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July 2015, Volume 17, Issue 6
Message from the President
Hello again,
For all of those who volunteered at the Cruise-In on July 11th, tknow you were all worn out at the conclusion even though nonecomplained. You all made it a delightful Cruise-In and after talkmerchants, it was a successful Cruise-In in their eyes. I will thaagain at our next meeting.
We have had a very busy July and we still have half of the monremaining, which will also be busy. Our Chapter membership cgrow and we are more active than ever. We truly represent AAmanner it was intended. I hope all of you realize this.
We need to be thinking about a slate of officers for the upcominmust have a slate to submit during our November meeting. Plesome thought.
I look forward to seeing you all at our next meeting.
Thanks,
Ron Day
Special Interest Articles:
Message from the President
Don't Forget
Car Events Schedule
Personal Notes
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Kernersville Cruise In Flyer
It's Official
And the Beat Goes On
Trip Highlights
2015 Collector CarAppreciation Day Tour
Pictures
A Word from Our Sponsors
Classified
Krispy Kreme BirthdayFlyer
General Greene Car ShowFlyer & Entry Form
On the Web:
National:www.AACA.org
NC Region:www.ncregionaaca.com/region/
Old Salem Chapter:www.ncregionaaca.com/oldsalem
OSC Facebook:www.facebook.com/
Old.Salem.AACA
July Meeting – Olympic Restaurant – Kerne
Editors:John & Ruth Ann Ronchetti1025 Pine Knolls Rd.
Kernersville, NC 27284
Phone: (336) 996-5125
Fax: (336) 996-5253
E-Mail: [email protected]
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for a fun evening! See ‘ya Tuesday for some great food, fun, and fellowship!
Don’t forget …
Bring TUNA FISH and/or MONETARY DONATIONS
for Second Harvest
AND ALUMINUM CANS to our meeting!
Also … bring your OLD CAR MAGAZINES, too,for the prison ministry collection!
Let John Ronchetti know if you have ALUMINUM CANS or CAR MA
… and bring the FOOD DONATIONS inside with you! THAN
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AACA’s Old Salem Chapter monthly meeting will be Tuesday, July 21 at The Olympic Restaurant,1541 W. Mountain St., in Kernersville. Dinner starts at 6:00 PM and the business part of the meetingwill start at 7:00 PM. Don’t forget to invite and/or bring your antique/classic vehicle friend(s) with you1
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Car Events Schedule – Mark Your Calendar!
July 17 Cruise-In, Walnut Cove Health & Rehab, 511 Windmill St., Walnut Cove, 4 – 8 pm
July 17 Bethania Moravian Church Cruise In, 5545 Main St. Bethania, 5:30 – 9 pm
July 18 Krispy Kreme Car Show/Birthday, 445 N Patterson Baily Park, WS, 9 am – Noon
July 18 OSC Annual Potluck / Auction at Jim Quick's "Ranch," 5:00 pm. Gather your goodies!
