Inside this issue: President’s Corner 2

John Rinehart Obituary 2

December Meeting 3

Classifieds 3

My Studebaker Story - “Back in the Family”

4

Thank You Note 7

Spring Tour 2012 8

Spring Tour 2012 Registration 9

Tech Tips 10

Beware! I Got Conned 11

Sweethearts & Orphans Meet 12

Sweethearts & Orphans Registration 13

Central Texas Chapter of the Studebaker Drivers Club, Inc

January/February 2012

Volume 27, Issue 3

NEXT MEETING Surrey Inn, Caldwell, Texas Saturday, February 11, 2012

The Surrey Inn is located at the corner of Highway 36 and Highway 21 in Caldwell Texas. We will have the buffet which will be $7.95 + Tax and Tip and that comes with tea and dessert. We will start eating at 1 pm with a meeting to follow. Drive your Studebaker and come early for tire kicking and a good seat. See you there!

Lorraine

For additional information call: 254-939-3011 or 979-846-8455

February 11 Surrey Inn, Caldwell, TX

February 24-26 Sweethearts & Orphans Meet, Denton, TX

April 13-15 Spring Tour in the Hill Country - Details on pages 8 and 9.

June 9 Chicken Place, Marlin, TX

July 29-August 4 2012 SDC International Meet, South Bend, IN

August 11 Raymond’s Southern Kitchen, Lorena, TX

October 13 34th Annual Picnic at the Hollands’, College Station, TX

December 8 Christmas Party - location to be announced

CALENDAR OF FUTURE EVENTS

PRESIDENT’S CORNER By Mark Brians

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Hello from Belton! Well, we have jumped off into a new year just when I was getting used to writing 2011. Our next meeting is February 11, 2012 at 1pm at the Surrey Inn in Caldwell Texas. They have a very nice Buffet and they are right on the corner of Highway 36 and 21 in Caldwell. It will be nice place to have our meeting.

Things are pretty quiet here after the big blow out at Christmas. We are still eating enchiladas and they are still good. I am trying to get back on the 50 Studebaker project so I can drive it to South Bend in July. It has been tough going though. I hope your projects are moving along as planned. If you have not received a new Studebaker International Catalog after they incorporated SASCO parts in it you need to call them up and get one. It is twice as thick as before. While prices may shock you on some things it is not everywhere you can order a new old stock front fender for a 1942 Studebaker. I en-joyed just looking through it. There were many items that SASCO must not have known they even had. After chasing parts for a few brand X cars I appreciate our Studebaker parts vendors a whole lot more. The Spring Tour is all set and all we need is members to sign up.

Well that is about it from Belton. See you in Caldwell soon.

Mark

John Henry Rinehart passed away on Janu-ary 15, 2012, at the age of 88. He was born on September 16, 1923. He served in the military during World War II. He was a Studebaker trained mechanic and worked as a mechanic all his life. He was a charter member of the Central Texas Chapter, Studebaker Drivers

Club and served a term as Vice President of the Chapter.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Lillie Ruth Morris Rinehart., two sons, Johnnie Dean Rinehart and Neal “Butch” Rinehart. He is sur-vived by one sister, Bertha Clayton, one son, Pete Rinehart and wife, Barbara Rinehart and one daughter, Mary Susan “Susie” Chancellor and husband, Danny Chancellor, eight grand-children and eighteen great-grandchildren.

Viewing was held at Nobles Funeral Home in Navasota, Texas, followed by a graveside ser-vice at Independence Memorial Cemetery in Shiro, Texas.

JOHN RINEHART 1923 -2012

Picture sent in by Pat Mahoney

THE HUBCAP In The Hubcap, our goal is to inform club members about club activities, offer news about Studebakers and Studebaker people, along with ideas and comments concerning both. Contributions are welcome from all club members, although we reserve the right to edit and select on the basis of topicality and general interest. Submit material to "The Hubcap”, 6224 Los Robles, College Station, TX 77845. We can be reached by telephone at 979/846-8455.

The Hubcap is published bi-monthly by the Central Texas Chapter of the Studebaker Drivers Club, Inc. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the Central Texas Chapter of the Studebaker Drivers Club, but those of the particular authors or editors.

