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President’s Message February 2016President’s Message February 2016

What’s Going On

WEST GEORGIA REGION’S MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FEB 2016

2016 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Hopefully everybody is doing well and keeping warm during these colder winter days, and perhaps working on some car projects that get pushed aside during the nice weather when we are actually using the vehicles a lot more. Spring is just around the corner as they say and we can start planning on attending some tours, car shows, and perhaps even an auction.

It was good to see most of our club on Saturday, January 16th and to share a good lunch together at La Trattoria. We are grateful to Gary Moyses for his presentation after lunch on the Indy 500 races of the early ‘70’s. Read more about our recent event in this issue of The Greasy Rag.

We have presented our donation checks to our three charities this year and we hope you will soon be seeing photographs of the grateful recipients soon in the local paper. I will also post them on our club website www.westgeorgia AACA.org

Bring your calendars to our next meeting at American Pie at 6:30 pm on Thursday, Febru-ary 4th and we can again look ahead and try to plan a tour and/or garage visit. We will want to discuss and select a date for our annual judged AACA car show. That means selecting a Show Chairperson, location, rain date, and sharing our ideas about what exactly we want/need on the flyer that publicizes the show. We may again wish to include an Arts & Crafts component that gives the ladies present something other than cars to look at, and also pro-vides a modicum of additional revenue for our club by way of vendor fees.

Our website is updated now to include a few things coming up that may be of interest to club members. Don’t forget there is the AACA Sentimental Tour based around Salisbury, NC in June, and perhaps we can arrange to meet up this Spring or Summer with our AACA friends from the Georgia-Alabama Region. And of course the regular cruise nights will be coming along before you know it.

Finally, please pay local West Georgia Region dues of $15 to Gary if you have not yet done so.

Enjoy the Ride!Glenn

Feb 5-7 – 40th Annual Moultrie Georgia Swap Meet,@ Spence Field 8:00 to 6:00 each day. $10 per day at the gate. See www.moultrieswapmeet.com for details.

Feb 27 - 21st Jordan High School Car Show 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM at Jordan High 3200 Howard Ave., Columbus [Robert Harris (706)748-2819] Mar 19 - Piedmont Throttle Kings 8th Annual Car Show 8:00 to 1:00 @ Fagan Park Downtown, Piedmont Al. [Steve Robertson (256)447-3041] Ricky McConnell

Mar 19 – Hot Rods & Harleys Show 10:00 to 3:00 @ Chattahoochee Harley Davidson 3230 Williams Rd. Columbus GA. (706)324-4294.

Apr 1-2 - Perry Ga. 7th Spring Swap Meet, 8.00 to 6:00 each day. @ Georgia National Fairgrounds www.peryswapmeet.com [Keith (478)662-2267]

Apr 1-2- Eufaula Pilgrimage of Homes Tour and ALAGA Car Show. Pre-registration is free, after April 1 it is $10. Car show participants get 70% discount on hometour tickets. Eufaula, Al.www.eufaulapilgrimage.com [Bruce Mathias ALAGA (630)303-4740]

Apr 7-10- AACA Southeastern Division National Spring Meet at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Charlotte NC at NC Exit 49 on Interstate 85 See www.aaca.org/calendar/ click on brochure for the meet

Apr 9 - 18th Annual Lafayette Day Car Show, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM @ Lafayette Square in Lafayette Alabama [Craig Brown (334)756-7801]

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By Glenn Novak

We enjoyed each other’s company on Saturday, January 16th and got to share an excellent lunch to-gether at La Trattoria in Carrollton. We had 14 people show up and this year we all fit at one very long table. The weather was pretty decent and some folks drove their collector vehicles. Our follow-up dessert and coffee break around 1:30 was a nice prelude to the AACA slide show at the Novaks, preceded for some by a brief basement garage tour. Our group had grown to 17 for this event and most of the game room was getting pretty full. Our presenter Gary Moyses really knows how to pack ‘em in. We all had a good time watching Gary’s slides from 1971 and 1972 and hearing his tales of working in and around the pit areas with race car legends like Al Unser and A.J. Foyt speeding by at 190 miles an hour. It was amazing how vivid Gary’s recollections were and almost as astounding to hear others present

chime in with their additional stories and memories of these great glory years at the 500. I learned a lot by listening to the exchanges among Gary, Phil, Evio, Rick and John. It was almost like a trip back in time. Thanks very much, Gary. Parked out front we had the Duncan’s vintage Mustang looking very sharp, along with Geoff’s very sporty and rare propane-powered Morgan Plus 8, top down of course in January. Jim and Gerry drove their reliable Ford Falcon convertible (top up), and Phil came over on his son Evan’s Italian-engineered Sears 4-cycle motorbike. Thanks for joining us for either or both of the day’s events. Hope you had a good time. Debbie and I did. It’s always nice to see our gang together, old cars or not.

