Volume 6 Issue 2 FIREBALL 1 Volume 6, Issue 2 February 2003 Director’s Message I was out of town for the outing to Tubac car show, but I understand that there was a good turnout. Plans are underway by Alex Chavez to have garage tour on March 15 th . The outing has a tentative conclusion for a lunch cookout at Bob Gietls. Our thanks to Alex Jacome for arranging the presentation by Mike Fraker from Kustom Polishing at our January General meeting. Again, I invite any of you with ideas for meeting presentations or auto related videos to contact me. Thanks to the members that have paid your dues. Again, I encourage those of you that have not, to pay the $12.00 yearly dues at the next meeting or mail them in to the Clubs’ P.O.Box. The National Buick Board meeting will be held on Saturday, February 22 nd . Bill Schroening has asked that the Club Members participate/assist with the planned social activities on Friday February 21 st and attend the actual board meeting. Details are provided elsewhere in the newsletter. The Board has scheduled the next Board meeting for Tuesday Feb.25 th @ 6:00pm at the Geitl and Strutz office. It’s located at 4562 N. 1 st Ave. #130 on the entrance road to Rillito Downs. You are always invited to attend the board meetings. See you Tuesday Feb.11 th @6:00pm for our monthly meeting at Royal Buick. Take care. Charlie Editor’s Comments Hello all. Hope your January went well. I cannot believe we are already 1/12 th done with this year. Ti me is zooming by so fast. We have a few things to talk about in this newsletter. First, I want to talk about the January outing to the Tubac car show. That was a good time for all. The sun was shinning and so were the cars. It was nice to see such a big turnout. There was one unfortunate event for this show. Ron Wicks was towing his Chevy Wagon down to the show when he had a bit of a problem. I guess young people should not drink heavily on Saturday morning and expect to drive a car very well. To make a long story short, Ron was taking his just finished Wagon on its first outing to a car show. He was towing it behind his Explorer down I- 19 when this individual hit the trailer in the side. Needless to say it was enough to send the Explorer and the trailer into the median. Unfortunately the Explorer rolled over one or more times and ended back on it wheels. The back end of the Explorer was so high you could see the big dent the hitch put in the hood of the Wagon sitting on the trailer. The passengers are OK. (Cont’d on page 2)
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Volume 6, Issue 2 February 2003
Director’s Message I was out of town for the outing to Tubac car
show, but I understand that there was a good turnout. Plans are underway by Alex Chavez to have garage tour on March 15th. The outing has a tentative conclusion for a lunch cookout at Bob Gietls.
Our thanks to Alex Jacome for arranging the presentation by Mike Fraker from Kustom Polishing at our January General meeting. Again, I invite any of you with ideas for meeting presentations or auto related videos to contact me. Thanks to the members that have paid your dues. Again, I encourage those of you that have not, to pay the $12.00 yearly dues at the next meeting or mail them in to the Clubs’ P.O.Box. The National Buick Board meeting will be held on Saturday, February 22nd. Bill Schroening has asked that the Club Members participate/assist with the planned social activities on Friday February 21st and attend the actual board meeting. Details are provided elsewhere in the newsletter. The Board has scheduled the next Board meeting for Tuesday Feb.25th @ 6:00pm at the Geitl and Strutz office. It’s located at 4562 N. 1st
Ave. #130 on the entrance road to Rillito Downs. You are always invited to attend the board meetings. See you Tuesday Feb.11th @6:00pm for our monthly meeting at Royal Buick. Take care.
Charlie
Editor’s Comments Hello all. Hope your January went
well. I cannot believe we are already 1/12th
done with this year. Time is zooming by so fast. We have a few things to talk about in this newsletter.
First, I want to talk about the January outing to the Tubac car show. That was a good time for all. The sun was shinning and so were the cars. It was nice to see such a big turnout. There was one unfortunate event for this show. Ron Wicks was towing his Chevy Wagon down to the show when he had a bit of a problem. I guess young people should not drink heavily on Saturday morning and expect to drive a car very well. To make a long story short, Ron was taking his just finished Wagon on its first outing to a car show. He was towing it behind his Explorer down I-19 when this individual hit the trailer in the side. Needless to say it was enough to send the Explorer and thetrailer into the median. Unfortunately the Explorer rolled over one or more times and ended back on it wheels. The back end of the Explorer was so high you could see the big dent the hitch put in the hood of the Wagon sitting on the trailer. The passengers are OK. (Cont’d on page 2)
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Editor’s Comments (cont’d) The Explorer needs to be crushed into soda cans. The beautiful paint and chrome on the wagon looks like it was sand blasted with pea gravel. And the hood has a nice place now for cowl induction. All in all Ron was in good spirits over the whole ordeal. But now that the thankfulness that you are still alive is over,reality sets in that he has a bunch of work to go all over again. Some people say the fun is just in getting the cars fixed up. I think Ron would disagree. Give him a call, I am sure he would love some help removing all of the chrome and block sanding the rock marks down smooth. I would also like to thank Michael Fraker from Kustom Polishing for talking at our last General meeting. It was interesting to hear how someone experienced does polishing of trim. I learned that I really do not know what I am doing when it comes to restoring trim. This is why I was glad that all of the trim on my GN was black. It is not very hard to sand clean and paint. I especially like the stories where he needed the trim from the other side of the car to be able to tell how the one he was sent to fix looked like. That is when you know you need a professional to do the job right.
