Bill Clark

Bob When I started doing mine, I looked for the list of award winners on line and reviewed their letters. Its certainly a good idea to look at the winners to see what the judges like. I also judged my newsletter myself. I think the score sheet is pretty straight forward and has much less subjectivity than the car judging. My April letter is here and all the old ones are in the Newsletter Archive on the link. Bill Iroquois Region, AACA Inc - Home

I was not clear Wayne. You will get the entire page. Then use Word to crop it back to just your beautiful picture. (Click on the picture, then Format>> Crop) Works for me Bill

Linda On my Windows 7 machine, I can copy a screen to my clipboard by pushing the Print Screen button. I'm not sure if I did something special to make this work or not. I open the Rummage Box, scroll down to Wayne's beautiful picture, then hit print screen. Go to Publisher or Word and hit control V or paste. You'll get the tiniest picture, but you can crop it back to what you want and then make it bigger without loosing any of the magnificent quality. Bill Iroquois Region, AACA Inc - Home

As I'm collecting trivia, show information and other drivell for my newsletter, I often have three or four windows open as I'm entering the text in a notepad window. As I switch back to the source documents, the notepad with what I'm writing goes to the back. Same thing might happen with a video you are watching. When you go to another window, the movie gets covered up. According to one of the Microsoft support forums, they have no utility to make a window always be on top and they suggested an add-on, Always On Top. The one I found was at this link. Download Always on Top - Keep Any Window Visible Always Click on the hyperlinked word Dropbox and run the exe. (Don't click on any thiing called Download. Its an ad) When you want a window to stay on top, simply hit control-space. Another control space makes it behave normally. Bill Iroquois Region, AACA Inc - Home

I use Publisher. (My sympathies to those using Word for a newsletter). When I cut and paste into Publisher, publisher often puts each line in its own text box. Thankfully, Notepad is really stupid. I use it to strip out all the formatting and usually when I copy from anywhere into Notepad, then copy into Publisher I get raw text I can format as I wish. My issue here was with the carriage returns. If nothing else, this discussion has highlighted this so that editors can now know what to do when these quirky things occur. Thanks to everyone for your attention to this. March is done and in the mail. I'm gonna take a break for a couple weeks and get my hands dirty. Bill

My apologies for dragging on this discussion, but I think we can improve the Rummage box article format and make it more usable. A typewriter carriage return is when a typewriter operator grabs the carriage return handle and simultaneously throws the carriage back and moves to a new typing line. A carriage return is a character that is sent to a mechanical printer to similarly start a new line of print. It sort of grew up to be a paragraph mark in a word processor and in Windows character code its a mark that forces the text after the mark to be written on a new line. I opened your link above and cut and pasted Chuck's article out of the pdf into a notepad. I then copied Eric's into the same window below Chuck's. You can make the window wider and narrower and the text in Chuck's article grows and shrinks to match the window size, but Eric's does not behave as nicely. If you copy and paste both articles into a Word file, then display all formatting marks, you can see that Eric's article has paragraph marks that are forcing a new line at the end of each of his line of type. These paragraph marks were what was making the handling or Eric's article clumsy. It would work better for me if the Rummage Box articles are all done like Chuck's and do not have those extra unnecessary character controls. Bill

I just open the rummage box issue I want, select the text and copy it. I paste it into notepad so all the formatting gets stripped out and all I have is the text to then copy and paste into my newsletter. I can then set the type to match the rest of the letter. The problem is the carriage returns. It does not seem to matter if I turn word wrap on or off, I still have to delete the carriage return from the end of each line to make the text flow. I can do it, but its tedious and we should make it easy to get these executive writings into our local newsletters. The Museum website is displaying text. It was easy to lift the Motorcycle exhibit article and get the text without the carriage returns. Bill

Wayne I'd rather convert the rummage box article into text and paste the text into my newsletter. This way I can format it and make it look neat. In the old days, maybe last fall, I could do that. Now when I make it text it is sort of a mess that I have to remove the carriage returns from. I get the feeling that the format of the Rummage Box has changed. Bill

Wayne I'm not sure whats different in either the Rummage Box or my brain, but lifting stuff from the Rummage box is not working like it used to. When I copy items it looks like the carriage return information I don't need comes with it and I'm left with each sentence being a new paragraph. How about a short tutorial on easily getting items from the Rummage Box into my editor. Thanks Bill

I keep members names, addresses, dues paid information and cars in an Excel file. The file also has their e-mail and a hyperlink to a picture of their favorite car. Labels for the monthly newsletter mailing are created using MS Office. On those months when I take a well deserved break and do not do a newsletter I send a post card. The post cards address side are printed from the same data base only I usually include a picture of their car. Although I've never done it, you should be able to make custom emails with personalized data from the excel file. If the urge hits me, I use the same excel file and the MS Word catalog function to make up a club roster. I use the emails in the excel file to make an outlook (actually Thunderrbird) address list. The file on my computer is all the automation the club has. People pay me the dues, I mark them off on the mailing list file and give the money to the treasurer at the next meeting. Works for me Bill

And the Pubs seminar has moved to the afternoon so those of us driving in don't have to get up at 5AM. Thanks!! Bill

