Northwest Vintage Car & Motorcycle Museum Message Volume 8 Issue 4 ● October – December 2010 ● Quarterly Inside this issue: Winter Vehicle Storage 2 Paver Stone Order Form 3 Museum Minute 4 Museum Preview Volunteers 4 Speedster Building 5 Opportunity Knocks 6 Freeze Destroys Hedge 6 Member Profile: Neil McKay 7 Grand Opening - Oct. 16 8 Al & Sue Lake Newsletter Editors Museum Meetings Museum Grand Opening by Al Lake The Northwest Vintage Car & Mo- There will be a presentation on the Member/Board Meetings torcycle Museum grand opening next phase of the Museum. The third Wednesday of each will be October 16, from 1:00 to The Model T Speedsters will be on month at 6:30 pm at the Service 4:00 pm at the Museum building. display. Barbara Roberts High Station. Oct. 20, Nov. 17, and Ken Austin will be our guest School now gives credit to high Dec. 15. speaker. Ken is the owner of school students enrolled in the A-dec, Inc., one of the largest den- speedster program. Everyone come to the tal equipment companies in the All sponsors, members, clubs, and Grand Opening world. Ken also is a car collector, interested person are invited to at- and has some excellent vehicles, tend. Museum Grand Opening including a rare original 1907 Ford October 16th 1 - 4 Model K, which will be on display. Please attend the Member vehicle display. Please There will be an official ribbon cut- drive your favorite vehicle to ting ceremony with refreshments. Grand Opening park on the pad in front or on the show field. The Great Oregon Steam Up Statistics by Al Lake

We need your help: This year’s Great Oregon Steam came through the Museum. The Up introduced many people to the total for the second weekend was 1. Adopt the Gazebo area Museum. more than 4,600; 3,043 on Satur- 2. Shrubs/cash for hedge The first weekend 2,880 visitors day and 1,600 on Sunday. 3. Newsletter editor 4. Website/Webmaster Getting Ready for the Preview by Al Lake 5. Paver stone purchase 6. Membership/Renewal There were many things that needed to be taken care of in preparation for the “Sneak Paver/Membership Info Preview” of the Museum during this year’s Great Oregon Steam Up. Some of the jobs See page 3 of this newsletter for were: paver stones to lay, sheet rock to hang, information about joining the NW walls to be painted, banners to be hung, items Vintage Car & Motorcycle Mu- to be purchased, a gift shop to be set up, peo- seum or purchasing a paver ple to be called, cars and motorcycles to be stone. Membership and paver positioned, and many more things to finish. stone donations may be tax de- Our thanks to all of the Museum members ductible and help the Museum. who participated in this effort to get everything Pass this newsletter on to some- done. The Museum “Sneak Preview” was a one you feel might be interested HUGE success!!! in joining the Museum. Photo by Bev Chandler Page 2 Northwest Vintage Car & Motorcycle Museum P.O. Box 15 Salem, OR 97308-0015 View this newsletter

The Northwest Vintage Car & Motorcycle Museum is a 501c(3) non-profit or- in color at ganization. We are dedicated to providing educational opportunities about vin- the Museum Website: tage cars, trucks, and motorcycles for all ages. The Museum is an entirely www.nwcarandcycle.org volunteer, membership-owned Museum open to people of all ages, with or without a vehicle.

Museum Headlights: The Winter Storage of Your Vehicle By Doug Nelson End of an Era By Al Lake The Museum is going to allow members to store their vehicles in our new display building during the off season of November through April for a This is the last quarterly newsletter monthly fee of $50. Museum members will provide their own insurance, will we will edit for the Museum. We remove the batteries from their vehicles, and the vehicle will not be moved have enjoyed being editors of “The out during this time. The building is secure, dry, and heated. This arrange- Message” for the past five years. ment is ideal for those Museum members needing storage for their finished or future projects and this will help the Museum operational costs. Call Doug Nelson 503-3990647 to take advantage of this storage opportunity.

Store your

Al & Sue Lake vehicle here! Photos by Burt Edwards

Paver Stone Project Update By Ed Weber The Paver Stone Project has come foot wide and 100 foot long porch. To buy a paver stone contact Ed a long way in the past 6 years. Also, a new process for purchasing Weber at 503-390-3804. More than 400 individuals, clubs paver stones will be more customer See page 3 to complete a paver and companies have purchased friendly. You will be able to visit the stone agreement. over 500 paver stones. The funds site, choose the size of from these paver stones provided paver stone and select the seed money for this phase of the location. Your the Museum building. Over the paver stone will be en- years all of the paver stones pur- graved in just a few chased were located on file in a short weeks. binder waiting to be engraved and placed in the ground. Thanks to the volun- Thanks to the hard working crew: teers who put the Dale DeShon, Dave Mulheron, paver stones in. They Gene Jacobs, Ed Weber and Arnie did great work in the Anderson and several others. The hot sun. paver stones are in front of our new building. When the last phase of Support the the building is completed the paver Museum by buying stones will be housed under a 10 a paver stone. Photo by Al Lake Page 3

