SMOKE SIGNALS The Official Publication of the ANKOKAS, NJ Region AACA Jan./Feb. 2019 Volume 56, Issue 1 In This Issue: H Ankokas Holiday Party H History of the Electric Car Part 3 H It Caught My eye H Car is the Star H Ankokas, AACA and Local Event Calendars H Fun Holidays H Frightful Fairy Tales H Roadside Ramblings In This Month’s Issue: Looking Down the Road................... 1 News........................ 2 Meeting Minutes....... 3 Electric Cars............. 4 It Caught My Eye...... 6 Car is the Star........... 7 Calendars................. 9 For those of you Fun Holidays............ 9 who don’t know me, my name is his hard Fairy Tales................. 10 Joseph Dougherty and I live in work that went Roadside Somerdale, NJ. I have been married into the Haddonfield 12 Ramblings................. car show and would also like Rummage Box.......... 13 for 30 years to my wife, Nancy, Radio Puzzle............. 13 who is also a club member and a to thank Tom and Carol McClarney Find a Word.............. 14 director. I have a ‘61 Ford Galaxie for making all the arrangements for Letter from the and a 2005 50th Anniversary the Holiday Party. If you have not Editors...................... 15 Marketplace.............. 16 Thunderbird. I have been a club attended any of these events in the member since 1992. By the time past you should try to attend this year. everyone is reading this 2018 will It is always a good time with the car be over and we will be welcoming club members. Winter is upon us and in 2019. I hope everyone enjoyed the car season is in park and we are their time spent with family and all waiting for spring when the cars friends during the Hanukkah and can come out of hibernation. In the Christmas holidays. I would like to meantime there is the AACA Annual wish all Ankokas members and their Meeting in Philadelphia in February. families a healthy and very happy Hope to see everyone Thursday, This newsletter is New Year. January 10th at the meeting. I am a publication of the Ankokas Region of the I would like to thank Kathy looking forward to a Antique Automobile Club Petters for the excellent job she successful 2019. of America, located in southern New Jersey. did as Ankokas’s first female Joe Dougherty, Material may be President during the past 2 President reproduced only if credit is given to the source years. The year 2018 was a and we are asked for successful year for the club permission to reproduce from the charter luncheon held the material. If you have material at the Ramblewood Country that you would like to Club in April, to our annual contribute or you have comments or ideas about Haddonfield car the newsletter, please show held in contact the editor, Diana, September, to the at newsletter@ankokas. com. Holiday Party held at Café Madison in December. I would like to give a special thanks to Bob Petters for all President Joe Dougherty. Photo by D. Antinucci. SMOKE SIGNALS Page 2 ghgh News & Events ghgh Annual Holiday Party article by Diana Antinucci, photos by D. Antinucci & S. Soppe Our annual holiday party was held on Dec. 2nd at the Madison in Riverside. As always, a great time was had by all, with wonderful fellowship, rollicking tunes and even some dancing. The hat went around and we raised a lot of money for the Food Bank. We would like to thank Tom and Carol McLarney for hosting the party again and we look forward to seeing everyone at the next holiday party. P SMOKE SIGNALS Page 3 gh November Meeting Minutes gh Meeting called to order at 7:40 by President Kathy Sunshine: Kathy gave an update on Howard & Petters. No new members present, but our guest Judy Steinberg. Judy is in Lions Gate rehabilitation speaker Lawrence Giancola was ready to go. center for about another month and Howard Minutes of both the September and October is home for now, recuperating. Visitors are meeting were waived as they were published in welcomed. Smoke Signals. All approved. Our Haddonfield show for 2019 will be Treasurer’s report not given as Jeff was not able to September 12th, but we need final approval attend. from Haddonfield, which will not come until the As head of the nominating committee, Bob beginning of 2019. announced the candidates for the Our meeting dates have been offices needing replacements. Pres: Joe approved by the Boro of Haddonfield. Dougherty, VP: Tom McLarney, Sec: Steve All were reminded of the four free Soppe, Treas: Jeff Schulte, Directors: Kathy memberships for the national AACA Petters as IPP, Nancy Dougherty, Bernie available to NEW members. Shuster, Dave Hann and Diana Antinucci. Invitations for our holiday party have There being no opposition there was a been mailed and the date is