March 2016

Plymouth Is Out To Win You Over!

Since the last newsletter we have had two outings President: (one official and one unofficial). The official one Dean Yates with a Club meeting was held on February 27 at [email protected] StreetSide Classics in Charlotte, NC. StreetSide is the nation’s top consignment dealer of classic and Vice President: collectible . Mr. John Gibson is the Consignment Rockey Rozell Manager for the Charlotte location. He welcomed [email protected] our club and described their operations to us in some

detail, he also encouraged us to do business with Secretary/Membership: Greg Errett them in buying, storing, or putting a up for [email protected] consignment with them to market and sell. They had many very nice fine MOPARs on their showroom Treasurer: floor and we all enjoyed viewing them. More Joe Brown information on our meeting can be found in the [email protected] February Minute section in this newsletter. Below are some fine examples of some very nice MOPARs Activities / Webpage / Newsletter: at their Charlotte location. Dean Yates [email protected] http://clubs.hemmings.com/carolinaplymouth

1928 Plymouth <-> 2001 Plymouth

A Note From The President

Spring has sprung and my allergies are here to give me a fit. I love spring time and glad to see the winter season long gone. It seems the pollen is much worse this year or is it I’m just getting older and it affects me more. Headaches, coughing, and sneezing; I love it all because the warmth makes my bones feel good. Nice 1965 Plymouth Satellite

A Couple Of Nice Nash Metropolitans

Very Lovely 1966 Plymouth Hemi Belvedere

And One Ford Being Worked On By Five Guys

Our unofficial outing (without a meeting) was held on March 19th at the RK Motors with the Carolina- ScatPack Club. The Carolina-ScatPack Club is made up of mostly newer MOPARs (Dodge Challengers and Dodge Chargers) and the show field was made A Couple of Beautiful 1970 440 Plymouth Cudas up of mostly newer cars with a few older MOPARs being shown. I feel the weather (morning rain) kept

the turnout of older MOPARs away. I was planning to take one of my Plymouths to the show but the bad morning weather had me driving my Dodge RAM. Now on the inside of RK Motors there was a beautiful assortment of MOPARs. Below are just a few of the very nice cars inside the showroom.

A Very Nice 1968 Dodge Dart

Beautiful 1964 Plymouth Sport Fury

Very Nice 1967 Plymouth GTX

Beautiful 1969

Another Beautiful 1970 Plymouth Cuda

Very Unusual But Beautiful 1961 Plymouth SW Forever Beautiful 1970 Plymouth Cuda AAR

Nice 1970 Plymouth Viper Cuda Very Nice 1971 Plymouth Cuda

Mike Bucket will be back with us again next month Future Meetings & Activities: as I have a special article written by an old friend that

I have known since childhood. He is a few years Apr 9/10 Spring Charlotte AutoFair, (8am); younger than me, we went to the same church, and Concord, NC lived only a block from each other. His name is Kent May 14 MOPAR Fun Run, (10am); Bernhardt, he works for Performance Racing Farmington, NC

Network, he’s a radio DJ, he sings, he’s an actor, he Jun 4 Carolina Plymouth Club Car Show, writes for the Salisbury Post; he does many things (8am); Spencer, NC very well. As you can see he is a very talented Jul 16 Farmers Day (10am); person and I have his permission to use this article. China Grove, NC

Our next Club outing will be the Spring AutoFair on Aug 13 Kannapolis Cruise-In, (2pm); th th Kannapolis, NC Saturday April 9 and Sunday April 10 with a meeting at 12 noon on Sunday. I still have a few Sept 24/25 Fall Charlotte AutoFair, (8am); Concord, NC tickets left for Sunday. Oct 29 NC Zoo ???, (???); Till we meet again, remember to keep those old Asheboro, NC

Plymouths running and on the road, and God Bless Dec 3 Appreciation Dinner, (5pm); you all. NC , Dean Yates Others: MOPARs At The Rock, Apr 2 President at Carlisle, Jul 15-17 Mopar Nationals, Aug 5-7

Don Garlits Show, Nov 4-6 1st Saturday, Mooresville Cruise-In 2nd Saturday, Kannapolis Cruise-In

Future AutoFairs: 2017: 4/8-9; 9/23-24

2018: 4/7-8; 9/22-23

February Minutes – StreetSide Classics

The Club's meeting was held at StreetSide Classics in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday February 27, 2016 at 5:00 p.m.