Indy 500 Slide Show Re-cap

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President Glenn Novak and Geoff Fleck

The group all ready for the show!

Gerry Nichols, Carol Moyses, Mary Duncan, Jim Nichols & Fred Duncan

Boyce Covert and Liz Horne

Geoff Fleck getting ready to jump in his MorganJohn Heilman and Cameron Covert discuss cars

Geoff Fleck with Fred and Mary Duncan and the Duncan's classic Mustang

Reprint from Current Literature - July 1912

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One of our charities for 2015 was the German Shepherd Rescue of Georgia. German Shepherd Dog Rescue Group of Georgia, Inc. is a state licensed non-profit rescue organization established in 2004. Their mission is to find loving permanent homes for aban-doned and surrendered GSDs in Atlanta and surround-ing areas. They are entirely operated by volunteers and they utilize foster homes around Metro Atlanta and the north Georgia area to care for these dogs until their adoption so our donation will go a long way toward helping these wonderful animals. No Shepherd is turned away. Even heart worm positive Shepherds are rescued. In 2015, there were a number of heart-worm positive dogs. Currently, nine of seventeen dogs in foster care are heartworm positive so the West Georgia AACA donation will go a long way to help with those expenses. They have vets that volun-teer their time but the drugs and treatment of heart-worm positive dogs is expensive. Every one of these dogs returned to good health and have been adopted to loving homes. GSDRG has a strict approval process for potential adoptive homes. References and home inspection are required and most foster dogs remain in foster care an average of one month or less before they are adopted. All dogs receive veterinary care and all vaccinations before going into their foster homes and they screen all

rescue dogs for temperament. Sphinx (pictured) had only been in foster care about a week when Liz visited him in his foster home. He is heart-worm positive but luckily they caught it in the early stages so his treatment will be much easier than others. If you're interested in adoption or being a foster home, visit their website at http://www.gashepherd.org.

Can you tell how happy Triton is to be out of the shelter? This strapping young boy is very intelligent, and has been working hard on obedience and leash work. He is currently being evaluated to go into training as a service for a disabled Vet.

German Shepherd Rescue of Georgia Grateful For Donation From West Georgia AACA Region

Liz met "Sphinx" after he had been rescued for one week. He was very shy but with encouragement came close to get a treat. It was evident that he had been on his own most of his one year of life. Now he has settled into his foster home and is very happy to find that people think he's wonderful!

"Sphinx"

FEBRUARY 10TH Nelda HummelFEBRUARY 14TH

Geoff Fleck

Wounded Warrior Garage is an organization of veterans working for veterans. It is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit auto restora-tion shop. The company is engaged in the restoration of classic cars and trucks, hot rods and street rods for the benefit of our wounded warriors and veterans. They provide on the job training for veteran apprentices in welding, metal fabrication, body work, rust repair, automotive electronics and mechanics. They modify veteran’s vehicles for hand controls, wheel-chair lifts etc., whatever it takes to enable the vet to operate the vehicle. They also provide service facilities for vets who want to perform general maintenance on their own vehicles but don’t have the means because of their injury. For those veteran apprentices who show aptitude and desire, they provide scholarships to trade schools so they can pursue a career in automotive technology, motorcycle mechanics or marine mechanics. Mental health counseling for our veteran ap-prentices and employees who might be suffering from PTSD or injury related depression is also part of their program. Funding for their program comes from the sale of the project cars, private donations and grants.

Wounded Warrior Garage Get AACA $700 Donation

Cavalry Children’s Home in Powder Springs, Georgia, received a $700 donation from our club for another year. The home has been the home to many children ranging in ages from six to eighteen. In order to maintain a home-like atmosphere, the children may continue to live in the Home as long as there is a need for them to. Presently, one young man is currently attending Chattahoochee Technical College and a young lady who recently graduated from high school will be attending there in the fall. The children are actively involved in the com-munity and participate in church as well as local community and school activities. As they grow older and more responsible they are al-lowed to have part-time jobs in the community. Since the Home's beginning in 1966, they have offered a home to well over 400 children.

Calvary Children's Home Donation

Vince Gibson receives a $700 donation from AACA Region President Glenn Novak

Brian Busby receives a $700 donation from AACA member Bill Hearnburg

ANTIQUE AUTO CLUB OF AMERICA WEST GEORGIA REGIONTREASURER’S REPORT 1/31/16

TREASURERS REPORT 12/31/15 Total Club Balance (12/31/15) $2778.92 Charitable Contributions 3x $700 - $2100.00 2016 Dues paid to date 8 x $15 $120.00Treasury Total (2/1/16) $798.92

Gary MoysesSecretary / Treasurer

There was no official meeting in January.