AND THE CVR WINNERS FOR 2007 ARE: Each year, CVR recognizes those individuals who have contributed to the club through their volunteer efforts and those individuals who have continued their commitment to maintain their antique vehicles.  The volunteer efforts of individual members are a recognition that is awarded by CVR’s Board of Directors.  The celebration of the preservation of our vehicles is the culmination of a judging process that is conducted throughout the year by Duane Wilson and his judging staff.   2007 PERPETUAL AWARDS Walter O'Maclllvain Award (for the best article within The Winding Road) Keith Korbut O.F. Springer Award (for individual effort in support of club activities) Bob Watkins Duryea Memorial Award (for owner restoration of a post-1931 vehicle) Bob Watkins 1947 Ford Woody Albert Anderson Award (for best professionally restored vehicle) James and Bunny McGuire 1930 Ford Model A Merrill R. Davis Award (for best owner restoration of a pre-1932 vehicle) Bill Hick  1931 Ford Deluxe Roadster

2007 CLASS JUDGED AWARD CLASS 2 Ford Model T 1st - Brian Midura        1914 Model T 2nd - Wilson Rider 1          923 Model T 3rd - Bob & Sandy Watkins        1915 Model T CLASS 3 All Thru 1919 1st - Keith & Judy Korbut        1911 Cole 2nd - Patricia & Jerre Hoffman          1916 Hudson CLASS 4 1920 thru 1925 1st - Ray Labree        1921 Hupmobile CLASS 7 Ford Model A Open 1st - Donna & Bill Hick        1931 Deluxe Roadster 2nd - Morgan & Sandra Schafer        1930 Model A Phaeton 3rd - Ken Wilson         1928 Model A Roadster CLASS 8 Ford Model A Closed 1st - Jim & Bunny McGuire         1930 Model A 2nd - Addrie & Wilson Rider         1921 Model A CLASS 10 1935 thru 1942 Closed 1st - Frank Moro        1940 Cadillac 2nd - Genevieve Kokoski         1940 Buick Coupe 3rd - Dick & Melanie Sitnik         1937 Packard CLASS 11 1943 thru 1954 1st - Sal Saimeri         1950 Mercury 2nd - Brian Midura         1953 Hudson 3rd - Bob & Sandy Watkins        1947 Woodie CLASS 16 Commercial 1st - Art & Judy Cooper        1957 Chevy Panel Truck CLASS 17 1955 thru 1959 Open 1st - Donna & Bill Hick        1956 Thunderbird 2nd - Ken Wilson        1957 Thunderbird CLASS 19 1960 thru 1964 Open 1st - Joseph & Judy Strouse        1962 Cadillac CLASS 20 1960 thru 1964 Closed 1st - Frank Rossi        1963 Avanti 2nd - Roland Corbeil        1964 Avanti 3rd - James Lewis        1964 Skylark CLASS 21 1965 thru 1969 Open 1st - Felix Valletti        1969 Camaro 2nd - Art & Judy Cooper        1968 Olds Cutlass 3rd - Bob & Kathy Glista        1968 Corvette CLASS 22 1965 thru 1969 Closed 1st - Melanie & Dick Sitnik       1967 Firebird 2nd - Edith & Steve Losaw       1965 Corvair 3rd - Helen Banis       1966 Mustang CLASS 23 1970 thru 1974 Open 1st - Joseph & Val Pereira        1970 GTO 2nd - James McDonald        1972 Buick CLASS 25 1975 thru 1979 Open 1st - Joseph & Val Pereira         1975 Cadillac CLASS 26 1975 thru 1979 Closed 1st - Eugene & Carol Zewinski        1976 Monte Carlo CLASS 28 Modified 1st - Bill & Jean Belisle        1969 Nova SS 2nd - Steve Bajurny        1934 Tudor CLASS 29 Foreign 1st - Robert Landers        1974 Mercedes 450SL 2nd - Bob & Sandy Watkins        1967 Mercedes 3rd - Ed Bednarz         MG Midget

TREASURER’S UPDATE          by Dotty Baronas HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE. Along with best wishes for the New Year, full of high hopes and good times, you have a new club Treasurer.  While I am certainly neither new to the club nor young in years, I sincerely hope that you will help me do a good job. This is a reminder of our club financial obligations, which sometimes get overlooked or forgotten.  CVR annual dues are $20 per couple/family with children and you must be a member of either AACA or VMCCA (not necessarily both), our sponsoring national clubs.  The annual national dues for AACA is $35 and for VMCCA is $37 which are renewed directly with AACA or VMCCA.  Only CVR dues should be sent to me. CVR members are not required to own antique vehicles just have a passion or interest in preserving the hobby.  Our meets are open to both antique and modern vehicles.  The meets are priced at cost, i.e. meals (including tax and tips), options, entrance fees.  Please, if you have friends who share our love of history and motor vehicles, invite them to a meet with the option to join us.  We have lost many of our older members in the last few years, and we all desire to promote our love and appreciation of our hobby to others, especially to the younger generation.  In these days of high technology, electronics and the internet, many of our histories of what brought us to this level of high tech are pushed into the background. Finally, please help me with my job, by writing a check in the amount of $20, payable to CVR, mark it 2008 dues, and mail to me: Dorothy Baronas 48 Berkshire Terrace Amherst, MA 01002-1343   If there are any questions, please contact me @413-549-1080.  Thank you for your support.

