March 2012

Volume 36, Issue 3

SATURDAY, March 10th 10AM to 1PM AT RELIABLE CHEVROLET

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ALL TRI FIVES WELCOMEDALL TRI FIVES WELCOMEDALL TRI FIVES WELCOMEDALL TRI FIVES WELCOMED! Drivers, Show cars, race cars, projects!! Drivers, Show cars, race cars, projects!! Drivers, Show cars, race cars, projects!! Drivers, Show cars, race cars, projects!

NEXT MONTH! DACC hits the drag strip on Sunday April 22

nd at the Texas

Muscle Car Club Challenge Drag Racing series event at NorthStar Dragway in Denton!

Plan to join us as a racer or spectator! More info in the weekly email and next month’s newsletter.

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Dallas, TX 75381

www.DallasClassicChevy.com Current Membership -174

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President – David Graves

214 738-5231 term expires 12/13

Vice Pres – Greg Hedum

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Treasurer – Billie Walker

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Secretary – Larry Epperson

214 546-4464 term expires 12/13

Board Member – Marvin Cowden

972 262-5632 term expires 12/12

Board Member - Alan Strong

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Board Member – George Johnson

817 457-3967 term expires 12/12

Appointed Positions

WRENCHES Rep – Don Andre

817 481-3468

WRENCHES Rep – Bill Preston

972 691-4968

Tech Advisor - Larry Rollow

972 960-1408

Membership Chairman

Joe Ortega

972 642-5171

Ladies Group Chairwoman

Vickie Penney

214 629 2043

Membership Information Dues are $25 per year,

payable to

Dallas Area Classic Chevys,

mail to the club PO Box.

To determine your renewal date,

check your mailing label, the top

right corner is the month/yr your

membership expires.

If weather is questionable on Saturday, check the club website for any updates!

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We searched for several years for a ‘56 Chevy Nomad to restore. After a few years we

found this one at Lawrence Marshall Antique Autos in Hempstead, Texas. It was orange with

a black interior. At that time it had a 327 4 speed with very rusty floors. We drove it for three

years and then the clutch went out. When we jacked it up to change the 4 speed to an

automatic we saw the gas tank was hanging down. That’s when we realized a restoration

was needed on this Nomad!

We had bought parts for 8 years. When we started we replaced the floors and took the

body off the frame. This is when we saw there was damage to the frame. We clipped the

front end and installed a new one from Fat Man Fabrications, along with installed spring

pockets on the rear end to accommodate larger tires. Over the years we have added a

350 engine, 350 Turbo transmission and a 9 inch Ford rear end along with disc brakes on all

4 corners. We painted the frame House of Colors silver and the body with House of Colors

tangelo orange. We added flames, louvered the hood, and put in a new interior. We have

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DACC SHINES AT 52nd DALLAS AUTORAMA!

For the 52nd year the Autorama took place in

Dallas and DACC for the 35th year in a row presented a fine display of ’55-’57 Chevys!

It was at this show in 1976 that DACC was born,

and since 1977 our club has had a club display of Tri Five Chevys ever since!

The 2012 version of ‘DACC at the Autorama’ had a great lineup and mix of club cars that consisted of Michael Brown’s ’57 factory fuel injected original convertible, Jim Leinart’s great recreation of a 60’s gasser with his ’55 Bel Air Hardtop, John Rogers’ beautiful ’56 Nomad, James Carter’s

great ’57 Bel Air hardtop (that was on the cover of the Terrell Daily News just days before the show!),

Robert Black’s hot ’55 big block sedan, Phillip Zaragoza’s beautiful modified ’55 2nd series

Pickup, Don Mullin’s original restored ’57 150 crème puff sedan and Mike Jones’ beautiful ’55

Bel Air 4 dr Sedan. What a fantastic lineup of Tri Five Chevys! THANKS to all these guys for making

the effort to put their cars in our display, and special thanks to Marvin Cowden for his help with

setup and teardown of the club display, and James Carter, John Rogers, Joe Ortega, Mike Jones and Marvin Cowden for taking a shift working the table

during the show in the booth!

It was a great group effort – THANKS!!

Be sure and check out photos from the show at the club website at DallasClassicChevy.com!

WELCOME BACK

MEMBERS!

Originally joined in 1978!

#034

Richard Hadley

20038 Saratoga Trail

Frisco, TX 75034

1955 150 2dr

Originally joined in 2008!

#820

Johnny & Jackie Gentry

278 Dismore Lane

Royce City, TX 75189

1956 Pickup

Originally joined in 1988!

Joe & Eva Barton

410 N Hamilton St

Farmersville, TX 75442 ’57 Bel Air 2dr Hardtop

WELCOME NEW

MEMBERS!

916

Gregorio & Sonia Ramirez

4645 Feathercrest Dr

Ft Worth, TX 76137-1543

no car but looking!

