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2015 Sanlee Chapter Meet June 6, 2015

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Sanlee Chapter Meet June 6, 2015 

The San Lee Chapter held their annul meet in downtown Sanford, NC at the Railroad depot.  There were
62 cars on display for this dual show, an AACA judged show and a Rod and Custom show.  The weather
was sunny all day.  The judging was completed by 2 pm for door prizes and an auction of tools and
part including two new Edlebrock carburetors that were “made in Sanford.” The Sanlee chapter was well
organized for their car show. To see more pictures, click 2015 Sanlee Pictures.

     

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2016 San-Lee Meet Bill Cox Pictures

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2016 San Lee Chapter Meet Bill Cox Pictures June 4, 2016 

By Bill Cox

I was finally able to attend a San Lee Chapter show in June of this year. It seems as though I have always been tied up with some other activity in early June, but the moon was in the seventh house and Jupiter aligned with Mars so I was able to find my way there. It was a toasty June Saturday with plenty of sunshine and no rain in sight.

What a beautiful spot for a show! To start with it’s in the center of old Sanford where old shops and restaurants still exist, and the old railway station is the focus of the area. While the meet goes on, a farmers market displays their goods around the station for the public to enjoy. There’s always something nostalgic about railroads in general and railway stations more specifically that invokes happy times of travel and meeting friends.

This year’s show was well attended with folks from several chapters bringing an awesome variety of some really nice cars. I was able to get lunch with Denny Oestreich at one of his favorite local hamburger spots in the middle of town. I’m sending along a number of pictures for you to enjoy. If you haven’t made it to Sanford for their show, watch the moon and the stars next year and line up your calendar for the event.  Call Denny for the name of that hamburger place…. You’ll have a great time at the show and get a good lunch to boot!

Bill


 

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2016 Southeastern Meet Report – Bill Cox

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2016 Souheastern Meet Report and Pictures 

By Bill Cox

NewBern North Carolina is a charming historic town located at the confluence of the Trent and the Neuse Rivers. It is full of restaurants, cafes and shops along the picturesque waterfront shared with a fabulous convention center and several hotels with great views of the rivers and marinas. We’ve always enjoyed visiting the town at any time but particularly during an AACA National event.

On Saturday August the 13th, we pulled into the parking lot of the convention center to join more than a hundred other judges for the kick off breakfast before the AACA Southeastern Fall Meet. At 7:30, it was already steamy with temperatures into the 80’s and enough humidity to wash your car with. We wondered how we would make it through the day.

The convention Center was the perfect place to hold our breakfast, hand out awards to some very dedicated and deserving judges from across the country, and get all the marching orders for the day’s activities. We had a very good breakfast and were sent off to our choice of CJE sessions (continuing judge’s education) before the judging started at 11:00.

One of the great things about downtown NewBern is the mature landscape all around the city. The show field was basically several streets in the heart of the historic district and a couple of adjacent parking areas. A few were not so lucky, but I was on the main street and the shade provided just enough coverage from the sun to make the time spent judging cars tolerable. We were also fortunate to have enough judges so that no team had an impossible number of cars to get through in a reasonable time. I believe we spent about an hour judging the Model A’s.

You could feel the excitement early as we walked from the convention center through the streets to the show cars. There were already crowds of people in the streets who had come to see the antique cars as the event was highly anticipated by the folks of NewBern and the surrounding county. A Grand National Meet was held here in 2010 and many of the shop owners we talked to remembered that event as having a positive effect on the business activity of the weekend. Today’s Meet certainly held up to everyone’s expectations as there were lots of spectators here to see over 300 cars, trucks and motorcycles. We were treated to some really cool mini cars, some fine classics and a car that runs in water and one that runs on water!

In the middle of the day, Riley Reiner and the Triangle Chapter treated everyone to the take-a-part-t. I saw Riley before the event and asked him if he was going to beat his record of the fastest time putting the T back together. He rolled his eyes and said that he had his senior group with him today, and experience was one thing, but the heat and our age would likely slow them down. Still entertaining though and going a little slower helped everyone see how the parts went together… they drove off into the sun to the applause of an appreciative crowd!

Marshal Van Winkle was the show chairman, just as he was back in 2010. I caught him sitting on the running board of his Model T during the day with a pile of empty water bottles next to the car. He was worn slap out, hot and sweaty and he looked like a drunken sailor… but wait… he always looks like a drunken sailor! He and the folks in the First Capital Chapter did an awesome job making this meet a well-attended and well organized show that was a huge success. They brought pride to the North Carolina Region and certainly to the First Capital Chapter and the town of NewBern. We all have Marshall and all the folks in the Chapter to thank for providing us with such a successful event that brought lots of AACA folks from all around the country to the coast of North Carolina.

If you didn’t make it to NewBern for the show, here are a bunch of pictures I was able to grab after the judging. I hope you enjoy them and I also hope it sparks a little interest in getting out to the next AACA event, whether it’s one of our North Carolina Meets or a National event somewhere close enough for you to visit.

