Hammer Drop June 2nd, 2017 Volume 1, Number 7 In This Issue Vice-President's Message Events/ Garage Tours Garage Tour Future Business Wanted Section Club Spotlight/ Ramblings Next Meeting: To be announced, due to vote on June 11th. Contact Us communication@ edmontonmoparassociation.com Twitter: @mopar_assoc Facebook: Edmonton Mopar Association Website: Edmontonmoparassociation.com Instagram: edmoparassoc Vice-President's Message Wow hard to believe it s been 5 months already! We started off with the first Hammer Drop in January 2017. It hit your emails and was received with great reviews. We grew a little more 30 members. We started planning things to do in the summer. The association started to really take shape. Then March rolled in and the Edmonton Mopar Association went to World of Wheels. BOOM! Hello Edmonton and surrounding areas. We are here. The amazing cars and people that helped make it happen THANK YOU! People stopped by and talked to us. We laughed and joked around. It was great! We received 8 awards our first time out and now had 73 members. Our Mopar family had really grown. The Hammer Drops are still hitting your emails and we have grown a little more yeah this is great. Now it is car show season. Our first Meet & Greet is on June 11 th @ the Rock and Wash. Come on down. Meet new friends and see old friends. I would like to thank the Edmonton Mopar Association members and Executive, the Hammer Drop committee and the car show committee for all the hard work they have done. Let s have a great season! Drive safe, play safe and be safe. Thank you. VP Ed Holland Events/ Garage Tours Soda Jerks fun night, June 24th at 6:30pm Another fun filled evening with the group, get great food, have a few laughs, and above all enjoy yourself. Address: 7231 Winterburn Rd, in Edmonton. Brok'n Pistonz & those guys garage show'n shine, June 10th from 9am till 2pm First annual show'n shine local and fun to be had. registration is $20.00, in support of the stollery children's hospital foundation,
Address: 241 Portage close, Sherwood park History Road, Ultimate car show, June 10th/11th from 10am till 5pm, A spectacular display of more than 700 cars, trucks and motorcycles spanning more than a century of automotive history. more than 30 rare vehicles from Reynolds-Alberta Museum's collection, that are not often on public display cars from enthusiasts from across Alberta and western Canada display their own vehicles Daily auto Parade through the Decades with live commentary Address: Reynolds-Alberta Museum- Wetaskiwin Stony Plain Canada Day Car show, July 1st from 9am till 4pm 6th annual Canada Day Car show in stony Plain, hope to see you there. $20 registration fee Address: Stony Plain Main Street Garage Tour Acheson Family Garage Tour In a little acreage on the out skirts of stony there is this little driveway and up this little drive way is a garage. however this garage stretches not one not two but 5 doors worth, then you see the awesome cars that Corinne's parents drive around and show to the public. that in itself is a sight to see, but that does not compare to the sensory overload inside the garage, A&W memorabilia galore, gas station/oil memorabilia galore, and to the untrained eye the A&W take up the space. and well worth it, did you know A&W had a floating radio you could purchase back then? or a pedal car? Yep they did, and its downright awesome to see. After the tour and talking the family hosted a bbq, awesome food, everyone got there fill for sure. And the Edmonton Mopar Association would like to thank the Acheson family for their hospitality and the awesome jaw dropping collections.
