Northeast Chapter Car Show at Peddler's Village

Bill Marcy

PCS Member
We had our 11TH Annual show today and it turned out pretty well. The weather was picture perfect with blue skies and bright sunshine! We had 41 cars on the show field with seven professional cars among them. There were some great cars and trucks! We raised some money for charity. Even past president John Ehmer and his lady Darlene were there! All in all, I would say that the day was a success and everybody seemed to enjoy themselves!
 

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I really like the last pic, I always wanted one of those mercs. It looks like this one has mid 50s Cadillac headlight surrounds grafted in.
 
As iffy weather didn't help turnout at last year's 10th anniversary Lahaska show, PCS Nor'Easters were certainly lucky we had flawless, cloudless weather this round! Attached are a few of the photos I took of the pro-cars at our 2012 Peddler's Village show, plus some personal observations I'll eventually polish for Bee Hamlin's PCIN Chapter News in THE PROFESSIONAL CAR ...

As it was a war-abridged model year, I always get a big, big kick out of 1942 models like the Cadillac Model 7533 Fleetwood Formal Sedan shown by Clifton, NJ funeral director Roy Garretson. This imposing car, which appeared in the Howard Hughes biopic THE AVIATOR, had only gotten out of the body shop two days before, having been clipped in the right front fender by a Chevy pickup just three hours after Roy got it back from five weeks of mechanical work.

Having driven out from Pittsburgh for the weekend, John Ehmer & Darlene DiMario were our unofficial distance champions. The front-wheel-drive 1986 DeVille drop-top they exhibited was made by Car Craft of Lima, Ohio, and touted an (albeit tiny) glass rear window with electric defrosting. Another interesting detail of this conversion was that the portions of the original door frame above the side-view mirrors were permanently-attached to the windshield frame to stiffen it.

In addition to the 1951 Studebaker Champion taxi that earned Mid-Atlantic Chapter Prez Jeff Beyer Best-in-Show, our cab contingent featured Bruce Uhrich's exquisitely-restored 1956 Checker A-8 that's one of only six known survivors (one of which is a parade car with two front ends welded together) out of 9,996 completed before the iconic, quad-headlight A-9 debuted in late 1958. I thought it intriguing that the the North America map incorporated into the decals on each rear door included the St. Lawrence Seaway, but not the Mississippi River.

One of my favorite "Lahaska regulars" is a 1949 Chrysler Windsor 8-passenger limousine owned by Worrell “Walt” Stout of Huntington Valley, PA, owing to its unique appointments and truly fascinating back story. A funeral director in Mahanoy City, PA (which was so hemmed in by mountains it had been the first town in the U.S to get cable TV the year before) had ordered it without an interior so custom upholstery could be fitted at Derham’s Rosemont, PA shop. The original owner’s daughter, who was six years old when the car finally arrived, remembers her and her father sitting on milk crates for the drive down to Derham, after which they took the Liberty Bell interurban street car home to Mahanoy City. In spite of the spiffy wire wheels and wide whites it wears now, Mike Satterthwaite’s adjacent, deep blue 1953 Packard limousine from Huntington Valley, PA was one of six originally ordered by the U.S. government as a Secret Service escort vehicle and was accordingly a “stripper”; no radio, no power assist for the steering, brakes or windows and a column-mounted three-speed manual gearbox in place of the more commonly-fitted Ultramatic transmission.

Of course, the real reward of the Northeast Chapter opening its Lahaska show field to all types of cars & trucks is that we get ALL TYPES of cars and trucks! This year, Jorge Parenve of Bridgewater, NJ really went above-and-beyond in my book with a diminutive 1980 Citroen Visa Club that teamed an air-cooled, 2CV-style two-cylinder engine with three-lug wheels, a single-spoke steering wheel and plaid upholstery. Jorge's father had bought it second-hand in Portugal, and it's one of only five examples of the model in the U.S.
 

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