July 18 Downtown Yadkinville Cruise In, 101 State St., Yadkinville, 4 – 8 pm
July 20 Mocksville Cruise In, Downtown Mocksville at the Square, 6 – 9 pm
July 21 OSC Monthly Meeting, Olympic Restaurant, 1541 W. Mountain St., K'ville, 6 pm
July 23 Let's Talk Cars, 1628 S. Main St., Kagan's Furniture, High Point, 5 – 9 pm
July 24 Forever Classic "Classic Fridays" Cruise In, 6340 Ramada Dr., Clemmons, 5 – 8 pm
July 24/25 GAA Classic Car Auction, 301 Norwalk St., Greensboro, $15, 10 am – 5 pm
July 25 Madison Rockingham Rescue Squad Car Show, Dtown Madison, $20, 8am–3pm
July 25 Advance Auto Open House Cruise In, 7703 Hwy 68, Stokesdale, 11 am – 2 pm
July 26 Car Show Fundraiser, Immanual Bapt Ch, 1505 Lewisvle-Clemmons Rd, Clemmons, 1-6pm
July 27 Pig-N-Out Cruise In, Lewisville Shopping Center, 6489 Shallowford Rd., 4 – 8 pm
July 30 Let's Talk Cars, 1628 S. Main St., Kagan's Furniture, High Point, 5 – 9 pm
July 31 Clemmons UMC Classic Cruise In, 3700 Clemmons Rd, Clemmons, 4:30 pm – Dark
Aug 1 Gen Greene Show, Pied Triad Farmers' Mkt, Sandy Ridge Rd., Greensboro, 8am–3pm
Aug 1 All Ford Car Show, Spencer Transp. Museum, 411 S. Salisbury Ave, Spencer, 9 – 12 pm
Aug 1 Downtown Pilot Mountain Cruise-In, 3 – 9 pm
Aug 3 Mocksville Cruise In, Downtown Mocksville at the Square, 6 – 9 pm
Aug 6 The Depot at Cody Creek Cruise In, 112 Old Depot Ln, Dobson, NC, 4 – 8 pm
Aug 6 Let's Talk Cars, 1628 S. Main St., Kagan's Furniture, High Point, 5 – 9 pm
Aug 7 King's Hot Dogs Cruise-In, Rural Hall Exit 52, on right, 5:00 pm
Aug 8 AACA Zooland Region Car Show, Asheboro, Bicentennial Park, Sunset Ave., 8am–3pm
Aug 8 Cars & Coffee, Reynolda Village, 2201 Reynolda Rd., WS, 9 am – 2 pm
Aug 8 Purple Heart Dinner Volunteers @ RCR, Welcome, 4:00 pm
Aug 8 OSC Downtown Kville Cruise-In, Need Baked Goods, Volunteers 2:30 pm, C-I 4 – 8 pm
Aug 10 Alex's Grill Cruise-In, 6750 Shallowford Rd., Lewisville, 4:30 pm
Aug 13 Let's Talk Cars, 1628 S. Main St., Kagan's Furniture, High Point, 5 – 9 pm
Aug 14 Old Orchard Diner Cruise-In, 2291 Old Salisbury Rd., WS, 4:30 – 8:30 pm
Aug 14 Reidsville Downtown Cruise-In, Scales Street, 5:30 pm
Aug 14 Cars & Coffee, 1560 Highwoods Blvd., Greensboro, 8:30 am – 10:30 am
Aug 15 Smokin' Harley Davidson Car Show Benefit, 3441 Myer Lee Dr., WS, $20, 9 – 3 pm
Aug 15 OSC Eden Drive-In Movie Nite, Walkertown Shop Ctr @ Hwys 158 & 66, 5:30 pm
Aug 17 Mocksville Cruise In, Downtown Mocksville at the Square, 6 – 9 pm
Aug 18 OSC Monthly Meeting, Olympic Restaurant, 1541 W. Mountain St., K'ville, 6 pm
Aug 20 Let's Talk Cars, 1628 S. Main St., Kagan's Furniture, High Point, 5 – 9 pm
Aug 30 Barn Dinner Theater, "Legends," Sun. 1 pm Matinee, Group 20 Dinner/Show: $41.00/*******************************************************************************************************
Personal Notes
Please keep Marsha Earnhardt (and Mickey) in your thoughts and prayers. Marsha had emergencyheart surgery.
Keep Dick Strohmeier in your thoughts and prayers. Dick is now recovering from sepsis. Hang inthere Dick.
Congratulations to our Honorary Member Danny "Elvis" Crouse and family, on the birth of hisgrandson Aden on July 2nd, an up and coming new little Elvis weighing in at 9 lbs. 2 oz. ... whew!
Thoughts & prayers for Jimmy Hailey to help regain his strength back again ... he's been having muchdifficulty simply just walking short distances.
