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APRIL 2015
http://clubs.hemmings.com/chvasunflower
VOL. 36 NO. 3
MONTHLY MEETING - FRIDAY, APRIL 10TH - 7:30 PM
Highland Park United Methodist Church - Asbury Room
2914 SE Michigan - Topeka, KS
Dave & Linda Higdon’s
1965 Ford Galaxie 500 Convertible Coupe
Photo taken June 2007 at KC Modern Homes Tour in Prairie Village, KS
Rich Gibbs Photo
This Month’s Features
“Car Buzz” by Bob Vukas
“75 Years ago Along the Action Era Highways ”
Check the Calendar on Page 1 for Complete Listing of Upcoming Events
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“May 2nd 2015 Tour Planning Meeting Info
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April 10 & 11 — Smoke in the City BBQ, Car Show and Fly-In — Osage City, KS
April 11 & 12 — 2015 Ararat Shrine Car and Motorcycle Swap meet — Lathrop, MO
April 18 — CHVA Sunflower Region “Drive ’n Eat” Tour
May 2 — 2015 CHVA National Tour Planning Meeting - 1:30 PM - 4-Points by Sheraton,
530 Richards Rd, Manhattan, KS Lunch at Morning Edition at Noon. Info on next page.
May 1-3 — Lawrence Region AACA 52nd annual Swap Meet — Lawrence, KS
May 9 — Yard Art Classics Car Show - Manhattan City Park - Manhattan, KS
June 4-6 — AACA 2015 Spring Central Meet—Independence, MO
September 23 - 30 — 2015 CHVA National Tour—The Victory Highway Tour
Sunflower Region
CONTEMPORARY HISTORICAL VEHICLE ASSOCIATION, INC.
(Recognizing all old cars over 20 years and older) Website: http://clubs.hemmings.com/chvasunflower
Printable PDF files of “The Starterator” and all pages are in COLOR on the website
Region Officers
Director
Assistant Director
Kevin Stilley
Rich Gibbs
2 Oak Valley Dr
1150 NW Sunset Ln
Manhattan, KS 66502-6910 Topeka, KS 66618-1148
785-556-8188
785-230-6794
Secretary
Kathy Griffith
601 Dakota
Holton, KS 66436-1257
785-364-2747
Board Member
Bob Vukas
3806 SW Mission Av
Topeka, KS 66610
785-267-1367
Treasurer
Don Beck
PO Box 8787
Topeka, KS 66608
785-286-1249
Historian
Johnnie Williams
2916 SE Aries
Topeka, KS 66605
785-267-3436
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Rich Gibbs
1150 NW Sunset Ln
Topeka, KS 66618-1148
785-230-6794
Calendar Page Design/Editor
Kelly Flory
24401 W 86th Terr
Lenexa, KS 66227
913-441-7916
Director’s Message
by Kevin Stilley
It's looking very spring like today. Ornamental trees are blooming, birds are
singing, the grass is greening. Life is good.
I want to apologize for the errors in my column and the information for the drive and eat
tour in last month's Starterator. At Linda Higdon's suggestion, we'll call it an early April
Fool's Day prank. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!!!
The “Drive ‘n Eat Tour” to Paxico and Wamego was a great day. Several members
turned out in their AEV's to shop for antiques, sample wines and jellies, and enjoy a great
dinner. Thanks to Tom and Diane for setting this one up. Hopefully the rest of you can
join us on a tour in the near future.
On a personal front, I have lost my storage building of 13 years. Boy, can you accumulate
a lot of stuff in that time. I have 2 cars moved, and MOST of the other clutter. There is
still one car to go, the one that doesn't want to start, and about enough parts to build one
more. It will be divided into two spaces now, but both are fairly close to the old unit and to
my mechanic.
We had a National Tour planning meeting on April 4th at the Country Inn & Suites in Kansas City Kansas. This is the host hotel for the first 2 nights of the tour. Our regular membership meeting is on the 10th in the usual Topeka location. I hope to see you at one or
the other or both.
Happy Spring Motoring!