President Mark Brians 254/939-3011 Vice President Ken Smith 713/882-6202 Sec.-Treasurer Hazel Holland 979/846-8455 Editor B.B. Holland 979/846-8455 Tour master Lorraine Brians 254/939-3011

DECEMBER MEETING - CHRISTMAS PARTY

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Forty-two members and guests braved the balmy December weather to attend the annual Christ-mas Party of the Central Texas Chapter. Mark and Lorraine Brians did an outstanding job of hosting this festive event. A local caterer provided some wonderful Mexican food: tamales, enchiladas, both beef and chicken with the usual sides, and members supplied an ample array of desserts. No one left hungry.

New members, Kirk and Lisa Smith attended and Emery and Shirley Bridges guests, Warren and Sharon Bridges joined the club. Mark Frank also had as his guest, Judy Randall from Lampasas. Following the sumptuous meal, we all enjoyed the Chinese Christmas exchange. This year we had a new wrinkle in the rules: two tables of gifts, one for men and one for women.

The following members and guests attended: Doug Atchley, Evant; Ross Ball, Lorena; Mark and Lorraine Brians, Belton; Emery & Shirley Bridges, Burnet; Warren & Sharon Bridges, Chilton; John & Donna Brooks, Hamilton; Larry & Diane Cissna, Cameron; Art & June Clark, Brenham; Joe & Karen Clark, Cameron; Terry Crain & Sandra Kalousek, Marquez; Mick Curl, Bellville; Mark Frank & Judy Randall, Lorena; Barry Hackney, Houston; B.B. & Hazel Holland, College Station; Doyle Hopkins, Georgetown; Gary & Donna Lowe, Belton; Patrick & Sue Mahoney, College Station; Bill & Diana Os-borne & W.R. Sullivan, College Station; Brad Putchat, Leroy; Fred Radle, Waco; Steve Shore, Hous-ton; Ken & Estella Smith, Hempstead; Kirk & Lisa Smith, Cedar Creek; Onnie & Virginia Weaver, Wiergate, Marvin Winkler, Temple.

For Sale 1960 Lark convertible. V8 - automatic. Black with red interior. Seats re-done. Tan top not in-

stalled - new in box. Body in good shape. En-gine reworked but not recently started. $4000. Contact David Metcalf in Waco TX (254) 754-4080

For Sale 1961 Studebaker Champ pickup. Long narrow bed 8ft. 259 V/8 with 3 speed overdrive, fac-tory AC, AM radio, Shop made heavy duty rear bumper. White in color, Very good condi-tion. $13,500 Call Victor Koelzer in Gainsville Texas, 940 668-6516 (Home) or 940-736-0854 (Cell).

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MY STUDEBAKER STORY — “BACK IN THE FAMILY”

By Lisa (Beran) Smith

More times than not when you lose a personal item very special to you, there is a nagging feeling of a deep sense of loss that is relived over and over again. Here is my story of the loss of a car, but not just any car… it was our car… our Studebaker…

I was born in 1963 and grew up in the country south of Thrall, Texas, a very small town in Central Texas. My parents owned a 1955 Studebaker Commander. It was Alpena Blue with an off white top. I rode many a mile (all local) in that car with my parents. Most of the miles I rode in it were with my mother as she travelled door to door selling Luzier cosmetics or riding with her to the beauty shop or meat market in Thorndale or the grocery store in Taylor. The longest road trips I remember is one where we went to Capital Plaza in Austin at Christmas when I was really little to go shopping and an-other trip to Austin with my mother to buy my sparkly sequined material for my drum major uniform when I was in high school.

My brother, Ronny, was born in 1953 and was 10 years older than me. I don’t remember he and I riding in the car together, but my mother would tell me stories of Ronny hanging over the seat looking at me when they brought me home from the hospital. She would tell me that I would always cry be-cause he sat beside me in the backseat and he would touch my dresses which I did not want messed up. My parents bought the car when my brother was really little.

