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June 2012 T o m a t a l k Kurt & Michael Eastburg at the 2nd Annual “Pontiac Happening”
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June 2012T o m a t a l k
Kurt & Michael Eastburg at the
2nd Annual “Pontiac Happening”
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TomatalkJune 2012
Volume 37 ~ Number 6
The Tomatalk is published monthly by the Minnesota Chapter 13 of the Pon-tiac Oakland Club International. The Tomahawk Chapter was founded in 1977. The chapter is dedicated to the preservation and enjoyment of Pontiac, Oakland and GMC vehicles of all years and models, stock and modified.
Club events are organized for the en-joyment of our members.
All letters to the editor should be signed. Articles, letters and editorial content represent the opinions and viewpoints of the authors and not necessarily that of the Tomahawk Chapter or POCI.
web site: tomatalk.org
Tomahawk ChapterOfficers
President - Steve Messer59 Lilac St.
Lino Lakes, MN 55014 651-786-4198 [email protected] Vice-President
Todd Lewis5895 St. Albans No.
Shorewood, MN 55126 651-895-9325
Secretary - Steve Weese8838 Baltimore St. NE
Blaine, MN 55449 763-780-0937
Treasurer - Jim Felker5500 Merritt CircleEdina, MN 55436
Newsletter Editor &Web Site Administrator
Paul Bergstrom1165 County Road 83
Independence, MN 55359763-479-2248
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President’s MessageWe had our monthly May meeting on Tuesday May 15th at the Rosetown Legion. Here is a recap of some of the upcoming events. Thursday June 7th, 7:00 PM: Meet at the Rosetown Legion to stuff goodie bags for the GM Show. The more members that attend will make this go fast. If you don’t attend you will have to answer to TERRY FORD. Saturday June 9th, 8:00 AM: Meet at the Roseville Perkins (near Har Mar Mall) and then go to the Fair grounds and set up our tent. Only 5-6 people are needed but the more the better. Sunday June 10th :GM Show at the Fair Grounds. As everyone know this is a MAJOR fund raiser for our club so we need everyone’s attendance. We also need every club member who knows anyone with a GM car or truck to attend. Saturday June 16th. This will be our first annual DAVE BENNETT CRUISE. We will meet at the upper parking lot at the Rosetown Legion at 10:00 (Rain or Shine). We will be going up to the upper St. Croix valley, down through Still-water, and ending up in Afton for Ice cream. The exact route has not been es-tablished yet but I will have flyers Dave did a lot for both our TOMAHAWK chapter as well as the NATIONAL POCI chapter. I think out of respect for Dave we should have our best turnout ever for a cruise. Please mark it down and attend. Tuesday June 19th 7:00 PM. Our monthly chapter meeting at Wagner’s Drive In at Brooklyn Park Everyone enjoy their start of the summer at I will see everyone at the bag stuffing on June 7th Have a fun and safe Memorial Day!
Steve Messer,Tomahawk Chief
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May Meeting Minutes
The meeting was called to order at 7:10 with 13 members present and some more arriving a little later.
We would like to welcome new mem-ber Dick Johnson who came all the way from Paynesville, he has a 1969 Firebird. Last month’s minutes were read and accepted. A treasurer’s report was given and accepted.
Old Business - Tony did a good burn-out that impressed his children.
I won a trophy in my first drag strip outing of the year.
New Business - Terry has GM show flyers for anyone who can pass them out. We are going to stuff goody bags on June 7th at the Rosetown Legion, 7:00 pm.
The Street Rodder cartoonist, Dave Bell, passed away. He drew Dave Ben-nett’s car and bike in a tribute to him in the last issue.
Selma’s Ice Cream in Afton is open and may make a good cruise destination.
We discussed when we would like to have the Dave Bennett cruise. We thought we would try on the 16th of June, at 10:00 am. We plan to meet
at the Rosetown Legion and cruise to Selma’s ice cream in Afton.
Nick brought in some artwork to see what we would like to put on our club stickers. He also brought in some info on the Fireball Roberts NASCAR vic-tory special edition Grand Prix.
We discussed some items for the up-coming GM show. Meet at the Perkin’s on Snelling at 9:00 am for tent set –up on June 10th.