Kevin
“The Starterator”
1150 NW Sunset Ln
Topeka, KS 66618-1148
785-286-2846
E-mail us at: [email protected]
Information: must be received by the 25th of the month
to be put in the next month's newsletter. Newsletters are
mailed one week prior to each month's meeting. We are
always looking for material for the newsletter, articles,
jokes, club gossip, for sales and feature stories. Material
will be returned if requested.
Dues: Dues are payable yearly and come due on January
1st of each year. National dues are $25.00 and Regional
dues are $15.00. National membership is a prerequisite to
being a regional member.
Meetings: Meetings are held once a month on the second
Friday of each month at 7:30 PM. Meeting locations
alternate each month between Kansas City, Lawrence and
Topeka. See the calendar section of the newsletter for the
location of each month's meeting.
For Sale Ads: Members may place free For Sale ads in
the newsletter. We will run an ad for several months
unless notified otherwise. Please send the ad information
the way you want it to read in the newsletter. The ad will
appear in the printed version only.
Hospitalization or Death of members or members
families:
If you hear of a club member or member's
family who has been hospitalized or passed away please
notify the contact listed below in your area:
Topeka
Lawrence
Kansas City
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Steve Hartwich
816-661-9582
Evenings please
Check out this website for a very good selection of Etowah-Bartow Region photos and
events: http://www.chvaga.com/
Editor's Stuff
Rich Gibbs– Editor
Calendar page editor—Kelly Flory
New articles are always needed for “The Starterator”
Founding members of the Sunflower Region, CHVA. February 25, 1979.
Steve Jewett, Rod Waggoner, Bruce Baker, Danny Downs, Ray Taylor,
Edna Willits/Jewett, Licia Willits, John Kitos, Steve Hartwich
CHVA National Website:
http://www.chvanational.org
1965 Ford Mustang*
Postcards from the collection of Kelly Flory
*The soon to be 51 year old Mustang, introduced on April 17, 1964 brought an all-new segment of affordable, build it any way you want sporty coupe, convertible and fastback to the market., creating
the pony-car segment. Mustang fastbacks and a 289 CID V8 engine were new as the 1965 model year began. Mustang pricing began at $2,321 for a 2-Door Hardtop with base 200 CID 6-cylinder
and three-speed manual transmission. Base fastbacks ran $2,533, and base convertibles $2,558. Make it a Hi-Performance 289 V8 Convertible with GT package, and the price nears $3,300.
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Please verify all events in case of changes,
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April 10 — CHVA Sunflower Region Monthly Meeting — Topeka, KS — Friday, 7:30pm, at the Highland Park United Methodist Church, Asbury Room, 2914 SE Michigan.
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April 10 & 11 — Smoke in the City BBQ, Car Show and Fly-In — Osage City, KS — Friday night BBQ, Saturday Car Show,
BBQ and Fly-In.
April 11 & 12 — 2015 Ararat Shrine Car and Motorcycle Swap meet — Lathrop, MO — 2488 SE Highway 33.
April 12 -- Relay 4 Life Car Show, Topeka Hy-Vee
April 18 — CHVA Sunflower Region “Drive’n Eat” Tour — Meet at Almost Home Café, 3536 US Highway 24, Grantville
KS. Tour to McLouth Patriot's Day Parade, OR Clinton MO Tour—To be decided.
10 of Auburn Car Show
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13 Drive, 11am—2pm.
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April 25 --97th annual Homestead
— 280 E. Valley Springs
entry fee includes lunch. Free to public.
May 1-3 — Lawrence Region AACA 52nd annual Swap Meet — Lawrence, KS - Douglas County 4H fairgrounds
May 2 — 2015 CHVA National Tour Planning Meeting - 1:30 PM - 4-Points by Sheraton, 530 Richards Rd, Manhattan, KS
Meet at noon at Early Edition, 600 S. 4th St (S. 4th & Ft Riley Blvd) for lunch prior to the meeting.
