SMOKE SIGNALS the Official Publication of the ANKOKAS, NJ Region AACA
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SMOKE SIGNALS The Official Publication of the ANKOKAS, NJ Region AACA Jan./Feb. 2021 Volume 58, Issue 1 In This Issue: p Ankokas News p Pop-Up Campers p Tour the Smithsonian with Adam Savage p Two Puzzles p Calendars p HIstory of G. I. Joe p How Monopoly Freed WWII Allied Prisoners In This Month’s Issue: Looking Down the Road................... 1 Meeting Minutes....... 2 News........................ 3 From the Archives..... 5 Auctions................... 6 It Caught My Eye...... 7 Pop-Up Campers..... 8 Wishing all Ankokas members and their families a very Webside our Haddonfield Ramblings................. 11 Healthy and Happy New Year! Hoping Show. We will need to Rummage Box.......... 12 everyone was able to enjoy the holidays, see what the future holds. Matching Puzzle....... 12 whether you where celebrating Hanukkah 13 Due to the pandemic, the officers and Ankokas Calendar..... or Christmas. Due to the COVID-19 13 directors terms have been extended for AACA Calendar......... pandemic, the gathering of family and Fun Holidays............. 13 2021. We are always looking for new friends has been limited or nonexistent Find-A-Word............. 14 members and recently we did get the which makes it a difficult ending to a G. I. Joe.................... 15 opportunity to acquire a new member. difficult year. Monopoly.................. 17 (Editor’s note: see article on page four.) If 18 Looking ahead to 2021, it is going to Word Origins............. you know someone with an interest in the be just like 2020, at least for the first 4 or Letter from the car hobby, let he or she know about AACA Editors...................... 19 5 months. As of this writing, the AACA and Ankokas, as new members are always Marketplace.............. 20 Annual meeting has been postponed welcome. from February and is now scheduled Hopefully we will get back to normal, for April 15-17th, 2021. All our regular or close to it, and we will be able to be membership monthly meetings will be on put 2020 behind us! With that being said, Zoom at least for the next 3 or 4 months we can not overlook families and friends and our Charter Luncheon is going to be that have been affected by this virus and postponed. We are looking keep everyone in our thoughts to hold it later in the This newsletter is and prayers. Everyone please a publication of the spring in an outside continue to stay well and be safe Ankokas Region of the setting, hopefully and don’t forget the next Zoom Antique Automobile Club with the arrival of the of America, located in meeting on January 14th, 2021 vaccines. I’m hoping southern New Jersey. at 7:30 pm. Material may be by September we reproduced only if credit will be back to a least President is given to the source being able to hold Joe Dougherty and we are asked for permission to reproduce the material. If you have material that you would like to contribute or you have comments or ideas about the newsletter, please contact the editor, Diana, at newsletter@ankokas. com. President Joe Dougherty. Photo by D. Antinucci. SMOKE SIGNALS Page 2 ghgh Meeting Minutes ghgh This is a summary of the November and December meetings. The November 12 meeting started at 7:34 pm Current membership: 51 paid in full, 1 charter, on Zoom with Pledge to the Flag. The December 10 4 friends. Jeff Schulte recruited new member Walt meeting started at 7:37 pm on Zoom with Pledge to the Pedersen. They met at a car show in November. Walt Flag. was given a complimentary one year AACA and Ankokas A motion to continue the 2020 officers to 2021 was membership. made, seconded, and approved. There have been some productive discussions A motion to extend membership dues by one year regarding recruitment of new members. Everyone is was made, seconded, and approved. aware of the need. As we return to attending local car The December holiday party was canceled. events in 2021, more of an effort will be made by current No in-person meetings scheduled for now. Maybe in members to recruit new members. We need to be open April or May. Meetings will be on Zoom. to considering younger people with interests in cars from As has been done in the past, Ankokas will make a the 1970’s to 1990’s, not just the older classics. donation to the South Jersey food bank. In past years, There has been some discussion about special or cash