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Blends Classic and 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Modern Design 1 JAMES VALLEY CLASSIC CAR STREET MACHINES 16 SUMMARY Meeting Time & Place 1965 2 BISON 6 SHOW TIMES Chevelle 300 LOOKING TOWARDS 2 CLASSIC CAR THE FUTURE 19 SUMMARY Club President "Skovy"

4 BIRTHDAYS 150 Ambulance

December CLASSIC CAR 22 BUFFALO CITY SUMMARY 4 TOURISM 1950 Oldsmobile

Searle Swedlund Delivery

I wish I still had that car CALENDAR OF 25 5 POPULAR FORMER EVENTS FUNNY CAR DRIVER 26 SWAP SHOP

"240 GORDIE" BONIN 28 CAR CLUB SITES

DIES 30 MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION 6 RUMBLER MINISTRY Scott W. Block 32 JAMESTOWN

Thanksgiving Calendar of Events

7 WINGED WARRIOR 1970 Plymouth Superbird

10 WINGED WARRIOR 1969 Dodge Daytona

11 PAUL WALKER Dead at 40

12 AROUND MILL HILL

P a g e | 2 LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE:

Written by Skovy

As I sit here getting ready to compose my letter, I reminisce of the holiday season. It’s amazing how this season brings out the fond memories of family. Are we sure it’s so commercial? Stores do take advantage of the warm and fuzzy feeling we all have at this season but in the long run we all remember … family.

I’ll share a short story of my childhood then explain why I’m sharing it after I’m through with my story.

When I turned 13 my then future brother-in-law Fran took a job at a Standard Gas Station that was only 3 blocks from my house. I went to visit him and who’d of thought that the owners and workers at that gas station did more than pump gas. It was a mini speed shop where the owner was building a Corvette that was totaled, another worker had a 65 GTO with a 389 3 deuces and Fran had a real cool Gremlin X. Gremlin X … Cool you say? Well at 13 IT WAS AWSOME!

Right across the street at the TEXACO station was a couple of P a g e | 3 drag racers that ran quarter mile Now you know why I’m a car dialed that darn 55 in whereas at Glendive. I was in heaven! salesman to this day. she ran like a kitten. The 55 had a 6 cylinder in it originally and I hung around those two gas I took the keys to that ugly 4:10 Posi rear end. With it being stations for two years just Falcon and drove it straight to a it hooked waiting my turn. My cousin from Johnsons Wrecking in Mandan incredible! Now all I had to do is Bismarck Dave would come over where I knew they had a 55 learn to drive a clutch, remember on occasion to challenge the gas Chevy Nomad body. No engine or I was only 15. station guys. At that time he was transmission. I walked right in driving a real fast 67 Impala with there and told them I’ll trade a big block. They would trick up them my car and all I wanted the engines and go hunting Dave was $100.00 and that old 55 and his Bismarck crew. Back then Chevy body. They thought they we didn’t Street Fight, we Street hit the lottery I think and they Raced. Right on Main Street! took the keys. My friends from the Texaco station came out and I knew my time was coming towed the 55 up to their station. soon. I yearned for it. Just so happens they had a 327 and 4 speed from a Nova that When I turned 15 in 1973 only ran ok. And guess what? They one thing was on my mind ... wanted $100.00 for it. (Maybe I Enter the boys from the Standard “DRIVERS LICENSE”! knew that hehe). I agreed to Station. Bob was building that work 2 weeks at their station for rolled over Corvette for one thing My father was a motor head the installation of the engine and and one thing only … quarter himself. He knew what I was into transmission. mile at a time. Fran and Bob took and wanted to play a joke (I me out a couple of times and think) on me. He had a 69 practiced with me showing me Suburban. Yah I know what where my shift points should be you’re thinking … Suburban. But and how to hole shot it correctly. dad’s Suburban had a little After 2 weeks I WAS READY! surprise that not too many people knew about. Chris I rode my Schwinn to my house Ressler, our local Chevrolet and told my dad … I’M READY. salesman knew of a little COPO He said “For what”? I told him I order number he could put in on was ready to pack the doors of dad’s order and that’s how dad that Suburban in the back of my ordered it. There was not too station wagon. All he could do is many L78 396 Suburban’s with laugh thinking I had the Falcon 3:73’s built in those days. The Wagon. He said “Ok … Let’s go!” darn Suburban was nasty fast. I told him I’d meet him at Sounded real cool also with the Jumbo’s that was a hamburger solid lifters and straight exhaust. stand on main street Mandan. Anyway, dad went to the City of My dad asked me what I did with He didn’t even flinch when I Mandan’s City wide auction and the Falcon and I told him I was pulled up with the 55 (loud and bought a 1961 Ford Falcon tuning it up for the big race. He proud) no headers, just head station wagon for me. He paid a wasn’t scared since the Falcon pipes sawed off at the curve. whopping $100.00 for it. When I had a 170 Super 6 cylinder in it. Well, we went to the stop light came to him to hit him up for my and I looked over … He was just driver’s license he threw me the Fran, my future brother in law looking forward and I was keys to the Falcon and said … had an Edelbrock and Holly set shaking like a leaf. Come on When you can blow my doors off up that I bought from him for Light, do me right! I was saying you can have your license. $10.00 On the 55 it went. My over and over. Light turned green drag race friends from Texaco and I went up in smoke. Darn it I P a g e | 4 yelled … To narrow of tires. 3rd Now onto JVSM business. Our gear came before I hooked up year end gathering is on and off I went. I came to the December 17th (a Tuesday night). next light and looked in my rear Open bar from 6-7 and Prime Rib view mirror. Back at the last light dinner at 7. Members cost is SEARLE SWEDLUND sat my dad. I turned around and $16.00 for a single and $25.00 Executive Director went back. He had a big smile on for a couple. JVSM’s will pick up his face and told me … I guess the rest. You will be able to pay you earned it Steve. The license your 2014 dues at the door. was mine and I haven’t looked back since. Thanks dad for letting Also, there will be an auction me win! after dinner. Roger Nenow has agreed to do the auctioneering The holiday season brings fond and member Rock’n Ronnie memories of times like these. Schauer will do DJ work after the Little things like these forms your auction. future lives. Remember that when you’re with your children. We need auction items. The You do make a difference. RUMBLER and club need funds to make up on 2013 bills. If you have items you can donate let me know right away so I can make room for the things. I Wish I Still Had That Car You don’t have to be a member to attend. For non-members the This is my “I wish I still had that night will cost $20.00 per person car” story. We all have that one … but if you join that night we’ll machine that represented the figure you’re already a member icon period of our lives when cars and you’ll get the same deal as were cool, fast and fun. When members for the meal. I’m visiting with people at car shows, they tell me their stories Make sure you attend and bring about their childhood Mustang, lots of money for the auction. or 70’s muscle car and the passive decision to part with it Happy Holidays Street Machines! (or her). The wish of many is more of a question. What could Skovy be if “that car” was still in their lives? My car of question is a MEMBERSHIP BIRTHDAY: 1979 Jeep Grand Wagoneer. DECEMBER I just saw one a few weeks back.

