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August 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 714-772-1793 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 following

people have

Birthdays in

August

FROM THE ORANGE COUNTY BUICK CLUB

Irene Martinez 8/9

Lois Powers 8/23

Dick Sweeney 8/17

Linda Wangerin 8/20

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Call Gary Martin for de-tails on this product. 714-812-7713

Answer from page 6

You hook the negative end of one cable to the positive end of the other cable. You now have one cable that is 28 feet long. You hook the 28 foot cable to the positive end of both batteries. You then drive the running car to the rear of the car with the dead battery so that both bumpers are touching. You now have created your ground for both cars and can start the car. A man was driving with his

wife and mother-in-law.

His Mother-in-law would

say, Turn Left! His wife

would then shout, No Go

right, then you are driving

to fast. Then the mother-in-

law would say go faster. I

have a hair appointment in

30 minutes. After about

twenty minutes of mixed

orders, the husband

stopped the car in the mid-

dle of traffic and asked his

wife, “who is driving this

car, you or your mother-in-

law?”

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Directors message First I would like to thank everyone who helped with last month’s meeting in my absence. This month we met in our private room, and have been assured that we will have it in the future, also Lee Wangerin has volun-teered to call Spires in the afternoon of our meeting to get the room ready and cooled down for us. Lee Wangerin spoke to us on the roads of the 1920s, how they were marked, and how the directions from point to point to point varied from directions of today. Most speedometers of the day were accurate to one tenth of a mile. Lee passed out maps of the roads of the 1920s. Lee has done a significant amount of research on the subject. Those of us who attended the meeting got a good education. Thank you Lee .

Our next board meeting will be on August 2 at Larry Minerys house. The meeting will start at 7;00pm. Feel free to attend, but call Larry before hand so seating can be arranged. One topic of discussion will be our car show. Since we have posted our News letter on the internet we have had over 2300 people look (hit) on it, and I have received two calls as of this time from people who have interest in our club. We will be having food cooked to order at our car show. Watch for more information in this and coming news letters. I would like to thank those of you that have sent me pictures of your cars and articles for our news letter. I would rather have one of our cars pictured than to find something elsewhere.

Please note that Wally’s shop will be closed Monday August

first through August fourteenth. He will open again on Au-

gust fifteenth. (Everyone needs some time off now and then)

I need to thank all the Board of Directors for their hard work the first half of the year. Without them we would have no club. Keep up the good work.

Dues were due July 1, 2011. We are in the process of print-

ing our 2012 roster. If we don't have your dues you will not

be in the roster

Sheridan Bishop III Director

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Secretaries notes

July 19th 2011 monthly meeting

Members present: Sheridan Bishop, Gary Martin, Eddie Rusnak, Ken Foster, Richard Brewbaker, Scott Anderson, Steven Ander-son, Baron Night, Sam Engle, Lee Wangerin, Nancy Brewbaker, Irene Foster. There was a motion to approve the minutes of the June meeting as written in the news letter by Gary Martin, seconded by Lee Wangerin and passed unanimously. Lee Wangerin gave an excellent and informative talk on the early highways in the United States. These are the highways and by-ways that proceeded the inter-state highway system. Last month’s tour and picnic to Irvine park was a huge success with over twenty people attending. There were many positive comments about the location. There were concerns about the meeting room not being ready. Lee will call ahead to make sure the room is ready. The 50/50 raffle was won by Larry Minery. He won $15.50 There will be a Board meeting on August 2nd at Larry Minery’s house at 7:00pm. The meeting was adjourned at 8:38pm by Director Sheridan Bishop III

Minutes submitted by Irene Foster and Gary Martin For the Woody Show Encinitas Sept 17 2011

Metro link #587 departs Orange station at

8:43 Am. May depart earlier Show up 30 min-

utes prior to departure to buy ticket. Ar-

rives Oceanside 10:05 Am. Coaster departs

Oceanside 11:08 Am. Arrives Encinitas 11:25

Am. Tickets cost $5.00 or $2.50 for seniors

one way. 11:25 Am. Coaster departs Encini-

tas 3:56 Pm. Arrives Ocean side at 4:17 Pm

cost $5.00 $2.50 seniors. Arrives Oceanside

4:17 Pm. Last Metro link departs Oceanside

4:40 Pm.. Now for the best part. Metro link

has a weekend pass going at that time for

$10.00 you can ride metro link anywhere in

southern California Sat and Sun. We could

return to the woody show Sunday or go some-

where else as a group or individually Rich-9

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. Mileage 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.

