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NUTMEG MOTOR NEWS CONNECTICUT STREET ROD ASSOCIATION

Staying at home hasn’t changed a thing for Donna and Junie waiting to go Street Rodding!

MAY 2020

NUTMEG MOTOR NEWS CONNECTICUT STREET ROD ASSOCIATION

ESTABLISHED 1967 CSRA.ORG If you would like to know what CSRA is about our regular meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the month which

are held at CSRA Clubhouse on 316 Woodhouse Avenue Wallingford CT. 7pm

BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT TREASURER SECRETARY DIRECTOR DIRECTOR

Ron SanGiovanni Anthony Perrone Dennis Dagliere Paul Benoit Bob Kesilewski Greg Piesyna 203-530-4552 203-213-1641 203-239-3791 860-568-7404 203-410-7744 203-729-8847

NSRA SWAP MEET STATE REPRESENTATIVE STATE ADVISER SAFETY INSPECTOR SWAP MEET CHAIRMAN & CO-CHAIRMAN

Sally Benoit Danielle Couture Armand Couture Bob Kesilewski Rich Ronzello 860-568-7404 203-634-0008 203-634-0008 203-410-7744 860-828-8110

NEWSLETTER STAFF NUTMEG NEWS EDITOR NUTMEG NEWS COPY EDITOR BIRTHDAY REMINDER Junie Barretta Gloria Veronesi Bette Dybick 203-469-4570 860-667-0646 860-345-4709 Donna Barretta Laura Falconieri Dennis Dagliere Moe Dagliere 203-469-4570 203-265-7226 203-239-3791 203-269-3791

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ALL MEETINGS ARE SMOKE FREE IN CASE OF BAD WEATHER CALL 203-697-9113

Rich Moore - 4th Ninamarie Barnes – 23rd Derek Gilmore – 8th Linda Buccheri - 24th Rich Lathrop -12th Dave Harutunian – 25th Reggie Lausier – 19th Laura SanGiovanni – 27th Claire Gallant – 21st Dave Hall - 30th Junie Barretta - 22nd

Peter Bozzo - 22nd

Jenna Morris - 22nd

No club events scheduled at this time. “Stay home, stay safe!”

2020 NUTMEG MOTOR NEWS CSRA.ORG

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PREZ SEZ

Ronnie Roadster

Hi Everyone,

With the shutdown continuing, there is no idea when we will hold another club meeting. However, some club activity is still underway. Member’s GoodGuys dues have been paid. The Website update is close to completion, but they have had some issues related to the virus situation so it will be a while longer before that’s completed.

The meeting room improvements and painting was put on hold for two weeks so those involved would be safe during the apex time period. Tom Lambert reports the walls are ready for paint. And the cabinet built by Dave Miller to hold all the electronics and the display case to be located below the banner are completed. The electric hot water heater, which is very old needs to be replaced. The replacement will be gas fired as well as an on-demand type which will be a lot more cost effective when operating. The next major club event is scheduled for June- which is the Annual Nostalgia night. At this time, it’s unknown if it will take place.

Members that I have been in touch with have been thinking about driving our cars to some location. Just to get some time out and on the road, destination unknown, just drive. If a plan comes together to do this I will get the word out. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate if and when that takes place.

Stay Safe and Healthy, Ronnie Roadster

DEADLINE FOR NEWSLETTER MAY 22nd DATE TIME EVENT PLACE

Everything is cancelled till further notice

CLUB NEWS- So far everything is canceled

GET WELL Get well John Jarush and his wife Pat are both home fighting the Virus. Don Gallant also has the virus and broke his hip. Jimmy Kakalow is home. Our prayers are with you all!

CONDOLENCES Our condolences to Butch Kenny whose daughter Jeanine died from the virus. Past Member Barry Emple’s Brother died. Don Gallant passed away from the virus on Monday April 27, 2020 Our thoughts and prayer goes out to all of you or your family.

OLD CAR TRIVIA SENT IN BY Dennis O'Brien

Q: What car was the first to have its radio antenna embedded in the windshield?

