Jamestown Classic Car Club “RUMBLER”
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LOOKING TOWARDS CLASSIC CAR LOOKING TOWARDS 1 THE FUTURE REVIEW Club President "Skovy" 18 1971 Plymouth GTX THE FUTURE 2 BIRTHDAYS (April) GTO Fighter 2016 DEVILS RUN 2 ACTIVE MEMBERS CLASSIC CAR 19 Stan Orness REVIEW CLASSIC CAR She's Real Fine REVIEW 3 Muscular Pony Sports 20 1974 Pontiac GTO Car. The Muscle-Car Swan Song Era's Last Hurrah CLASSIC CAR REVIEW Check out 27 of the 23 1973 Buick Gran Sport 5 Most Iconic and Rare Stage 1 Camaro's on the Planet CLASSIC CAR REVIEW CLASSIC CAR REVIEW 25 1959 Cadillac Story & Photos by Skovy Series 6000 Coupe 11 Craigslist Excellence: 1969 Camaro "Fire 27 SWAP SHOP Sale" 28 Upcoming Events Well, it’s finally here! RUMBLER MINISTRY SAY IT ISN'T SO! 12 Pastor Scott Block Cash Incentives to Let’s get all those fine vehicles GAME CHANGER 30 Trade Permanently out and about and start strutting Mustang Makes Disabled Older your stuff! "Token Vehicles 14 Appearance in RARE PRESS This is the time where my Toy MONOPOLY EMPIRE 31 RELEASES Box becomes always a busy MOTORHEAD PROJECT place. With all the toys in the CENTRAL 1969 Camaro RS/SS 32 warehouse, it seems that winter 15 Motorsports Capital of 350 has taken its toll on some of North Dakota 40 CLUB APPLICATION You Wont Believe them. Well, time to roll up my These sleeves and go to work. 15 20 Barn Find Cars #6 Will make you cry Last fall I picked up a 1969 Camaro that was in a box (literally). This is a real deal SS350 Camaro and I’ve decided P a g e | 2 to make it a club project. You will subscriptions have passed Baker, Neil & Judi see an article about this project 17,483 issues. Balvitsch, Wayne towards the end of this issue of Behm, Earl & Connie the “RUMBLER”. Don’t be bashful. We are a very Bensch, Paul & Janis active organization and want Berg, Wayne & Tami Last week, I received an e-mail members. It’s only $25.00 for a from a couple of car clubs regular membership & $50.00 if Beyer, James wanting to be part of this you want the “RUMBLER” mailed Block, Scott & Pat “RUMBLER” magazine. It took to you. See the application on the Bowen, Jason & Renee me a bit but I was able to enter back page, or email Brandenburger, Max & Williams, Laura 1,827 emails. This “RUMBLER” [email protected]. Briese, Lee & Penny magazine has gone viral and we Calheim, Clifford & Marla just love it. Carow, Billy & Candace We’ve moved ahead on some Corell, John advertising for members. You will Demarcy, Jared see our ad at the Bison 6 Theatre Dewald, Joel & Della here in Jamestown. We are trying Elhard, Dale & Cynthia to recruit new members. We are Erdahl, Shawn (Shady) & Dawn at 127 paid members and would Frueh, Darin like to push that number to close Gaier, Craig & Johnston, Ruth to 200 by years end. Anybody Gehring, Duane & Kathleen reading this “RUMBLER”, if you Geisler, David haven’t signed up, fills out the last page of this issue and sends Gibson, Teddy & Diane Gilbertson, Mike & Murray, Kim it in. Your help would be MEMBERS BIRTHDAYS appreciated by all. Gilge, Larry & Cindy Godfrey, Collin McIlonie, Darlene 04/01 Next up … The opening 70’s Briese, Lee 04/09 Gray, JeriLynn & Andy masquerade party. Last year we Gehring, Duane 04/10 Greenlund, Ron & Darlene had almost 300 people cycle Readel, Larry 04/11 Gumke, Matt through even though it was real Briese, Penny 04/12 Gums, Robert & Candace cold. This year we are having this Gums, Robert 04/13 event at the Gladstone Inn on Guthmiller, Neil & Linda th Bensch, Janis 04/15 May 13 . The manager of the Hallwachs, Loren & Renee Lynn, Pauline 04/15 Gladstone promised they would Heiman, Tyler Erdahl, Shawn 04/23 have the heat on or air whichever Hoggarth, Scott Lynn, Randy 04/24 is needed. There will be prized Holzkamm, Al & Cindy Westerhausen, Leon 04/29 for the best costume. You will Miller, Crystel 04/30 Houge, Jason & Ann Marie notice plenty of posters around Huber, Al & Sue town. I hope you ALL can come. Miss your birthday? Please Jacobson, Verdell (Jake) & Linda It’s open and free for all. Get your contact me at 701-202-7067 Jangula, Duane boogie shoes on. Ron and Cliff whereas I can update your from R&C School of Rock will be Jaskoviak, Steven (Skovy) records. spinning the 70’s tunes all night Jensen, Paul & Sue ACTIVE MEMBERS long. Music starts at 7:00! Johnson, Brandon & Sonia Johnson, Irving & Marilyn Meeting on April 13. 