TOURS
Read about it in the Quail Call. Check the calendar for Parade and Tour dates.
Again this year, the membership will volunteer to plan and lead a tour each month. There are a few months still available. Bud would like to hear from you
if you have any ideas. For the latest information on upcoming tours check the most recent issue of the Quail Call.
UPCOMING TOURS:
February 18th Historical Building Viewing and LEAPERS Birthday Party- At
this point the February tour will meet at I-HOP in Mission Valley at 9AM.
We will leave there at 9:30. Taking
surface streets we will first visit the George Marston Gardens.
No fee to enter and enjoy the gardens or to visit the Gift shop on the
property. Those of you who would
like to enjoy the gardens longer may do so, while the rest of us will walk the
cul-de-sac, and note the other historical homes on that same street.
From there we will drive to the Fire Alarm Building.
Then onto Kate Sessions home which is not open for visitors but a small
talk will be given. After
this, and time permitting, we will take a short drive to Heritage Park in Old
Town to regroup. There is a short
self explanatory walking tour of about 6 unopened homes that were built in San
Diego and moved to this site to be restored and saved.
There are also restrooms and plenty of sitting areas.
Then we will all drive to
Crown Plaza Hotel to go to the restaurant there (The Islands) and celebrate all
LEAPERS, babies born on Feb. 29th.
Dalene Jensen is turning 17 and I understand Greg Rising is turning 15!!
BTW-(The restaurant will validate your parking ticket if you eat there,
so no worries there!)
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March 18th Progressive Platter - Bieber’s
PROGRESSIVE DINNER with TOUR --
Breakfast through Dessert!
DETAILS AND SIGN UP AT THE FEBRUARY
MEETING
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March 22-25 Laughlin Tour - Valarie Basham has the reservation
information and forms for Laughlin this year.
Give her a call or see her at the Feb. Meeting, the deadline to make your
reservations is March 10. The host
hotel is again the Riverside and you must make your own hotel reservations as
well as the meet reservation again hosted by the Pomona Valley Model A Club.
This is a Thursday—Sunday trip, and yes we will have at least one
trailer traveling with us, (our safety net or peace of mind just in case).
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April 29th - Orange County Pancake
Breakfast (tentatively) - Stay tuned for more!
PAST TOURS:
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It seems that the weather rarely interferes with our planned Model A activities, but heavy rains forecasted for Saturday, November 12 forced cancellation of our tour to see the America's Cup World Series catamaran sailboat races on San Diego Bay. Unfortunately, that was the last tour planned for the year. I want to thank those who assisted me with organizing tours over the last two years, and particularly express thanks to everyone who participated in our tour events. Ron Polk will be the new tour director for 2012, and I'm sure he will welcome your ideas for tour events as well as any offers to help organize an event.
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Our last tour was on Saturday, July 9 following the Descanso parade. At the completion of the parade, we headed east along Old Hwy. 80 through Guatay and Pine Valley, then continued south toward Buckman Springs. We drove south along Buckman Springs Rd. to the town of Campo, then headed west along State Route 94. Traffic was light, the weather was warm and clear, the east county scenic views were terrific, and all the cars ran well without problems. Our destination was the famous Barrett Junction Cafe where we stopped for a great lunch among excellent company. It was a great day for Model A's and fellowship.
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It
was a perfect June day for our group to tour four wineries in the Ramona Valley.
The 65 mile tour was well attended.
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Saturday, April 12 was the date for our
tour to the Flower Fields in Carlsbad. We met at the Toys-R-Us parking lot
on Morena Blvd. then headed west along Seaworld Drive through Mission Bay Park
over the Ingraham Street Bay bridges. We traveled through Pacific Beach
then north through La Jolla Village. We continued on to North Torrey Pines
Road and followed Highway 101 north along the coast through the beach cities and
communities to our destination in Carlsbad, where we met the Palomar A's Club
for the remainder of the tour. John Frazee provided instructions to the
large group, then led us to the Flower Fields. We drove through the fields
on farm access roads and then parked the cars adjacent to beautiful fields of
blooming Ranunculus and Gladiolus overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Cameras
were put to extensive use as the unusual sight of our cars parked among the
flowers attracted hundreds of the Flower Fields' visitors. We had 31 cars
at the Flower Fields including two Model T's.
The cars were on display for about two hours and then upon departing, 16 cars
followed John to the Craftsmanship Museum which was recently relocated to a new
building in Carlsbad. At the museum we were given a demonstration of
several of the working miniature engines and we were also provided with tours
inside the museum's precision machine shop. This museum has an
amazing display of numerous miniature engines, machine tools, and model
airplanes, trains, and automobiles. Many thanks to John Frazee for making
the arrangements for these special visits to the Flower Fields and the
Craftsmanship Museum; it was a great day for all who participated.
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The
annual Laughlin run took place from April 7th
– April 10th
this year. Repeat visitors on the
run were Valarie Basham and mom Judy, David Sohr& Penny, Jean Anderson &
John, Bill Corsen, Karen Wittkop
& Bud, Reen Kotas & son
Reenlee, Terry Thrush & Carol,
Gene & Barbara Amy, and first timers Ladd Graham and Ray &
Barbara Miller. We left Denny’s on
163 and Clairemont Mesa not quite at 7:00am due to a problem car with a loose
connection. The drive over was
uneventful and thanks to a new leader with a lead foot we arrived in Laughlin in
record time of just over 8 hours. Weather
held except for some winds in the Twenty Nine Palms area.
