Harrison lives in Bluff City where he serves as a member of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen. He has a wife, Barbara, and one son, Jonathan.

He owns a ‘72 Nova and a ‘65 Chevy pickup.

Leonard owns and operates Roy-al Motors, 416 Volunteer Parkway. He has owned a ‘53 Ford Crestline Victoria for the past 45 years. He also owns a ‘47 V8 Coupe, a ‘57 Chevy two door hardtop, ‘64 Chev-elle, ‘70 Mustang II, a ‘66 Dodge D 200 truck and a ‘68 Chevy C-10.

His family includes his wife Aar-en, a son Travis and a three year old granddaughter, Keira.

The East Tennessee Regional Group’s tradi-tional Christmas dinner was held on Sunday, December 13. It was at-tended by 39 people, members and their fami-lies.

They were served a buffet meal of turkey and ham supplied by the club and potluck of veg-etables, salads and des-

During the Christmas party, Phil Vinson, who has served as president of the Regional Group for ten years, was presented a mounted and framed 16 x 24 inch charcoal print of the Group’s clubhouse with his 1935 stand-ing in front of it. The print was drawn by Nick Freeman, son of Regional Group member Ron Freeman

Monthly Newsletter of the Early Ford V8 Club of AmericaEast Tennessee Regional Group

January 11, 2016

39 enjoy Christmas party

serts provided by members and their wives. After the meal names were drawn for door prizes.

Two new members were admit-ted to the Regional Group by vote of the members at the last two meetings. They were John Harri-son, admitted December 10, and Bob Leonard, admitted January 7.

New members John Harrison (left) and Bob Leonard (right) ex-amine photos of cars owned over the years by members of the East Tennessee Regional Group.

Regional Groupwelcomes two new members, Leonard & Harrison

Meals for Wheels on Thursday, January 15 will be served by Freddie King, Mike Gifford and Josh Williams.

Gerald “Pop” Tart confirms the report that he had suffered a heart at-tack, but reports that he is back at work in Birmingham, AL. He Said doctors had inserted a stent in one of his arteries and cleared him to return to work. He said he might have taken another week off, but his employer needed him.

Bobbie Fleenor reports Charlie has recovered well from his heart sur-gery but is still somewhat short of breath, suffering from COPD and has to wear an oxygen concentrator to overcome his low oxygen level.

Tart is back to work, Fleenor suffers COPD

Vinson presented clubhouse drawing

Citroen DS

Tucker 48

Triumph TR3

Cunningham C-4R

Law to allow production of replica cars Ford Words, January 11, 2016Page 2

The Justice department filed suit January 4 against Volkswagen for its cheating software that enabled the company’s vehicles to violate clean air standards, John C. Cruden, assistant attorney general for the department’s Environmental and Natural Resources Division said The United States will pursue all appropriate remedies against Volkswagen to redress the violations of our nation’s clean air laws.”

The company faces more than $18-Billon in fines for violations of U.S. Clean air laws and is negotiating a recall of more than 11 million ve-hicles.

The company and its executives also face possible criminal charges and a host of private class action lawsuits from angry owners.

Justice Department sues Volkswagen

When I acquired a locking hub cap for the spare tire on my ‘35, it came without a key. I disassem-bled the lock and sent the cylinder to a locksmith in Akron who adver-tised that he could make a key to fit. When he returned the cylinder, he apologized for the fact that he

could supply only one key because that was the only proper blank he had.

That was twenty years ago. I first showed the old Ford in 1995. I wasn’t much concerned. I felt I could go to any lock shop and have a duplicate made. Although I only checked occasionally, I found no lo-cal shop had a blank from which their machines would cut a dupli-cate key.

I let the matter go until a couple years ago I felt I should have two sets of keys. I had two of each for the ignition and right door lock; I went to a local locksmith. Same story. The man said that key is on a b12 blank and I don’t have one. He suggested that a shop in Eliza-bethton that had been in operation for at least two generations would be the place to get a key made.

I looked on the Internet. Google listed a page of firms that supplied key blanks. When I checked their offerings, I found everyone had a line drawn through the b 12 num-ber on their inventory

Again I let the matter go until early this fall when the regular

Key for spare tirehubcap creates 20 year problem

(Continued on Page 4, Column 2.)