A much awaited Congratulations to Lou Ann Chipman on the purchase of her new home ... yoohoo!Thinking a house warming party maybe in the future?
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Downtown Kernersville 2015
Classic Car Cruise-Ins -- 4 to 8 pm
The Town of Kernersville and the Old Salem Chapter of the Antique AutomobileClub of America welcome you to our Cruise-Ins.
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Jo & Jim Ruckdashel – Aug 3rdSandra Yokeley – July 26th
Charlotte Waddel – July 29th
Imogene Lambe – Aug 2nd
Charlie Watson – Aug 2nd
Ben Meeks – Aug 3rd
John Williams – Aug 8th
James Alley – Aug 12th
Sally Wilson – Aug 12th
Marsha Earnhardt – Aug 16th
Shirley Tharpe – Aug 17th
Tammy Isley – Aug 19th
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Sep 12 DJMobileExtrava
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ARRY RENTZ -Juke Box / "The Art ofto" / S2dio Arts Mobileille Little Theater
BARRY RENTZ -Juke Box /Dance & Tumble
BARRY RENTZ -Juke Box / Piedmont
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www.facebook.com/old.salem.AACA
PARKING ON MAIN STREET UNTIL 3:00 PM, PLEASE
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IT IS NOW OFFICIAL!
OLD SALEM CHAPTER IS NOW A MEMBER
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And the Beat Goes On ...Ruth Ann Ronchetti, Activities
The rest of our July and August will continue with more OSC fun stuff scheduled, sandwiched in betweenall the ongoing Cruise-Ins and Car Shows. Beginning this Saturday morning, July 18th, 9:00 to Noon,Krispy Kreme will be celebrating their 78th Birthday with a Classic Car Show, FREE Doughnuts & Coffee,Music, and lots of great things for the kids. The flyer is included in this newsletter with the location and afew more details. Krispy Kreme has been a great supporter of our OSC, the most recent being at our SpringFolly Car Show, donating dozens of doughnuts for our club's enjoyment and bringing their KK Panel Truckto put in our Decades Display. Please take the opportunity to return the favor by coming to the event onSaturday morning, if you can. Hope to see you there!
Then ... later that day, July 18th ... we will be having our annual Chapter fundraising Potluck / Auction eventat our member Jim Quick's "ranch," 5770 Stigall Rd., Kernersville, starting a 5:00 pm. Be sure to bring adish to share and all of your "stuff" you want to donate to the auction, proceeds going into our OSC treasury.Jim Quick makes a great auctioneer, the food is always exceptional, and it always turns out to be a whole lotof fun to boot! IT WILL BE RAIN OR SHINE! Jim has shelter for us however the weather may be.COME ON ... LET'S HAVE SOME FUN!
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Saturday, July 25th, 11:00 - 2:00 pm, Advance Auto, 7703 Hwy, 68, Stokesdale has invited our club to puton a car display for their Grand Opening. They are very anxious for a good turnout to draw attention to theirevent. We will be given FREE hot dogs, cheeseburgers, chips, & water along with some coupons and "bagstuffers," as General Manager Carla called them. PLEASE RSVP YOUR ATTENDANCE TO ME ASAP.Hope you can make it ... thanx!
On Saturday, August 8th, 4:00 pm until, Richard Childress Racing in Welcome will be hosting the nextPurple Heart Dinner to honor our distinguished Purple Heart recipients. Our OSC volunteered to help lastyear, taking our cars for a display and also helped to serve the dinner. Those of us that participated, it wasan awesome experience, one not to be forgotten. The NW Piedmont Purple Heart Foundation is asking ourclub to volunteer again to do the same and to report to RCR at 4:00 pm. Unfortunately, it is the same day asour Kernersville Cruise-In but don't let that stop you; there will be enough there to carry it on. Thoseinterested in helping out, please let Jimmy Hailey know at [email protected] / (home) 336-788-5254.
