The Columbia River Regional Group

is Chartered by the

Early Ford V8 Club of America

and is dedicated to the preservation

of Ford motor vehicles and related historical materi-

als from the era of the Flathead V8 engines (including all Ford,

Mercury and Lincoln vehicles) from 1932 through 1953.

Owning one of these vehicles is not a

requirement for club membership.

Club mailing address is:

PO Box 1035 Oregon City, OR 97045

Website:

Meetings are held the second Monday of the month at Abernethy Grange, Oregon City. Social hour begins at 7:00 PM and the meeting be-gins at 8:00 PM.

Board Meetings are held each month, following the regular meetings unless a matter needing a lengthy discussion is necessary. Then the meet-ing time and place will be announced at the meeting. All members are invited to attend.

Membership Dues for CRRG are $10 per calendar year. Membership in the national Early Ford V8 Club of America is a require-ment of the Columbia River Regional Group.

Submitting Material to the Newsletter Please send all materials for publication in the Columbia Overdrive to Cathy Brunscheon at 2006 SE 56th Ave, Portland, OR 97215, redcab1955@gmail.com. The deadline is the 4th Mon-day of the month.

Website (not working yet) www.earlyfordv8crrg10.com

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THE COLUMBIA OVERDRIVE

Newsletter for Columbia River Regional Group #10 Ju-

PRESIDENTS MESSAGE, JULY 2020

Greetings everyone and happy 4th of July to all. I hope your holiday is safe and that your dogs do not suffer too much. Our Border Collie seems rather calm through it all even though we have some folks out here that set off what sound to be small sticks of TNT. I assume that they all still have their fingers—even if their ears will never stop ring-

ing. That kind of decibels can bring on instant lifetime tinnitus.

Well here we are at the start of another month, and it is my unpleasant task to an-nounce that the Board has canceled all Club events for July. We discussed some op-tions, but the final decision was reached when it was realized that the Abernethy Grange was temporarily shut down. Therefore, we cannot meet there, even outside, because with the Grange closed, there would be no bathrooms or entrance allowed into the building.

In addition to our meeting there will be no Club sponsored tour in July. I was hopeful that we could figure out something for the All Ford Picnic which normally occurs in August, but alas, that too has been canceled. At this point what will happen in the way of Club activities in August remains to be seen. I will continue to monitor the situa-tion at the Abernethy Grange and let everyone know what I find out. I spoke with an-other Club president about their situation and he informed me that they had already canceled all club activities through August. Their meeting area (which seems larger and newer than ours) had a maximum Covid-19 occupancy of 24 people and had to be completely disinfected before and after any meeting.

So, there you have it. I wish it could be a different story. Until we can meet again please stay safe, be smart, and don’t get sick.

Andrew Jackman ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Other News:

The following is a summary of the relevant information from the May 2020 National Board Meeting of the Early Ford V-8 Club of America meeting.

National Meets A decision on the Western National Meet at Alamosa, CO, Sep-tember 21-24 sponsored by the Hi Country RG #28 is yet to be determined. (This meet was cancelled and reservations refunded)

The 2021 Western National Meet at South Lake Tahoe sponsored by Mission Trails RG #32 is scheduled for June 13 17, 2021.

The 2022 Western National Meet, Wenatchee, WA is scheduled for July 11-14, 2022.

National Driving Tours No tours are scheduled at this time. With most events being can-celed this year due to the virus situation, now would be a good time to look in the future to 2021 and 2022 to plan an event.

The third quarter Board meeting will be held Saturday August 15, 2020.

IN THIS ISSUE

Cover Club Information President’s Message Page 2 Officers & Board National Tour by Member Tour Schedule Ladies’ Luncheon Schedule Page 3 July Events & Celebrations Calendar Tour Information Upcoming Events Raffle Winners Postponed Page 4 Ladies’ Corner 1st Get-A-Way Memories Page 5 For Sale/Want Ads Help Wanted—Editor Sunshine Report Miscellaneous Page 6 Ford News Page 7 Vintage National Tour Flyer Page 8 Bulletin Board / Important Reminders

2020 Officers/Board Members

President Andrew Jackman Vice President John Simerly Secretary JoAnn Jackman Treasurer Judy Shoepe Sgt at Arms Doug Snook Activities Dave VanWinkle Tour Director Bill Barnell Membership Randy Downs Editor Cathy Brunscheon Past President Frank McNatt