Dale Speckman 12/13 Their telltale iconic wood Now the reason I bring this up Bonnie Mathias 12/14 paneling and luggage rack also is a family of members from Robert Gleeson 12/15 defines them almost as well as Pingree. Everybody knows the Thomas Ravely 12/21 the signature rust around the Thomas family Troy, Jerry, Bob Lulay 12/27 wheel wells. Their boxy style Brandon and all. They are all was consistent from 1963 to drag racers and have super-fast 1991, but if you owned one, cars. How do you think family Miss your birthday? Please yours was unique and distinctive. gatherings end up most of the contact me at 701-202-7067 This is a photo from the mid 80’s. time? I’ll bet everybody knows. whereas I can update your We had been fishing in a salmon Side by Side on 281. Way to go records. guys! tournament and by luck placed, P a g e | 5 so naturally the event would be but he never faltered in telling POPULAR FORMER our yearly Christmas card. But people his next car would be FUNNY CAR DRIVER even hooked to a boat, you can another Wagoneer. catch a glimpse of the iconic “240 GORDIE” BONIN shape. DIES

Not long after this love affair began, my father passed away, and so did some of the enthusiasm for the Wagoneer. As time went on, the aging machine began to cause some doubt and after a family meeting, we agreed that it was time for a new car. I was away at college when my mother elected to trade it in on a new Ford Explorer. I asked her what she got for the

trade in and cringed when she told me $900. Story and photos by Phil Burgess (National DRAGSTER Editor) I’m not certain what I would do with a 1979 Jeep Wagoneer. The Former NHRA national event- comment “I wish I still had that winning Funny Car driver “240 car” isn’t a question of logic or Gordie” Bonin, the world rationale. It’s a wish, a dream, a championship runner-up in 1977, hope. Rooted in memory and died Nov. 29. He was 65. enhanced with age. Maybe one ride would remind me of all the According to a post on his reasons we finally departed from Facebook page, Bonin had been that machine. And yet the sight admitted to a Las Vegas hospital My father discovered the sport of one takes me back to all the recently, suffering from heat- utility vehicle in 1985. I great memories and makes me stroke symptoms. He had been remember the year specifically, want to believe that the love released from the hospital and almost as well as I recall the affair is still alive. We should all was in a local hotel, where his transaction. We were related to take a moment to recognize the body was discovered early Friday the owner of the Dodge and cars we wished we still had. May evening. Chrysler dealership in Stanley, their memories remain alive and ND. Vehicles seemed to appear well in us. Bonin earned his famed in our yard along with an uncle nickname in the 1970s when his who claimed it was the deal of a For more details on these and Bubble Up Trans Am was a lifetime. My uncle hated sport other upcoming events, see the steady performer in the rare 240- utility vehicles and offered a deal calendar in this newsletter or mph zone. The Red Deer, just to get it off the lot. visit our new website at Alberta, driver first burst onto the www.tourjamestown.com! national event scene in 1972 with My father loved it. I’m not a surprise runner-up at the U.S. certain if it was the way it Searle Swedlund, Executive Nationals in the Pacemaker Vega handled or the faded plaid Director, BCTF with Edmonton, Alberta-based upholstery on the bench seats, P a g e | 6 partners Ron Hodgson and RUMBLER MINISTRY Gordon Jenner.

Bonin, Hodgson, and Jenner, who SCOTT W. BLOCK were inducted into the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame in 2000, ran together through the 1979 season – Jerry Verhuel, who tuned Frank Hall to the 1973 world championship, joined the team in 1975 – a run highlighted by a huge win at the silver anniversary U.S. Nationals in 1979, where they also became the fourth members of the Cragar 5-Second Club.

Jenner left the team when the The time for now is approaching Bubble Up deal ended that the Holidays. Thanksgiving is this season, and after a few years, week, with the season (time) of

Bonin hung up his driving gloves Advent is starting at Church next and for six years (1983-89) week, and Christmas time is right served as NHRA director of Thanksgiving around the corner. So we will be marketing and marketing services filling our bellies, taking naps, manager. Last month my article did not maxing out our credit cards, and appear in the Rumbler. It was preparing our cars for storage. He returned to the cockpit in not because it was misplaced, or Unless, of course you are one of 1989 in Top Fuel with old pals forgotten, or a printer error, it those highly organized people Hodgson and Jenner and won the was simply that I did not write and have lots of time and you AHRA championship. He reached one. have already plugged in the the semifinals of the 1991 Seattle trickle charger, perhaps added Unfortunately, time has a way of event in the car of the recently some fuel saver, sprinkled some not only creeping up on us, but it passed Gary Ormsby before the moth balls and dryer sheets also has a way of running away Austin family bought the team, around, covered that beautiful from us. And last month was one and he returned to his Funny Car original paint job with a velvety of those months. Not only the roots – and a second stint with soft blanket/cover and kissed absence or lack of time but the legendary owner Roland Leong – your baby goodnight. And for unfortunate occurrence of my in 1993, then drove two seasons those of who haven’t done that sister-in-law’s death made it for the Candies & Hughes team – quite yet, well, I feel your pain. difficult to write an article and scoring two wins – in 1994-95. However, at least in the spring, left me feeling “out-of-time”, and All told, he scored nine NHRA we can brag, “Yep, this car hasn’t I must say, quite national event wins. seen a winter in twenty years,” discombobulated for a number of and still feel good about it. Bonin was out of racing until weeks. 1999, when he competed in So in pondering this idea of time However, some time has now three of five events in the FIA I thought of my father. He was been returned to me, and I feel European Drag Racing Top Fuel 92 when he died back in May. that once again I can pick up my Series, and he later drove for Bill We could say he ran out of time. “pen” (aka: keyboard), and write Miller on an infrequent basis. My sister-in-law was only 56 down a few musings. Besides, when she died a mere few weeks how could I not write something back. And we could say she ran when Skovy applied guilt to me?  out of time as well. So began my journey of deep thoughts about time. So what about my time? P a g e | 7 How much time do I have and smoke up, well, you knows help out when needed. Be when will it run out? For sure it where. grateful. Be thankful. Live your will run out at some point. The life well. I’m praying for you. question always is “when”? As always, (this feels like the I began to ponder what things I Mission Impossible thing) if you have done with my “time.” What disagree with this article, or are things were good, bad, or ugly? offended by it, blame Skovy, and How did I spend my time and all knowledge of your actions will were those things worthy of be disavowed. But if you like it, giving up time which could be send him an email. Keep on used for something else? And cruising! Blessings to all of you! overall in retrospect, I guess I have not done too badly. Oh sure, there were some speed bumps along the highway, with a few potholes, a couple of flat tires, and some slippery bridges. But there were also spurts of freeway where the pedal could be crushed into the floorboard and the tires hooked up nicely. Worthy things? Yeah. Unworthy things? Yeah, unfortunately.

