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Welcome to SPEEDSTER!
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The registration deadline for the Central Fall Meet in Canyon, Texas has been extended to Friday, August 31, 2012.
Register online here
*We are still in need of Judges for the Eastern Fall Meet in Hershey, PA. Registration for judges is open online.
NEW Merchandise Items!
The new Christmas cards are in! Order early and check out our new 2012 designs! Plus take a look at our Byers' Choice Figurines made exclusively for the AACA. Don't forget, when they are gone, they are Gone! $69.95 each including shipping! Tax as applicable.
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Hershey Fall Meet Coming Up!
The full brochure and details for the week are available online here. Schedule of events as follows:
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
8:30 am Flea Market Set-up
Approx. (Weather permitting)
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
7:00 am Flea Market Opens
7:00 am Car Corral Opens
11:00-3:00 pm Folder distribution located on Chocolate field beside Hershey Region main tent
6:00 pm AACA Night at the Museum Reception & Charity Auction
Thursday, October 11, 2012
7:00 am Flea Market Opens
7:00 am Car Corral Opens
10:00-12:00 pm Judging School - Giant Center followed by CJE
11:00-3:00 pm Folder distribution located on Chocolate field beside Hershey Region main tent
7:00 pm Old Time Movies in the Music Box Theatre
Friday, October 12, 2012
7:00 am Flea Market Opens
7:00 am Car Corral Opens
11:00 am Race Car Condition Run in Stadium (spectators welcome)
11:45 am The Hughes High-Wheeler Event in Stadium
11:00-3:00 pm Folder distribution located on Chocolate field beside Hershey Region main tent
2:00 pm Author - Matthew Crawford - speaking on the topic: "Bring Back Shop Class: The Case For Actually Being Able to Do Stuff" - AACA Tent - Hockersville Road
7:00 pm Talent Show in the Music Box Theatre
Saturday, October 13, 2012
7:00 am Show Cars enter field (time approximate)
7:00 am Flea Market Opens
7:00 am Car Corral Opens
7:00-10:00 am Registration Open on Show Field
10:00 am Vehicle Judging Begins
11:30 am Ladies Luncheon at the Hotel Hershey
12:00-2:00 pm Junior Display near Show Field
6:15-7:00 pm Social at Hershey Convention Center
7:00 pm Awards Banquet - Hershey Convention Center
For updates and field maps go to www.hersheyaaca.org
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New Meet Next Year in Auburn
We are delighted to announce a new national meet and collaboration with Auctions America with the presentation of the Central Division Spring Meet, May 9-11, 2013 in Auburn, Indiana.
Held onsite at the historic Auburn Auction Park and coinciding with Auctions
 America's Auburn Spring Collector Car weekend, the new AACA spring meet will expand the weekend program with the addition of a judged car show, judging school and training, apprentice program, members' round table discussion, various seminars and other social events. "It is very exciting for AACA to partner with Auctions America to bring a national AACA meet to Auburn. Both of our organizations have been at the forefront of promoting the collectible vehicle hobby and together we will be able to offer a spectacular event to our members and the hobby," says AACA Executive Director Steve Moskowitz. "Our members are going to be thrilled to not only attend a national car show but to be there for Auctions America's great spring auction." Donnie Gould, President, Auctions America adds, "The AACA is one of the world's most respected automotive associations and we are delighted to be partnering with them and to welcome them to Auburn for our Spring event. The new AACA meet adds an exciting new dimension to our Spring program as we work to put Auburn back on the map as the world's classic car capital, celebrate the hobby and create a truly unforgettable event experience for motoring enthusiasts. As a lifelong member of the AACA, I'm personally thrilled about this new partnership and look forward to working with the AACA team." Planning for the new AACA Spring event is currently underway with organizers anticipating more than 500 cars will participate in the meet. They also plan to take full advantage of all the wonderful automotive themed attractions in the Auburn area, including the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, National Auto and Truck Museum, Early Ford V8 Foundation and Museum, and the World War II Victory Museum as they work to showcase the area and craft an ultimate automotive weekend for AACA members. If you are going to the Labor Day Auction in Auburn this week stop by the AACA booth! The club will be in the main auction building Wednesday through Sunday. Bring us some new members! We need to sign up a large number of new members at this big event. If you want to volunteer some time please offer to do so. Chris Ritter and Steve Moskowitz will be manning the space and rumor has it that a director or two and West Peterson will make an appearance! |
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Hershey, the Experience
By Member Stan Sipko
 Last year just as in the prior few years, myself and Walter Kreig had gone to the greatest motor vehicle spectacle called Fall Hershey. As usual there is so much to see and do and to cover it all you definitely need days to walk through the thousands of vendors and see all the parts and items for sale. I was lucky enough to have some capital to look to see if I could find a car in my price range that appealed to me. Now for those of you that have gone there before, you know exactly what I mean when I say "if you cant find it at Hershey you probably won't find it anywhere". So after Walter and myself went wondering through the vendors and looked at several Model T Touring cars we decided to look in the car corral and see what gems it had to offer. As we started walking through there were a list of cars that drew my attention: a 1955 Packard 400, 1979 Chevy Camaro Z28, 1962 Oldsmobile Starfire, then we came across a 1970 Chevy C-10 from Florida that was mostly original. I was on that like ants on a piece of candy! It was at the end of the day so the owner was ready to leave for the day and go back to his hotel so I started to look the truck over and made an offer on it. The owner told me his bottom line and I said that I would think about it and took his number.
