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Jan 2012 Southwest Scorcher VOLUME XV ISSUE I JANUARY, 2012 Monthly Newsletter of Cactus Cruisers AMC, Phoenix, AZ Ramblings By The President By Kirk Fletcher Well the new year has arrived and some A big thank you to John Elle and Eric Has- Special points of interest: changes are taking place as I write this selbring for submitting their articles for this newsletter. months issue. • Club Meeting Saturday, Febru- This will be the last newsletter that I put We have about 60 families that are mem- together since Gary Zinman is starting bers of our club at this time and I am sure ary 11th 5:00 pm Denny’s at back up with the publishing of the Febru- that each AMC that you own or have 35th Ave & Bethany Home Road ary newsletter. owned has a story to tell. I would ask that each of you take the time to sit down this • Lowered Club Dues I took it over in May of 2010 to give the month and look at some of your old pic- newsletter a fresh look in preparation to tures. See what story comes to your mind • Check out all the Cool things on our club hosting the 2011 AMO Interna- that you could share with the rest of us. the Web tional Convention. The main reason was computer and software. I had a newer How better can we share our passion of • AMX & Gremlin For Sale computer and Office 2003 with publish- this AMC hobby? er so I was able to change the look of the Southwest Scorcher format. I know it can be difficult to put thought to • Tech Article on Caster angle words on paper. I have been doing it each With the addition of a new Dell Laptop and every month for the last year and a • To checkout what is happening with Microsoft Office 2010 as a club half. It requires some time and mental en- in the Valley of the Sun, visit assets, Gary Zinman will be responsible ergy. But you know what they say? Use it for its use and care. This will allow Gary or lose it! www.desertcruisers.com to continue The Southwest Scorcher in its current format. This applies to our minds just as well as our bodies. See at the February 11th meeting. Inside this issue: From the Editor’s Desk By Gary Zinman Continued on Page 2 Ramblings by the Presi- 1 I hope you all had a wonderful Christ- ous participation. The food was donated dent Kirk Fletcher mas and New Year holiday season. As to the North Hills Church (same place we From the Editor’s Desk 1-2 you know every year we have our annu- hold our April car show) for their distribu- Gary Zinman al holiday party and this year it was tion for those in need. Thank you to Tom Pictures from the Holiday 3-4 fantastic. Dan and Debbie Curtis were Buckley for making that delivery. We will Party at Dan & Debbie’s very gracious hosts at their lovely home probably have this program as a feature Ode to my Father, Story of 5-8 in Paradise Valley. We all had a great at a few events each year. a Javelin & a boy time with lots of excellent food and bev- Member Pat Hoisington informs us that he Build a Model like you 9-10 erages. This year we used this event to has purchased a 401 V8 from a J-series would build your real car launch the “Packin’ the Wagon” program Jeep. Pat plans to build the motor in a where participants bring at least one street-strip mode and replace the 360 in Barrett-Jackson Road Rally 10-11 in Scottsdale canned or packaged food item for char- his award-winning Matador coupe. We’re ity. The program was a very big success all looking forward to seeing that big Calendar of Events 15 and we thank all of you for your gener- block perform in his car. VOLUME XV Page 2 ISSUE I JANUARY, 2012 From the Editor’s Desk By Gary Zinman Continued from Page 1 This year there are not any Javelins or seen. And it was clearly reflected in the AMX’s that I could spot at the Barrett- price. The Metro is rapidly becoming one Jackson Auction, I did however see a gor- of the most collectable of all AMC cars! geous 1955 Nash Metropolitan convertible go across the block for a whopping Start getting your cars ready now for our April show. The show is April 21 st and the Official 2011 AMO National $46,000. This was clearly the nicest stock Convention T-Shirt in Rust events start on Friday April 20 th . restoration of a Metro that I have ever $22 & $25 Cool Stuff By Kirk Fletcher Kirk Fletcher: http://phoenix.craigslist.org/cph/pts/2766562646.html http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_remus_reid.htm http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z11139/Oldsmobile-F-88-Concept.aspx http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcl4rs8gSHg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyH471mtuDQ&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPKaBAGFKiE&feature=endscreen&NR=1 We have a new club member, Scott Dregne, who lives in Glendale. He owns the AAMCO Transmission shop at 6033 W. Bell Rd. Glendale, AZ 85308, 602-843-2443 Official 2011 AMO National He has three AMC’s, 70 Gremlin, 304 auto, 71 Javelin AMX 401 auto, & a 73 Gremlin Convention Cactus Cruisers 401 auto. I saw two of the cars at his shop. I had his shop rebuild my T-35 for my 66 AMC Coin & Key Chains $10 & $11 290 Rogue. They were very fast and the price was great. If you need an Automatic re- build for one of your cars give Scott a call. Tell him you are a member of the Cactus Cruisers AMC Car Club. The manager says he has a great builder working there. Cactus Cruisers AMC Club Dues By Kirk Fletcher We have lowered our club dues back to our and I will pro-rate these fees into the future Pre-AMO International Convention price of unless a refund is requested. For all other $12 per year. We had only raised the dues to members who are not current for 2011—2012 help generate the start-up funds needed to year please send in your payment. Official 2011 AMO Posters, Mouse Pads and Greeting host the AMO Show. Cards $10 or less Since we have lots of Car related activities in We will continue to have our membership dues the next few months you can pay in person or run from July 1st to June 30th with a pro-rated mail a check to our new Treasurer: Dan Curtis, amount of $1 per month for members who join 7025 N 47th St., Paradise Valley, AZ 85253 anytime after August 1st. Cell# 602-317-2018 [email protected] Some people had paid their dues in advance Thanks, New Monthly Club Meeting Location By Kirk Fletcher We are going to try a new Denny’s location is much larger. They also have a much larger for our monthly club meetings. Not everyone service staff since they have a busy location. has been satisfied with the level of service or They have a very large parking lot with easy the quality of the food at the Denny’s that we access and are located much closer to a major have been using for the last several months. freeway. Only 1 mile west of I-17. Denny’s 3456 W. Bethany Home Rd., Phoenix, AZ The new Denny’s that we are going to start 85017 602-973-7716 meeting at has a dedicated meeting room that See you there at 5:00 pm 2/11/12 http://www.lov2xlr8.no/ broch1.html VOLUME XV Page 3 ISSUE I JANUARY, 2012 Cactus Cruisers AMC Holiday Party By Kirk Fletcher Continued on Page 4 Well our annual Cactus Cruisers AMC Holiday Party was a big success as always. Dan & Debbie Curtis graciously opened their home for our clubs biggest meeting as they have done the past few years. do the job for one more year. Next January I will be stepping down so someone else will need to step up to the challenge and volunteer for the position. I have been acting as the Membership chairmen since Richard Ander- son’s computer crashed and Jim Jensen will be taking over this position again. Gary Zinman is the official Newsletter Editor even though I have been doing it lately and he will be taking the job back over. It was a pot-luck affair with the club providing the Ham & Turkey roasts. Thank you Tom Buckley for suggesting and picking up the roasts on your way over to the Holi- day Party. We had a short meeting after spending at lest an hour visiting with each other. We rushed the meeting so we could get started on all of the wonderful food. The main focus on the meeting was election of new club officers for the coming year. Terry Fletcher has been the Treasurer As a club we voted to purchase a laptop computer to use of our club for the last several years and she will be for club business. We also voted to purchase some soft- turning her duties over to Dan Curtis. Thank you to both. ware to install on this computer. The computer will be going to Gary Zinman to use for creating and publishing I have been doing the work of several positions the last the club newsletter.
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