Like I said, the holidays are I have decided that there are approaching. What will you do some pretty cool things I have with your time, while you still done with my time, at least have it? I hope you don’t work lately. One is writing this article. too hard. I hope you take time to It’s cool to do this. Another was rest. I hope you tell your loved WINGED WARRIOR: getting my Z28 out and laying ones that you do, indeed, love 1970 PLYMOUTH some rubber. Pretty cool. Being them. Don’t just assume they with a congregational member SUPERBIRD know that you do love them; be after they delivered their new sure you tell them directly. Be baby girl. Exceptionally cool. explicit and say, “I love you” Being with my family over the back when they tell you they love Holidays, particularly my wife. you and not “yeah, me too.” And Exceedingly cool. Preaching be thankful. A life lived with about Jesus, especially at gratitude is a life lived well, it is a Christmas time. Incredibly super good use of time to be grateful cool. and thankful. Tell your family and friends you appreciate their So when the cars are tucked in, friendship and that you are the kids are tucked in, and you thankful they are in your life. Tell are alone on a cold, still, dark, The short-lived Plymouth Road them you like their car, even if it winter night, think about your Runner Superbird was a highly is not a street rod or a classic. time. Reflect on the time that modified version of the Yes, tell them even if it is a 1989 God has given you. Do not think Plymouth Road Runner with Dodge Dynasty! Tell them what that you are so far behind that well-known graphics and horn. It they mean to you in your life, you will never die. Ponder what was the factory's follow up stock and not just fluff either. Give new thing, what good thing, them something from deep down what great thing you can do with car racing design for the 1970 in you, more than just blowing your time. Serve others, pray, season to the Dodge Charger P a g e | 8 Daytona of 1969, and it placed upon the car's rear axle. Plymouth, that meant having to incorporated many engineering For nearly 30 years the build 1,920 Superbird’s. Due to changes and modifications (both mathematic formula used to increasing emissions regulations, minor and major) garnered from determine the exact height of combined with insurance hikes the Daytona's season in the enormous wing was thought for high performance cars, 1970 competition on the track. The to be a highly guarded Chrysler was its only production year. car's primary rival was the Ford secret. However, in the 1990s a Torino Talladega, which in itself retired Chrysler project engineer was a direct response to the admitted publicly that the height Mopar aero car. It has also been was determined in much simpler speculated one motivating factor fashion: it was designed to in the production of the car was provide clearance for the trunk to lure Richard Petty back to lid to open freely. The rear-facing Plymouth. Both of the Mopar fender scoops were to hide cut aero cars famously featured a outs in the hood. These cutouts protruding, aerodynamic were thought to allow wheel nosecone, a high-mounted rear clearance due to the lowered "Superbird" decals were placed wing and, in the case of the height of the car for NASCAR, but on the outside edges of the Superbird, a horn which in reality the NASCAR tire was spoiler vertical struts featuring a mimicked the Road Runner wider than the cutout and the picture of the Road Runner cartoon character. scoop itself. Therefore there was cartoon character holding a no room for tire clearance. The racing helmet. A smaller version Developed specifically for scoop were actually for of the decal appears on the NASCAR racing, the Superbird, a ventilating trapped air from the driver side headlight door. modified Road Runner, was wheel wells in order to facilitate Superbird’s had three engine Plymouth's follow-on design to reduced under fender air options: the 426 Hemi V8 engine, the Charger Daytona fielded by pressure and lift. Ground the 440 Super Commandos with sister company Dodge in the clearance was 7.2". a single 4-barrel carburetor, or previous season. The Charger the 440 Super Commandos Six 500 version that began the 1969 Barrel with three two-barrel season was the first American carburetors. Only 135 models car to be designed were fitted with the 426 Hemi. aerodynamically using a wind As the 440 was less expensive to tunnel and computer analysis, produce, the "Street" version of and later was modified into the the 426 Hemi engine used in Daytona version with nose and competition was homologated tail. The Superbird's smoothed- by producing the minimum out body and nosecone were NASCAR's homologation number required. further refined from that of the requirement demanded that Daytona, and the street version's vehicles to be raced must be On the street, the nose cone and retractable headlights (made of available to the general public wing were very distinctive, but fiberglass) added nineteen and sold through dealerships in the aerodynamic improvements inches to the Road Runner's specific minimum numbers. For hardly made a difference there original length. The rear wing 1970, NASCAR raised the or on the drag strip. In fact, the was mounted on tall vertical production requirement from 1970 Road Runner was actually struts that put it into less 500 examples to one for every quicker in the quarter mile and disturbed air thus increasing the two manufacturer's dealers in standard acceleration tests due efficiency of the downdraft that the United States; in the case of to the increased weight of the P a g e | 9 Superbird's nose and wing. Only would send the message that batmobile-like nose, but it was at speeds in excess of 60 mph "money rules none". However, abandoned. (97 km/h) did the modifications the Superbird was designed show any benefit. specifically to lure Petty back to Plymouth for the 1970 season. Petty did reasonably well against strong Ford opposition on the NASCAR tracks that year, winning eight races and placing well in many more. Petty's Superbird appears as a key character in 2006 film Cars, with Petty as the voice of seven-time The Superbird's styling proved to champion “The King” #43. The be a little extreme for 1970 racing sponsor's branding in the tastes (many customers film exactly matches the preferred the regular Road Superbird's paint as “Dinoco” Runner), and as a consequence, blue". many of the 1,920 examples built sat unsold on the back lots of Chrysler memos of September dealerships as late as 1972. 1969 show that the Sales Some were converted into 1970 Programming staff was preparing Road Runners to move them off to handle 1,920 winged the sales lot. Some Plymouths for 1970, but manufacturers produce published figures say as many as Superbird conversion kits for 2,783 were built. The current 1970 Road Runners and figure generally accepted is Satellites. Kits are also available 1,935 Superbird’s built and NASCAR's rules implemented for for non-produced 1971 and 1972 shipped to United States dealers, the 1971 season limited the bodies for the Superbird. More with anywhere from 34 to 47 “aero-cars” to an engine recently they have been very allegedly heading towards displacement of no greater than steady in pricing, with them Canada. The engine option 305 cu in (5.00 l) or they had to regularly fetching $100,000+ question is again a sticky one, carry much more weight USD up to $200,000 however although the most frequently compared to their competitors. this does vary based on the seen numbers report 135 426ci. While they were still legal to engine, gearbox and other Hemi Superbird’s and 716 440ci. race, the power-to-weight factory options on the car. Six-Pack editions, with the consequences that would come remainder powered by 440ci. with the smaller engine or the 4bbl. motors. It is believed that increased weight rendered the over 1,000 Plymouth Superbird’s cars uncompetitive. This was the exist today. start of a trend of rules slowing down NASCAR, because the In autumn 1968, Richard Petty races were exceeding the left the Plymouth NASCAR Racing technology of tires and safety Team for Ford's. Charlie Grey, The Superbird and the Dodge over 200 mph (320 km/h). Ford director of the Ford stock car Charger Daytona were each built in response also designed the program felt that hiring Petty 1970 Torino King Cobra with a P a g e | 10 for one model year only (1970 inaugural Talladega 500 in the flush rear backlight (rear window and 1969 respectively). fall, although it was a rather area), a 'window cap' to cover hollow victory as all of the top the original Charger's recessed names had left the track on rear window, specific front Saturday in a boycott of the 1969 fenders and hood that were Talladega race. Buddy Baker in modeled after the upcoming the #88 Chrysler Engineering 1970 Charger, stainless steel A- Dodge Charger Daytona was the pillar covers and fender mounted first driver in NASCAR history to tire clearance/brake cooling break the 200 mph mark on scoops. The Daytona was built on March 24, 1970 at Talladega. The the 1969 Charger's 500 trim 1969 Dodge Daytona won two specifications, meaning that it races in 1969 and another four in carried a heavy-duty suspension 1970 for a total of 6. Its and brake setup and was successor, the 1970 Plymouth equipped with a 440 CID Superbird, won 8 races - all in Magnum engine as standard. Of 1970. (In a bit of irony, in 1969 at special note to collectors is the Daytona won at Talladega, and a optional 426 CID Hemi V8 Ford Torino Talladega won at engine, which only 70 of the 503 Daytona.) These compare with Daytona’s carried. It had a 29 NASCAR victories for the 1969 corporate cousin in the "one Ford Torino Talladega and 8 for year-only" 1970 Plymouth WINGED WARRIOR: the 1969 Mercury Cyclone Superbird. 1969 DODGE CHARGER Spoiler II. The 1969 Dodge DAYTONA Charger 500 managed to win 22 The "Winged Warriors", as they NASCAR races over the 1969 and were affectionately known, did 1970 seasons; however, all but not compete for long in one of those victories came on NASCAR's top Cup series. the short tracks - several of Because of their exceptional which were still being run on dirt speed and performance, NASCAR at the time. subsequently changed the rule book, effectively banning all five of the Aero Cars from Dodge, Ford, Mercury, and Plymouth

