The Running Board The Edmonton Antique Club Newsletter Vol. 55 No. 2 March 2018

EACC members Chris Bamford and Michelle Belanger, centre, with Rodney Clague and Mark and Sue Dunn at the Te Puia Hot Springs Hotel in NZ last month. See story Page 8.

Member of the Specialty Vehicle Association of Alberta In This Issue Splinters From the Chair...... 2 Schedule of Events...... 4 The One That Got Away ...... 5 Swap Meet...... 7 Old Bob’s Photo Corner...... 11 Building a CNC Machine ...... 11 The Bamfords’ Garage Page...... 12

Deadline for April RB DON’T St. Patrick’s Day Brunch FORGET Sunday, March18 March 20 SplintersSplinters From TheFrom Chair The Chair by Steveby Mike Bemount Reid Greetings from the land of year with your executive team. A big thank you goes ice and snow; 'tis I, Frozen out to Bert Hoogewoonink who served us well as our

Biscuit. We are all being pa- President for the last two years. We also want to tient through the seven congratulate our Member of the Year, Mike Reid, for months of old car storage outstanding service to EACC in 2017. Congratula- (except for Chris), waiting for tions are also expressed to Don Cameron and Ren the precious five months of Gusek who each received their Antiquary of Historic rigorous old car activities. Automobiles designation, our Honourific Memora- Well, take heart, we've only a bilia Award. A special shout-out to Arend Stolte couple months left to go, so the rumour has it. who is in his final leg of 10 and 1/2 years of remark- It is my pleasure to continue to serve another able service as Editor of the Running Board; Sean

——————————————————————————————————————————— The Edmonton Club The Edmonton Antique Car Club is registered in the Province of Alberta as a General Meetings are usually held on the first Wednesday evening of each nonprofit society, interested in historical motor vehicles and related collectible month, with tours and events being dispersed throughout the calendar year. The items. Our club is dedicated to the acquisition, restoration, preservation, sal- Annual General Meeting is held each year in January. vage, maintenance of and promotion of interest in from the following Our club members participate in a variety of events and activities which pro- categories. mote social interaction among members, and give them an opportunity to drive The Horseless Carriage Era (1892 to 1905) their cars and display them to the general public. Annual events include the The Brass Era (1906 to 1915) Klondike Breakfast, the Corn Roast, and Mystery Tours. Senior visits are a The Vintage Era (1916 to 1927) way for our club to give back to the community. Members also participate in Early Production (1928 to 1935) community events such as Sunday in the City , Father’s Day in the Park, and Late Production (1936 to 1948) Harvest Festivals. Our club participates in the annual International Meet in Classics (1925 to 1948) (Defined by The Club of America.) which members from all corners of Western Canada and the Northwest United Our objectives also include encouraging the retention of such vehicles in Al- States come together for a wonderful exchange of camaraderie, trophies and berta, promoting driving tours, displays and other activities our vehicles can good old-fashioned fun. participate in, and educating the general public in the historical contribution of Our club publishes a monthly newsletter, The Running Board. Members are the automobile in the development of our Canadian heritage. encouraged to submit articles and other items of interest to the editor for publi- Our membership is varied as to careers and cars, and extends country wide. To cation. As a member you are entitled to receive a copy of each issue and to run qualify as a member, new applicants must be at least 14 years of age; must free classified ads in the “Swap Meet” section. complete an application form (which is submitted to the club executive for Club members as a group have a wealth of experience and knowledge of all approval), and pay a nominal membership fee of $40.00 per year (spousal, aspects of the antique car hobby which they will share with you. Bring your additional $20). It is not necessary to own a vintage car, but merely to have an particular problem to our membership and you will be probably be directed to interest in antique auto memorabilia. an expert in that field.

The EACC Website http://clubs.hemmings.com/eacc Past editions of The Running Board can be found on this site. Please send articles or pictures to The Running Board Editor.