A: The 1969 Pontiac Grand Prix.



WHAT IS A STREET ROD? SENT IN BY JERRY VERONESI At no time in history have Americans been as interested in specialty automobiles as they are today. Be it a rebuilt old car or a newly constructed, limited production, special interest vehicle, this is the era of the unique to anyone interested in automobiles. One of the fastest growing groups of enthusiasts interested in the older cars are street rodders. A street rod is the most practical type of old car. By definition a street rod is an automobile of 1948 or earlier manufacture which has undergone some type of modernization to include any of the following: Engine, transmission, interior refinement, and any other modification the builder desires. A street rods is to be driven to events under its own power and is to be used as a safe, non-racing vehicle for total family enjoyment. In addition, a street rod is a means of self-expression for the creator. The builder of a street rod is not confined to guidelines set down by someone else. He can be his own man, and the street rod can be whatever he wants it to be, as long as the basic vehicle was manufactured prior to 1949. One of the best parts of owning a street rod however, is not in creating a unique vehicle, but in its enjoyment after it is completed. With the modernization comes the ability to enjoy the vehicle in ways other resurrected old cars cannot be. The vehicle can be driven for long distances in comfort with safety to the passengers and others on the highway. In addition to making the car more comfortable, improvements in steering, lighting and brakes are nearly always included in the building of a street rod. A street rod is nostalgia trip and while it remains most of the appeal of an old car, it still permits self-expression by allowing the creator to incorporate his own ideas.

BLOND JOKES SENT IN BY JERRY AUGUSTINE

A blonde pushes her BMW into a gas station. She tells the mechanic it died.

After he works on it for a few minutes, it is idling smoothly.

She says, “What's the story?”

He replies, “Just crap in the carburetor.”

She asks, “How often do I have to do that?”

STUFF FOR SALE If you have stuff to sell you can e-mail me at [email protected] and please write in the subject box “Stuff for Sale.” 5/1/2020 FOR SALE - UP FOR BIDS TO MEMBERS. It looks like the club will take bids when were able to congregate in a crowd after this virus goes away!

5/1/2020 FOR SALE – ’31 Ford

All original Ford sheet metal (body, doors, rear deck lid, fenders, hood and running boards) purchased in 1985. We still have the bill of sale. Vehicle was in solid condition back then. I have all parts to rebuild the vehicle as shown in the complete photo. It has a rebuilt small block Chevy with Dyer blower (no miles) and 350 turbomatic trans. A Ford 9-inch posi-traction rear. I also have a new set of repo front fenders that will be included. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Asking $30k Call Keith 203-217-0906 or email [email protected] 4/1/2020 FOR SALE –'41 Willys pick-up. Jack Merkel tribute Gasser. New crate SBC. Automatic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$35,000

Call or text 860 347-2600 or [email protected]



1/1/2020 FOR SALE – 1949 Chevrolet 3100 Thriftmaster 6-cylinder, 3 speed column shift. Rust free. Must see. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22,500

Call Jim 203-314-9537 1/1/2020 FOR SALE – 1939 Willys Gasser. '41

nose. 9" Ford rear. All Steel, Cal. Title, Street legal C/G. Rust Patina. All new window glasses. Flow Masters & Fender Wells. 2-

1/2-inch tail pipes. Disc brakes all around. Dual Quads-High rise. SBC. . . . . . . . . . .$24,900.00 Call or text 860 347-2600 [email protected] 11/1/2019 FOR SALE – Y-Block, T-Bird parts. 1 pr. 56 Ford Fairlane bezels #13052-A in good condition. . . $75 Ecz-4424-A intake manifold, ‘55-‘56 Ford. . . . . . $225 ea. Ecz-9424-B intake manifold ’57-’59 Ford . . . . . . $325 ea. 1 pr. Of Y-Block Ecz G heads there rebuilding. . . . . .$525 Ecg659B Valley pan covers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $50 ea. 1 Oil filter canister. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $20 1 Oil pan and tube 225 good shape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .? 2 Timing covers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $45ea. 1 Ecz 312 crankshaft Ford replacement never used needs cleaning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$225 OBO 1 pr. raised letter Merc valve covers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . $60 2 Bell cranks for carb w/linkage ’56-’57. . . . . . . . $110ea. 1 Tea-pot carb for ’56 Ford-Merc rebuilt never used Ecz 9510L – List-1162-2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$499 OBO Call Jim 860-347-9770 - or e-mail [email protected] 11/1/2019 FOR SALE – Tow Mig Welders