March/April Birthdays: Dean Yates welcomed everyone to the club meeting

Shane Binkley and then introduced Mr. John Gibson, Consignment Cindy Bratton Manager for the company. Mr. Gibson welcomed Jonny Oliver our club and described their operations to us in some Toba Smith detail and of course encouraged us to do business Pat Weaver with them in buying, storing, or putting a car up for Ginny Wells consignment with them to market and sell.

John also talked about the market and their firm per person per day for entering the speedway as well moving into a new larger building in Concord as a car pass for each day of participating in the fair. because they are simply running out of space. He Someone asked Dean about leaving cars overnight at mentioned they have other locations of the company the Fair and he said he has had no problems with vandalism in the past. in Atlanta, Dallas, and Tampa as well.

Greg Errett read the minutes from the January Dean also reminded club members it is time to renew club memberships which are due in April each year. meeting and they were approved as read.

Joe Brown gave the club's Treasury report and told us Regarding our annual MOPAR Car show in June at the Club's account was holding steady. Joe also the North Carolina Transportation Museum, we will mentioned the club received a new member's need door prizes donated. There will be no goody application from Reidsville. bags this year. The show will be set up to evaluate club member's cars separately from outside Dean asked for a ‘Sick Call’ of anyone who is injured participants to avoid the conflict of interest or sick at this time. Joe said he is still going to the complaints from the past. doctor about twice a week. Sherry Deliso talked about her aunt in New York having surgery and the Dean announced our next club outing will be March issues going on there. 19th at the ScatPak Club car show at RK Motors, 5527 Lakeview Drive in Charlotte at 12:00 p.m. Dean then went over the Old Business items including distributing the club's business cards with There was no other new business, the meeting was our Mopar Car Show date on them; club t-shirts still adjourned, and members decided to meet at Showmars for dinner; located on US 29 in Charlotte. for sale at various sizes; review of the club's activities for 2016; and the list of organizations the club will be Respectfully Submitted making charitable donations to this year. A Greg Errett, Secretary discussion ensued as some of the organizations were not statewide groups but more locally oriented. The Salvation Army and Hospice were set up as local Toys & Stuff organizations. Dean suggested we then increase the $500 pledge to $600 and divide it three ways among 3 counties in the general area of the club's active membership, or $200 for each county. Greg suggested keeping it at $500 total and dividing it up 5 ways at $100 each for these counties: Guilford,

Forsyth, Rowan, Mecklenburg and Union Counties. This idea was approved through a motion and vote.

We continued the discussion on the club's activities for 2016. Sherry will check into a trip to the NC Zoo, discussed the August event being the th

Kannapolis Cruise-In on August 13 , and our Appreciation Dinner on December 3rd. Some Back in the 1990’s when the Plymouth automobile was comments were made as to where the dinner should still being produced like all automotive companies they take place. would make items to sale with their names on it (shirts,

Dean then led a discussion about the club's Facebook coats, pins, etc). Well that year Chrysler Motors made page and its need for updates. Keith Mitchem's son watches for their Plymouth line of cars. It was the had been doing it for awhile but is no longer active in end of the year so they had a fire sale on their the club's activities. merchandize and I purchased the Plymouth watch pictured above. As you can see it is still new in the box Dean began discussing new business. He went over and has never been used. It is in a tin container and the logistics for the spring AutoFair and discussed the the watch is: Quartz Accuracy, Water Resistant, 3 rules set down by the Charlotte Motor Speedway Year Warranty (expired), and Long Life Battery (dead running the show. As usual there will be two tickets I’m sure).

