Upton Motor NewsPublication of the

Pennsylvania Dutch RegionAntique Automobile Club of America

November — December , 2016

UPCOMING EVENTS

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PA Dutch Region Dates

2017

February 9-11, 2017AACA Annual MeetingPhiladelphia, PA

February 18, 2017 SaturdayCountry Fare RestaurantMyerstown, PAJoane Dundore

March 25, 2017 SaturdayWhite Elephant AuctionLittle Kutztown Fire Co.Betty Funck

April 22, 2017 SaturdayLuncheonStoney Ridge, MyerstownBetty Funck

May 20, 2017 SaturdayPoker RunDon Hickernell

February 9-11, 201781st AACA Annual Meeting

Don’t forget the deadline to register for the AnnualMeeting in Philadelphia is February 1st. Theregistration form is available online.

There will be a trade show, seminars, judging school,special breakfast and dinners as part of thegathering. Also there will be a City of Brotherly LoveTour on Saturday the 11th.

If you have never attended before, I am sure you willfind it a very interesting experience.

February 18, 2017

Mark your calendar for this date … we will begoing to the Country Fare Restaurant inMyerstown where their motto is “Not yournormal PA Dutch Restaurant “. We will beordering off their extensive menu. Our hostwill be Joane Dundore …More details willfollow in a flyer.

The UPTON is your newsletter so please send a story or anynews items you would like to share with the club. Cars orcar parts for sale, are ok. Please send :

by email to: alba4evr@aol.com

Or by snail mail to : Carol Heide3000 Boas St.

Harrisburg, PA 17103

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SUNSHINE COMMITTEE REPORT

There is no get well news to report at thistime.

A sympathy card was sent to Bill Smith on the passingof his wife Jeanne. A memorial was sent to the AACAmuseum. A sympathy card was also sent to the familyof Gregory Scheer who joined our club at the picnic.A memorial was sent to his church.

Remember to call Joane Dundore(717-866-5986) with Sunshine News

2016 Memorials

“Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear

old friends “. Sadly we lost the following dear old

friends this past year … They will be greatly missed.

January Charles Johnson

March Stanley Groy

June Jim Nice

July Evelyn Keller

August Kirby Reichert

David Kase

December Jeanne Smith

Gregory Scheer

A First Project

Make sure you read AuggieLesher’s article in theNovember/December AntiqueAutomobile magazine.

It’s all about Auggie’s firstproject of a 1946 Whizzermotorbike . Great Job ! Notmany people ever getpublished in the AACAmagazine , so this is an honor.

Congratulations !

President Elect’s Message

Happy New Year !!!

Now that the Holidays are over, I hopeeveryone had a great time with familyand friends.

We had a great Christmas Party at The Timbers inMt. Gretna. Great food, and good entertainment-The JOY Choir. A special thanks to Terry and PatVon Nieda for a job well done.

We have some great runs planned for 2017. Wealways need help for them, any ideas would begreatly appreciated. By working together we cankeep our club alive.

Hope to see you at our upcoming events.

Thank you for voting me as your new President.

Betty FunckPresident

Thank You !Thank You !Thank You !

A big THANK YOU goes out to Joane Dundore … at theNovember Pot Pie dinner, Joane brought a tableful ofbaked goodies. There were pies, rolls and canned itemsjust to mention a few. Raffle tickets were sold and thesale raise $175.00 for the club. Thank you Joane forall the time and effort you put into making all thesegoodies. It is much appreciated !

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November 5, 2016Potpie Dinner

If it’s November, then it’s time for Pot Pie and Toys For Tots. Once again we met at the Little KutztownFire Co. to enjoy a delicious pot pie dinner . But first we were visited by Commandant John Gingrichfrom Lebanon and his wife Beverly . They represent the Toys for Tots program in Lebanon County whichserves over 800 families. John was very appreciative of the large number of toys that our club haddonated. The toys will all be distributed to families in Lebanon County. John did mention that theyreceive quite a few toys for very young children but not as many for older children . The programserves up to High School age. So next year maybe we should think about things for the 10 to 17 agegroup . Suggestions were makeup, jewelry, scarfs, and curling irons. John also mentioned that there aresome older handicapped individuals in their service area.

