June 2012

Volume 36, Issue 6

Poker, Gators and Classic Chevys! THIS SATURDAY! June 16THIS SATURDAY! June 16THIS SATURDAY! June 16THIS SATURDAY! June 16thththth!!!!

This month’s DACC event should be a fun one so you need to get that Chevy gassed up and washed off for this one! If you have never been on a Poker Run then this will be a treat! We will drive a pre-determined route as a group, stopping along the way to get a envelope that is sealed with a playing card in it. Once we complete the entire route, we open the

envelopes and see who has the best poker hand. The cost to play a hand is $10 each and whatever the pot is we will split 3 ways with the 3 best hands (50%, 30%, 20%). You can chose not to play and just go on the cruise or you can play as many hands as you like! Now the best part is we will drive as a group from stop to stop and it’s the stops we make that will make this a fun

afternoon of cruising in your Tri Five Chevy!

Now where does this run take place you ask? First we will gather at 11:15AM at the Wal Mart parking lot at LBJ 635 and Lake June Road on the southeast part of Dallas County in Balch Springs. From there we head to

Kaufman for a stop at the North Texas Rod & Custom shop/Becker Community 1890’s Historic Church (2 fer 1). From there we head over to Grand Saline for a late lunch at the East Texas Gators and Wildlife Park ($6 admission is covered by DACC!) where you can buy lunch or bring your own lunch and we will watch a gator feeding (everyone get’s to eat, even the Gators!). Assuming we survive that, we move on to Edgewood to the

Market where there is ice cream and cold water watermelon by the slice! Then we head over to our last stop in Mesquite where we open our

envelopes with our playing cards in them and pass out the CASH to the top three poker hands!

This is scheduled to end at 5:30 so plan for a full afternoon! Special

THANKS to Vickie Penney and Dan Bunch for planning and making all of the arrangements for this great event! Watch your email this week for

complete details on the route and stops we will be making!

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I’ve always had an affinity for 50’s vintage cars, even though I was born in the late 60’s. They’ve always reminded me of a time that was simpler and happier, and that probably comes from watching too much Happy Days growing up. Who didn’t want to be Fonzie, anyway and cruise down to Al’s for a burger? Of the 50’s cars, I always thought that the ’57 Chevy had the best lines (I’m a sucker for fins) and just made me feel like cruising around town. As I’ve grown older, that feeling has increased and my favorite part of the Lone Star Chevy shows is the cruise – driving with my fellow Tri-Five lovers in a chrome-and-steel convoy are some of the best times I’ve had with my family. Anyway, my high school years didn’t turn out at all with me being like Fonzie – instead my experience was

distinctively “Potsie”-ish. I drove an ’83 Camaro, had the requisite hair wings, wore cheap sunglasses, and tried to move away from Happy Days and closer to Miami Vice. It wasn’t pretty. Throughout this all, I never forgot about the ’57 Chevy. I had no money for cars in college and graduate school, although I had boxes of car magazines and catalogs with my parts all picked out and marked. When I did graduate I went right to work and shortly after that started a family – cars would have to wait. When I did finally have the time and the money to buy a classic car some 12 years later, sadly it wasn’t the ’57 Chevy but rather a ’65 Mustang convertible. It was rough so it went directly in for a full restoration. During the restoration process, I found someone selling a ’57 Chevy. It wasn’t a Bel Air, but rather a 210 Post – and I was drawn to it because it looked like the car that a hard working ‘50’s dad would drive. Plus being a Post

Each year at the annual Lone Star Classic Chevy Conventions, DACC members get together and select a

Favorite from the event. ALWAYS difficult, but this year the Favorite is this very deserving 1957 Bel Air Sedan of Rob and Tania Bryngelson of The Woodlands, Texas. Here is

their story about their Classic Tri Five Chevy!