As I mentioned, our Kernersville Cruise-In is also on Saturday, August 8th, and our biggest request for thatis for those of you with baking skills to donate some baked goods to sell. This past Cruise-In, we had 200 +cars in attendance and it went off beautifully! A BIG THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT HELPED ANDBROUGHT YOUR CARS! It truly is a TEAM effort! Katrina Meeks has got a great line-up of activitiesfor August's Cruise-In and we thank her sincerely for the work she has put into this and the Mini-Grant ourOSC was awarded due to her efforts that we will be using at this Cruise-In! We look forward to continuedsuccess for our remaining Cruise-In season!
IT'S ALMOST THAT TIME OF THE YEAR, FOLKS! DRIVE-IN MOVIE TIME! Annually, our OSCwill go to the Eden Drive-In Movie Theater for a fun and nostalgic evening with our Classics and this yearwe will be going on Saturday, August 15th. We will meet at the "big ice machine" in the WalkertownShopping Center at Hwys. 158 & 66 at 5:30 pm to caravan to Eden from there ... in our old cars, of course,weather permitting. To experience the "full Drive-In experience," we will get our dinner from theConcession Stand. For those of you that have never been there, they have a very nice deck with picnictables to eat your dinner, if you like. Also, be sure to bring your lawn chairs & radios ... we will be sittingoutside grouped together and the Drive-In no longer has the traditional Drive-In Movie speakers so radiosare used to transmit the audio. If you don't have a radio, it really isn't any big deal; they have loud speakersat the Concession Stand and the movie can easily be heard.
It has been quite a while since our club has gone to the Barn Dinner Theater in Greensboro and we have hadsome requests for it. I have been waiting for a suitable show that will go along with our Classics cause it isso much fun to drive them there where we will get special parking right up front and it will give the otherpatrons an opportunity to enjoy them, too. For the Sunday 1:00 pm Matinee on August 30th, this is a perfectshow for us to attend with our old cars ... "Legends, a Musical Tribute."
"When a young man is caught in the middle of a hurricane on his way to an audition, he has no choice but tostop in at a diner to wait out the storm. When the folks at the diner find out where he's headed, they all havetheir own opinions on what he should sing to "reach for the stars!" Celebrities represented will include:Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Donna Summers, Garth Brooks, Billy Joel, Tracy Chapman, Reba McEntire,Ray Stevens, Lionel Richie, The Blues Brothers, Carrie Underwood, Bette Midler, Barry Manilow,Madonna, & MORE!"
Sunday Group Rate (20+ people) is $41.00/person. The Group Discount price includes the traditional buffet(excellent and plenty of it!), coffee, tea, the show, gratuity, and taxes ... EVERYTHING. Compared to theregular rate: 7 or less patrons = $46.00 / 8-19 patrons = $43.00. To make this all happen, I MUST MAKEOUR RESERVATIONS AND PAYMENT NO LATER THAN 3 WEEKS PRIOR TO THE SHOW,WHICH WOULD BE FRIDAY, AUGUST 7TH. SOOO ... LET ME KNOW FOLKS, ASAP!
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"See the USA in Your Chevrolet"Mark and Leigh Bodenheimer
May 30, 2015
Leaving home at 8:33 AM from Colfax, NC – heading on a 3 week adventure. On the road in my dad's (EarlHewett) 1966 Chevy Chevelle.
This is the first entry in my log book/journal for our amazing trip. We starting thinking of this trip and sortof planning it back last year. Wouldn't it be nice if.... and I would like to see.... and how about going here orthere. So as we kept planning and decided to make it happen in celebration of our 35th wedding anniversaryon June 28th, 2015.
When we started to tell some people our plans, I would hear “are you crazy” and “in that old car” and “Icould never spend that much time in a car” or even some “I couldn't spend that much time with myhusband/wife.” But we continued planning and finally decided to go with the final endpoint being Mark'sdad in Spokane, Washington. Over 2,700 miles – ONE WAY.
