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RIM COUNTRY CLASSIC AUTO CLUB NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2016

From President 2016 RCCAC PIT CREW THE RIM COUNTRY Butch CLASSIC AUTO Tucker President Butch Tucker 480‐694‐1229 CLUB [email protected] IS A NON-PROFIT Well here it is September and we need to fill a V.P. Bob LaFavor 928‐363‐0260 ORGANIZATION lot of positions. 2017 board positions that need hotrodrob86u@gmailcom FOR THE PURPOSE Secretary Sandi Gunderson 928‐476‐2168 OF: to be filled are President, VP, Secretary, Activities & 2 Directors. From the actions of [email protected]  Providing social, Treasurer Tina Dychkowski 920‐216‐0830 some of our club members, you would think educational and [email protected] recreational activities they would fill some of these spots. New for its membership. Acvies Mary Cailey 928‐ 474‐ 3560 members are welcome to get involved with any [email protected]  Participating in and of the available positions. Nominations for the supporting civic activities for the betterment of the board openings will be part of the September Director Byron Gunderson 928‐476‐2168 community. agenda. A big Thank You to Byron Gunderson [email protected]  Encouraging and who has volunteered to be the 2017 Show Director Carl Curs 928‐468‐8018 promoting the Chair. He will be in need of lots of helping [email protected] preservation and restoration of classic hands to fill chair positions. Director Steve Fowler 928‐478‐6676 motor vehicles. Activities this last month to Sidewinders & Web Master [email protected]

 Providing organized Restaurant in Pine for a “Show in Shine” was a activities involving the great success. We made a good showing of Car Show Director for 2017 driving and showing of Byron Gunderson 928‐476‐2168 member’s cars. for the Rodeo Parade. We have had several fun [email protected] events this summer where some have said let’s do it again. I’m sure Mary has more events Newsleer Margie Fowler 928‐478‐6676 planned coming up for all to enjoy! [email protected] RCCAC meets at FYI— It has come to our attention According to the AACA, what car was the first 6:30p.m. on the first that some of you are not receiving the clubs ever to come with a speedometer? Wednesday of the Newsletter or any updates. We have found A. 1912 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost month at that if you add the clubs e‐mail address to your contacts list that seems to solve the B. 1901 Curved dash Tiny’s Restaurant, problem. If you know of a club member C. 1912 Model F 600 E. Hwy. 260 who is not receiving club informaon D. 1918 Stanley Steamer please tell them about this FYI. in Payson ANSWER: on page #6 rimcountryclassicautoclub @gmail.com PAGE 2

FROM THE SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS 1 Barb Imus 25 Darlene Pierman GLOVEBOX 2 Barb Gooch 25 William Powers 10 Tina Dychkowski 29 Harold Welsh 11 Al Duble

Directory Updates

UP COMING New Members! ACTIVITIES Jack and Shar Hedstrom 928‐468‐6800 Make sure to add them to your 2016 Directory SEPTEMBER AT A GLANCE September Activities 7— Membership Meeting 6:30 Sunday, September 25th, Fall BBQ at the Ramada in Pine, 12:00 noon. No need to bring anything! All food will be 8– WOW 11:30AM bought with the money from the summer BBQ we put on for 25– BBQ in Pine the Veteran Car Club. Thursday, September 29th, Lunch run to 29– Lunch Auto Cruise to Heber "The Red Onion Lounge and Restaurant" in Heber on 260. Meet at Rouds Please RSVP to Mary for all Furniture parking lot at 11:00 AM. club events that involve food! Departing at 11:15. Phone & e-mail on the front page.

The movie is voted on at the monthly club meeng. It’s always on a Saturday at 10:am and is announced via e‐mail.

The next WOW luncheon will be at La Sierra Make sure your e‐mail is up to date! Mexican Restaurant, on 87 in Alpine Village, $7.00 gets you the movie, a small drink and a small popcorn. in Payson, on Thursday, September 8th, at 11:30. Come and join us for lots of laughs See you at the Movies! and good food!

