Scuttlebutt

Volume 50, Issue 6

2017 Officers & Committees

President VaughnCille Weidner 405-470-4789 VP……...Sheryl Hoyle 405--830-8439 Secretary…Michael Downes 405-919-4552 Treasurer Phil Wolfen-barger 405-210-5198 Editor Jim Yates 405-341 6539 Directors: Bill Harris 405-6308546 Will Langford 405-812-8131 Committees: Refreshments...Greg Hoyle Membership… Steve Talley Activities……Sheryl Hoyle Sunshine…….. Kaye Sage Demonstrations…Bob Bordwine Name Tags….. Merchandise…………..Don & Marilyn Mitchell

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Model A Friends We had our Board meeting early, on May 30, because so many of our Board and other members were leaving before next week for either the Omaha Regional Meet or the Texas Tour. We will be well represented at both of these Meets and I know they will have a great time. We will get reports at our June meeting. I hope you are having a good Spring and are planning to join us on June 24 for the Saturday tour to Chisholm Trail Heritage Center in Duncan. See all of the information on the 2017 Activities At A Glance in this newsletter. We also have two parades on July 4th for you. You can go to either Edmond or Bethany. We need to continue getting raffle items for the 2017 MAFCA Awards Banquet. At the June meeting, I will be giving you some ideas on how to approach businesses in order to get items. These raffle items are important because they will help us with the other costs of the event. Drive carefully and I’ll see you at the June meeting.

VaughnCille Weidner - 2017 President

June Meeting

Tuesday, June 20

7:00 pm

Will Rogers Garden Center

3400 N W 36th St Oklahoma City

Happy Father’s Day

Pop Out Ignition Switch If you have a Model “A” Ford and particularly one with a Pop Out ignition switch, you missed a club meeting that might have saved you many an hour of an-guish. The demonstration on rebuilding the Pop Out was given by Mr. Marvin (Rusty) Swain. Rusty took an old Pop Out, belonging to another club member, Mr. Harry Meyers, that had burned out years ago and from start to finish com-pletely rebuilt the switch in approximately twenty minutes. After watching the demonstration there is no guarantee that you will be able to rebuild a Pop Out switch as fast and as efficiently as Rusty did, but you will be able to build one and know the proper tools and materials needed for the job. From Sooner Scuttlebutt, February 1971

2017 ACTIVITIES AT A GLANCE (Subject to Change)

*Maps available on soonermodela.org website. See “Calendar” “Let the good times roll in your Model A”

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June 5-9 Regional Meet Omaha, Nebraska 8-10 Texas Tour Victoria, Texas 20 7:00 PM Club Meeting - Will Rogers Garden Center, 3400 N W 36th St., OKC 24 9:00 AM Meet at Hoyle’s 622 SE 1st, Minco 24 9:30 AM Leave for Chisholm Trail Heritage Center Duncan, OK 24 11:00 AM Visit Museum 24 1:00 PM Lunch TBD 27 6:30 PM Board Meeting (July)- 6718 NW 50th, Bethany, OK July 4 7:30 AM Prestaging, Liberty Fest Parade, Edmond 4 8:45 AM Liberty Fest Parade begins. 4 8:00 AM Breakfast – Braum’s, 6821 NW 23rd, Bethany, OK. West of MacArthur 4 9:00 AM Centennial Freedom Festival Parade – LINE-UP! Bethany, OK, NW

41st & Mueller. 4 10:00 AM Centennial Freedom Festival - PARADE STARTS! Bethany, 4 11:30 AM Lunch with the Heartland Model T Club – at the home of David & Te

resa Powell, 7801 NW 38th Street, Bethany, OK 405/789-5455BBQ and drinks will be provided by Sooner & Heartland T clubs.

**Please bring your favorite side dish or desert. **Bring Lawn Chairs. **Inside dining available for those who need to cool off. 18 7:00 PM Club Meeting - Will Rogers Garden Center, 3400 N W 36th St., OKC

Tiny Tips: Removal of a Two-Piece Distributor Shaft The shaft that runs from the upper shaft to the oil pump drive gear can be hard to remove from the hole in the head down into the block. What works well, if the shaft is not rusted or frozen in, is to take two six-inch blade screw drivers and insert them into the slot in the shaft. Turn the screwdrivers opposite directions to create a wedge and lift the shaft out of the hole. It is quick, easy and no need to buy that ultra long needle-nose pair of pliers. Submitted by Ted Kuchta, Centerville OH

June 1 Mariella Davis 7 Kaye Sage 16 Carol Schwake 16 Pat Turner 18 Edward Paulsen 23 Jon Adams 25 Jon Russell 30 Jack Ogle 30 Steven Shaw

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2017 Regional and National Tours June 5-9, 2017 --Omaha Regional, Omaha, Nebraska June 8-10, 2017 –Texas Tour, Victoria, Texas September 24-29, 2017 MAFCA National Tour, Paso Robles, CA Nov 29-Dec 2, 2017 MAFCA National Awards Banquet, Oklahoma City

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Swap Meets July 28-30 Hill Country Swap Meet, Lady Bird Johnson Municipal Park, Highway 16 South, Fredericksburg, TX. August 18-20 Ozark Antique Auto Club, Ozark Empire Fairgrounds, Springfield MO

For Sale! I am selling “Antique Automobile Parts” of all kinds, makes & models on ebay. My “Seller Name” is “TPIBoxman”. I will have about sixty items for sale and new items will be listed weekly. Thank you, Gary Clonts.