The last year for the 60 horsepower V8 was 1940. The “economy” Ford had not been a money-maker. . The smaller engine cost only three or four dollars less to manufacture than the 85-horsepower unit.

One-third smaller in displacement than the four-banger that powered the Model A it was fitted to cars that were at least a hundred pounds heavier than their predecessors, and then assigned to cope with traffic where speed had increased by at least ten miles an hour! Between 1937 and 1940 the Tudor sedan - Ford’s most popular body style - picked up an additional 183 pounds of weight. For 1941, when the cars were slated to gain another 200 pounds, continuing with the small engine was out of the question.

1940 was the last year for the V8 60

A new law signed by President Obama in early December will permit low volume car manufacturers to produce turn-key replica vehicles for customers nationwide. . Replica cars resemble production vehicles man-ufactured at least 25 years ago.

Currently those who wish to drive vehicles that look like original antique or collector cars must assemble then from kits supplied by the manufacturers and the completed ve-hicle must pass emission inspections before being licensed.

Small automakers will be able to make and sell up to 325 such replica cars a year. The ve-hicles will be required to meet current emis-sions and safety standards.

Engines from current vehicles that are cer-tified by Environmental Protection Agency may be used if they are installed with all mission controls properly connected in accor-dance with standards applied to the manu-facturers use of the engines.

The companies will be required to register with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Environmental Protec-tion Agency and submit annual reports on the vehicles they produce.

Doug Evans, SEMA Chairman of the Board, says cars he would like to see produced in-clude the Citeron DS, Tucker 48, Triumph TR3, and the Cunningham C-4R.

Page 3

Bob Scales and Carol Redmond and have a new car. It is a 1920 Rauch & Lang electric Dual Drive Coach. They bought it at RM So-theby’s auction at Hershey in Oc-tober.

It has the last body number is-sued in 1920 and is probably the last one built in Cleveland. It was placed on sale from the Harold Coker collection. Coker acquired it in complete and original con-dition in July 1970 from Sam Phipps, of Memphis, Tennessee, who had purchased it in 1962.

It was a special car in the Coker collection because Harold and his wife Lillian restored it together. While he attended to new paint and installing new batteries, she replaced the upholstery. Having learned upholstery skills from a craftsman who had reuphol-stered railroad cars, she had in-stalled new thick leather seating in their Model T Ford and when they acquired the Rauch & Lang, she went to work with blue velour fabric and produced the seating and interior of the five-seat en-closed body Coach. Although now 40 years old, her upholstery still looks marvelous. The car received an AACA National First award in 1977.

Painted in the dark blue that was fashionable on electric cars, it has black moldings with white pinstripes and black fenders. The body and paint are very good, showing only modest age and use. The brightwork is a medley of nickel, chrome, and brass, all of it good to very good condition. The roof is covered in black grained Naugahyde.

The windshield has a novel ven-tilation feature that allows the lower pane to be ratcheted up and down. The two panes do not meet, but pass each other in parallel, al-lowing a form of no-draft ventila-tion.

The car can be driven from the

left side of either the rear seat or the front. There are controls in both locations, having two steering tillers that fold up out of the way when not in use. Instrumentation consists of a Warner speedometer and a volt meter. Is is is fitted with electric lights head, side, and tail, plus an electric bell as a warning device. The undercarriage is paint-ed in black and is clean but not over-restored. The tires on the car are metric Michelins, 815x105-32.

In November 2001, the car par-ticipated in the first United States event of the Michelin Bibendum Challenge, sponsored by the French tire company. The Chal-lenge is a world summit for sus-tainable mobility. At the conclu-sion of the event, the Coker Rauch & Lang was driven around the Las Vegas Motor Speedway by Édouard Michelin, company president and great-grandson of its founder.

A battery charger of recent vin-tage was included in the sale.

Bob says the car came equipped

with 12 ordinary six volt batteries which in series produce 72 volts, but there appears to be room for two additional batteries. Since he feels it seems slightly under pow-ered he plans to install two addi-tional batteries, because he finds it is slow climbing their uphill drive-way.

