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A Challenge
Nov 1, 2009 | Views: 43
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Goldylocks, Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
Oct 27, 2009 | Views: 38
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Life Comes First
Oct 23, 2009 | Views: 146
It was extremely hard to go into work today, and sit at my desk, in the little Office I shared with my friend. Every time I looked over at his Desk, I had to choke back the tears, every time someone asked me how am I doing, it was all I could to keep my composure. It is highly doubtful that the darlins my friend and I work for, will miss my friend (Mike Karp), for as long, and as much as I, his other friends, and family will. Mike and I had our moments, but we somehow got through them, and if Mike knew you needed help, he was there for you before you asked, now, I wish I could learn how to fix people, like I can Cars, Model Trains, and Computers, so I could be there for Mike.
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Somerville New Jersy Cruise Night 7-3-2009
Jul 4, 2009 | Views: 176
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My 1960 Plymouth's 30 Seconds Of Fame On HorsepowerTV
Mar 14, 2009 | Views: 262
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A-2836 And S-2074 Hotrod & Streetrod Registration Bill In NJ
Jan 8, 2009 | Views: 251
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Establishes a motor vehicle registration for STREET RODS and CUSTOM MOTOR VEHICLES
WE NEED YOUR HELP
Full Bill here
http://www.nj...0/2074_I1.PDF
The Sema Style Legislation was submitted to the New Jersey Assembly and Senate in June of 2008. It has been sitting in committee since, with NO ACTION.
We desperately need anyone who is a car enthusiast to e-mail the chairs of these committees and urge that these bills be posted for a committee vote as soon as possible.
Please take the time to e-mail and call these chairmen.
Sen. Nicholas Sacco Chair Transportation Committee
(201) 295-0200
9060 Palisade Ave.
North Bergen, NJ 07047
E-mail sensacco@njleg.org Bill S2074
Assemblyman Gordon Johnson Chair Law and Public Safety Committee
(201) 541-1118
1 Engle St., Suite 108,
Englewood, NJ 07631
E-mail asmjohnson@njleg.org Bill A2836
All you need to do is say you support this bill and urge them to post the bill for a committee vote as soon as possible. Please provide your name and address.
It would also help if you sent a thank you to the bill sponsors.
Senator Paul Sarlo
(201) 804-8118
207 Hackensack St., 2nd Floor,
Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075
E-mail sensarlo@njleg.org Bill S2074
Assemblywoman Charlotte Vandervalk
(201) 666-0881
220 Kinderkamack Rd.
Suite E
Westwood, NJ 07675
E-mail aswvandervalk@njleg.org Bill A2836
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Merry Christmas, Happy Chanuka, and Happy New Year
Dec 23, 2008 | Views: 310
Btw, Jan 1 is also my birthday, I'll be 39 again :) .
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Remembering Our Troops All Year Long
Nov 18, 2008 | Views: 185
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Corvettez Club Looking For More Members
Nov 7, 2008 | Views: 155
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And The Committee's Selection Is.......................
Oct 17, 2008 | Views: 147
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CORVEZTTE COUNTRY CLUB
Aug 31, 2008 | Views: 118
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The Slant-Six Club Gets Tapped To Present The Prestigious Lee Iacocca Award
Aug 22, 2008 | Views: 379
Just one note, we need to get this thing together by September 5, 2008, so please, if you, or anyone you know can help us, do so soon.
ALL donation Checks are to be made out to the 'Lee Iacocca Foundation', NOT 'The Slant-Six Club', and, as an added incentive to help out, your donations are tax deductible, as the Foundation is a 501c3 charity.
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Friendly's Old Bridge NJ Cruise Night
Aug 4, 2008 | Views: 156
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The weather was pleasant, the evening went too fast, and before I knew it, it was time to go home.
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Fuddruckers Photo Album From 7-11-2008
Jul 12, 2008 | Views: 113
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B.O.H.E.C.A.
Jan 31, 2008 | Views: 476
Expect spring spike in gas prices
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 31,2008
Expect spring spike in gas prices
The Associated Press
• A tanker truck sits parked in the Valero Paulsboro Refinery Jan. 14 in Paulsboro. John Pickering, vice president and general manager at the Paulsboro refinery, said Valero makes enough alkylate to meet its needs, but concedes that there is a national shortage of alkylate in the spring and summer.
By JOHN WHEN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - Get ready for another surge in gasoline prices.
