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THE RIM COUNTRY CLASSIC AUTO

CLUB IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION

FOR THE PURPOSE OF:

Providing social, educational and recreational activities for its membership.

Participating in and supporting civic activities for the betterment of the community.

Encouraging and promoting the preservation and restoration of classic motor vehicles.

Providing organized activities involving the driving and showing of member’s cars.

RCCAC meets at

6:30p.m. on the first

Wednesday of the

month at

Tiny’s Restaurant,

600 E. Hwy. 260

in Payson

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Traveling with the

Payson Arizona

Club Members, Add these names & phone #s to your

new 2015 Directory : Duble, Al & Delores 928-468-6556 Coleman, Larry 928-474-5447 Furnas, Greg 951-505-7441 Kealey, Dan 928-468-2393 Wells, DJ 928-468-1242 Zaremba, Al 928-460-2293

Please know that you DO NOT need to have a “show car” to be in the Club or

to participate in any of the events.

The Club’s Valentine’s Day lunch cruise to

the Casino on Saturday, February 14 was

fun. About 35 Club members attended. The

Casino sat us at 4 tables very close to the

buffet so we were able to eat to our delight. A

cordoned area was provided for us to park

our show cars.

As another President once said, “ask not

what my club can do for me, but what can I

do for my club” (John Kennedy).

Our car show committee needs help. Mary

Cailey needs volunteers for the Hospitality

booth and we need help parking show cars in

the park. If you can help, call Julius Zezima

214-563-2214.

In June we will be losing two valuables club

members, Patty & Nate Johnson when they

move back to Colorado. Patty is our Treasur-

er and needs an assistant until June who

would assume her tasks of Treasurer for the

remainder of the year.

Byron

From our President

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NEWS FROM THE GLOVEBOX

March At a Glance

Let’s do a “St. Patrick’s Day” luncheon cruise on Tuesday,

March 17! We can meet in the Stage

parking lot at 11:30 and drive up to Kohl’s Ranch for lunch.

Let me know if you’re coming

marycailey@yahoo.com or 474-3560.

Be sure to wear green!

Upcoming Car Shows

For more information on shows and registration forms : www.cruisinarizona.com/carshows.html

Hello WOW Ladies….. Our next luncheon (the 2nd Thursday of each month) will be on:

Thursday, March 12th, at 11:30 am, at the Sweet Shoppe in Sawmill Plaza

Please RSVP marycailey@yahoo.com or 928-474-3560 Remember to bring a friend along.

WOW Women On Wheels

movie selected, date, and time is e-mailed out monthly to members.

See you at the Movies!

Car/

part

s

If you have a new e-mail address or are not receiving announcements, please contact Larry Bertram with your e-mail address :

lsbertram1017@Gmail.com or 472-7769.

The Simple Recipes (with 6 or fewer ingredients) Corner

Sue Hedman’s “Biscuit Bites” 1 tube of biscuits 1 stick of butter

4 oz. blue cheese, crumbled Preheat oven to 350 degrees Put butter and blue cheese on cookie sheet Melt in the oven Cut biscuits into quarters Place on cookie sheet

Toss into butter & cheese Bake 20 minutes or until brown Serve warm Yummy!

**Free—6 volt Bendix electric fuel pump with water separator attached. Call John Zilisch 468-9028

**1927 Ford Roadster (Buttercup) For sale, $28,300. Mary Cailey 474-3560

News from the Backseat

(of a Studie)

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HISTORY OF STUDEBAKER by Albert Duble, Payson, AZ. Feb. 2015

The five Studebaker brothers came from Holland in the early 1800’s and settled in Philadelphia, later moving to Ashland, Ohio, and then to South Bend, Indiana where the motor car business was founded. They established the worlds’ largest wagon building business, ultimately supplying Lincoln with Civil War ammo and ambulance wagons. The brothers expanded to electric cars in 1904 and then to motor cars in 1906. (They were in business for 100 years before Ford Motor Co.). The electric cars were sold by the Wanamaker Stores in New York and Pennsylvania). The first gasoline motor car in 1905 was a two cylinder water cooled engine with machine oiler, float feed carb, water pump, a dry cell ignition, two wheel brakes, reversible hand steering, float and foot throttle, and 3 speed planetary transmission. The car sold for $3000.00. WW1 war orders included transport wagons, harnesses, ar-tillery vehicles for Great Britain, and Caterpillar type ambulances and tractors for France and Russia.

The 1920 to 1930 Studebaker models are in high demand to day for hot rods or just restorations due to their stylish models, particu-lar the 1937 to 1939 Coupe-Express models which featured a car front end and a pickup rear end. During WW2 the Corporation built aircraft engines for the B17 flying fortress; large 6 X 6 military trucks, and the USMC Weasel which was a tracked vehicle to be used in the jungles against the Japanese in the Pacific. It used a Champion 6 cylinder flat head engine and carried a driver and three infan-trymen. We still see some of these at meets today. In 1946 Studebaker was the first manufacturer to convert and offer a post war car. Their motto was “First By Far with a Post War Car”. The Corp. also sponsored the TV show called “Mr. Ed”, featuring the talking horse with Donald O’Connor. The 1950 and 51 models featured the famous and popular “Bullet-Nose” grill. The 1954 Commander 2-door coupe with the “trout” mouth grill is especially stylish and is in demand today and is very expensive. The three-door station wagons of that era are also in demand. In 1963 they came out with the “Wagonaire” sliding roof station wagon. The first V8 engine was in 1951 and was a very well designed engine that is practically indestructible. It was converted to the 259 and 289 CID V8 en-gines that are still running today in many cars.

In 1963 and 64 the Corp. had Raymond Lowey design the all fiberglass super-charged 289 CID sports car called the Avanti. Their Avanti club today still has about 4000 members. It was quick and could easily keep up with the GTO and Corvettes at the drag strips of that time. The Avanti did not sell well with the public because many thought it was an Italian car. The Avanti also had a small rear seat similar to the Camaro. In 1954 Packard was absorbed by the Corp. but was abandoned in 1958 with the Packard-Hawk which had a huge powerful Packard 352 CID engine. The most popular Studebakers today are the 50’s and 60’s super-charged Golden Hawks, Silver Hawks, Commander coupes, and the many Lark models with convertibles. Your author here has a 62 Lark Daytona convertible and a 59 Silver Hawk with A/C and stick OD shift. The Corp went belly up in 1965 with the final Lark models being built in Hamilton, Ontario.

They used the GM Cleveland 283 CID V8 engine. Prior to that Studie made their own V8 engines in South Bend, IN.

LONG LIVE STUDEBAKER.

Al Duble

9284686556

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