Thursday after checking in everyone did their own thing.
The first official event was a poker run on Friday morning.
Those who were interested made a run to Oatman on the Arizona side
and then the barbeque at Davis Camp on Friday afternoon with most of the
event’s attendee’s. Barbequed
ribs, homemade potato salad, beans, roll with a drink and strawberry shortcake
filled us up in no time. People’s
choice car judging was Friday evening from 6-8:00pm.
Saturday events began with the gymkhana, then the Hubley races, fashion
show and awards banquet from 5-8:00pm. San
Diego did well with winning. Reen
Kotas and Reenlee won 1st
and 3rd
in the Hubley race. Karen Wittkop
and Penny Smiley won 1st
and 2nd
in the Bullseye gymkhana. First
timers Ray and Barbara Miller won for the Edsel groups choice of favorite Model
A and Ladd Graham won 2nd
place in car judge class “modified model A”.
We did OK with the raffle drawings also with Bill Corsen getting a water
pump, Dave Sohr getting a 12 volt starter, and Bud getting a model a
distributor. An Edsel club was
invited to join with the Model A meet this year.
Sunday morning we were due to pull out at 7:00am but again a certain
problem Model a driver lost her keys and the guys ended up hot-wiring the car
for the drive home. Again the drive
was uneventful expect for the same problem car running out of gas just before
Twenty-Nine Palms. After gasing up
and a lunch stop in Yucca Valley we made it back without any other problems.
Again the weather co-operated, sunny but not too warm.
Oh the problem car and driver, yours truly, this was my year apparently.
Lead foot leader was Valarie Basham, great job Valarie.
Karen Wittkop
Orange County Pancake Breakfast: Nine Model A’s headed north on Saturday morning, under very grey skies and Ocean Mist (aka heavy dew, sprinkles, rain). Call it what you want, but it didn’t dampen our spirits. We met up with the Palomar club and headed up old 395, John & Dianne Frazee did an awesome job of showing us a new, no freeway route to get to Orange County. Our hats are off to them. The Winchester’s took over the Stelzer’s room at the hotel complete with strings attached. The Stelzers usually host our happy hour on Sat night. But Paul & Patty did not disappoint, in fact they may have just raised the bar a little, complete with music. Because of the less than ideal weather conditions we all huddled in their room, and we didn’t get our large circle of chairs in the parking lot this year. Sunday morning the weather hadn’t improved at all but we headed to Hart Park to make the best of it. It’s the first time I have seen a river flowing down the middle of the car parking area, (and I do mean flowing). The crowds were smaller this year, and San Diego didn’t do as well with the raffle prizes, Karen Wittkop was the only winner but all who attended were treated to a free breakfast, thanks to the generosity of the S. D. club and Director Bud Swartwood. Congratulations to the Frazee for winning a car trophy with their commercial panel truck and celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary with us this weekend. We headed home shortly after the end of the raffle, another good pancake breakfast in our memories for another year. This being their 50th Anniversary all Model A’s driven & registered received a commemorative license plate.
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RAILWAY & TRUCK MUSEUM
in Campo: Great weekend
weather greeted the Club's first tour for 2011 on Saturday, February 12.
Fourteen Model A's gathered at the Target parking lot in El Cajon,
departed at 9:00 am and made their way to Hwy. 94 where two more A's joined the
tour. We headed east, winding through the mountains on the way to Campo
and our first stop, at the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum. Most of the
participants then took the 12 mile round trip train ride to the International
Border and back to the museum display yard. After touring through the
historic rail cars and steam engines, we all sat down and enjoyed a picnic
lunch.
Our next stop was at
the Motor Transport (Truck) Museum. Brian, the museum docent, gave us a
quick presentation on local history, then led us on a tour of the vehicles on
display and the restoration projects all housed inside the historic feldspar
mill building. Following the Truck Museum visit we headed north to Buckman
Springs, then followed Old Hwy. 80 west on our return trip. This was a
great excursion to start the year with outstan
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CAMP
PENDLETON TOUR: Thursday, January 20th, we joined the
Palomar Model A’s for a Tour to Camp Pendleton. We were able to tour the
original ranch house, an active ranch that became property of the United States
military in 1942. We toured the Marine Corps vehicle museum including a
variety of WWII tanks, after which we had lunch on base and completed our day at
the amphibious museum at the waters’ edge. Sue Winnett drove her Model
A. Bob Hanselman, Gene Amy, Bob Weckman, Reen Kotas & daughter Darcy, Roy
& Dalene Jensen, Arlyn & Nayola Bieber, Bud & Judy Swartwood, Walter
& Roxy Faust, Larry Kaiser, Ralph & Joyce Schuler, Roger & Eleanore
Phillips all arrived in moderns.,
Camp Pendleton hosted over
40 Model A Club Members and their guests. Thanks again for the efforts of Clyde
Marion and the Palomar Group for making the necessary arrangements for this
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Bates Nut Farm Sunday November 7th, 2010
We
were blessed with a beautiful day for a tour.
Not only did we have wonderful weather, we received a send off by Ralph
Schuler and family. Yes Ralph
is back on his feet, driving a car and doing some
visiting. Everyone was thrilled to
see him again. He said he would like
to hear from everyone and he looks forward
to visitors. We also got a send off
by Casey Bane who came by in his recently repaired roadster.
