THE PUGET SOUND ROCKET Newsletter of the Puget Sound Olds Club An Official Chapter of the Oldsmobile Club of America

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1 THE PUGET SOUND ROCKET Newsletter of the Puget Sound Olds Club An Official Chapter of the Oldsmobile Club of America May 2013 Across America in a Curved Dash Olds It s steered by a tiller. Its single-cylinder engine makes 4-1/2 horsepower, enough to propel the vehicle to a heady 25 MPH. Suspension is by horse-andbuggy leaf springs, with no shock absorbers. There s one brake, which acts on the differential. The engine is lubricated by a total-loss oiling system that requires periodic topping up, and the gas tank holds a paltry four gallons. Aside from its minimal toe board, there is no crash protection whatsoever. For these and other reasons, a century-plus-old Curved Dash Oldsmobile might not be your first choice for a transcontinental drive. And so we salute Joy Rainey, who will climb aboard her 1904 Oldsmobile Model 6C at 8 a.m. on Saturday, April 13, in Oceanside, California, intending to drive to Daytona Beach, Florida, 2,826 miles away. Joy, a Briton, is taking on the 32-day drive in memory of her former partner, Trevor Hulks, and to raise money for Cancer Research UK. The effort is called Joy Across America. (Continued on page 3) Between the Bumpers MEETING MINUTES PAGE 3 Page 6 Puget Sound Oldsmobile Club May

2 Puget Sound Olds Club 2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Nina Rogers Vice President Ed Straw Secretary Mary Lindholm Treasurer Kathi Straw Membership Chairpersons Ed & Kathi Straw Newsletter Editor Ed Konsmo OCA BOARD MEMBERS Ed Konsmo, OCA Chief Judge Erik Martinson, PNW Zone Director Jamie Cox, PNW Zone Director President s Message Dear Club Members, Last month we spoke at the meeting of going to America s LeMay Museum on Saturday, April 13. Well, Jim, I and Ed Konsmo showed up for a look at all of the wonderful cars. Where were the rest of you? They sure have a lot of cars in the Museum; we toured three floors of cars on display plus a nice café and shop. I think that the oldest on we saw was a Thanks, Ed for showing us around. At the club meeting we talked about going to the Ford Picnic on June 2 instead of the regular meeting. If we do, be sure to bring your lunch. More information will be shared at the May meeting. I am still looking for those photos of your cars to put in an album and a story about your car. Well, the sun has come out and the weather for Sunday looks very good. How about joining us at the Newport Way Library at 1pm Sunday? Nina Rogers President PSOC Website: DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTAL TO THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER: Information to be considered for submittal in to the newsletter needs to be received by the 25th of the month. Please send your information as an or attach it to your in word document form. If you have problems or questions, call Ed or Pam at Please your submittal to: ekonsmo@msn.com Puget Sound Oldsmobile Club May

3 BETWEEN THE BUMPERS By Ed Joy across America continued from front page. Joy is accomplished in the world of motorsports, having competed in circuit races, hill climbs and long-distance rallies, including the 10,000-mile London to Sydney Marathon in a 1970 Morris Minor in 2004 and the 6,000-mile Carrera Sudamericana in a Jeep Grand Cherokee two years later. She s also a regular participant in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, which she and her mechanic, Mark Riley, used last year as a test run for the Oldsmobile. (The photo above shows her with Mark Riley, left, main sponsor, Jim Carr of Durite, and mechanic Nick Cooper.) Joy s route will take her across California through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and Florida. Though the Oldsmobile s performance makes Interstate travel out of the question, there s no avoiding the scorching deserts and 6,500-foot mountains of the Southwest, which she and her team expect will limit her progress to as little as 56 miles in a day. Trevor and I were intending to make this journey together in 2009, but I put it off because he fell ill, Joy told the Evesham Journal. Now it feels like unfinished business. Trevor s cancer spread very quickly so I feel passionately about raising funds to research metastasis cancer spread. You can follow the trip through Facebook, Twitter and a blog on the Joy Across America website. Oldsmobiles were first manufactured by the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in Lansing, Michigan, a company founded by Ransom E. Olds in In 1901, the company produced 425 Curved Dash Oldsmobiles cars, making it the first ever high-volume automobile manufacturer producing a non-expensive motorized vehicle for the masses. The CDO s were produced until 1907 with approximately 19,000 built in total. Olds became the top selling car company in the United States for a few years. Ransom Olds left the company in 1904 and the company was bought by General Motors in Puget Sound Oldsmobile Club May