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Backseat The August WOW Luncheon was at Gerardo’s Restaurant in Payson. Seven ladies attended who all had a great time. In fact, we got to laughing so much many of the other patrons looked over at our table wondering what was so funny. The crab cakes were the big hit for lunch and we had the best waiter we’ve ever had at a WOW luncheon and he was sooooo cute! We also World's Oldest Connuous Rodeo Parade discussed maybe seeing a ‘chick flick’ at the Sawmill RCCAC was again invited to join the 2016 parade. We had 13 cars in the Rodeo parade on Saturday, August 20th. Theater following a luncheon sometime. Sorry you 5 converbles started the parade with the town missed this fun time. Join us in September! dignitaries and then the rest of our cars followed. It was NOTICE: Sorry there is not a report on the Christopher fun, the day was beauful, and we were finished by 9:30. Creek lunch cruise on the 31st. Your editor will be out of town that week and the newsletter needs to get out early. Everyone RSVP to Mary Cailey and go and enjoy this event and tell me all about it at the clubs membership meeting on the 7th.

Reporting that our Show and Shine in Pine was a HUGE success!!! This great event was Sat. Aug 13th and started at 4:00 pm. . Thanks to mother nature, the rain stayed away and the clouds kept us all cool. The turn out was fabulous, counting about 30 cars, all shined up and so beautiful! Sidewinders were great hosts and made sure

all went as planned. We gathered inside about 5:00 and enjoyed lots of laughs and great food. Thanks to Mary Cailey for planning this fun event and can’t wait to go to Christopher Creek for the clubs next event! Happy trails to all!!! Dick & Sue Hedman

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BUTCH TUCKER- In 1969 I built my first car, a 32. Out of the Navy two years, hold- ing down a good job at $2.75 an hour. Boy, was I doing well, new house and start- ing to build a hot rod- that is what they were called in those days. By the way, the new house was $14,900. Kids don't get that chance today. After the 32 there was a one-owner 1955 Chevy PU for sale where I worked. I bought it. I took the running gear out of the 32 and put them in the pickup. Drove the pickup for a few years, and it ended up going down the road for good money. Then I built a 1928 Model A for my wife - you remember the gas crunch days. So I put a Pinto engine and trans with a Vette rear in it, nice little car to drive. I then built me a 1956 Ford Panel Truck. Bought it from some hippies. Bear fur interior, outside was yellow, with orange, blue, green and purple spots all over it. I can honestly say I didn't drive it much. But after it was finished I pinstriped out of it for years. Then came the 1956 Chevy 2-door wagon, I striped out of it for 34 years. I wore the wagon out four times and rebuilt it. At one point I was going to sell it. But knowing how rare they were, I jacked it up in the back room of my shop. It sat there drained for years. Then we went to the 1940 Ford Sedan Delivery. Drove that to rod runs all over the country, including Canada four times. At the same time I bought a 1966 Ranchero that got rear-ended. Boy, do they bend easy - right in the middle. When they fixed it, you could see daylight right over the windows and below the top. They couldn't get it back straight, so the insurance company bought it. At the same time we started my 36 Ford Sedan radical custom, then after that my 1947 Ford Convertible. Didn't do much after that for a few years until I built my 1951 Ford Convertible. Sold that a few years ago to Sanderson Ford for their museum. I now own a 1956 Chevy 2-door Hardtop Sport Coupe - rebuilt the whole car. I'm now putting back together a 1955 Nomad for a friend in Mesa. Lots of cars, lots of good times, friends and memories. With a cool car, you meet a lot of people. Tech Hints & tips PAGE 5 KEEPING IT ON THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW By Steve Fowler

