Plymouth Is Out To Win You Over!

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1 March 2016 Plymouth Is Out To Win You Over! President: Dean Yates Vice President: Rockey Rozell Secretary/Membership: Greg Errett Treasurer: Joe Brown Activities / Webpage / Newsletter: Dean Yates plymouth-man@carolina.rr.com Since the last newsletter we have had two outings (one official and one unofficial). The official one with a Club meeting was held on February 27 at StreetSide Classics in Charlotte, NC. StreetSide is the nation s top consignment dealer of classic and collectible cars. Mr. John Gibson is the Consignment Manager for the Charlotte location. He welcomed our club and described their operations to us in some detail, he also encouraged us to do business with them in buying, storing, or putting a car up for consignment with them to market and sell. They had many very nice fine MOPARs on their showroom floor and we all enjoyed viewing them. More information on our meeting can be found in the February Minute section in this newsletter. Below are some fine examples of some very nice MOPARs at their Charlotte location Plymouth <-> 2001 Plymouth A Note From The President Spring has sprung and my allergies are here to give me a fit. I love spring time and glad to see the winter season long gone. It seems the pollen is much worse this year or is it I m just getting older and it affects me more. Headaches, coughing, and sneezing; I love it all because the warmth makes my bones feel good. Nice 1965 Plymouth Satellite Convertible

2 A Couple Of Nice Nash Metropolitans Very Lovely 1966 Plymouth Hemi Belvedere And One Ford Being Worked On By Five Guys A Couple of Beautiful Plymouth Cudas Our unofficial outing (without a meeting) was held on March 19 th at the RK Motors with the Carolina- ScatPack Club. The Carolina-ScatPack Club is made up of mostly newer MOPARs (Dodge Challengers and Dodge Chargers) and the show field was made up of mostly newer cars with a few older MOPARs being shown. I feel the weather (morning rain) kept the turnout of older MOPARs away. I was planning to take one of my Plymouths to the show but the bad morning weather had me driving my Dodge RAM. Now on the inside of RK Motors there was a beautiful assortment of MOPARs. Below are just a few of the very nice cars inside the showroom. A Very Nice 1968 Dodge Dart

3 Beautiful 1964 Plymouth Sport Fury Very Nice 1967 Plymouth GTX Beautiful 1969 Plymouth Road Runner Another Beautiful 1970 Plymouth Cuda Forever Beautiful 1970 Plymouth Cuda AAR Very Unusual But Beautiful 1961 Plymouth SW Nice 1970 Plymouth Viper Cuda Very Nice 1971 Plymouth Cuda

4 Mike Bucket will be back with us again next month as I have a special article written by an old friend that I have known since childhood. He is a few years younger than me, we went to the same church, and lived only a block from each other. His name is Kent Bernhardt, he works for Performance Racing Network, he s a radio DJ, he sings, he s an actor, he writes for the Salisbury Post; he does many things very well. As you can see he is a very talented person and I have his permission to use this article. Our next Club outing will be the Spring AutoFair on Saturday April 9 th and Sunday April 10 th with a meeting at 12 noon on Sunday. I still have a few tickets left for Sunday. Till we meet again, remember to keep those old Plymouths running and on the road, and God Bless you all. Dean Yates, President Future Meetings & Activities: Apr 9/10 Spring Charlotte AutoFair, (8am); Concord, NC May 14 MOPAR Fun Run, (10am); Farmington, NC Jun 4 Carolina Plymouth Club Car Show, (8am); Spencer, NC Jul 16 Farmers Day (10am); China Grove, NC Aug 13 Kannapolis Cruise-In, (2pm); Kannapolis, NC Sept 24/25 Fall Charlotte AutoFair, (8am); Concord, NC Oct 29 NC Zoo???, (???); Asheboro, NC Dec 3 Appreciation Dinner, (5pm); NC Others: MOPARs At The Rock, Apr 2 Chrysler at Carlisle, Jul Mopar Nationals, Aug 5-7 Don Garlits Show, Nov st Saturday, Mooresville Cruise-In 2 nd Saturday, Kannapolis Cruise-In Future AutoFairs: 2017: 4/8-9; 9/ : 4/7-8; 9/22-23 March/April Birthdays: Shane Binkley Cindy Bratton Jonny Oliver Toba Smith Pat Weaver Ginny Wells February Minutes StreetSide Classics The Club's meeting was held at StreetSide Classics in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday February 27, 2016 at 5:00 p.m. Dean Yates welcomed everyone to the club meeting and then introduced Mr. John Gibson, Consignment Manager for the company. Mr. Gibson welcomed our club and described their operations to us in some detail and of course encouraged us to do business with them in buying, storing, or putting a car up for consignment with them to market and sell.