May 8 — CHVA Sunflower Region Monthly Meeting — Overland Park, KS — Friday, 7:30pm, Shawnee Mission North High
16block west of Metcalf
17 Avenue on Johnson
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May 9 — Yard Art Classics Car Show - Manhattan City Park - Manhattan,KS - 12th & Fremont - Manhattan, KS - 9 - 4
Information flyer: http://clubs.hemmings.com/yaccc/2015-Flyer.pdf
May 23 — Holton Glory Days Festival and Car Show — Holton, KS — Saturday, 10am—4pm, on the Court House Square,
400 New York Avenue. Cars, vendors, food, music, and more cars and trucks and motorcycles.
May 30— CHVA Sunflower Region “Drive’n Eat” Tour— KC Area— Details to be confirmed, more to follow.
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May 30 — 6th annual Pontiac Tribute Day Car Show — Olathe, KS — Saturday, 10am-?, Bass Pro Shop, 119th and
Ridgeview, Olathe.
June 4-6 — AACA 2015 Spring Central Meet—Independence, MO — Independence Event Center and Community Ice Arena, southeast corner of I-70 & I-470 (MO-291) interchange. For more information visit: http://aaca-kc-events.org/AACA-KCEvent/Welcome.html
June 4-6—KC Swap Meet, Kansas Speedway — Kansas City, KS — Friday to Sunday, I-70 & I-435, Entry is $5 per car. For
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June 8-12 — Northwest Missouri Model A Ford Club regional meet — St. Joseph, MO — Holiday Inn Downtown, 120 S.
3rd Street. For more information visit: http://www.2015regional.com
Many more events in the Greater Kansas City area can be found on the ACCKC website:
http://clubs.hemmings.com/acckc/EventFinder.htm
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2015 KC-Lawrence-Topeka Cruise nights
& other future events
Other future events, continued from calendar…see upcoming events below to be added as dates draw closer…
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June 10-13 — Buick Club of America National Meet — Springfield, MO — Ramada Oasis Convention Center, 2546 North Glenstone. For more information visit: http://www.buickclub.org/2015-bca-national-meet/
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June 14-20 -- 29th Annual 2015 Dodge Brothers International Meet — Ames, IA— For Dodge Brothers Motor Vehicles and Graham Brothers Commercial Vehicles 1914-1938. http://www.dodgebrothersclub.org/annual_meet Info: Tour Director – Rick Hofmeyer,
email: [email protected]
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June 28 — Art of the Car Concours—Kansas City, MO — Sunday, 10 am to 4pm, Kansas City Art Institute, 4415 Warwick (45th &
Oak). 2015 Concept cars: the GM Futurliner, 1937 Cadillac Fleetwood V16 two-passenger coupe, five Packards by Ralph Marano,
and more!
July 21-25 — Pontiac-Oakland Club International 43rd Annual Convention — Louisville, KY — Crown Plaza Hotel at the Louisville airport. For more information visit: https://pontiacoaklandclub.wordpress.com/2011-convention-bowling-green-ky/
June 27—CHVA Sunflower Region Annual picnic—Topeka, KS — Saturday at Tom & Diane Plemon’s—More details to follow.
August 16-22 — 51st annual International SDC (Studebaker Drivers Club) Meet — St. Louis, MO — Sheraton Westport Chalet,
191 Westport Plaza. Meet is held in conjunction with the Avanti Owners Association. For more information visit: http://
www.sdcmeet.com/
September 23 - 30 — 2015 CHVA National Tour—The Victory Highway Tour — Hosted by Sunflower Region and Pat and Judy
O’Bryne. For more information contact: Kevin Stilley, 2 Oak Drive, Manhattan, KS, 66502-6910, or Phone: 785-556-8188. Get more
information at monthly meetings.
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Basehor, KS—Basehor Boys Cruise Night sponsored by Sonic Drive-In.
155th and State Ave (US24/40), 6 Miles west of the Kansas Speedway/
Legends. Cruises run from April to October.
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Topeka, KS – Fairlawn Plaza, 21 and Fairlawn, 5pm to 10pm. April to October.
