Urgent request for Memorial Day transport of Veterans in the Durham Parade!

Larry Cossar has forwarded a request from Stefanie Frazee (Parks & Recreation Director, Town of Durham, 603-817-4074) for any members in the vicinity of Durham to bring their vintage vehicles to transport veterans in the Durham Memorial Day Parade. Please contact her directly to help with this worthy event.

New events from Willy as of 5/15/13: see the calendar!

WILLY SEZ on May 6, 2013:

GRANITE REGION MEMBERS,

We are about a month away from our ANNUAL MEETING, Saturday June 8th at Ted Valpey's. We need to know about how many to expect so that we can let Ted know. Please, just hit "reply" on his e-mail with the number coming!

Details and a map will be in your forthcoming Newsletter....Thanks,  Willy

Granite Region Annual Meeting
June 8, 2013
Bayview Farm, Dover NH 

Willy announced the GRAACA Annual meeting:

The Annual meeting for this year is being held on Saturday, June 8th at the Bayview Farm of member Ted Valpey. This is a rain or shine event and we will be in his barn surrounded by a life time of collecting rare antique BIG trucks, BIG stationary engine, autos, signage toys and much, much more.

It is located at 39 Bayview Rd. Dover NH. Go past the house and down the hill, to the right there is plenty of parking by the barns. You may view a map here.

And please let us know if you are coming so we know about how many will be coming!

AACA ANNUAL MEETING!

The Annual Meeting of the AACA is over--the attendees from NH were treated to some terrific seminars. Had you heard about water-based paint for collector cars? Astounding technology, developing rapidly. Did you know about the movement of the art deco movement from 1920s ad campaigns into the art deco cars of the 1930s? Amazing how art molds technology! These were just two of the memorable seminars that we were treated to. The vendor show featured some really nice cars showing off high performance Ford/Shelby products and examples of restoration shops. You can get glimpses of the meeting in the slideshow at the top left of this page. Next year: Feb 6-8, 2014: Philadelphia!

WEBMASTER NEEDED!

It's not too early to decide to volunteer for the position of club Webmaster. A new person will take over when the current Webmaster steps down in June 2013. The management has become much simpler with the new Joomla system--you can do it!!!

There is an update on the issue of chloride in coolant water from an environmental engineer from the Bean Pot Chapter--see the technical forum.

The new website has lots of potential for member participation--all you have to be able to do is use a web browser! Click here for a description of the sorts of things that you can do to make your club web site better serve us all.

Also, please note the poll to the left that asks your opinion on having a members-only location on the website that would be accessible only by sign-in with password. This could be a place, for example, where you could find the email address of another member to ask a specific car question, to set up a mini-tour or the like. You would always have the choice of whether or not to include your email address and any other information (cars you know about, etc.), but obviously the utility increases as more folks join in. The login could be your AACA member number with a password of your choice. 

As of January 1, 2013, 13 members of the total membership have expressed an opinion and the vote is split, so unless more enthusiasm is shown for the idea, the Webmaster will not pursue it.