Those that know me, know I “don't do well in heat” so we had A/C installed in the old car before wetraveled in it. We also planned out the trip with a slight northern route to avoid some hot weather if possible.In getting ready, Mark did lots of work to make sure (if you can reasonably say that in a 1966 car) that wewould actually make it out and back. Mark and his friend Tim, who is a carburetor guru, worked for 2 or 3weeks getting the car ready. Tim has a rollback tow service and we took his name and number to keep withus just in case. Our plan “B” was to call Tim to pick up the car, from wherever we were and continue in arental car.
All that being said, THE TRIP WAS AWESOME!!!!!
When people have asked about my favorite parts/things seen/places – There are so many answers dependingon my memory at the time, thus I am so thankful I did the journal entries. Some of the nice little things willslip into the memory and come back at the weirdest times. They say that is from aging but who knows whywe remember things the way we do. So here are some entries from my journal some of the stops andhighlights – without boring most of you that have seen some of these areas of the country, I have to say thiswas a once in a lifetime adventure for Mark and I.
1st stop point of interest – Point Pleasant, West Virginia – I am a sci-fi fan and like ghost stories, UFOs,werewolves, vampires – all things weird as my friends and family say, and this stop was on my list of theweird. There was a movie called “The Mothman Prophesies” starring Richard Gere about this creature.Anyway there is a museum and statue at Point Pleasant that was a bucket list thing I wanted to do, so madefor a good lunch stop on the way north. We made it to Brookville, Ohio for the first night.
Day 2 – 3 – 4 were mostly travel days through Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, corner of Nebraska and into SouthDakota. Lots of stopping for gas, stopping to eat, checking out the scenery, photography and differencesbetween there and home. We saw huge stockyards, corn fields for miles and miles, and cows, cows, cows.This is truly middle American farmland. So cool! Stayed at a resort on the Missouri River in Oacoma,South Dakota – beautiful and so pleasant with really nice folks. We watched the boats going up and downthe huge river – some were enormous!
On the road on day 5, into South Dakota on I-90 and hit a very large bird that destroyed the left turn signalon the car. We were not sure if it was a hawk or some other very large bird like the state bird of SouthDakota, which is a Pheasant. It was a scary moment going 80 miles per hour.
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We arrived at the Badlands National Park. This place was “otherworldly”, so strange but also beautiful. I understand how it got itsname, would not want to get lost or take too long to get through thisplace. We are seeing lots of different animals that make the Badlandstheir home. We stopped to feed the prairie dogs and saw some BigHorn Sheep in the park. We also had a small glitch with the car. Ourreverse gear wouldn't work now so we had to pull through all ourstops until we could get it checked out and fixed. But we continued
up to Mount Rushmore andit was amazing! Another“list” item, so cool and incredible. We viewed from the outside andplanned on coming back for a closer look on the return trip. Wecontinued onto the Crazy Horse Monument not too far away. Ohmy, this is one of the most beautiful and creative things I have everseen in my life. We would have stayed here all day but majorstorms moved into the area and it started to hail, and us having aconvertible, we needed to find cover. We weathered the storm andstayed at Keystone, South Dakota that evening.
We traveled into Wyoming and then into Big Sky Country Montana for the day and next night. Everyone, Iwould think, has a horse, some tied at the deck of even the smallest of homes. Also we saw wind generatorfarms spanning about 40 to 50 miles at a time. There were train loads of coal and oil that were very commonsites along the way. The Rocky Mountains are so impressive – huge with the snow caps and are justmajestic. Stopped off in Garry Owen, Montana at a museum and a memorial grave site for the Battle ofLittle Big Horn. I remember this from history class in school but this was a really nice historical site for usto check out. There were statues of both General Custer and Sitting Bull. Something I didn't remember fromhistory is Little Big Horn is actually the name of the river and it is a very long and large, beautiful river. Betthere are more cows than people here. We stayed in Three Forks, Montana at a very elegant hotel namedafter the Indian Princess – Sacajawea. It turned out to be one of the best experiences of the whole trip. Iwould return to Three Forks, Montana again, so beautiful, peaceful and elegant.