Experts are predicting pump prices, which jumped by almost a dollar a gallon in each of the last two springs in many parts of the United States, will spike again this year as refiners and gas stations switch from winter-to summer-blended fuels.
The increases, starting as early as February in southern California, could push the aver¬age national price to a record $3.50* a gallon or more by June.
That would be 17 percent higher than today's average of just under $3 a gallon, which al¬ready is about 80 cents a gallon higher than year-ago levels thanks to the surge of crude oil that took futures prices briefly "to $100 a barrel. Prices in urban areas on each coast could approach $4 a gallon.And the reason for the spring
•price shocks? Analysts say it's linked to a shortage of alkylate, a little-known and expensive gasoline additive that some in the industry are calling "liquid gold." It has become a must-have ingredient since refiners stopped using MTBE two years ago when the potentially cancer-causing
additive was found to be seeping into ground water.
The alkylate shortage has become the most important driver of summer gas prices, said Doug Leggate, an analyst at Citigroup Global Markets. "Supply of (alkylate) will set the price of sum¬mer gasoline — not inventory levels," he said.
Oil companies deny they are purposely limiting production of alkylate, which like gasoline, jet fuel and asphalt is a byproduct of the oil refining process. But only recently have some started studying how they can boost output, and alkylate prices today are more than 15 percent higher than spot gasoline prices. That means overall costs will jump when it is added in larger quantities to summer-blend fuel.
Without additives, gasoline doesn't burn completely, increasing tailpipe air pollution. And untreated gas evaporates more quickly in hot weather, potentially causing vapor lock when it changes from a liquid to a gas and blocks fuel lines.
The federal government long ago required refiners to boost the oxygen content of summer-blend gasoline to make it burn more completely, a problem that was solved by adding MTBE and, more recently, ethanol.
But ethanol also has a high evaporation rate, so refiners in¬creasingly have turned to alkylate, which Tom Kloza, publisher and chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service in Wall calls the "magic bullet" in making summer gasoline.
Alkylate and other gasoline additives don't raise the same safety issues as MTBE because they don't bond with water as effectively as MTBE did, analysts say.
Demand for alkylate changes with the seasons, falling in autumn and rising in the spring. On average, alkylate makes up about 10 percent of a gallon of gas, though that rises to as much as 15 percent in summer. But making more of it is not as simple as throwing a switch, since the underlying chemical properties of oil limit how much of any one refined petroleum product can be produced.
"As opposed to the (gasoline unit) that cracks big components into small, this one takes two components and basically combines them," said Mark Fligner, director of planning and economics at Valero Energy Corp.'s refinery in Paulsboro, across the Delaware river and just south of Philadelphia.
Owners of about two-thirds of U.S. refineries have invested the $100 million or more it takes to add an alkylate unit. The rest have to buy alkylate on the spot market if they want to use it as additive in their gasoline sup¬plies.
*And if you think this published price is the end of it, GUESS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Cool People's Garage Group
Jan 27, 2008 | Views: 279
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Trans Am
Jan 26, 2008 | Views: 223
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Metuchen NJ Downtown Cruise Night Series
Jan 26, 2008 | Views: 106
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If you go to the 'Chamber of Commerce' Website later on this Spring, they should have information on the Cruise Night posted there. http://www.me...nchamber.com/ . By the way, the Chamber of Commerce Website is sometimes down for maintenance, so you may have to recheck from time to time, in order to see the site.
Oh, and also check out the town of Woodbridge NJ on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, starting in May, when they host their 'Main Street' 'Cruise Night.' The schedule as of now is June 18, July 16, and August 20. They also should have the event listed later on this season on their Community Calendar, linked off of the township Website http://www.tw...us/index.html
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Photo & Video Posts
Jan 26, 2008 | Views: 104
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We've Lost A Good Friend Of The Hobby
Apr 3, 2007 | Views: 287
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Ethanol, Your Collector Car's Worst Enemy
Mar 30, 2007 | Views: 492
Legislation
Corn in da House!
As ethanol use becomes more widespread, old-car enthusiasts will have to modify their cars to protect against the fuel's corrosive qualities.
Many old-car owners are getting worried about the effects of ethanol on their gaskets, hoses, seals and lines as they weren't designed to be exposed to anything other than gasoline, and some materials, at least, can be weakened by it.
