ing will be our Thank

You Dinner at the

Newark Valley Rail

Road Depot Septem-

ber 16, 2013 at

6:00PM. This will be a

ham and potato meal

and will be paid for by

the club. We need to

have a count of who is

attending by Sept. 11,

call Cheryl or I at 607-

785-8867 or 607-761

-0897. SEE YOU

THERE

235 Cars registered

on the field, perfect

weather, and a huge

crowd. How could

our show be any bet-

ter?

With the new pro-

gram for sponsorship

for the trophies, we

were able to pur-

chase 4 new easy-up

tents for the club, as

well as the new

trailer reported on in

pages 2 and 3, while

still having funds to

carry the club

through the next

year! Yes we will still

be able to do our

normal support of

the Boys and Girls

Club and the schol-

arships in the spring!

Not bad !!!

Newark Valley His-

torical Society last

cruise in is Sept.7.

Our September meet-

We Did It!!!

I N S I D E

T H I S I S S U E :

Inside Story 2

Inside Story 2

Inside Story 2

Inside Story 3

Inside Story 4

Inside Story 5

Inside Story 6

Tioga Transmission

N E W S L E T T E R D A T E V O L U M E 1 3 I S S U E 9

P A G E 2

T I O G A T R A N S M I S S I O N

P A G E 3 V O L U M E 1 3 I S S U E 9

On page 2 there are four

pictures of your old club

trailer showing the state of

disrepair that had effected it

over the years. The trailer is

so old that we can find no

records of it’s origin in the

club’s history. The wooden

box would have had to be

totally scrapped and re-

placed at a cost of close to a

thousand dollars. The water

damage shown in views

three and four also indicate

the damage that was being

transferred to the contents

during storage.

The pictures at the bottom

of page two show the 2005

Car Mate trailer that we

found at Croft Trailers in

Glen Aubrey. This trailer has

not been registered since

new as it had been used by

the owner of Croft to trans-

port his Grandson’s motor-

cross cycles to the races.

The trailer measures 6X10

and has both a man door on

the right side as well as a

ramp door on the rear.

There is a roof vent in the

center of the roof for ventilation during

the heat of summer, and both a new

tire on the left side and a spare tire

mounted on the front.

The lettering on the trailer is vinyl and

should be able to be removed with

some heat and elbow grease. Once

cleaned of the previous owner’s adver-

tising, we can apply our logo to bring

more attention to our club.

The corners and wheel fenders are all

aluminum diamond plate, a material that

will not rust. The sides are also painted

aluminum. The interior consists of ply-

wood with 2X4 studs on 16 inch cen-

ters. This construction will permit us to

create shelving and divisions to hold all

our show materials in a neat configura-

tion.

The decision to purchase this new

trailer came after a phone canvas of

better than fifty percent of the club

members. The new cost for a trailer

equipped in this fashion would be close

to $4,000.00 but this unit cost us just

$1,700.00 plus tax bringing the final

cost to $1,836.00. With the amount of

use we put our trailer to, we believe

this unit will be of service for 10 or

more years.

Your New Trailer

Work Days The purchase of our new trailer is of course good news, but that means that we need

to finish the disassembly of our old trailer so it can be properly disposed of. We also

need to take some time to organize the storage in the new trailer. The old trailer can

be scraped at Weitzman’s if it has been stripped of all wood. They will even pay us

for the metal that exists, making the expense of the new trailer a little less.

The new trailer has more room than the old one but there is no shelving or other divi-

sions inside. A well organized interior will make it easy to find the contents as

needed while the present haphazard collection means hours of work to find a desired

sign or other item.

The above said, We need to get together and prepare both trailers for their future use.

I propose that we have a few work days to accomplish the needed goals. We need to

start with the disassembly of the old starting Saturday September 7, 2013 at my

home with three or four of us working it should not take more than a couple of

hours. Lets start about 10:00AM. We can also look at the new trailer and begin to de-

sign the interior shelving which we can build at our next session. Hopefully we can

continue working the next Saturday, Sept. 21st on the interior of the new trailer.

The main tools we will need for the deconstruction are battery powered drill drivers

and one or two good step ladders. We also could add to our profits by collecting any

scrap metal you might laying around to the trailer before we deliver it to Weitzman.

Our new trailer is both roomy and watertight so we will have protection and organi-

zation for our signs, tents, and sundry items we use at the car show. It will speed up

the preparations for set up if we can walk in to the trailer and pick up the materials

without sorting through a pile of jumbled and mixed confusion. The construction of

the shelving for the new trailer might take a day or two of work.

We need to work together now to make our future car shows and Flea Markets more

manageable. See you for these work days!!!Thank You for helping!!!