Finally – arrived at Mark's dads home in Spokane, Washington for a family visit. Our two sons, Austin andZachary had flown out to meet us there and to visit with their grandfather. We spent a few days all together,visiting and getting to see his home and his hometown and friends and family out there. We took our sons tothe Spokane Airport so they could get back home and then took an overnight trip to the Western Washingtonarea around Monroe to visit some other family and then back to dad's before heading out again and ontoYELLOWSTONE.
Yellowstone National Park was more amazing and awesome thanI would have ever imagined. We stayed at the Old FaithfulLodge, which is a work of art. It is a huge log structure with themost impressive lobby area I have ever seen. It was built in 1903when Teddy Roosevelt was the president. The geysers were soamazing as were the waterfalls, the “mud pots” of sulfur waterand the animals were so cool to see. We saw many herds ofbison, some moving, some lying or grazing. We saw elk, deer,geese, swans, and prairie dogs. The staff of the park were tellingsome visitors about a bear that was wandering around thecampground overnight while we were at the park. No campingfor us! We took a drive south of the park into The Grand Tetons National Park. More majestic snowcovered peaks, lakes and just so much beauty to behold in nature. The couple of nights here was so magical
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and we saw amazing views, and spectacular sites from mother nature. I could easily return for more time tospend in the park.
After leaving Yellowstone we traveled over to The Devils Towerin Devils Tower, Wyoming. This is a gigantic rock formationwith a flat top that stands by itself in the landscape. This was thevery first place to receive National Monument Status by the USgovernment back in September 1906 by President TheodoreRoosevelt. It was used as a location in a movie called “CloseEncounters of the Third Kind” back in 1977 with RichardDreyfuss. It was amazing but eerie to see close up. Of course thegift shops sell space alien themed shirts, magnets and the such.There are Native American tales about the origin of the strangelooking natural structure that is very interesting as well.
Now on to Deadwood, South Dakota and as we arrived in town,we drove through but noticed all the people were stopped on thesidewalks like a parade was in town, then we saw and heard thereason. Evidently the town hires people to walk around in “oldwest” character – sheriff, gunslingers, town drunks, pokerplayers, women in bawdy dress from the saloons, and has them todo skits in the streets at scheduled times. So we hit it just rightand the gunslingers were having a shoot out on Main Street justabout the time we were driving into town. What a welcome totown that was! We checked out some of the saloons, the pokertables, slot machines and the shops up and down the main drag. Ireally enjoyed the small town feel and the touristy stuff here.
We stopped over to stay the night in Sturgis, South Dakota andthen back to Mount Rushmore for a closer look inside the parkand museums. On the way to Mount Rushmore, we went on theNeedles Highway. It is a beautiful drive inside the Custer StatePark that I never knew even existed until we were researching thearea for the trip. Wow, wow, wow! No wonder why themotorcycle riders love to travel this highway around the Sturgisarea. The rock formations are so tall and thin, like a needle, andsome of the roadways are carved into them and using theformations as tunnels. The sites are spectacular and very narrowand without guardrails in most areas. It was a little scary to look
out over the really high points but the views were breathtaking! As we reached Mount Rushmore, you couldsee the monument through the “eye” of one of the Needles and realize what a grand monument it is and avery great feat to carve the mountain into those silhouettes. It made me proud of our country and ourhistory.
There is so much more I could say about all the little moments and historical sites and museums but I don'twant to take up the whole newsletter. Some other places were: The Billings Montana Historical Museum,The Vore Buffalo Jump Archaeological Dig Site, The Montana State Old Prison Museum that housed ButchCassidy and His Gang along with a Car Museum, The Corn Palace, just to name a few. We were taking ourtime but when we crossed the Mississippi River we started realizing we were really on the way home butsatisfied that we were about to complete a great adventure. Stayed overnight and toured downtownNashville, Tennessee and then into North Carolina the next day for a day in Asheville, North Carolina – oneof our favorite places. We arrived home on Thursday afternoon June 19th, 2015. Whew!!!! And yes, thecar was great! Lots of gas but great!