2020 Non Board Members

Historian Ron Clinton Librarian JoAnn Jackman Cookie Monster Dave Gende Club Shirts Frank McNatt Windbreakers Rusty Medearis Pins/Hats/Etc. Doug Snook Sunshine Linda Eurick Road Cleanup John Laughlin Website LOOKING for HELP!! Northwest Director Joe Reger National Chief Judge John McBurney-National Judging Standards Committee

2020 Tours/Leaders January Bowling/Andrew Jackman February Awards Banquet/John Simerly March CANCELLED April CANCELLED May CANCELLED June CANCELLED July CANCELLED August CANCELLED September Jordan Chicken Run ??? October November December Christmas Party/Dave VanWinkle

2020 Ladies’ Luncheons

January 22=>WEDNESDAY<= Chuck’s Produce & Street Market Linda Eurick + Honey Bermel February 18 Joanne Gornick March 17 Kathy Yoder April 21 Kathy Macken Cancelled May Retreat at the Beach Cancelled June 16 Margret Short Cancelled July 21 Lois Freeman Cancelled ? August 18 Honey Bermel September Campout October 19 Judy Shoepe November 17 Jennie Delano December 15 Carol Carocci

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CRRG #10 General Business Meeting June 8, 2020 was CANCELLED

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Dave Johnson sent this report from Prescott, Arizona:

“The 2019 National Parks V-8 Tour by a CRRG#10 couple, Dave & Karen Johnson

By now you have read the Lou Mraz’s tour article in the May/June V8 Times (pages 73-76) and now I will share some thoughts on the tour. First, I would encourage any-one to participate in one of the national tours. Karen & I had a great time and enjoyed those who were on the tour. The preparation and material presented by Lou Mraz was excellent. He encouraged us to enjoy the tour as individuals and deviate from the basic outline as we saw fit. This had Dave & Karen written all over it. Driving our ‘37 fordor, we left our Prescott, AZ home heading for the Stone Lizard Motel in Blanding UT for the first night’s stop. This route took us up thru Flagstaff and across the Navajo Nation and Monument Valley. It was at the Valley that we en-countered our first rash of tour buses and tourists standing & sitting in the highway for photo ops. Since I did not want to drive the same road the “tour” would travel from its start in Grand Junction, CO, we left the road most traveled at Monticello and took Colorado Hwy (?) 141 towards Grand Junction. This route took us thru such popula-tion centers such as Naturita, Vaconum, Uravan and Gateway via the Delores and San Miguel River canyons. By the time we arrived in Grand Junction, we were pretty much sated with red rocks and magnificent scenery. In Grand Junction, we deviated from the outline and enjoyed old town and its antique stores. Heading with the tour to Moab, a highlight was the Colorado River Canyon Hwy 128 and particularly the Castle Valley area where John Ford shot some of his westerns, and many other movies and commercials were filmed. From Moab, we spent our first day in Arches National Park. There we learned how over utilized the park is and had to forgo some stops due to lack of parking. There were LOTS of tour buses, but we still had a great time. The second day out of Moab, we once again deviated from the outline and visited some out-of-the-way spots and did a little hiking instead of visiting Canyon Lands, National Park. Moab to Cortez took most of a day thru the beautiful high elevation Rocky Mountain scenery. We deviated again just a bit to detour over to Telluride for a look-see. We had been to Mesa Verde years ago and wanted to tour the ruins we previously missed. Well, September is still tourist season and our choic-es were already booked up for two days so we visited several less popular spots. After the great final get together with other tourers, we left Cortez the next morning with frost on the car and headed back to Prescott via the 4-Corners. We enjoyed ourselves and the new friends we met on the tour. The driving aspect of such an event was top notch. Subsequent to the V-8 tour, our older grandson asked to do just a “him and me” trip to Arches so we left Prescott in my F-150 early on December 28th for the 400 mile trip to Moab. This is what I learned. Monument Valley is even more scenic with snow, but there was still stupid tourists standing and sitting on the highway for photos. Actually, all the scenery was enhanced by the snow. At Arches National Park, there were a fair number of tourists but I could park in the bus parking spots because there were no tour buses to be seen. The back roads in Castle Valley were vacant. The winter rates at the motel where we stayed during the V-8 tour was less than 1/3rd of those in September. Oh yes, it was cool with morning temperatures in Moab at 11 degrees and on the return to Prescott, we saw -9 degrees at the La Sal Junction. Go to visit the National Parks in the winter. “

