What's New!
July 15, 2010
Well we all made it back from our two week, 2010 OTHG-Phoenix Summer Cruise! We had six cars make the entire two weeks, two cars went as far as the NSRA Show in Pueblo and two others joined us in Logan for the Cache Valley Cruise In.
We had the usual number of issues with the cars but everything seemed to settle down after a few days. We lost two more fuel pumps on this run, and I learned that the guys coming up from Tucson lost two as well. Over the past two years or so, I am thinking that I have heard of around two dozen pumps going bad. To me, this falls outside the normal distribution of failures. My guess is that the ethanol that the government is mandating in our fuels is causing issues with all of our older cars. I have been doing some reading on this and will try to write up what I have found.
Thanks to Dee & Ken we have a great write up of the trip, which can be located HERE! The photo coverage is extensive - thanks to Betty Bailey, Carol Elliott, Dee Giuntoli and Judy Nolte who all did a great job in covering everything I missed. I had close to 7000 photos to process, look at, sort etc etc - I finally got it down to 1889 that I have posted up as slide shows. My eyes are crossed and my fingers are cramped, but it is done! It's gonna take y'all a bit of time to wade through this one!
I also have some photos supplied by Dee of Show Low Days and of Freddy's diner and Ken's latest project which I will try to post in the coming week.
June 11, 2010
A couple of more updates before we head into the July vacation maddness!
First off I have photo coverage thanks to Dee Giuntoli and Larry Besore, of the Bartlett Lake Picnic run that was led by Fred Elston on the 15th of May. Check it out HERE!
Then take a look at my coverage of Show Low Days which is HERE Unfortunately club attendance was down from past years only 12 cars this time, but for those who made the trek up the mountain, they seemed to have a great time.
That will be it for now!
Event Calender
Getting the car out and going to a different show, cruise night or other related activity is a lot of fun. Too often we get into ruts; which is a very bad thing if you own a street rod, hot rod or custom :-) Fortunately in Arizona we are blessed with a great climate and a lot car related activities going on in and around our state.
Several members have asked that we provide a calender of coming events to help them in planning thier future activity. Fortunately a lot of this has already been done for us by the kind folks at Cruisin' Arizona
The Club Roster
I was able to catch some of our new members and update a few of the older ones at Goodguys. We still have a lot of out of date photos! I hope we can schedule a picture day like we did a few years back to try and get everyone up to date...
If you need photos taken of you and your car please get in touch with me (conradm@citlink.net) and we will schedule a time and place!
The Virtual Garage
Several members who are/were in the process of building or modifing their cars have sent us photos and narratives of their work. I have recieved a lot of very favorable feedback from many of our readers so keep it up! If you or a club member that you know have a project starting or underway, please contact me and I will give you the instructions on how to access and use our internet drop box so you can share your work with everyone who logs into our site!
A word about photos...
If you have photos or an article or anything that you feel the club might be interested in please send it to my email address. When you send me photos it would help if you sent me copies of the original JPEG files from your camera. I need a minimum resolution of 720 x 480 pixels. No problem if your images are larger (almost all are), I can easily reduce them down to the size that I need. And, if it is not too much to ask, please turn off the time stamp feature on your camera that puts the date and time on each of the photos.
Also, please make sure that you let me know who took the photos so that I can give the proper accreditation for them! I have set up a drop box on the webserver so that you can easily get material to me without worrying about email size limits. If you wish to use it, contact me for details on how to log on and upload your files.
My Thanks ...
... to Carol Elliott, Dee Giuntoli, Larry Besore, Judy Nolte, Ken Du Bois, Terry Scott, Nick and Deb Bacon and Steve Besore for providing most of the content that you will see on this site!
Thanks in advance for your help and for your feedback! Let me know what you find wrong or don't like! email your feedback or photos etc. to conradm@citlink.net