August 2011 For Sale; 1964 Buick Le Saber 300 ci 250hp with a 4 barrel carb. Model 4439 post.ht. Power Steering, Power brakes. Poor paint, Poor Interior, Fair Chrome, minor right rear damage. 150,000 miles, not running Photos available. Lee Wangerin 562 -920 -1611 Free to a Buick lover. Best offer to others.

As you know our news letter has been posted

on the BCA national web site http://

www.buickclub.org/orangecounty/ since May

of this year, and will continue to be posted

each month. Check out July news letter for

help in getting it. Please call or “E” mail me

so I wouldn't continue to send you a paper

copy. This will save the club money, and

keep our treasurer happy.

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Flushing your engine, Continued from July 2011 page 8 Do a regular oil and filter change, but use only 1/2 quart of kerosene to every 4 quarts of oil. Then start the car and let it run for about 15 minutes. Don’t rev up the engine or hit the throttle. When you drain the oil it should be fairly dirty. Change the oil and filter again, but don't add the kerosene. Repeat the procedure at the next sched-uled oil change if needed. Another problem with heavy flushing is when you put in the new oil, there are some areas it cannot get to right away. Up to 10% of old oil and solvent remains in the engine after it is drained. It accumu-lates in the casting cavities and the bottom of the sump. Some of us believe in using automatic transmission fluid as a oil flusher. It has a lot of scouring properties, which is why a transmis-sion oil flush is never needed. Many transmissions don't even have drain plugs. Pressure flushing. The people who manufacture the machines usually state in their operating manuals not to use their machines on high mileage vehicles. Pressure flushing forces heated solvent against the normal flow of the oil under high pressure. The idea is that by forc-ing cleaning solvents backwards through the system, it will get all the sludge and crud that has formed. This may sound good but in prac-tice it could be dangerous. What about small passageways and one way valves in the engine that keep fluids from backtracking? By us-ing a aggressive cleaning procedure like pressure flushing, large globs of accumulated sludge may be dislodged and forced backwards. This could cut off the normal flow of oil and cause lack of lubrication in the engine.

Just a test on jumping batteries on older cars.

If your car is 18 feet long and is parked in a narrow alley with no outlet, and you only have one set of jumper cables and they are only 14 feet long, how can you jump start your car without any other ca-bles?

See page ten for the answer

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August speaker will be David Prukop He owns a body

shop and will talk to us on body work

TOURS

August there will be no tour

Saturday September 17th, we will be going to the woody car show in Encinitas. See the train schedule on page 4

Sunday October 9th from 9:00am to3;00pm We be having

Our annual car show. See the enclosed flyer.

November Possible tour to Superior Automotive

December will be our Christmas Lights tour.

Keep driving those Buicks, especially to our tours, and to our

monthly meetings

On Saturday July 23rd Scottt, Nancy and Richard Brewbaker, Scott and Steven Anderson, Ken and Irene Foster, Sheridan Bishop and Eddie Rusnak, Bruce, and Steven Anderson, Garry Toulson and Nancy Bjorklund, and John Dyke Toured the Automobile Driving Museum located at 610 Lairport St, El Segundo, Ca. 90245 We saw some fantastic cars, including Buicks, Packard's, Lincolns, Studebakers, Pierce Arrows and many more. All cars are driven on a regular basis. Battery tenders are kept on all cars, along with the keys. Helpful and knowledgeable docents made our visit fun and educational. Thank you John Dyke for leading this tour.

Richard Bruebaker Wagon Master

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Wally's 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 friends to Wally for their service needs.

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 re-

new your ad.

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

August 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 Ed Berry 949-644-4262. 941 Baywood Drive. Newport Beach, C.A. 92660