THE ROUTE 66 CAR CLUB IS A QUALIFIED 501©(3) CHARITY CLUB OFFICERS

PRESIDENT

Robert Penhaker 527-6844

VICE PRESIDENT

Lance McKee

928-853-3643

TREASURER

Juergen Burmeister

928-255-3486

SECRETARY

Alana Velez

853-6629

MEMBERSHIP

Kathy McKee

853-0912

CRUISE DIRECTOR

Richard Federico

480-206-4227

NEWSLETTER EDITOR

Jon Wiedenheft

818-693-3307

HISTORIAN

Sean Evans

699-5872

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Maggie Bortree

607-6792

Doug Bischoff

240-285-7776

Susan Davis

526-5573

Jim Velez 699-1400 Pat Wiebe 779-2236

MEETINGS General Membership — February 14, 2018, 7:00PM at

the Sizzler Restaurant, East Route 66.

MEMBERSHIP Membership Dues of $35.00 are due now. Currently we have 18 members signed up for 2018. Note: only paid members can vote at the February General Meeting for the revised By-Laws.

CRUISE CENTRAL The Club Events Calendar is still in the works. Richard is

meeting with the other Flagstaff clubs to work out our

four tri-club events. The preliminary calendar should be

released in early February.

WEB-SITE Is your classic car (s) pictured in the Member’s Rides

section of the website? If not send pics to Doug Bischoff

LADIES LUNCHEON The Ladies Luncheon , January 16, will be held at the

Kachina Mexican Restaurant located at 522 East

Route 66, Flagstaff. Lunch at 12:00 Noon.

FRIDAY EVENINGS Club members still gather at the Crown Railroad Café

on Route 66, or at Freddy’s on Beulah Blvd. Come join us.

EDITOR’S NOTE Share your classic car history with the club. The

Courier will try to carry a “Garage Tales” story each

month, but we need your stories. Please submit your

story to route66carclub@gmail.com.

JANUARY 2018

CLUB EVENTS

TBD Preliminary Schedule to be released in early February.

2018 EVENTS OF INTEREST

Jan 13 —21 BARRETT JACKSON AUCTION — Westworld of Scottsdale .

Jan 18—21 CRUIZIN’ ON THE RIVER Car Show , Laughlin NV

Show, car sales, auto parts swap meet, etc at Riverside Resort

March 10 CLARKDALE CAR SHOW - All cars, trucks, and bikes

March 25 21ST ANNUAL BOP/GMC/CADILLAC SHOW - Pavilions, Scottsdale Note: this is a Sunday event.

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RUMBLINGS AROUND THE FLYWHEEL

• We have two new Club Officers. Lance McKee is our new Vice-President replacing Mike Ebersole who

has been our VP for several years. Thanks Mike for all your service! Replacing Lance as a Board Mem-

ber at large is Susan Davis. Welcome aboard Susan!

• At our January General Meeting a $500 donation check was presented to Eric Walden from the Poore

Medical Clinic, and a $700 check presented to Lakin Minic of the Coconino Humane Association ($500

from our club and $200 from a private donation).

• Sean Evan’s brother is needing a Flagstaff garage for his 1958 2 axle Apache water tanker Fire Truck.

Truck is in fine condition, always housed, with only 12,000 miles! Can anyone help out? Please call

Sean.

• Long time former club members Steve and Sandy Hurt have relocated to New Mexico. Their new address

is : 617 Rio Hondo Road, NE, Rio Rancho, New Mexico, 87144. Phone: 408-340-0535.

• Robert Penhaker is planning a special field trip to his automotive shop in the near future to demonstrate the

latest electronic gadgetry that allows engine analysis and modification. Don’t miss this one.

NEWS FLASH Guess who’s classic is featured on the front cover of the 2018 Kaiser Willys Calendar?

You got it…..Alan & Alice St. Germain’s 1954 Red Willys Pick-Up Truck! Congratulations to Alan and Alice.

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MAKING A DIFFERENCE!

Imagine a Club event involving food but where we weren't doing the eating! On November 10, club members

gathered at the Family Food Center Warehouse, where we packed/stuffed over 400 food boxes to be distributed

to the needy in the Flagstaff area. This was enough to support over a week and a half of their requirements. The

general feeling afterwards was that this was a far more satisfying “contribution” to the community than the I-40

road trash pickup, and that the club should continue with doing the food packing event in the future.

Our Packing Route 66 Car Club Members.

Lance was good at box making;

not so good with the tape

machines.

OK Richard…..you’re having

way too much fun making

boxes.

Just check out that pallet

of boxes. OK, Kathy….don’t let those

Charmin Bears see you with

all that TP

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MEMORABLE EVENTS

NOVEMBER LADIES’ LUNCHEON

by Shirley Rohr

January Birthdays

1/6 Frank Baker

1/9 Linda Hewitt

1/13 Richard Frederico

1/14 Bill Peterson

1/19 Eric Sommers

1/21 Pat Wiebe

1/23 Liz Lytle

1/28 Joe Brendel

Candy Howard, Shirley Rohr, Alana Velez, Kathy Federico, Jackie Clark McCrorey, Sallie Page,

Bennie Zink, Mona Keksis, Susan Miller and Kathy McKee enjoyed their November 15th luncheon

at the new Oregano’s off Country Club. Looks like they’re having fun!

January Anniversaries

1/23 George & Debbie Castelberry

1/23 Ed & Pat Wiebe

1/26 Juergen & Judy Burmeister

February Birthdays

2/4 Kathy Westerdahl

2/11 Victoria Archuletta

2/11 Chuck Davis

2/22 Pete Page

2/23 Bob Bortree

2/28 Ruth Fisher

February Anniversaries

2/7 Ron & Helga Dinwiddie

2/14 Dale & Melinda Auten

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MEN’S HEALTH CLINIC

Held November 18 at the Flagstaff Physicians parking lot, nine club members

showed up with their classics to support the 2017 Men’s Health Clinic (and one

Tesla 4-door showed up for a short time). Weather was a bit brisk but not a major

issue. Club members participated in some of the free services, and all enjoyed the gratis doughnuts provided

by the clinic. Susan Davis from our club sponsored our involvement with the event.

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LADIES HOLIDAY LUNCHEON

December 12,2017

Pictures by Kathy Frederico

OUR CLUB CHRISTMAS PARTY

Held December 3 on a Sunday, we had a fine turnout to enjoy some good food and conversations with fellow club

members at the Horsemens Lodge. Jackie and Shirley presented a “Flagstaff” quiz, and Bob reports that 93 pounds

of food were donated. And as usual, a mulitude of Toys for Tots was gathered.

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FLAGSTAFF’S NORTHERN LITES PARADE

Alan St. Germain, Randy Travis, Ed Wiebe, Sallie Page, and Lance McKee all braved the not-so-cold

December 9th evening and decorated their cars with lights and ran in the 2017 Northern Lites Parade.

Flagstaff was still in a dry period so there was no snow or rain. No major incidents were reported this year

except Richard Frederico’s DeLoren would not start at home, so he and Kathy had to sit out the Parade. All in

all, a good time was had and the parade crowd enjoyed the cars as always.

Pictures by Alan St. Germain , Kathy Frederico and the Editor.

Ed Wiebe keeping company with his

buddy Sponge Bob SquarePants.

Alan St. Germain decorating his Willys.

Sallie Page with her decked out Mustang.

Ed’s ‘36 Chevy all lit up.

Sallie’s ‘73 Mustang ready to go.

Randy Travis’ Cadilac. A Minion riding tall on Alan’s

Willys.

Kathy helped out decorating and

photo taking.

Lance’s Cougar with tree & train!

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