SMOKE SIGNALS the Official Publication of the ANKOKAS, NJ Region AACA
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SMOKE SIGNALS The Official Publication of the ANKOKAS, NJ Region AACA March/April 2019 Volume 56, Issue 2 In This Issue: AACA National Headquarters and America’s Automotive Library Solar Cars It Caught My Eye The Car is the Star Hero Cats Roadside Ramblings Carl Villone at the AACA display at the Philly Auto Show. Photo by D. Antinucci. In This Month’s Issue: Looking Down the Road................... 1 News........................ 2 Meeting Minutes....... 3 Solar Cars................. 4 It Caught My Eye...... 5 Car is the Star........... 7 Rummage Box.......... 8 The groundhog Ankokas Calendar..... 9 says we are going to have an The cost is AACA Calendar......... 9 early spring and I guess we Fun Holidays............. 9 $35 for member 10 will see how that works out for Hero Cats.................. and $35 for a guest. The Roadside the car enthusiast as an early 12 Hankins Award will be presented at Ramblings................. spring would be nice. The AACA Puzzle....................... 15 this luncheon. Letter from annual meeting was held in We are always looking for the Editors................ 16 Philadelphia and unfortunately Marketplace.............. 17 speakers for our monthly meetings. I was unable to attend due to If anyone knows of someone let prior commitments. However, I us know and we will see if we can did hear that Steven and Diana set something up for one of the should be congratulated once meetings. Does anyone have a car again for receiving the Master story about a project that they are Awards for their work on the working on and would like to talk web site and Smoke Signals. about at our meeting? Let us know So just wanted to say thank you as we would like to hear all about it. This newsletter is and congratulations for all you The next meeting will be held on a publication of the do for the club. Ankokas Region of the March 14th, 2019 at Antique Automobile Club We will be celebrating the the Haddonfield of America, located in 55th Annual Ankokas Charter southern New Jersey. Borough Hall. Material may be Luncheon on Sunday, March reproduced only if credit Hope to see you 24th, 2019 at 1pm. The is given to the source then. and we are asked for luncheon will take place at permission to reproduce President the Merchantville Country the material. Joe Dougherty If you have material Club, 501 Chapel Avenue that you would like to contribute or you have West, Cherry Hill, NJ. comments or ideas about the newsletter, please Your invitation contact the editor, Diana, to the Charter at newsletter@ankokas. com. Luncheon will be in the mail shortly and your response is requested by March 15th, 2019. President Joe Dougherty. Photo by D. Antinucci. SMOKE SIGNALS Page 2 ghgh News & Events ghgh AACA National Headquarters and America’s Automotive Library article by Diana Antinucci The plan is for the first floor to house several vehicle The AACA will be moving into a much-needed new displays, trophies, historical artifacts, office space and a gift building soon. Why much-needed you ask? The library today shop. The second floor will house the library and offer clean houses over 2,000,000 historical documents, including nine fire suppression, HVAC control, research space and a media collections from other car clubs, with new donations and room. See Rummage Box on page eight for more information collections coming in regularly. They will be receiving several about the new building and the capital campaign. P large collections in the future and the library is out of space. Also, headquarters for the national staff is cramped. The current building, originally the living quarters for Milton Hershey students, was never meant to serve as office space. It is also close to 100 years old and is in need of costly repair. The current location has only 13 parking spaces, no loading dock, no elevator and is not handicapped accessible. Why the chosen location? There is very little suitable open land for sale for new construction. The new building has 187 parking spaces, is located on six acres, is 35,000 square feet, has an elevator and loading dock and is located on a major highway next to Hershey Park, offering great visibility to the 10-12 million people that will pass by each year. Architectural renderings of the new building. Provided by and used with permission from Steve Moskowitz, CEO AACA. SMOKE SIGNALS Page 3 gh February Meeting Minutes gh Meeting called to order by President Joe show or events relative to Ankokas be sent Dougherty. No new members present or directly to him at webmaster@ankokas. guests. com. Minutes