Welcome! to the new Smoke Signals Expanded On-line Edition. Better, stronger, faster..., well, spookier anyway. Unfettered by page number constraints and budgets, this is where you’ll find expanded articles and extra goodies! Enjoy. Halloween Edition In celebration of Halloween, there is a special Years Past page, a Halloween-themed puzzle, pumpkin carving tips and a page of movie recommendations, one for every day in October! Happy Halloween! SMOKE SIGNALS Sept./ Oct. 2016 The Official Publication of the ANKOKAS Region AACA Volume 53, Issue 5 In This Month’s Issue: Prez Sez......................1 News & Events............2 The Award Goes To....3 Member Profile...........4 Car is The Star............5 Our long, hot summer is about the nominating committee in search of Men Behind the Cars.6 over. Our focus right now is on the candidates. If you have the hankering to Calendar.....................7 Haddonfield show September 17th. fill one of the needed positions, please Letter From the By the time you read this we will speak up. We need responsible and Editors........................7 have already had our organizational capable people to run the club. Story of the Jack O’ Lantern.......................8 meeting for the show and we are Our cancelled tour of the Philadelphia Years Past...................9 ready to go. If you were not at Masonic Temple has been rescheduled Years Past Spooky the meeting and are planning to for October 29th. All of the needed Edition.......................10 judge, please contact Carl Villone at information is reprinted in this Smoke Puzzle........................11 [email protected] to get your Signals and on the website. Pumpkin Carving ......11 name on his list of judges. We need I wanted to pass along to you, the Scary Movies.............12 Roadside Ramblings.13 everyone. Our regular membership members, the fact that we lost another Marketplace..............13 meeting on September 15th will cap sponsor, Elite Auto Service. off all the preparation. I hope to see They decided that they just This newsletter is all of you there. do not want to sponsor a publication of the I did meet up with a few of us any longer. So with Ankokas Region our Ankokas family over the that in mind, if you of the Antique summer at shows, but not know of someone Automobile Club of many, TOOOOOOOOOOOOO who might be a suitable America. Hot! But that is behind candidate as a sponsor, Material may be us and on to nice car please let us know reproduced only if credit is given to the show weather. Our and follow up with source and we are Smoke Signals them. If you asked for permission is full of plans need assistance, to reproduce the for a tour and please let us material. other good know. We have If you have material information. Our president, Bob Petters. Photo by D. Antinucci a sponsor form that you would like Thanks again to Diana for that! to contribute or you and Steve for all their input into the Please read ALL of the Smoke Signals, have comments Smoke Signals and website. Have visit our website and I will see you at the or ideas about the you looked at the website recently? membership meeting September 15th newsletter, please As you are aware, Ankokas is and our Haddonfleld show September contact the editor, in need of some new officers and 17th. Diana, at 2 directors for 2017. Carl Villone newsletter@ ([email protected]) will head Bob Petters ankokas.com. SMOKE SIGNALS Page 2 News & Events Southeastern Fall Meet in New Bern, NC article and photos by Steven Soppe evening in the convention hall. The Southeastern Fall Meet was hosted by the The town of New Bern is located in eastern First Capital Chapter of the AACA on August North Carolina, on the Neuse River, a few miles 13, 2016 in New Bern NC. The show upstream from Cape field for the event was along the shade Hatteras. Founded covered streets of several downtown in 1710, New Bern blocks of New Bern. With several hundred is the second oldest cars on display, municipality in North town residents Carolina. After its and visitors had founding, New Bern lots of cars and served as a colonial motorcycles to capital and later as enjoy. The day the state’s first capital started with bright as well as a major sunshine, high port and trading center. Much of that early history temperatures and has been preserved. The city’s Historic District is humidity, and as populated with well preserved homes dating from the day went on it the mid 1700s. New Bern is also where Caleb got even hotter. But that didn’t dampen the spirits Bradham first created Pepsi Cola in his