917

Steve & Martha Arredondo

913 Keller

Benbrook, TX 76126

’55 Bel Air Hardtop

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DACC MEMBER’S PHOTOS

FROM THE PASTFROM THE PASTFROM THE PASTFROM THE PAST Another photo from ‘back in the day’ Now

your part is to guess

WHO IS THAT PERSON? Take a good look, take your best guess, then check on the DACC website’s Chat Board link under the ‘MISC’ section – and

there you will find the answer of ‘WHO IS THAT PERSON’?

HINT – this is in 1955, and that is a current DACC Board member’s mom and sister!)

Got a photo to share from the past? Send it to INFO@DallasClassicChevy.com

Our last ‘FROM THE PAST PHOTO’ below was -

Alan Strong in Peoria, Illinois where Alan grew up and he is standing next to Mr Snowman. The ’57 in the background is his Mom’s with a 283 4 barrel with the classis India Ivory/Canyon Coral paint, no power accessories, radio or AC! A cracked cylinder head resulted in his Dad selling the car against Alan’s plea

for $150 when he was 14 years old!

had it in several shops over the years, but

Texas House of Hot Rods in Mansfield

finished it off by installing AC, wipers,

power windows, a Pioneer stereo, power

seats and interior.

A friend asked me what her name was.

She's named Jasmine because our song

when we were dating was Summer Breeze

by Seals and Croft which has a line that

says "blowing through the Jasmine in my

mind." Our car was finished in August 2011.

We are back on the road meeting new

people and making friends!

John & Dena Rogers Feature Car Continued -

More photos of this and all past feature cars at

www.DallasClassicChevy.com

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Relive the 2011 Woodward Dream Cruise! Part 1 of 3 by Geoff Clark

This is Geoff Clark’s ‘Spot Report’ from the legendary Woodward Dream Cruise, an event that has taken on legend status in Detroit each August and continues to grow as a major event in the classic and collector car world. This is a teaser, and the rest of Geoff’s story will be published in the next two month’s issues of ‘Classic Heartbeat’. The lure of going to Detroit the third week in August was

appealing from many aspects. For starters, we sweltered in

McKinney given we where enduring one of the hottest and

driest summers ever – in case anyone has forgotten the

August average high temperature in North Texas was 104.3F

(contrast to the average high temperature of 82.3F in Detroit).

But the main reason to find an excuse to be in Detroit the

third week in August was to be part of the Woodward Dream

Cruise (WDC) and surrounded by an estimated 45,000 hot

rods, street machines, and cruisers of every possible make

and creation. It is without question the biggest, baddest, and

bodacious cruise on the planet Earth. This year would be

special given the WDC special sponsor would be Chevrolet

to coincide with their 100th Anniversary Celebration events

for 2011. So with all this overwhelming rationale and a clear

weekend forecast in SE Michigan we had to go.

A quick historical perspective on Woodward Avenue and the

WDC for us North Texans. Woodward Avenue, aka MI-1,

was the first paved road in America and served as an “early

test track” to Henry Ford given his Highland Park Model T

production facility bordered the road. Woodward Avenue

served as the cruise strip for West Side Detroit in the 1950s

and 1960s (Gratiot Avenue was the East Side cruise while

Fort Steet from Lincoln Park to Wyandotte served the “Down

River” area). The Woodward cruise strip bookends featured

the Pontiac “Wide Track” on the north and the city of

Ferndale sixteen miles to the south. In addition to guys

competing for the title of fastest car in town, The Big Three

(GM, Ford, Chrysler) was out in force with experimental

models using Woodward to test and evaluate future muscle

cars and engines. GM mule cars included a Pontiac Firebird,

GTO and a black 1948 Cadillac complete an L88 Big Block.

Ford ran a red Galaxie with a 428 and a stable of Mustangs.

But the fabled King of Woodward title belonged to the

Chrysler team with a 1967 Plymouth GTX, nicknamed the

Silver Bullet, that features an experimental 487 Hemi. This

car belongs to a collector today and was documented last

year in the quarter mile at 10.5 sec / 132 mph – not bad for a

60s era “street” car. The reunion with cruising Woodward

started seventeen years ago by a dad named Nelson House

and a group of volunteers looking to raise money for a soccer

team. That first event in 1995 completely broke all

expectations with 250,000 people showing up. The rest, they

say, is history as the event now draws over 1 million people

from all over the globe to witness the greatest show on the

street. All of the automakers stage huge displays along

Woodward Avenue and still roll out experimental models as

witnessed by the first showing in the past by the Mustang

GT, Corvette ZR-1, Camaro, and Challenger. This year

included first showing and racing down Woodward of the

Camaro ZL-1 and Corvette Z06 Carbon Fiber. The stage is

set...

… to be continued in next month’s Classic Heartbeat!

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