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The Dallas Area Classic Chevy Club was very well represented at the 30th Annual Lone Star Classic Chevy Convention last month in San Marcos, Texas. The great weather and the 120 Tri Fives made for a great recipe for a fun weekend and the Central Texas Classic Chevy Club put together a great event! Our fun weekend started out with a caravan of beautiful Tri-Fives down Hwy 281 that included a lunch stop at Wenzel Lonestar Meat Company in Hamilton, Texas to enjoy huge BBQ sandwiches that many won’t soon forget! Afterwards, we headed on down the back roads to Dean & Audrey Schmidt's new home near Spicewood on Lake Travis. Dean met us on the highway and led our group down winding roads past Willie Nelson's home to their beautiful yet unfinished home. They treated us to homemade ice cream and peach cobbler at a beautiful lake side pavilion. While many wanted to stay there longer we had to get on the road to San Marcos for the Lone Star 30 activities. Dean led our caravan on to San Marcos through Austin's AWFUL traffic!!! We arrived at the Embassy Suites to find quite a few DACC members who had arrived Thursday to get a head start. We were just in time to head off to the first Lone Star event, a cruise to Dick's Classic Garage car museum. We were treated to hamburgers and hot dogs for dinner in their banquet room and complimentary admission to the museum. It houses a wonderful collection of automobiles, including a 1948 Tucker, many Deusenbergs, Cords, Auburns and more modern classics. They played the movie "Rebel Without A Cause" after dinner for anyone who wanted to stay. Saturday the hotel parking lot was full of beautiful Tri-Five Chevys from all over Texas, plus vendors and swap meet booths. The day was warm, but beautiful for visiting and taking pictures in the parking lot. The hotel furnished shuttle service throughout the day to the two big outlet malls, so the guys didn't have to move their cars or even go to the mall! After lunch a group of Classic Chevys set out on a planned cruise through the hill country around Canyon Lake west of San Marcos. Various scenic stops were at scenic overlooks, historical Fischer General Store, and at Gruene, Texas. We enjoyed a great banquet at the hotel Saturday evening. Our hosts, the Central Texas Classic Chevy

Club members had worked very hard for many months to make this a great weekend for all of us. The awards they presented were clever and highlighted the special attributes of our favorite car... Best Back Seat to Make Out In, Best Grocery-Getter, Most Likely to be Seen in Front of a Church, and many more, plus the more traditional Best Paint, Best Engine, etc. All of these award winners were selected by the sponsoring businesses. Each club also presented an award for their favorite car of the show. The DACC winners were - Billy & Billie Walker - Most Likely to be Arrested by San Marcos Police, Mike & Sandy Reeves - Prettiest Wheels & Tires, Sonny & Nancy Poteet - Biggest Rear Tires, Marvin & Donna Johnson - Sharpest Sounding to Cruise By In, Joe Sanders - Shiniest Chrome, Jim Truitt – Loudest Exhaust System, Mike & Sandy Reeves - Houston Club Favorite Award, and Pete & Lisa Herrera - Central Texas Club Favorite Award. Dallas Club Favorite Award was presented to Rob & Tania Bryngelson and their sons Nicholas & Sebastian from The Woodlands, TX with their Silver 1957 210 2-door Sedan, this month’s DACC Feature Car! Six sorry souls presented their Hard Luck stories of the weekend to the crowd for consideration. The winner was our own Doug & Dixie Pederson. Doug relived the agony of unloading and re-packing his car

DACC TURNS OUT BIG FOR THE 30th Lone Star Classic Chevy Convention

IN SAN MARCOS!

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DACC MEMBER’S PHOTOS

FROM THE PASTFROM THE PASTFROM THE PASTFROM THE PAST Another photo from ‘back in the day’ Now

your part is to guess

WHO IS THAT PERSON? Take a good look, take your best guess, then check on the DACC website’s Chat Board link under the ‘MISC’ section – and

there you will find the answer of ‘WHO IS THAT PERSON’?

HINT – the year is 1957, the place Dallas, TX.