Your Executive President Steve Bemount The Running Board Past Pres. Bert Hoogewoonink Official Publication of the Vice President Ken Huff Edmonton Antique Car Club Rec. Sec. Nels Anderson Box 102 Corr. Sec. Marilyn Huff Edmonton, Alberta. T5J 2G9 Treasurer Don Cameron Tours/Events Martin Tabbert Arend Stolte, Editor Membership Melvin Reid email [email protected] Publicity Chris Bamford Reprint permission: Historian Ed Surbey Granted to non profit car clubs and related groups. Editor Arend Stolte Please credit EACC’s “The Running Board “ Assistant Editor Al Parsons Dir.@Large Eric Adams Rogers will assume this roll effective July 1st. Susan oldies. We have four different overnight tours on Denning is now leading the charge as Coordinator of offer in 2018 with many more chances for after- our Seniors' Visits; much appreciation goes out to noon driving and face-stuffing events. Ron and Verna Eagleson who led this program for  Let us not underestimate the creation of our pro- many years. Our Senior's program is EACC's pri- gram for seniors' visits, about 30 each year; great mary way of giving back to the community; please satisfaction comes to members from sharing their give Susan your full support. We welcome Martin time and cars with others. Tabbert to the role of Tours and Events Director.  We are blessed with a an unexcelled newsletter, This is Martin's first stint on our executive. We all the Running Board, which is distributed digitally need to remember that this is a "coordinator" type and posted on our website and Facebook page. position, not a "do everything by yourself" position. There have been a high number of members will- Please step up and give Martin a hand when help is ing to submit articles to keep the content varied needed. and repetitive boiler-plate to a minimum. Recently I was sorting through some old paper-  Add to this efficient meetings with interesting work when I found a list of EACC Goals discussed presentations in a unique and aesthetically pleas- by the new executive at their first meeting in Febru- ing meeting place and meeting attendance has ary 2001. What really grabbed my attention was, remained high. There are likely places where "Increase EACC membership in 2001 to 75 people." more improvement could be made, but some- EACC membership had slipped to a low of 68 in times it's appropriate to pause and celebrate our 2000, down from 99 in our first year of 1962. successes. I look forward to the year ahead! EACC's membership grew to 168 in 2016 and 166 in 2017, our highest numbers yet. In short, we added 100 members in just 15 years after an overall decline of 24 members in our first 38 years. To experience such growth at a time when many old car clubs are in decline is remarkable. We must have done a few things right, but what are they? Here are some thoughts that came to me.  We significantly improved our ability to inform the public of our existence by joining the digital RECORD FOOD BANK DRIVE age, first with a website and then with a very ac- tive Facebook page. This resulted in more of our At the 2017 Annual Banquet & members being under 60 and, even more remark- Awards Night able, some are now actually under 30; therein lies Bert Hoogewoonink the future. I was remiss in sending our esteemed editor my  We fill a unique niche in our area for the antique report regarding our Food Bank drive from the 2017 car enthusiast. Annual Banquet & Awards night. Slipped from my  We are both focused on tailoring events to the memory – another senior’s moment, another re- needs of the older cars, 1948 and older, while minder I’m not getting any younger. being an inclusive group, welcoming all partici- At the 2016 Banquet & Awards we set a record pants whether they drive a Model T or a Honda. of 103 kgs (227 lbs) with 103 attendees. Exactly 1.0  EACC has been blessed in this period with a re- kgs per attendee. At our recent (OK, not so recent) markable membership that both enjoys and con- 2017 Banquet & Awards, we broke that record by tributes to the fellowship and camaraderie, free more than 30%! We collected 130 kms (286 lbs). of sensitive egos or personal agendas. We genu- With 100 attendees, even I can calculate that to be inely care about, help, and support each other; I 1.30 kgs per attendee, and a full 30% increase over look forward to each opportunity to share time 2016. But, this past event we also collected $75 cash together. to add to our contribution.  An extensive variety of activities have evolved I’m proud of our club; I’m proud to be associ- providing no shortage of chances to drive the ated with such a generous group of people.

