AMERICAN TRUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

NORTHWEST CHAPTER

GEAR JAMMER — GAZETTE ™ Chapter Aug-Sept, 2019 Chartered June 1, 1983 Volume 111—Edition 4

ALL TRUCKS WELCOME PICK-UP'S to CLASS 8

WORKING / RETIRED /

RESTORED/ CUSTOM/ FIRE

TRUCKS

& FRIENDS And

LeMay Family Collections at Marymount

FOR MAKING THE 24TH ANNUAL SHOW A GREAT ONE

24th Annual Show

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A Message from our Chapter President.

Wow, What a great truck show!! I hope that everyone enjoyed our 24th annual chapter truck show as much as I did. We really did check all the boxes for what makes a show work. Location, LeMay’s Event Center, A Great Venue, with on the grass parking. The weather was perfect, we had lots of great trucks, over 75 in fact. Great Sponsors, and Venders with lots of good food and things to drink and nibble on. We added a new touch this year with a DJ and sound system with great rock and roll, and western music selections. Most important of all Lots and Lots of people who came to admire and look at all the great trucks on display. Hats off and a Huge Thank You to all of our volunteer’s and the staff people from LeMay’s and your Board members who worked tirelessly to ensure that everything went off as it was planned. There were so many that I can’t even begin to list them all here. Without their hard work and dedication things would have not been so successful. A special shout out to Mike Slade, our chapter VP and truck show coordinator who did a great job planning out the parking and layout of the truck shows vehicle’s and vender locations. And all of the other de-tails that must be attended to in order to make a great show. Everyone that I talked to remarked on how well the parking was laid out and how nice it was to have enough room between trucks so that you could actually see them. If you haven’t already, check out the great photos that our board member Aaron Kitahara put on the chapter Facebook page about 150 or so in total. A very special Thank You to our great sponsor’s. Doug Small, a Northwest chapter member and owner of “The Truck Shop in Auburn” a Western Star, Hino, Fuso dealership, who displayed some really cool new Western Stars for us to check out. I’s a great place to buy parts if you are in the need, just mention that you are a chapter member. Also Jan Erickson of “GCR Tires and Service” Plant Manager of the Auburn facility and his great crew who can take care of all your truck tire needs. A Bridgestone, Firestone, Bandag dealership. They did impress all with the big boom truck used to service earthmover type tires. A very cool machine indeed. Last but not the least, Terry Williams and “Equipment Unlimited” in Sumner WA. The Truckers Store, for sure, if it’s chrome or polish you are in need of that’s the place to go. Terry did a raffle drawing for a really cool new toolbox and a train horn set. I also want to give a special thank You to The LeMay Family, Nancy and Doug, for all of the support that they have given to our chapter and to Trudy Cofchin and her staff for helping us make this all happen. It truly was not possible without the wholehearted support from them. We all had a great time, so the question is will we do it again next year? That is a question for the membership that will be voted on at the next general membership meeting, I would guess at Walrath’s in Nov. Mike Slade and I have already had some discussion with LeMay’s and we have blocked out the same weekend in 2020 for our 25th anniversary show, if the membership approves. Also I have talked to all our sponsors and they all have expressed support for doing the show again which I think that the board members will vote to recom-mend that to the membership. However, that has not happened yet and we do have procedures that we must follow. Rest assured that we are working on it and will get out all the information that we have as soon as pos-sible. So, if you didn’t make it to this year’s show and are kicking yourself in the you know where, with luck and hard work you may get another shot at it next year.

In closing, in the back of this newsletter is a list of upcoming events. I hope that everyone will attend as many events as you are able too. Brooks looks like it will be its usual great show and this year, and with five week-ends in August there won’t be a conflict with another great event. The annual car truck show at LeMay's the following weekend is always fun with good parking for those who bring their trucks. Last and just as important will be the chapter general membership meeting at the Chehalis swap meet on Sept. 21. This will again be a bag lunch so if you want lunch let me or Mike Slade know so that we can order them. Hope to see you all at an event soon. Best Wishes, B.J.

President: B.J. King 206-910-4773 zoocars@yahoo.com

Vice President: Mike Slade 360-280-5496 truck2show@gmail.com

Secretary/News Letter Al Downs 253-988-4359 ntfuel@msn.com

Treasurer: Doug Nichols 253-732-4214 nicholsoasis@comcast.net

BOARD MEMBERS: Mike Myers term exp. 2020 253-377-3587 Aaron Kitahara term exp. 2020 206-851-4943 Tom Krajicek term exp. 2020 425-277-5261 Chris Olsen term exp. 2020 206-463-3229 Scott Russell term exp. 2019 360-951-1280

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For the Good of the Order Congratulations go to a very surprised Lou Berry as he received his 50 year Golden Achieve-

ment award (and a balloon). The award was presented at this year’s Run to Lemmons.