pharmacy of anyone in attendance. Our VP Steven Soppe on the corner of Middle and Pollock Streets. You was on hand to judge some early brass era cars can still sit at the soda counter and enjoy a Pepsi and a few Model T’s. Fortunately, there was plenty today. A big Thank You to the First Capital Chapter of air conditioning at the awards banquet later that for hosting a wonderful meet. Ankokas at LIFE at Lourdes article and photos by Diana Antinucci for the occasion were Bill and Diane Marter, Bob On July 13, 2016, and Kathy Petters, Jim and Karen Hann, Steven Ankokas went Soppe, Diana Antinucci and Nancy Dougherty. to LIFE (Living There was music, dancing, free lunch and a little Independently for rain. Maybe a lot of rain, Elders) at Lourdes but our spirits could not be to show their dampened. It was a great cars and brighten time and we’d like to extend the day for the a very warm thank you to elderly. As a bonus, the staff of LIFE at Lourdes the adjoining for their gracious hospitality! Weisman Children’s For those that did not Rehabilitation attend, you missed a fun Center brought the children out to see the cars time among friends for a too. One of the staff explained that the two worthy cause. Hope to see facilities often share activities. In attendance you next time. SMOKE SIGNALS Page 3 And The Award Goes To... Ken Tomlinson won an Honorable Senior and Best in Class for his 1953 Mention at Collingswood Cruise Night Olds 88 convertible at the national meet in July for his 1967 Chevy Impala. of the Oldsmobile Club of America in Jim Hann and his 1966 Plymouth Kingsport, TN on July 21st. Barracuda won an Honorable Mention Steven Soppe won the Kiwanis Choice in Collingswood Cruise Night in July, Sponsors Award at the Woodbury Auto a Top 40 (of 250 cars) at the St. Paul Show for his 1934 Packard 1100. Car Show in Burlington on July 30th Tom Amendola won an Outstanding and a Top 40 (of 200 cars) at ARC award at the Labor Day Car Show at the of Burlington County on August 6th Silver Diner on Sept. 5th for his 1957 (presented by AACA High Octane Dodge Custom Royal Lancer. Region). On Saturday, August 13th, Congratulations to all our members he received an Honorable Mention that have won an award this season! ribbon at New Hope, PA. On Thursday, If you have won an award at a car August 18th, Jim received a Top 20 show, e-mail [email protected] award at Collingswood Cruise and we’ll put it in the next Smoke Jim Hann’s award from ARC of Burlington Night. County: photo by Jim Hann Signals. Bob Petters received his First SMOKE SIGNALS Page 4 Member Profile: Barry Goldsmith article by Diana Antinucci different investment classes, buying and selling stocks, and Barry was born and raised in Maple Shade, NJ, living there options contracts. until fourth grade when his family moved to Moorestown. Barry decided to start judging at car shows because it He grew up around cars as his father (Ben) and his uncle was a way to be involved with the antique car hobby, go to (Wilbur) owned Ben and Wilbur’s Service, a five-bay general meets, see a lot of great cars in one place, and participate auto repair business that was on an economic level and time commitment that worked for formerly located at him. He sees judging as an opportunity to learn what issues the intersection judges are looking for that qualify great antique cars of Camden and from just antique cars. He also belongs to the Cottage Aves. in Vintage Chevrolet Car Club of America (VCCA), Lenola (the building which he had the privilege of helping with the is now gone). judges duties by judging at the 50th anniversary His father would of the VCCA in New Jersey in 2015. He especially bring home car parts likes judging antique race cars, including early for him to assemble and sprint and Indy cars. He finds himself fascinated disassemble, took him to junk by the early innovators, particularly Harry Miller, a big yards in search of parts favorite of his. He would someday like to judge at a meet he needed and would quiz Barry’s ‘55 Chevy: photo by B. Goldsmith where Miller’s cars are being exhibited. him on car identification Currently, Barry owns a teal 1995 Ford Mustang 5.0L during family vacations. He was given GT with a camel-colored convertible a workspace and enjoyed building, top (which he drives regularly and plans modifying and operating gas-powered to keep until it qualifies as an antique model airplanes and model race cars. car) and a 2015 silver 50th anniversary When he was older, he worked alongside Ford Mustang 5.0L GT coupe with a his father in the service station.