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July 2011

The Buick Running Board

ORANGE COUNTY

CHAPTER OF THE BCA

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OFFICERS FOR 2011 ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER OF THE

BUICK CKUB OF AMERICA

DIRECTOR Sheridan Bishop III 714-997-2390 sonnybishop@att.net ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Jim Anderson 714-527-6763 JAndersonbuick@sbcglobal.net TREASURER Garry Toulson 714-838-0750 healthcapgrp@hotmail.com SECRETARY Gary Martin 714-812-7713 gmartin949@gmail.com Irene Foster 714-828-0942 ktwokenn@yahoo.com EDITOR Sheridan Bishop III 714-997-2390 sonnybishop@att.net DIRECTOR AT LARGE Lee Wangerin 562 920-1611

No “E”mail DIRECTOR AT LARGE Larry Minery 714-639-1137

wildcatminery@socal.rr.com W AGON MASTER Richard Brewbaker 714-772-1783 the2brewsatearthlink.net SPEAKERS John Dyke 562-412-0714 buickjohn70@roadrunner.com

HOSPITALITY Bruce Andren 714-317-1110

bruce@compactbuickclub.org

HISTORIN Fred Rawling 562 644-4600 fred.rawling@live.com

STOCKROOM

Regular Monthly meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month at Spires Restaurant at the Southeast corner of Golden West and Garden Grove Blvd. Westminster. Contact them for Directions 714-636-0442. Meetings start at 7:00P.M. For those of us who have dinner there please try to be finished before 7:00. Membership dues are $20.00 per year, and you must also be a member of the National Buick Club of America. Dues are due July first of each year. Any member who shall have failed to pay their dues within two months after they have become due shall cease to become a member. Articles to be printed in the Running Board need to be in the Editors possession no later than the Sunday following the meeting.

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The folloing

people have

Birthdays in

July

Ron Wheeler Kathy Lemey Jr. Connie Simon Lois Gilliland Victoria Wilhelm John Ferris Garry Toulson Debbie Sweeney

2nd 5th 7th 11th 13th 17th 18th 26th

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ORANGE COUNTY BUICK CLUB General Membership Meeting June 21, 2011 In attendance: Larry Minery, Jim Kominski, John Dyke, Gary Martin, Sam and Joyce Engle, Lee Wangerin, Ed Ricci, Richard and Nancy Brew-baker. Gary Martin called the meeting to order at 7: 17 pm. Guest speaker, Jim Kominski, was introduced by Larry. Jim's brake and suspension business is located at 153 N. Cypress, Orange, CA. phone# (714) 538-2430. He gave a very interest-ing talk on brake products, servicing brake and suspension sys-tems and answered questions from members. There was no treasurer's report. Corrections were made to the May 17, 2011 minutes. The sen-tence, "Irene Foster and Linda Brewbaker volunteered to co-chair the show.", corrected the name "Linda" to Nancy. Motion to accept the minutes as corrected was made by Lee Wangerin, seconded by Bruce Andren, and carried. New member, Ed Ricci, was introduced. He owns a coral and white 1955 Special. A sign-up sheet was passed around for the October Car Show. The recent picnic at Irvine was discussed. There were approxi-mately 20 people in attendance. It was felt to have been an en-joyable event. July's tour will be to the Automobile Driving Museum, 610 Lairport St., EISegundo, CA. Group will meet on Sat., July 23rd at Paneria Bread Restaurant, Seal Beach Blvd. at 9:30am. We will have breakfast and tour to the mu-seum. Following the museum tour, you will have the option to visit the Old Time Music Hall, or depart for home. Those plan-ning to attend need to RSVP to John Dyke by Julyl7th. John's phone # (562) 412-0714 and e-rnail buickohn70@roadrunner.com. The meeting adjourned at 8:40 pm. Acting Secretary, Nancy Brewbaker