4 LET S GET PERSONAL MAY BIRTHDAYS 3 Merna Wildenberg (Spokane) 14 Fred Steik (Renton) 14 Sherrill Cox (N.Saanich, B.C.) 31 Michael Thompson (Bow) Happy birthday to you all!! UPCOMING CLUB MEETING HOSTS * 2013 MEETING HOSTS May: Ken & Esther Thompson June: July: August: September: October: November: December: Ed & Erma Booth Car Show no host required HOST NEEDED, can you help? Ned Peterson HOST NEEDED, can you help? Jim & Nina Rogers Christmas Party no host required *Host provides refreshments If you would like to help with goodies please let Pam know. We need a few more folks to complete the year. Puget Sound Oldsmobile Club May

5 MEMBER NOTES AND CHAPTER INFO This page features notes of interest for and about our members. If you have something interesting to report, please send an to your editor at or call and leave a message, ********* CHAPTER ANNOUNCEMENTS! ********* The May Chapter meeting will be at the Newport Way Library at 1 PM. At the April chapter meeting, the members discussed attending the Ford Picnic instead of the regular chapter meeting. There appeared to be some confusion about the date. The Ford Picnic is in JUNE, not May. We will have our May meeting at the Newport Way Library.. Kathi Straw, Chapter Membership Person, notified your editor that a number of chapter members have not renewed their chapter dues. As of the writing of this newsletter the members listed below have not sent in their 2013 chapter membership dues. If you do not plan to renew, please send an to Kathi at ekstraw@comcast.net. Dan Davids Rick Dickson Dann Gadbois Bob Gaunt Doug Gillmer Charles Harman Garry Hart Lauren Hendricks Bill Keller Crystal Lees Don Osais Jack Kemp Eric Seward Didrik Wallis Jon White Jeff Winter David Yonich David Zimmerman Our Chapter President, Nina Rogers, desires to put together a photo album of the chapter member s cars. Nina would like you to send a photo of your car and how you obtained it. Better yet, bring it to a chapter meeting. It would be a great reason to meet chapter members that you have not seen for awhile. Deal?? Puget Sound Oldsmobile Club May

6 MEETING MINUTES Meeting called to order by Nina Roger, president. Minutes of the March meeting were approved. OLDSMOBILE CLUB OF AMERICA PUGET SOUND CHAPTER APRIL 7, 2013 M I N U T E S Treasurer's Report Kathi Straw Report approved. LeMay Museum Discussion continued regarding the museum. Saturday, April 13, some members of the club plan to meet at 12 noon at the museum. Ed Konsmo had received a call from a representative of another Olds club telling about a successful come one, come all car show that had been held. Members agreed to explore the possibility of our holding such a show. The LeMay museum could be a possible site. It was also recommended we participate in the Twin City Idlers' car show June 30. Their show attracts hundreds of participants. It was suggested we have flyers for our zone show to hand out at the event. We would have to make a decision by October. May 5 Meeting/Ford Picnic It was decided to meet at the Albertson's/Rite Aid parking lot which is at the same exit as Newport Library 9:30-9:45 a.m., so we can drive into the Bellevue College campus together. Bring your lunch or buy food on campus. Ed Konsmo will check the weather forecast for the day. We will cancel going to the picnic if it rains. If it rains, we will meet at the Newport Library at 1 p.m. Zone Director Position Erik Martinson Erik reminded members he will be retiring next year and he will be giving up his position and we need to be thinking of a replacement. Meeting Hosts Ed and Kathi Straw Raffle Results $25 Ken Thompson Glass cleaner Pam Konsmo Squeegee Nina Rogers Applets Jim Rogers Chocolate cherries Howard Von Pressentin Olds poster Howard Von Pressentin Mystery envelopes Howard Von Pressentin Nina Rogers Pam Konsmo Plant Kathi Straw Puget Sound Oldsmobile Club May