If you have any toys or unusual stuff just send me a help me. I should say “Yes, I need you to come to my picture and a few lines on what it is and I will try to home, take a look at my problem, buy the item I get it in our newsletter. need, and fix it for me.” But what I hear myself say instead is “No thanks, I’m just looking.” Dean I’m just looking all right. I’m looking for the nerve to tell them I’m a home repair idiot.

Being home repair challenged is nothing new to me. It goes way back, really to my teen years.

Just before my senior year of high school, I had a summer job at a local produce company. The first day on the job, my boss asked me to go across the

street to an auto parts supply store and borrow their Just call me Mr. Fix-It skyhook.

Give a man a tool, and you feed his handyman There’s no such thing as a skyhook. But dutifully, I fantasy for a day. Teach a man to use that tool and sauntered over to the store and asked to borrow you keep legitimate repairmen gainfully employed theirs. repairing his damage for a lifetime. — Abraham Lincoln “Well, he knows we have them in different sizes,” the guy told me with a twinkle in his eye. “Go back OK, I’m not sure Abraham Lincoln actually said that, and ask him which size he needs.” but he should’ve. It’s just as true as other things he said. I returned to my boss. “He needs to know the size you need.” Like most men, I have a collection of tools. I’ve assembled them throughout a lifetime of home “He knows what size I need!” he piped. “Tell him it’s the same one I always use!” improvement projects.

And I actually know what a few of them do. Across the street I go again. “He says it’s the same skyhook he always uses.” I have the mandatory hammers, screwdrivers, drills, and even drill bits, most of which I store under my This went on for a few more trips until I realized I washing machine because that’s where they rolled was getting the new employee treatment. I later had when they fell out of my drill bit case. At least I the pleasure of watching a few other new hires fall victim to the same joke. know where they are.

I also have drain snakes of various sizes. For you We men are by nature “fixers.” We have a need to fix home repair novices, a drain snake is a tool you use things, and fix them quickly. When our wives come on tough drain clogs just before you call a real to us complaining about the status of our relationship, we want to put duct tape on it. Problem solved. plumber.

Then he comes to your home, removes the jammed But I confess to you today that I’m no fixer. I’m the snake from your drain, and pours some stuff in there guy who should just call someone who is. I’m not that makes your home smell like rotten eggs for the really even a tool guy. Still, I love to flirt with my fantasy, and on occasion I have been successful. rest of the day.

Yes, like all men I love roaming the aisles of Lowes I can rebuild the inside of a toilet, and I successfully replaced a drain trap once. It held for three full days. and Home Depot appearing to know exactly what I need. I usually don’t, but according to the man code Still, as Andy Griffith once said, I should just “call I’m not allowed to tell anyone I don’t. the man” and save myself the time and agony of another botched repair. For me, shopping at Lowe’s is like looking for a bathroom in the Vatican. I figure if I wander around Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to run to Lowe’s. long enough, I’ll eventually find what I need. They’re having a sale on skyhooks.

Kind employees will approach me asking if they can Kent Bernhardt lives in Salisbury.

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For Sale: 1970-1976 A-Body AM Radio; late model MOPAR AM/FM/CD Radio; after market AM/FM/CD Radio. Wanted: 1962 convertible trunk lid. Dean at: [email protected] or 704-223-1195.

For Sale: '73 (+/-) Challenger hood with nostrils and holes for hood pins and one spot of rust. Under-dash AC package (all major parts $300); Mopar 8-3/4" differentials, various high gear, non-locking - $100, locking - $200, 4.89 Sure-Grip - $300 (only used on short trips); Dodge Mirada all aluminum 15x6 wheels, vgc $125; ‘63–‘65 "B" body conv top frame (rust) $150, ‘63-‘65 pedals ass’y $75; ‘64 A727 trans $600, probably need seals; 383 low block crank, turned 0.010"- $100. Barnes Daniels 336-765-0409, 9 to 9pm.

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