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The Buick Running Board

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OFFICERS FOR 2011 ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER OF THE BUICK

CKUB OF AMERICA

DIRECTOR Sheridan Bishop III 714-997-2390 sonnybishop@att.net

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Jim Anderson 714-527-6763 JAndersonbuick@sbcglobal.net TREASURER Garry Toulson 714-838-0750 healthcapgrp@hotmail.com SECRETARY Gary Martin 714-812-7713 gmartin949@gmail.com

Irene Foster 714-828-0942 ktwokenn@yahoo.com EDITOR Sheridan Bishop III 714-997-2390 sonnybishop@att.net

DIRECTOR AT LARGE Lee Wangerin 562 –920 920-1611 No “E”mail DIRECTOR AT LARGE Larry Minery 714-639-1137

wildcatminery@socal.rr.com WAGON MASTER Richard Brewbaker 714-772-1793

the2brewsatearthlink.net SPEAKERS John Dyke 562-430-2711

buickjohn70@roadrunner.com HOSPITALITY Bruce Andren 714-317-1110

bruce@compactbuickclub.org

HISTORIAN Fred Rawling 562 644-4670 fred.rawling@live.com

STOCKROOM

Regular Monthly meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month at Spires Restaurant at the Southeast corner of Golden West and Garden Grove Blvd. Westminster. Contact them for Di-rections 714-636-0442. Meetings start at 7:00P.M. For those of us who have dinner there please try to be finished before 7:00 Membership dues are $20.00 per year, and you must also be a member of the National Buick Club of America. Dues are due July first of each year. Any member who shall have failed to pay their dues within two months after they have become due shall cease to become a member. Articles to be printed in the Running Board need to be in the Editors possession no later than the Sun-day following the meeting.

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The following

people have

Birthdays in

December

FROM THE ORANGE

COUNTY BUICK CLUB

Susan Babel Nancy Brewbaker Hobart Crabtree Tony Martinez Baron Night Nancy Bjorklund

12/28 12/4 12/21 12/31 12/7 12/20

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Cars and Parts for sale

Your ad will run for three months and then will be de-

leted unless you renew it. Call your editor to renew

your ad 714-997-2390

December 2011 For Sale: Three doors for a 1959 Buick four door. Complete with glass and door handles, no rust or dents. $50.00 each Sheridan Bishop III 714-997-2390

September 2011 For Sale; 1965 Buick Riviera 401 engine, origi-nal condition, good rubber, drives great, Gary 949-307-5894

December 2011 For Sale: 1968 Buick Skylark 2 door hard top, survivor car all original, great paint, great interior, great tires, 95% rubber left, super clean including the underside of the car. Always garaged and pampered. Recent motor work to correct a water leak , including hard seats, and valves. $ 8,100.00. Call Gary Martin 714 –812-7713.

December 2011 For sale: 1983 Cadillac Seville Hi mileage, but well maintained. Recent new fuel pump installed by Wally’s Shop. The original engine has been replace, and the original engine is apart and available with the car. $2,950.00 OBO. Garry Toulson 714-838-0750 “E” mail healthcapgrrp@hotmail.com.

December 2011 For sale: Wrist watches with the Orange County Buick logo on the face. $20.00 I only have 3 left out of 20 that was ordered. Call Sonny 714-997-2390.

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Directors Message

Tuesday November 15, 2011 We had a very good meeting with three potential members present. In addition to our elections John Dyke set up John Armstrong to speak to us on transmissions and rebuilding them. He brought in some of the transmission parts and explained how they worked. I know everyone enjoyed it because of the questions asked by many of the members present. Check the Secretaries notes for the new officers and Board mem-bers. Please contact Garry Toulson if you are planning to attend the Christmas party. See the Secretaries notes. Richard Brewbaker has set up our Christmas lights tour. Its always fun for the family. See tours for more information. As you know this is the last news letter for the year. I would like to take this time to thank all the officers and directors for their support this year. Some will be staying on for next year and some new positions are being filled by others. I am looking forward to working with all of you next year. During the year I have asked everyone interested to send me pic-tures of some of their cars by “E” mail or by regular mail. I would like to have a picture of your car on the front of our News Letter on your Birth month, so now is the time to send them to me along with a short note as to the year and model. A short note with some facts and history about the car would also be appreciated.

Keep driving those Buicks

Sheridan Bishop III Director.

Just a little bit of humor to think about.

You might be a Redneck if…

Your front yard doubles a as go-cart track

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Secretaries notes OCCBCA Regular Monthly Meeting, November 15, 2011

Sheridan Bishop III called meeting to order at 7:09 pm. Members present as signed in: Irene Foster, John Dyke, Richard and Nancy Brewbaker, Larry Minery, Samuel Engle, Fred Rawl-ing, Bruce Andren, Eddie Rusnak, Sheridan Bishop III, Garry Toulson, Lee Wagerin, and Gary Martin. Guests attending: Lance Baurly, Don Gordon and Don Heinz. Don Heinz guest of Fred Rawling, Louie Schuchart introduced Lance Baurly, Don Gordon is a member of National, has no Buick now, but has had 27 Buicks over the years going back to the 50”s. Fred Rawling motioned to approve the minutes of the September meeting as listed in the Running Board and seconded by Nancy Brewbaker and were approved as written and passed unamously. Speaker for this month: John Armstrong was introduced by John Dyke, He spoke about transmissions, electronic and older ones and were explained as to the method of use to make the auto mobile to move forward and reverse. Old Business: The Christmas party will be held on Dec. 10th at Garry Toulson’s home 5:00 for cocktails, and dinner 6:00. BYOB Bring Your Own Bottle, and BYOB Bring Your Own Buick. As listed in the Running Board. Please RSVP to Garry