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July Directors Message A Note from the Assistant Director, I wanted to make a few comments about our Director Sheridan. To date Sheridan has done a great job bringing the club and it's members back together. Also, doing things as they were done just a few years ago. Along with handling the Director's duties he has taken on the duties of Editor of the Running Board as well and has excelled at making it a success once again. He has gotten the RB out in a timely manner and we all greatly appreciate receiving the hard copy in the mail. Sheridan also manages to fit into his busy everyday schedule all the time necessary to organize and complete the tasks of Director. He maintains complete order at our club meetings with a friendly atmosphere while keeping the meeting focused on the subject at hand. Sheridan makes sure everyone has a voice in the direction that the club is headed. He includes discussions to encourage members to discuss what is going on with their own Buicks. Let's all do our part in contacting less active members to join in and participate in club activities. I hope that everyone that was able to attend the annual picnic on Saturday enjoyed it. I was unable to attend due to a knee injury. Regards, Jim Anderson A Happy Father's Day Blessing for everyone Remembering all the Dad's that aren't with us any longer, If roses grow in heaven lord, then pick a bunch for me. Place them in my Dad's arms and tell him They're from me. Tell him that I love and miss him, and when he turns to smile, place a kiss upon his cheek and hold him for awhile. I love you Dad

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Secretaries notes June 7 2011 Board meeting

Board members present: Sonny Bishop, Gary Martin, Lee Wang-erin, Larry Minery, Garry Toulson. Guest Members present: Richard Brewbaker, Nancy Brewbaker. Sonny will publish directions in this Running Board on how to access the Running Board on line. Responsibilities of the Officers: Sonny outlined some of the du-ties of the club officer’s. The duties of each officer is spelled out in the By laws. At the nomination of officers in September-October each officer will read his duties. In this way if someone does not have time to fill the duties of the office that person can decline the nomination. Board members discussed ways of making the monthly member-ship meetings more entertaining and less business orientated. We are now having Board Meetings as stated in the by-laws and could go to Cruse Nights, Burger Joints, etc for the monthly gen-eral membership meetings. The exception would be the nights we have guest speakers. Jim Anderson also spoke on the need too change the mood of the monthly meetings, and to discuss busi-ness matters at the Board Meetings. The Board voted unanimously to give the Treasurers Report at the Board Meetings only, and not published in the Run-ning Board. If anyone has interest in the financials of the club, you are welcome to attend a Board meeting. Nancy Brewbaker (Co-Chair of the Car Show) spoke about the car show volunteers and elimination the positions not needed due to the change from full on car show to Show and Shine format. The entrance fee for the Show and Shine is five dollars.

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Cars and parts for sale

Your ad will run for three months and then will be deleted unless you renew it. Call your editor to renew your ad.

May 2011 For Sale: 1957 Buick Station wagon model # 49 Es-tate Wagon. Only 7,013 were produced. Milage on the odome-ter shows 39772 miles. Drivable but needs restoration. $5,500.00 OBO, also a LeSabre parts car is part of the package. billcolson@(760)243-7593 BCA # 1928

May 2011 For sale: 1983 Cadillac Seville Hi mileage, but well maintained. Recent new fuel pump installed by Wally’s Shop. The original engine has been replace, and the original engine is apart and available with the car. $2,950.00 OBO. Garry Toul-son 714-838-0750 “E” mail healthcapgrrp@hotmail.com.

June 2011 For Sale: Three doors for a 1959 Buick four door. Complete with glass and door handles, no rust or dents. $50.00 Sheridan Bishop III 714-997-2390

Wallys Shop has worked on many of our cars, new and old, and has a excellent reputation for good work and fair prices. Send your family and to Wally for their service needs.

