VCCC – Kamloops Chapter Newsletter Box 239 Kamloops, BC V2C 5K6 Email kamshafteditor@gmail.com Editor: Dave Dickinson

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Vol. 48 No 3

Calendar of Events *Kamloops Chapter Events

*Mar 27th General Meeting 7:30 pm @ Hal Rogers Ctr

Mar 29-30th Vernon Swap Meet

*Mar 31st Adopt A Road (Coffee 10 am Heffley Creek Firehall & Pick up starts @ 10:30 am Lunch to follow at Rayleigh Pub))

*Apr 14th Spring Garage Tour (See page 3 for details)

*Apr 21st 49th Easter Sunday & Breakfast 9 am Parade @ 1 pm|

Apr 27th 29th South Okanagan Okanagan Swap Meet at Oliver.

Apr 27th Meet The Machine [Kamloops Pow-Wow Grounds]

May 17-19th 61st VCCC May Tour Nelson BC. “Cruising the Kootenays “

July 1-31st All July is Collector Car and Automotive Heritage Month

July 12th NAACC Collector Car Appreciation Day

Member Profile — Al & Brenda Barden Vintage cars found their way into Al and Brenda’s life for many years before they moved to Kamloops. One of their first cars was a 1937 McLaughlin Buick and over the years they meticulously restored around eighteen vehicles with some of them off-frame.

But the challenge was always to find the right parts or, have them made, like the two front latches that secure the convertible top on their present 1940 Mercury Eight.

However, in 1983 they spotted a 1936 120B Packard Convertible in the Hemmings catalogue and, although it was in pieces, this did not deter them and they drove all the way to Indiana to pick it up. With perseverance,

patience and often long hours over a six year period, they restored the car to its original condition, as well as giv-ing it a new paint job. Al and Brenda drove it for thirty years and eventually they auctioned it off but not before they received the Mayor’s Award in 2016 at Hot Ni-te in the City here in Kamloops.

This particular model was the 1936 Indy 500 Pace Car and it was given to the Winning Driver after the race.

They now are in the process of finishing a 1940 Mercury Eight convertible and, with their talents , it will undoubt-

edly roll out of their garage in “A” condition. The new maroon paint, new ra-diator and carburetor and, in a short while, new upholstery and some other smaller items should complete the restoration. The couple hope to have it ready for the May Tour this year. But, this may not be the last vehicle they will restore. They have their sights on more classic cars from the 1960’s which may be easier to drive and possibly easier to find parts.

Over the years, this couple has participated in numerous car clubs from Ottawa to B.C.

They lived in the East for many years where, at one time, they also lived on a hobby farm. Driving their Packard was always fun as the towns and villages were close together with frequent stops and interesting things to see.

Brenda worked as a school teacher and in 1999 she retired as an Elementary Principal. Al was literally “up in the air” for many years — as he was a Canadian Air Force pilot flying Voodoo jets until he retired from flying those machines in 1972. He showed me a big picture with him in the cockpit flying his jet. Although he was not flying the Voodoos anymore, he was asked to train some of the air force personnel.

The couple look forward to joining more of our club activities and in the last two years they also participated

in the Easter Parade. ☺Herman Kovacs

I finally got a chance to get out to Craig Beddie’s garage to see

the 1975 VW Super Beetle that he is working on. The car belongs

to a friend of his who bought the car partly restored and Craig is

helping to finish it off. The car had just been painted and Craig was

busy installing the new wiring harness, among other things. This is

going to be a gorgeous little Beetle when completed but, unfortu-

nately, we probably won’t get to see it much as the owner lives out

of town.

Dave Doman, our long-distance member from Oliver, sent

me a photo of his very nice 1951 GMC pickup that he has

finally completed after many years. Nice work, Dave.

I haven’t heard otherwise, so I am assuming that we are still

looking for secure storage for our Club vehicles as the City

needs the space the fire truck, wrecker, ambulance and ’28

Dodge are presently occupying. If you hear of any space

available at all, please give John Bone or Craig Beddie a

call. Failing that, maybe we should all buy lottery tickets like crazy and someone might win and

be able to buy the Club a garage! Dick (Continued page 8)

Annual Club Spring Garage Tour

Date – Sunday April 14th Starting 10 am

Starting Location – North Kamloops A&W (Fortune Shopping Center)

We will be starting the tour from there at 10 am sharp. Please come a little early, meet everyone, and be

ready to start the tour on time.