from competition by the end of With the failure of the 1969 1970. Dodge Charger 500 on the high banks of the superspeedways (tracks of a mile, or more in length), the 1969 Dodge Charger One of the five famous aero-cars, Daytona was created. It was the Dodge Daytona featured intended to be a high- special body modifications that performance, limited-edition included a 23-inch-tall (584 mm) version of the Dodge Charger stabilizer wing on the rear deck, produced in the summer of 1969 a special sheet-metal "nose for the sole purpose of winning cone" that replaced the high profile NASCAR races. It The Dodge Daytona is now a very traditional upright front grille, a won its first race out, the rare and valuable collectible, P a g e | 11 with 440-powered Daytona’s A rep for actor Paul Walker the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise reaching into six-figure territory confirmed the star of the ‘Fast & hits theaters in July of 2014. and 426 hemi-engine cars Furious’ movie series died in a passing the $300,000 mark. The car crash on Saturday. "Super Charger IV EL", which The lucrative "Fast and Furious" looked like a roadster prototype action movie franchise was in the spin-off of the Charger Daytona midst of filming its seventh minus the roof and spoiler, is installment when main actor Paul seen as a pimp-mobile in the Walker tragically died in a car 1974 film Truck Turner. Actually, accident on Nov. 30. it was just an older Charger show car updated with a Superbird He was a main character in six of the seven "Fast" films to date — nose. all except the third installment, "Tokyo Drift."

The franchise also stars Vin As news of the action star's Diesel, Tyrese Gibson, Chris death sent shockwaves through "Ludacris" Bridges, Michelle Hollywood, the future of the Rodriguez and Dwayne Johnson. mega-hit franchise currently The films have grossed more hangs in the balance as than $2 billion worldwide, filmmakers must consider how to according to Boxofficemojo.com. PAUL WALKER DEAD AT proceed without one of their 40: “FAST AND biggest stars. FURIOUS” FUTURE IN LIMBO AFTER DEATH OF FRANCHISE STAR

Both Walker and Vin Diesel (left) Walker’s death has likely left the have starred in the ‘Fast’ films franchise filmmakers with a lot to since the very first installment in consider — including how to 2001. They both have been in six finish production on the seventh of the seven films. film. Recently Universal Pictures Walker, 40, was killed in a single announced that the seventh film car crash in Southern California is slated for a July 11, 2014 on Saturday, after the Porsche he release date. was riding in flew off the road and hit a tree, killing him and a companion in a fiery explosion, a rep for the actor confirmed to the Daily News.

Story and photos by Chiderah Monde It is unclear what will happen (New York Daily News) after the seventh installment of

P a g e | 12 The action star was in every ‘Fast Walker was known to live a life and Furious’ movie except for the similar to his character Brian third one, ‘Tokyo Drift.’ O’Connor: he loved cars and was a speed demon, friends said. Production on "Fast & Furious 7" is still ongoing, a source close to Ledger was in the middle of the film told BuzzFeed, but shooting "The Imaginarium of Dr. Universal Films has not yet made Parnassus" when he died at age any announcements about how 29, but the film was able to be the film has been affected. It is rewritten and continue with Jude unclear how many scenes Walker Law, Johnny Depp and Colin was able to complete before his Farrell filling in. death. Despite the effort, the reality of While the "Fast & Furious" films Ledger's death hung over the have routinely been some of the film, and “Fast and Furious 7” biggest box office draws each could face the same fate. summer, Walker's fans could be AROUND MILL HILL deterred by the irony of his death. His on-screen character, Brian O'Conner, shared many similarities with the actor's real life as a fast car aficionado.

Around Mill Hill is going to be a monthly evaluation of area businesses. If you are a paid Diesel tweeted that he is member of the JVSM and would ‘speechless’ at the death of his like to take part in this program, ‘brother’ Paul Walker. please let me know [email protected] and I His sudden passing is reminiscent will add your name to the list. of the death of "The Dark Knight" star Heath Ledger, whose final Last month, Ron Schauer, Jr., performance as the Joker Cindy Schauer, Jamie Meidinger, posthumously won Ledger an Tyler Heiman and Skovy went to Oscar and pushed him to Fireside Family Restaurant & prominence as one of Lounge in Ellendale, ND and Hollywood's most talented actors evaluated the service and food gone too soon. we received.

Mind you, this article is not written to slam and business, but it is written to make the public aware of services the Jamestown area residence are getting.

Evaluations are based on a 0 to 5 rating. A number 5 is the best P a g e | 13 rating and a 0 rating is area 10 points 40.00% 2. Were the tables properly needing work. There is a total of 2. Appear to be bussed? 600 points to be scored. 40 knowledgeable about the 19 Points 76.00% points per line and there are 20 menu items: 3. Did the bartenders fields that are evaluated. 14 Points 56.00% appear neat and 3. Remain attentive professional in their Again, these evaluations are not throughout the dining appearance? for the intention for getting experience: 22 Points 88.00% anybody fired or to slam a 21 Points 84.00% 4. Did the overall dining business. It is a fact finding 4. Mention/Offer Appetizer? experience meet or mission. Options: exceed your 10 points 40.00% expectations: Fireside Family 20 Points 80.00% APPETIZER: 5. Were there enough Restaurant & Lounge 1. Serve the soup or salad employees to take care within a reasonable time: of guests? 18 Points 72.00% 23 Points 92.00% 2. Was the order correct, complete and properly 5. TOTAL POINTS: prepared? 401 points 80.20% 25 points 92.00% EVALUATION:

ENTRÉE: 1. Were appropriate Who would’ve known that in a condiments served? small town such as Ellendale 20 Points 80.00% there would be such a cool 2. Check back to ensure quaint place like the Fireside that your meal was Restaurant and Lounge? satisfactory: 21 Points 84.00% This month the “RUMBLER” sent 2.5 STARS OUT OF 4! 3. Offer refills on our evaluation team to Ellendale beverage/drinks: to check it out. We did pick the Appetizers were Combination 21 Points 84.00% worst night of the week to go Platter. Our Main Course was 4. Was the order correct, since the snow was blowing, but Jack Daniels Steak & Walleye & complete and properly Ellendale is not quite an hour desert was Turtle Pie and prepared? south of Jamestown and the ride Coconut Cream Pie. 24 Points 96.00% was still neat. I can tell there might just be a rally there this MEET & GREET: summer. 1. Convey the feeling that DESERT: you were a valued 1. Mention/Offer Desert? Options: We were greeted at the door by customer: this younger gentleman. It was 19 points 76.00% 25 Points 100.00% 2. Was the order correct, kind of cool how he handled 2. Seat you and deliver himself and you could tell he had menus in a courteous complete and properly prepared? complete control of the dining manner: room. We knew he was young 21 points 84.00% 25 Points 100.00% when we ordered our drinks and 3. Was the staff properly the “legal age” bartender from attired? GENERAL: 1. Did they appear to be the Lounge brought out the 24 points 96.00% wines. busy and efficient in their work? SERVER: We were surprised that in a 21 Points 84.00% 1. Suggest a beverage or facility like we were in there was specialty drink: P a g e | 14 a nice selection of wines and be eating there again and family,” said Jessica Caldwell, an spirits. suggesting it to all my friends. analyst with auto information company Edmunds.com. “The One could tell our young waiter Fireside Restaurant and Lounge, new model creates a buzz that didn’t get appetizer orders very you evaluation is 2.5 stars out of will resonate across the entire often because he wanted to go 4. Congratulations! brand.” straight to the dinner order. No problem, we slowed him down That so-called halo effect is and ordered appetizers. By the important, but often way … Cooked very awesomely! misunderstood, said James D. Farley Jr., Ford’s executive vice We then moved forward with the president of global marketing, dinner order. While waiting for sales and service. our dinner, we were directed to a small salad bar. Not much selection but what was there “People don’t walk into a dealer tasted great. looking at a Mustang and walk out with a Fusion,” Farley said.

