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tour to the Old Ford Ga-rage, plus a Fall tour of the Loess Hills in Iowa, as well as other local ac-tivities. Please read the rest of the newsletter for more details and sign up on the signup sheets at the meeting. We also have a Car Show invitation to the club from Seldin for the July 22nd from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. There will be a very generous donation if we can provide at least 20 vehicles. This could be enough to keep the club in the black this year. If you can take your car out only once this year, this is the event to attend!! This month instead of a
Summer is finally here and the rains slowed down so there is no ex-cuse not to get that Model A out and start playing with it. The Re-
gional and Ford Show are now history but there are still a lot of activities to participate in. There is a tour to a toy museum, an old car and new vehicle
tech talk, Karen Noodell will provide a slide show of highlights from the Regional Meet. Since there was so much going on, I am sure that none of us saw everything, so make sure you attend the July meeting to see all the highlights of the Meet, and relive some enjoyable days. —Howard Denker
President’s Message
Editor’s Corner
I got the above Presi-dent‟s Message, suppos-edly from Howard, but he talks about getting
your car out, playing with it and things like that. This may be from a Russian spy instead of H.D. Beware!
You can write the editor at:
[email protected] and send your input. Alter-natively, you can call Joe at (402) 201-2067.
Each month‟s issue will be mailed around the first Friday of each month, give-or-take a couple of months...
Joe Greenleaf
Editor
“Riding a motorcycle is like having the Fourth of July be-
tween your legs.”
Special points of interest:
Car Council Web-
site
Holland/Orpheum
Under the Seat
Seldin Display
Meadowlark
Model A Ford
Club, Omaha, NE
Meadowlark Model A Club Newsletter
Inside this issue:
President’s Message 1
Car Council Web 2
Under the Seat 2
Calendar of Events 5
Membership Info 5
A-Tube 5
Advertisers 7
July 2010 Volume 42, Issue 7
Howard Denker,
President
DOES YOUR
HUSBAND
At the last Eastern Ne-
braska-Western Iowa
Council meeting, they
briefed the new website
that they are putting up,
which will contain all of
the information that is in
the Car Council Book
that everyone seeks. The
website is: http://
omahanewstandex-
tra.com/carcouncil
(when you enter this,
don‟t put in the - in
“extra”—that‟s just the
publishing program add-
ing a hyphen—Ed.)
If you have a computer,
you will find it very inter-
esting.
They soon hope to put
links in car club web-
sites like ours. Also, if
you have a computer,
now is the time to pro-
vide your email address
to our club‟s newsletter
editor, Joe Greenleaf, so
that he can continue to
cut the cost of our news-
letter production.
—Howard Denker
thousands of razor blades.
Modern cars have “tempered glass” in all windows but the wind-shield, which is “sandwich” glass, like the “A.” Tempered glass breaks into tiny cubes and cannot be
You find some strange things under the seat.
Model A‟s have safety glass windshields—two panes of glass sand-wiching a plastic inner layer. ALL the other windows are “plate glass.” As such, if they break, they become
cut. Sandwich glass can be cut by a glass shop. We highly recommend that your replace ALL your windows with sandwich safety glass. If you can see the inner layer, you‟re safe. If not, you risk death and mutilation.
will take about an hour and then we will go to the Holland Center. This is Omaha‟s new-est and finest musical venue. This will also be a guided tour, lasting about an hour. After-wards, we can go to the old market for some lunch, possibly the Spaghetti Factory.
The tour of the Hol-land and Orpheum Theatres will be on July 31st. Plan on meeting under the marquee at the Orpheum at 10:00 AM. We will have a guided tour of the Orpheum Theatre, which is one of Omaha‟s oldest and finest theatres. This
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Holland and Orpheum Theatres
ss26,280,000
New Access to the Car Council Information
Car Council
Website
Under the Seat
MISBEHAVE
Want to see a video of
the Regional Meet last
month?
A 15-minute (or so)
HD video is available
for viewing on
Vimeo.com.
If there‟s interest, more
and more events will
be videoed and posted
on Vimeo.
Some DVDs of what‟s
on Vimeo have been
burned and will be
available at no charge
at the July meeting. If
there aren‟t enough,
names will be taken
and DVDs will be
mailed to those who
want them.