set for motion to accept the slate of candidates as December 2nd. proposed. They will take office January 1 Meeting adjourned at 8:15 PM 2019. The presentation on oil & lubricants Lawrence Membership: Steve Soppe announced that Giancola was enjoyed by all with a lively Q & A renewals are coming in but we still have 14 members following. not renewed. Get your events & awards information As always, cookies by Diana were enjoyed by in to Steve for the web site and Smoke Signals along all even though she could not be present. with any stories or events of note. Submitted by Bob Petters, Secretary ghgh And the Award Goes To... ghgh article by Diana Antinucci Congratulations to Tom Amendola for winning Best of Show at the We Honor Veterans Car Show at the Masonic Home on September 22nd. Look at that trophy! If you would like to share your car show wins with the club and see yourself in print, please e-mail newsletter@ ankokas.com with the name of the show, the date and what you won. Photos are always appreciated. P SMOKE SIGNALS Page 4 An article in three parts, spanning three issues. ~ Dynamos Down the Road~ Part 3 of 3 article by Diana Antinucci Formula E’s lead sponsor, ABB, has extraordinary In the first installment, we discussed the history of battery charging technology that takes only eight electric vehicles. In the second, we talked about where minutes to give batteries enough power to go 120 miles. the technology is today. That gives you an idea of where Unfortunately, this current technology isn’t quite ready the technology is at right now. In this last installment, for the real world. Six of these chargers would overload we’ll talk about the future of electric vehicles. an electric grid and fry ordinary power cables. But, the technology is changing and some of those The University of St. Andrews in Scotland is working on changes are coming out of Formula E racing. Formula replacing the lithium cobalt oxide electrode in fuel cells with E racing consists of ten teams, each with two drivers, carbon that takes in oxygen from the air to discharge the racing electric cars through a temporary city street circuit battery, doing away with toxic chemicals and producing a that is between 1.2 and 2.1 miles long. The series began battery that is lighter, cheaper and has five to ten times the in 2014 and is currently in its fourth season. A Formula storage capacity of today’s batteries. They already have a E car can go from 0 to 60 in three seconds and has a working prototype that lasts eight times longer than lithium maximum speed of 225 mph. cobalt oxide batteries and it may Generators used to recharge the be commercially available in the cars’ batteries are powered by next five years. glycerine, which is itself a by- To solve the problem of product of bio-diesel. Jaguar, charging time, researchers are Audi and BMW all participate looking at super capacitors, in Formula E racing. Mercedes- solid state storage devices that Benz, Nissan and Porsche will generate electrostatic fields. be joining the racing in 2019. These would charge in just BMW has produced a motor minutes and last longer (nearly a for the next racing season that million charges, compared to the is half the weight and only 3,000 to 5,000 charges we now one-third the size of previous get out of a lithium ion battery engines, delivering twice the before it needs to be replaced). performance. As each of the Currently, super capacitors have teams works out problems with Formula E car in Berlin in 2017. Photo by KAgememnon and used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 a hard time holding a charge range, charging technology and International license. and more are required to get the heat, that knowledge will be used same charge as fewer lithium ion to manufacture production electric cars for the rest of us. batteries. Researchers are looking at the possibility of using Currently, each team has two cars ready for the race both lithium ion and super capacitors in the future. because the batteries in a single car cannot go the Goodyear is looking at another way to charge the battery approximately sixty miles of the racecourse. That will in electric cars…. while you drive. They are working on change this season however, with the introduction of new a tire they’re calling the BH03, which converts the heat battery technology, doubling the kWh from 28 to 54 and caused by tire friction on the road into electricity. The tire upping the voltage from 800 to 1000 volts. With higher will also be able to collect heat from tire flex and from the voltage comes lower amperage for the same amount of sun through thermo-piezoelectric layers (solid materials power.