5 John also talked about the market and their firm moving into a new larger building in Concord because they are simply running out of space. He mentioned they have other locations of the company in Atlanta, Dallas, and Tampa as well. Greg Errett read the minutes from the January meeting and they were approved as read. Joe Brown gave the club's Treasury report and told us the Club's account was holding steady. Joe also mentioned the club received a new member's application from Reidsville. Dean asked for a Sick Call of anyone who is injured or sick at this time. Joe said he is still going to the doctor about twice a week. Sherry Deliso talked about her aunt in New York having surgery and the issues going on there. Dean then went over the Old Business items including distributing the club's business cards with our Mopar Car Show date on them; club t-shirts still for sale at various sizes; review of the club's activities for 2016; and the list of organizations the club will be making charitable donations to this year. A discussion ensued as some of the organizations were not statewide groups but more locally oriented. The Salvation Army and Hospice were set up as local organizations. Dean suggested we then increase the $500 pledge to $600 and divide it three ways among 3 counties in the general area of the club's active membership, or $200 for each county. Greg suggested keeping it at $500 total and dividing it up 5 ways at $100 each for these counties: Guilford, Forsyth, Rowan, Mecklenburg and Union Counties. This idea was approved through a motion and vote. We continued the discussion on the club's activities for Sherry will check into a trip to the NC Zoo, discussed the August event being the Kannapolis Cruise-In on August 13 th, and our Appreciation Dinner on December 3rd. Some comments were made as to where the dinner should take place. Dean then led a discussion about the club's Facebook page and its need for updates. Keith Mitchem's son had been doing it for awhile but is no longer active in the club's activities. Dean began discussing new business. He went over the logistics for the spring AutoFair and discussed the rules set down by the Charlotte Motor Speedway running the show. As usual there will be two tickets per person per day for entering the speedway as well as a car pass for each day of participating in the fair. Someone asked Dean about leaving cars overnight at the Fair and he said he has had no problems with vandalism in the past. Dean also reminded club members it is time to renew club memberships which are due in April each year. Regarding our annual MOPAR Car show in June at the North Carolina Transportation Museum, we will need door prizes donated. There will be no goody bags this year. The show will be set up to evaluate club member's cars separately from outside participants to avoid the conflict of interest complaints from the past. Dean announced our next club outing will be March 19th at the ScatPak Club car show at RK Motors, 5527 Lakeview Drive in Charlotte at 12:00 p.m. There was no other new business, the meeting was adjourned, and members decided to meet at Showmars for dinner; located on US 29 in Charlotte. Respectfully Submitted Greg Errett, Secretary Toys & Stuff Back in the 1990 s when the Plymouth automobile was still being produced like all automotive companies they would make items to sale with their names on it (shirts, coats, pins, etc). Well that year Chrysler Motors made watches for their Plymouth line of cars. It was the end of the year so they had a fire sale on their merchandize and I purchased the Plymouth watch pictured above. As you can see it is still new in the box and has never been used. It is in a tin container and the watch is: Quartz Accuracy, Water Resistant, 3 Year Warranty (expired), and Long Life Battery (dead I m sure).