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Welcome to the Fleet: David Fauste from Puyallup ; Owen Paquette from Mission BC ; Travis Santa from Redmond ; Clayton Moore from Leavenworth ; Jeff Moore from Cashmere ; Roy Moore Jr from Leavenworth; Troy Charboneau ;

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Reno in the Rear View Mirror Grand Sierra Resort, home to the ATHS 2019 National convention. What a show!- what an adventure! My wife Debbi and I made the trip from Midland WA trailering our Diamond T 404 because driving at a top speed of 48mph, we would have needed to pack more than a lunch. I am real sure my version of the trip is a lot different than hers (but more on that later). I found out during our stay at the show that GSR didn’t really stand for Grand Sierra Resort, it really stands for Good Shoes Required… No joke! More than once I heard” does your room have a microwave?” The answer was no! So it becomes a puzzle what do you do to heat up your left-overs from dinner? And in the many miles I traveled through-out the complex, I never found a drinking fountain. There were good and bad elements to this year’s show as there are to any large event. The good: trucks-trucks-and more trucks. In the show areas out of the show areas, sometimes as far as you could see. The bad: golf carts, everywhere, like locus. If you need a CDL to drive a truck; an endorsement to ride a motorcycle; then by god there should be one for golf carts, and who made the stupid rule no horns? If you have a bit of a hearing problem, like some of us, then either ok a honk or two or have a cardiac unit on standby. More good: meeting lots of truck loving people who would stop and talk about their truck or yours in a heartbeat. Standing by the back door to the lower truck area I met Jim Dobbas, what an honor to spend some time with him as other old-time truck people came by and shared recollections. The volunteers that I met worked hard for the show. I volun-teered myself and to tell the truth being thrust into a position of being visible (damn fluorescent hat and vest), the name badge didn’t help either, led to people asking about anything and everything, sometimes having to do with the show, sometime… If you picture the proverbial deer in the headlights look, then add a moustache and that was the look on my face more than once. I ran into Northwest Chapter members everywhere and some quite unexpectedly, organized we were not. Maybe in the future we could coordinate a little and celebrate the adventure. On one of the many truck walks late one afternoon I found Lou Berry’s truck parked next to Jim Hayes’s. I stood looking at it for a while when it finally dawned on me the truck now sported steel antlers. If you want to freak out your kids, text them you are heading to the casino with their inheritance, then watch as they burn up their phones texting back. Almost as hilarious as sending a picture of your new toolbox with the Caption” look what you inherited”. And who knew that sitting in your truck waiting to go through to get your registration and photo you would find a guy hitting golf balls into a fake lake with little islands entertaining…. HOT TIP: Anyone hauling a rig on a trailer; MapQuest and older Garmins are not your friends. Short cuts should be viewed with suspicion. CA139 is not 1 hour shorter when pulling a heavy load trailer. The grade in places was not for the faint at heart like my wife. She was so nervous in places she couldn’t even yell at me, up-side to that was it let me concentrate on getting down the mountain. 2nd Hot tip Alturas 19.1 miles would have been a better choice. So with stories to tell; contacts to keep in touch with; and memories made, we head-ed home to clean off the bugs and get ready for the next adventure. And finally for the umpteenth time, no my truck is not for sale; wasn’t part of the auc-tion; and I don’t plan on parting with it. (there is a story here for down the road.) Might have to start planning for 2020.

Cab-overs matter

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Northwest Chapter American Truck Historical Society

General membership Meeting Minutes

June 8, 2019

CALL TO ORDER: The June general meeting of the NW Chapter-ATHS was held at Walrath Trucking in Taco-ma WA. The meeting convened at 12:30PM, President B.J. King presiding.

President’s Report: BJ, The Yakima truck show, he has not received the cost for what our chapter owes for put-ting on the show The Regional Yakima Truck Show will be taking place again next year The board discussed purchasing 2 small 18”x48” from National with chapter name on them, the banners to be displayed at events on chapter tents & tables. The cost will be around a $100.00 Truck Show: Sponsors – Doug Small with The Truck Shop; will have two trucks for display and a tent for $2,000.00 Terry Williams with Equipment Unlimited; will have a tent for $500.00

GCR Tires; trying to make credit card payment of $1,500.00 to the chapter for one truck to display and a tent.