Meanwhile, Happy Motoring…Bill


 

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2016 NC Region Spring Meet

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2016 NC Region Spring Meet – April 30, 2016

Goldsboro, NC – Center Street in historic downtown

Hosted by the Southeastern NC Chapter AACA

This is the spring show for the NC Region.  Be sure to come out to the show. 
There is also and open show nearby sponsored by the Wayne Count Cruisers. 


Pre-registration Deadline is April 15.  Please see Registration Form .

The Southeastern NC Chapter of the Antique Automobile Club of America proudly hosts the 2016 North Carolina Region Spring Meet in historic downtown Goldsboro on Center Street. The City of Goldsboro has recently undergone a sixteen-million dollar downtown infrastructure & beautification streetscape project complete with water features, street-art displays and traffic roundabouts. The downtown area is alive with restaurants, unique shops and businesses, plus the Wayne County Arts Council and Wayne County Museum, all within walking distance of the Center Street show field.

Brief History of Goldsboro: When Wayne County was formed in 1789, the town of Waynesborough developed along the banks of the Neuse River around the county courthouse that was built there. In the late 1830’s, the Wilmington and Raleigh (Weldon) Railroad line was built to the east of Waynesborough. At the intersection of the railroad and the New Bern Road, a hotel was built and a community began to establish itself. This community became known as Goldsborough’s Junction after Major Matthew T. Goldsborough, an Assistant Chief Engineer with the railroad line. The town of Goldsborough was incorporated in 1847, and the name officially changed to Goldsboro in 1869. The City of Goldsboro became the county seat for Wayne County in 1847 and has expanded to an area encompassing over twenty-five square miles. It is also a railroad & highway transportation center for the area’s agriculture, business, and industry, plus its major role in national defense.

Location: Located in the Coastal Plain region of eastern North Carolina, the City of Goldsboro is the county seat of Wayne County. Conveniently located on Interstate 795 and highways US 70, US 13 and US 117, Goldsboro is within minutes of the I-40 and I-95 corridors.

Goldsboro/Wayne County Today: Goldsboro is one of North Carolina’s metropolitan statistical areas (US Census Bureau MSA) with a metropolitan population of approximately 125,000 people. Recognized as a Top-Ten-US-City by Money Magazine in 1993, the City of Goldsboro takes great pride in providing an excellent quality of life. The City of Goldsboro is the proud home of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, home of the 4th Fighter Wing. Seymour Johnson received the Commander in Chief’s Installation Excellence Award – Air Force for 2001, the highest award given to a military base. Spanning more than five decades and five wars, Seymour Johnson AFB’s 4th Fighter Wing is one of the most distinguished fighter units in the world. The 4th Fighter Wing of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, puts air power on-target, on-time for America. The wing is home to the multi-role, all-weather F-15E Strike Eagle and provides worldwide deployable aircraft and personnel capable of executing combat missions in support of the Aerospace Expeditionary Force. The base is named for Seymour Johnson, a native of Goldsboro, and Navy test pilot who died in an airplane crash on March 5, 1941. Seymour Johnson AFB occupies 3,300 acres within the city limits of Goldsboro.

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2016 Annual Meet Report

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2016 Annual Membership Meeting

The NC Region Annual Meeting was held on January 15 and 16, 2016 at the Ramada Inn in Burlington, NC.  
There were 120 Region members and Guests attending.  Below are some discussion points and pictures
from the meeting.
1. Bill Cox, VP NC Region, reviewed highlights of the Calendar of NC Region and Chapter Events for 2016. Various Chapter
    representatives invited members to their car shows. Be sure to support these events.
2.Lorrie Oaks, Treasurer, reported the NC Region is growing and now has over 611 members. 
3. Chief Judge Randy Stone indicated that over 180 vehicles were judged and were given awards at the two
    NC Region meets in 2015.  The NC Region has seen the success of including HPOF and DPC classes
    and will continue to support these classes with prominent displays.   
4. President, Jack Harris, updated the membership on a number of improvements being made to the Transportation
    Museum facilities and the success the museum is having with their new programs. 
5. NC Region News Editor David Allen and Webmasters Matt Hinson and Denny Oestreich reminded members
    that articles and pictures are needed for the NC Region Newsletter and Websites.

6. Bob McAdam, Chair of the Scholarship Committee, reminded members that scholarship submissions for an
    individual scholarship and and institutional scholarship are due March 31.  If members have children or grandchildren
    who are studying an engineering curriculum you should review the Scholarship guidelines. 
    See: NC Region Scholarship Program
7. NC Region 2015 special judging awards were presented at the meeting. Pictures are below and the complete
    list of winners is included here: 2015 NC Region Awards 
8. Congratulations to Ralph N Proscia for receiving the 2015 Dave Hinkle Award. 
9. Congratulations to Harry Oakley and Roger Lyons for being the NC Region Circle of Honor inductees for 2015.   


 
     Pictured above are the members attending a special presentation of “Early Roads and Paths”.

To See more annual meeting pictures including the award winners click 2016 NC Region Annual Meet Photos

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