SHOP RAG Newslitter of the Wheat State
Chapter/ATHS, May 2018
MINUTES OF THE WSC MEETING OF 4-14-18 -
Meeting called to order by President Goering at Newell’s Travel Center at 1:01
pm with 23 members present. Secretary
report given and approved Treasurer Report given and approved.
Scott reported Newell’s Mary would have surgery
next week to fix a shoulder injury.
Conklin Cars has approved the use of there lot
for parking.
Scott was going so fast on sponsor I couldn’t keep up
with him so they will be announced at the show.
Bumper to Bumper has bailed out on being our
being main sponsor to our show.
Food for thought at next year’s show have fire
trucks and wrecker trucks do a demonstration. Possibly pick up another main
sponsor for the show.
Pratt at South West Truck has invited us to
bring our trucks to their October show.
Thank you to Wanda for providing desserts for the
crew.
Next Board meeting May 2 2108 eat at 6:00 pm meeting
afterwards.
Nets membership meeting May 12 2018 pm eat at noon meeting
afterwards facility to announced.
Meeting adjourned at 1:26 pm.
Our Truck Show was likely our wettest yet. It
never poured or came close to it, but there was a light rain falling virtually
all day. The turn-out was what you
might expect in that circumstance, just 20 registered trucks, but we
nonetheless had a room full of attendees for the auction. Dave Reynolds made the trip from KC again to
handle the aution for us and it raised a good bit for our treasury. The auctioned items were all donated; I do
not have a list of the folks who supplied them, but they sure helped make the
day. I do have a list of sponsors:
Regier Construction, Dave Hennes Trucking and excavating, Goering Enterprises,
Kustom Karriers, Kustom Warehousing, Fields Brothers Salt Flat Racing, Wichita
Trailer, and Steffans Auto Parts in Hutchinson, and our thanks to all.
For several years now we've been publicizing our show in Auto
Restorer Magazine. This year
editor Ted Kade asked regular contributor Traci Sipple to check us out,
so she drove down for the day with her folks to do just that. She took lots of photos and met a number of
our members, then we drove to Halstead
to see RT's Oldest Gas Station and made a stop at Lenny's shed on the way
back. The short of it is that they were
impressed and will be back. It's up to
the editor as to if and when we show in print, but I have a subscription and
I'll pass the word as soon as I know.
For those of you who aren't familiar with Auto Restorer, it is a
non-glossy print monthly written in no small part by its readership, so it's
heavy on projects and technique. I'm
close to dropping a couple of motorcycle mag subscriptions because they've gone
the coffee-table route, but this is one I'll keep for sure.
The Hot & Cold Truck Show
in Pratt is 6 October at Southwest Truck Parts. In print, what they want is Big Trucks, as in grain trucks and
larger. The word we have is that they really, as in really,want to have
Wheat State Chapter there, and if your pickup were to tag along with our big
trucks you wouldn't be told to park at WalMart.
The Dispatch is published by our HQ to keep national
board members and chapters informed.
Lenny put me on the mailing list recently in an apparent attempt to show me some intelligent material for the
newsletter and wouldn't that be a change?
This month, I finally remembered to check it, and I can confidently tell
you that the Lexington Convention will be streamed on the internet, there will
be an ATHS YouTube competition(??), and the ATHS and Cummins have a joint
promotion in the works and HQ would like to hear from members who have vintage
trucks with Cummins power. Contact
Jourdan at jourdan@ATHS.org, 816-777-5595, with year/make/model of
truck and model/size of engine. They'll
make you famous, I guess.
Trip Sheet
12 May – Wheat State Chapter meeting at the Barn in Burrton, BBQ brisket buffet, eat at noon, meeting
follows.
18-19 May - Sedgwick Street Rodders
Spring Swap Meet, Hutch Fairgrounds
31 May-2 June – ATHS National
Convention, Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington
22-24 June – Buddy Sombart truck
Show, Adrian MO
12-14 July – Walcott (IA) truckers
Jamboree
14-17 sept – Ozark/4 State Truck
Show, Springfield MO
06 October – Southwest Truck Parts
Truck Show, Pratt KS. Date/info
when available.
26-27 October – Sedgwick Street Rodders Fall Swap Meet, Hutch Fairgrounds
www.aths.org, www.athskansas.org,and on Facebook at ATHS Wheat State Chapter