No Glitch Wayne. My letter had what appeared to be the mark of one Wayne Burgess. Bill

I got a letter!!! Bill Clark Iroquois Region http://www.iroquoisaaca.org/

http://forums.aaca.org/f121/date-coded-glass-284126.html Bill

Here's a rule that everyone having a car judged by AACA should remember. You only lose points for what they see. If you put new flat glass in your windshield make sure the rubber is correct and all the stainless trim is as it should be and does not have any scratches. They are not going to look for the glass codes and if they see it they may or may not know if your glass code is correct. I would not worry about it. All the windows, (and practically everything else) in a Met has a date code. I am not aware of any AACA judge checking any of them. That said, after I replaced the windshield on my Met, I perfected a way of putting on the glass code logos. I was having special concours judging done at a Met show and one of the judges asked how I put the logo on the windshield. With a straight face I lied and told him it was original glass that came that way. When the judges got done laughing, they told me that I put the logo in the center rather than in one of the top corners where it belonged. If I told them how I did it, they would not take off the one point for the correct logo with the correct date code being in the wrong location. Bill

re: What do Met owners think? One Met owners opinion. I have been showing two Mets for years and as I pointed out in my initial comments its not a big deal which class I have been put in. Mets get shown as foreign, domestic, are invited to Nash shows, AMC shows, small car shows, and for a while were in 27B. I do object to being put in the bushes behind the toilets at Hershey. As I also pointed out, this class needed some adjustment. Looks like that is happening. I'm curious how the changes in various model years are going to be taken care of. Using the VeWee as an example, iIf I have my numbers correct, the first VWs were 24 HP, and the last bugs were 54. The break point above is 50HP. The first cars were 1100cc or 67 Ci and the last were 1600 or 97ci. The break point is 91. Are they going with the numbers when the cars were introduced, production ended, or do VWs go back with the production vehicles when the criteria is exceeded. The table below has some of the numbers for a few of the cars, some in and some not in class 04. Maybe the judging committee should just go down this list and make assignments. Kudos to the judging committee for addressing this issue. Bill [TABLE=width: 748] <tbody>[TR] [TD]Todays class[/TD] [TD]Car[/TD] [TD]Introduction Year[/TD] [TD]Last Year[/TD] [TD]Wheelbase[/TD] [TD]Lowest HP[/TD] [TD]Highest HP[/TD] [TD]lowest cc[/TD] [TD]highest cc[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4b[/TD] [TD]Peel[/TD] [TD]1962[/TD] [TD]1965[/TD] [TD=align: right]50.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]4.2[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]49[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4a and b[/TD] [TD]Isettas[/TD] [TD]1955[/TD] [TD]1962[/TD] [TD=align: right]58.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]13.0[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]247[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4b[/TD] [TD]Subaru 360[/TD] [TD]1958[/TD] [TD]1971[/TD] [TD=align: right]70.9[/TD] [TD=align: right]25.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]36.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]356[/TD] [TD=align: right]423[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4b[/TD] [TD]Citroen 2CV[/TD] [TD]1948[/TD] [TD]1990[/TD] [TD=align: right]94.5[/TD] [TD=align: right]9.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]29.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]375[/TD] [TD=align: right]602[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4b[/TD] [TD]King Midget[/TD] [TD]1946[/TD] [TD]1970[/TD] [TD=align: right]72.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]7.5[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]400[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4b[/TD] [TD]Honda S500[/TD] [TD]1963[/TD] [TD]1964[/TD] [TD=align: right]78.7[/TD] [TD=align: right]44.0[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]531[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4a and b[/TD] [TD]Crosley/Crofton[/TD] [TD]1939[/TD] [TD]1952[/TD] [TD=align: right]80.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]25.6[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]580[/TD] [TD=align: right]760[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4b[/TD] [TD]Honda S600[/TD] [TD]1964[/TD] [TD]1966[/TD] [TD=align: right]78.7[/TD] [TD=align: right]57.0[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]606[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4a[/TD] [TD]American Austin/Bantam[/TD] [TD]1930[/TD] [TD]1934[/TD] [TD=align: right]75.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]13.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]14.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]747[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4b[/TD] [TD]Renault Caravelle[/TD] [TD]1959[/TD] [TD]1968[/TD] [TD=align: right]83.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]19.0[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]760[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4b[/TD] [TD]Morris Minor[/TD] [TD]1948[/TD] [TD]1971[/TD] [TD=align: right]86.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]27.5[/TD] [TD=align: right]28.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]803[/TD] [TD=align: right]918[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4b[/TD] [TD]Mini Coopers[/TD] [TD]1959[/TD] [TD]2000[/TD] [TD=align: right]80.3[/TD] [TD=align: right]34.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]55.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]850[/TD] [TD=align: right]1275[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4b[/TD] [TD]DKW[/TD] [TD]1953[/TD] [TD]1955[/TD] [TD=align: right]92.5[/TD] [TD=align: right]34.0[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]900[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4b[/TD] [TD]Autobianchi[/TD] [TD]1955[/TD] [TD]1986[/TD] [TD=align: right]80.2[/TD] [TD=align: right]48.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]70.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]903[/TD] [TD=align: right]1050[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4b[/TD] [TD]Met[/TD] [TD]1953[/TD] [TD]1961[/TD] [TD=align: right]85.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]42.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]55.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]1200[/TD] [TD=align: right]1500[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Honda Civic[/TD] [TD]1973[/TD] [TD]1979[/TD] [TD=align: right]86.5[/TD] [TD=align: right]53.0[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]1169[/TD] [TD=align: right]1240[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Datsun 1000[/TD] [TD]1966[/TD] [TD]1969[/TD] [TD=align: right]89.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]62.0[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]988[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Datsun 210[/TD] [TD]1973[/TD] [TD]1978[/TD] [TD=align: right]92.1[/TD] [TD=align: right]65.0[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]1300[/TD] [TD=align: right]1600[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Pinto[/TD] [TD]1971[/TD] [TD]1980[/TD] [TD=align: right]94.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]54.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]102.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]1600[/TD] [TD=align: right]2800[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4b[/TD] [TD]Volkswagon[/TD] [TD]1953[/TD] [TD]2002[/TD] [TD=align: right]94.5[/TD] [TD=align: right]24.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]54.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]1100[/TD] [TD=align: right]1600[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]4b[/TD] [TD]VW Rabbit[/TD] [TD]1974[/TD] [TD]1983[/TD] [TD=align: right]94.5[/TD] [TD=align: right]78.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]110.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]1500[/TD] [TD=align: right]1800[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Fiat 124[/TD] [TD]1966[/TD] [TD]1974[/TD] [TD=align: right]95.3[/TD] [TD=align: right]65.0[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]1200[/TD] [TD=align: right]1800[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Chevette[/TD] [TD]1976[/TD] [TD]1987[/TD] [TD=align: right]95.3[/TD] [TD=align: right]53.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]70.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]1400[/TD] [TD=align: right]1800[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Vega[/TD] [TD]1971[/TD] [TD]1977[/TD] [TD=align: right]97.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]90.0[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]2000[/TD] [TD=align: right]2300[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Dodge Omni[/TD] [TD]1978[/TD] [TD]1990[/TD] [TD=align: right]99.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]66.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]96.0[/TD] [TD=align: right]1600[/TD] [TD=align: right]2200[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Reliant[/TD] [TD]1981[/TD] [TD]1989[/TD] [TD=align: right]100.3[/TD] [TD=align: right]82.0[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD=align: right]2200[/TD] [TD=align: right]2600[/TD] [/TR] </tbody>[/TABLE]