Northwest Vintage Car & Motorcycle Museum How to Join the Museum A 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization Get the membership application form at: Paver Stone Agreement http://www.nwcarandcycle.org/images/ Membership Form.pdf. Name: ______Membership levels are: Address: ______has purchased a paver brick to be used at the General Member ______main Museum building of Annual Individual $48.00 or the Northwest Vintage Car Family $60.00 and Motorcycle Museum at Phone: ______3995 Brooklake Road. E-mail: ______Club Member Annual club membership $300.00. Each yard of concrete purchased at $125 entitles the purchaser to one paver brick to be inscribed as follows: Operational Sustaining Member $1,000 annually in 6” X 12” single brick with 3 lines* 12” X 12” single brick with 6 lines* cash or material goods.

$125 $250 For more information please call John Chandler 503-371-1852.

Dues and donations may be tax deductible.

Please join and

help us grow.

Paver Order Information

Single Paver

Single paver is a 6” X 12” single brick with 3 lines (15 characters per * 15 characters per line including spaces or a total of 45 characters. Busi- line including spaces) or a total of ness logos available for double bricks only. 45 characters. $125.00 Donor signature ______Consider paver stones as gifts for Christmas, birthdays, memorials, & Received by ______more.

Date ______Check # ______Double Paver Double paver is a 12” X 12” dou- Send Checks To: ble brick with 6 lines (15 characters Northwest Vintage Car & Motorcycle Museum per line including spaces) or a total John Chandler of 90 characters. Treasurer $250.00 P.O. Box 15 SALEM OR 97308 Contacts: John Chandler at 503-371-1852 Ed Weber at 503-390-3804 Thank you for your gift!

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Museum Minute: US Auto Museums Museum Preview Volunteers by Al Lake article and photo by Sue Lake As with everything the Museum does, volunteers are an essential part. The volunteers at the Museum Preview Bumper to Bumper Auto Exhibit were integral to the success of the two weekend 2010 Great Oregon SteamUp. There were more than 30 vol- Bumper to Bumper Auto Exhibit in the North Carolina unteers during the 4 days of SteamUp. Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC

The Museum complex is at 411 South Salisbury Avenue, Spencer, N.C. 28159, Phone: (704) 636-2889. The Flue Shop, built in 1924 with hundreds of glass panes, was used to repairs the flues, or pipes, used in steam locomotive boilers and now houses the Bumper to Bumper Museum. This automobile exhibit is an impres- sive collection of antique automobiles, ranging from a 1901 White Steam Stanhope to a 1978 Plymouth N.C.

Highway Patrol car. The exhibit traces the evolution of Don Blain Doug Nelson the automobile in North Carolina from tiny buggy-type vehicles to sleek 1940s roadsters and modern cars. The vehicles are set against backdrops that feature life from the 1920s through the 1980s. http://www.nctrans.org/exhibits/bumper_to_bumper.php

Ron Hill Mike Bell

Collector’s Corner By Sue Lake The panel truck below is a 1/24th Liberty Classics Lim- ited Edition reproduction of the 1936 Dodge Panel truck. The model is a car bank with two doors that open. This model is like the truck that Burt Edwards’ father, Bud, Bill Becker used in his meat packing company in Salem. Burt Eric Olson and Tom Ruttan learned to drive on this truck. The truck and the business were sold in 1948. Thanks to Burt Edwards for his con- tinued support of this newsletter over the years.

Mike Bostwick, John Chandler, Tom Kneeland, Don Leffler

Picture yourself at the next Museum event.

Your help is needed with every activity the Museum does. This Museum is volunteer-based. Please support the Museum by volunteering. Photo by Burt Edwards Page 5

