Visit Us Online at www.tcrgv8club.org Vo l u m e 39 • Nu m b e r 8 AUGUST , 2010 How’s your summer goin’? Should’ve talked to the wife& banker! Inside... • Club Activities • Mercury Blues • Back to the 50’s Memories • They Are Still Out There! T WIN CI T IES REGIONAL GR OUP INFO R MA T ION The Rumble Sheet is the official publication of the Meetings Twin Cities Regional Group # 46 (TCRG) of the Early Membership meetings of the TCRG are held at Ford V-8 Club of America and is sent to all current 7:30 on the first Wednesday of almost every month members and advertisers. TCRG is chartered by the at a site announced in the Rumble Sheet. Change Early Ford V-8 Club of America, and is a non-profit in time or location will also be announced in the corporation in the state of Minnesota, dedicated to Rumble Sheet. the preservation of Ford motor vehicles and related Membership historical materials from the era of flathead V-8 Membership dues for the TCRG are $15.00 per engines, including all Fords, Mercurys and Lincolns calendar year. Membership in the Early Ford V-8 so equipped from 1932 through 1953. Club of America (the national club) is a membership Club Address requirement of the Twin Cities Regional Group. PO Box 20236, Minneapolis, MN 55420. Submitting material Please send all materials for publication to Bruce Nelson, 2887 W. Owasso Blvd., Roseville 55113, or e-mail [email protected]. Rumble Sheet material deadline is the 15th of the month. E-mail body content (not attachment) is preferred. Advertising Classified ads are free to TCRG members, and will run for three consecutive months. Display ads (business card size) will run for 12 issues at a cost of $30. Check under ad for last scheduled appearance. Website TCRG can be visited online at www.tcrgv8club.org Twin Cities Regional Group 2010 Board of Directors President Bill Gillies 651-633-1564 Vice President Bill Blood 612-722-4172 Secretary Gordon Ditmanson 651-646-8103 Treasurer Roger Wothe 952-473-3038 Editor Bruce Nelson 651-482-8940 Activities Director Team Effort Team Effort Membership Joel Bergstrom 651-631-0091 Past President Duane Shuck 952-888-7191 Sunshine Lady Jean Shuck 952-888-7191 Archives Jerry Felton 952-873-6754 Art Director Ron Long 651-714-2740 Webmaster Mark Crichton 612-801-3620 2 TCRG Activities TCRG Glovebox Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 4 -10:00 PM • Cover Photo: Ron Long took this picture MEMBERSHIP MEETING, Annual TCRG of BJ’s ‘40 just before it was hauled away! See picnic Wabun park. All the details are in Dobie’s story on page 10. While you are there, “Dobie’s Corner”. check out BJ’s Corner for some nice cars for Sunday, August 15th, 8 to 4 sale! 24th Annual New Brighton Car Show and • Rumble Sheet Contributors: The Editor Swap Meet. Long Lake Regional Park, 1500 would like to thank Bill and Mary Gillies, Dave Old Hwy 8 NW. Admission $4 for car and Gustavson (through Francis Kalvoda), Gary driver, spectators and passengers $4, youth Weyrauch, Ron Long, Werner Langenbach, and seniors $2. Plenty of family fun and food. and Mark Crichton for their contributions this Sponsored by TCRG & Thunderbird Midwest month. Also thanks to Mary Hyberg for stealing Club. Info: Bruce Nelson 651-482-8940 a great Corn Dip recipe out of the Pioneer Thursday, August 19, 2010, 9:00 AM Press! GEEZER BREAKFAST, Baker’s Square • New Brighton Show: Our 2nd and last 611 West 98th Street, Bloomington, MN 55420 TCRG-co-sponsored show of the year is coming (952) 881-4080. Hopefully, Duane Shuck will up fast on August 15th. Be sure to contact set it up. Thanks Duane! Bruce Nelson (651-482-8940) to secure your Saturday, August 21, 2010, 9:00 AM time to help the club make it a success (and a Happily Ever After Car Show, Harris Pioneer few bucks). Bruce will also have a sign-up sheet Days, downtown Harris, MN, food fun games at the August picnic. And no, you don’t have to car entry $10, first exit north of the North make ice. Just come, work a shift, enjoy some Branch exit on I -35. good food from the Stockyard Days vendors, Saturday, August 21, 2010, 8AM to 1PM and have some V-8 fun! 1st annual “Back to the Oldies” Car Show, • For Sale!: Some new for sale and wanted ads New Hope, MN, see Werner Langenbach’s have been added this month. Page 10 & 11 as write-up on