The “Pontiac Happening” is this Satur-day at the Chanhassen AutoMotorPlex from 9:00 to 12:00 with a cruise after-wards.
We talked about the mailing to court new members and maybe a change in our newsletter paper.
We also did some testing on removing lettering on our wooden plaques so that we might find a use for them.
Paul mentioned a 1966 Bonneville that is for sale, it has a rusted frame but comes with a southern replacement. So anybody looking for a new project?
Our new member Dick won the draw-ing! Respectfully submitted,
Steve “Mudbird” Weese Tomahawk Chapter Secretary
Membership Meeting
June 19th @ 7:00PM
Wagner’s Drive-In7000 W. Broadway Ave.
Brooklyn Park
763-533-8262
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Meanwhile... Back at the Pontiac Ranch
Thanks to all of the Tomahawk mem-bers who showed up at The AutoMo-torPlex in Chanhassen for the “Pontiac Happening”. It was a fun event and the Land O’Lakes GTO Club plans to continue this again in 2013.
We have lots of other events coming up, let’s all do our best to support and participate in them this summer and fall. The GM Car Show is just around the corner, with our “1st Annual” Dave Bennett Cruise is scheduled for the weekend after that.
The POCI convention is drawing near, I am seeing several Tomahawk member registrations come is, don’t forget that the registration fee goes up to $75 on 6/1/12.... so, REGISTER TODAY!!!
Send in those want ads, photos, ar-ticles, and any submissions for the website. Thanks to Mike Johnson for helping get the tomatalk.org site back up and stabilized.
Remember the goody bag stuffing day too on Thursday, June 7th at the Ro-setown American Legion, hope to see you there!
Paul Bergstrom,Tomatalk Editor
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2nd Annual
“PONTIAC HAPPENING”
80+ Pontiacs showed up for the 2nd Annual “Pontiac Happening” at the AutoMotorPlex in Chanhasen. There was a cruise to the Minnetonka Drive-In and then several people went out to check out Paul Kilker’s Pontiac cars and parts in his storage building near St. Boni.
Thanks to the Land’ O’Lakes GTO club for arranging the event. We hope to be back again in 2013. Enjoy the photos!
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1st Annual
“DAVE BENNETT CRUISE” Saturday, June 16th
Mark your calendars for the 1st Annual DAVE BENNETT CRUISE.
We will meet at the upper parking lot at the Rosetown Legion at 10:00 a.m. (rain or shine). We will be going up to the upper St. Croix Valley, through Stillwater, and ending up in Afton for ice cream.
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JUNEMEETING @Wagner’s Drive-in1972 PONTIAC Catalina 2 door hard top 69,000 miles, 400, prime contition. $4,900.00 or best offer. Contact David Wakefield at 651-367-4190
’02 GMMG CETA Blackbird #4 (1 of 4 T-Top CETA BB’s built for Carl Black Pontiac by GMMG & one of the rarest Blackbird’s) – 380hp, 6 speed, GMMG open chamber exhaust, built sheet, window sticker, GMMG window sticker. 36K miles – 29+mpg – MSRP $45,260. Car will be at the POCI Nationals in St. Charles July 17-20. Offers over #30k considered. Photos atinfo @ www.day-tonapacecars.com.