 This era trucks brings back some memories from my younger days as club member Bernie Boback had a gold C-10 when I was in school, and my friend Mark had a blue 69 that had cherry bombs on it that were turned backwards and would shoot out flames when he downshifted. I think I drove Walter nuts for a little while because as soon as we got back to the camper I broke out the computer and started checking the price guide to see how much they valued the truck. Needless to say the price he was looking was not outrageous but more then I felt I should pay and still come out on top. The next day I continued to the beginning of the corral as Walter was going to catch up and we were going to meet club member Jerry Weber by a Nash Metropolitan that I had seen. My father had wanted one of these cars for years and years so once I got there I checked the car out and spoke to the owner. Both Jerry and Walter then arrived just in time to hold my backpack while I took the car for a spin with the owner. As we were cruising the parking lot I made my offer and the owner accepted. We parked the car there and the transaction was made. Not my first choice of cars but I figured my father would like it. We then proceeded to walk through the corral as Jerry picked cars that interested him and we stopped and looked at them giving our two cents of the cars to Jerry. We then came to a 1940 Dodge 9 passenger sedan that caught Jerry's eye. We checked the car over inside outside and underneath. It was a beauty and as I commented before Jerry was on it like ants on a piece of candy! Jerry and the owner went back and forth and the deal was made.
We then told Walter it was his turn but because of lack of garage space this wasn't his year. I always tell people that Hershey is not just a car show it is an experience!
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School Days
By Member Rick Lindner
Our local Model A Ford Club in Columbus, Ohio has been collaborating with JC Sommer Elementary School for the last few years to show Model T and Model A Ford cars to them. We worked with the 5th grade class of the school as they had been studying Henry Ford and his assembly line. We had seven Fords show up in past years and had a very good time. I drove my 1915 Model T and asked for ten "volunteers" to whom I let pick a job from my job jar. They may have had to check the oil, gas, adjust the spark, or some other task. They all were very interested in the demonstration and the teachers were thrilled also. To teach is one thing, to be able to see, touch, and learn from the actual car is something else indeed. We received a very nice packet of "Thank You" letters from the class - and did it again this year.
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As a member newsletter we want to hear from YOU! 
Send us your stories and photos about your vehicles and adventures so we may showcase your articles here on SPEEDSTER!
This time around we are looking to hear about your accounts from the meets throughout the year.
Email us at speedster@aaca.org
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A Very Special, Special Collection
While rooting through the attic or basement, have you ever stumbled upon a hidden treasure? On top of the AACA Library's extensive collection of reference books and sales literature, we also house special collections from ten different organizations-gems which were originally tucked away in our basement. To make these materials more accessible they were transferred to the main floor in the space formerly occupied by our collection of periodicals.
On July 21st and 22nd, the staff was accompanied by fine folks from the Friends of the Library in moving our periodicals to the basement. With more than 40,000 periodicals and around 1,800 publication titles, this was certainly no easy task! A special thanks goes out to those who volunteered their time, blood, sweat and tears. Their positive attitudes and hard work helped make this move possible.