Here is a picture of Ronny and our Studebaker in August, 1958 when he was 5 years old. I am thinking that they were celebrat-ing his 5th birthday since he was born in August. The location of the picture is unknown but looks like it is in the Bastrop State Park, which is close to where my hus-band, Kirk, and I now live.

I lost my brother in 1976 and my father in 1986. My mother and I continued to live in the country by Thrall, until I moved to Austin around 1989. In 1990, my mother asked my boyfriend, Kirk, and I if we wanted the Studebaker when she and my stepfather were moving things from the country before they got married. At the time, Kirk and I were not married and had no place to store another vehicle so we told her to go ahead and sell it.

Here is a picture of what our Stude-baker looked like when we told my mother to sell it in 1990.

Kirk and I married in 1992, and my stepfather passed away in 1999. Over the years and car show after car show and glimpse after glimpse of pris-tine vintage cars going down the high-way, my husband and I would just get sick and want to kick ourselves for let-ting the Studebaker go. I was able to contact the person who Mother sold the car to, but he was living out of state

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by then and said that he had sold it at a garage sale when he was moving from Texas to someone who had lived down the road from him in the country near Georgetown. He did not remember the per-son’s name who bought it, and the name was never changed on the title. I tried very hard to locate the car, but was unsuccessful.

In 2009, while Kirk, who is in the National Guard, was deployed to Iraq, I kept trying. We found a 1955 Commander on Craig’s List, and when I went to look at it in Austin and lifted the tarp, I knew that it was not our Studebaker. I had the fear that ours was sitting in some junk yard, had been crushed, or had been parted out.

In March, 2011, my mother was at home with us for about 3 weeks during a period of time that she was transitioning into a different assisted living community. One Friday night during that time, Kirk called me over to the computer and said “look what I found”. It was a listing on Craig’s List and the pictures definitely looked like “our Studebaker”. Kirk said that he could tell that it was it by just seeing the back of the seat in the picture which was blue… When he did get in contact with the owner (which is a story all on its own), the gentleman provided the VIN # which matched the one of the Studebaker we had owned. We had a copy of the title that my mother had kept so that sealed the deal. We knew we had found it.

On Sunday, April 3, 2011, Kirk and I travelled with our pickup and trailer with cash in hand to Cleburne, Texas where we picked up “our Studebaker”. After 21 years, it was in a little bit (let’s say worse) condition than it was when my mother sold it, but the potential as al-ways was there. Here is a picture of me beside the Studebaker in the pasture where it was located. And yes, as imag-inable, I was shedding tears when the picture was taken (or as my niece used to say, my eyes were leaking)…

My story is a very emotional one for me because my mother and I are very close and have been through so much and continue to go through so much together, so finding that car, our Studebaker, was very important to me. As the years went by, my mother knew how much Kirk loved old cars and wanted us to find it so that he could have it. That made it all that much more important for her to know that Kirk and I had gotten it back and that we were going to take care of it.

When we brought it back from Cleburne, Kirk parked the trailer outside the big picture window at Mother’s assisted living community, and we got her up to the front to look out the window. When she saw the car, she said “the whole thing is rusty”. Then I pulled out the pictures of my brother with the car and of the car when she sold it in 1990 and she said “I remember that one” and I told her “That’s our Studebaker, Momma”. She replied “Ya’ll are gonna make me cry”, and through those tears I saw her happiness that we had found “our Studebaker”.

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When Kirk told Mother that it was going to need a lot of work, she replied “oh spray paint will make it look alright.” Here is a picture of what Mother saw when she looked out the window.

I have found a feeling of peace that I was missing until I found our Studebaker. It was an absolutely priceless journey, one that brought back wonderful memories to both my mother and myself of family times shared in our Studebaker. My family members rode in that car, touched that car and laughed (and even cried tears) in that car. The chapter has now ended in bringing the car “back in the family.”

But my story does not end there! Now it is our story… mine and Kirk’s. We now have new chapters to write, and several chapters have already begun.