Initially, we were going
to use YouTube, but
Vimeo allows us to
post in High Defini-
tion, without the 10-
minute length limit.
Just search for
“Meadowlark.”
—Cecil B DeSmell
[email protected] or by phone, (402) 201-2067.
For Sale
„31 Roadster, $16,500, „31 Slant Window, $19,500, „31 Vickie, $16,500. Call Tony, (712) 322-8265
Members can post free ads to sell, trade or list items they want to buy. To list, contact Joe Greenleaf at
Wanted
1931 Iowa license plates. Call Doug, (712) 712-533-6183 (H) or (712) 540-0380 (Cell)
1928 & 1930 Nebraska license plates. Joe Greenleaf (402) 201-2067.
receive a free portable cooler bag. The only catch is that we have to come up with a minimum of 20 cars. So, please take some time to get your vehi-cles out and help out the club.
This successful display will be a giant step for-ward to keeping the club in the black this year. —Howard Denker
For the third year in a row, we have been in-vited back to show off our cars at the Seldin Shopping Center at 124th and West Center from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. They will, again, be provide free ice cream and cake, plus all cars that are displayed will
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Want Ads
Seldin Display on July 22nd (Threepete)
A-Tube Video
Ice Cream!
GUNT AND GRUMBLE
eBay experts agree that
auctions that start off
with a high initial start-
ing bid don‟t sell.
Afraid that mint
Town Car might
sell for the $99
starting bid? Use a
reserve. Set a price
that you MUST
meet in order for
the sale to go
through and start the
bidding low, “building
momentum.”
You can still have a
BIN (“Buy It Now”)
price, if you have a
price in mind that
you‟ll accept.
Be careful of criminal
bidders who‟ll bid up
your auction and then
either try to give you
fraudulent funds, get
you to send them
“extra money” they
add to the purchase
price and so forth.
Limit your buyers to
positive feedback and
look at the bidder‟s
histories as they are
bidding. Be careful out
there!
Model A tanks have sat
outside for fifty years
without caps and mois-
ture has been allowed
to accumulate. A good
number of
these tanks
have rusted
through the
bottom and
have deterio-
rated to what
used to be
considered an
unrestorable
condition.
With good Model A
parts becoming more
scarce, it is important
for the modern re-
storer to know how to
salvage and use what-
ever original parts he
may have. Even the
worst fuel tank may be
salvaged if a good one
of the correct type can-
not be found.
Removing the rust is
the first problem to
attack. The only
way...is to dip in an
acid or electrolyte
process.
Restorer‟s Model A
Shop Manual,” by Jim
Schild, 1985
The biggest problem
facing restorers with
respect to the fuel tank
is usually rust. (Want to
see rust? Look at what
Hurricane Katrina did
to my pickup‟s tank! —
Ed.) Many of the
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What a Gas!
Saving Your Assets on eBay, Chapter 2
RANT AND RAVE
Prospective Members: Please call Membership Chairman, Don Graves, (402) 453-7166, for more information.
Club web address: http://meadow-larks.omahaneb.org
Club webmaster: Janet Graves, 402-453-7166
Membership dues for the Meadowlark Club are $24.00 per year, prorated monthly for new mem-bers. Membership in one of the national clubs is required. You may join both national clubs if you wish. MAFCA dues are $40.00 per year and MARC dues are $38.00 per year.
Newsletter email:
Newsletter editor: Joe Greenleaf, 402-201-2067
distract people while
driving. “10 car pileup
blamed on Burma-
Shave!” Maybe we can
put up a set on “our”
stretch of highway?
What do you think?
—Ed.
We‟ve continued the
Burma-Shave signs in
this issue. I imag-
ine, today, they‟d
be banned be-
cause they would
Meadowlark Model A Club Newsletter
Membership Information
Burma-Shave
SHOOT THE BRUTE
SOME
July 2010
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Club Meeting, 7:30
pm
11 12 13 14 15 Bohemian Café 6:45
PM
16 17 Gretna Parade, line
up 9:30 AM
18 19 20 21 Board Mtg. Hy-Vee,
144/Stony Brook
22 Seldin Shopping
Center 6-9 PM
23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Holland & Orpheum
Theatres 10:00 AM
Both the Regional
Meet, and the Benson
Show, the following
day, were Industrial
Strength Efforts and a
tip of the driving cap
goes to everyone who
help make them both
possible.