YOUR 2008 BOARD MEMBERS From left to right: Frank Moro (Technical Editor), Duane Wilson (Technical Judge), Dick Sitnik (President /Director), Art Cooper (Publications), Jerre Hoffman (Vice President), Edith Losaw (Activities), Steven Losaw (Webmaster/Club Store), Toni Phillips (Secretary), Bill Hick (Winding Road Editor), Dotty Baronas (Treasurer), Bob Watkins (Membership).

SPARK PLUG PROBLEMS   by Donald McKinsey   P.O. Box 94, Wilkinson, IN   46186 Are you having problems finding a spark plug that lasts very long in your old engines? First, let’s define the problem with the new spark plugs.  When the automobiles became controlled by computer, the spark plugs did not have to have the bottom of the insulator glazed.  The cars have fuel injection and the computer will not put enough gasoline into the cylinder to flood it.  It injects fuel into the cylinder and says “I will not put any more fuel into the engine until it fires.”  Then it fires the cylinder with 40,000 volts.  If something happens to this computer control and too much fuel is injected into the cylinder and the engine floods, this vehicle will not run right until you have taken the old plugs out and replaced them with a new set.  What has happened is the trash gasoline the Federal government has forced on us has contaminated the spark plugs because they are not glazed on the bottom.  However, when was the last time you flooded a computer controlled vehicle?  More than likely, never. Now, these old engines do not have computer control and, if your carburetor is running rich or you flood the engine, the same thing happens.  The bottom of the insulator, where it fires the engine, becomes contaminated and becomes junk.  The point coil or magneto ignition does not have 40,000 volts to fire the spark plug.

The solution to this problem is to find the spark plugs that were manufactured prior to the time that they quit glazing the bottom of the insulator.  In those engines that used 1/2” pipe thread spark plugs or 7/8-18 thread spark plugs, the best deal is to try to buy spark plugs that come apart so the insulator can be taken out and cleaned with WD-40, kerosene, diesel fuel or other things that will not remove the glaze on the bottom of the insulator.  In any case, do not sand blast or glass bead them.  This removes the glaze and you have a short life plug just as though you had purchased one of the newly manufactured spark plugs. Those plugs that do not come apart, but are glazed on the bottom of the insulator can be put in a can of the same material mentioned above and set overnight.  Then brush the carbon and oil out of them with an acid brush or other small brush.  After cleaning them, blow them off to remove the excess cleaning liquid and you are ready to run again. I cannot emphasize enough that spark plugs should not be sand blasted or glass beaded.  Also, that to get any length of life in the old engines, they must have an insulator that was glazed on the bottom. I have over 70,000 “old” spark plugs in stock and I offer a price list which covers all of these plugs for $2.00.  This $2.00 is deductible from your first order.

GF-5 MOTOR OIL SPECIFICATION    Provided by the makers of Pennsoil products. As engine technology advances to produce more efficient engines, motor oil must continue to meet the increasing demands for lubricating these precision-made engines.  Development of the next specification of gasoline-fuel (GF motor oil began only months after the latest specification, GF-4, became available in 2004. The GF-5 motor oil specification created by the International Lubricant Standardization and Approval Committee (ILSAC) is scheduled to take effect in the summer of 2009 and will be the factory fill for 2010 model-year engines.  GF-5 motor oils will be the most technologically advanced motor oil exceeding the current GF-4 category in a number of important performance areas. ILSAC identified several major areas that automakers would like to see improved with the GF-5 category.  These areas include: fuel economy and fuel economy retention throughout the oil drain; emission-control systems protection; and increased sludge, deposit and oxidation control.  In addition, ILSAC identified a number of other areas to be addressed by the GF-5 specification, including low-temperature viscosity, high and low-temperature corrosion, turbocharger protection and filter clogging protection.

Aeration control, the reduction of tiny air bubbles, is a renewed concern because modern engines demand that oil serve as a hydraulic fluid in cam phaser devices, variable valve actuators, timing chain tensioners and hydraulic lash adjusters that allow for variable valve timing.  These increased demands cause engine oils to be stressed more than ever before. One of the highest priorities for automakers and engine oil manufacturers is making GF-5 motor oil backward compatible.  Developing engine oil that is compatible for new and older engines helps prevent misapplications. ABOUT MEMBERS Bill Belisle recently had knee replacement surgery and is at home now recovering.  Freida Midura had an occurrence on December 17th and, on the 18th, had open heart surgery at Baystate Hospital in Springfield.  She is now recovering at Baystate and should be home soon.

May 30, 1896 - The first recorded auto accident occurred:  a Duryea Motor Wagon, driven by Henry Wells from Springfield, MA, collided with a bicycle ridden by Evylyn Thomas of New York City.

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