Got a photo to share from the past? Send it to INFO@DallasClassicChevy.com

Our last ‘FROM THE PAST PHOTO’ below was -

If you guessed Michael Brown you were correct! This is 1962 (Where were you in ’62) and Michael drove this ’57 through high school and regrettably traded it off. But no fear, Michael made up for his mistake and now is a proud owner of a slew of Corvettes, a ’55 Bel Air AND a ’57 FI Convertible!

car gave me an anchor point for three-point seat belts – a strict requirement of my wife for a classic restoration. The car was in fair shape, and initially I had planned just to spiff it up a bit – maybe tweak the engine, upgrade to four-wheel disc brakes, and clean up the interior. After a visit to Mo Musclecars in Conroe, the shop that was working on my Mustang, that all changed. In no time, I had decided to go with an Art Morrison chassis, an LS2 engine (which fit nicely in the engine bay and on the new chassis), an all-new interior, and a host of other goodies. Of course I couldn’t do this without taking the car down to bare metal first M and so the process began. Mo Musclecars did a fantastic job of taking this car down to its bare essentials and building it back out. The focus of the project was to come out with a clean car, but one that I could drive every day if I wanted to. What’s the fun of it otherwise? I wanted it to at least look close to original even if underneath lurked a modern sports car. About a year later, everything was finished. I’m still no Fonzie, and not sure I ever really wanted to be - leather jackets are just too hot for Texas. What I do have is a great restomod with a 510 HP LS2 engine, 4L65E transmission, and four-wheel six-piston Wilwood brakes that handles like a dream. I’ve been able to spend a lot of quality family time in this car going to local and regional shows, and I hope that these are memories my two sons will carry with them for the rest of their lives. I’ve made them promise never to sell this car, and only hope that it survives in another few years when they start driving. My only complaint with my car is that I can’t go anywhere quickly. I don’t mean driving – that’s the easy part (I mastered the accelerator pedal a long time ago), but as I’m sure others have noticed, when you pull up to a gas station or grocery store in a Tri-Five you don’t get out quickly. When you’re there, you make a dozen new friends - everyone had one, knew a guy who had one, kissed a girl in one, took a vacation in one, brought their first child home in one, was sorry that they sold one, or otherwise just loves the car. I listen to each story with interest, pose for pictures, show the car off, and generally enjoy the sense of family that the car seems to engender. I want to add a Nomad someday, and have gotten some great ideas in the past few years, thanks to the shows and the great cars and concepts people have come up with. Something about the Tri-Fives is just addictive and I hope to pass the passion that we have for these cars along to as many people as I can. With all of that said, it was truly special for me to be picked as the favorite by the Dallas Area Classic Chevy Club. You’ve given me yet another great memory with this car, and I look forward to seeing you all at the next Lone Star Chevy show in San Angelo.

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to accommodate some extra items as a favor for a friend. He and son, Sean, had driven all the way to San Marcos before realizing they'd gone off and left Doug's suitcase, which held the MEDICINE he needs because of open heart surgery and other medical issues!!! To save the weekend wife Dixie drove down from Dallas on Saturday morning with the needed suitcase so Doug could stay for the weekend... then she drove on back after breakfast to do her own thing!!! What a WIFE!!! Three other DACC club members had little boo boos, but didn't want to tell their stories. Don Andre had a flat due to a NEW steel wheel that leaked on his ‘57. Joe Sanders had an expensive incident loading his ‘57 in the trailer at home. He'd THOROUGHLY cleaned his tires (including treads) and coated them with tire gloss, then loaded it on the trailer. The tires were so slick that the car slid sideways into the wheel well of the trailer. There was no way to get it out, except to back it and scrape the passenger door. And then Larry Epperson lost all the freon out of his NEW air conditioner in his ’57 plus blew fuses in some of his light circuits! The Central Texas club had several fund-raisers going on to benefit a local charity. There were about 30 neat items in a silent auction. They had been selling raffle tickets for many months for a unique sofa made out of a 1955 Chevy which raised $11,000 and was won by the Austin club President Dan Bowen. And their 50/50 pot was more than $900. Thanks to the Convention Coordinator Jim Rankin and his wife Lynda along with ALL the other members of the Central Texas Classic Chevys for hosting the 30

th Lone Star event. They did a GREAT JOB!

And Jim goes back to Lone Star I and played a part of that first event in 1983 when this whole thing started so it was great to see him head up the 30

th Anniversary event!

Next year, Lone Star XXXI moves to San Angelo, Texas where the Concho Classic Chevy Club will host the 2013 version of this event. Last held in San Angelo in 1998, we are looking forward to the May 24-26th weekend of 2013 so mark your calendars now to be in San Angelo

next year and watch www.LoneStarChevys.com for more details!

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