That all of our magazines are now downstairs is appropriate, since we left behind one special collection, the Society of Automotive Historians' (www.autohistory.org) Dunwoodie Archives, which utilizes them exclusively. Sixty-four drawers spread amongst sixteen filing cabinets contain countless hours of valuable research on everything from cars, parts and accessories to information on the AACA and women in the automobile industry. A stickler for detail, nothing was considered too obscure, not even Chinese cars built in the late 1950s.
Thousands of different marques and more than one hundred sixty coachbuilders are represented in the collection, each with a file or set of files arranged by year. Along with letters of correspondence and copies of articles, each file contains its own individual periodical index. Whether he was paging through a 1907 issue of the Horseless Age or the latest copy of Automobile Quarterly, Dunwoodie took it upon himself to note his findings in the appropriate index, jotting down the publication title, date, page number and, sometimes, the subject matter.
In 1988, the Society of Automotive Historians bestowed upon Dunwoodie the Friend of Automotive History award which, according to the organization, "recognizes an individual who has made a profound individual contribution to the automotive history community..." And what a contribution it has been! For example, let's say you have an interest in the Dragon Automobile Company, which was only in operation between 1906 and 1908. Imagine the tremendous amount of time needed to spend paging through every period automotive magazine, hoping to catch a glimpse of a Dragon car. Yet, a brief scan through the Dunwoodie Dragon reveals, not one, but more than fifty different references!
Much of Dunwoodie's research was carried out under his tenure at the infamous Harrah's Automobile Collection in Reno, Nevada, owned by casino mogul Bill Harrah. At one point, Dunwoodie was in charge of acquiring new cars for the museum as a purchasing agent. With Harrah's collection of periodicals at his fingertips, he also served as the museum's Chief of Research.
Following Harrah's death in 1978, Dunwoodie continued doing what he loved, albeit independently as a free-lance researcher. Later, he played an important role as a consultant for the Standard Catalog of American Cars: 1805-1942, first published in 1985. In the acknowledgements to the second edition, editor Beverly Rae Kimes expressed her gratitude to Dunwoodie for updating her "weekly" on his latest discoveries.
After Ralph Dunwoodie himself passed away in 2003, his archives were donated to the Society of Automotive Historians, of which he was a founding member. In 2005, the AACA Library and Research Center was fortunate enough to be chosen by said organization as a custodian of the collection. While not accessible online, the archives are available for research requests, whether you are writing an article or just interested in what the press had to say about your favorite car.
The Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805-1942:
With information on production numbers, factory pricing, specifications and options for more than 5,000 automobiles the Standard Catalog has remained a staple here at the Library. Interested in owning the masterpiece which Ralph Dunwoodie helped create? If so, you'll be happy to know it's available for purchase through the AACA!
eBay Auctions and Book Sales:
In order to help raise money for the library, we will be auctioning off fifty books this month, including several vintage and antique pieces. These auctions will end on Sunday, September 2nd at 9:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, so be sure to have you "clicker" finger ready! Auction Link Here.
The Library is also continually adding factory photographs to our eBay store. You can purchase them directly from us through our eBay store or by email or phone. eBay store link here. Only a small sampling of photographs are in our eBay store, so be sure to check out the complete list of photographs we have online. Master list of photos here.
Visit AACA Library, call us at 717-534-2082, or email Head Librarian Chris Ritter at critter@aaca.org
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Trivia
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1. This major disaster, which occurred in 1906, would become a tremendous opportunity for the truck industry, as truck capabilities were tested and not proved wanting.
2. When did state highway departments first use trucks to remove snow from roads?
3. When was the "camel back" or cab-over-engine (cabover) introduced?
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October 10, 2012 - Save the Date!
Celebrate with other enthusiasts for a fun filled night of friends and fellowship at the AACA Museum as we jump start another great meet week in Hershey!
This year's event will again be casual. Stroll through the museum with your friends as you enjoy an extensive selection of car themed comfort foods and cocktails scattered throughout all levels of the Museum. Other aspects of the evening will include live entertainment, a silent auction of unique items along with the Museum's current featured exhibits "100 Years of Chevrolet" and "Dusty Jewels: Off Road Motorcycles of the 1970s"!
So, spend a relaxed evening at the Museum mingling with old friends and new. Availability is limited, advance reservations are required at $125.00 per person and are available by calling Courtney at 717-566-7100 ext. 101 or via the website at www.NightAtTheMuseum.org. Remember this event benefits the entire AACA Family!