One chapter is becoming members of The Studebaker Driver’s Club, Inc. (a national club) and members of the Central Texas Studebaker Drivers Club and the Texas Hill Country Studebaker Driv-ers Club. We are meeting a lot of people and making new friends and we look forward to being able to drive on tours, go to car shows and club meetings in a Studebaker. But in order to be able to drive a Studebaker, we need one that runs now, so we even talked about maybe getting another Stude-baker to drive until the next chapter… the restoration of “our Studebaker” is complete.

Kirk intends for “our Studebaker” to be a retirement project, but he really can’t wait. He has already been locating and obtaining parts. Even though our Studebaker is an early model 1955, we also bought a late model 1955 Commander to be used for parts. However, I told him to restore the late model as well so we could have both the early and the late models.

My daddy would be so proud to see Kirk’s interest in the Studebaker. My daddy was a mechanic and my husband even though he is a jack of all trades, is a pretty darn good mechanic himself.

Lisa (Beran) Smith Cedar Creek, Texas

“BACK IN THE FAMILY” CON’T

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HIGHLIGHTS: CENTRAL TEXAS/HILL COUNTRY CHAPTERS SPRING TOUR - APRIL 13-14-15 - FREDERICKSBERG, TX

We will start our tour on Friday April 13 2012. We will meet at noon for lunch at the Hill Country Cupboard located at the intersection of Hwy 281 and 290 in Johnson City. We will leave there about 1 pm and caravan west on 290 to the President Johnson Ranch where we will see a movie at the visitors center. We then will visit the living center, drive around the ranch and visit his Texas Whitehouse. The Whitehouse has a $2.00 per person admission that you pay when you get there. It is a very pretty setting and LBJ was pure Texan with lots of character. We will leave the ranch on Ranch Road 1 going west to Hwy 290 and on into Fredericksburg to our host hotel. We have reserved a block of rooms at the Peach tree Inn and

Suites. The motel was built in the 1950’s but it has been up-dated and has all the modern conveniences. We have a separate party building for our hospitality room and banquet. We plan on having the hospitality room open in the morning and evening. April is during the peak of Fredericksburg’s tourist season so you will need to make room reservations early. Friday evening dinner is on your own and there are several restaurants nearby. The hospitality room will be open Friday evening for your enjoyment. Saturday morning we depart the motel about 9 am for the National Museum of the Pacific War just a few blocks away. The museum covers a city block and is a world class

facility. The admission is good for two days so you could go back on Sunday if you do not see it all on Saturday. We have a special group rate of $8.00 per person that will be paid as part of your tour reg-istration. Lunch on Saturday is on your own and there are many places close by. If you finish up the Museum there is shopping galore right there on main street. We have catered our banquet with David’s old fashioned Pit BBQ, and we will use the party building at the motel for our banquet and meeting Saturday evening starting about 6:30 pm. We will have the hospitality room going after that. Our meal will consist of three meats, two sides, pickles, onions, sauce, and bread. There will be tea, coffee, water and soft drinks. Sunday morning there are plenty of things you can see and do around Fredericksburg or eat a good breakfast and head for home. We will have a list of things to see and do in our next newsletter. Your goodie bag will have lots of infor-mation and a map of the area in it. ***See the attached Registration form and get it in early.*** Fredericksburg is very busy this time of year so make your motel reservation early . March 22 is the cutoff date for room reservations.

The Texas Whitehouse

Admiral Nimitz Museum

George H. W. Bush Gallery

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Last time we talked about stuck or frozen nuts and bolts. Now we can talk about what to do now that you have twisted that bolt off. First thing to do is take a deep breath and calm down because you need all your patience for the job ahead. If there is some bolt sticking up get your torch out and carefully heat it and the area right around it. With your vise grips at the ready remove the heat and try to remove the bolt. Ok, that did not work as the vise grips jumped off too easy. If the bolt is 3/8 inch or larger you can put a nut over the stub and weld right in the center. If that works put some penetrating oil on it before it cools. Then put an impact wrench on low power on it and try to remove it. Well, that did not work.