7 TUCKER COLLECTOR PASSES To own just one Tucker takes a certain amount of luck and determination. To own three along with the world s most extensive collection of Tucker memorabilia, Tucker mechanical parts, and most of the Tucker engineering drawings takes dedication, and nobody in the world showed more dedication to the marque than collector David Cammack, who died Sunday at the age of 85. As David LaChance related in his profile of Cammack in the June 2007 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, Cammack got his first glimpse of a Tucker in 1948 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. Cammack, then a teenager, had gone to see the prototype, known as the Tin Goose, and its massive 589-cu.in. flat-six engine, but lost interest in the car when the company failed. It wasn t until 1972 that Cammack, by then a successful real estate investor, bought his first Tucker, number The other two numbers 1001 and 1026 came in quick succession over the next couple of years, but almost more important than the cars were the ephemera that came with them or that Cammack later bought: one of two Tucker test chassis, a variety of prototype and production Tucker/Air-cooled Motors engines, and about 50,000 blueprints for just about every component that made up a Tucker. I don t think there was any doubt that (Preston Tucker) was serious about building a car, Cammack told us for the profile. I think all these drawings provide that. Over the years he had made attempts at cataloging the entire collection of blueprints and engineering drawings going so far as to hire assistants for that task but about 90 percent of the collection reportedly remains uncataloged. Puget Sound Oldsmobile Club May

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9 Swap Meets & Shows to attend in May MAY 9 Lakewood, WA; 21 st Clover Park Tech College Car/Bike Show Clover Park Technical College, 4500 Steilacoom Blvd SW, Lakewood, WA 98499; 9am 2pm; No Adm. Fee; CPTC Motorsports Auto Club; ; wayne.bridges@cptc.edu MAY 9 Tacoma, WA; ACM Coffee Cruise-In LeMay America s Car Museum, 2702 East D St. Tacoma, WA 98421; 5pm 8pm; LeMay America s Car Museum; ; wlubow@lemaymuseum.org; Free event Does not include admission to the Museum. MAY 11 Burlington, WA; Foothills 6 th Annual Show N Shine Foothills Auto Center; 1881 Bouslog Road, Burlington, WA 98223; 9am 3pm; No Adm. Fee; No Reg. Fee; Foothills Auto Center; ; schiabai@foothillstoyota.com; MAY 11 Puyallup, WA; 4 th Annual Viking Motorsports Car Show Puyallup High School, th Street SW, Puyallup, WA 98371; 9am 3pm; No Adm. Fee; Reg. Fee - $15; Viking Motorsports; ; phscarshow@yahoo.com MAY Monroe, WA; 40 th Annual Seattle Auto Swap Meet Evergreen State Fairgrounds, th Ave. SE, Monroe, WA 98272; 8am 5pm; 9am 2pm; No Adm. Fee; Reg. Fee - $40; Early Ford V8 Club Puget Sound Group #18; ; (Your editor will be in Bldg. 607; Spaces 6-8) MAY 19 Issaquah, WA; XXX Spring Opener Car Show Triple XXX Root Beer Drive In, 98 NE Gilman Blvd. Issaquah, WA 98027; 8am 3pm; No Adm. Fee; Triple XXX Drive In; ; MAY 26 Bellingham, WA; Boulevard Park Antique Car Show Boulevard Park, 470 Bayview Dr., Bellingham, WA 98225; 10am 3:30pm; No Adm. Fee; Reg. Fee - $15; Antique Automobile Restorers Club; ; info@aarcbellingham.com; MORE SHOWS/SWAPS ON PAGE 10 Puget Sound Oldsmobile Club May

10 MAY Everett, WA; Cruzin to Colby Colby Avenue, Downtown Everett, Everett, WA 98208; 10am 10pm; 8am 4pm; No Adm. Fee; Seattle Rod-Tiques; ; The place to play on Memorial Day JUN 2 Bellevue, WA; 41 st Annual Early Ford V-8 Car Show Bellevue College, 3900 Landerholm Circle SE, Bellevue, WA 98007; 9am 3pm; Adm. Fee - $5; Reg. Fee - $15; Puget Sound RG #18, Early Ford V-8 Club; ; ralang@msn.com; Open to all makes and years of Antique, Classic, Street Rod, Custom, Sports Exotic & Collectible Vehicles. If it does not rain, the PSOC will attend this show as a group in lieu of the regular monthly chapter meeting. If it rains, the meeting will be at the Redmond Library at 1pm. Future Oldsmobile National Meets July 24-28; Springfield, IL; Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn Express; Hosted by the Illinois Valley Olds Club and the Archway Olds Club. For hotel reservations, call July 23-27; Cincinnati, OH; Holiday Inn Suites; Hosted by The Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Chapter July 21-25; To be announced Puget Sound Oldsmobile Club May