3 at Great Falls Montana Schedule Of Events Wed 11 Executive Meeting March Fri 13 Collector Car Appreciation Day Sun 15 EAAC Klondike breakfast Fr/Sa 2/4 World of Wheels Sat 21 Emmaus Church Show & Shine Wed 07 General Meeting @7:30 Old 5015 144 St. Timers’ Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd. We/Sa 25/28 EACC Oldies tour Wed 14 Executive Meeting Sa/Su 28-29 Bruderheim Model T Races Sun 18 St Patrick’s Day Brunch 11:00 am @ NOVA Hotel Kingsway August Sat 24 Red Deer Quick Time swap meet Wed 01 Mystery Tour@7:00 (early start) April Old Timers’ Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd. Fr/Mo 3/6 Alberta Circle Tour Sun 01 Easter Parade Tu/Sa 7/11 St. Albert Rock’n August Wed 04 General Meeting @7:30 Old Wed 07 Executive Meeting Timers’ Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd. Th/Sa 16/19 Old Strathcona tour Wed 11 Executive Meeting Sun 26 EAAC Corn roast Sat 14 Drayton Valley swap meet Sat 28 Stony Plain swap meet, September Sat 28 EACC Safety Inspection with Ralph Bosch Wed 05 General Meeting @7:30 Old Timers’ Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd. May Fr/Mo 7/10 EACC Hinton run Wed 12 Executive Meeting Wed 02 General Meeting @7:30 Old Sun 16 Beulah Alliance Car show Timers’ Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd. Sun 23 EACC Econo Run and Fall Tour Fr/Sa 4/5 Red Deer swap meet Sun 06 EAAC Spring Tour October Wed 09 Executive Meeting Sat 12 Leduc Black Gold Pro Rodeo car Wed 03 General Meeting @7:30 Old show. Please confirm the Timers’ Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd. number of cars coming. Sat 06 Smokey Lake Pumpkin festival and Sat 26 Ft Assiniboine to Barrhead run car show Sun 27 St. Albert Autorama Sat 06 Red Deer Quick Times swap meet Wed 10 Executive Meeting June Sat 02 North Pointe car show November Wed 06 General Meeting @7:30 Old Timers’ Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd. Wed 07 General Meeting @7:30 Old Sa/Su 9/10 Reynolds Museum History Road Timers’ Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd. Sat 09 5-6-7 Club Swap Meet Sherwood Wed 14 Executive Meeting Park Nov 17 Annual Banquet @St. Josaphat Wed 13 Executive Meeting Ukrainian Catholic Parish Hall, 9637- Sun 17 Morinville car show 108 Avenue,

Sun 24 Ukrainian Village December

July Wed 05 General Meeting @7:30 Old

Sun 01 Canada Day Parade in Bruderheim Timers’ Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd. Wed 04 Mystery Tour @7:00 (early start) Wed 12 Executive Meeting

Old Timers’ Cabin, 9430 Scona Rd. See: mystarcollectorcar.com for more information Th/Su 5/8 57th International Antique Auto Meet on other events 4 Answers to Jim Boomer’s Crossword Puzzle in the last issue.