Time for another deep breath and a few words about its parents. The next plan of attack is to grind or saw the bolt off flush with the part surface without damag-ing the part. If you can remove the part from the car so you can get it in a vise or drill press please do. Determine the center of the bolt and lightly dimple it with a center punch. This is why you wanted the end of the bolt flat not all jagged. Now we start with a small drill 1/8 inch and drill a hole into the bolt. We want it to be as straight and centered as possible. Drill bits that have the gold coating are much harder and will not dull on the grade 5 hardened bolt you are trying to re-move. Slow your drill down so it cuts, I have a set of left handed drill bits that when you start drilling the bolt out will sometimes spin it right out. After you get a hole in the bolt all the way through if you can give it a shot of penetrating oil. Select a easy out that fits the drilled hole. Carefully try to extract the bolt without breaking the easy out. On larger bolts apply heat before apply-ing the easy out works best. Do not use a easy out if the hole you drilled is more than

half the diameter of the bolt as it will only expand the bolt treads tighter. If this does not work we will just have to drill it out. Start drilling progressively larger holes until all that is left is the threads. This is why you try to keep the hole centered. Ok the hole is slightly off center and the threads are not so good. You can drill out and tap to the next size up bolt but that is not always a option. There are helicoil thread repair kits for this problem. They start at about ¼ inch and go up in size. They are like a spring that you thread a oversize hole with to restore the hole for a new bolt. They come in a kit with a special drill bit, a special tap, hardened thread inserts and insert installer. The instructions are easy and I have in-stalled hundreds of them when I worked for Poulan chain saws in the early 70’s that saved many ex-pensive parts. At this point you may want to take it to a machine shop or garage as many of them have Helicoil kits on hand. How rare the part is is also an issue. This is why I always start out like I know it is going to fight me to the end and if any of the tricks work I rejoice knowing that I got lucky again. So this should remind you when you take things apart be patient and treat things like they are glass lest you pay dearly. Keep those cars going.

Mark

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Yes, I hate to admit it but I met a real "flim flam" man and I got conned out of several hundred dol-lars. I'm telling my story because this guy is apparently still around and conning other "car guys". Did you ever meet a person that was so nice that you instantly liked and trusted them? Well my story goes like this: A couple of months or so ago a really nice, tall, slim man with grayish black hair, probably in his 70's and driving a 2005 or so white Chevy pickup stopped at my business in Shawnee, OK. He pretended to be looking at a 64 Ford pickup which he felt his son would want to buy. He even supposedly got the son on the phone and the son was to come by at 4:00 that afternoon. What a nice guy! Well, he just happened to mention that he was going to Texas to get a late model pickup from a widow lady. According to him, the lady was selling her late husband's things so she could go into a care center. He even let me see a list of things she had for sale. There were a number of items and all at very good prices. A knowledge-able buyer could not fail to make a profit. Most interesting to me was a 1948 Harley Davidson. The really nice man said he had seen the motorcycle and it was pretty complete, though with some rust and flat tires from sitting in the lady's barn for years, and of course it was being sold with no guar-antees. He said he wasn't interested in it even though she only wanted $300. What is the old saying? "If it sounds too good to be true......" Well, this guy was so slick it never oc-curred to me that I was being conned. I gave him $300 in cash (he said the lady wouldn't take checks) to buy the motorcycle for me, Better yet, he wasn't even going to charge me to haul it back to my place! All he wanted was for me to give his son a good deal on the 64 Ford pickup. I did get a signed receipt from him. The name appears to be Roy Hess but who knows whether that is his real name. When 4:00 o'clock came and went and the son didn't show, I thought " I may have been conned by the slickest 70 year old man I ever saw. No son, no motorcycle and no $300. The guy at the sheriff's office where I filed a report used the expression "a real flim flam man" I'm writing this because he is still out there ripping people off and he ought to be caught. I'm writing this on December 26, 2011. A few weeks ago there was someone in what was de-scribed to me as a really nice Model A roadster in the area of NW 22 & Portland, OKC. Apparently this same man hap-pened by and struck up a conversation with a car enthusiast who was the also there. This time the story was the widow lived in the Shawnee area and had a '40 Ford out in the pasture she needed to sell and get it off the property. The car needed quite a bit--but for only $300 how could a guy go wrong? The guy was so nice that for another $50 he would go get it from the widow and deliver it to Okla-homa City. I found out about this when the purchaser called me to see if I knew Roy Hess. He was concerned that something might have happened to him as several weeks had passed and this nice gentleman had not made it back with the '40 Ford. If this guy has gotten to you or anybody you know, please see that a report is filed with the appropriate law enforcement agency. If he approaches you, please string him along and get all the information you can, including his tag number. If you can, take his picture with your cell phone and contact me with all the information you can get. Thanks! Clifton Hill Ph. 405-878-9775 Cell 405-214-8812 [ Stude Flyer Editor's Note: Thanks to Clifton for speaking up about this crook. I know exactly how smoothly he works, because I was there and his spiel was so slick I got a piece of the action! Now my face is red and my motto is "In God we trust, all others get checked out."]