Kansas City, KS—Sam’s Club at the Legends, sponsored by the Mustang
club,1 843 Village West Parkway, 6pm—9pm.
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Topeka, KS – The Dug Out, 17th & Fairlawn, April to October.
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Lee’s Summit, MO — Johnny Ray’s, 800 SW Blue Parkway, 3pm to 10pm.
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Topeka, KS – The Pad, 1730 NW Topeka Blvd., 5pm to 10pm. April to October.
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Belton, MO — Cruzin' Main Street in historic downtown Belton hosted by the
South 71 Cruisers. 4pm-8pm(?) Info: Mike 816-898-3698 Russ 816-392-0728
or Paul 816-392-1470 Dave 816-898-5174 or Esther 816-322-7005. April
through October. Unconfirmed for 2015.
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Independence, MO — Cruise-In at the Hartman Heritage Center sponsored
by the Pavillions at Hartman Heritage Center Ownership Group. Jackson
Drive next to Buffalo Wild Wings. 6PM to ?. For more info contact Jim
Tormena at 816-808-1154.
CHVA Planned Drive 'n' Eat Tours & Annual Picnic:
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Shawnee Fireworks
Aug 21-23--Sunflower Tour to Minden, Neb/Pioneer Village
Oct 24--Hamilton MO
Dec 12--Holiday Dinner--Louisburg
UPCOMING EVENTS — More details to come.
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Jun 13--HPAC, Bass Pro Shop--K.C.
Jun 14--Lake Afton Car Show, near Wichita
Jun 20-28--Great American Race--Rte 66
Jun 21--Rolling Hills Zoo Father's Day Car Show, Salina
Jun 22-26--National Impala Club Meet, Spearfish, SD
Jun 27--Club Picnic?
Jul 4--Walter P. Chrysler Days, Wamego
Jul 4--Spirit of Kansas, Lake Shawnee
Jul 10--Monthly meeting--Topeka
Jul 11--Car Show--downtown Wichita
Jul 12--Ohio Days, Waverly
Jul 23-26--Lead Sled Meet, Salina
Jul 26--Seneca Car Show
Aug 1--Lindsborg Car Show
Aug 7--Holton Cruise Night
Aug 14--Monthly Meeeting--K.C.
Aug 15--Hot Alma Nights
Aug 22--Kiwanis Car Show, N. Topeka Spangles
Sep 11--Monthly meeting--Lawrence
Sep 12--Huff and Puff, Lake Shawnee
Sep 18-20--AACA Kaw Valley Tour
Sep 19--Old Marais Car Show, Ottawa
Sep 19--McClouth Threshing Bee
Oct 4--Lawrence Car Show
Oct 9--Monthly meeting--Topeka
Oct 31--Halloween Parade--Hiawatha
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The Sunflower Region of the CHVA held their March meeting on Friday March 13, 2015 at the
Holcom Park Rec Center in Lawrence, Kansas.
The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm by Director Kevin Stilley. There were 24 members present. Rich
Gibbs made a motion to accept the minutes as printed in the Starterator. Kelly Flory seconded the motion. The
motion was approved. The treasures report was read by Don Beck. Rich Gibbs made a motion to accept the
treasurers report as read. Linda Higdon seconded the motion. The motion was approved.
Old Business
Kevin Stilley updated the National Tour itinerary. Kevin said he was able to change the motel dates. The Flint
Hills Discovery Center will open for us at 9:00.
New Business
It was noted that there was an error in the Starterator. It was Sharon Eulert that has been in the hospital not
Earlene Richert.
It was brought to our attention that there is no contact person for the Topeka or Lawrence areas when members are hospitalized or there is a death of a member or members family.
Some of the club members shared their memories of Gary Weber, CHVA member from California.
Steve Hartwich reminded us that it has been 20 years since Steve Jewett passed away. He suggested that
members of the club write down some things they remember about Steve, photos would be welcome also, to
be published in the Starterator.
Sherri McIntyre brought a quilted sunflower banner that could be used at our National Tour.