11 CLASSIFIED For Sale/Leads & Needs CLASSIFIEDS FIEDS: Classified ads are free, unlimited words, within reason. Ads will ONLY run for three consecutive months unless renewal is requested. Please submit your classified advertisement in electronic format by the 20 th of the month to FOR SALE: 3 ½ - 4 yards of car fabric. Less than ½ price. Call Nina (360) (3) 1954 Hood lower front lip molding, $275. Hood Rocket $275; both show quality re-plated, never installed. Package price $525. Don Monroe (1) four-door hardtop. Parting out full power car, including: padded dash, all trim, glass, autronic eye, carburetor, cores, and gas tank. What do you need? Call Don or don.monroe@comcast.net (1) Motor, 2 barrel manifold with 56 HydraMatic. Core motor complete w/heads; 371 Tri-Power Manifold, $100; Erik Martinson (2) 1957 Super 88 2 door hardtop, 371 4bbl, automatic trans., Banff Blue and three tone interior: light blue, dark blue and white. No rust, very clean. Asking $38,000, OBO. (206) ask for Tom tomietwotone@gmail.com (2) Starfire Holiday Coupe, color is White top, Pink bottom. J2, wonder bar radio and switch, clock, auto eye, all electric, all power. 126 wheelbase. Engine and tranny rebuilt in 2010, runs on unleaded fuel. Interior was done in 2008 with lifetime warranty by Clover Park HS. Also 57 Olds parts books, pictures and literature for sale. Call Ed Booth at (253) (1) 1957 Olds parts and tires - Four P225R75/15 w/ 1 ww tires on rims. Call Ed Booth (253) (3) Parts; Set of 235/75/15 white wall tires on rims; Ed Booth (2) 1965 Olds 98 Conv. $5,000 Call Gerry Krosese (2) Classifieds continued on page 12 Puget Sound Oldsmobile Club May

12 1967 Cutlass; Still owned in the original family. Currently owned since Excellent maroon paint and interior. SSI wheels, Radial T/A tires, 330 engine, Hydra-Matic, dual exhaust with glass pack mufflers and aluminized pipes. Only 78k miles. $17,000 obo Call Judy Iverson (2) parts. All working when removed. Driveshaft for automatic, 400ci. $100; Door sill plates $15 pair NEW steering firewall cover $15; Four Full cover hub caps. $85 all; Sun visors, black, no pattern, for convertible $20; Door handles with buttons $10 pair; Hood louvers $50 pair; Hood chrome molding $25 Fender extension molding $20 pair; Fender peak molding $10 pair; Side marker bezels, lots of OEM clips, nuts, bolts, etc. call Bob Bass at (3) 1973 Delta Royale 2-dr. H.T. nice, low miles. $1,800 Price reduced! Call Don (253) (1) 1979 Olds engine and transmission. $ Call Howard (206) (2) 1985 Cutlass Supreme, Burgundy exterior & interior. 4 door V8 4bbl. Original owner. Very clean. Asking $1,800 (206) Ask for Tom or tomietwotone@gmail.com (2) Offy Dual 4-barrel Manifold with two Holley Carbs for 455 Olds. $400 Call Pat Ellwood (3) Offy Dual 4-barrel Manifold with two Holley Carbs for Olds, $400. Jim Long (1) NEEDS: Need: radiator shroud for 58. Call Erik (425) (2) Need: Emergency brake switch and flasher for Ken Thompson or (1) Need: Air control unit for Call Art Gamash (1) LEADS: None this month. IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING ADS: A number at the end of each listing indicates how many months the ad has already run. If you have a THREE after your ad, you need to contact us if you wish to renew the ad for following issues. THIS DAY IN AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY April 29, 1959 Ford builds its 50,000,000th car, a 1959 Galaxie 500 four-door sedan April 29, 2004 Final production day for Oldsmobile Puget Sound Oldsmobile Club May

13 PARTING SHOTS speed Bench seat Sold for $35,000 at Kansas City Mecum Auction Well bought! Puget Sound Oldsmobile Club May