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2025 North Carolina Region Antique Automobile Club of American\u2019s Annual Scholarship Awarded! Written by Charlotte Tyson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NC Region\u2019s Scholarship Award was created to assist students in the purchasing of tools, uniforms, or necessary equipment needed when entering an automotive or mechanical program after graduating from high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The President of the Morehead City Chapter of the Antique Automobile Club, Scott Gruenke, was thrilled to present this award at the East Carteret High School Class of 2025 Scholarship Ceremony, May 27th<\/sup>. The award was presented to Hayden Lewis, the grandson of one of the Chapter\u2019s long standing members and Treasurer, Carl Tilghman. Hayden plans to use this award as he begins an Automotive\/Mechanical program in the fall at Craven Community College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hayden comes from a family of antique car lovers. His father, his grandfather and his great grandfathers all loved cars and have owned several antique ones over the years. Hayden\u2019s interest in cars started when, in late 2022, he and his father, Rodney, began discussing what type and color of car Hayden might eventually like to get. Those conversations ended with Hayden becoming the proud owner of a \u201cprimer\u201d colored AMC Javelin, titled as a 1969 but with some 1970 body parts. The car was dropped off in July of 2023 and Hayden\u2019s automotive journey began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took the first few months to simply get the car to actually move under it\u2019s own power. It\u2019s first trial run on a back road was a trying experience with a back tire wobble that required the purchase of a new wheel. The car made it\u2019s first major debut when Hayden showed it to his friends at Halloween. It\u2019s primer color with green headlights made it the perfect Halloween ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly Hayden\u2019s father passed away before the Javelin was truly road ready but it\u2019s first highway trip occurred in February of 2024 when Hayden drove to the cemetery to visit his father\u2019s grave. After this first road trip Hayden continued to work on the car and used it to drive to his prom and to his summer job. The car continues to be a work in progress and has become somewhat of a \u201cFrankencar\u201d since it currently has a Ford engine, a Lincoln Transmission, a Chevy horn, a Pontiac brake switch and something from a Buick. His ultimate goal for the Javelin is for it to become a 70\u2019s \u201cMean Sounding Street Freak\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His experience with the Javelin has offered Hayden an excellent opportunity to learn and get a lot of experience repairing and restoring an older vehicle. He has already begun adding to his collection with the acquisition of a white 1976 Ford F100 Pick Up Truck and a 1979 AMC Jeep J10 a lesser known pick up truck. He says one of the main barriers to young people such as himself becoming more involved with antique car maintenance and restoration is the cost to purchase and maintenance expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hayden\u2019s plan is to continue his education and continue buying and working on old cars. He said the best advice he can give to people that love and want to own older cars is \u201cbe sure to have a reliable tow company on speed dial\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2025 North Carolina Region Antique Automobile Club of American\u2019s Annual Scholarship Awarded! Written by Charlotte Tyson The NC Region\u2019s Scholarship Award was created to assist students in the purchasing of tools, uniforms, or necessary equipment needed when entering an automotive or mechanical program after graduating from high school. The President of the Morehead City Chapter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncregionaaca.com\/region\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncregionaaca.com\/region\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncregionaaca.com\/region\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncregionaaca.com\/region\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncregionaaca.com\/region\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncregionaaca.com\/region\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"https:\/\/ncregionaaca.com\/region\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncregionaaca.com\/region\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncregionaaca.com\/region\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncregionaaca.com\/region\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}