As Howard (or the
Russian spy, as the
case may be) men-
tioned, the July meet-
ing’s tech talk will be
replaced by Karen
Noodell’s slide show
of pictures from the
Regional Meet.
As mentioned else-
where here, you can
see a High Definition
video of scenes from
the Regional Meet
and, later, the Benson
show, on Vimeo.com.
Some of the scenes,
with cars being
parked, almost looks
like a 1930s street
scene, complete with
the unmistakable
sound of the A’s as
well as an occasional
“aoogah!”
To preserve our heri-
tage for the future, I
would like to be able
to video short clips of
each of the members
and their spouses, as
well as cars, where
members reminisce
about both Model As,
the club and them-
selves.
In the Vimeo video,
you’ll see a father and
son talking about the
Dad’s great-aunt
who bought their
Model A new for
$650. These kinds of
things need to be
kept for posterity.
What do you think?
—Joe Greenleaf
tells some in-
teresting facts:
“In the early
thirties, a com-
plexion like
„gardenia‟ (white and
waxen) or „tea
rose‟ (ivory with a touch
of pink) was the most
popular face foundation.
Therefore, powders ap-
plied in rich ivory, light
You have the Model A-
vintage frock, but what
did the ladies of the era
do for makeup? A web-
site,
www.return2style.de/
swingstyle/
makeup/30amimup.html,
mauve or with a slightly
light green touch.
Many different eyelid
shades which stretched
over blue, bright violet,
green, brown and orchid
were applied. Blondes
preferred blue, green or
bright violet eyelid
shades, brunettes used
brown grease paint with
faint purple for a mysteri-
ous exotic flair.
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You Can’t Make This Up!
Regional Meet and Benson Show
Preserving Model A
Memories for years
to come!
The eyebrows were plucked thin or shaved off entirely. Then the eye-brows were drawn on with an eye-brow pencil extended well toward the temple. To give them a shiny look, eyebrows were then dressed with petroleum jelly, brilliantine or olive oil. For nails, colors like pale rose, light pink and cream shades were applied during the early thirties. Polishes were ap-plied only in the center of nails with the half-moon and tips left bare (white.)”
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This is the official publication of the Mead-owlark Chapter of the Model A Restorers Club (MARC) and the Model A Ford Club of America (MAFCA). This monthly news-letter is mailed to members, prospective members and editors of similar publications. Its purpose is to keep you informed about what has taken place and to remind you of future activities.
Members may publish, at no cost, ads for items wanted, for sale or trade. They are also invited to submit technical Model A information and other interesting tidbits. Material should reach the editor by the last Saturday of the month.
Monthly Meetings: Second Saturday of each month (except January) at 7:30 PM at the Douglas County Health Center—in the Town Hall, 42nd & Woolworth Ave., Omaha, Nebraska.
Meadowlark Model
A Club
2010 Officers
President: Howard Denker, 402-333-1393
VP/Pres. Elect: Lee Hendrix, 402-895-2432
Secretary: Karlene Greenleaf, 402-201-2067
Treasurer: Millie Jankowski, 402-558-7679
2010 Board Members
Steve Anderson, 402-571-1041
Ed Jankowski, 402-558-7679
Bob McKinney, 402-332-3993
Bob Rand, 712-642-2068
Bruce Rima, 402-533-8198
July 2010July 2010July 2010
Get a Charge Out of This
There are several Batteries Plus stores in the Omaha area. They sell 6v battery chargers as well as 6v automobile batteries. The store I went to, on West Center in Omaha, had two different sizes of 6v charges in stock but no batteries, although the salesman said that they usually kept them on hand. They stock the Battery Tender brands. The Junior is 750 mA, @ $29.99 and the Plus is 1.25 A, @ $59.99.
—Ed.
OK, OK—we give up. What is it? “It” is a new barcode from our good friends at Microsoft. Well, from Microsoft, anyway. If you have a “smart” phone (and, believe me, my phone is smarter than me) you can take a picture of the bar-code and it will open our Club‟s webpage on your phone‟s web browser. You can get the free app for your phone from http://gettag.mobi If you open up the app from your phone‟s browser, it will recognize the type of phone. —Joe Greenleaf