I'm with you John. I don't do many pictures of cars with the hoods up unless I'm documenting some odd hood pad or the engine compartment. I find the light pretty bad most afternoons and try to get to shows as early as possible. This gets me much better morning light and gets cars while the hood is down before the engine clean up starts. My other problem with most pictures is people stand too close to the car and use the 28mm lens or worse that comes with their pocket camera instead of backing up and zooming in and getting the car in proportion. If I'm there early, I can stand back without having to wait for the crowd to clear. If I miss a shot, I'm not beyond asking the owner if they could close the hood for a picture. Another afternoon crowd trick is to get ready for the picture, then have someone go pose by the car. The crowd will part and when they do, the poser skoots and you can get your shot. Bill

re: placing them in other classes can cause them to be hidden from view. Thats funny right there. These 04B cars might as well have been parked behind the DPC cars in the woods. I didn't register my Met for the show because I had to leave early on Saturday, but I had far more people look at it where it was parked in the flea market than would have seen it at the show in class 04B. Bill

Hiking through the chocolate field a couple years ago I spotted a music case. Gave him $20 and when I got home found it was a Borgani, a hand made wooden Italian clarinet. Put new pads in it and found it to be a nice playing instrument that I started using every week. The biggest thrill at Hershey is finding yourself standing next to an old friend you did not know was gonna be there. Bill

I expect there might be some editors that use kids to write an occasional article or column, but this is the first time I did it and I'm so excited with the outcome I wanted to share it. I was not going to be in town for our sister Region's show and there was no one else in the club I could get to take pictures and do a writeup. I asked a work associate if his daughter might want to write an article for my newsletter. I'm glad she agreed. She had a fresh perspective, the old car people enjoyed sharing their cars with someone new and shes got a new appreciation for old cars. Enjoy Bill http://iroquoisaaca.org/downloads/Newsletters/2012/Sept%2012%20s.pdf

What if I'm doing an article about an old car and I insert an old print ad with the article. For example, this month I'm doing a short story about a 60 Dodge Wagon. Is it fair use to include an old Dodge advertisement in my article? Bill

Thanks Bob! And we agree. A 32 anything is a good looking car. Bill l

I'm gonna put Colleen Kane on my list of Ten Most Irrelevant Writers of All Time. I'm always amused how these ugly out of the mainstream European wheels get put on Best of Lists. And while we are admiring European wheels, how about one that is far more relevant than most of them, a car for the masses. In my somewhat non conventional opinion, I think the Trabant has far more graceful lines and is prettier than the DB5. Bill