page 9 always. Wednesday, September 1, 2010 MEMBERSHIP MEETING Minnetonka Drive-in, more to come in the September RS. Happy Birthday! August 1 Sharon Myers August 1 RoseAnn Bergstrom August 5 Joe Floyd August 6 Helen Forest August 13 Cindy Flores August 20 Jill Minor August 27 Cheryl Granlund August 30 Harvey Oberg August 30 Dick Tempel 3 Dobie’s Corner Tales from the Ice August and I need a nap! This summer It seems like a long time since the last one keeps moving along at what seems to a faster pace of these I wrote. Guess that happens when you have than I would like. a month off. Since the last issue: Get ready for the annual picnic in Wabun I have paid off my house. Park, Wednesday August 4th from 4: PM ‘till 10: I have been to the Eastern National Meet PM plan to eat around 6:30. We will be in the same in Charlotte NC. Saw lots of old Fords, Mercurys, shelter “B” as last year, across from the Ford Plant and trucks. Went 165 mph around the Charlotte rain or shine. The food will again be prepared by Motor Speedway (highly recommended no matter Aesop’s Table so come hungry. what your heart condition is), and ate lunch in the The park is off Ford Parkway or E.46th prestigious Speedway Club overlooking the track. It Street depending on which side of the river you’re was rather hot and humid there. There were 292 coming from. 46th Ave is a cross street to the park registrations and 200 vehicles. We toured the sites, but there are two other entrances closer to the river. including Dennis Carpenter’s Museum and produc- The New Brighton Show is Sunday August tion facility. And, if you are ever in the area, be sure 15, In case you forgot or new to the club the car to visit the newly opened NASCAR Hall of Fame in show is put on by our club and the Thunderbird downtown Charlotte. club. It is a fun event, but we need people to help I also attended the Iola Car Show and with various tasks to make the show run smoothly. Swap. It was almost as hot as Charlotte. I have to No job is hard nor are they too time consuming. admit that I haven’t been to Iola for about 7 years. A There is a need for people to take money at the gate, lot has changed. But it did bring back memories of fill out registration/ window cards, park cars in their an event I have gone respective classes, count ballots, and lastly roll up the to since 1982 – Her- fence tightly after the show. If you haven’t signed up shey. Iola had had a to work and want too, please call Bruce Nelson, 651- lot of rain, and driv- 482-8940. ing over the field, Come for an hour or come for the day well, it was very you’ll see some nice cars and enjoy the time with close to flipping the club members. There is food and drink available switch to four wheel along with other activities for young and old as part drive to get through of New Brighton’s Stockyard days. If you come early the sogginess. Hung there is a shuttle bus to the Eagles for a pancake out with the crew that stays in Stevens Point and saw breakfast. a lot of our members while walking the swap field. The park is Long Lake Regional Park; it is I have also just about finished the re-siding just one block west of 35W and one block south of of my storage building. I have wrapped the building County Road 96. Exit off Inner State 35W on 96 and installed new vinyl siding. I have a pile of ma- which is one exit north of 694 on 35W. sonite siding in the driveway, which doesn’t look like The rest of the calendar year is in limbo enough to do the building. And I should say thanks so watch your Rumble Sheet for meeting places and to the wonderful Menard’s estimating program, as activities. I have 3 boxes of new siding left. Guess, I will be Dobie & Mary [email protected] prepared for……………any replacement. Well, it’s almost time for the New Brighton Stockyard Days Car Show and Swap Meet. The ads have been placed, the dash plaques and trophies 4 have been ordered (thanks to John Barnes), now all Scott came by and found some more parts they must that is needed is some good old TCRG volunteerism, have missed the first time thru. Then I had a full and we will be ready. The sign up sheet will be at the cart and had to dump it off at the car. This was not August picnic meeting. Pray for nice weather! a real problem as another friend Bill and Sandy B.