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(Last updated Sunday, 29
January 12)


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| The Metro Region regretfully announces the passing of two
strong Metro supporters: John W. “Jack” Rich of
Pottsville, PA and Lee Davenport of Greenwich, CT. Our condolences
to the Rich and Davenport families. |
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| John W. “Jack” Rich of
Pottsville, Pennsylvania passed away December 30, 2011. Mr. Rich’s
collection was housed in the JWR Museum, located in northeast
Pennsylvania. The cornerstones of his 85-car collection were foreign
Classic and large brass era automobiles. He displayed these automobiles at
CCCA Grand Classics as well as at automobile concours throughout the
United States. He was the CEO of several
companies, including Reading Anthracite Company, Gilberton Coal Company
and Jack Rich, Inc. as well as the founder of several other
corporations. He was a former director of Keystone Financial and several
other public companies.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Rose Teresa
Rich. He is survived by six children and numerous grandchildren
step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He attended Staunton Military
Academy and Penn State University.
Mr. Rich's automobiles were displayed at car events
by his museum curator, Mark Lizewskie. |
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- text courtesy of National CCCA website |
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| Lee Davenport, a physicist who developed a radar
device that helped bring Allied victories on major World War II
battlefronts in Europe and the Pacific, died September 30, 2011 in
Greenwich, Conn. He was 95.
Click here to read Lee's obituary, courtesy of The New York Times. |
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Here are the dates for the 2012 Metro CCCA Board Meetings.
Please remember, that all Metro members are welcome! |
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The CCCA-Metro Board Meetings will be held on the 3rd TUESDAY OF THE MONTH
with a starting time of 7:30 pm. |
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All
meetings will be held at Steve Babinsky’s “Automotive
Restorations,” 1050 Route 22 West, Lebanon, NJ 08833. (908)
236-6400. |
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The
exception
is the meeting on February 21, which will be held at the Marano &
Sons “Toy Box,” 49 South Avenue, Garwood, NJ 07027. |
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All members are welcome to attend. However, please contact
Stella
Pyrtek-Blond
before the meeting so we can have an adequate
head-count for chairs, etc. |
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January
17, 2012 |
at Automotive
Restorations |
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February
21, 2012 |
at The
Toy Box |
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March
20, 2012 |
at Automotive
Restorations |
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April
17, 2012 |
at Automotive
Restorations |
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May 15,
2012 |
at Automotive
Restorations |
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June 19,
2012 |
at Automotive
Restorations |
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July |
No
Meeting (summer vacation) |
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August |
No
Meeting (summer vacation) |
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September 18, 2012 |
at Automotive
Restorations |
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October
28, 2012 |
(Sunday
- Annual Meeting, tentative date. Location to be determined.) |
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November
20, 2012 |
at Automotive
Restorations |
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December
2, 2012 |
(Sunday
- Holiday Party, tentative date. The location is the Spanish Tavern,
Mountainside, NJ.) |
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We've
started updating our
2012 Calendar of Events - including our meeting schedule and
the addition of 16 Concours d'Elegance events. (Look for the
on the calendar.) Do you know of an event, concours or otherwise,
that your fellow Metro members might enjoy? Send the info to
Pat, the
webmaster! |
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The Long Island Sound is up and running on the internet. Check out
their great website at
liccca.com
and see all the happenings out on "The Island"! |
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The Metro Region By-Laws - 16
Nov 2010 Revision |
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Your
Metro Board approved changes to the Region's By-Laws at the open meeting
held on November 16, 2010.
Modifications were made to Article XI:
Dissolution, specifically how funds are distributed if the Metro
Region were to dissolve.
The revised By Laws document, dated
16 November 2010, has been posted. (Please note, this
document is
9
pages long - and posted here in
WORD
and
PDF formats for your convenience.) |
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C-O-M-P-L-E-T-E-L-Y
U-P-D-A-T-E-D |
| We have a
great feature on the Metro Region Website - an electronic archive of
the Technical articles, featured in the Skyline. The
articles are in handy PDF format and in
COLOR! |
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| Our archive
stretches back to the Winter of 2006. Dave Czirr and Technical Editor,
Chris Wantuck, have provided a plethora of articles
on a wide variety of topics. Why not take a look? You might
refresh your memory - or find something you missed the first time
around..... |
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Click here to jump to the Metro Tech Archive... |
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At the request of Norm Arbour,
our club historian, we would like information about two subjects. We are
trying to gather as many historical documents, stories and photos relating
to the club and its cars to put in one place for people to enjoy, research
and appreciate. Thank you very much. |
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1.
– The Wallis Bird Auction in 1962 conducted on his estate in Old
Westbury, Long Island, NY. At the time it was billed as the
“Auction of the “Century” where a Duesenberg was sold for $10,000, the
most expensive car sold at auction at the time. Jim Hoe was the agent who
bought it for the owner, Dieter Holterbach. Norm Arbour, as a young man,
was present at the auction and remembers George Tissen (CCCA President,
1965-1968) climbing the rafters of the building to photograph the
proceedings.
Wallis Bird was a wealthy heir
to part of the Standard Oil fortune. He had a great collection of Classic
Cars that were rarely driven, stored at his estate in Old Westbury. He
died in a plane crash in 1941 in the Thousand Islands area where he had a
summer estate on Hill Island. His wife died in 1962 after which the
auction was held to dispose of the cars. We would appreciate as much
information and as many photographs of the event as possible. It not only
has wonderful memories for Norm, but is a fascinating event and part of
the history of our Classic Cars. |
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2. – The Metropolitan
Activities Committee (MAC) events at the Stud Farm
in northern New Jersey. In the
early days of the Classic car Club, the headquarters were in Madison, NJ
and this precluded having a local region. Because people in the area
wanted to have events, the MAC was formed. After the Metropolitan Region,
now called the Metro Region, was formed in 1979 the CCCA National
headquarters was moved to Des Plaines, IL to become more centrally
located. During these early days with MAC some events were held at the
Stud Farm and it about these events that we are requesting photos and
information. Of course if you have information about other early events
that you would like to donate to Metro, that would be greatly appreciated
as well. |
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Donations
or loans of material (magazines, stories, recollections, photos, etc..) to
the Metro Region Archive can be addressed to our Region Historian,
Norman Arbour.
(All loaned material will be copied and returned.) |
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Automotive
Restorations, c/o Norman Arbour, Jr. |
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1050 Rt 22 W
Bldg B ~ Lebanon, NJ 08833 |
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Have a
question for our Historian? Contact him through the webmaster by
e-mail at
Webmaster@metroccca.org |
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