Speedster Building by Ed Weber Newsletter Editor(s) The “Speedster” building, nearing and tool storage are being planned. Needed completion, is the most recent addi- Automotive tools of the 1900's by Al Lake tion to our museum campus. It is through 1940’s will be displayed in This is the last issue Al and Sue located east of the Texaco service both a decorative and practical Lake will edit. By the end of 2010 station and north of the Museum manner. we will have published 19 quarterly building. It will be more than a shop All construction funds have been newsletter issues since taking over in which our mentors will work with raised separately from the general the newsletter March 31, 2006. The high school students building building fund. Our thanks to the NWVC&M Museum Newsletter was Model T Ford speedsters – it will Larry and Jeanette Epping Trust, awarded the best Division I Auto- also be a general garage and stor- Jack Fox, Doug Nelson, Beaver motive Museum newsletter in the age facility for donated items and a Chapter Model A Ford Club, Paul & United States by NAAM, the Na- place for maintenance equipment Kate Treber, Lucy Harrison, Judson tional Association of Automotive and the riding lawnmower. Parsons, Bert Harrison and Ed We- Museums. The award was given to The building will resemble a 1920’s ber for their financial contributions the NWVC&M Museum at the 2008 garage in keeping with our agree- to this project. Continued donations NAAM Conference on April 5th, ment with Powerland. It is a “pole” of cars, parts, tools and dollars will 2008. The NWVC&M Museum is building clad in board and bat sid- be greatly appreciated. This is a seeking someone who is inter- ing with a sloping metal shed roof. work in progress. ested in being Editor(s) of “The It features two overhead garage Volunteer workers on this project Message” beginning with the doors, two people doors and four include Gene Jacobs, Dave Mul- January 2011 issue. period wood windows. The hern, Bob Hickman, Bert Harrison, Please contact Doug Nelson 503- “Speedster” building will be avail- Ron Hill, Karl Hart, Ed Weber and 399-0647 [email protected] able as a “period” backdrop for ve- Doug Nelson. All museum mem- hicles of all years. Vintage signs or Mike Bostwick 503-245-5444 bers are welcome to help and are [email protected] and a 1920’s “visible” ten gallon encouraged to participate in this gas pump are being sought by the building project and the mentor pro- display committee to add that spe- gram. Call Doug Nelson 503-399- Webmaster Needed cial touch for those “period” photos. 0647 to volunteer or donate. by Al Lake Inside the building, work benches The NWVC&M Museum is seek- ing someone who is interested in being the Webmaster beginning October 1, 2010. The NWVC&M Museum Website was awarded the best Division I Automotive Museum Website in the United States by NAAM, the National Association of Automotive Museums. Please contact Doug Nelson 503- 399-0647 [email protected] or Mike Bostwick 503-245-5444 Photos by Ed Weber [email protected] Create a Car Story by Al Lake In the picture to the right Gene Jacobs, Dave Mul- The Statesman Journal has a col- heron and Doug Nelson umn in each Sunday newspaper present the newly sided about a local car or truck. Speedster Building. Pic- Write up your story in 250 words or ture taken 9-10-2010. fewer and send it with your name, address and phone number to cus- [email protected]. Hardcopy submissions are not ac- cepted. Page 6

Opportunity Knocks by Ed Weber If you have a green thumb, a good loving care to keep imagination, a desire for beauty it in jewel condi- and a sense of wanting to do tion. something useful, then a great op- If you are inter- portunity awaits you at the North- ested call Ed at west Vintage Car & Motorcycle Mu- 503-390-3804 and seum. Ed Weber, maintenance co- he will give you the ordinator for the Museum, is look- details. ing for someone to adopt the Ga- zebo as his/her very own project.

The Gazebo is the jewel of the Mu- Adopt the seum’s show field and it needs Gazebo area. someone who can give it tender Sign Holders Come See the Paver Stones by Sue Lake by Ed Weber

Ken Dietrich made 3,000 paver stones have been laid in place at the front entrance of sign holders for the new exposition building. Over 450 paver stones have been en- the vehicles fea- graved and people have come to look for “their” stone. There are tured during the many blank paver stones waiting to be purchased and the new Sneak Preview of the Museum. The buyers in style he has in his the future hands was crafted will be able to display the to “choose large poster which their own was in front of location” each vehicle. The and their style which is standing holds 8 message ½ x 11 paper for will be en- signage. graved on Thanks to Ken the site. and Jean Dietrich for their time and effort.

Freeze Destroys Hedge by Ed Weber, Museum Maintenance Coordinator Many of you may remember how our maintenance fund is beautiful the hedge, on the south out of dollars. I am ap- side of the campus, was in the pealing to people who are spring of 2009. This Ceanothus willing to donate 50 of (Wild Lilac) hedge promised to be these plants to the Mu- very showy with its bountiful blue seum or provide the cash flowers in early June of each year. to purchase them. Our Last winter’s freezing weather re- volunteers are ready and sulted in a 95% kill of all the plants. willing to get them Sometimes these plants will re- planted. cover, but sadly ours did not. This is how the hedge Plans are to replace this hedge used to look. Please with a new one consisting of ap- help us replace the proximately 50 arborvitae plants hedge. about three feet tall. The problem is Page 7