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Collector Car Appreciation Day Tour 2015Ruth Ann Ronchetti, Activities
Friday, July 10th, was the sixth National Collector Car Appreciation Day and our Old Salem Chapter hit theroad again to honor that day. By 8:30 am, our group was at the Union Cross Shopping Center off I-40 andwere ready to go ... "load 'em up and head 'em out" ... and we were off to our first stop, the historicNASCAR 1-mile dirt track, the Occoneechee Orange Speedway in Hillsborough. We were met by thepresident of the Historic Speedway Group, Gene Hobby, and members upon our arrival. Gene told us somehistorical information and what we were to expect when we drove on the track ... YES, we got to drive onthis historic unearthed NASCAR track!
Occoneechee Speedway is the only surviving track from the NASCAR inaugural season and one of threerace tracks on the National Historical Register. On June 27, 1948, the first 100-mile race ever was held onthe one-mile banked track for late model cars, setting the stage for the action-packed racing for the finestand newest Speedway in the country.
Racing continued till September 15, 1968, when the "Hillsborough 150" was run, the obvious "GrandFinale" for the Speedway. Richard Petty won that last race in his '68 Plymouth with an average speed of87.681 mph and took home a whole $1600. The Speedway from then on languished in disuse, neglect, anddecay for the next 38 years until the Historic Preservation Foundation of NC took it on. The mission of theHistoric Speedway Group is dedicated to the Preservation and Restoration of the
Speedway.
Gene then led our group to the Speedway entrance and aroundwe went, very slowly, taking it all in. The track is only wideenough now for one car with lots of trees and shrubs on bothsides making it kinda hard to imagine what it used to be likewhen it was ALL open on a race track that could race three carswide all those many years ago. As we rounded Turn 4, the flagstand was in sight (which they had to rebuild) and after passingthe "Start/Finish" line there was a very old rusted out racecarparked on the left, a ghostly memory of what used to be.
We then parked our cars and gathered in front of the originalconcrete grandstands (that were completely covered and hiddenbefore the Historic Speedway Group got to them) while Genetold us some more stories about racing at that track as a pastOcconeechee racecar driver. One ofthose recollectionswas his horrificwreck in March
1965 coming off of Turn 4 where he rolled over and over!Remarkably he said he only had some scratches and bruisingfrom it ... amazing! He told us that straightaway speeds couldhave reached past 120 mph!
After a few group pictures were taken we loaded back up and headed for lunch at Hillsborough BBQ. Thefood was great and filled our bellies, ruining our appetites, of course ... heehee! After exiting, I presentedthe Senate Resolution 196 document to Gene Hobby and his Historic Speedway Group in appreciation for
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their hospitality and allowing us to visit the OcconeecheeSpeedway (I wanted to do it at the Speedway, but forgot ... darn).It was a very enjoyable and interesting morning!
Our next stop was the Glencoe Mill Village, Textile HeritageMuseum in Burlington. The Glencoe Cotton Mill andassociated millvillage was built on a
105 acre site between 1880 and 1882. The mill produced a highquality cotton fabric which was woven in many colors anddesigns. At its peak, the mill supported up to 500 people, andapproximately half of them lived in the mill houses. The housesrented for 50 cents a week and land was provided for farming.
Glencoe closed its doors in 1954. It is one of the mostundisturbed mill and village complexes in North Carolina, providing a comprehensive picture of the socialand commercial organization of late 19th century Southern water-powered cotton mills.
In 1997 the revival of the village was set into motion when Preservation North Carolina purchased theproperty. The mill buildings have been purchased by a developer for conversion into apartments and smallbusinesses. The remaining houses, vacant lots and buildings have been sold and are being restored.