The effect is more subtle, he said, but no less vital to the automaker’s image, sales and profits.

NEW CAR REVIEW: “Every point in brand favorability is worth a couple of hundred FORD’S 2015 MUSTANG dollars in the price of our cars,”

BLENDS CLASSIC AND Farley said. It took a little longer than normal MODERN DESIGN to get our main course but I That’s one reason why there was could understand that since the “no end of opinions” on what the time was around 7:15 and I’m new car should look like coming sure they were in shut down from management, dealers and mode when we walked in. I’ll tell enthusiasts, said Ford designer you though, it was worth the Joel Piaskowski. wait. The food was cooked to all of our liking and the portion size Many debates focused on the was huge. front end, which blends a classic

Mustang grill with the modern For desert we ordered pie. If you design language seen in other go to this restaurant, be careful Story and photos by Jerry Hirsch (L.A. Times) Fords, notably the Fusion sedan. of the pie. When you order a slice it comes big enough to feed “Sales crowns are nice to have,” the Jolly Green Giant. WOW. he said. “But it is more important Where was Craig Gaier when you to run a profitable business that needed him? He could’ve eaten has satisfied customers. We are it. out of the days of running an All in all our dining experience individual sales race.” was very nice. The surrounding were kind of gymnasium like and Although Ford’s top-selling F- the service could’ve been a little series line of trucks account for faster, but all in all I’m sure I’ll far more profit, the Mustang “is the most iconic name in the Ford P a g e | 15 At one point the team considered softer materials. But the center offering two grill designs, one for console remains a hard plastic the high-powered V-8 version throwback, a victim of the and another for four- and six- Mustang’s production budget and cylinder models. Some grill price pressures. designs were tossed because they didn’t “capture the essence In response to customer of the Mustang and still look complaints, Ford moved the modern,” Piaskowski said. shifter closer to the driver and added a USB port. Headlamps were another issue: An early design featuring smaller The new vehicle will come in 10 lights was scrapped after a panel colors, including the traditional of customers said they “didn’t racing red as well as ticket-me feel Mustang enough.” versions of competition orange and triple yellow. Boeckmann, the dealer, served on a Mustang product advisory And, of course, there will be a “I also had a ‘65 Falcon,” he said. committee that wrestled with the convertible — with a rag top that “And I can tell you that under the balance of classic and modern. will open or close in just seven skin, it was still a Falcon.” seconds. “The biggest concern was that it But the Mustang gained sales would start to look too Some Mustang cues got left traction because it looked so European,” Boeckmann said. “I behind, including the hockey stick different from the boxy cars of think they pulled back from that pattern that graced the door the day and was “peppy, reliable and got the best balance.” panels on previous generations. and approachable,” he said.

The new model had to have what Another feature dumped from And Ford quickly improved the Piaskowski, the designer, called previous generations is the spare lineup, offering notable models the three hallmarks of a tire, a move to cut both expense such as the 1967 Mustang Mustang: the shark nose, the tri- and weight. Buyers can get one fastback and many high- bar tail lamps and the fastback as an added option. performance versions. roof profile. Ford can’t afford a misfire with Other generations went astray. This will be the first Mustang with the Mustang, said Tom Libby, an Constrained by new emissions a push-button start. Paddle analyst with automotive research standards and an oil crisis, the shifters are now standard. firm R.L. Polk & Co. 1973 version had a timid 150 horsepower packed into a V-8 — about half what the standard V-6 Inside, there is a bit more interior When the automaker first in the new model produces? room and trunk space. unveiled the car 50 years ago, it was more of a styling innovation than a breakthrough car. Motor But recent generations have Trend’s original review called the returned to the formula that Mustang a “nice-looking” Falcon, made the original a success, in a nod to the pedestrian small Kendall said, and he expects the car on which the first Mustang 50th-anniversary car to do the was based. same.

“It gives buyers a rewarding Ford, with a nod to selling the car Leslie Kendall, curator of the Petersen Automotive Museum, driving experience without in Europe, has upgraded the busting the budget — a interior with stitched leather and owned a ‘65 Mustang. P a g e | 16 performance car for regular Once he bought it back, its life people,” he said. only got a little better. The car was retired to a spot outside, and there it sat for decades. Rohde never forgot the car, or his own past racing experiences with it. In fact, the L79 Chevelle led him to build an impressive muscle car collection made purely of high- performance two-door sedans. CLASSIC CAR SUMMARY: Now that it’s restored, the little Chevelle 300 is a stand out in 1965 CHEVROLET heavy company that includes such cars as Hemi Mopars and a CHEVELLE 300 big-block Biscayne. Not only was this L79 Chevelle 300 special to Rohde, it was — and is — a special car to the small-block bow-tie faithful. The new-for- 1965 L79 denoted the hairy 327- cid V-8 with 350 hp and 360 lbs.- ft. of torque. The engine and heads were cast-iron with a single-inlet four-barrel Holley carburetor on a 461Winters Story and photos by Angelo Van Bogart aluminum intake, and hidden (Old Cars Weekly) inside the 327 was a high- In 1970, Gordon Rohde of performance hydraulic camshaft, Wausau, Wis., already had the a first. The domed, forged chance to buy back his first new aluminum pistons and forged car, a L79 1965 Chevrolet 300 steel, small-journal crankshaft . With his racing days were part of the L79 engine beat behind him, he didn’t know what that produced a healthy 11:1 he was going to do with the car, compression ratio. The L79 was but he took his friend up on the available only in Corvettes and B- offer to buy it back and hasn’t body Chevelles for 1965 as a regret it since. regular production option. Beginning in 1966, Chevy IIs The 375-hp, 396-cid V-8, the “I sold it to a friend of mine in could also be fit with the high- hottest ticket to mid-size Three Lakes (Wis.), and I got it performance engine, which was Chevrolet performance in ’65 was back from him in 1970,” Rohde available through 1968. with an L79 under the Chevelle said. “I sold it to him in 1967-’68; hood. That fact didn’t get past he wanted it to race it. In Three 6,021 Chevelle and El Camino Lakes there was a bar — The buyers including 18-year-old Modern Aire — and a lot of Rohde, who was working for his people all of the way from local bow-tie dealer in Wausau, Chicago went there. When Wis. When he saw the new 350- people got drunk, he raced them hp, 327-cid V-8 was available in for money.” the Chevelle; he got that lustful gleam in his eye that every Rohde’s repurchase saved his old horsepower-crazed teen gets. Chevelle 300 from what could Until the mid-year Z16 Chevelle have been a devastating fate. Malibu SS made its debut with P a g e | 17 “It was the lightest package and As an 18-year-old, Rohde didn’t it was what I could afford,” have a lot of money for extras. Rohde said. “It was a new engine Even if he had greenbacks falling that year, and they didn’t make a out of his pockets, he probably bigger motor for the Chevelle wouldn’t have ordered many early in the year. The Z16 came extras anyway. It was simply a out mid-year.” matter of convenient coincidence that the plain Jane Chevelle 300 Like many who bought an L79 in coupe was the lightest and least a Chevelle, Rohde had a expensive body style in the two- hankering to go racing. He was year-old Chevelle line. As such, driving a 1959 Studebaker Hawk he was able to keep the car’s in 1965, but had already lost his cost down to $2,480, which was license once while street-racing just a hair above the V-8 his father’s 1965 Oldsmobile. Chevelle 300 two-door sedan Despite his past indiscretions, his base price of $2,215. father co-signed the loan for the L79 Chevelle with full knowledge “I had this thought that if it didn’t it was essentially a race car. make the car go, it didn’t belong in there,” Rohde said. “I already had been caught drag racing on the street, and at that Quarter mile at a time. The time point, he would rather I had been slips he’s preserved from KK on the drag strip.” Sports Arena (now WIR) in Kaukauna, Wis., and Rockford Dragways in Byron, Ill., show elapsed quarter-mile times of 13.09 seconds at 96.77 mph and 14.34 seconds at 103.44 mph, respectively. Those times are Although the monthly $75 car pretty impressive for a small- payment was a lot to bear, block Chevelle back in the day, Rohde still had a few bucks left but Rohde admits his mildly to enjoy the social life a new car modified car wasn’t king of the Rohde sat down with a Bob offers a high school senior. But drag strip. Johnson Chevrolet salesman and his frugality didn’t help him once ordered a Spartan V-8 Chevelle he landed a girl next to him on 300 with little else than the L79 the front bench seat. box checked. That brawny engine package required a four-speed “I was so proud of that Chevelle, manual gearbox, but a few other and having a new car made it race-related items came with pretty easy to get a date, but I Rohde’s car when it was only had a Zenith 500 transistor delivered from the Kansas City radio and I laid that in the back Chevrolet plant in March 1965. seat of the car,” Rohde said. “That didn’t go over too well, so “There were a lot of cars I “I never found what was included when I got enough money, I couldn’t beat, because I didn’t in the [L79] package, but I think installed a radio and put an have the money to do a lot of the Positraction was extra, and I antenna at the rear.” know [my car] came with a stuff,” he said. The mods he did heavy-duty battery, but I don’t When Rohde’s Chevelle wasn’t complete were limited to know if that was an option or transporting him to school, to replacing the car’s 3.23 gears included.” work at the Chevrolet dealer or with a set of 5.33s, a bigger on dates, it was carrying him a P a g e | 18 carburetor, headers, a different bottom of the car was slightly cam and race tires. rust-pitted from moisture. Aside from new metal in the trunk “There were a lot of cars that fell floor, the remainder of the car’s into my class with that “he said. original sheet metal was reused. “There were a lot of Corvettes Sun exposure meant the red that ran that class, heavier patterned cloth and vinyl interior Impalas with a bigger motor. I needed to be replaced, so the was so into all of the racing, but I original fabric was secured from think looking back, I somewhat SMS Auto Fabrics. Unlike many lived in my own world, because I cars with a drag-racing history, didn’t realize they made the Chevelle 300’s original solid aluminum-front end Hemi cars in and stout four-speed ’64, and in ’65, Chrysler had acid- transmission and L79 engine dipped cars. I also didn’t know never grenaded on a quarter-mile they had aluminum-nose Chevys pass and could be rebuilt. in ’62 and ’63. The dealership I worked at never had those cars.