Call Jim Smith – Balsam Lake, WI 715-529-0898 E-mail – [email protected]
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DAVE MANNINEN MEMORIAL CAR RUN
The “Southern Cruzers” car club is hosting a memorial car run will be held in Dave’s honor. The run will take place on Saturday, June 9 at Junior’s Sports Café at 1996 Hwy 13 east. The café is located in the Sioux Trail Center on the corner of Hwy 13 and Cliff Road. Meet there at 3 p.m. and depart for an hour run, getting back to the café by 4:30 for appetizers and dancing to the music of the Del Counts. A CaringBridge e-mail account will be set up for RSVPs. See: www.caringbridge.org/visit/Davidmanninen
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June 10th 2012
30th annual GMCCA all GM car and truck show. All makes swap meet and all makes car corral. Minnesota State Fairgrounds, Falcon Heights MN. Hosted by the General Motors Car Clubs Association, POCI Tomahawk Chapter and 12 GM clubs from the greater Twin Cities area. Show flier available at www.autoswalk.com. Goody bag advertisements welcome. Contact Terry Ford at www.pontiac2pluss22aol.com or call 651-777-7038
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TOMATALKCLASSIFIED ADS
~ For Sale ~
Engine Parts: 1967 or 1968 # 18 Heads, Best Offer also 1966 YH Block, Best Offer and 1978 400 Block, crank re-done and 6x Heads, Best offer. Contact Chris Brooks at (612) 720-7220
1963 & 64 Pontiac: Full size parts. Regular and rare parts. Some 59 parts, 64 GP body 64 conv. Call or email with needs. Ed Kodet Evenings (612) 377-8256 or [email protected]
1965-66 Catalina Ventura: 2 door hard top (all parts came off a car from Colorado): trunk lid assembly part # 7583852, Rear Quarter Windows. 1966 Catalina Ventura: Tail lamp assem-blies (left and right) - very nice, Rear Quarter Extensions Pictures available. Robert Knudtson [email protected] (701) 371-1810
For sale: 2nd generation Firebird (F-body ‘70-’81) Suspension parts in-clude: front swaybar w/end links, up-per & lower control arms with new Poly bushings, 2-sets of front coil springs, Pr. of rear leaf springs and a set of 4 shocks (F&R). New: P-S-T Poly Body mount bushings and weld-in subframe connectors. Photos available to email. Contact Tim Herrera (651) 731-0163H (Please leave message) or email at [email protected]
For Sale, 1962 Pontiac Grille com-plete with nosepiece, fits all big cars except Grand Prix, need to rechrome for show,$75.00 Complete set of four (4) deluxe spinner style hubcaps, nice
~ Wanted ~
Wanted: 1958 Pontiac cars/parts/memorabilia/toys/etc. Call Jim 952-594-5000 or email [email protected]
Wanted for 1957 Pontiac: front li-cense plate mounting bracket. Ed Hus-tad 763-786-1934 (MN)
chrome, drivers quality $60.00 also for 1962. ‘62 rear trunk lid fits Bonn-eville and Star Chief only, $100.00. I believe it also fits 1961 same models. (651) 451-7701 ask for Nick or email nmann7701@ comcast.net
1951 Pontiac Chieftain Deluxe for sale: $3000 OBO Motor just machined needs assembly New clutch, new shocks,brakes ,exhaust many other parts with it!! Nice car 66,000 actual miles! Many more pics if interested! Call Fred Brunfelt (218)410-9345
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TOMATALKClassified Ad Rates
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$250 full page$150 half page
$75 quarter page$25 business card size
Tomahawk ChapterTechnical Advisors
Oakland and 1926 - 41 Pontiac Gary VanKempen
763-561-3911
1942-54 - Al Longley 763-421-6953
1955-62 - Dan Druk 763-757-8927
1963-72 - Rollie Pederson 763-434-7400
1973-90 - Dan Druk 763-757-8927
High Perf. - Tom VanKempen763-434-7156
Firebird - Tom Hegland 651-592-9305
Trans Am - Lee Warneka 612-386-0289
Club HistorianMark Boyum
651-462-8493
Tomahawk Chapterweb site:
tomatalk.org
Photos and stories of member cars wanted. Send them by mail, e-mail or carrier pigeon to:
Paul Bergstrom, Tomatalk 1165 County Road 83
Independence, MN 55359
e-mail: [email protected]
Wanted: 350 Turbo Transmission GEAR SELECTOR lever. This is for a floor mounted shifter on 2nd Gen. Fire-bird/Camaro F-body GM. Contact: Tim Herrera 651 731-0163 or email: [email protected]
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~ Minnesota Tomahawk Chapter of POCI ~
Membership Application Form
POCI Membership Number: __________
Name: __________________________________________________________
Address: ________________________________________________________
City, State, Zip/Postal Code: ________________________________________
Country: ________________________________________________________
Phone:_____________________________ Fax:_________________________
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Annual dues are $20.00 (check payable to MN Tomahawk Chapter)
SEND APPLICATION FORM AND DUES TO:Jim Felker, Treas.; 5500 Merritt Circle; Edina, MN 55436
$15.00/year for “Electronic” Membership
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