Upon our arrival, we were VERY surprised to see a WXIITV12 News van there waiting for us which the museum hadarranged and the photographer was filming our group's arrival... wow! After getting our cars parked, we went inside quicklysince it was in the 90's and the air conditioning felt great!Everyone milled around looking at everything at their ownpace and part of that was a gentleman talking about his antiquehosiery machine and even made some socks to show them howit worked.
During that time, the WXII reporter asked if I would do aninterview ... I said, "yes," hesitantly cause I have never doneanything like that and was a bit nervous. Giving me the mic tohold, he asked me lots of questions which I answered but I didn'trealize till after it was all over that I completely forgot to mentionthat we were there in honor of Collector Car Appreciation Day ...ugh ... guess that's what nerves will do to you. LOL Well ... it allturned out OK and the segment was aired on the 6 o'clock news;John and I had just gotten home in time to see it. Strange feelingto see yourself on TV.
Oh, forgot, leaving the museum, we took a drive through the mill village where many of the old homes havebeen restored, looking very nice. There were some though that were in pretty bad shape waiting for a kind-hearted soul with a pocket full of cash to snatch them up and bring them back to life, too.
OK ... now on to our last stop which was the Blandwood Mansion in Greensboro. Blandwood is one ofthe America's great historic homes, representing the ideals of progressive North Carolina Governor JohnMotley Morehead and serving as a prototype for one of America's most popular architectural styles in thenineteenth century.
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Constructed on the crest of a hill, the earliest portions of theBlandwood were completed in 1795. The simple two-storyfarmhouse was later purchased by Governor Morehead andexpanded with additions in the Italianate style villa that featureda central tower and stucco walls. Completed in 1846, it isconsidered the oldest standing example of Italianate architecturein the United States.
Once inside we were given a wonderful tour by a young docent,Ryan, who did a fantastic job; he really knew his stuff and was ableto answer any question without hesitation, very thorough. Theback of the house was in the more primitive styling and then goingto the front of thehouse you could seethe distinctivedifference with the
"newer" Italianate style. This house sits slam dunk in themiddle of the city of Greensboro and it was hard to imaginethat when this house was built, nothing was there butsprawling open fields!
I want to thank all of our OSC members and guests for sharing your day with us and putting anotherCollector Car Appreciation Day Tour in the books! Till next year ...
Kernersville Cruise InJune 13, 2015
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OSC Steele Rubber/Catawba Queen OutingJune 18, 2015
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Music at TwilightJune 25, 2015
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Kernersville 4th of July ParadeJuly 4, 2015
OSC 4th of July PicnicJuly 4, 2015
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Options: 305 engine, auto trans, air conditioning, power windows, power locks,power antenna, dual remote power mirrors.
Please call (336) 466 0784 and leave message – do not have texting capabilities,so voice only. Your call will be returned promptly. Or email at [email protected]
***************************************************************************************1959 Ford Ranchero, $13,500. 6 cylinder, 3 speed on the column.
Original radio (it works-AM only) and knobs on the inside are original. No heat,leaks brake fluid occasionally. Not sure of mileage, shows 20,538. My guess itwould be 120,538. Not driven much. The odometer reading in 1990 was116,000 (so I've driven it only bout 4500 miles in 25 years!.) Truck bed needssome work. I last painted it in 1999. If more photos needed let me know and Iwill take some of the interior and send.
Mitch Pergerson 336-504-0960 c 336-597-8279 h
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FOR SALE -- Craftsman oxy/acetylene set HD with tanks and cart ($250), 9 in. Craftsman radial saw ($150) onmobile table, Craftsman 12 in. band saw, adaptable to wood or metal ($125), '60 era Mopar dealer-installed AirConditioning system "in the box" ($275), call for more details... Barnes Daniels, Ph. 336-765-0409
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