7:00. Allmer, Michael Kamlitz, Brian Gladstone Inn. See you all there! Andersen, Jeff(Andy) & Shelly Karn, Dale & Sue Anderson, Bruce & Kathy Keim, Lyman & Darlene Thank you everybody for reading Anderson, Roger & Meleia and enjoying the “RUMBLER” Kessler, Michael & Mary Anderson, Scott & Kim magazine. Our e-mail Kleinknecht, Delno & Phyllis Arth, Jesse & Kelly Kolb, Dale & Nidia Bachmeier, Donovan & Karla P a g e | 3 Krein, Larry & Kelly Thomas, Troy & Tricia CLASSIC CAR REVIEW Kummer, Jeffrey & Erin Timm, Curt SHE’S REAL FINE Lade, Joshua Titman, Nick Muscular Pony Sports Car Lang, John (JR) Tracy, Dean & Martha The Muscle-Car Era's Last Larson, Don & Bonnie VanFleet, Richard Hurrah Layton, Viril & Mary Vining, Taylor Story & Pictures by Larry Edsall Loose, Larry & Bonita Wegenast, Colin & Toni (classiccars.com) Lulay, Bob & Alma Westerhausen, Leon & Mary Jane I’m already dreading the thought Lynn, Randy Wiest, J.P. & Judy of hearing people talk about Lynn, Tyler & Pauline Wilhelm, Jeff Mustangs and Camaros and Martin, Randy & Patti Wilhelm, Jordan Shelby’s and even Chevy 409s Masters, George & Eileen Wilhelm, Rod & Sandy as “muscle cars.” Because they Mathias, Roger & Bonnie Willman, Casey & Jessica are not. McCreedy, Terrance Willman, Dusty Being old may have its McCullough, Gary & Billie Wolf, Cameron disadvantages — though being McIlonie, Bernie & Darlene Wolff, Clayton & Beverly old at least means you’re not Meidinger, Jamie Wonnenberg, Douglas & Robyn dead. And being old also means Meikle, Jack & Gloria that you were there when what is now history were current events Meyer, Ken & Annie Miller, Randy & Crystel and you still may remember how Mischka, Kenneth & Judy things were. Really were. Mittleider, Cody & Elaine So if Mustangs and Camaros and Mitzel, LeRoy Shelby’s and even Chevy 409s Moser, LeRoy & Gloria were not — and are not — Nelson, Troy & Lois “muscle cars,” what were and still Nenow, Roger & Lois are? And what should we call Nogosek, Aaron & Amy Mustangs and Camaros and Shelby’s and even Chevy 409s? Noot, Jay & Bryant Olson, David & Adele Olson, Taylor Olson, Ryan Orness, Stan & Sharon Patzner, Elroy Poppe, Jerry & Ardie Ravely, Thomas & Rhonda Readel, Larry & Nadine Muscle cars: Big engine in a mid-sized package | Larry Edsall photo Redinger, Dale Rixen, Dennis We’ll start with muscle cars… Sabir, Nam Schauer, Ronald & Cindy Once upon a time, John Schlenker, Mark DeLorean and his crew at Pontiac found a way to violate Seckerson, Kelly & Tricia General Motors’ marching orders Seher, Jeff and to stuff the big V8 engine Specht, Gary & Margaret from the full-size Bonneville into Speckman, Dale & Pamela the Tempest, which was Stromberg, Bryan Pontiac’s “intermediate,” though Swedlund, Troy & Emmy today we’d call it a mid-sized, Thoele, Kevin & Kim sedan. P a g e | 4 Pretty much from the start, discovered that their 389-cubic- Barracuda, AMC with Javelin, American sedans were full-size inch V8 engine would fit into the etc. cars, roomy enough to carry the engine bay of the intermediate- entire family. Then came the size Tempest and (2) they found But because Ford was first, its imports, primarily the the loophole in the corporate Mustang enjoying a huge head Volkswagen Beetle, and the gas laws that allowed them not only start — by more than one million crisis and people wanted small to install those engines in that sales — this entire new car and less fuelish cars, so we got car, but to sell them to law- category was labeled “pony the Rambler American and the abiding customers. Well, they cars.” They even had their own Ford Falcon and the Chevrolet were law-abiding until they got racing series, the Sports Car Corvair and the Plymouth Valiant, their hands on this new GTO Club of America’s Trans- so-called compact cars. model and started racing them American Sedan Series, or away from stoplights. Trans-Am as it was popularly But like Goldilocks, for some known. Pontiac liked the Trans people compact was too small And it didn’t take long for those Am name so much that it was and full-size was too big, so the buyers to have people and cars willing to pay the SCCA a automakers created to race because suddenly we had licensing fee so it could label the “intermediates” that were just a whole series of “muscle cars” – raciest version of its Pontiac right. the Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396, Firebird as the Trans Am. Oldsmobile Cutlass 442, Plymouth Hemi ’Cuda, Dodge While muscle cars carried the Charger, Ford Torino, Mercury largest engines available, the Cyclone, even the Rambler pony cars that raced in the Rebel SST. Trans-Am series were limited to engines with 305-cubic-inch displacement. But as with the original GTO and other muscle cars, larger engines could be wedged beneath pony car hoods, and so we had the Mustang Boss 351, the Shelby Mustang with a 428-cid Cobra Jet V8, various big-block Camaros, and the lines between pony car and muscle Mustang launched the pony car genre | car were starting to blur.