BEWARE! I GOT CONNED By Clifton Hill

Reprinted with permission from the December 2011 Stude Flyer Newsletter Central Oklahoma Chapter SDC

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Sweethearts and Orphans XIII February 24-26, 2012 in Denton, Texas

The North Texas Chapter of the Hudson-Essex-Terraplane Club invites you to Sweethearts and Orphans XIII

This year we have an exciting new location in Denton, Texas. Once again, we will meet on the same weekend as the Decatur Swap Meet. You can combine these two great events into one terrific, fun filled, “old car” weekend!!

The goal of this meet is to bring “orphan car” owners together, and to establish and renew their friendships. Additionally, we want to set aside a weekend during the valentine season to celebrate and honor our spouses and significant others for their support (and tolerance) of our “old car” habit. On this note, because February as National Heart Month, the proceeds of our meet will benefit the American Heart Association.

For those who don’t know, “orphan cars” are historic automobiles whose parent companies have disappeared from the American scene. Great cars like Hudson, Studebaker, Kaiser, Frazer, Packard, Nash, Willys, Graham, Essex, Auburn, Cord, Terraplane, DeSoto and many others fall into this cate-gory. The more recent “orphans” include AMC, Mercury, Oldsmobile and Plymouth. These marques and all other orphans are welcome. To keep our “vintage flavor,” we ask that participation be limited to pre-1989 vehicles only.

Sweethearts and Orphans has always been a non-judged meet. It is not about competition. We want to admire our unique vehicles, establish friendships and enjoy ourselves is a relaxed and friendly setting. There are Peoples Choice Awards, by decade, and a Sweethearts Choice Award. The lasting friendships and great memories are the true prizes you will bring home from this meet.

Thursday evening, February 23, registration will open at the host hotel in the Hospitality Room be-tween the hours of 4 and 8pm. Registration will re-open the morning of the 24th, from 8am-9:30am as well as in the evening, from 5pm-8pm. During this evening time slot, coffee, tea and soft drinks will be served along with cookies, chips and other snacks. As an extra bonus, the hotel is providing us a happy hour on Friday from 7-8pm., with complimentary beer and wine. As a courtesy, however, the hotel asks that we do not bring alcoholic beverages into the hospitality room, so please keep them in your room! Friday evening will be game night at the hotel. Feel free to bring snacks to share as well as board games, cards and dominoes to play.

Friday the 24th is also the date of the Decatur Swap Meet, which is just 29 miles west of Denton via US 380. For those not going to Decatur, there is an event planned for Friday. We plan to leave the host hotel at 9:30am for a tour of historic homes in Denton with Peggy Capps as our guide. We will have lunch at the Chestnut Tree Tea Room in Denton’s downtown square. After lunch, we will visit the TWU campus to view the collection of gowns of the First Ladies of Texas and visit the Little Chapel. If time permits, we will visit the Bayless-Selby House museum. Transportation will be provided for tour participants.

Saturday, the meet will take place at the parking lot of Wells Fargo Bank. The bank address is 101 South Locust. The parking lot is on E. Hickory St. behind the bank, and less than a block east of the courthouse square. There will be on site registration from 9am until noon. We ask that all orphan ve-hicles be on display from 9:30am until 3:00pm. An area of the lot will be reserved for non-orphan vintage cars.

