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The Silver Ghost Tourer® Fourth Quarter 2016 The Publication of the Silver Ghost Association, Inc.® 16-4 Board of Directors President’s Message President: Billi Carey s this issue of the Silver 14 McKenzie Lake Place S.E., Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2Z 2T5 Ghost Tourer (SGT) is H: 403-256-5611, C: 480-292-1674 [email protected] Aboth the final publication Activities: Doug Magee, Jr. of 2016 and the first issue you will Mineyahta Lodge, 766 N. Main St., receive in 2017 I wish to convey PO Box 1919, Wolfeboro, NH 03895 H: 603-569-0456, C: 860-830-1707, O: 860-349-1097 my very best wishes for the New [email protected] Year to our members along with Membership: Pia Sierra heartfelt thanks to our board 8306 Jana Drive, Odessa, FL 33556-4705 H: 813-920-0305, C: 813-546-2185 [email protected] members and all of the other [email protected] dedicated volunteers that make Publications: Jon Leimkuehler up our SGA family. 2452 Washington Rd., Pittsburgh, PA 15241 H: 412-835-4593, C: 412-427-6196 [email protected] This is the second issue of the Editor: Gil Fuqua SGT under the direction of our 3100 West End Ave, Suite 550, Nashville, TN 37203 new Editor, Gil Fuqua. Many of O: 615-324-7311, C: 615-481-4237 [email protected] you have written to me to express your approval and compliment Technical: Bill Kennedy his first issue. I encourage you to continue to provide Gil with PO Box 304, Taylorville, IL 62568 H: 217-824-9375; your feedback and also to consider his request for articles, photos O: 217-287-7231 [email protected] or ideas you may have for upcoming issues. The Editor’s task is a Secretary: Twister Stroman PO Box 4, Sterling City, TX 76954 H: 325-378-3209 large one and can be made somewhat easier by a constant flow of [email protected] content from our our membership. If you have never had an article Treasurer: Mark A. Corigliano published in the SGT why not make your first contribution in 2017? PO Box 502, 1 Jonah Court, Peakpack, NJ 07977 H: 908-375-8044 [email protected] 2017 is shaping up to be another event filled year for the SGA. Webmaster: Bill Kennedy Our first event will be the annual SGA Winter Fling to be held [email protected] Feb 1st through 4th at the beautiful Ritz Carlton Hotel located North American Directors at Large: Morris Franklin in the historic French Quarter, New Orleans. Registrations have 9019 S. New Braunfels, Suite 115, San Antonio, TX 78235 been strong but at the time of writing there were still a few spots H: 210-656-7510, O: 210-333-7510 [email protected] open so please consider joining us for what promises to be a Gregory R. Gill 1430 Bryant Dr. E., Long Beach, CA 90815 H: 562-494-6454, memorable event. O: 562-354-2512, C: 562-243-6313 [email protected] The annual SGA Wholly Ghost Tour 2017, Maples & Mountains, DeNean Stafford hosted by Gilles Laviolette and confirmed for September 18th PO Box 269, Tifton, GA 31793 H: 229-386-2685, O: 229-382-4401 [email protected] through Oct 3rd, is in the advanced stages of planning. Gilles has Lee Wolff chosen beautiful scenic routes that will traverse the countryside 362 Blossom Lane, Orange Village, OH 44022 H: 440-498-1880, of south eastern Ontario and the quaint Eastern Townships region C: 216-496-9492 [email protected] of Quebec. Please watch the SGA website and the next issue of International Directors at Large: Roland Duce the SGT for the tour details and registration info. Registration is Thurgarton Priory, Thurgarton, Notts, England NG14 7GY planned to open in February. H: +44 1636 830202 [email protected] Since the new board was installed in August they already have Denis Deasey 22/193 Doman Rd, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia 3141 two meeting under their belts. At the last meeting the board decided H: +613-9866-6550 [email protected] to add extra touring events throughout the year to augment our annual SGA Wholly Ghost Tour. Since these tours will be shorter The Silver Ghost Tourer® is the official publication of the Silver Ghost Association, Incorporated®. Efforts are made to publish accurate in duration and easier to plan it will be more important than ever information and recommendations, but no responsibility can be assumed to make regular visits to the SGA website for information and by the Association or the Editor in the event of claim of loss or damage arising from publication. Automobile or parts advertisements are free to registration details. SGA® members. An exciting change for the SGA in the new year is our move The purposes of the corporation are exclusively for the Board of Directors to promote, support, encourage, preserve, educate and receive and accept to online membership renewal. In the past we have managed funds for promotion, support, encouragement, preservation and education