First one is OBO $300 - Second one is OBO $200

Call Laura 203-444-6437

WELCOME TO TOMORROW!!! SENT IN BY JERRY AUGUSTINE

1- Auto repair shops will disappear. 2- A petrol/diesel engine has 20,000 individual parts.

An electrical motor has 20. Electric cars are sold with lifetime guarantees and are repaired only by dealers. It takes only 10 minutes to remove and replace an electric motor.

3- Faulty electric motors are not repaired in the dealership but are sent to a regional repair shop that repairs them with robots.

4- Your electric motor malfunction light goes on, so you drive up to what looks like a car wash, and your car is towed through while you have a cup of coffee and out comes your car with a new electric motor!

5- Petrol pumps will go away. 6- Street corners will have meters that dispense

electricity. Companies will install electrical recharging stations; in fact, they’ve already started in the developed world.

7- Smart major auto manufacturers have already designated money to start building new plants that build only electric cars.

8- Coal industries will go away. Gasoline/oil companies will go away. Drilling for oil will stop. So say goodbye to OPEC! The middle east is in trouble.

9- Homes will produce and store more electrical energy during the day and then they use and will sell it back to the grid. The grid stores it and dispenses it to industries that are high electricity users. Has anybody seen the Tesla roof?

10- A baby of today will see personal cars only in museums. The FUTURE is approaching faster than most of us can handle.

11- In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared, and they went bankrupt. Who would have thought of that ever happening?

12- What happened to Kodak and Polaroid will happen in a lot of industries in the next 5-10 years ... and most people don't see it coming.

13- Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later, you would never take pictures on film again? With today’s smart phones, who even has a camera these days?

14- Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels but followed Moore's law. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a time, before it became way superior and became mainstream in only a few short years.

15- Forget the book, “Future Shock”, welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution.



16- It will now happen again (but much faster) with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs.

17- Software has disrupted and will continue to disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.

18- UBER is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the world! Ask any taxi driver if they saw that coming.

19- Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties. Ask Hilton Hotels if they saw that coming.

20- Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a computer beat the best Go-player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.

21- In the USA, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of IBM's, you can get legal advice (so far for right now, the basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans. So, if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the future, (what a thought!) only omniscient specialists will remain.

22- Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, it’s 4 times more accurate than human nurses.

23- Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.

24- Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self-driving cars are already here. In the next 2 years, the entire industry will start to be disrupted. You won’t want to own a car any ‘’more as you will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination.

25- You will not need to park it, you will pay only for the driven distance and you can be productive while driving. The very young children of today will never get a driver's license and will never own a car.

26- This will change our cities, because we will need 90-95% fewer cars. We can transform former parking spaces into green parks.

27- About 1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide including distracted or drunk driving. We now have one accident every 60,000 miles; with autonomous driving that will drop to 1 accident in 6 million miles That will save a million lives plus worldwide each year.

28- Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi are completely terrified of Tesla and they should be. Look at all the companies offering all electric vehicles. That was unheard of, only a few years ago.

29- Most traditional car companies will doubtless become bankrupt. They will try the evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.

30- Look at what Volvo is doing right now; no more internal combustion engines in their vehicles starting this year with the 2019 models, using all electric or hybrid only, with the intent of phasing out hybrid models.

31- Insurance companies will have massive trouble because, without accidents, the costs will become cheaper. Their car insurance business model will disappear.

32- Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will abandon their towers to move far away to more beautiful affordable.

33- Electric cars will become mainstream about 2030. Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run on electricity.