donations were collected at the holiday party and feature classes for the Haddonfield show to attract matched by the club. A motion was made, seconded, more show cars and spectators. This has to be a slow and approved for the club to donate $400 to the food and careful process given the current state of health bank. At the December meeting, it was reported that emergency. We still don’t know if we will be able to have several members sent checkers to Ankokas to be added a show in 2021. to the food bank donation. Total donation was $450. The next meeting is on Zoom, January 14, 2021 at To help reduce the cost of the newsletter, printed 7:30 pm. copies will only be sent to sponsors and the few members who do not have any email. Previously, Submitted: Steven Soppe, Secretary P printed copies were also sent to officers and several other members. Screen shot of the December hioliday meeting. Screen shot taken by Jim Hann. SMOKE SIGNALS Page 3 gh Ankokas at Atco Raceway gh article and photos by Bob Petters On Sunday, November 8th, the Atco dragway held a car show. There were about 150 cars and it was a nice day with lots of racing. There were only 3 trophies and Bruce Prichard got one (2nd place) for his 1932 Ford highboy roadster. Also attending, but not winning, was Jeff Shulte with his 1929 Ford home- made speedster that was in the Great American Race and myself with one of my 1953 Olds convertibles. Last show of the year on a beautiful warm sunny day in November at the Atco dragway! P Jim Hann wins gh in Gettysburg gh article and photos by Jim Hann My 1966 Plymouth Barricuda was sporting a new look for the AACA meet in Gettysburg on Nov. 7th, with original wheels, white wall tires and wheel covers. The new look earned me a second Junior! P SMOKE SIGNALS Page 4 gh Introducing Walt Pedersen gh article by Diana Antinucci photos provided by Walt Pedersen I would like to be one of the first to welcome our new member, Walt Pedersen. Walt is 77, was raised in New Jersey and was a pipefitter for 55 years (Local 322) and is now retired. Walt says he always loved cars. He had a 1969 Dodge Charger, fully restored, and Walt thought that would be his last project. One day, at a car show, a fellow asked if Walt would sell him the car. The guy offered a fair price and Walt took the offer, thinking that was the end of his car hobby. Five years ago, Walt was at an estate sale and saw a 1931 Ford Model A. He thought it would be a fun project, so he bought it and towed it home. Not knowing anything about the Model A, he read about the car and began work on it. Today, he has kept the car as original as possible and has gotten it into good running condition. Walt lives in Marlton, NJ with his wife Maryann of 54 years, who he says puts up with his projects. Welcome to Ankokas, Walt! P Scheduled Meetings Jan. 14 at 7:30PM Feb. 11 at 7:30PM March 11 at 7:30PM All meetings will be held through Zoom until further notice. Zoom meetings can be accessed starting at 7:00PM and meetings begin at 7:30PM. SMOKE SIGNALS Page 5 ghgh From The Archives ghgh Old Cars Are Valuable originally printed April 2002 to a location only blocks from John’s business. As article by Howard Steinberg luck would have it, John was at his shop and, yes, the About two years ago, one of our customers, we’ll cars were still for sale. He would gladly take me to see call him John, dropped by our office in search of some them. They were very close by. truck parts. John runs a towing service/junk yard in To show me his treasures, John had to remove a Camden. When I see him, I like to ask him if he has by large van truck from against a wooden pass gate in chance come across any neat old cars. Now, I must an old wooden fence. The gate opened on to a back tell you that John is in no way involved in the antique lot containing a jumble of junk cars and trucks. On the car hobby. He doesn’t belong to any hobby clubs or right was a row of four old garages, two of which had receive any old car publications. John’s knowledge of already collapsed in on themselves. The remaining two the field is about on a par with the average “man in the slips contained a 1948 Nash Ambassador and a 1940 street”. So, his answer to my question surprised me. Nash sedan, model unknown. The ’48 had a decent He had, he announced interior and some proudly, two 1940’s Nash salvageable chrome, four-door sedans for sale. but was otherwise a “They were,” he allowed, pile of rust.