Member Profile - Neil McKay by Doug Nelson Neil McKay taught himself to drive his kitchen and is planning a car was restored in the 1970s and his father’s 1926 Model T Ford month- long trip to Bhutan. In 2005 is still a nice “daily driver.” Neil has coupe when he was 14. At 17, he he embarked on the restoration of displayed it the past 3 years at the bought a stock 1932 Ford Victoria his Marmon, an endeavor that he Great Oregon Steam Up. for $300 and drove it daily to high hopes will be completed this year. In addition to the Northwest Vin- school. At 22, while a junior at Wa- Neil’s motto is “I am only as bored tage Car & Motorcycle Museum, bash College in Indiana, he ac- as I choose to be.” Neil is a member of the Model T quired a 1931 Marmon which he Neil has a variety of older cars: the Ford Club of America and the Mar- drove from the Midwest to Salem in Marmon, a 1931 Model 88 club se- mon Club. He lives in Salem with 1985. dan; a 1931 Cadillac V-12 coupe Nancy Glass, his love of 35 years , In 1973 Neil moved from Indiana to (not running, needs a full restora- and their two cats, Pisco and Zoey. the Pacific Northwest. Following tion); a 1950 Willys Jeepster; 1966 graduate study at Oregon State Buick Skylark convertible; and sev- University he worked from 1976 eral Model T Fords that until 1997 in a research forestry include a 1913 touring program. In 1997 he retired at age car, a 1926 touring car, 50, but occasionally applies his for- his father’s 1926 coupe, estry expertise as a volunteer on and enough parts to build projects at the Oregon Department a 1926 roadster. of Forestry. The 1913 Model T touring Neil has many interests, in addition car was acquired in an to antique and special interest eBay auction several automobiles, including skiing, back- years ago. The seller was packing, mountaineering, travel, in Portland and Neil was photography, gardening, carpentry, able to view and drive the investing, and “too many other car prior to bidding. The things.” He is currently remodeling

History of the Car Rental By Al Lake In September of 1918 in Chicago, started by an Army pilot, centered a car in one city and return Walter L. Jacobs began with about almost all of its operations from air- it elsewhere. a dozen Model T Fords, repairing ports and aggressively advertised 1985: United Airlines acquires the cars himself, and by 1923 his services through the airlines them- Hertz. selves. car rental business was generating 1986: The number of cars and $1 million in annual revenues The industry has been extremely trucks for rent in the United through a fleet of 600 cars. competitive since the early 1960s, States surpasses 1 million. when price wars and the success The Yellow Cab and Yellow Truck 1991: Hertz diversifies into the of small name renting companies and Coach Manufacturing Com- Internet. pany, owned by John Hertz, ac- forced prices down. quired Jacobs' business. General Motors then bought out Hertz's Yel- 1918: Walter L. Jacobs starts a low Truck Company in 1926. The car rental business in Chi- car-rental business became known cago with a fleet of 12 cars. as the Hertz Driv-Ur-Self System. 1923: Jacobs sells the company to After the second World War, the John Hertz car rental industry grew rapidly. 1927: Jacobs sells his Hertz This growth was linked closely with Drive-Ur-Self System, to the boom in the airline industry. General Motors. One of the most important steps in 1932: Hertz opens the first rental this growth was when Hertz devel- office for air travelers at Chi- oped the "fly-drive" car rental con- cago’s Midway Airport. cept by opening franchises at air- 1954: National offers one way ports in Atlanta and Milwaukee. rentals: Drivers can pick up Avis, another company, which was Page 8 Collector’s Corner By Sue Lake Museum Grand Opening Gene Walker’s Harley Davidson ® Bank Series October 16th The 1931 Hawkeye Tanker bank from Ertl is the fifth in 1:00 to 4:00 pm the series. It is black with white tires and measures 7 X The Northwest Vintage Car and Motorcycle Museum 2 ¾ inches. invites you to attend an Open House and Dedication of our 10,000 square feet Museum and 1,700 square feet Speedster Shop. Saturday, October 16 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Antique Powerland, 3995 Brooklake Road, Brooks Event highlights: • Guest Speaker - Ken Austin. Ken and Joan Austin, co-founded A-dec, an Oregon-based dental equipment maker. Ken is also a car and truck collector and restorer. • Display of special vehicles. Photos by Sue Lake • Refreshments This is the last in the Harley Davidson ® Bank Series. • Vehicle display. Please drive your favorite ve- Thanks to Gene Walker for allowing us to feature his hicle to park on the pad in front or on the show collection. field. Northwest Vintage Car & Motorcycle Museum is located at Antique Powerland on Brooklake Road. (Exit 263 from I-5), west of I-5 10 minutes north of Salem - 30 minutes south of Portland

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