34- Cities will have much cleaner air as well. 35- Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean. 36- Solar production has been on an exponential curve

for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning impact. And it’s just getting ramped up.

37- Fossil energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from home solar installations, but that simply cannot continue - technology will take care of that strategy.

38- Health: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There are companies who will build a medical device (called the "Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample and you breath into it. It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any Disease. There are dozens of phone apps out there right now for health.

WELCOME TO TOMORROW

TODAY'S OVERDOSE OF TRIVIA If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.



IRISH COMPASSION A man was sitting on a blanket at the beach. He had no arms and no legs. Three women, from England, Scotland, and Ireland, were walking past and felt sorry for the poor man. The English woman said, “Have you ever had a hug?” The man said “No,” so she gave him a hug and walked on. The Scottish woman said, “Have you ever had a kiss?” The man said, “No,” so she gave him a kiss and walked on. The Irish woman came to him and said, “Ave ya ever been fooked lad?” The man broke into a big smile and said, “No!” She said, “Aye ya will be when the tide comes in!”

SPREAD THE STUPIDITY SENT IN BY PURPLE JOE Only in America .......do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in America .......do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

Only in America ......do banks leave vault doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

Only in America ......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

Only in America ...........do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

Only in America .......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

EVER WONDER .... Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why don't you ever see the headline 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

Why is 'abbreviated' such a long word?

Why is it that doctors call what they do 'practice'?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dish washing liquid made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

I like this one!!! If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?



ARE YOU SEENAGER? SENT IN BY JERRY AUGUSTINE

I JUST discovered my age group! I am a Seenager (Senior teenager). I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 50-60 years later.

I don't have to go to school or work.

I get an allowance every month.

I have my own pad.

I don't have a curfew.

I have a driver's license and my own car.

I have ID that gets me into bars and the wine store. I like the wine store best. The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant, they aren't scared of anything, they have been blessed to live this long, why be scared?

And I don't have acne.

Life is Good! Also, you will feel much more intelligent after reading this if you are a Seenager.

Brains of older people are slow because they know so much.

People do not decline mentally with age; it just takes them longer to recall facts because they have more information in their brains. Scientists believe this also makes you hard of hearing as it puts pressure on your inner ear. Also, older people often go to another room to get something and when they get there, they stand there wondering what they came for. It is NOT a memory problem it is nature's way of making older people do more exercise.

SO THERE!!

IS THIS BARN-FIND 1968 SHELBY GT 500 WORTH $70

The Shelby fastback, one of only 1000 or so produced in ’68, is possible at the risk of making classic car enthusiasts everywhere shudder at the sight of an extraordinary muscle car being used as a storage shelf, we present the latest super-cool discovery from the diligent dust-fiends at barnfinds.com.

Listed on Facebook Marketplace is this 1968 Shelby Mustang GT500 in Louisville, Kentucky. The seller’s description is minimal, but the photos speak volumes. If they don’t make you wince, perhaps the $70,000 asking price will.

“Assuming it’s the real deal, this is an exciting discovery and just goes to show that there are still serious barn finds out there,” says Hagerty valuation editor Andrew Newton. “This one will need a lot of time and money and looks to be worth saving, but the asking price seems on the high side. Our condition #4 (Fair) value for these is $82,100, but this one is significantly shabbier than that and it’s worth even less with an automatic.”

Whereby a 428-cubic-inch Cobra Jet V-8, which produced 360 horsepower when new. The engine, as Newton pointed out, is mated to an automatic transmission. All GT500s featured a fiberglass nose and tail section, functional hood scoops, and four side air scoops. Inside, the GT500 featured trim borrowed from the Mustang GT.

The seller of this red-over-tan barn-find Shelby says it is a matching-numbers car that’s been owned by the same person for 45 years, although it hasn’t run in three decades. The sale includes new parts, although the car will require a lot more that. “[It] needs a lot of love,” admits the seller, who lists its condition as “poor.”

The Facebook Marketplace ad includes this sentence, however, which is like catnip to many collectors, particularly those with the skills to do the restoration work themselves: “If you always wanted a barn find, here it is.”

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