As always the pot pie was wonderful … I always enjoy the homemade bread with apple butter … what atreat. It’s always nice to take home a quart of pot pie and a loaf of bread to enjoy another day.

Thank you Joane Dundore for making the arrangements for dinner and with Toys For Tots. Also aspecial thank you for baking all the goodies that were raffled off …

Submitted by Carol Heide

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Awards were presented at the Christmas Party for the winners in our“Driven’n old Vehicle” contest . 1st place was the Dundore’s with 9runs; 2nd place was a tie with the Hoerner’s and Von Nieda’s with 7runs; 3rd place was the Antonicelli’s with 6 runs. Thank you Tom &Joanne Ehrhart for filling the winning tote bags with lot’s of goodies.Congratulations to all the winners ! Remember to drive your old carsto all our runs next year.

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Christmas PartyDecember 14th

Our annual Christmas Party was held Wednesday December 14th at the Timbers Restaurant in Mt.Gretna . The dining room was lit with white lights and beautifully decorated for the season. Theextensive buffet was ready so after a prayer led by outgoing President Ed Houser, we filled ourplates. Dinner was delicious and quite varied so I don’t believe anyone went home hungry. The dessertswere exceptional and the service very good.

After dinner was finished , and the awards presented (see page 4), we were introduced to theevening’s entertainment. The JOY Choir from the Hershey Evangelical Free Church had come to singfor us - JOY stands for Just Older Youth. They were a fun group decked out with reindeer and Santaheadbands and really seemed to be having a great time. They sang quite a few Christmas songs andinvited us to join in the singing. We also had a musical treat when we were visited by the AndrewsSisters.

A special solo was sung by Caitlin Andrews-Weber … it was lovely. She is the daughter of Christinaand Candice.

I would like to thank Terry Von Nieda for making all the arrangements. Thank you Sylvia Houser forbringing us the JOY Choir—Thank you Betty Funck and Pat Von Nieda for the candy and thank youMary Jane Rossiter for the pretty table arrangements (poinsettias in a vintage car). One luckyperson at each table got to take the arrangement home. All in all, it was quite a fun evening.

Submitted by Carol Heide

PA Dutch Region November 5, 2016Membership Meeting Minutes

Pot Pie Dinner meeting

Meeting came to order at 11:25 AM with Vice President FrankAntonicelli presiding.

Treasurer’s report was given by Treasurer Carol Heide and shealso handed out the Sept –Oct issue of the Upton Newsletter tothe members present.

Secretary Peggy read the October Fall Foliage Run meetingminutes and they were accepted.

Activities Chairman Terry Von Nieda gave report of theChristmas Party to be held at the Timbers in Mount Gretna.Flyers will be sent out next week for this event. It wasmentioned that the cost of the party would be $30.00 but theclub will pay $5.00 towards this amount. The January 15, 2017Installation Banquet will be held at the Farmers Wife Restaurantin Ono, PA.

Joane Dundore, Sunshine Chairlady had nothing new to report.

Membership Chairlady Joanne Ehrhart reported that we have 90current memberships and asked the members to help promotethe club and seek new members for the club. She was alsoaccepting the 2017 dues from the members.

Van Webster, Legislative Rep. had nothing new to report.

There was no other old business.

We then welcomed John & Beverly Gingrich from the Marine’sToys for Tots of Lebanon Co. program. They are veryappreciative of our yearly contribution to this program. Pat VonNieda later mentioned that she had spoken to Mr. Gingrich andwas told that the program could use items for older children,(boys and girls up to ages 17) not just for small children as theyserve entire families of different ages.

New Business:The members were reminded to turn our clocks back 1 hourtonight for the end of Daylight Saving Time.

The slate of new 2017 Officers were announced. Each officerwas mentioned by name and was given proper 1st and 2nd

motions and was unanimously approved.

The 2017 Officers are President Betty Funck, Vice PresidentFrank Antonicelli, Secretary Peggy Hoerner, Treasurer ArtGingrich, 1st year Board members Van Webster and RichEngle, 2nd year Board members Robert Gallo and Mary JaneRossiter, Activities Chairman Terry Von Nieda.