June 2011 For Sale

Buick fans guess what? I found two special Buicks, 1989 Reatta, Red with Charcoal Interior, Looks and drives like new. Maintained as a new car. Only 147,000 miles, but looks like it only has 30,000 miles. $3,800.00 The other car is a 1999 Riviera, Pearl white with Mauve leather interior, the car is supercharged and is very nice with only 76,000 miles. $4,000.00 Jack Berry 949-644-4262. 941 Baywood Drive. Newport Beach, C.A. 92660

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See Gary Martin for de-tails on this product. 714-812-7713 Continued from page 7, Dirty engines sure do run quieter, though. For some old cars a flush may be beneficial, but for others it may actually be harmful. As the old ad-age tells us, ‘let sleeping dogs lie.’ Or ‘don't fix it if it ain’t broke. ‘ On a badly maintained engine, there may be too many deposits for the flushing chemicals to re-move. The problem here is that the chemicals will dislodge enough crud so that it blocks small pas-sages or clogs up the oil pump pickup screen. In this case, you’re much better off changing the oil more frequently, say every 1,000 miles, and let the cleaning properties of the oil reduce accumu-lated deposits a little at a time. An engine flush in a can’ has the potential to cause problems. If you are in-sistant on flushing your engine, do it this way. The old timers used a gallon of kerosene as a flush. They were on the right trac but over did it.

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Richard reported on food for the show and the group agreed that the Santa Maria style lunch is out due to the anticipated lower turn-out for this type of show . Larry suggested having someone cook Mexican food at Crevier, and will follow-up on this. Sonny requested pictures of your cars for the News Letter. Garry Toulson displayed a letter of thanks from the Ronald McDonald House organization to our club for our recent dona-tion. Richard Brewbaker spoke about the July tour to the Drivers Auto Museum and the Car Club Picnic at Irvine Park. John Dyke and Richard are working on the July tour. Call them for details on both events. The meeting adjourned at 8;30pm Gary Martin, Secretary

Tours

Saturday July 23rd we will be visiting the Drivers Auto Mu-seum in El Segundo the entrance is free, however there is a $5.00 donation that is requested.

August We need your suggestions if we are going to have a tour.

Saturday September 17th, we will be going to the woody car show. Details in next months news letter.

We need your suggestions for October and November.

December will be our Christmas Lights tour.

Keep driving those Buicks, especially to our tours.

Richard Bruebaker Wagon Master

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electronically? If you would follow these easy directions. 1. Open your Internet 2. Type in BUICK CLUB OF AMERICA 3. Click on Buick Club of America. This

will take you to the national web site page.

4. In the upper right corner you will find a large (approximately 3”by 4”) Yellow page that says Chapters Regions and di-visions. Click on FIND.

5. Scroll down the page until you find Or-ange County Then click on it. (You may also check out what other chapters are doing).

6. Click on Monthly news letters. 7. Enjoy your Running Board Electroni-

cally. 8. Please call me at 714-997-2390, or you

can “E”mail me at sonnybishop@att.net When I hear from you I will stop sending you the news letter on paper. This will save the club considerable money on postage and paper. Thank you Sheridan Bishop III

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When I hear from you I will stop sending

Dues are due July First We are enclosing a new application in this news letter. Please fill it out completely listing your Buicks from oldest to newest. We are working from some rosters that are not current. Some mistakes are known and have been corrected. All paid members will be receiving a new roster later this year in your news letter in a easy to read form. Unfor-tunately late registrations will not appear in your

roster. Please don't wait until its to late. Our club is changing (for the better), less business and more about our cars and the fun stuff associated with them. Rich-ard Brewbaker has done a great job on our tours, and John Dyke in soliciting great speakers for our monthly meetings .Come to a meeting and see for yourself. The change has been a team effort on the part of our board of directors. Just a thought on flushing your engine. From Skinned Knuckles magazine January 2010 page 28. Engine Flush. I call this one the ’ money flush’ . The reasoning is that oil’s “oiliness” goes away over time and varnish and other compounds stay inside the engine. These begin to restrict oil flow (using a bad analogy) much of the way that cholesterol blocks blood flow in your arteries. ‘Oiliness’ is often demon-strated in parts stores by way of an ‘eggbeater’ display. Internal engine cleaning or flushing is being promoted by the quick oil-change folks with the advice that if you clean out the engine of accumulated sludge, deposits and other nasty gook, it will run better and last longer. They relate it to cholesterol medi-cation. Next thing you know, they will be selling pills to drop in your oil. An easy way to see if your engine has sludge buildup is to pull off a valve cover or side valve plate cover. A clean engine will have very little cooking (crusty deposits).