I hope you are all staying healthy and are finally getting out and driving your V8s. Dave Johnson

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

Jeanne Martin

2

Patty Generaux

Chuck & Velva Stewart

3 Randy &

Mary Ellen Downs

4

USA

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Buck & Janiece Jensen

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Doug & Jennie Delano

7

8 9

LeRoy & Barbara Stratton

10

Jean Kelly

11

Steve Orr

Cathy Brunscheon

12

Rick Kline Daniel Grove

Bruce & Michelle Conachan

13

CRRG Meeting

14

Darrell & Honey Bermel

Rick & Kathleen Chroninger

15

Randy Downs

Ron & Mary Clinton

16 17

Margret Short

John & Sherien

Jaeger

18

19 20

21

LADIES LUNCH

22

23 24

25

Linda Eurick

John & Joyce Simerly

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29 30

Pat Drake

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July Events

18th Vancouver WA Blowout Swap Meet, 9am-2pm, Dairy Queen, 7713 Macarthur Blvd. Bring a mask and respect so-cial distancing.

August Events

UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME. THE ALL FORD PICNIC WAS CANCELLED

THERE WAS NOT A JUNE 2020 MEETING AND THERE WILL BE NO JULY 2020 MEETING

JULY CALENDAR OF CRRG EVENTS & CELEBRATIONS

JUNE RAFFLE WINNERS

WHERE YOU WENT IN APRIL, MAY & JUNE 2020

REMEMBER TO WEAR A NAME-TAG TO THE NEXT CLUB MEET-ING AND RECEIVE A TICKET FOR THE MEMBERSHIP DRAWING. YOUR NAME COULD APPEAR BELOW NEXT TIME!

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LADIES’ CORNER

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Sweet Potato Enchiladas (Vegetarian)

Ingredients:

5 sweet potatoes ½ teaspoon salt 1 (8 ounce package cream cheese, (softened) ½ teaspoon ground black pepper 4 green onions, chopped ½ cup vegetable oil for frying 1 teaspoon chili power 12 (7 inch) corn tortillas 1 teaspoon ground cumin (optional) 1 (19 ounce) can enchilada sauce 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 (8 ounce) package shredded Monterey Jack Cheese

Directions:

1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil over medium heat, and boil the sweet potatoes until tender, about 30 minutes. Cool and peel sweet Potatoes 2. Place the sweet potatoes in a bowl, and mash them with the cream cheese, green onions, chili powder, cumin, oregano, salt and pepper until well mixed. 3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and grease a 13X9 inch baking dish. 4. Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-low heat, and fry the tortillas, one at a time, for about 30 seconds per side. 5. Remove the tortillas with tongs, and drain on paper towels.6.Place about 1/3 cup of sweet potato filling down the center of each tortilla, roll it up, and place filled tortillas seam side down in the prepared baking dish. Poor enchilada sauce over the tortillas, and sprinkle with Monterey Jack cheese. 7. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 to 30 minutes, until the enchilada are bubbling and the cheese is be-ginning to brown. Garnish with sour cream and salsa if you like. Serves 6 to 8. From Allrecepies.com Submitted by Joanne Gornick

REMEMBERING LADIES’ GETAWAY

No. 1 September 6 - 12, 2011

May 2020 would have been the 10th year for the La-dies’ Getaway (and it will be next year). I thought it would be fun to see us 10 years ago at our first get-away held at a United Methodist Camp, Camp Ma-gruder. I thought there were 12 of us, so who is tak-ing the picture? Maybe the 12th person.

Anyway, we occupied a bunkhouse that had 24 sleeping bunks so none of us had to sleep on the top. There was a nice area that we used for serious game playing. There was a small kitchen area for fixing our snacks – snacks mostly because we ate in the cafeteria with a group of kids attending Outdoor School. That is until we realized we had brought so much food we didn’t need to go to the cafeteria and should eat up what we brought. The kids had to do K.P. duty but I don’t think we did.

We shopped in Rockaway at the souvenir shops. We walked on the beach. We played on the rope swings. I think we were there for two nights. It was the start of a wonderful tradition.