Next I need to talk about the renewal of membership dues. I have included a little tear off sheet to send into the P.O. Box with your dues. You can find it later in the newsletter. The dues expiration date was updated on your address label with the latest information that I had as of the last Board meeting.
I am in the process of updating the website. I want to schedule mini photo shoots of anyone who wants their cars featured in the new Member’s Rides section of the website to
Top points from the Polishing discussion:
- use a file on the rounded parts of the trim to flatten out. - then use sandpaper to rough polish it out – 180, 240, 400, 600. It should be almost polished by then. - then use air cooled wheels to do the final buffing. - do not need a very expensive buffer. cheaper one will work, just take longer. - can get equipment from Tucson abrasives and Kents tools.
-- most polishers will go to 500 grit polish. the higher number, the more it must be perfect so you do not see any imperfection.
-- you must wear a mask because all of these metals are very bad for you.
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======================================================================================= Cut and mail in…. Return address on back page…
SABC Membership Renewal Form
Name ______________________________________________ BCA # ______________________ Address __________________________________________________________________________ City ___________________ State ____________________ Zip ________________ Email address _______________________________________
Dues for entire year $12Prorate offset _______
Total Dues ________
If you are an existing member, you dues will be $12 for the whole year. If you are a new member, to determine your dues, start with $12 and prorate from there. For example, if it is January your dues will be $12. If it is February, it will be $11. If
it is June, it will be $6.
give me a call. I will start to put the new website section together over the next few days. I want to fully populate it will all of the members cars over the coming months. I also want to get a small bio of each car before we put it in the website. I only want simple things like year, model, style, official color name, and any other little tidbits of information that you want to post. We are hosting a garage tour on Saturday, March 15th. We will visit 4 locations during the morning and ending with a BBQ at the Gietl residence. The Club is also hosting the National BCA Board of Directors meeting for this quarter on February 21-22nd. There will be a tour to the Franklin Museum and a get together at Bill’s house on Friday. The actual meeting will be on Saturday. Look for directions on both of these events later in the newsletter. It looks like the Marana High School is hosting its fund raiser car show again after taking a few year break. It will be at Windmill Park in Continental Ranch of the NW side of town. I will be going there to support my wife’s old high school. Pete “Going fast with Class!!”
C A L E N D A R O F E VENTS FEBRUARY CHAPTER/BOARD MEETING
PLACE: ROYAL BUICK DEALERSHIP TIME: 11TH FEBRUARY – 6 PM
KILLER CHICKEN CAR SHOW PLACE: CHUY ’S ON TANQUE VERDE/CATALINA HWY. TIME: 17TH JANUARY 5:30 PM Info: 520-760-7997
LITTLE ANTHONY’S CAR SHOW PLACE: 7010 E. BROADWAY TIME: 15TH FEBRUARY 10:00 AM. NOTE: THESE ARE DURING THE DAY NOW.
2ND ANNUAL CORVETTE SHOW PLACE: FOOTHILLS MALL TIME: 15TH FEBRUARY NOON – 4PM
MARANA HIGH SCHOOL FUND RAISER CAR SHOW PLACE: WINDMILL PARK , 9150 N. COACHLINE, CONTIENTINIAL RANCH TIME: 15TH FEBRUARY Info: Cliff 520-616-6470
FEBRUARY BOARD MEETING PLACE: BOB’S NEW OFFICE TIME: 25TH FEBRUARY – 6 PM
LITTLE ANTHONY’S CAR SHOW PLACE: 7010 E. BROADWAY TIME: 15TH FEBRUARY 10:00 AM.
