The Rocket Review Fall Super Edition
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The Official Publication of The Capitol City Rockets July/Aug/Sept 2007 Volume 18, Issue 4 Scott Phillips—Editor The Rocket Review Fall Super Edition The 2007 All- GM Show held at Mont- gomery Col- Inside this issue: lege in Rock- ville proved to be as excel- Gary Sutherlin’s Travels 2-3 lent as the Local/National Calendar weather. All-GM Wrap Up and 4 More photos Results inside! Ken Quincy’s ‘84 All-GM Show Pictures 5-8 H/O is front and center. Classifieds/Directory and 9-10 Membership All-GM Show Breakdown—Cory Correll To all CCR members, high tech vote tabulation of Many folks drove 1.5 miles Club Events: Everyone wants to Denney Keys, Ken Quincy, to O‟Brien‟s restaurant for thank all the hard workers and Richard Brown. Rick lunch and then came back! Save these and non-member volunteers Merry and his Austrian We will be entertaining Dates: that helped make our annual guest, Gary, did an out- other food vendors for next All-GM show another suc- standing job with the t-shirt year. The new DJ proved Sat, Oct 20, cess this year. Our show is sales. Jim, Jr. and his popular, and we sold a lot of continually getting some daughter Rebecca helped shirts due in part to less 8:30 am-4 pm, concourse-class antique iron Jim and Blanca with the vendor competition this Rockville An- to show up, and I never fail Metro “Carbucks” refresh- year. to be impressed with the ment stand. There were tique and Classic I was told by many quality of the cars. Of many others that gave an Car Show, Rock- that the super heat over 100 course, the quality of the extra hand or brought an degrees a few days earlier ville Civic Center people goes without saying. extra tent that made the set prevented some preregis- up and tear down work like Park (flyer at- Many thanks to tered cars from being de- Franklin Gage, who was one a well-oiled machine as well. tailed and therefore not be- tached). of the first on the field and We had the most ing able to be shown. I had Sun, Nov 11, the last to leave (with Tom pre-registered vehicles (58), to wax my car the night be- McQueen, who had car but not the highest turn-out fore in the dark because of 1:30 pm, at Kil- trouble). Thanks to the un- of show cars (147). The the heat, and I hope I got all flappable front gate folks: number of vendors was the wax off! Our oldest roy’s Bar and Rich Hollar, Dale Long, down, and we had a major show car was a 1924 Buick Grille in Spring- Roger and Phil Camp and delay again this year with (continued on p. 4) field, VA others. Many thanks for the our well-liked O‟Brien‟s. P a g e 2 The Rocket Review Volume 18, Issue 4 VA Antique Plate Law Changes If you register your participation in club activities, While the penalty for Olds in Virginia, and have an- exhibits, tours, parades, and misuse is a Class 4 misde- tique tags, or “black plates”, as similar events and to carrying meanor and a 5 year registra- they are sometimes called, you or transporting passengers, tion revoke, all you have to do likely have recently received a personal effects and other to comply is show you own or memo from the Department of antique vehicles for show use another “properly regis- Motor Vehicles. As previously purposes. They may also be tered” vehicle and submit a reported in the Rocket Review, used on Virginia highways to notarized “self-certification” Paul Seleckmann and his legislation concerning legal use test vehicle/trailer operation, that you provide “...based on wife drove this maroon 1962 of antique plates was passed obtaining maintenance or your knowledge of the vehi- TheCutlass green valley convertible to the rightdown is effective July 1, 2007, and the repairs and/or to sell the cle‟s safety equipment and safe Lonefrom Pine, PA CA, to show Gary’s off destina- its new state is giving owners with vehicle...Antique plates per- operation.” A key point is that antique plates until January 1 mit occasional pleasure driv- the vehicle is only held to the tioninterior this past and June rebuilt in his engine. Cutlass. of 2008 to file an “Applicant ing (not to exceed 250 miles safety standards of the model Certification” form. (I just got from the owner‟s residence) year in which it was manufac- my form in the mail last week). but are not to be used for tured. The VA code general