As I look at the picture it becomes bitter sweet as I realize that four of our sisters are no longer with

us. Oh, how we miss them!!!

We are all confident that our tradition will continue next year.

Submitted by Joanne Gornick

July Ladies’ Luncheon Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Has been cancelled. Stay safe. I hope to see you soon.

Lois Freeman 503-781-4074

June/July Sunshine Report

Cards were sent to the following members

John Jaeger—Hernia surgery

Gary Blodgett—Gallbladder surgery

Sherien Jaeger—Heart problem testing

Services were held for Richard “Al” Allen Rogers June 3, 2020 at Lincoln Memorial. Al was a charter member of CRRG #10

Kathy Yoder is scheduled for breast cancer surgery. Keep her in your prayers.

Your Sunshine Team Linda and Bob Eurick

FOR SALE

1938-41 Dropped axle—new $245 V-8 Club Binders, very rare, $10 each Complete “Ford Life” collection (24 is-sues) excellent condition with 1 binder $195 ‘46-8 Body Fender & grill, stainless, mostly new, various prices OR License Plates, 1928-1950; some original, some restored—various prices WWI Bi-Wing Plane Model 4’ wing span, mint condition, includes box $145 Ron Love 503-223-9359 —–——————————————————————- ‘40 heavy frame, excellent $1,200 ‘49/51 Mercury Wheels, $50 each ‘47/48 15” Mercury Wheels, $60 each 16” Goodyear Air wheels [7] $1,200 ‘32/36 std front axle $150 ‘37/41 front axle $100 16” 40/41 wheels $40 each ‘35/36 Wishbone $150 ‘34 intake manifold $45 ‘35 intake manifold $35 Numerous ‘39-48 brake assemblies, $100 per wheel, complete ‘35/35 rear differential parts, 40 up ‘36/39 wide 5 centers $25 each for cus-tom wheels. Dale Newcomb 503-505-1342 ———————————————————

New ShowBEDDER Truck Bed Cover with molded in Ford Logo. Fits 1936 and below Ford Truck. $100 Jim Kunst 503-830-9048

Dave Nelson’s 1946 Ford Pickup was featured on the cover page of the May/June V8 times magazine and his detailed story with those great pictures of the restoration is featured on pages 33-38. John Jaeger’s article on CRRG#10’s Annual Awards Banquet held in February 2020 at Hayden’s Lake Front Grill in on page 83-84 of the May/June V-8 times magazine. Page 84 also included his report on our January Bowling Tour. Both reports are illustrated by John’s wonderful pictures.

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HELP WANTED EDITOR Please review the August Birthdays & Anniversaries:

Birthdays: DAY: Dave Short 2 Tom McGarry 3 Jim Kunst 5 John Ferland 6 Dave Johnson 8 Rick Chroninger 10 Michele Conachan 20 Ken Anderson 23 Robert Silagy 26

Anniversaries: Curt & Judy Cooley 6 Marty & Katie Boehme 7 Daniel & Judy Grove 7 Al & Carol Carocci 12 Jack & Sandy Cole 14 Bob & Susan Falleur 19 Arnie Hollander & Susan Watkins 21 Robert & Christina Dieffenbach 26 Ken & Alice Anderson 27

DID I MISS ANYONE? LET ME KNOW OF ANY CORRECTIONS. Cathy redcab1955@gmail.com 503-975-4228

Dale Newcomb sent this information:

Good reading in the V8 times: the newsletter competition articles. RG#142, our Oregon Crater Lake group, won an award. RG #85 from Albany/Corvallis is continuing to hold regular meetings and go on local 'parade cruizes'. Father’s Day events were parades thru retirement home complexes. The residents thoroughly enjoyed the “parades”. Salem, RG# 9 continues to hold 'ZOOM' meetings for those members that are equipped to do so. However, Salem has joined the Brooks Car and Motorcycle muse-um as a venue for normal meetings. Salem lost its long term meeting ven-ue to an estate real-estate sale. Odd News: the Earth’s magnetic poles are on the move! The North pole is now moving at 37 miles a year! Normal is 9 miles a year. The Earth’s molten iron core has two “swirls” competing with each other for domi-nance. Remember in Geologic time, the Earths poles have actually Switched! This would really foul up things for us dwellers.