I had a conversation the other day with a long-time professional sideways about 30 feet for every alignment man who is now retired, and it got me to thinking on how mile driven and would shred the tires. important alignment is to handling and tire wear. Although fully Toe-out wears the other direction, but aligning an independent front suspension might be beyond the also destabilizes directional control, capabilities of most hobbyists, understanding the principles can help so if you err, do it on the toe-in side. you get your car aligned such that it handles well and doesn’t eat tires Toe can be set with a couple of yardsticks or even a tape measure, for breakfast. Most of the problems that would come up during an but you have to do it right. Start by scribing a straight line on the tire alignment are created during the initial build of the car, so knowing by jacking it up until it can spin, then scratching or chalking a mark what you want before you build is critical to a good outcome. using a steady rest (a jack stand or a block of wood) while spinning the tire. This eliminates inevitable errors from bent rims or crooked There are typically three adjustable angles in alignment along with tires. With both tires marked and back on the ground, measure the another four that are built in more or less permanently from the distance between them at the rear then at the front as close to mid- factory, or in the case of many rodders, created in the build process. height as possible. If the rear dimension is 1/8 inch more than the We’ll start with the adjustable ones. Camber is the tilt of the tire as front, you have an eighth inch of toe-in, which would be a good viewed from the front- an outward tilt at the top is called positive starting point for most of our old cars. If, after driving it for 50 to 100 camber. A slight positive camber is generally set in for a couple of miles, you observe featheredging, you can then tweak your setting in reasons. First, most suspensions deflect under load to a more negative or out to improve tire mileage. Big steamroller tires create more drag camber, so unless you do the alignment with a fully loaded car (and and require a little more toe, and radials have less drag, and require a some of us lard-bottoms make quite a load), you end up with nega- little less, so this is a setting that requires some experimentation on a tive camber down the road. Second, a slight positive camber improves straight-line stability. If you’re driving a car from the forties modified car. to the mid-sixties, chances are the factory called for up to one degree The third adjustable (usually) angle is caster, which is the typically positive, as this was before the wide tires of today. With low profile rearward tilt of the steering axis. To put it more visually, the upper ball wide tires, I would suggest a target of 0 to ¼ degree positive, and joint is behind the lower one. This backward tilt of the axis promotes make them as equal as possible to avoid a pull. Tip an old bicycle straight line stability, but increases steering effort. Pre-power steering wheel and roll it, and you’ll see it goes toward the tilt, as will a car’s cars were often set with negative caster to reduce steering effort, but wheel, with the car following it. Together, the slight positives make modern cars all use a positive setting. In fact, some use a lot, like the the wheels pull apart slightly at the front, and preload the linkage to Corvettes, but a large angle (above 5 degrees) makes the tires tilt like take up slack. Camber can be seen with the naked eye, but beware of a road grader in turns and will eat the edges of your tires, a common indecent exposure, do this behind closed doors (LOL). When the malady on many newer cars that drive twisty-windy roads. If you body leans in a turn, camber changes, often going more positive, have an old dog running a stock front end with a power steering which then makes that wheel lose traction. Many older suspensions conversion, try to get your alignment guy to crank in all the caster he can be improved using a taller spindle which decreases that camber can. The ball joint needs to move back about ½ to ¾ inch. For some gain and dramatically improves handling, especially with modern cars, like the Tri-5 GM cars, special upper control arms are available tires. to move the ball joint back. Any increase in caster will improve handling and road feel. Caster also pushes the tires apart at the front (see toe-in) The un-adjustable angles include: steering axis inclination (SAI), which means the upper ball joint is inward from the lower and is a major contributor to straight line stability (and also affects toe); setback, which means one side of the car is behind the other (OOPS!, manufacturer error); thrust angle, which means the rear axle isn’t square with the chassis and is pushing you sideways so you dog track; and turning angle (also known as toe-on-turns or Ackerman effect), which means the inside tire in a turn makes a sharper turn to avoid scrubbing. This last one is worthy of mention, because mixing and matching of suspensions often has this out of whack. The angles built in to the spindles and steering arms are determined by the wheelbase and track of the vehicle, as well as whether the steering mechanism is behind or in front of the axle, so if you’ve really mixed This gets us to angle two- toe-in. The wheels are set with a slight up components, the car will scrub tires in sharp turns, and can even pigeon-toed setting as viewed from above to counteract the outward break wheels in extreme situations. pull caused by camber and a couple more factors I’ll get to in a bit. The idea is to have just enough toe-in to counteract these other forces So when you build a car, you need to consider all of these items up so that the tire ends up going straight down the road so as to minimize front (no pun intended) so that the car can be properly aligned to go tire wear. Too much toe-in will make the tire scrub sideways as it rolls down the road in comfort rather than terror. As Ben Franklin put it, an and eats the tread from the outside edges of each tread block and ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. featheredges the insides. An error of 1/8 inch will drag the tire Build it right and have fun. Happy Motoring. SF PAGE 6 According to the AACA, what car was the first ever to come with a speedometer?