NOTE: THESE ARE DURING THE DAY NOW. CHECK OUT OTHER SHOWS AT HTTP://WWW.CRUISINARIZONA.COM
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January Outing – Santa Cruz Car Nuts hosted Tubac Car Show:
It was a beautiful day in Arizona as usual. There was not a cloud in the sky. I got up early that day to finish cleaning my car; I knew it would be a nice day for a car show. My friend Terry showed up at my house promptly at 7:00 AM for the quick drive down to Tubac. We hit the Circle-O-K, as my daughter calls it, for gas and snacks and we were ready to go. We started to make our run for the border. As we were driving down I-19 we started to follow a silver Austin Martin. That was good until we came caught up to Chuck Taylor in his GS455 going down the freeway and sucking down lots of gas. We followed Chuck until we reached the Cow Palace for breakfast. There were 6 other Buick Club members at the eating establishment for the pre-show breakfast. The food was good, but a word to the wise. If you are going to be on your feet all day in the sun, do not get chorizo and egg breakfast. Ohh…that made it for a long day when the only facilities are port-o-potties. The day could not have been more perfect. There was not a cloud in the sky for the whole day. At one time, the announcer stated that there were over 570 cars on the field. It was also amazing to the number of people who attended the show. There was just people everywhere. That was the good part to see everyone enjoying themselves and enjoying the show. We had 8 cars from our club show up to the show. We actually came home with a few trophies. I know Bill, Al, and Terry all placed in their classes for their awesome displays of automobiles. I also managed to get 2nd place in the 80’s and up class. Not hard where you are competing with 2002 Beetle painted 50 different colors. All in all the show was a good time and well worth the trip. I kept on hearing that this would be the last one in Tubac. Lets all hope it is not true. It would be a bad show to lose.
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Buick Club of America National Meeting. Agenda: Feb 21, 2003. Most BOD members will be arriving at the Hotel at about noon. 2PM. BOD members and anyone else to the Franklin Foundation for a tour. 5PM- 6:30. Dinner. 7PM. Reception at Bill Schoening's house. 542 N. Country Club This is for all club members to meet the Board and other appointed officers as well as the National Office staff. Feb 22 2003. 9AM. Board meeting at the NOAO office. About two blocks from the hotel and there is parking. See map Noon: Lunch at the Board meeting Meeting over by 2 PM. Dinner: location to be determined. All members are welcome to come. Notes: Need help on Friday to pick up and drive some Board members and visitors to the Franklin Foundation and my house later. No more than two cars. Timing will need to be worked out when I know when everyone is arriving. The Reception and the Board meeting are open for all members to attend. Please come to the Board meeting and give your input. You are welcome to ask questions during the meeting. This will be the last possible meeting to happen this close to Tucson so please plan on attending. Please have your name tag on at the events. To get to the NOAO Offices for the Board meeting.
Leave the hotel cross over Campbell going west. Go south one block to 1st street, go two blocks west to Warren. Go one block south to 2nd. The door you will go in is at 2nd and Warren, south west corner, on the side of the building. There is a large sign in front of the door for "National Optical Astronomical Observatories". Enter this door and follow the signs. Do not use the main entrance on Cherry it will be locked. Those driving, there are two large parking lots on first that you can park in these are for NOAO parking. Many of the streets in this area are one way so follow the map arrows.
Those driving in can use Cherry to 2nd street, east on 2nd street to Warren. North on Warren to the parking lots. The parking lot has signs that say Parking for AURA only. This is where you can park. Watch the one way streets.
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SAC-BCA Garage Tour Saturday - March 15, 2003.
We will be hosting our first garage tour. We will be going to four locations with a BBQ at the final destination. The first location will be at North American Powder Coating. Mark Bargar has been kind enough to open his shop to us and start the tour. Starting point: North American Powder Coating 1131 W. Grant Road, Suite 107 Time 8:00 AM Terry Abbuhl’s house 1225 W. Giaconda Way We should arrive here at 9:30 AM. Ron Wick’s house 8101 N. Como Drive We should arrive here at 10:30 AM Bob Gietl’s house 2890 Sunrock Lane. We should be here by noon. The tour should end by 1:00-1:30 PM. The total distance traveled will be approximately 20 miles according to MapQuest. Please ensure you have enough fuel to travel that far as we do not want to get separated. I will have maps of the intermediate destinations in the next newsletter which will come out the week of thetour incase we get some people lost along the way or want to join in the middle of the tour.
More pictures of the Tubac Car Show.
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2002 BOARD OF DIRECTORS DIRECTOR Charlie Murtagh 325-3274 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Jim Bremner - [email protected] 751-4186 SCRIBE/NEWSLETTER EDITOR Pete Rodriguez – [email protected] 579-1679 TREASURER/ADVERTISERS James Freund 882-8617 ACTIVITIES/MEMBERSHIP Leroy Tiedemann 722-4923 BOARD MEMBERS Russ Dent - [email protected] 749-5029 Bob Gietl 743-0574 Alex Chavez [email protected] 408-1514
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