were read by Bob Petters, sitting One more thing: Diana received the in for Steven (on vacation) for this meeting. AACA Master Editor award for her work Minutes accepted as read with no questions. on Smoke Signals in 2018. This was her Treasurer’s report given by Jeff. No 3rd year as editor and 2nd consecutive questions. Master award. Steven received the AACA Our Holiday party this year will be on Master Webmaster award for 12/8/2019 at the Madison our Ankokas.com website again. Tom McLarney for 2018. This was his 4th reported that the prices year as webmaster and 3rd have gone up a bit and consecutive Master award. the cost to members for Our annual Youth the dinner will be $42 and Scholarship award was Ankokas will pick up the discussed along with the balance of 26%. AACA building fund drive. It Bob Petters announced was decided to give $250 our Haddonfield show date to each for this year. The will be September 14th scholarship donation is and we are awaiting final in memory of Ankokas approval of that date from the members who died this Haddonfield boro officials. past year. They were Bob also provided Allan Vogelson and Mike Cooper. information from both Steven & Our charter luncheon is being set up by Diana for membership and Smoke Signals Joe & Nancy Dougherty and will be at the and our web site in their abstentia. We have Merchantville Country Club on March 24th. 5 members as of now who have not renewed Registration forms were passed out at the and we assume they are not going to renew. meeting and others will be mailed out. We currently have 52 active members and Tom Amendola bought another car, a 4 “friends” of Ankokas who do not have 1964 Plymouth sport fury convertible, to an AACA number. An official roster will be add to his museum. submitted in another week. Meeting adjourned at 8:17 PM to enjoy Diana again made her request for articles DD. (this time no cookies). for sale and or wanted and stories for the Smoke Signals which need to be to her Submitted by Bob Petters, acting Secretary before February 20 for the March/April issue. for Steven Soppe Steven requests any submissions of car SMOKE SIGNALS Page 4 Solar Cars: Driving on Sunshine article by Diana Antinucci Hyundai and Kia both plan on putting solar Katrina and the Waves might have been walking on panels on the roofs of some of their cars, sunshine, but what if you could drive on it? If electric sometime “after 2019”. These panels will be able cars seem like science fiction to you, buckle up because to charge 30-60% of a hybrid’s battery per day, while electric cars are already here, solar powered cars depending on weather and environmental factors. are in the very near future. German manufacturer Sono Motors is offering Solar power has been the hope of producers of the Sion, a fully electric vehicle with electric cars for years. It solar cells that can charge through would solve one of their solar power or through conventional biggest problems: the outlets. Charging it just through lack of charging stations. solar power will take about half the With solar power, it day, but in an eight hour shift, it would be unnecessary should have plenty of juice to drive to plug in. And getting people to adopt electric you back home from work. It can cars is becoming crucial. also be quick-charged electrically The Netherlands, to 80% in 40 minutes. A full “tank” Germany and India plan will give you a range of 250 miles. to go all electric from And even with an empty battery, it 2030 onward and the UK will travel up to eighteen miles just and France plan a fossil Tokai Challenger, winner of the 2009 Global Green Challenge. on solar energy stored in the 300 Photo by Hideki Kimura and used under the Creative Commons solar panels. The Sion will also offer fuel ban starting in 2040. Attribution 3.0 Unported license. Even China is looking “goSono”, an app that at banning fossil fuels. will allow bi-directional Solar powered electric cars charging that will let are the wave of the future, but your car power external until recently they were thought devices. And you can get to be not only impractical, but it in any color you want, impossible. as long as it’s black. Not anymore. Solar car racing Lightyear, a Dutch has been around for years, with company, recent winner the first race in 1985. These of the Climate Change cars are hardly your daily driver, Innovator Award, has the though. They are designed Lightyear One, a fully for solar panel placement and solar powered vehicle. aerodynamics, making them Theoretically, it can low to the ground and kind of drive forever without pancake or missile shaped. electrical charging and a That changed in December Sono Sion.