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May 2017 Newsletter

Blackhawk Museum, April 22

“A History of Firearms, 1500 to 1900 and Colt Revolvers”

Absolutely no car content, but it was held at the car museum

By Jim & Emilia Seiferling

The other half of the Blackhawk museum is devoted to the history of the American west. This talk and hands-on presentation was great. The presenter was Robert Jordan, a long collector of antique firearms, with an expertise in Colt firearms. He has on loan, to the museum, a considerable amount of his large collection. His talk started with the invention of gun powder by the Chinese and chronicled the development of firearms up to about 1900. Mr. Jordan’s knowledge was truly impressive. As a bonus, after personally showing and talking about a particular firearm and its place in history, he had his helpers pass them around to the audience! We must have handled close to a dozen of these old and rare firearms. What stood out was the craftsmanship and physical weight of these old pistols; no lightweight composite construction then. The funniest part was at the end of the talk when he mentioned the California law prohibiting magazines with more that 10 shots. He then pulled out, from behind the podium, a 20 shot pin fired revolver made in Belgium/France in the mid 1800’s. This firearm was almost the size of a coffee can. It was also passed around to us to hold and exam. What an opportunity this was to actually hold museum pieces, some with values over $10,000. His two hour presentation went by very quickly and he had the depth of knowledge to probably talk the rest of the day.

Blackhawk Museum, May 14th

David Friedman, staff photographer for Shelby American, Inc.

By Jim & Emilia Seiferling

The staff at the Blackhawk have assembled a fantastic calendar of speakers this last year. Once a year they do a car show of only Shelby cars. This year there were 12 Cobras, plus 29 vintage GT-350/500’s and modern Shelby Mustangs. Today’s speaker was Carol Shelby’s personal photographer. He even had a darkroom in the Shelby shop! He showed photographs starting from the very beginning of Shelby’s operation, in Los Angeles, in 1962. Most of the photos he showed have never been published and were of the type documenting the operation rather than being “artsy”. When Shelby started doing the GT-350 conversions, they were still building race cars in the same shop. At one point the mustangs just keep coming and coming; just like the old Lucy TV episode with her and Ethyl on the chocolate conveyor belt. There were cars everywhere. At some point, some of his negatives, in this early time period, were stolen from his file cabinets (he hinted that it was probably his roommate at the time). He was able to find the person that he sold prints to, way back then, and had the prints scanned and saved. They were shown here for the first time. As part of event, they even had King Cobra T-10/2 on display inside the museum. It you are a Shelby fanatic, you missed a great show.

Cobras on the Plaza

King Cobra, #T-10/2

Meeting Notes

President John called the meeting to order. We had 14 people present.

1. POCA Monterey was discussed. Capitol Panteras will be represented by several members. There are about 250 signed up for the event. I hope that one of the attendees will write up an article for the news letter. The club authorized $200 of raffle tickets to be purchased. Good luck to us!

2. There is $702 in the treasury, (until we win POCA raffle prizes).

3. Raffle was won by Steve. It was a $20 gift card for O’Reilly’s. Steve also won the driving for gas money, since he had the only Pantera in the parking lot.

4. Ken would like some new member’s car photos up on the website. Thank you Rick for sending some photos.

5. Other comments and discussions:

There was a positive response about the reduced club meeting schedule (dark in the winter).

President John will continue to attempt to have a joint meeting with other car clubs in the area.

President John is a TV star! He was featured on a recent episode of Judge Faith. He won his case and

collected $1700 that was due him. Check out link; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs7AUSOtQ5o

2017 Events Calendar

June 13 Capitol Panteras meeting at Mimi’s

June 25 Dreams & Drivers, Sacramento @ Red Hawk Casino

June 25 EuroSunday, Sacramento @ Palladio at Broadstone, Folsom

June 25 Dreams & Drivers, Sacramento @ 1 Red Hawk Parkway, Placerville

July 11 Capitol Panteras meeting at Mimi’s

July 16 Dreams & Drivers, Sacramento @ Dutch Bros. Coffee, 8663 Auburn Folsom Rd, Granite Bay

July 23 EuroSunday, Sacramento @

Aug 5-6 Festa Italiana, Sacramento, http://www.italiancenter.net/

Aug 6 Festa Italiana Car Display on Sunday - Chairman, Jeff Budelli

Aug 5-6 Shelby Club Mini Nats @

Aug 12-13 Monterey Pre-Union, Laguna Seca

Aug 8 Capitol Panteras meeting at Mimi’s

Aug 17 "The Tour", downtown Carmel @ Noon.

Aug 19 Concorso Italiano, http://www.concorso.com/default.asp

Aug 17-20 Monterey Historic Races, Laguna Seca

Aug Dreams & Drivers, Sacramento @

Aug 27 EuroSunday, Sacramento @

Aug 2017 Capitol Concour's d'Elegance

Sept 12 Capitol Panteras meeting at Mimi’s

(Nominations for club officers)

Sept Dreams & Drivers, Sacramento @

Sept 23 Ironstone Concours d’Elegance, Murphys

Sept 24 EuroSunday, Sacramento @

Sept 29-Oct 1 CSRG Vintage Races @ Sonoma

Oct 1 Serrano Concourse

Oct 7 21st Annual Car Show, Rio Vista

Chairman, Jim (lunch at Foster's Big Horn)

Oct 7 9th Annual CAM Car Cruise, Fulton Ave, Sacramento

Oct 14-15 Fall Classic, open track, Shelby Club @ Thunderhill

Oct 8 Italian Car Show, Alameda.

A benefit for Special Olympics. No entry fee for exhibitors.

Oct 10 Capitol Panteras meeting at Mimi’s

(Elections of club officers)

Oct Car Show, Mustangs Plus, Stockton

Oct Dreams & Drivers, Sacramento @

Oct 22 EuroSunday, Sacramento @

Nov 3-5 CSRG Vintage Races @ Thunderhill

Nov 14 Capitol Panteras meeting at Mimi’s

Nov Dreams & Drivers, Sacramento @

Nov 24 Shelby Club at Laguna Seca

Nov 26 Euro Sunday, Sacramento @

Dec Capitol Panteras Christmas Party

Please keep us informed of other dates and activities

Jim & Emilia Seiferling

Newsletter Co-Editors, Capitol Panteras

http://www.capitolpanteras.org

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