6 If you have any toys or unusual stuff just send me a picture and a few lines on what it is and I will try to get it in our newsletter. Dean Just call me Mr. Fix-It Give a man a tool, and you feed his handyman fantasy for a day. Teach a man to use that tool and you keep legitimate repairmen gainfully employed repairing his damage for a lifetime. Abraham Lincoln OK, I m not sure Abraham Lincoln actually said that, but he should ve. It s just as true as other things he said. Like most men, I have a collection of tools. I ve assembled them throughout a lifetime of home improvement projects. And I actually know what a few of them do. I have the mandatory hammers, screwdrivers, drills, and even drill bits, most of which I store under my washing machine because that s where they rolled when they fell out of my drill bit case. At least I know where they are. I also have drain snakes of various sizes. For you home repair novices, a drain snake is a tool you use on tough drain clogs just before you call a real plumber. Then he comes to your home, removes the jammed snake from your drain, and pours some stuff in there that makes your home smell like rotten eggs for the rest of the day. Yes, like all men I love roaming the aisles of Lowes and Home Depot appearing to know exactly what I need. I usually don t, but according to the man code I m not allowed to tell anyone I don t. For me, shopping at Lowe s is like looking for a bathroom in the Vatican. I figure if I wander around long enough, I ll eventually find what I need. Kind employees will approach me asking if they can help me. I should say Yes, I need you to come to my home, take a look at my problem, buy the item I need, and fix it for me. But what I hear myself say instead is No thanks, I m just looking. I m just looking all right. I m looking for the nerve to tell them I m a home repair idiot. Being home repair challenged is nothing new to me. It goes way back, really to my teen years. Just before my senior year of high school, I had a summer job at a local produce company. The first day on the job, my boss asked me to go across the street to an auto parts supply store and borrow their skyhook. There s no such thing as a skyhook. But dutifully, I sauntered over to the store and asked to borrow theirs. Well, he knows we have them in different sizes, the guy told me with a twinkle in his eye. Go back and ask him which size he needs. I returned to my boss. He needs to know the size you need. He knows what size I need! he piped. Tell him it s the same one I always use! Across the street I go again. He says it s the same skyhook he always uses. This went on for a few more trips until I realized I was getting the new employee treatment. I later had the pleasure of watching a few other new hires fall victim to the same joke. We men are by nature fixers. We have a need to fix things, and fix them quickly. When our wives come to us complaining about the status of our relationship, we want to put duct tape on it. Problem solved. But I confess to you today that I m no fixer. I m the guy who should just call someone who is. I m not really even a tool guy. Still, I love to flirt with my fantasy, and on occasion I have been successful. I can rebuild the inside of a toilet, and I successfully replaced a drain trap once. It held for three full days. Still, as Andy Griffith once said, I should just call the man and save myself the time and agony of another botched repair. Now, if you ll excuse me, I need to run to Lowe s. They re having a sale on skyhooks. Kent Bernhardt lives in Salisbury.

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11 MOPAR Cars And Parts For Sale, And Want Ads Members are free, all others are $3.00 per month Club shirts and some show T-shirts for sale. Dean at: or For Sale: A-Body AM Radio; late model MOPAR AM/FM/CD Radio; after market AM/FM/CD Radio. Wanted: 1962 Plymouth Fury convertible trunk lid. Dean at: or For Sale: '73 (+/-) Challenger hood with nostrils and holes for hood pins and one spot of rust. Under-dash AC package (all major parts $300); Mopar 8-3/4" differentials, various high gear, non-locking - $100, locking - $200, 4.89 Sure-Grip - $300 (only used on short trips); Dodge Mirada all aluminum 15x6 wheels, vgc $125; "B" body conv top frame (rust) $150, pedals ass y $75; 64 A727 trans $600, probably need seals; 383 low block crank, turned 0.010"- $100. Barnes Daniels , 9 to 9pm. For Sale: 1950 Plymouth Special Deluxe, 4 Dr, many accessories & rust free; asking $8,950. Also have many toy cars & trucks, mostly antique and many MOPARS. Marty at or martyboling@northstate.net <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Plymouth Funnies

12 Dean Yates P.O. Box 69 Faith, N.C Please Support These Businesses Who Support The Carolina Region