great Friends, Great Music, Block, Scott & Pat McCullough, Gary & Billie Great Gathering, And Great Brandenburger, Max & Williams, McIlonie, Bernie & Darlene Laura Organization. Meidinger, Jamie Briese, Lee & Penny Meyer, Ken & Annie Calheim, Clifford & Marla Photos by Candace Gums. Miller, Randy & Crystel Carow, Billy & Candace Mischka, Kenneth & Judy Thank you KC’s in Jamestown for the great Christianson, Glenn & Lucinda food and facility. Mittleider, Cody & Elaine Dewald, Joel & Della Mitzel, LeRoy Dodd, Jim & Mary Jo Moser, LeRoy & Gloria Emo, Paul Nelson, Troy & Lois Erdahl, Shawn (Shady) & Dawn Nenow, Roger & Lois Frank, Tracy Nogosek, Aaron & Amy Gaier, Craig & Johnston, Ruth Obrigewitsch, Les & Sheryl Gehring, Duane & Kathleen Olson, David & Adele Geisler, David Olson, Taylor Gibson, Teddy & Diane Orness, Stan & Sharon Gilbertson, Mike & Murray, Kim Patzner, Elroy & Elayne Gilge, Larry & Cindy Petrek, Gary Godfrey, Collin Poppe, Jerry & Ardie Gray, JeriLynn & Andy Ravely, Thomas & Rhonda Greenlund, Ron & Darlene Redinger, Dale Gums, Robert & Candace Rixen, Dennis Guthmiller, Neil & Linda Schauer, Ronald & Cindy Heiman, Tyler Seckerson, Kelly & Tricia Holzkamm, Al & Cindy P a g e | 4 DICK LANDY This Southern Californian put his stamp on drag racing. Story & Photos by Terry Shea (Hemmings Magazine) In this space, we've seen some accidental Hot Rod Heroes, the sort of industry men whose job running a car company allowed them to have a significant impact on the sport or on the cars they offered to the public, but hot rodding wasn't necessarily their life. Dick Landy was not one of those guys. From the time he was a teenager up until he died at age 69 in 2007, "Dandy" Dick Landy lived and breathed drag racing and high-performance engines. Square jawed; barrel chested and broad-shouldered like a linebacker, Landy was physically somewhat larger than life during P a g e | 5 a career that saw him compete in to come in 1965, Landy's 330 handicapping, and it instantly Stock, Super Stock, A/FX and have been referred to as the first became one of the most popular later Pro Stock. The Southern funny car, due to its awkward on the circuit. California-born Landy had his look. first experience drag racing in a loaned Ford pickup. He was 19 at the time, and, while the results of that first foray in the borrowed truck are lost to history, clearly it struck a chord within him. In the years following high school, he studied mechanical engineering and built high- As the Hemi's essentially performance marine engines. But With full Dodge sponsorship and dominated Pro Stock, pressure he continued to regularly visit the a Hemi under the hood, Landy from Ford and Chevy led the drag strip. While racing his continued to do well at the strip sanctioning body to alter the brother Mike's 1960 Ford, in Stock, Super Stock and A/FX rules, adding weight to the equipped with a 352-cu in Police classes throughout the late 1960s. Mopars and allowing wedge-head Interceptor engine, he caught the Landy's sponsorship arrangement Fords and Chevys more leeway attention of some local sponsors. with Dodge led to a special in the cars and engines they Soon after, Landy began a relationship that had him appear fielded. Once the rules favored relationship with Andy Andrews, at local Dodge dealerships to the blue oval and bowtie crowds, a Ford dealer from Van Nuys, conduct racing clinics face-to- increasingly frustrated Hemi California, who decided to back face with customers, much like teams began walking away. him. His success with Andrews the same arrangement Sox & Landy's was one of them, fed up landed him factory support from Martin had with Plymouth. that the rules were heavily Plymouth in 1962, and in 1964, Landy, an excellent businessman stacked against them. But Landy he switched to Dodge. who often competed in all-white kept racing, embracing the driving gear while wearing tennis AHRA and winning Pro Stock It was in 1964 that Landy, shoes, also sported the patches of titles in 1973 and 1974. driving one of the first factory his sponsors, which included the Eventually, Landy stepped away Hemi race cars, a Dodge 330, likes of Goodyear and Pepsi. as a driver in the late 1970s and decided to make some serious stopped fielding teams after alterations to his car. Though When the leaders of the NHRA 1980, as even the AHRA rules Super Stock allowed for as much made it difficult for competitors were doing him no favors. as two percent of wheelbase like Landy and other experienced alteration, late in the season, racers to go straight-up and head- Landy modified the car to A/FX to-head in the stock classes with spec by radically altering the their altered machines, he joined wheelbase. By installing a solid with the Grumpy Jenkins, Don front axle from a Dodge A100 Nicholson and Sox & Martin van, he was able to move it teams in forming a traveling forward six inches.