We had a raffle of delicious baked goods donated by JoaneDundore with many winners. The Name Badge Winner thismonth was John Strubhar.

Meeting adjourned at 11:51 AM.

Respectfully submitted by Secretary Peggy Hoerner

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MembershipCorner

Joanne Ehrhart

Just a short note this month to remind everyone thathas not renewed their PAD membership, to do sosoon. The renewal form can be found on our web sitenoted below. Don’t forget to renew at National AACAtoo.

We had a fun time at the Christmas Party this year.The awards were presented to the winners of the“Driven’n Old Vehicle” contest (see page 4) so plan todrive your old vehicle to every club event in 2017 andyou can be a winner too !

Joanne Ehrhart1924 Blacks Bridge Rd.

Annville PA 17003717-832-1116

Membership@padutchregion.comOR visit www.padutchregion.com

Staten Island Region newsletter November 2016

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My Lark Regal 2-dr hardtop, was sold new at A-1 Motors in Chambersburg, PA…(zip codes began in 1963) I am thefourth owner and the car currently has 37,800 miles on the odometer. It has a 6 cylinder 170 cu. in. overheadvalve engine, 112 hp. This engine was first introduced in 1939 as a flathead engine. For 1961 Studebaker engineersmodified the lower end of the block and developed an overhead valve head for the 170 cu.in. engine.

The 1962 base price tag for this Lark Regal 2-dr hardtop was $2,218.00. It left the factory with optionaloverdrive transmission, reclining front bench seat, undercoating, hill holder, twin traction (posi), white sidewalltires, cimatizer (heater), wheel discs, front bumper guards, radio and antenna plus $63.98 shipping from SouthBend, Indiana to Chambersburg, PA. Increased the price to $2,716.25 which equals $21,415.73 in 2016 dollars.

This Lark was driven 4,100 miles from 2008 to May 2016. The car was towed to Florida in 2012 and I rescued itfrom Florida in May 2016.

With the low mileage I falsely believed everything would be wonderful. Not so. I discover cars must be exercised,maybe I could start a business exercising old cars ??

Inspecting the brakes, brake fluid looked like mud, all wheel cylinders leaked, master cylinder needed replaced,brake hoses were dry rotted, rear axle bearings were LOUD, the grease was dried out, bearings were rough,front wheel bearing grease was dried out, cleaned and re-packed with fresh grease. All dirty work.

The rear end seal was leaking, transmission seal was leaking. I changed dirty fluids in trans and rear end. Allcoolant hoses were questionable. Muffler was holey. Exhaust manifold was leaking. All 4 original shocks werereplaced. However the radio worked good !

Spark plugs, wires, points, rotor, cap were replaced. The Carter carburetor was rebuilt by Paul Supan. The engineran better but still rough. The engine oil turned milky white shortly after I changed it…This kept me awake at night.

Lucky for me Studebaker replacement parts are easily available thru multi vendors and swap meets.

We ran a compression test and #4 and #5 cylinders had zero compression. When head was removed, #4 and #5had burnt exhaust valves, also a leaking head gasket. The head was also cracked and was junked. I found a head onthe internet, and had it redone at Feaser Co. in Harrisburg. Cracking was a common problem with the redesignedOHV 6 cyl. Engine. Glad I found a replacement head on the internet.

The Lark was returned to the road . I entered it at the Hershey Show, HPOF. Received an award from the show.

I enjoy driving the Lark. I really like the overdrive transmission. The AM radio has a FM converter installed on it.Turning a radio with a dial is a thing of the past too.

There is suspension work to do yet, front bushings and rear spring bushings need replaced. I need to re-torquethe cylinder head and exhaust manifold. Check valve adjustment. The gas gauge sending units needs replaced. Iam thankful to be able to work on my cars and enjoy them.

Submitted by Bob Sheaffer

Bob Sheaffer’s 1962Studebaker Lark

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Lost Words from Our Childhood

Today we live in an age of technology with words like cell phone, text, twitter and Bluetooth. We havecomputers, with a user name and a password to email, and gmail and we can use it to face book,Google and Skype. I’m sure you can think of many more but I want to tell you about some lost wordsfrom our childhood.

Would you recognize the word Murgatroyd ? Heavens to Murgatroyd !