“But, I had fun and it excited me.” By the latter 1960s, Rohde sold his fun car to buy a work truck. The jet-black Chevelle 300 rocket His friend continued the car’s must have made an impression born-for purpose of racing, but around Rohde’s hometown of changed it little. When Rohde Schofield, Wis., because his bought it back in ’70, the only friend bought himself a matching difference from the day he sold it L79 Chevelle 300 two-door was lace painting on the C pillars sedan, but in Danube Blue. (It’s and a few more miles on the now in Rohde’s collection.) It odometer. The restoration was finished in only added to the fun of owning 2011, with the work done by a hot little car for cruising around As time passed and Rohde’s Premier Body and Paint. Rohde town. However, such fun can’t go interest in muscle cars grew large and his son rebuilt and installed on forever. enough to mass an impressive the engine, but after the car roster of performance , it came back, they found some was his son (Seth) who original parts had been restored encouraged him to bring the with inauthentic components. slightly weathered Chevelle 300 Seth replaced them with the back to life. 38,000-mile car’s original parts or correct NOS replacements. “I had the car and I wasn’t ever going to restore it, because it In other cases, the Rohdes costs so much to restore them,” elected to keep a few incorrect he said. “Seth is the one that items, namely, the parts the inspired me; he said, ‘I am not elder Rohde had installed in- ever going to sell the car.’” period. The car was restored with the homemade driveshaft loop Despite a period of outdoor Rohde built for safety, as well as storage and just a few Wisconsin the tow bar mounts on the front winters under its belt, the frame horns he made out of 38,000-mile car was little worse angle iron. The original for wear. A leaking deck lid seal carburetor was reinstalled, but caused a small rust hole in the the car retains the 5.33 gears trunk, and the metal at the Rohde installed for racing, which P a g e | 19 have added more miles to the show it at the Muscle Car & No matter where he goes, the Chevelles odometer than the car Corvette Nationals at the Donald Cedar Springs, Mich., resident has actually traveled. The E. Stephens Convention Center in can be pretty secure in knowing tachometer, radio and rear- Rosemont, Ill., Nov. 23-24. that he will be the only one to mounted antenna that Rhode show up in an ultra-rare 1955 added back in the day are still on “We are taking the Chevelle to Chevrolet One-Fifty ambulance. the car, but Rohde still keeps his Chicago and I am going to have old Zenith transistor radio in the the car judged,” Rohde said. “I back seat and the dog dish own cars that have been judged, hubcaps in the trunk, since that’s but I have never had a car how he did it in ’65. The Chevelle judged, so it is going to be 300’s nose also sits a little higher interesting to see how it does.” than stockers, but again, it’s been pointing up to the Christmas tree since Johnson was in the White House.

“When Seth and I were taking the car apart, he said, ‘Look what I found in the front springs,’ and held up a round metal pipe,” Rohde said. “I said, ‘That is my spacer. I thought it gave it more weight on the back tires.’ I never had 90-10 shocks. That spacer, you could buy them, but I made my own because I didn’t have the money to buy them.”

The biggest hurdle in authentically restoring the car to CLASSIC CAR SUMMARY: 1965 was replacing the Chevelle 300’s rubber floor covering. Like 1955 CHEVROLET 150 so many of the mats, the rubber AMBULANCE had become brittle and could not be reused. Instead of replacing it with readily available carpet like so many other owners, Rohde found a period replacement mat to install. “There is not another ’55 Chevy [One-Fifty] ambulance in existence that we know of,” says Harrison. “There are a few ’56

