novaman

Model A Hal, you might ask your board members and/or club, if they would consider buying the program. Tell them that it is needed to put the webpage on aaca's site. Also that the program will be purchased for the club and regisitered in the clubs name. This way if for some reason you have to give up doing the page, the program is there for the next person.<BR>I was discussing the web editors awards and what the talk at the time, it looked like we would need to move our site to aaca's site. All it took for me was telling the board that to get the page on aaca's site required Frontpage (which I didn't have) and we would not have the pop-up ads like our site at geocities. I was asked about price and told them $100 plus, I wasn't really sure exactly. Next thing I knew I had a motion and second and passed for me to pick up the program and turn in the bill. <p>[This message has been edited by novaman (edited 08-24-2000).]

I've tried for grants for my Nova. I keep getting turned down when they ask for a description of the nova i'm trying to get the grant for. For some reason, the astronomy grant people give strange responses when I tell them it's a 1963 Silver Blue 4dr with a 6cyl. <BR>Seroiusly, you might try fire fighting organiztions/museums. That's all I can think of.

Thanks, your answer took care if my question.

Well guess what folks!! I ain't tellin' you who won. I thought you'll like to know that after the superbowl in Jan. There will be another survivor show from the outback of Austrailia (however you spell it). I know you're just thrilled with that news.

Well, this is it guys and gals. The time you all have been waiting for is finally here. The final show of survivor. Two hours long. So get all your tools and parts together for a nice work session on your car.

Along the same lines, what if you know the car is a certain year but the owner for some reason has it registered as a year earlier.<BR> (sometimes state declared the car on the title by year orginally bought. That could mislead.) You tell your team captian and deputy and they don't want to do anything about it. What do you do? The car I'm referring to, I could tell by the body mouldings, some emblems were in the wrong place for the year regisitered as other completely wrong, and the body tag said it was a year new and built in the spring of the following year from what it was regisitered as. Also in this case it would ahve move the car into the next class. unfortunely, I was the only that knew what the car should have looked like for that year, and nobody would listen to me. Exterior person let ALL the emblems and moudlings get by, The interior person let all the seat covers and door panels get by. <BR>I left that show upset!! All I wanted to do was get him in the right class. The captain and deputy never questioned the owner about the year.

Back in '86 - '87 when I was working in a Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick dealership. We'd really check a Buick over if we didn't find extra nuts and bolts lying on the floor. We figured that if there weren't any, they forgot to bolt something on. Chevrolet and Pontiac, we might find something once in a blue moon. This dealership had a lot of cars go through it as the owner also owned a big rental car bussiness.

peterg, I like the looks of the new aaca main page.

Looking for a set of 5, 13" rims for a Chevy II Nova. Please email me at chevyiiman@juno.com

Father Ron, When should we be getting our newsletter that includes the forms for Hershey? It's getting close to show time (like 8 weeks). I'm worried my post office may have screwed up again. My dad didn' get his either. With our post office i'll get my AA magazine one day and he'll get his 4 or 5 days later. heck, about three weeks a go I got a post card for an event that happened the weekend before. They also can tell the difference between N. and S. also, between 3 and 4. Who know where my mail has been!!!!

try going to ask.com and typing in golf scoring handicap into the search area and start looking through the resulting links.<BR>

Starting with 1958, Chevrolet's production numbers were counted including ALL series. There were no breakdown by models or engine type. the only breakdown was by 2dr coupe, 4dr wagon, 4dr sedan, etc. For 1958 there were 256,182 2 door sedans made.

unfortunely, he sold the car. My fist car I own that I could drive on the road was a '64 Chevy II Nova. Well, that's all it took for me. I sold that one but, I now have 3 1963 Chevy IIs. I bought five (that i can recall) others that I stripped for parts. The cars are in bad shape. And I bought and sold two others since my first one. Back to the Jeepster. My dad has leg problems from when in the Air Force, and it makes driving a car with a manual transmission hard. I liked the car and would have liked to keep it but no place to do so. My dad bought a 63 Chevy II nova convertible with an automatic tranmission to replace it. <P>Sorry to hear about your dad. Unfortunely achocol really messes up people and makes life hard on the family and people in their lives. I'm glad you have a better father figure now.<P>If you need any help with information on your chevelle let me know and i'll try to help. I check here about nightly. Are you going to try to restore it back to it's orginal condition?

I'm not an authority on Fords by any means, but I'll take a stab it this. <BR> The vehicle can't be any earlier than 1933, the first year for a flat head V-8 engine. <BR> The transverse spring means the leaf springs under the car run from one side of the car to the other instead of from front to rear like in you newer cars (not the really really new cars because the use what is called strut suspension, which is, in english, a coil spring mounted onto a big shock absober ).<BR> As for this vehicle existing?. Fordson was a subdivision of Ford. With the name MAJOR VAN.? The name MAJOR to my dad and I, yells England. You said it was found in Burma, and if I remember correctly, Burma was ruled by England/UK until 1948. The vehicle probably built and came from there. <BR> In the photo it looks like it was an early form of a suburban truck.<p>[This message has been edited by novaman (edited 08-18-2000).]

What kind of FEDRAL truck? do you have any pictures of it?