Other truck show costs: $350.00 for 200 dash plaques, $480.00 for posters

B.J has commitments for 25 trucks being brought to the truck show so far

Budget for Truck Show, current is $3,500.00, the Board approved raising it to $5,000.00 because of sponsorship funding, Motion to increase budget, 1st Lou B., 2nd Chris O.

Chapter Store, he has talked to Tom K. about managing the store. Items for sale will be chapter hats, decals,

patches, calendars

The 2020 February dinner/meeting, will be held at the Great American Casino in Lakewood on February 22nd

2020. The dinner/meeting will need to be completed and the chapter out of the room by

7:00 PM Mike M. will be making arrangements with the casino

Membership: The board is looking into them. Problem with members dropping out of ATHS Nationals &

chapter – possibly due to not remembering to pay BJ introduced a new member: BJ, Mike M. (BJ should have his paperwork with last name)

Asked if everyone had read the last meeting minutes – Yes, Motion made not to read them 1st (not sure who said it), 2

nd was Dan K. All agreed with show of hands

Treasures Report: Doug reported we have $6,833 in our bank account. One sponsor wants to make payment

with a credit card, he is working on this with the bank. To date we have payed $2,000.00 Lemay’s for the truck show, the increase to the budget is good

VP Report: Discussed our chapters 24

th annual truck show.

Described the show parking layout with a map Need volunteers on both Friday & Saturday; set up tents on Friday, on Saturday for truck registration, truck parking, Discussed the times the chapter will be allowed on the Marymount grounds Have a signup sheet for members to write down when they could volunteer and help out Have one person who has already pre-registered his truck

New Business: Lemmon’s truck show next Saturday

Truck show up in Dunkin B.C. on July 6th

LeMay’s car show at Marymount the last weekend in August The Cascade chapter will be having a truck show this summer

Mike M. asked to have the chapters Facebook photo cover page updated with a new photo, Aaron will do this BJ discussed having members provide more news to our chapter’s newsletter, expand the number of pages

BJ thanked Georgianna (spelling?) for helping clean out the chapters storage van box. Good of the Order: Motion to adjoin the meeting was made and seconded meeting adjourned at 1:15 PM

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News From ATHS National

WELCOME TO THE STAFF: Rebecca Dye, has joined ATHS as Communications & Marketing Specialist. Rebec-ca will also manage Back Lot ads in WOT, so give her a buzz at (816) 777-0999 or email rebecca@ATHS.org if you are looking to buy or sell your next truck! From Executive Director Laurence Gration: You all should know by now the returning home roster for the Convention will begin in 2022. By selecting three “Home” convention sites in the East, West, and Central regions, we will be able to gain the benefits (and discounts) available for return visits. Each three-year cycle will include an additional venue so as to ensure we move around the country, and plan and test for new sites to come into the cycle. The American Truck Historical Society (ATHS) is pleased to announce a new partnership with Hagerty, the global leader in collector car and truck insurance. ATHS members are now eligible to receive a five percent discount on their Hagerty insurance. To take part in this special offer you must be a current member of ATHS in good standing and provide your ATHS identification number. You can get your discounted insurance quote by calling your friendly Hagerty agent (toll free) at 1.877.922.9701.

For Sale

1963 KW Cab and Front End. Call Bryon 253-709-6677 24.5 Alcoa wheels

78 KW A Model cab, mostly complete lots of good parts. B.J. 206-910-4773 2-90 gallon KW fuel tanks , steel, no brackets 2-10:00X 22 Alcoa 5 hole Aluminum wheels & tires, split rims excellent condition easy polish

$300.00 ea 1 Donaldson 5 inch muffler, 10inch diameter new, never used for KW trade for new 9inch dia. 24ft X 8ft All Steel flatbed, fair condition was hay and or fruit, lumber bed 1 pair 78 KW ft. springs good condition with pins Spicer 8341-C Aux Transmission, good condition Cleaning the yard up, if item not priced call and we can bargain or trade Looking for Spicer 8000 series 5 speed overdrive main transmission. B.J. 206-910-4773 Doors for KW pre-1964 model D cab style Al 253-988-4359

Small cam Cummins complete less than 10k miles on over haul $2500.00 Many Kenworth A model and Kenworth cab over parts for sale including parts to change a cab over to power steering call for price and what we have available 1994 freightliner day cab with series 60 and air ride suspension $5000.00 42 foot Fruehauf flatbed trailer aluminum wheels good deck 1 tool box good rubber and brakes

$5000.00 Willy Sheriff Iron Horse Truck Services 206-595-1074

Check our Northwest Chapter web site at: NW-Chapter-ATHS.com.

