Past Crosley of the Month Winners - Page 7

Gerald Davenport's new land speed Crosley 1010 at the 2008 Nationals. Gerald will be running in a different sub-class than his CC sedan racer but still in the under 45 CI class. Gerald will be trying for the world record in August at the Bonneville Salt Flats.

Here are some pictures of the Cockpit and Engine compartment as well as a 3MB video of the car so you can hear it run.

Good Luck Gerald
Dave Potts bought this very nice 1942 pickup in Seattle, "Fresh out of the barn." I could be turned into a Pre-War owner if I found one as nice as this one. Doesn't look like it will take much to make this into a real nice Pre-War truck.
Dave adds this status report: "I have begun the restoration and the chassis is almost complete with powder coating, new bushings, basically everything redone from the rubber up. When that is complete, will start on the body."

Dale Liebherr of Minden, Nevada seny pictures of his pride and joy. - More pictures: Engine, Interior.

"This is my 51 Skorpion that I have had for 26 years now. It has a Chuck Kohler Header and Duel Card intake. It took me about nine months to restore it with a lot of help from Butch and Fonda and Chuck Kohler."

"Me in maybe 1975 or 76 taken at our house in Allen Park."

"My sisters, me, and my dad taken in about 1975 or 1976 at ourhouse in Allen Park, Michigan"

This months pictures were sent to me by Joe Kaczmar, they were scanned from his uncle Ronnie Kaczmar's, photo album.
Our President Dave Anspach having his 1951 Hot Shot judged at the 2008 Concours d'Elagance at Hilton Head. The judges are seeing if he knows his stuff and the car meets the grade.

He took best of Class with his Hot Shot. Congrat's Dave.Here are a few more shots of the award winning HS.
 Hot Shot, Interior, Proud Owner

I knew this had to be the next Crosley of the Month as soon as I saw it. We stopped in to see the AACA Musuem in Hershey PA on our way back home at Christmas, and look what we saw in the middle of the gift shop. They were also selling some of the Empire Region's T-Shirts. Jeff had his Crosley Pickup in a special exhibit a while back.

This is AACA's 1941 Crosley Wagon. This looks like a great place to show off it's size. They even used the inside to store extra stock. AACA has two Pre Wars and an FOR in their permanent collection, this is the only one currently on display.

Norm & Janyne Smith of Poland, OH sent me these shots of their Overland Firetruck. The shot above was at "Glenmoor Gathering Concours D'Elegance." in Canton, OH. Here are their comments: "We were very excited to learn we had won an award of distinction, Junior Judges Award, all classes included. As we were waiting in line to receive our award, Club Manager Myron Vernis stuck his head in the window and said, "Who would have ever thought a Crosley would win an award of distinction?""

Another shot of the truck. The Overland was build by the Overland Amusement company and was a 5th wheel arrangement with a modified Crosley as tractor and a fully fabricated trailer.

Fred Toohey sent in this Months Winners. To the left is his first racer on the way to the local Soapbox Derby where he won in 1953.
Fred writes: "I have been running my Crosley (above J production Bonneville car) since 2003 and I am about 20 mph off of the record (99.299mph). Unfortunately Gerald lost the record to a 2cyle HONDA! I keep making changes to make it go faster then it goes slower, if I work really hard I might get it down to 40mph."

Above is a flea market find from 1996. I will not divulge those involved in case the sedan section is still in hiding from their wives. But as you can see, you never know what you might find at the Crosley Nationals Flea Market. This is a repeat winner.
You also never know what or who you might see at the Nationals. In 1999 Santa stopped in during his down time with his CoBra powered 3 wheeler.

An unrestored Parkway Delivery is parked behind him and that blue fender that is peaking in on the right is a restored Parkway.

As told by Nigel Davenport - "The story on the fire engine goes like this: I have owned my 51 super wagon for 36 years now, so i have driven her everywhere. this leads into the day that a fella came by with a story about a fire engine at a junkyard. I had mentioned this tidbit to my newly retired friend and neighbor. We will call him "Mark". this guy has seen little car shows, and I made him drive my wagon to the Turkey show in Daytona. He has almost been bitten by the little bug. Mark won't leave me be about this fire truck, so ok, ok off to the yard we go.... When we arive, I can see this mess of a Crosley.

We climbed onto the truck bed on the box truck to see her. I am heartbroken. A little too far gone to be easy, but still do-able. the man wanted more dollars than I wanted to part with on that day, so we went. Low and behold, my friend was now hopelessly gone, bitten and now living with the little bug. He made a deal with the yard man, and was the proud new owner. I loaned my truck for the towing, well ok, it went into the bed of the International pickup. When we unloaded, I snapped this shot. Note, he has been drinking ketchup, I think." Nigel's 51 Wagon and Crosley powered Berkeley, with a custom Crosley frame.
A couple of oldies this month. I didn't have my normal 2 shots of the same car but really liked these two vintage shots.

Tracey Hancock writes: I was looking at your site and pulled out this picture of my dad's old Crosley. He owned a North American Van Lines outfit in Bloomington, Indiana, and this was the car the packers used when they boxed up all the family's belongings before a move. On the back it says "Wife Approved Movers". This picture was probably taken in the mid-50's because it was a 1957 Ford Ranchero that replaced this car.
Pete Hoelter writes: Here's my dad, Howard Hoelter looking off into the future in 1949. I'm not sure of the location other than it's probably the Chicago area. I don't think he ever pushed the Crosley very far. He often told the story of almost freezing when he drove it to his wedding in northern Indiana in Feb of 49.

From the 1972 CAC Nationals our Founding President John Aibel and his family sitting in Alvin Holsopple's FarmOroad. We haven't seen John for a long time, he is till a member. The FOR hasn't missed more than one or two shows since 1972. It is now owned by Alvin's son John.

From the 1979 Nationals, our Senior Director Deane Sherman with his award winning 1948 Sedan. He hasn't missed a Nationals since 1973, the car was sold a few years ago to Tom McDowell, our Rocky Mountain Region President. The 48, now called Bugger, has made a few trips back for the Nationals. Old timers may be able to pick out some other people and cars in the background.

Henry Stetler's 1950 gasporter was one of the hits of the Crosley shown at the 2009 Das Awksct Fescht in Macungie PA August 1st.

More gasporter Info

Jerry Walton Lafayette, La owns this nice 48 Convertiable, he sent me the official picture, I got the above shot from another member showing Kyle Pirtle pumping iron. Yet another advantage to owning Crosley, you always have a gym with you.

Nice clean interior complete with stock radio. Here is a shot of the rear.

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