and ’57 Chevys. But we’ve been Story and photos by Brian Earnest (Old to Carlisle and all the big meets… Cars Weekly) It’s been to Springfield, Ill., Minneapolis, Charlotte, Nashville Phil Harrison isn’t quite ready to a couple of times … We’ve been mention his big, white Chevrolet all over with it. We’ve looked for Since the car has been restored, in the same breath as death and one, and I’m thinking that if Rohde has displayed it at the Iola taxes. But it’s close. somebody out there had one, Old Car Show, and he plans to P a g e | 20 they would have notified me. I There are a few gaps in the single jump seat on the would, if I had one!” history of the beautiful passenger side for someone to ambulance, but it clearly led an attend to a patient. A rack holds Phil and his wife, Sue, were just unusual life after rolling off the a simple cloth stretcher. On top is looking for a conversation piece assembly line at the St. Louis a single clear flashing light. Two to take to car shows when he assembly plant back in 1955. At more spotlights are positioned in came across the unusual the time, the car was a “Plain the front grille and spotlights are stretched Chevrolet back in 1989. Jane” One-Fifty four-door sedan mounted on each “A” pillar. And, Phil didn’t know at the time quite — not exactly your typical of course, there is a siren. how rare the car was, but he candidate to become a hearse, knew he’d never seen another ambulance or other professional one, and might never get a car variant. But a funeral home chance to buy one again. somewhere in Utah apparently had other ideas and sent the “I subscribe to Old Cars Weekly sedan to Barnett Coach Company and this was advertised in the in Memphis to be transformed magazine. It was out in Littleton, into an ambulance. Barnett was one of several smaller coach- Colo.,” Harrison said. “I think I called the guy and told him I was building operations in Memphis in 1950s and did many conversions seriously interested and I wanted With its Indian Ivory white color some pictures and wanted an on GM chassis. From what the Harrisons were able to find out, and flashing lights, the Chevrolet honest description. You know, was clearly outfitted more as and I’m 1,200 miles away, so I though, not many involved 1955 . ambulance than a hearse, but it couldn’t just come and look at it belonged to a funeral home and … Then I think the day after was large enough to transport a “We actually found a guy who Thanksgiving I got a Polaroid casket. “A lot of people will call it had worked at the original picture of it in the mail. So when a hearse. I say, ‘It’s not a hearse. Barnett Company,” Harrison said. my son got his Christmas break, I Did you ever see a white “It had gone out of business in took the trailer out and we drove hearse?’” Harrison remarked. out to see it. 1959 and he was pretty old at the time, but he said in the years they had worked there, the Harrison wasn’t sure he wanted Chevys were called “the poor to stick a bunch of money into man’s ambulance” because most restoring the ambulance, but of them were Cadillac’s or those plans hit a four-legged Oldsmobile’s or something like snag not long after he dragged the car home. “We got it home a that. He said in those years there may have been as many as 24 week before Christmas and we Chevys altogether — not 24 ’55s, took it out and hit a deer the first but 24 totals from ’55, ’56 and night we had it out,” he recalled. ’57.” “It got the grille and everything When I crawled underneath it, else in front, but it didn’t do any the inside of the ’55 Chevy fender damage. It needed to be The conversion involved painted when I bought it, so fenders was just as nice as the stretching the sedan by two feet hitting the deer just speeded up outside. The paint job was and fitting it with a thick steel the process. probably an Earl Scheib paint job roof that features frenched — I think he said that to my son flashing red lights on the front — but underneath it was in very edge. The rear door on the “Then when you put on new good condition. So we brought it driver’s side was welded shut and paint, those 35-year-old bumpers home on a trailer. We could have a large side-opening door added on a new paint job wouldn’t look driven it. It was very well in back. The bed of the decent, so we had to do the represented.” ambulance is linoleum over a bumpers. Of course, it’s a One- wood deck with a fold-down Fifty so the only chrome is the P a g e | 21 hood and bumper. There’s no armrests where you put your arm Harrison admits the stunning side chrome, so there was no out the window that has not 1955 ambulance has given him expense with that. Then we been painted.” everything he bargained for and decided the original brown more when it comes to starting interior had to go. We went with conversations at hobby ’55 red and white and, of course, gatherings. Lots of people have had to go with all custom-made something to say when they see stuff. They don’t make a it, and most, whether they realize headliner or anything like that for it or not, have never seen it.” anything like it. “One thing is, people don’t believe it was a four-door sedan” Harrison said. “And people love to argue. I say, ‘Crawl underneath the car and Underneath, the car’s driveshaft you can still see the weld.’ has a center carrier bearing like those used on trucks. Altogether, “And with the red lights on and the conversion added a half a ton sirens, you draw 100 percent to the One-Fifty sedans, which attention. It’s a lot of fun that now squashes the scales at more way.” than 4,200 lbs. The ambulance still carried its original 265-cid V-8 — which The odometer on the ambulance debuted in 1955 Chevrolets — shows about 89,000 miles, but with a three-speed and overdrive the Harrisons aren’t sure how when the Harrisons got it, but accurate that figure is, or if the the engine was a casualty during car’s clock has ever turned over. one of the couple’s many road “In my case, I looked at the trips in the car. “We were going condition of it more [than the to Charlotte, N.C., and I blew the miles],” Phil said. The couple engine up,” Phil said. “I had it added roughly 1,000 miles a year trailered home and decided to to that total for many years, but The couple actually made a brief put a crate motor in it. I put a voyages have been less frequent effort to sell the ambulance at 350 in it, but I kept the old 265. recently after they bought a black one point, but Phil figures after It’s still in my garage. I will not 1957 Bel Air convertible for some 24 years, he’ll have some definite sell that V-8. If somebody ever weekend fun. “Yeah, I’ve got seller’s remorse when he finally buys my car, it’s rebuildable I another baby now,” he joked. parts with it. “Yeah, that’s what think. “That’s the car I’ve always I’m afraid of. It’s like a hunter, wanted, and I finally got it.” once you get a nice, big buck, “At the time, the crate motor was you think, ‘It’s mine. This one’s the same price estimate as a “But we bought the ambulance to mine.’ I pay insurance on it and it rebuild, and it’s not a stock drive it. It will run down the road doesn’t cost much to keep it. And vehicle anyway, so it didn’t 75, 80 [mph] with all the sports I’d hate to sell it and see bother me. It goes in the special cars of the world. If it had power somebody tub it or do something interest class when we show it. steering, it would probably run as to wreck it. It’s the same with the interior. It good as my new diesel truck, as was brown, but it needed to be far as comfort to drive. I bought “I’d sell it cheaper to a guy in re-done and I decided it was it to drive and enjoy. The only California than I would to a guy easier to do the red and white time it was on a trailer was when in Michigan. Then I’d never have vinyl. The dash was gray, just it was broke down. I have a to see it!” like it is now. I haven’t done sticker on the inside on the edge anything with that. The dash of the dash that says, ‘If you see hasn’t been touched and the this on a trailer, call 911.’” P a g e | 22 had an overflow crowd, so be information contact Exalted sure to come for the rest of the Ruler Kelly Heyer @ 701-952- playoff games and watch for a 0710 or Leading Knight Craig new big screen TV in the Gaier @ 701-269-8150. Woody's Porch room, so we should have plenty of room for eating everyone from here on out. Remember we have snacks (pizza, chili or whatever we have that day) for no charge during the big game. Next one scheduled for Saturday the 14th and hopefully the Bison will be back for more games this season.

Other activities coming up are the annual members Christmas party on Thursday the 19th a Wild Game Feed on Saturday the 21st (get your tickets at the lounge or from selling members--they are $15 per person or only $20 per couple, everyone welcome) and members and guests be sure to come for Free Tom & Jerry’s on New Year’s day.

JAMESTOWN ELKS The Lodge Lounge is open usually #995 CLUB NEWS at 4:00 pm through 8:00 or later weekdays and noon to whenever After a busy October and Saturdays. At this time snack November the Jamestown Elks food and Pizza Corner pizza is all that's available for dining. Watch Club has already been busy with December activities starting with for our special burger or steak fry our annual Memorial Service on nights available on certain dates Dec. 1st dedicated to our passed and the kitchen and Woody's members Clarence Oak, Porch area is available for private Raymond Game, A.G. Schultz, parties and meets. Jerome Cichos, James Carlascio, Robert Grabinger and Virginia We have close to 600 paid Evans. members and if you were a past member think about getting The first NDSU Bison playoff reinstated and to you new game was broadcast on all three interested parties check us out of our big screen TV's at the and join in at our new Lodge Clubhouse full service permanent Lodge located at 324 nd lounge on Saturday the and we 2 Avenue SW Jamestown. Welcome one and all. For further P a g e | 23 CLASSIC CAR SUMMARY: Before 1949, Oldsmobile’s would convertible … at back to the 50’s never have been considered race and 20 minutes later, I owned it.” 1950 OLDSMOBILE SEDAN cars, but when the “88” hit the track with the new V-8, DELIVERY Oldsmobile kept blasting across the finish line first. Red Byron won the 1949 Daytona Beach, Fla., stock car race in an “88” coupe, and Oldsmobile took five of eight NASCAR Grand Nationals in 1949.

