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Automotive Innova- Zero Drag As They Always Have a Little • President’S Column Drag Left Tactical to Practical – have to have an inside look into zero drag. Common brakes are not offering INSIDE THIS ISSUE Automotive Innova- zero drag as they always have a little • President’s Column drag left. I think the next step will be tions Which Changed real individual braking not only for the • Tactical to Practical...Automotive the World – Part II current ESP systems which we already Innovations...Part 2 know. Torque vectoring will also be • Are Your Tires Tired? Or Do They By Larry Hassel the future, especially when looking into electric vehicles. I believe, for Need to Be Re-Tired? Tactical to Practical – Automotive that, we need extremely quick- • HCCM Picnic...What Great BBQ activating parts. When companies like Innovations Which Changed the Bosch and Continental presented their You May Have Missed!!! World, Part II new brake boosters, the reduction of • We Sadly Say Goodbye...George activation time was a very important Peeples, Susan Ebert and Tom Compiled by Larry Hassel item. Roultson n the last edition of “The Brass They're really proud that they can of- Lamp” we stopped Part I of this • Among the Largest Special Order fer extremely short activation times of two part article discussing the The Amphicar...Not Your Typical approximately 120 milliseconds. evolution of brake technology. I That's a good time but in the future the Car...Err Boat??? We saw the advent of hydraulic electric-mechanical brake systems can brakes, but there was still room for • Activity Calendar be even faster. Then a very important improvement. Accidents certainly got change will be the combination engine worse as speeds increased. Eventually – regenerative braking of the electric -mechanical brake.” I think you’ll see we saw the emergence of disk brakes and then in recent times, as adopted from the aircraft industry, anti-skid braking systems. What does the fu- ture hold? I was recently reading an article on the Internet on Automotive IQ, An Online Community for the Au- tomotive Professionals. It was a fasci- nating article by Professor Jyrgen Stockmar, Hon. Professor, Institute for Powertrains and Automotive Technol- ogy, Vienna University of Technolo- gy, Vienna, Austria. Professor motor/generator. That's not as easy as mechanical wear parts being eliminat- Stockmar it sounds because we need perfectly ed with electronic brakes that will per- writes tuned software for that. We need the form their jobs by electro-magnetic “Number one systems that are able to work perfectly means with polarity reversing as need- is certainly together. This will be the next chal- ed to slow acceleration. I don’t think reliability and lenge and we have to know that in the this is too far fetched nor out in the safety. That's future the brakes will work without future.” absolutely the conventional energy source, name- clear. In the ly vacuum. That's one of the reasons One of the big changes which evolved future we why I personally believe in the electro in automotive technology was climate continued on page 5 1 Officers/Directors The President’s Column… President By Joseph F. Yochim (314) 602-9498 Joseph F. Yochim 1st Vice-President/Programs Greetings everyone! Mark Goldfeder (314) 878-2786 2nd Vice-President/Membership Al Mercer (636) 928-8672 have a lot of information to share Treasurer with you so let’s jump Iright in: Jackie Allen (314) 741-4158 Father always told me, “son the older you get, the faster time goes by.” That is so true in today’s world. The summer has just flown Recording Secretary Sandy Neal past this year. I would like to thank everyone who came out for the th (314) 368-1345 Veteran’s Home event back on July 18 of this year. That event is near and dear to my heart. Unfortunately, this year it conflicted with Corresponding Secretary Russell Neal my vacation schedule. However, my friends and HCCM family (314) 368-2001 came through with shinning colors. It was reported to me that we had 18 vehicles on display. A sincere thank-you to everyone who Directors Andy Dorris (2020) helped out for the Veteran’s Home display of antique vehicles. My Vacancy (2020) wife and I were on our way to Detroit, Michigan a.k.a. the Motor Kevin Williams (2019) City. While we were in Detroit we had the opportunity to visit the Sharon Mercer (2019) Vacancy (2018) Henry Ford (museum). I’m sure many of you have had the oppor- David Stephens (2018) tunity to visit this facility along with Henry Ford’s Greenfield Vil- lage community. I was unaware that of the they offered tours of the The HCCM Publication Committee Dearborn assembly plant a.k.a. the