I hope this '70 Chevelle needs some work (nothing really major). I grew up with my dad having several different older cars and going to antique car meetings. When I was about 14, he bought a '49 Willys Jeepster. We did an engine swap and then took it on a 1000 mile tour the weekend after. Total test mileage to check everything out before going. 5 miles. That was daring. Only problems we had was, no overdrive and the fuelpump sprung a leak. From this experiance, I ended up loving old cars, working on them, I went to school for auto technology, worked in a couple of dealerships, moved on to a dragrace shop where we built Mopar race engines. Since then I managed an auto parts store, and am currently a chassis fabricator for another drag racing shop. I build between 30 to 40 rails a year. <BR>Learning from working on the cars is the best experiance you can get. You never know where it might take you. I might build race cars for i living, but I'm also working on my antique cars in my free time and that's where my heart is.<BR>Have fun with your chevelle, and I'll quit rambling on.<P>[This message has been edited by novaman (edited 08-17-2000).]<p>[This message has been edited by novaman (edited 08-17-2000).]

D Binger, I think you need to try your drill press out on the heads of the people on the show Big Brother. Just check to see if any of them have anything other than air in there. You think survivor's is bad. This has got to be the worst!!

SalG,<BR> Are you sure you don't have those numbers transposed? If not, I was way off too. When I joined, life was $300.

Not to be rude, but why not sign up for life membership. Then you don't need to whine about renewal notices. I'm a life memeber for about 18 yrs now (don't have exact date handy), and I'm 34 yrs old. I'll never have to worry about wether my dues are paid to date. As for the paper for show restration, tell everyone in your household to leave the magazine in the plastic. Then you can open it.

Blueflame, in the piedmont region of NC the area is already covered by the NC region. The president is Herb Oaks 102Converse Dr. Jacksonville, NC 28546 910-346-3834. We have 19 Chapters: Alamnce (Alamnce county area),Brass-Nickel (touring chapter), Cape Fear (Wilmington area), Costal Plains (Washington,NC area), East Carolina (I'm not sure), First Capital (New Bern area), Freshwater (Hobbsville area),Furnitureland (Denton area), General Greene (Greensboro area) Hillbilly (Weaverville area), North Central (Caswell county area), Old Salem (Wiston-Salem area), San-Lee (sanford area), Sandhills (pinehurst area), Three Rivers (Eden area), Triangle (Wake county) Uwharrie (Stanly county)Ol'Lighting Rods (Wallace area). Then you have Hornet's Nest Region in Charlotte area. Zooland Region in the Ashboro area. Mountianeer Region in the Waynesville area. Great Smoky Mountains Region in the Hendersonville area. Foothills Region in the Gastonia area.Transylvania Region in Transylvania county.So the state is pretty well covered. <BR>As for the region/chapter differance. basically there is no major differances. just as a chapter under a region it gives us <BR>some more poltical leverage in Raleigh. NC region as two people watching raleigh for bills that affect us. we fought for a tax bill the other year that would reduce taxs on our old cars. Some of the reps were trying despertly to defeat it. The vote was to take place on a certain day and we had members that were goning to be there to suporrot our reps. that intrdouced the bill. They moved the date forward (to sneak it by us to defeat it) and our "watchdogs" made calles to the chapters and we had a fair group of members from different chapters representing basically the whole state, there to hound our government reps. to pass the bill. We won. Lower taxes.<BR>To start a region, to need to get sponsorship from another region, if I remember correctly. To be honest, I doubt you'll get it from any region in NC. I'm sure NC Region would accept another chapter.<BR>Give Herb a call for contacts for any of the chapters. You can contact me for the Alamance Chapter at alamance_aaca@yahoo.com .<BR>Hope to have been some help. You might come jion us.<BR><p>[This message has been edited by novaman (edited 08-12-2000).]

Bingo, we have a winner. Yes, the salt was to help melt snow and a lot of times it is mixed with sand to help for some traction. the problem is all that mess gets stuck is all the little (where is my spellcheck? ahh found the dictionary)crevices on the car then without a really good wash job, includling hosing the bottom off, it starts rusting away.<BR>The cars from the north have more body cancer the from the south because of this. I now live in North Carolina and we use very little salt here in the middle of the state. you see more rusted car if you go to the mountains or if you go along the coast in which case you get the rust from the "salt air". <P>As for removeing undercoating I found using oven cleaner and letting it sit for a while the sraying it again letting it sit another 15 min. or so the pressurewashing works pretty good at getting the bulk of it off. just repeat as nessacary.(peter, where's the spellcheck button?!!)

I wouldn't mind emails as long as they are kept to business and not "ads". As far as collecting the email address. It might be a little hard becuase of us life members. I've been a life member for 18 to 20 years now (forgot which year I joined), and I'm 34 now. Those who are life members basically have no correspondence with national's membership people. <p>[This message has been edited by novaman (edited 08-03-2000).]

Sorry Howard, <BR> Too far. You know us younger folk have to work and support our elders. Have a good time at the show. novaman

A slight delay beats needing to have to wait for the next issue of Antique Automobile to come. Example, I just grabbed an issue off my shelf. It's sept-oct. 1999. In it is the Eastern spring meet(June 19th), Southeastern Spring Meet(June 5th),and the Central Spring meet (May 22nd). That's a long wait to find out about a car you saw there. By that time, there has been other shows and you tend to forget about the car you were interested in seeing if it won anything. I'm gald posting the resualts is being looked into. Thanks.<p>[This message has been edited by novaman (edited 07-31-2000).]

I was talking with fellow club members and it was metioned that it would be nice to have the results from the shows on the internet. For those who don't stay for the banquet, they could find out if a friend or even that really nice whatever in class such-an-such got an award. What's the possiblity of getting them posted on the site?