Future Business -Edmonton Mopar Association is thinking of holding a group bbq/potluck for members and family as a end of season social on September 30th, the venue will be discussed at a future meeting. -Club swag orders have to be in on Sunday June 11th, hoodies $40, Shirts $20 and Hats $30. Some Shirts/hoodies will be available the meet and greet. -Members who do not have the Crosstown/ Grove Dodge numbers are asked to see Spencer at the end of each meeting to have the decal put onto their membership cards. -June 24th is Soda Jerks Fun night over at the Winterburn Rd. Location. 6:30-9pm. Wanted Section A simple section geared towards members who are searching for that elusive part for their machine. Looking for a Big block bell housing and a 489 differential housing - Doug Chapman; 780-968-3110 Looking for 15x10, 5x4.5 bolt pattern centerline rims -Gerald Maat; 780-819-9940 Club Spotlight/ Ramblings Motorists slammed on their brakes and pedestrians froze in their tracks. Crowds gathered at intersections to stop and stare. A sleek white convertible cruised the streets after dusk. Its four tires glowed a fiery red, blinking and winking at gawkers. The lighting effect was as startling as it was beautiful. In the early 1960s, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. conducted colorful experiments on ''the tire of tomorrow,'' a translucent model with tiny light bulbs mounted inside the wheel rim. The Akron company predicted a revolution in ''future auto styling'' when it rolled out exotic tires in shades of blue, yellow, red, green and orange. For one shining moment, glow-in-the-dark tires were the hottest thing on wheels. Goodyear scientists made the experimental tires by pouring dyed compounds of Neothane synthetic rubber into special molds and heating molasses-like batches to 250 degrees. This was a big departure from the standard method of building tires piece by piece with plies of rubberized fabric. ''It's something like baking a cake,'' Goodyear research chemist William M. Larson explained in 1962. ''You just mix the ingredients, pour them into a mold and pop the mold into an oven.'' Larson developed the process in the late 1950s with Goodyear chemist Anthony F. Finelli. Neothane was Goodyear's trade name for a
polyurethane compound derived from petroleum and synthetic chemicals. The molecular structure was similar to ''a three-dimensional fishnet.'' The cordless, tubeless tires resisted punctures and cuts, and performed well in road tests up to 65 mph. ''The experimental tires run quietly and smoothly, and our tests indicate they eventually will provide tread wear far beyond today's standards,'' said John J. Hartz, Goodyear tire development manager. Synthetic rubber could be dyed in a rainbow of hues, an aspect that greatly pleased the marketing department. ''Goodyear's translucent tire can be produced in any color to match the car... or perhaps the wife's new outfit,'' the company noted. ''Some day a wife may tell a husband: 'Charlie, go out and change the tires. I'm wearing my blue dress tonight.' '' Engineers installed 18 tiny bulbs in each rim to make the wheels shine in the dark. Wiring devices supplied electricity to create an eerie glow. A control switch inside the automobile allowed a driver to make the tires blink individually or in unison. Goodyear invited Life magazine to visit the Akron testing ground in 1960. A photographer took beautiful nighttime pictures of cars decked out in green, yellow and red tires. A reporter noted that the tires could improve auto safety in bad weather or be wired to light up when the driver hit the brakes. However, street tests were causing some confusion. ''Other motorists have been so enthralled by the pretty colors that they have gone through red lights or just stopped to stare,'' Life magazine reported. That certainly was apparent when Goodyear took its show on the road. The company equipped a white Dodge Polaris convertible with red wheels and drove it around downtown Miami. Next, a red-wheeled Chrysler Silver 300 rolled through Manhattan, drawing crowds at Times Square, Rockefeller Center and the United Nations. Spectators asked the driver where to buy such tires. They were disappointed to learn that the product wouldn't be on the market ''for several years.'' ''We still have a lot of work in developing this tire, but it takes only a little imagination to see it as the tire of the future,'' Goodyear research and development director Walter J. Lee said. Although they weren't in showrooms, the tires continued to cause a stir at public exhibits and parades. A glowing red wheel dazzled visitors at the World of Rubber museum at Goodyear Hall. The U.S. Information Agency borrowed a tire for the ''Plastics USA'' exhibit that toured the Soviet Union. Communists from Moscow to Kiev waited in line for hours to view the latest in American ingenuity. It's anyone's guess how many Soviets were left with the impression that all U.S. cars had incredible devices. His show car, the Golden Sahara, a remote-controlled, bubble-topped dream, looked extra snazzy in four golden tires. The $75,000 vehicle appeared in the Jerry Lewis movie Cinderfella in 1960 and the TV game show I've Got
a Secret in 1962. Scientists spent the better part of a decade trying to perfect Neothane tires, but they couldn't get past the experimental stage. For one thing, the translucent tires had poor traction on wet pavement. They began to lose stability around 65 mph. They began to melt under heavy braking. On top of everything else, they cost more than regular tires. By Mark J. Price, Beacon Journal staff writer Funny of the Month: A penguin is driving along the highway when, suddenly his engine starts running rough and he sees smoke in his rear view mirror. He pulls off the highway and finds the nearest service station, and pulls up to the garage with the car shaking and sputtering. He tells the mechanic what happened, and the mechanic says "OK, give me 10 minutes to check it out." Meanwhile, the penguin sees an ice cream shop across the street. Thinking this is a perfect time for a tasty treat, he heads over and gets himself an ice cream cone. After he finishes, he walks back over to the garage, and asks the mechanic "So, did you find out what's wrong?" The mechanic looks at the penguin and says "It looks like you blew a seal." The penguin quickly wipes his face and says "Oh, no, that's just the ice cream." AT: communication@edmontonmoparassociation.com Have a great rest of the month and see you all at the next meeting! From the Newsletter staff: Spencer Cordingley, Daryl Boechler, Brenda Kos, Marilyn Derenowsky, and John Van Ginkel.