Lost words form our childhood; words gone as fast as the buggy whip !

The other day, a not so elderly (65) lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy and he looked at herquizzically and said , what is a Jalopy ? He had never heard of the word Jalopy !!She knew she was old but notthat old.

Well I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle. About a month ago, I illuminated some oldexpressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology.

These phrases included : “Don’t touch that dial”, “Carbon copy”, “You sound like a broken record” and “Hungout to dry”.

Back in the olden days we had words like — Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumping Jehoshaphat ! HolyMoley ! We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley and even a regular guy couldn’t accuse us of being aknucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China !

Back in the olden days, life used to be swell but when’s the last time anything was swell ? Swell has gone theway of beehives, pageboys, and the D.A. , of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pedalpushers. Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here but he isn’t anymore.

We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap and before we can say, “well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle!“Or “This is a fine kettle of fish!” - we discover that the words we grew up with have vanished with scarcely anotice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.

Where have all those phrases gone ? Long gone: Pshaw/ The milkman did it / Hey ! It’s your nickel./ Don’tforget to pull the chain/ Knee high to a grasshopper/ Well Fiddlesticks !/ Going like sixty / I’ll see you in thefunny papers. / Don’t take any wooden nickels. / Heavens to Murgatroyd !

It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills. This can be disturbingstuff !

We of a certain age have been blessed to live in a changeful time. For a child each new word is like a shiny toy,a toy that has no age. We at the other end of the chronological arc have the advantage of remembering there arewords that once did not exist and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and noware heard no more, except in our collective memory. It’s one of the greatest advantages of aging.

“See ya later, alligator !!!!”

By Richard Lederer and submitted by Betty Funck

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Happy Anniversary Wishes To You !

Look who’s having a birthday !

PA Dutch Officers and Board Members

President : Ed Houser (717) 944-1597 Acting Vice President : F.Antonicelli (717) 215-4740

Secretary : Peggy Hoerner (717) 838-6721 Treasurer : Carol Heide (717) 230-9795

Membership : Joanne Ehrhart (717) 832-1116 Activities : Frank Antonicelli (717) 215-4740

Activities : Andy Cantrell (717) 838-1911 Activities : Terry Von Nieda (717) 838-2327

Sunshine : Joane Dundore (717) 866-5986 Web Master: Jim Boone (717) 761-1734

Board 1st Yr : Mary J.Rossiter (717)336-2335 Board 1st Yr : Robert Gallo (717) 273-5485

Board 2nd Yr : Vicki Nice (717) 838-0221 Board 2nd Yr : Betty Funck (717) 838-1694

Legislative : Van Webster (717) 230-9795 UPTON Editor : Carol Heide (717) 230-9795

January

3 Robert Gallo3 Romaine Ulrich9 Sylvia Houser12 Christine Kreiser13 Elizabeth Kern14 Michael Groy20 James Buck20 Mildred Gingrich24 William Smith26 Arthur Gingrich27 Warren Keller29 Robert Shuey

January

1 Bruce & Shelly Rambler18 Michael & Christine Kreiser19 Bob & Brenda Sheaffer20 Samuel & Mildred Gingrich31 George & Rebecca Noll

February

1 Roni Supan2 David Landis3 Mildred Huffman6 Donald Hickernell7 Terry Von Nieda9 Doris Lausch11 Lena Alloway16 Susan Bross17 Leroy LeGay20 Bob Sheaffer24 Ralph Forester25 Josephine Kohr28 Tracy Lesher

March

1 Eleanor Schamber2 Luther Dundore5 Joan Clark12 Edward Houser13 Betty Funck14 Stephen Stokes18 Vicki Nice20 Trena Landis21 Keith Campbell24 Don Byler31 Bertha Geib

February

10 Allen & Peggy Hoerner11 Del & Fern Skinner11 H. Barry & Eileen Heaps15 Lewis & Roberta Brough16 Eugene & Eleanor Schamber

March

16 Bob & Betty Funck23 Glenn & Kathleen Orehek29 Charles & Beth Sando, Jr.

Upton Motor NewsPublication of Pennsylvania Dutch Region, AACA

November — December , 2016 Issue

Carol Heide3000 Boas StreetHarrisburg, PA 17103

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