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SEVENTH ANNUAL BOCA RATON CONCOURS D' ELEGANCE TO CELEBRATE
50TH ANNIVERSARY OF LAMBORGHINI - FEBRUARY 22-24, 2013
Nation's fastest growing Concours to commemorate anniversary milestone with tremendous weekend of events benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County
The seventh annual Boca Raton Concours d' Elegance presented by Mercedes-Benz will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Lamborghini with a tremendous commemoration February 22-24, 2013 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton, Florida. The three-day series of extravagant events benefits the Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County. For additional information or to see a full schedule of events, please visit www.bocaCDE.com. As the event evolves, the website will provide up-to-date information. All events are open to the public with tickets sold separately. To purchase tickets, please call (954) 537-1010 or visit www.bocaCDE.com.
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Trivia Answer
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1. This major disaster, which occurred in 1906, would become a tremendous opportunity for the truck industry, as truck capabilities were tested and not proved wanting. The San Francisco earthquake. Walter White organized a caravan of White trucks in Los Angeles. Aid and relief were rushed to the disaster and the trucks were instrumental in the clean-up.
2. When did state highway departments first use trucks to remove snow from roads? 1922. During that winter, trucks equipped with snow-removal gear opened 27,096 miles of snow-covered highways from the Midwest to the East Coast.
3. When was the "camel back" or cab-over-engine (cabover) introduced? Several manufacturers introduced the camel back, as it was then called in 1934 - Autocar, Mack, Sterling, and Hendrickson. In a technical sense, these were not the first cabovers. Early trucks also had the motor under the driver. Thus, 1934 was a comeback for the style. This time its purpose was to shorten truck wheelbase and to address the problem of axle load restrictions. The trend became more pronounced in 1938 when Dodge, Chevrolet, GMC and Ford introduced their own cabovers.
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Speedy's Notes
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New Website Features
We recently updated the website! Same url www.aaca.org but New and Improved features including now being able to view a past issue of Antique Automobile online ! Enjoy!
AACA Credit Card!
Members can now apply to receive an AACA Visa Card!
- No annual fee.
- $50 donation by the bank when you first use your card.
- Ongoing contributions made when you continue using the card.
- Low introductory APR on purchases and no balance transfer fees for 6 months.
- Enhance Visa Platinum benefits, including 24/7 Emergency Customer Service.
- Earn points at hundreds of participating online retailers.
- Choose one of the four created cards or upload your own vehicle.
- Show off your very own car on the front of card.
Visit the website to apply and learn more about the AACA Credit Card.
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AACA Official Custom Car Signs
The only approved AACA Car Show sign! Promote AACA while letting everyone know more about your car.
You fill in the blank portion of the sign (as seen below in the center photo). Sign can be staked in the grass or put your fire extinguisher on the lip. Size is approx. 16.5 high by 12 wide.
*Intended to be used for AACA National Meets.
To order, send your text exactly how you want it to appear on the sign in a Word document to abruno@aaca.org or for information call Adriana Bruno at AACA headquarters 717-534-1910
Cost is $25.00 plus shipping.
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AACA Merchandise and Gifts
New items are on the way! We have lots of unique merchandise and gift ideas available on our online catalog. Plenty to choose from for the whole family and friends. Visit the merchandise website and start shopping!
Join in the discussions and check out our topics on the AACA Forum
SPEEDSTER Archives
Read and print newsletters. Visit the links provided in each section for more information. Use the articles in your region publications and updates. Join our mailing list and please share issues with family, friends and future AACA members! SPEEDSTER Archives Here.
Judges Newsletter
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| Calendar Spotlight! | |
September 13-15, 2012 Central Fall Meet in Canyon, Texas 
October 10-13, 2012 Eastern Fall Meet in Hershey, PA
February 7-9, 2013 AACA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA
February 21-23, 2013 AACA Winter Meet in Lakeland, FL
April 4-7, 2013 AACA SE Spring Meet in Charlotte, NC
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The Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, is the country's premier resource for the collectible vehicle community. Since its formation in 1935, the Club, through its national office, publications, and membership, aids individuals, museums, libraries, historians and collectors dedicated to the enjoyment and preservation of automotive history.
Contact Information for Speedster Newsletter:
AACA Headquarters
501 W. Governor Road
Hershey, PA 17033
Phone: 717-534-1910
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