For Sale! 1929 Roadster Pickup. It is disassembled. Call Dan Marsh for de-tails. 405-392-3688

For Sale! 1929 Rumble seat coupe (tan). New engine (Herman Cambell) Signal lights, rebuilt carb, distributor, water pump, starter. New tires and tubes, new clutch, pressure plate and throw-out bearing. A1 condition, $14,000. Jack Ogle 613-8030

For Sale! Solid restorable 1931 Tudor. It runs and drives. The interior is decent. There is some rust, but would be easy restora-tion. $10,000. Call David Miles 405 639 7940

June 1 Jim & Vicky Yates 4 Bob & Joan Bordwine 6 Greg & Sheryl Hoyle 8 Terry & Rhonda Cavnar 8 Max & Linda Crouch 16 Mike & Cheryl Maxwell 19 Rusty & Gerry Swain

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SUNSHINE COMMITTEE Sherri Waugh is recovering from knee sur-gery. George Sarinopoulos is recovering from a fall.. Let Kaye Sage know if you are aware of a member who is ill. We would like to send a card and let them know we are missing them.

May Refreshments

Helene Astafan Sheri Waugh Kaye Sage

Michael Downes

Model A Carburetors Bob Bordwine

The topic of the presentation by Bob Bordwine during the April meeting was the various carburetors used on the Model A. The carburetor that equipped the Model A was the Zen-ith. The Zenith Detroit Company of Detroit Michigan was founded in 1911. The carburetor was manufactured by the Zenith-Detroit Corporation, Holly Corporation, and Ford Motor Corporation, for use on Model A Ford vehicles produced in the United States and Canada. Zenith manufactured the carburetors for Ford from about August of 1927 through 1931. All of their top castings were marked with a "Z" just below the throttle. The bottom castings were marked on the front of the bowl area with "Zenith" from the beginning through 1928 and with "Zenith-1" from 1929 through the end of production. Holly manufactured the carburetors for Ford from about August of 1927 through 1931. Their upper castings were marked with "H" from the beginning until about September of 1928. Thereafter, they were not marked. The bottom castings were marked with "H" from the beginning to about June of 1928. From about July through December of 1928 they were not marked and from January 1929 until the end they were marked "Zenith-2". Ford manufactured carburetors from 1930 through the

end. For a while the upper castings were marked with "3", but it was soon dropped. The bottom castings were marked "Zenith-3". Tillotson Manufacturing Company was founded in 1914 in Toledo, Ohio. The Tillotson square bowl up-draft carburetor was first built in the 1950’s. This car-buretor uses an air bleed style main jet that was invent-ed by Stromberg in 1914 and is still in use today. The Tillotson carburetor is a direct replacement for the Zen-ith. This carburetor is made from a Zinc Aluminum al-loy sometimes referred to as “pot metal”. It doesn’t rust but can warp with heat.

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Sooner Model A and Early V8 Picnic

The Early V8 club invited the Sooner Model A club to join them at Ripper Park in Bethany for a picnic May 13. The Early V8 club supplied the dogs, fixings, and drinks. Participants brought side dishes and deserts. The food was delicious and plentiful. Several Sooners were present including the Davis’, the Morris’, the Talleys, the Dusenberys, Carma Jenkins, the Astafans, Jack Ogle, the Mitchells, the Hoyles, Michael Downes, and the Yates’. Apologies to any persons not mentioned. The Dusenberys were late because of a separated tire. Chuck said he heard noise from the right rear wheel and discovered that a 6 inch piece of tread had come loose. The spare tire on Chuck’s car is fender mounted so its pressure was low. The Dusenberys stopped at Phil Wolf-enbarger’s shop to inflate the spare when on the way home. This was the first time that I have seen the perfectly restored cars of the V8 club. It brought back memories of the cars I grew up with in the 50’s. I especially liked the 1950 Fords. Here are some photos of the picnic.

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SOONER MODEL A CLUB P.O. BOX 83148

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73148

The SOONER MODEL A CLUB is a non-profit organization affiliated with the Model A Ford Club of America. All correspondence for the club should be sent to the address above. General Meetings are held on the third Tuesday of the months of January thru November. Meetings commence at 7:00 p.m. and are held at Will Rogers Garden Center at 3400 N.W. 36th in Okla. City. All members are welcome to attend the club’s Board Meetings, which are held on the first Tuesday of each month at a location designated by the President and advertised in the Scuttlebutt. Membership dues are $20.00 per year. The primary requirement for membership shall be an interest in the objectives of the organization and a desire to participate in its activities. Actual possession of a Model A Ford is not a necessity. A member must be of good character as to be of benefit to the club, its functions and activities. An ac-tive member must be a member of the Model A Ford Club of America.

Sooner Model A’ers in the Movies.

While eating lunch after the 89er day parade, April 22, Will Langford got a text asking if he could get 3 cars for a movie shoot here in town the next day. In the booth at Braums in Guthrie were Chuck Dusen-bery, Don Mitchell, Steve Talley and Carla Newton and they all agreed to participate. Here are a few shots from their movie experience that evening. It was a lot of waiting but the movie folks took good care of them. The fact that it is based on a comic book series written here in OKC gave it all a more local flavor. http://www.ra-pictures.com/thegrave/.

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