We will be going to seven locations, all in the Westsyde area. The following people were kind enough to

host us on the tour. Terry & Heather Davidson, John & Niki Bone, Ken & Marjorie Hoshowski, Larry &

Clodagh Wagner, Tim & Karen Bernard, Paul Crode, and Jerry & Viki Wallin.

Arrangements have been made to have lunch at the Dunes Golf Course (they help us with the Easter Pa-

rade). Preparations are being made to have lunch at 12:30. We will work this in as well as possible during

the tour.

I would like to thank Dick Parkes, John Bone, Don Potts, and John Foley for the assistance planning this

tour. Art Harms

March’s Mystery Car?

February’s Mystery Cars are American Bantam

Model 60 roadster. This car has a 20HP engine

and three speed transmission. The wheelbase was only 75 inches. The car was produced

from 1937 through 1941, when production was stopped due to World War Two.

The company is much more famous for another reason. The US war department issued

to the American car companies a request for the design of a general purpose vehicle.

Against all odds, the American Bantam Company won the competition. Unfortunately,

their production lines could only build one or two units per day. This would never fill the

requirements of the war department, so production was allotted to Willys Overland and

Ford, who built the vehicles under license. Of course military personnel did not like to

call the vehicle a General Purpose (pronounced Geep for short) so the vehicle got called

a Jeep. The rest is history. Art Harms

February’s Mystery Car?

John Bone & Peter Trant (Vancouver) say they are 1930 Aus-tin Bantam

HELP IS NEEDED IN FINDING

STORAGE FOR OUR

CLUB VEHICLES:

On the front page is pictures of our Club vehicles. As of the end of May we are losing our storage with the City and we need a different facility for storage of our 4 vehicles. If you can help please contact either John Bone 250-579-2199 or Craig Beddie 250-579-5340

Club Annual Auction was held at the February general meeting.

Jim Carroll was the auctioneer for the even-ing. There was a lot of interesting items of-fered up by the members for sale..

I guess the one that caused the most excitement was the apple pie that Don Pott’s had made. It turns out that Auc-tioneer Jim found out that Ernie McNaughton likes apple pie so he made

Ernie pay for his taste of home baking.

Thanks to all that brought items to sell and those that bought them, to take them home. .

Kamloops Chapter visit to Valley Speed on February 24th, 9AM.

We met at Valley Speed to view their facility and have a look into the art of engine rebuilding. Tre-vor Shultz, owner of Valley Speed, very thought-fully had coffee, doughnuts, and muffins waiting for us on arrival. A very nice touch enjoyed by all, even the ones that are used to not getting up that early.

After introductions, Trevor showed us around a bit, before taking us to the machine that decks blocks and heads, etc. On the machine he had a engine block that had a crack that was practically invisible. It could only be identified by careful in-spection. He then decked the block to demon-strate the process.

We then proceeded to the engine assembly room for engine short block assembly demon-stration. A 427 Chevrolet engine was the subject of the exercise. First, Trevor showed us how con-

necting rods were heated so that the piston pins (shrink fit) and pistons could be assembled. Next, the crankshaft bearings were installed in the block, followed by installing the crankshaft. The assem-bled piston/connecting rods were installed. The camshaft was also lubed and slid into the block.

Trevor took his time during this process, allowing as much time as everyone needed to make in-quiries and/or ask questions. It was very informative and well worth attending, with everyone gaining knowledge in a relaxed atmosphere.

Trevor joined us for lunch afterwards at the Fox n Hounds pub. Good

food and conversation was enjoyed by everyone. Art Harms

MY STORY Part 3 Moody Blue : - By - Dave Dickinson

The year was 1970 and I was picking up some Ford parts from Kamloops

Lincoln/Mercury for my Service Station in Cache Creek when one of the car sales-man asked if I wanted to buy a car as they had a weekend special on. I said not unless it was a Hupp. The parts man behind the counter said he had one. I told him that he was not old enough to know what a Hupmobile was. Well he did have one. It was a 1930 Model S 4 door-Hupp sedan located in West Vancouver. He stated as now that he was living in

Kamloops and his high school buddy was in Montreal their Hupp was For Sale.

Noella and I checked it out on a visit to Vancouver and yes it was a Hupp and yes we should have it. When it came time to pick up the Hupp we met the elderly lady that owned the garage where the boys had stored and worked on the car. She was very disappointed to see the car disappear as she knew once the car was gone the boys and girls of the neighborhood would also be gone. She said she looked forward and en-joyed her Saturday mornings feeding the kids kool-aide and her freshly baked cookies when they came over to work on the car.

