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NC Transportation Museum News

By Tom Wright
The 2019 NC Region Muscle Car exhibit at the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC is over and the display was wonderful.  The NC museum held a brief ceremony to recognize the NC Region members who had displayed their Muscle Cars at the Museum during January and February. Executive Director of the Transportation Museum Kelly Alexander, current NC Region President John Allred, and previous NC Region President Bill Cox addressed the group and presented the awards. The awards for the participants were certificates and special train car plaques commemorating the event. The certificates and plaques both included a special new logo designed by David Allen.  NC Transportation Exhibit Coordinator LeAnne (Kathryn) Johnson, who worked closely with Tom Wright to coordinate the exhibit, was presented a Certificate of Appreciation from National AACA. After the awards ceremony Kellyanne serve us the best cake with a buttercream icing!

The museum has asked me to look into an exhibit of Mini Cars for 2020. Most of the mini cars I’m familiar with were produced in England and Germany. If you know an NC Region or chapter member who owns a mini car and who would like to participate in the 2020 mini car exhibit at the museum, have them contact me. Please encourage your members to let me know by 30 April 2019 if they have a car or cars they would like to exhibit.   The 2020 exhibit is planned to run December 2019 through February 2020.  A shortage of mini cars will of course change the theme of the exhibit, and require another theme and type of car to be chosen.
 
Contact Tom Wright at:
Email: tjwgiw@gmail.com
Telephone: 910-327-3859
 
To see more pictures of the 2019 Muscle Car display cars and awards Ceremony, Click on
  2019 NC Transportation Museum Display Pictures

2019 Annual Membership Meeting January 18-19
By Denny Oestreich
A brief report of the NC Region Annual Membership Meeting January 18-19, 2019.

The NC Region Annual Meeting was held at the newer Raleigh Ramada Inn. There were over 100 members attending the event which is about the same as past years events.  The Friday afternoon schedule included an AACA Judging School presented by Dain King.  The Judging School was followed by two Continuing Judges Education (CJE) courses taught by Mike Peterson (Vehicle Documentation) and Dain King (Exterior Judging).  These were very informative sessions.

On Saturday NC Region Board meeting was held at 8:30 am.  At 10 am a representative of the North Carolina State Patrol (NCHP) discussed the organization, duties and special responsibilities during Hurricanes. NCHP has detailed plans for coverage, assignments and contingencies during these emergencies.
 

At 11 am Tom Cox, AACA National President gave and overview of the status of the plans to renovate and occupy the new headquarters building .  Tom informed us that the facility will serve all of the 65,000 members.  AACA must raise  $3 million to renovate the facility to properly support the AACA operations,  the growing AACA Library and facilitate the Hershey Car show. An AACA Capital Program is underway and members are urged to donate.

After lunch the Annual Membership meeting was held. 2018 activities and 2019 plans were discussed. New Officers were elected including John Allred, President and Asby Armistead, Vice President.  Five new Directors were also elected including Charles Wells, Carl Anthony Bright, Bynum Hancock, Mike Kraus and Linda McAdam.  Awards were presented for special vehicles shown at the NC Region Spring and Fall Meets.  Awards were also presented the Chapter reporters the contributed to every NC Region Newsletter. The 2018 Circle of Honor award was presented to Paige Lyons for her many years serving as the Past NC Region Secretary/Treasurer. The 2019 Dave Hinkle award was presented to Jack Harris for his many contributions to the NC Region and to AACA.

See Annie Goldman’s great pictures at: https://photos.app.goo.gl/vzouwq17EbRSgtEq6

2019 NC Transportation Museum Muscle Car Display

The NC Region of the AACA and the NC Transportation museum have created a display of vehicles of the AACA. The display theme for the first display of this kind is “Performance cars of the 60’s and 70’s -The Muscle Car Era.”  Ten members of the NC Region have provided their muscle cars for this inaugural event. Vehicles were chosen to represent the qualities of a muscle car of that era.  The vehicles on display are AACA original cars of high quality and unique equipment that are not often seen by the general public.

The display which will run thru January and February of 2019. Tom Wright is the chairman for the project and has worked closely with Jack Harris and Kathryn Johnson (Le Anne) at the museum to put this together. This is an exciting opportunity for the NC Region of AACA to display membership information about our club at the display. Be sure to visit the museum and see the display. 

See more Pictures at: 2019 NC Transportation Museum Display Pictures