mighty Rouge (Rouge River) Larry Hassel (Lead) assembly plant. Henry Ford started construction of the plant back in 646 Woodhill Estates Drive 1915. The plant has been in continuous production of Ford vehicles Ellisville, MO 63021 636-484-0227 since it went online in 1918 and has been offering tours to the gen- eral public since 1923. Currently, the plant produces about 1400 Webmaster Ford F150 pickup trucks per day. Two shifts per day, the plant runs Kevin Williams six days a week. Vehicles manufactured at the Dearborn plant start- (314) 481-9111 ed with the Model T followed by production of the Model A. Other vehicles manufactured in Dearborn included the famous Ford Flat- Special Events Coordinator Neal McIntyre head V-8, the Willys/Ford Jeep during World War II and, in the (314) 494-0346 postwar years…Custom Galaxy, Falcon, Comet, Ranchero, Mercury Cougar and the Ford Mustang. An amazing site to see the are the Special Liaison and Parliamentarian huge iron ore Great Lakes ships coming down the Detroit River Gerald Perschbacher heavily laden with iron ore on their way to the Rouge Plant and in Easter Show Chairs just a short matter of time, that boatload of iron ore will be turned Michael Ebert into brand new pickup trucks. Detroit is also home to some amaz- Car Show and Swap Meet Chair ingly beautiful art Deco buildings that includeThe Walter C Chrys- Elliott Cytron www.hccmo.com ler building and the Cadillac Place building (Old GM Headquarters). (314) 991-HONK Of course, there is the landmark GM corporate headquarter towers, Continued on page 3... 2 known as RenCen (Renaissance annual picnic celebration a thank On Sunday, October 14, 2018, Center) dominating the Detroit sky- you to everyone who helped and HCCM, along with several other line on the banks of the Detroit brought food. I know that everyone car clubs will be participating in a River. left with a full belly and had a good car caravan from Eureka, Missouri time. I’m already looking forward located along Highway 44. We to next year’s picnic! will proceed down Highway 44 to Rundown of Past Events… Cuba, Missouri. “Bob’s Gasoline Alley” is located right off of the MDA Cruising for the Cure! was original old Route 66 in Cuba, Mis- Monday, September 3 - Labor Day souri. Bob and his wife are known at the Museum of Transportation for their famous home cook meals This was not an HCCM event. served country style. The cost for However of the 51 cars that came this event will be $15 per person out for “Cruising for the Cure, over and that includes your entrée, two 30 of the vehicles were friends and sides, homemade desert, and a bev- members of the HCCM. I wish to erage. An additional three dollars personally extend a sincere thank will get you a ticket into the muse- you to everyone that came out and um area. Bob has a vast collection helped out to make this event a of old gasoline pumps, beginning huge success for the letter carriers. with the early brass and nickel days This event would not be possible up to when gasoline pumps That takes us into the month of Au- without the support of all my changed over to self-serve. In addi- gust and the annual HCCM picnic friends in HCCM. A sincere special tion to his vast collection of gaso- which was held on Sunday, August thank you to all who gave up their line pumps, the entire facility is set- 19, 2018 at Blanchett Park in day to support this important event. up very nicely with tons and tons of downtown St. Charles, Missouri. A grand total of $1200 was raised automobile and gasoline station We had a wonderful day with the for MDA. related memorabilia. Sunday Sup- per will be served at 1 o’clock, and weather giving us low humidity As this newsletter goes to press, the and temperatures in the mid-80s. an RSVP will be required to partic- 2018 Swap Meet and Car Show at ipate in this event so that Bob and The fantastic food from Sugarfire the Hollywood Casino will be his- Smokehouse BBQ was super deli- his wife will know exactly how tory. Of course, for those who many people that they’re preparing cious, and along with some of the worked, you will receive a credit wonderful homemade desserts and food for. We don’t want to tell towards our annual Holiday party them that were coming with 75 side dishes that our members at Glen Echo Country Club. brought with them it made for a people and then show up with only delightful summer picnic meal. We Note that the Brass and Nickel 50. The last day to let me know if you wish to participate will be Sun- did, however, do a very short infor- Car Show is going to be held at mal meeting along with sharing the Museum of Transportation day, October 7, 2018.
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