From the Western Journal By Jack Davis, Published April 18, 2020

Ford Set To Produce Masks, Respirators, Gowns for Medical Personnel

During Pandemic They are not Thunderbirds or Mustangs, but the latest products to roll off the Ford assembly line will be a wel-come relief to Americans fighting the coronavirus. On Tuesday, Ford began producing air-purifying respirators that it designed. The famed vehicle manufacturer is also making face masks for health care workers, and assisting in the develop-ment of reusable gowns for medical personnel that can be produced on a mass scale. “We knew that to play our part helping combat coronavirus, we had to go like hell and join forces with experts like 3M to expand production of urgently needed medical equipment and supplies”, Jim Baumbick, vice president for Ford Enterprise Product Line Management, said in a news release. “In just three weeks under Project Apollo, we’ve unleashed our world-class manufacturing, purchasing and design talent to get scrappy and start making personal protection equipment and help increase the availability and pro-duction of ventilators,” he said. Ford and 3M began teaming up last month. According to Bernard Cicut, vice president for 3M’s Personal Safety Division: “3M is dedicated to helping to pro-tect our heroic health care workers and first responders globally, including sharing our scientific expertise to in-crease supply of needed PPE.” “We are proud to stand together with Ford in this effort, as they have helped us increase manufacturing of existing 3M PPE products and, together, we have rapidly designed a new PAPR to help protect these heroes,” he said. One of the main accomplishments of the partnership was the development of a battery-powered blower known as a PAPR, or powered air-purifying respirator, that will help health care workers avoid breathing contaminated air. “By working collaboratively with 3M to quickly combine more than 100 years of Ford manufacturing and engi-neering expertise with personal protection equipment design and expertise, we’re getting much-needed technolo-gy into the hands of frontline medical workers to help when they need it most,” Marcy Fisher, Ford’s director of Global Body Exterior and Interior Engineering, said. Members of the United Auto Workers union will be using their expertise to make PAPRs and face masks. “UAW Ford members continue to step up and volunteer to work during this difficult time as we expand at the fa-cility across from Flat Rock to make respirators and at the Van Dyke Transmission Plant to make face masks for medical use,” Gerald Kariem, vice president of UAW’s Ford Department, said. “The UAW also continues to work with Ford to follow stringent CDC guidelines and go above and beyond protec-tions for these members who are so proudly volunteering to serve their communities and their nation,” he added. Ford is working with airbag supplier Joyson Safety Systems to make reusable hospital gowns from the same mate-rial used to manufacture airbags for Ford vehicles. Starting next week, Ford expects to be able to produce 100,000 gowns a week. “The need to protect our medical teams is heightened — Ford’s gown production could not come at a better time during this crisis,” David Claeys, president of Beaumont Health hospitals in Dearborn and Farmington Hills, said. “Our front line health care workers are working around the clock to treat COVID-19 patients and we need the nec-essary supplies to support them.” Moreover, Ford is collaborating with Thermo Fisher Scientific to help scale up production of COVID-19 testing kits. “Ford’s engineers brought a fresh perspective to production expansion, and together, we’ll more than triple the number of collection kits we can deliver each week starting April 20,” John Reuss, senior director for microbiology business at Thermo Fisher, said. “It’s great to see different industries coming together to solve a common prob-lem.”

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Ron Love sent this 1971 Western National Meet Flyer for us to enjoy. This was 49 years ago. Gee, I was still in High School and gas was about .29/gallon. Please share your memories. Pictures are always welcome.

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Bulletin Board

Linda & Bob Eurick are the Sunshine Persons. If you know of some news about one of our members that should be shared with the club, please let them know. 503-629-0251 or beurick@gaelicfleet.com

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Early ford v-8 club of America

Columbia River Regional Group #10 PO Box 1045 Oregon City, OR 97045

Roster For changes to your address, telephone number, cell phone number, email address or if you sold a car, bought a car—anything that needs to be updated in the roster, please let us know. Randy Downs, Member-ship Chairman, will be updating during the year. Call him at 503-734-7138 or email at rdowns2061@aol.com

All July 2020 CCRG#10 Activities are CANCELLED. Stay Well.

\A big thank you to those who contributed to this issue!! I could not have done it without you, SEND MORE— I’ll find room. Cathy Brunscheon, Editor > redcab1955@gmail.com, 503-975-4228