Capitol City Rockets —Oldsmobile Club of America 2009-12 Old Cars Weekly Golden Quill Award winning publication June-Oct 2013 Volume 24, Issue 3 Scott Phillips—Editor The Rocket Review Quarterly Super Fall Edition 2013 Inside this issue: Street Dreams Show, 2-3 All GM Show Results Pres. Message (Cont) 4-5 All GM Results Pics Olds Pics, Event Calen- 7-9 dar, Treasurer’s Report Classifieds/Membership 10-11 Info The All-GM Show held this past August featured many great GM vehicles, with this one, Joe Sedell’s “all original but the paint” Chevrolet SS 409 win- ning Best of Show—Stock honors. Joe hails from PA and the car has a rare Save the Dates!: silver interior. For more show results, see page 3 of this Super Fall Edition. Dues are Due! $15 payable to CCR President Joe Padavano’s Fall Message either club PO Box by check or Fall Carlisle and Hershey 2013 are history, wagon. It is interesting to note how the flavor thru PayPal on the final cruise nights of the year are being of Carlisle changes over the years. The car cor- held, and the 2013 automotive season is ral seems to have far fewer pre-1970 cars and CCR website drawing to a close. The year started out wet, many more 1980s and 90s vehicles. The older Sun, Nov 10— with rain (or at least the treat of rain) nearly cars that are there skew towards the less popular Annual Fall Trip every weekend this spring. CCR’s annual four doors. As a child of the 60s, I’m still less to White Post May barbeque was even cancelled due to enthusiastic about four door sedans (wagons are threatening weather. Fortunately, nicer the one loophole), since until the late-1970s, Restorations— weather prevailed as the year wore on. After two door cars significantly outsold four door lunch at Mr. B’s several years of lower than normal attend- models. As a newly-licensed teenager, four door BBQ at 11:30, WPR ance, Spring Carlisle saw a return to nearly cars were family cars, definitely not perfor- tour at 1 pm. Car- sold-out vendor spaces and aisles jammed mance vehicles. That’s a far cry from today’s avan leaving Lees- with buyers. Every year there seem to be automotive landscape, but old habits die hard. burg at 10:30 am. more vendors selling Oldsmobile-specific CCR’s All-GM show, detailed in this parts, which is encouraging for a marque issue, saw great weather and a nice, if smallish, Dec meeting TBD that’s been out of production for nearly a selection of cars. Unfortunately attendance was decade. Obscure parts keep surfacing, as I down a little from prior years, but those who scored an NOS front bumper for my 62 made it had a great time. Vol. 24, Issue 3, page 2 The Capitol City Rockets—Who We Are The Capitol City Rockets is the Suburban Maryland, DC, Northern Virginia chapter of the Oldsmobile Club of America. The Rocket Review The Capitol City Rockets originated in 1989, and is currently Quarterly-Fall operating in its 24th year. We split monthly meetings (currently) between Kilroy’s Bar and Grille off the Braddock Road exit of 495 in Northern VA and Branded 72 BBQ in Rockville, with one peer judged show co-hosted each year with the Metro Buick Keeping the Legend Club. The club currently consists of over 50 members, from Vir- Alive ginia, Maryland, Florida, and 1each from DC and West Virgin- ia. A membership form is located in the back of this newsletter. One need not own an Oldsmobile to join, and dues remain $15 dollars per year, payable by November the 1st, either by check or using the PayPal button on our Hemmings.com website. Current membership in the Oldsmobile Club of America is a requirement of CCR membership, as we are required to submit club rosters to OCA for yearly insurance coverage for our events. Last Street Dreams Here’s a few Oldsmobiles Show—Ken Quincy from Vern Parker’s Vern Parker hosted the 25th Over the years several Street Dreams annual and final “Street CCR members’ cars were fea- Show. At left Dreams” antique car show tured in Vern’s reviews and is a 1948 Olds on a sunny Sept. 1 at displayed at the show. Olds Woody with a Springhill Recreation Cen- represented at this last show 6 cylinder ter in McLean, VA. Each included Cory Correll’s 1966 year the show has displayed Toronado, Gary Sutherlin’s owned by cars and trucks that were 1977 Cutlass and Ken Quincy’s Daniel R. featured in Vern’s Out of 1969 Toronado, as well as a ’48 the Past reviews in