our renewals using a fairly labor intensive and mostly manual of the public of the Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost automobile. Send contributions to Gil Fuqua, SGA Editor process. In an effort to serve our members more effectively, to ([email protected]). reduce the workload for our volunteers and also to improve the “Silver Ghost Association”, “Silver Ghost Tourer”, “SGA”, and “Wholly Ghost” are registered trademarks of the Silver Ghost Association, Inc. and cost effectiveness of our organization both “renewals” and “new may not be used without written permission. membership applications” will be available online. Please watch your email inbox during February for an SGA email that will include instructions for completing your annual membership renewal. Front Cover Photo: Front Cover Photo: Chassis 1341 – 1910 Roi des Belges – owner Danni Suskin. Photo taken at San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in Taos. The Until next time, Happy Ghosting! famous adobe church was the subject of several paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe. Photo: Gil Fuqua Billi Carey 2768 Ghosts in the Land of Enchantment By Penny Armstrong, KS Photo: Kimberly Shadduck The Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort served as the base for the SGA’s New Mexico tour that started and ended in Bernalillo, north of Albuquerque. Open cars represented over 80% of the Silver Ghosts on the New Mexico tour, including Wathne’s 1914 Littin & Son Tourer - 38MA, Milhous’ 1923 Pall Mall Tourer - 357HH, and Dolan’s 1926 Pall Mall Tourer - S176ML. PROLOGUE round the middle of September, 2016, a small migration for Santa Fe where we spent four days with a large group of of Rolls-Royce Silver Ghosts and their owners was Penny’s boarding school classmates and husbands. Aunderway from coast to coast. Travelers were on the Doug and Mary White drove 29LK from North Carolina move from the West Coast (California), from the East Coast and, as usual and as they expected, found that getting to New (Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Mexico was half the South Carolina and Pennsylvania), from the north (Michigan) fun. They had perfect and the southwest (Texas), and from the heart of the country top down weather most (Illinois, Kansas, Iowa and Colorado). It was an international of the time. On the migration as well, from Canada, from England and Australia way out they stopped as well as a few originally from South Africa and Switzerland. for a day at the Crystal All of these ghostly travelers were converging upon New Bridges Museum Mexico, an appropriately Ghost friendly state, for the 2016 of American Art in Wholly Ghost Tour, hosted by Danni and Linda Suskin. Bentonville, AR, and Photo: Kimberly Shadduck Specifically, their destination was the Hyatt Regency Tamaya they spent the three days Doug and Mary White drove 29LK Resort, 20 miles north of Albuquerque. before the tour started over 1,700 miles from their home Ghosts came on trailers, by transport, and some made the in breathtaking Canyon in Winston-Salem to the start of trip to New Mexico under their own power, four wheels on de Chelly, AZ, home of the tour in Albuquerque. the ground. Some arrived several days early. Ron and Nanette the Navajos. They took Elenbaas and Bill Johnston and Ronda Stryker left their rig in scenic back roads and stayed mostly in bed & breakfasts. the resort designated parking area and went to a wedding. We A five-car “Ghost Train” departed from Illinois for an (Jim and Penny) arrived next and parked our truck and trailer adventurous trip that tested their endurance on a hot, windy next to the Michigan rig. We unloaded 74AU and set off in it route that was nearly all interstate – I-44 and I-40, with a little bit 2769 on old Route 66. Participants gathered the day before departure at Bill Kennedy’s home in Taylorville, IL. Bill, Gil Fuqua, Bill and Lynn Vatter, Kimberly and Dave Shadduck, Nancy and David Watts, John Dolan, and Jacquie and Lynn Boynton filled Bill’s house to capacity that night. The next morning, David Shadduck and David Watts made their farewells and went home. Kimberly and Nancy loaded into the Shadduck Ghost. With everyone organized and ready, the Ghost Train headed southwest. As they went through St. Louis, John Dolan made a detour to the airport to pick up Denise and then rejoin the group. Five cars became four on the first day, just outside Joplin, MO. A piston in the Shadduck ghost seized as Kimberly was Photo: Kimberly Shadduck in the passing lane going around a truck. Bill and Gil, who were traveling with them, helped get the car flat-bedded to secure storage in Joplin and managed to get Kimberly and redistributed and Kimberly made the rest of the trip with the Nancy and their luggage into Bill’s car for the rest of the day.