There are a number of interesting shops, boutiques, antique stores, and restaurants around the courthouse square and on Hickory and Industrial Streets. For those wanting to spend some time ex-ploring these areas, we will provide a shuttle bus to and from the hotel.

On Saturday evening, we will have a special sweethearts outing to Giuseppe’s Italian Restaurant. We will leave the hotel at 6pm to enjoy dinner in this lovely renovated Victorian-era home. We will be entertained by musicians, Link and Dave. The meal is a fixed price $25 per person, with your choice of salad, entrée, dessert and beverage. Beer and wine are available for an additional charge.

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The award presentations and 50/50 drawing will take place in the Hospitality Room Sunday morning at 9:00am. We will be able to say our good-byes and be on our way home by mid-morning.

Our host hotel is the brand new Holiday Inn, 1434 Center Place Drive, Denton, Texas. There is a special room rate for the meet, set at $79.00 per night plus tax. This great rate includes a hot break-fast buffet each morning (two per room). Reservations are made to the hotel directly. When you call the hotel (940-383-4100), be sure to ask for “in–house reservations” and mention Sweethearts and Orphans to verify the special room rate. The deadline for the room block is February 9. Rooms will be booked quickly so make your reservations early.

We will have a 50/50 Raffle again this year with 50% of the money collected in ticket sales going to the winner and the remaining 50% to the American Heart Association, so we can show the organiza-

tion how much we support the great work they do. See you at the meet!

For more information, please call Anne Marie Mozynski at 214-213-2261 or

e-mail ammozynski@yahoo.com

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sweethearts and Orphans XIII Registration

Name____________________________________________________

Club Affiliation__________________

Address__________________________________________________________________

City, State, Zip_____________________________________________________________

Phone _(_____)__________________________ E-Mail____________________________

Car: Year, Make & Model ____________________________________________________

Do you need trailer Parking? _____________

Family Registration ($15 prior to the meet, $20 at the meet) $______________

Friday Tour and Luncheon ($15 per person) $______________

Saturday Dinner ($25 per person includes gratuity) $______________

50/50 Raffle Tickets ($5 each, 6 for $20, or 15 for $40) $______________

Total Registration Enclosed $______________

Make Checks payable to “Sweethearts and Orphans Meet” Mail Check and this form to: Anne Marie Mozynski, 309 N. Heartz Rd., Coppell, TX 75019

Phone (214) 213-2261 E-mail ammozynski@yahoo.com

6224 Los Robles College Station, Texas 77845

Phone: 979-846-8455 Email: hollandb@veriizon.net Website: http://clubs.hemmings.com/centraltexassdc

N E X T M E E T I N G - SURREY INN CALDWELL, TEXAS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Central Texas Chapter of the Studebaker Drivers Club, Inc

NATIONAL MEMBERSHIP — STUDEBAKER DRIVERS CLUB National Officers

President - Tom Curtis Vice Pres. - Carl Thomason Secretary - Nita Ketchum Treasurer - Jane Stinson

SDC welcomes anyone with an interest in Studebaker history and Studebaker produced vehicles. Membership is $31.00 per year in the U. S. and includes a subscription to the excel-lent national magazine Turning Wheels. All chapter mem-bers must join the national club. Send renewals, new mem-berships and changes of address to:

Studebaker Drivers Club, Inc. P. O. Box 1715

Maple Grove, MN 55311-6743

Central Texas Chapter dues are $12.00 per year payable in August of each year. ALL RENEWALS ARE $12.00. The fol-lowing payment schedule applies to NEW MEMBERS ONLY if joining in any other month. * Covers membership for more than one year.

Mail chapter application to : Central Texas Chapter C/O Hazel Holland 6224 Los Robles College Station, Texas 77845

Chapter Membership Application

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August $12.00 December $8.00 April $4.00

September $11.00 January $7.00 May $3.00

October $10.00 February $6.00 June $14.00*

November $9.00 March $5.00 July $13.00*

New Membership _____ Renewal _____ Name ______________________________________ Spouse _____________________________________ Mailing Address ______________________________ City ________________________ State ____________ Zip ___________ Phone ____________________________ E-mail _____________________________

Please List your Studebakers below:

Year Model Body Type

Serial #