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Report from the Chapter Vice President & Truck Show Chairman The American Truck Historical Society (ATHS), Northwest Chapter’s 24

th annual truck show has

come and gone with great success made possible from the team work of all the volunteers who put in long hours before and during the show. As chairman of the truck show, I would like to thank all the volunteers.

We cannot forget our three sponsors; The Truck Shop, GCR Tires & Services, and Equipment Un-limited who provided the financial resources for the truck show to be hosted on the grounds of the LeMay Marymount Museum. Two of our sponsors brought their trucks and the third brought their trailer to showcase their businesses. The truck show’s success can be measured in many ways this year with the number of registered trucks doubling from that of previous years and having the pre-registration of 25 trucks before the show. There was a wide assortment of trucks from old/new, small/large, working/retired, and tattered/tricked out which represents that all trucks are welcome to participate at our chapter’s truck show. The feature truck, the red 1940 Sterling, L & E tanker truck with tank trailer was parked out in front for all visitors to see as they arrived to the show. New to the show was music provided by a DJ, the Senior Center selling pulled pork sandwiches and the Mary-mount Museum provided hotdogs. To meet our visitors coming to the show was our chapter tent which provided the opportunity to sign up new members and sell chapter merchandise. Next in line was the Tiny Trucker tent which had truck games and prizes for the participating kids. We had the good company from our friends from the Brooks Museum with us again. A big hit with the kids was the truck photo board that the Brooks museum brought to allow kids to get their picture taken in a small truck. A surprise to the show was the group, PNW Scale Truck and Equipment who showed up with their small scale remote control (RC) trucks, loaders and dump trucks and ran them all over the grounds to the enjoyment of everyone.

My closing, this year’s truck show forecasts what next year’s 25th annual anniversary truck show

will be.

Colleen Moss and Family. Vaughan’s uncles Chevy's behind the group.

Tyler Walrath 3rd Generation of the Walrath Family

3B Bobb and Jerry Crume seem to be discussing the finer points of the Diamond T big six

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Thank you to Willy Sheriff for this great article

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CHAPTER EVENT AND ACTIVITIES Aug 23-24th Truck Show—Brooks Oregon

Aug 31 LeMay Annual show and open house Spanaway WA

Sept 14th Blue Mountain Chapter truck show Walla Walla WA

Sept 21th NW Chapter meeting at the SW Wash Fairgrounds (swap Meet) Chehalis

Oct 5th Open House at the Nichol’s shop. 9:00 till noon. Rain or shine, bring your

vintage or classic vehicle . We will have the coffee on. Come and see what’s new

(or old) at the shop. 3520 33rd

street court N.W. Gig Harbor 98335 .

Phone Doug: 253-732-4214

Oct 19th Cascade / NW chapter truck show at the swap meet in Monroe WA

Nov 9th NW Chapter general meeting and potluck TE Walrath Trucking 11405 24th Ave E

P.O. Box 67 Hobart, WA. 98025

Shopper’s Column If you would like to list something or are looking for something then contact Al Downs at a meeting or email Al at: ntfuel@msn.com and he will get it in the next newsletter

1723 West Valley Hwy - Sumner, WA 98390

Store: 1-800-992-1954, Fax:1-253-826-4524

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NORTHWEST CHAPTER—ATHS NEWSLETTER 9121 9th Ave Ct E Tacoma, WA. 98445

Annual NORTHWEST CHAPTER DUES are now $20 per calendar year, due prior to March 1 of each year. We hope you feel you got something worthwhile out of your Chapter membership this past year and encourage you to stay involved and continue your membership for 2019 and beyond.

Chapter membership payments can be made at any meeting or sent to:

DOUG NICHOLS, Treasurer

Northwest Chapter ATHS 9633 65th Lane SE Olympia 98513

Please make checks payable to: Northwest Chapter ATHS If a 18 above your name appears on the mailing label it indicates you will need to renew your chapter membership by March 1 2019 to stay current. If a 19 or greater appears above your name, you have paid your membership for those respective years. Hon represents Honorary Chapter Membership (no yearly dues). When renewing, please include your name, current address as well as an email address . Address helps us send your newsletter to the right place. Email will help us keep you better informed of the chapter activities. Please remember You must be in member in good standing with National ATHS in order for your Chapter membership to be active. payable directly to ATHS National Headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri.

2019 Chapter dues are due as of March 2019. Check your mailing label. If a 18 appears above your name on the address label, our records indicate, you will need to pay your 2019 dues to keep your membership active. See dues information above