transportation pur- As long as you file the (Section 46.2-730) “limits the poses, including...daily travel form promptly, you will retain to and from the owner‟s use of antique vehicles… regis- permanent registration and it place of employment.” tered with antique plates to the seems, at least at this time, a reasonable deal. Every 3 years since 2000, CCR member Gary Sutherlin has Gary Sutherlin’s Cross-Country Trip—Part I been traveling cross- country in his „77 ers (people from LA) to go to not have high school reun- Cutlass to the Lone I graduated from Lone Pine Union High Big Bear, several large lakes, ions. About 30 years ago Pine, CA “Town School in Lone Pine, Califor- mountain parks, and Reno. someone got the idea of Reunion”, so named nia in 1962, in a record class The town is made up of res- “Town Reunions” for all due to its lack of of 38. When my parents and taurants, gas stations, motels, high school classes. The span sizable high school I moved to Lone Pine, Cali- and sporting good stores. settled into every 3 years. classes for reunions. When I graduated there was a fornia in 1958, Hollywood The first town reun- was making a lot of western Ford and a Chevy dealer, and ion I knew about and went to movies in the Alabama Hills. a closed movie theater. If was 2001. Up until a west Mt Whitney at 14,396 feet is your parents didn‟t own a coast business trip in 1997, I the tallest mountain in the 48 business, or the county or LA didn‟t know if Lone Pine still Water and Power wasn‟t hir- states and was easy to pick existed. On the phone I ing, you left Lone Pine for out in the westerns made talked to a friend catching up there. For high schoolers it college/trade school, Armed on what he knew about the was a great place to PARTY! Services(US Army for me) or class, but didn‟t get to visit. I rolled my first car (‟57 north or south to find work. On the day I left, I crossed Volvo) and flattened a sage 1962 pop. was about 2,100. paths with one of the class brush on my 16th birthday in The population is odd balls. He recognized me the Alabama hills. now 2060; mostly because of and when I looked up, I rec- Lone Pine, Califor- flatlanders building retire- ognized him!!! Only guy I In the distance, white painted nia is basically a tourist town ment homes. Vacant lots know that got arrested for abound. No car dealers. The riding a bicycle drunk and “LP” rocks, a long standing 60 miles north of Mojave, with nothing in between, 350 LPHS graduating class of was probably going to spend “constructive graffiti” tradition miles north of Los Angeles. 2007 was 24. There are now 2 a few days in jail. Allen had Gary remembers from 1958. This road is used by flatland- garages in town to fix cars. A not changed a bit… . (To Be high school this small does Continued in the next RR…) The Rocket Review Volume 18, Issue 4 P a g e 3 All-GM/Truck Carlisle Had Plenty to Offer The annual Carlisle als. Club friends Mark and as Saturday featured a dem- GM Nationals held in late Margie Markowski won the onstration by the Virginia June at the Carlisle Fair- 1966-1992 Toronado class Giant and another truck, grounds were perhaps a lit- with their stunning red „66 and monster truck rides in tle more sparse on vendors we saw a few years back, the bed of the old Virginia than previous years, but the and CCR club member Carl Giant truck. Needless to show cars more than ade- Shaffer won first place in say the Phillips boys were quately made up for it, as the “Olds Cutlass Hardtop/ impressed by that! the show celebrated the Convertible (All)” class— The variety of 1957 models, and many ex- where 1972‟s swept 1st-3rd! trucks was great, and they cellent rides from the GM GM Truck Nationals provided For the first time I actually have a growing kid some entertaining stuff to do on Heritage Center were exhib- attended the Carlisle Truck area the boys liked quite a ited in the display buildings. August 4th, though the 100 plus Nationals on Saturday, Au- bit. We didn‟t last too long degree heat wilted the Phillips The Oldsmobile gust 4th. My youngest son, in the brutal heat that day, boys... Club of America had the Carter, is 3 and is a huge but there were tons of qual- 3rd highest club participa- monster truck fan, so I have ity trucks on display and the tion at the All-GM Nation to admit having an agenda, swap meet was very strong.