Fri., Sat., & Sun., March 2, 3, & 4, 2018 Edmonton Expo Centre, Hall C by Steve Bemount We are pleased to report that your Edmonton An- tique Car Club will have a club display of vintage beauties at the 19th Annual World of Wheels to be held Fri., Sat., & Sun., March 2 (3-9), 3 (10-9), & 4 (10-6), at the Edmonton Expo Centre, Hall C. We are expecting seven member vehicles in our display of which three will be brass cars. Our goal is to hopefully reclaim at least a few of those wayward souls that may have crossed over to the dark side. As many EACC members as possible should get yourselves out there to see the show and, in particu- Anyhow, I asked him how much he had to have lar, to show your support for our Magnificent Seven. for the car. Well, he proceeded to tell me how good Your support is important and much appreciated! the car was. I countered by telling him I had looked it over and he really didn't have to go into a commer- cial. I had a number in mind as to what I wanted to pay for the car. I had been collecting for a few years by this time, usually older cars, so I had a bit of an The One That Got Away idea as to what I should pay and what I could afford. by Lorne Schmidt Finally Mr. Mueller spoke up again. He said he Sometime during the summer of 1965 I happened needed $75 for the car. The number I had in mind to pass by a small auto repair shop on Park Street in was $50. We did never did make a deal. That one got East Regina. The shop was owned and operated by a away. man by the name of Henry Mueller. He did minor tune-ups such as carburetor, points, plugs, brakes, etc. As well he also ran a small used car lot. One of the cars had he had for sale was a 1948 Buick Road- master convertible. It was a “driver”. It started and ran okay, Dynaflow worked, tires were ok, body was not bad, paint was faded, top and upholstery were presentable. I thought to myself this would be a great project car. So I stopped to talk to Mr. Mueller to see if I could buy it. Remember now! This was 1965. The Mustang was a few months old, almost everything was V8-powered. Power steering and power brakes were everywhere. By comparison the ‘48 Buick was a tank with its straight-8 engine, 126 inch wheelbase, Lorne didn’t have a picture so I found this 1948 and Dynaflow transmission. Buick Roadmaster convertible listed on the internet for only $44,938, a bit more than $75. 5

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I'll Clean Your Clock 1980 T-Bird Landau. Fully loaded with only 38,000 mi. Very Antique clock restoration available. Clock parts and restored clean. Asking $8,500.00 OBO. (1017) clocks for sale. [email protected] (1209) Peter Wieler ([email protected]) 780-466-9872 Larry Hill 780 464 1878

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6 Restoration Corner Old Bobs’ Photo Corner By Bob Callfas Building a CNC Machine by Arend Stolte Last week I finished installing the floor mats in my Whippet and I thought I would write an article on this process. However I decide that this would not have enough interesting details so I scrapped that idea. Still needing some “fill” even with an eight page RB, I de- cided to write about my latest project - building a CNC Router from scratch. CNC (Computer Numerical Control) is used in many different kinds of machines ranging from 3D printers to the mon- strous punching machine we saw in Bob’s sheet metal shop some time ago on an EACC field trip. The idea is quite simple - a com- puter guides some kind of “head” on three axis labeled X, Y, and Z. An easy way to understand how this works is to think about how A little extra cargo capacity behind the old Buick, a we move around. We can go North/South (X axis), East/West (Y water bag and accessory window shades makes it axis) or Up/Down (Z axis). Anytime we move we’re moving along ready for a trip. a combination of these three directions (axis). My inspiration for this new endeavor was a visit by our North- ern Alberta Woodcrafters Guild members to the NAIT woodwork- programming. There are free programs that are readily available. I ing department’s new CNC lab. There the instructors proudly already have them but I must admit that there is a big learning showed us their machines. They had just purchased ten Shapeoko curve in getting them to do what I want. Whether you are going to 3 desktop CNC routers to use for teaching students how to use be doing 3D printing (addition) or CNC milling or routing CNC technology. They demonstrated how these little machines can (subtraction) the computer work is basically the same. You have to do some really neat stuff. They also have a CNC laser, and some design a 3D model of the part you want to make. For this you can bigger industrial CNC routers, one big enough to cut up a full sheet use a program such as Sketchup or Fusion 360, both of which have of plywood and worth $250,000. a free version. If you are making something that is only 2D you Upon reflection afterwards, the question popped into my brain can use a drawing program such as Inkscape. One of the first pro- - “How hard can it be to make one from scratch at a reasonable jects I hope to make is a “Whippet” name plate cutout for the front cost?” After watching numerous YouTube videos on a great vari- of the rad. I hope to cut this that out of aluminum sheet metal. You ety of builds I came up with a plan for my own version. This will may remember the sad tale of my fruitless attempt to make one by be a small desktop machine with an 10” x 16” capacity. The cost, aluminum casting in a previous article in the RB. Of course I have not including the trim router, should come in under $200. It should various woodworking projects in mind as well. be convertible to a 3D printer by exchanging the router for a print At this time the basic prototype machine is done except for the head assembly. electronics to make it work. These should be along in a month or I have ordered most of the electronics from China via eBay. two as they slowly make their way from China. Stay tuned for This includes three stepper motors ($38), pulleys ($5.57) and belts updates on this project. ($10.64), switches ($4.18), 3D printer assembly ($26.66) and the circuit boards ($15.10) to run the works. I found some heavy duty drawer slides at Lee Valley and Princess Auto ($40) that ought work. The actual frame is made mostly from scrap plywood and MDF. I have power supply scavaged from an old computer. What can you do with such a machine especially as it relates to our old car hobby? This question came up in the WOKR (Willys Overland Knight Registry) forum a few weeks ago. At the time I was struggling with getting my “Finger Tip Control” switch to work. A big problem with these old electrical switches is that the bodies are made out of Bakelite which deteriorates with age. A fellow from the Czech Republic mentioned that he had had a friend make a new switch body on a 3D printer. I suggested that people such as this should be encouraged to donate the computer files to the WOKR library so that other members could download the files and print their own copy at home or at their local library. Old car parts are going to get scarcer and more expensive all the time and The CNC router with the ‘29 Whippet in the background. The so are shipping costs. Computer files can be sent instantaneously platform moves back and forth (X axis) and the carriage with and at little or no cost. the trim router moves from side to side (Y axis) and up and Depending on the shape, a switch body can also be cut from down (Z axis). The motors, belts, electronics, etc. are on order plastic with a CNC router. Most of the work is in the computer from China. A laptop will run the whole thing. 7 —–——–——–—–—— The Bamfords’ Garage Page——————————