With three collector cars, Bob re-ports they have built a three car detached garaage and installed a small heat pump to provide a cli-mate-controlled atmosphere .

Bob and Carol’s Rauch and Lang electric car stands in front of their house. The garage immediately behind it is attached to the house. They have built another three car garage detached from the house to house their three collector vehicles, a 1940 Deluxe Ford convertible, a Model T Ford truck and the Rauch and Lang electric vehicle.

Club members acquire an electric collector car

1947 Ford Super

Deluxe $37,500

1941 Ford Super

Deluxe-$46,000

Ford Prices

Ford Words, January 11, 2016Page 4

EARLY FORD V8 CLUB OF AMERICA East Tennessee Regional Group

Minutes of meeting held December 10, 2015

The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by President Phil Vinson.

Minutes of the meeting of December 3 were read by Secretary Murv Perry and approved as read on motion by Ron Freeman, seconded by Fred Lord.

Treasurer’s report presented by John Seneker was accepted on motion by Tom Collins, second-ed by Justin Parks.

The club applauded the evening meal of sub sandwiches, chips and dessert.

John Harrison’s application for admission to the club was approved by vote of the member-ship using the ballot box.

Phil reported that the club still had some extra large club shirts that were being offered for $10 and that he was seeking prices for caps with the club emblem.

On motion by Gerald Tart, seconded by Tom Collins, the club voted to donate $125 to the Bristol Girls Club and $125 to the local food bank.

It was reported that Charley Fleenor had un-dergone heart surgery,

Members were reminded of the Christmas dinner at 2:00 p.m. Sunday and the work party to ready the clubhouse on Saturday at 10:00. Phil also asked members to assist in moving tables and furniture from the meeting room af-ter the meeting so carpet cleaners would have access to the area.

Fred Lord won the Ford Fund drawing for $20.

Tom Collins won the drawing for the O’Reilley’s paint supplies.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:39 p.m.Minutes submitted by Murv Perry B

EARLY FORD V8 CLUB OF AMERICA East Tennessee Regional Group

Minutes of meeting of January 7, 2016

Treasurer’s report, presented by Treasurer John Seneker was accepted on motion by Fred Lord, seconded by Ken Bouck.

Bob Leonard was admitted to membership by vote of the members using the ballot box.

Phil reported that he had arranged for the production of caps and T-shirts imprinted with the club emblem that will sell for $12 for shirts and $10 for caps if the club buys a package of 40 of each. He expects them to be ready in about three weeks. He also indicated that there were still shirts in XX and XXX sizes that could be had for $10.

Phil announced that the Meal for Wheels would be served next week by Freddie King, Mike Gifford and Josh Williams.

Members reported that Gerald “Pop” Tart had suffered two heart attacks, but had gone back to where he was working in Alabama. It was also reported that Charley Fleenor was still recover-ing from heart surgery and that T Brown, Ron Harkleroad and George Helms were missing the meeting because of flu-like ailments.

$14 Ford Fund drawing was won by Todd Perry.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:25 p.m.Minutes submitted by Murv Perry

set of keys was mislaid briefly and I realized that if I didn’t find them it would be extremely difficult to get the spare tire off the carrier.

I went to the shop in Elizabethton which occupied the whole lower floor of a house and was filled with intricately machined models and displays of keys. When the young men in the shop couldn’t find a blank that matched the single key I had, they called on their aged grandfather who had founded the shop. After more than an hour searching old cabinets and draw-ers, he said the blank was no longer available.

My son Scott was determined. He combed the Inter-net until he found a man who said he had ten b 12 key blanks, and he purchased to have them cut to match the key to the hubcap. They were to be a surprise at Christmas, but when I happened to notice my usual keys were missing, I fussed so much that mother gave the secret away, but getting a new key was still a wel-come gift at Christmas.

Key problem--Continued from page 2

A 1940 Ford Cutaway Chassis built for the Ford Pavilion display at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, to show the new-to-1940 features, will be of-fered at the Barrett- Jackson auction in Scottsdale, AZ on January 23-31, 2016.

Bidders from 20 countries brought sales of $16.3-million to the RMSotheby’s collector car auction at Hershey in October. 96 % of the vehicles were sold..