In addition to its on- and off- track performance, the

dependability of the new Rocket Story and photos by Angelo Van Bogart 8 helped Oldsmobile sales (Old Cars Weekly) skyrocket. In 1948, the last year Olds offered L-head engines It’s not a Photoshopped across the board, the company Chevrolet, nor is it a custom. It is sold 173,661 cars, which was indeed a 1950 Oldsmobile sedan good for seventh place in the delivery, and no, Oldsmobile did industry sales race. When the not build one for John Q. Public. Rocket V-8 replaced the L-head It built the vehicle for itself. eight for 1949, sales climbed to a record 288,310 Oldsmobile’s, still

In 1950, soaring sales meant good for seventh. In 1950, sales That 1950 Oldsmobile 88 Oldsmobile could do and build hit the moon at 407,889 for the convertible met Flaherty’s almost anything it wanted, and model year, propelling expectations and then some. on a few occasions, it did. Oldsmobile into sixth place. Soon, he was hunting for more Oldsmobile went racing, and it’s believed to have built just seven Rocket 8 Oldsmobile’s to add to of these sedan deliveries, one for his collection, which includes use at each of its factories. sedan deliveries. When he found a sedan delivery version of his The popularity of ’ favorite car about eight years mid-level marque took off when ago, it was a match made in the Olds went from building solid but stars. hum-drum straight-eight and six cars to exciting performance “I found it in a guy’s body shop models with the 1949 in Louisiana, and it had been introduction of the oversquare Like many impressionable young sitting 18 years uncovered, so 135-hp, 303-cid Rocket V-8 men of the era, Ed Flaherty saw when we got it, it was sad,” engine. The hot V-8 made Olds a one of those many 1950 Olds Flaherty said. “After 40 hours of red-hot seller, especially with the “88” models rocket past him and buffing, we discovered we had new-for-’49 “88” series. The “88” had to have one — at least one the original paint — it was shared its body structure with — when he grew older. amazing how well it cleaned up.” General Motors’ lightest cars for 1949, the freshly restyled B-body “As a kid, I had a family friend The sedan delivery’s mechanical Chevrolet and Pontiac, but used who was four or five years older components also required the Rocket V-8 from the flagship than I was and he had a attention. The brakes were Ninety-Eight. customized two-door sedan I locked up from the moist always thought was cool,” Louisiana climate, but after a Flaherty said. “About 15 years new battery and squirt of starter ago, I ran into this ’50 Olds P a g e | 24 fluid, Flaherty was surprised the also built heavier trucks, then In their purest form, sedan Rocket V-8 lifted off, and it still offered a 1-ton truck from 1918- deliveries had two side doors and runs smooth. 1924 for the U.S. market. From a cargo compartment behind the that point, Olds was all but gone front seat or seats. Sedan from the U.S. light-truck market, deliveries of the 1920s and into the category into which sedan the 1930s were usually based on deliveries fell. the maker’s two-door sedan, but in the later 1930s and beyond, In the 1930s, Oldsmobile sedan deliveries had the profile apparently delved into sedan of a steel two-door station delivery production again when it wagon, which they were built 1,386 L-34 sedan deliveries sometimes based upon. in 1934, according to Helen Regardless of the era in which He wasn’t able to learn much Jones Early and James R. they were built, sedan deliveries about where his sedan delivery Walkinshaw in their book “Setting usually had blanked-out side was employed, or how it came the Pace: Oldsmobile’s First 100 panels to prevent curious eyes into circulation after it left an Years.” from viewing the cargo, a single Olds factory. In buying the Olds, or sometimes bench seat in front, Flaherty went back and forth with a flat rear floor for loading cargo the owner through the owner’s and a side-opening rear door for children, so much of its past maximum access to the rear remains a mystery. cargo area.

“The whole thing was a difficult Flaherty’s Oldsmobile sedan transaction,” he said. “It was the delivery incorporates these kind of transaction that usually features, and since the you say isn’t worth it, but in this Oldsmobile’s “88” passenger car case, I thought it was worth No other sedan deliveries are shell was shared with the taking this kind of abuse.” known to have been built by Chevrolet B-body, one might Oldsmobile after that 1934 model expect the ultra-rare Olds sedan From what Flaherty has learned until 1950. By that year, sedan delivery body to be shared with through other Olds sedan deliveries were hitting their Chevrolets, and even the few delivery owners (two others are heyday. Production leader Pontiac sedan deliveries built at known to exist) and other Chevrolet was producing the this time. However, Flaherty has hobbyists, the vehicles were most with only about 20,000 done the measurements and his parts runners or plant manager units annually in this era, so they Oldsmobile sedan delivery’s body vehicles that shuttled around were not considered big sellers. doesn’t share dimensions with a Olds factories. Later, General The relatively few sedan Chevrolet. Motors is believed to have sold deliveries on the road were them off to larger Oldsmobile visible because they were dealers. One of the owners buzzing around America from 9 Flaherty spoke to buy his vehicle to 5, delivering flowers, parts, from a dealer in Chicago. baked goods and any other small deliverable items. Given their The seven 1950 sedan deliveries sleeves-rolled-up lifestyles, they weren’t the first light trucks built were utilitarian in nature and by Oldsmobile. The company was usually based on the most building light delivery vans upon affordable automobile chassis — its famous curved-dash model as Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth — “I looked at the doors, for early as 1904, according to the and were usually part of the example, and the fenders,” “Standard Catalog of Light-Duty least-trimmed series. Flaherty said, “they are all Trucks.” The source adds that different [than a Chevrolet]. That between 1905 and 1907, Olds was pretty interesting when I P a g e | 25 went through that drill. Those cars look very similar, but those parts aren’t interchangeable.

“What was interesting about this is that it was built on a four-door Olds ‘88’ chassis, and that’s a bigger chassis,” Flaherty said in comparing the Olds’ 119-1/2-inch wheelbase to the Chevrolet Fellow 1950 Olds sedan delivery sedan delivery’s 115-inch owner Jim Spurbeck added that, wheelbase. He also noted that “These seven [sedan deliveries] besides the Oldsmobile front were identified by ‘99’, but ‘88’ doors and the obvious difference emblems were incorporated. To with the front Oldsmobile sheet produce ‘99’ emblems for seven metal, the shape of the Olds’ rear vehicles would not be cost- cargo door is different than that effective.” of a Chevrolet sedan delivery. Also, the Olds sedan delivery has Spurbeck’s research also included the one-piece windshield of later the plant managers to whom the 1950 “88” models, while all 1950 seven sedan deliveries were Chevrolet and Pontiac sedan assigned: Laurel Dykxhoorn deliveries have a two-piece (Flint, Mich.); Moe Zaragoza windshield. (Atlanta); Lou Ybanez (Framingham, Mass.); Hardy “What I was led to believe, and I Tschantz (Kansas City, Mo.); Bud have met two other guys in the Bjowerud (Linden, N.J.); Larry country that have these… is Adamzadeh (South Gate, Calif.); these were built by a custom and Curly (Joe) Myrtakis coach house for GM in or around (Wilmington, Del.). Detroit,” Flaherty said. Flaherty isn’t sure which Regardless of how they were Oldsmobile factory employed his sourced, Oldsmobile sedan sedan delivery, but he’s always deliveries were unique enough to on the hunt for another “88” that get identified on the firewalls rocketed out of their doors in with an exclusive style number: 1950. 50-3771. The “50” denoted the model year, while the 3771 was “You know the affliction,” he part of a four-digit sequence that said. “I think if I could find the started with “37” for the “88” fastback and the , I series. Standard 1950 Oldsmobile would have them, too.” “88” four-digit style numbers range from 3707 for the two- Special thanks to Old Cars reader door club sedan to 3769 for the and 1950 Oldsmobile sedan “88” four-door sedan; the sedan delivery owner Jim Spurbeck for delivery’s 3771 style number was providing information included in simply a continuation of that this story. sequence.

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