Show and Tell
Danny Downs brought his model street sweepers that were in the Starterator article recently.
Don Beck brought an old MoPar emergency reflector.
Don Griffith brought some old photos of cars that belonged to his uncle.
Tom Millard brought a couple of interesting books, Setting The Pace Oldsmobiles First 100 Years and DimeStore Dream Parade, Popular Culture 1925-1955.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:45 pm.
After the meeting was adjourned Rich Gibbs was surprised with a little retirement celebration.
And a surprise it was! I could not quite figure why the meeting ended so soon. We still had the meeting room for well over
an hour. After all was over, It became apparent why everyone had arrived early for the meeting and why there were so
many members present.
I sincerely wish to say THANK YOU to all that attended and prepared the surprise and all the goodies including a carrot cake (one of my favorite food groups)
with an image of my ‘59 Buick Electra. The fun was three identical retirement
cards from three different people. On my last day at work, the company had a
catered dinner and after some more retirement cards of which I received a fourth
card that matched the three previous cards.
I am looking forward to retirement and havilng more time to work on my “toys”
and travel. Again...THANK YOU for a wonderful surprise from a great group!
Rich
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..........Car Buzz..........
by Bob Vukas
Mobil
Economy
Run:
Mileage
Limit 55
MPG, We
Need a
Real
World
Test
Now that the
mileage
limits
will
become
higher, we need
real world tests,
not a cycle on a
d y n a m o m e t e r.
Weather, driving
methods,
road
conditions, and
car maintenance
all make a difference in results.
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75 years ago
Along the Action Era Highways
1940
FORD and
MERCURY
“More attractive and
more comfortable”.
The 1940 Ford, Mercury and
Lincoln line of cars were the
best looking Ford’s to come out
of Dearborn yet. Notwithstanding the ‘32 and ‘36’s, etc. So
many improvements went into
the 1940 line of Ford’s yet they
still looked like a Ford.
Since the full article is printed
across this and the following
page, I will not go into repeating
it all here. Suffice it to say that
the 60-horsepower Ford V8 continued on as the base engine,
and the 221 CID, 85-horsepower
V8 engine served as standard
engine in the De Luxe Ford line,
as well as in the standard Ford
station wagon.
1940 Mercury’s were powered
by a 239 CID, 95-horsepower
version of the Ford V8. The
1940 Lincoln-Zephyr, briefly
mentioned on page two of this
article, and the new Continental
used a 292 CID V12 engine that
developed 120 horsepower.
Finally the luxurious 1940 Lincoln line had a 150-horsepower,
414 CID V12 engine. This
would be the last year for the
large displacement Lincoln V12
engines, as the 1941 models
would share the 292 CID V12
engine with the 1941 LincolnZephyr line.
This article is from the November 1939 issue of “Motor Magazine”, a monthly Hearst publication for automotive dealerships, service centers, marketers, distributorships, etc.
Submitted by Kelly Flory.
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75 years ago
Along the Action Era Highways
1940
FORD and
MERCURY
Fords’ 1940 pricing for the nine
models shown on these two pages
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DeLuxe Ford Tudor Sedan,
$762
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Mercury 8 Tudor Sedan, $946
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Ford Fordor Sedan, $706
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Ford Tudor Sedan, $660
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Ford Coupe, $619
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DeLuxe Ford Convertible
Coupe, $849
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Mercury 8 Convertible Sedan,
$1,212
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Mercury 8 Sedan Coupe, $987
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Mercury 8 Convertible Coupe,
$1,079
Lincoln-Zephyr models ranged in
price from $1,399 to $1,818.
The all-new for 1940 LincolnZephyr Continental came in a sleek
coupe priced at $2,783 while the
Cabriolet sold for $2,916. The
1941 model Continental’s would be
moved under the Lincoln name as
the Lincoln-Zephyr was in it’s final
season for 1941.
This article is from the November
1939 issue of “Motor Magazine”, a
monthly Hearst publication for automotive dealerships, service centers, marketers, distributorships,
etc.
Submitted by Kelly Flory.
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