Adventures in Paradise By Chris Bamford Dateline: Whangarei, New Zealand

The Lady Michelle and your reporter are once again crisscrossing New Zealand in search of The Running Board stories. Sadly, this has meant foregoing the pleasures of February in Edmonton but working on the laptop, outdoors in shorts and a T-shirt at six AM, is a small com- pensation.

We spent the first part of our vacation around Gisborne, NZ, with good friends Mark and Sue Dunn and Rodney Clague. We met them last year on a VCC-NZ Rally and some EACC members will recall they journeyed to Edmonton last August to participate with us in a Horseless Carriage Club Tour.

Top to Bottom and left to right...

There may be a stretch of Highway 35 around NZ’s East Cape in the North Island that is both flat and level for more than a quarter-mile, but if there is, we didn’t find it. Not that I’m complaining — this was a great road for old car touring. Caution sign at left is a rarity in Canada.

Rodney and Michelle in Rodney’s ’27 Chev touring. We played musical car seats throughout the three-day 550 km tour and I en- joyed (RHD) wheel time in the Chev and the Dunn’s ’15 Model T Touring. Rodney’s mum inherited the Chev in 1961 from the original owner, and gave the car it’s first repaint a year later with an attachment on her vacumn cleaner.

Not much traffic on this road but we still ended up in a traffic jam.

We encountered this ELF electric at a petrol station (property of the proprietor). Made in USA and classed as a bicycle, it has a 32 km/ hr top speed and a one-hour range.

The Reliability Award went to the Dunn's Model T when Rodney's Chev conked out a few miles from home with a sunk (petrol- logged) float.

It wasn’t all fun and games — here is the gang hard at work recovering a ’26-’27 Model T roadster body that had been in storage since being dug up—literally—by Rodney and his Dad almost 40 years ago.

Mark and Sue operate a small orchard on their property outside Gisborne. The day after our East Cape tour, we helped them pick and pack four pallets (2,256 kg) of oranges for a juicer in Hamilton NZ. The order was hauled to the depot on Mark’s 1941 Ford V8 2-ton flat- deck. I got to drive — all kinds of fun!