I don’t know why we never got use Moody very often. I guess we were too busy with working, scouting and using other cars at the time. Kamloops Club members Bob & Nancy Eacrett stopped by the house on their way home from Expo 86. They saw and liked the Hupp so it was time for Moody Blue to have a new home.

Nancy, Bob & Noella

July 1986 when they were pick-ing up the

car

While the Eacrett’s operated the White Post Museum at Tappen they had Moody Blue on display. A gentleman from Denmark was visit-ing the Museum, saw Moody Blue and decided to buy and ship her to Denmark. That is the last of I heard of Moddy Blue

{MY STORY to be continued}

Elaine Jones is our sunshine lady.

If you know a member that could use a ray of

sunshine contact Elaine at

joneselaine28@yahoo.ca or 778 470 0369

Elaine sent a Symphony card to

Robin Karpiak. & Get Well to Wendy Sparrow

Editor’s Remarks: -

Well Folks, Your Editor had a great holiday, however on returning my computer hard drive

and printer decided to quit when I turn them back on after their holiday. So new hard drive

and printer were required.. Don’t ask me why however I lost some of my programs and all my email ad-

dresses. I feel I am gradually getting things back to some kind of being normal. So I am hoping that you

do get this Kamshaft from me.

If you would like me to forward the newsletters I get from other clubs please let me know as I also lost

the previous list of names.

Kamloops Chapter VCCC 2019

Backroads Tour to Salmon Arm

This year we are holding our Back Roads Tour on the weekend of June 7th, 8th, and 9th. This year’s event will leave Kamloops Friday morning the 7th of June with the destination being Salmon Arm a distance of 110km. The route will take us East on Hwy. #1.Potential stops along the way include Monte Creek Winery, Chase, Sorrento, Blind Bay, Balmoral and Tappen. With the help of Ken Hoshowski we are arranging a tour of the Salmon Arm airport on Saturday where we will see some home built aircraft. The R.J. Haney Heritage Village and Museum just down the road is the proposed lunch stop. After lunch a tour of the countryside is being planned which may include some more stops which may include ice cream. The Starlight Drive in theatre in Enderby is an option for some evening entertainment. Downtown Salmon Arm is a beautiful shopping area with many unique, independent stores and restaurants. The registration is limited to 18 vehicles and the deadline will be April 15th. The regis-tration fee will be $30.00 per vehicle. If you are interested please contact me and I will send out a copy of the waiver to be signed and add you to the list of participants. Once the registration fee has been paid and the waiver signed, participants will receive the hotel information so they can make their reservations. Rooms are set aside at rates starting at $143.10 per night plus tax. Meals and any event fees will be the responsibility of the participants but we will try to negotiate group discounts. For more information please contact: Bruce Bawtree 6069 Pringle Rd. Kamloops B.C.V2C 5V4 Phone: 250-573-2344 Cell: 250-819-5741 or sbbawtree@shaw.ca

A Thought to Remember Until Next Time: -

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. (???)

Valve Cover that is suitable to be used for a

Valve Cover Race Car.

Ken Hoshowski 250 579-8966 hosh1941@telus.net

************

Horn Button for a 1963 MC Midget

Mal 778 220 5072 nal.dixon1922@gmail.com

************

Wine Tasters Last chance to get in on the 2019 Limited Edition Wines. Any Questions contact: -

Dave @ hupdave@gmail.com

Ford 1930 Model A $20,000

Completely restored . The engine is a Model B with approximately 14,000 miles on it since it was completely overhauled. New tires, perfect interior and comes with Columbia over-drive. No rumble seat. All parts used in restoration from dealer George Moir. Car has been in heated storage since 2014. Located at Quesnel, BC. For more information, please contact Andrea 250-255-6228 or email: andreagryschuk@gmail.com

CRAFTSMAN TOOLS : -

Most of us old would-be

mechanics probably have a

bunch of CRAFTSMAN tools

in our toolboxes, which always came with a good war-

ranty. Now that Sears has gone bust, I see that RONA

is now selling CRAFTSMAN tools and so I asked them

the other day if they would honour the old warranty if

we had any problems with the tools.

The girl behind the counter was very helpful

and gave me a phone number where we could call for

any warranty issue. The phone number is 888-331-

4569 and she also said that RONA will eventually be

handling any warranty issues themselves. Dick

ADOPT A ROAD

Sunday March 31st

10:00 am coffee

(Heffley Creek

Fire Hall)

10:30 Start

clean up

Lunch to follow at

Rayleigh Pub