In 1901 Oldsmobile offered the curved dash Roundabout that came with a speedome- ter. With it's 1 cylinder 7 horse power engine the Roundabout was the best selling car of it's day. And even inspired Gus Edward's famous song. "In My Merry Oldsmobile". Background A speedometer is a device used to measure the traveling speed of a vehicle, usu- ally for the purpose of maintaining a sensible pace. Its development and eventual sta- tus as a standard feature in automobiles led to the enforcement of legal speed limits, a notion that had been in practice since the inception of horseless carriages but had gone largely ignored by the general public. Today, no automobile is equipped without a speedometer intact; it is fixed to a vehicle's cockpit and usually shares a housing with an odometer, which is a mechanism used to record total distance traveled. Two basic types of automobile speedometer, mechanical and electronic, are currently produced. History The concept of recording travel data is almost as old as the concept of vehicles. Early Romans marked the wheels of their chariots and counted the revolutions, estimating distance traveled and aver- age daily speed. In the eleventh century, Chinese inventors came up with a mechanism involving a gear train and a moving arm that would strike a drum after a certain distance. Nautical speed data was recorded in the 1500s by an invention called the chip log, a line knotted at regular intervals and weighted to drag in the water. The number of knots let out in a set amount of time would determine the speed of the craft, hence the nautical term "knots" still applied today. The first patent for a rotating-shaft speed indica- tor was issued in 1916 to inventor Nikola Tesla. At that time, however, speedometers had already been in production for several years. The development of the first speedometer for cars is often credited to A. P. Warner, founder of the Warner Electric Compa- ny. At the turn of the century, he invented a mecha- nism called a cut-meter, used to measure the speed of industrial cutting tools. Realizing that the cut- meter could be adapted to the automobile, he modified the device and set about on a large promotional campaign to bring his speedometer to the general public. Several speed indicator concepts were introduced by competing sources at the time, but Warner's design enjoyed considerable success. By the end of World War I, the Warner Instrument Company manufactured nine out of every 10 speedometers used in automobiles. The , released in 1901, was the first automobile line equipped with a mechani- cal speedometer. Cadillac and Overland soon followed, and speedometers began to regularly appear as a factory- installed option in new automobiles. Speedometers in this era were difficult to read in daylight and, with no lamp in the housing, virtually illegible at night. The drive cable in early models was attached to either the front wheels or the back of the transmission, but the integration of the drive cable into the transmission housing wouldn't happen for an- other 20 years. After that improvement was made, the basic technical design of a speedometer would remain un- touched until the advent of the electronic speedometer in the early 1980s. PAGE 7

Looking to sell parts OR Looking for parts!

One End Frame Lift, 2 ton capacity, manufactured by Central Hydraulics. $250.00 or best offer. Call Jack Gooch 928-468-1036.

49—53 Studebaker truck cab, 1/2 ton bed, front fenders, 3/4 ton chassis. Good start for a rat rod. No title. $150. call Steve Fowler 928-478-6676

Chrome cylindrical street rod coolant recovery tank. Speedway #911-2213. $20. Two sets of "Yukon" diff gears for a Chrysler 9 1/4 rear end ( 3.90 and 4.10) $50 each. Two fiberglass lo bucket seats (Speedway #1412400 ) and black seat covers ( #1412408). New! $150. $230 if you buy them from Speedway. 16 inch chrome electric fan (2100 cfm ). Speedway #91015499-16. New! $50. Call John Cailey 928-474-3560

1942 Ford Tudor Sedan For Sale. No rust, new Paint, wiring, through out. Rebuilt 350 Chevy, 580 Holly, 350 turbo Transmission , Mustang II front end, Monte Carlo Rear end. Vintage Air and lots more included. Asking $28,000. or Best Offer Contact Rich 928-925-7966 for more information on this beauty.

24' Haulmark enclosed car hauler, with bunks in the front. New tires and spare, its a 2006, $5500.00 Call Byron Gunderson. 928 4762168

Selling my 59 Studebaker Silver Hawk. No rust to speak of. Engine is 259 V8 with 3 on the tree with O.D. Newer maroon upholstery and headliner inside. Radio, usual under seat heater with A/C. Color is Studie Arctic White. Has 4 bbl Holley carb and runs well but not a hot rod either. Asking $15 k for it. Call Al at 503-702-0685 or mail at [email protected].

Hedman headers for a small block Chev with bolts. $50. Call Ken Tozi at 928-970-1700

NOTE: If you want to advertise please send an e-mail to [email protected] not the clubs e-mail. PAGE 8 Upcoming Car Shows

September 10- Classic Street Show– Phoenix AZ 16-17 Apache County Motor Sports Days, St. Johns AZ 17- 34th Annual Sedona Car Show 23-25- Run to the Pines Pinetop AZ 30—October 1– Winslow Car Show October 15 - Tucson Classics Car Show - Tucson 29- 4th Annual Five-O Car Show - Gilbert November 18-20 Good guys Southwest Nationals—Scottsdale

For more information on more shows and registration forms visit the web sites below: www.cruisearizona.com www.cruisinarizona.com/carshows.html

If interested in going as a group contact Mary Cailey our Activities gal to see if something can be arranged.

Meeting Minutes can be reviewed on the clubs website: http://clubs.hemmings.com/rccac/

RIM COUNTRY CLASSIC AUTO CLUB NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2016