the woody and Jeff Surdyk’s ’61 Washington Times or on his Starfire (both pictured here). Jeff Surdyk website Although Vern’s annual shows brought out www.vernparker.com. may be ending , his reviews will his gor- The cars and trucks continue on his website. We geous 1961 featured range from a Dat- thank Vern for 25 years of Starfire, sun fire truck to a Stu- great car shows and his contri- showed debaker pickup truck to bution to the collector car hob- with Ken’s muscle cars to a 30s Cadil- by. lac 16. and a wide variety in and Cory’s between, each with an inter- ‘69 and ‘66 esting story. That variety is Toros and what made the show so Gary’s ‘77 interesting and unique. Cutlass. August 10, 2013 Annual All GM Show Results Award Entry No. First Name Last Name Year Car Best of Show Stock 75 Joe Sedell 1964 Chevy SS 409 Best of Show Modified 74 Ed Sears 1935 Buick Cabriolet Best Buick 83 Charles Wenger 1952 Buick Roadmaster 2dr ht Best Cadillac 51 Dan Ruby 1953 Cadillac Best Chevrolet 81 Mike Templeton 1956 Chevy Belair Conv Best Oldsmobile 68 Stephen White 1953 Olds Super 88 Best Pontiac 55 Chester Ewart 1964 Pontiac GTO Keys Corvette 54 Ron Stokes 1967 Chevy Corvette Class Position Entry No. First Name Last Name Year Car 1 77 John Stamberg 1933 Chevy Master A 2 None 3 None 1 73 Ivory Newton 1957 Olds 98 B 2 9 Richard Sisson 1960 Pontiac Ventura 3 29 Richard Ray 1960 Pontiac Ventura 1 22 Robert Winokur 1966 Chevy Corvair C 2 67 Scott Patton 1969 Olds 98 2dr 3 14 George King 1965 Buick Rivera 1 63 A Cogswell 1971 Chevy Malibu D 2 43 Mike Scott 1972 Olds Cutlass Supreme 3 86 Rick Mayhew 1974 Pontiac Trans Am 1 19 Jim Hartnett 1992 Cadillac Brougham E 2 88 Rick & Pam Burke 2002 Pontiac Trans Am 3 72 John Durand 1990 Buick Reatta 1 50 Thomas Tucker 1961 Pontiac Ventura F 2 69 Roy Keller 1966 Olds 442 3 36 Lyn Hudson 1962 Chevy Impala 1 58 Jim Carey 1970 Buick Skylark G 2 16 David Sisson 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix 3 78 Marcus Thompson 1970 Olds 442 Conv 1 38 Frederick DeFranza 1974 Chevy Corvette 2 12 Ken Quincy 1984 Hurst/Olds H 3 (Tie) 20 Roger Johnson 1998 Pontiac Firebird 3 (Tie) 56 Matthew Rice 1984 Chevy Corette C4 1 59 Charles Adams 1957 Chevy 3100 Truck J 2 6 Roger Bentley 1990 Chevy Van 3 None 1 60 Doug Dearie 1963 Chevy Corvette 2 64 Steven Ornstein 1956 Chevy Nomad K 3 (Tie) 61 Daryle Reichard 1960 Chevy Impala 3 (Tie) 66 Mark Hanes 1972 Chevy Nova Pa ge 4 The Rocket Review Volume 24, Issue 3 Joe Padavano’s Fall Message—Continued Once again it appears that a slight threat of saw such varied cars as a 1960s Rambler coupe, weather early in the morning caused some poten- a Kaiser, a Buick Sport Wagon, a 54 Caddy, and tial participants to leave their cars in the garage. a 36 Dodge pickup. Despite that, we again had an amazing cross sec- tion of GM automobiles. I’ve heard from many Fall Carlisle was unfortunately a little attendees that one reason they really like this disappointing, with sparse attendance by both show is the diversity of automobiles. Unlike most vendors and buyers. We have vendor spaces for shows, there are very few Camaros, but many Spring and Fall, so we’re on-site from Wednes- other vehicles that you otherwise rarely see. Over day afternoon through at least Saturday night. This year the weather was beautiful, if unsea- the years we’ve had a Yenko Vega, a Citation X- sonably warm, but there were many empty ven- 11, a Pontiac woody wagon, and a phenomenal dor spaces. Friday usually sees the heaviest buy- Buick street rod – powered by a Buick 455. That er traffic, but this year it was Saturday. Disap- car deservedly won this year’s Best of Show pointing is the vendor exodus on Saturday. Modified award. While the private vendors have often packed up and left on Saturday afternoon if they have a This year saw a revised set of classes long drive home, I was surprised to see major and awards. Mildly modified cars – those with commercial vendors leaving early. TP Tools, custom wheels, underhood chrome, and after- who always has a major presence just inside market intake and exhaust systems – were classi- Gate 1, were packed and out the gate by 12:30 fied with the performance models in an attempt Saturday afternoon. This was especially surpris- to provide the pure stock vehicles a better chance ing as they are just going down the road to Her- of winning awards.