Toulson before December 5. If your last name begins with A through L please bring a dessert. If your last name begins with M through Z please bring a salad or appetizer. A thank you card was sent to Donnie Crevier for allowing us to have the October Buick Show. No tour this month, but December will be our tour of the Christmas Lights in Brea. The date is December 8th, 7:00 pm at Denny’s for dinner, located on Imperial and 57th free-way, and after the tour possibly meet at Polly’s Pies for dessert for those wishing to go. The planning meeting will be held at Bruce Andrens house on Saturday January 14 at 11:00AM. Lunch will be after the meeting at a local restaurant. Nomination of officers for 2012 as in the Nov. Running Board was read. One addi-tion,.Lee Wangerin was added as a Director at large, and Rich-ard Brewbaker declined his nomination. Nominations were-moved to be closed by Fred Rawling and seconded by Irene

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Wallys Shop has worked on many of our cars, new and old, and has a excellent reputation for good work and fair prices. Send your family and friends to Wally for their service needs.

Just a short note from Click and Clack.

Lots of drivers think they are benefiting their engine or the environment by occasionally “treating” their car to premium gas. That’s hogwash Modern engines that don't require premium gas don’t benefit from it in any way. And in fact, most experts say excess octane creates more pollution. So, unless your owners manual specifically calls for the use of premium gas, don’t bother. Regular gas is better for the environ-ment...and your wallet.

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Thank you John Armstrong for the great talk you gave at our November meeting and thank you John Dyke for setting up this speaker.

Over the years I have used Sihilling for many of my chrome and polishing needs. Several of you have seen parts from my 1959 Buick, and my 1957 Thunderbird. More recently other members have been taking their parts here.. Two of the reasons I prefer Sihilling is their high quality work and their no hassle guarantee on the rare occasion when there is a problem. Sheridan Bishop III Editor

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Secretaries notes continued from page 4

Foster. They were okayed by all present. Garry Toulson let us know that there are 41 paid members that will be appearing in the new roster, and more are still joining. Ronald McDonald house will receive $70.00 from proceeds of our car show. The 50/50 raffle was won by Lee Wangerin.

New business:

The new officers for 2012 are as follows: Director -Sheridan Bishop III Assistant Director-John Dyke Secretary-Nancy Brewbaker Treasurer-Garry Toulson Editor-Sheridan Bishop III Director at large-Lee Wangerin Director at large- Larry Minery The meeting was adjourned at 8:20

Submitted by Irene Foster, Secretary

Tours and events

.November No tour this month.

December will be our Christmas Lights tour. Plan to attend this event. Its always fun and a great show of lights. Meet at Denny’s restaurant on the 57 freeway and Imperial in Brea on De-cember 8th at 7:00pm for dinner. A signup sheet has been passed around or contact Richard Brewbaker for more information.

Richard Brewbaker Wagon master

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This article appeared in the November 2011 Auto Restorer on page 4.

Many of us have used these companies in the past with good results. This person was looking for a plating shop and to restore the engine on his 1952 Pontiac This is in your response to the August letter from Bob Mendoza looking for a plating shop and engine shop for his 1952 Pontiac. For our 1950 Pontiac straight 8 we used L&R Automotive supplies in Santa Fe springs, Cali-fornia. They did all the machine work; Egge Machine Co., also in Santa Fe Springs, supplied parts. You can save some money by doing your own assembly or L&R will do it. We have put about 10,000 trouble-free miles on the Pontiac (L&R: 562-802-0442 and Egge: 866-984-3443). You might try Orange County plating in Orange, California (714-532-4510. Tom Gault, retired auto instructor Mammoth High School Mammoth Lakes, California

Christmas Party will be held at Garry Toulson’s, volun-teers are very welcomed. $10 per person and club will pick up the difference for the main meal which will be-catered by Benje‘s. Dec. 10th, 2011. Cocktail hour is from 5:00 to 6:00 with dinner being served at 6:00. If your last name begins with A through L please bring a desert. If your last name begins with M through Z please bring a salad or appetizer. We will be having a paid per-son to help Garry with the setup, and cleanup. Please R.S.V.P. by December fifth.

Garry Toulson 714-838-0750

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For those of us that work, or are considering work-ing on our cars here is a list of torque specs. Every fastener (nut, bolt, etc) has a torque value, from door hinges to head bolts. This list is a small part of information provided to me be Jim Anderson.

A NOTE FROM

YOUR EDITOR

Thank you Jim, and all of you that have sent me pic-tures or text that appear in our news letter. When you send me text or pictures, by mail or by computer, please make sure all the information is clear so I can transfer it easily, If not I may put it on the back burner until I feel the urge to retype the entire article. I have learned much about com-puters and publishing this year, but there are still much for me to learn, so good art work and text

helps. I need to thank

my cosine Roy

Caputo who helps

teach me correct and

faster ways to create

the news letter.