Federal legislation is on the way that will mandate the presence of ethanol in all gasoline. An amendment to the Clean Air Act, H.R.349 or the “10 by 10 Act,” will require that “After December 31, 2009, it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale, supply, or offer for supply, dispense, transport, or introduce into commerce, for use in any motor vehicle (as defined in section 216(2)) any gasoline containing less than 10 percent renewable fuel by volume.”
Rep. Rep John Kline of the Minnesota 2nd introduced H.R.349 in January, and it’s under consideration by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Thankfully, Rep. Kline had us in mind when he wrote the bill: “Such rules shall also provide an exemption from the requirements of this subsection in the case of gasoline for use in collector motor vehicles.” That doesn't mean it will be easy to find, but it's a start. We foresee a time when major clubs will have to arrange for their own gas supplies.
- By David B. Traver Adolphus
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My 1960 Plymouth & The World Wrestling Entertainment Organization
Mar 13, 2007 | Views: 516
It would have been fun to see my car used as intended, and I would have gotten copies of any “Stills” they took, but at least I got paid, and it was kind of neat, despite missing out on the whole show.
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Arkansas Junk Vehicle Law-Measure To Amend-Hobbyists To Be Hurt
Mar 2, 2007 | Views: 299
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Anti-Hobbyist Inoperable Vehicle Bill Introduced in Kentucky
A bill (H.B. 472) has been introduced in the Kentucky Legislature that would overturn existing hobbyist protections for inoperable vehicles, including parts cars that are stored out of ordinary public view on private property. The existing law, which was enacted in 2005 and now threatened, is based on SEMA model legislation and has the support of the hobbyist community in Kentucky. Unfortunately, H.B. 472 as introduced by Rep. Charlie Miller (Charlie.Miller@lrc.ky.gov) would reverse the existing law and allow local governments to impose more restrictive standards against project cars.
We Urge You to Contact Members of the House Local Government Committee (List Below) to OPPOSE H.B. 472
H.B. 472 would override safeguards provided for in the current law that allow hobbyists to work on collector vehicles on private property.
H.B. 472 would allow local governments to override the law and impose more restrictive standards against project cars.
H.B. 472 would override reasonable provisions enacted in 2005 that vehicles be located out of ordinary public view by means of suitable fencing, trees, shrubbery, etc.
H.B. 472 would override efforts made in 2005 by legislators and hobbyists to enact reasonable and fair compromise legislation.
H.B. 472 overturns the 2005 law without giving it fair chance to work.
DON’T DELAY! Please contact members of the Kentucky House Local Government Committee immediately by phone or e-mail to request their opposition to H.B. 472.
Please e-mail a copy of your letter to stevem@sema.org. Thank you for your assistance.
Kentucky House Committee on Local Government
Rep. Steve Riggs [Chair]
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 674
(502) 564-6543 (fax)
steve.riggs@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Ron Crimm [Vice Chair]
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 706
Ron.Crimm@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Mike Denham [Vice Chair]
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 696
mitchel.denham@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Ancel Smith [Vice Chair]
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 668
ancel.smith@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Jim Wayne [Vice Chair]
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 616
jim.wayne@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Scott W. Brinkman
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 682
scott.brinkman@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Robert R. Damron
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 671
Robert.Damron@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Ted Edmonds
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 641
ted.edmonds@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. David Floyd
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 698
david.floyd@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Derrick Graham
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 639
derrick.graham@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Richard Henderson
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 642
Richard.Henderson@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Charlie Hoffman
(502) 564-2217
Charlie.Hoffman@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Dennis Keene
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 626
dennis.keene@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Adam Koenig
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 689
Adam.Koenig@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Tom McKee
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 667
Tom.McKee@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Reginald Meeks
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 653
reginald.meeks@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Brad Montell
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 609
brad.montell@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. David Osborne
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 679
David.Osborne@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Arnold Simpson
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 695
Arnold.Simpson@lrc.ky.gov
Rep. Ken Upchurch
(502) 564-8100 Ext. 673
Ken.Upchurch@lrc.ky.gov
If you are experiencing any difficulty in contacting your legislators, please contact Rory Carroll, Hagerty Plus Legislative Resource Director, at Advocacy@hagerty.com or 888-310-8020.
Please e-mail a copy of your letters to us at Advocacy@hagerty.com or fax: 231-932-6887.
Thank you for your commitment to the future of the collector vehicle hobby.
Sincerely,
McKeel Hagerty
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Photo Slideshow
Jan 18, 2007 | Views: 197
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Just a little Slideshow of my cars
Jan 17, 2007 | Views: 384
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