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Steam Automobile Club of America Northwest (SACA NW)

Our mission: to perpetuate the use of the steam automobile and to share information pertaining to them.

President: Eric Gleason 704 Case Street, The Dalles, Oregon, 97058 email: gleason@netcnct.net

Secretary/Treasurer/Editor: Pat Farrell, 6647 Bridgewater Lane, Sedro Woolley, WA 98284 360-856-1294 New e-mail rpfarrell@wavecable.com

SACA NW Newsletter

The NW Chapter of SACA newsletter is sent out the first week of each season of the year. Cost of our hardcopy newsletter is $5 a year. Cyberspace delivery is free to NW region SACA members.

Recent Newsletters

2008 (Vol.21) ---- stay tuned…

2007 (Vol.20) ---- stay tuned…

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SACA NW Members and Projects

Members and Projects

Upcoming Events

2008:

TBD…Invitational Steam Car Tour, Auburn, Grass Valley, CA.:

State Hwy 500 freeway and N.E. Thurston Way interchange.

Christopher Roberts reports: I will be hosting an Invitational Steam Car Tour in the Auburn, Grass Valley area in
California in 2008. I don't have any dates as of yet, but I should have invitations going out in June/ July of 2007. I am going to try to put on a 4 day tour Thursday through Sunday. Another possibility is at Shingle Springs, Ca.
My Cell Phone # is 916-708-6356. The shop number is 1-800-543-6566. Christopher W. Roberts

PAST Tours and Events

2007:

June 30 - Open House at Gordon Sullivan's, Custer, Washington., this is a NWSS event

August 10 through 12 - NWSS Annual Meet, Seattle, Washington.

2006:

Oct. 15^th, Pat & Merrily Farrell’s Museum Open House - 9AM to 3PM:

Sedro Wooley, Washington.

2006 NWSS Steam Meet, St. Helens, Or. (and SACA/NW business meeting), August 11-13, 2006

Website for event: http://www.pcez.com/~artemis/NWSS2006.htm

More pics at StanleySteamer.com: http://www.stanleysteamers.com/st_helens.htm

This meet saw 26 boats, 4 steam cars, 1 steam motorcycle and a steam traction engine attend.

SACA/NW President Eric Gleason & Jacqui with Pat & Merrily’s Model 826 Mtn Wagon at the NWSS steam meet

January, 2006 Centennial Of Steam Celebration, Ormond Beach, FL

Chuk Williams’ pics: http://www.stanleysteamers.com/06.htm

2005:

September 14-16^th, 2005 Berrien Springs Steam Meet, Symposium and 9^th Annual Great Lakes Steam Vehicle Time Trials, Berrien Springs. South Haven, Michigan.

By Myles Twete

This was a fun meet, workshop, time trials and symposium.

I had not been to a SACA annual meet before, but found I had no excuse this year…just had to go.

For me it was a whirlwind tour as I flew out from Portland, OR. red-eye Friday A.M. arriving in Chicago at 5am.

Rental car in hand, it was about a 3hr drive to Berrien Springs, where I arrived at the fairgrounds in time to catch the days’ symposium lectures at the fairgrounds. Great information was shared. Later, touring of Tom Kimmel’s shop and steam collection, then finally, the time trials.

Richard Moore’s Locomobile nearly took 1^st place in the time trials as Chuk’s dragster was effectively running on only 1 cylinder and only reached 17seconds in the 1/8^th mile…just 3secs faster than the Loco. Several racers did the time trials including Chuk Williams driving both the 40HP dragster and his “T-model”, Tom Kimmel driving his Strath Steam powered steam dune buggy rail, Dick Moore and his 1899 Loco and Tony Grzyb and his steam bicycle. It was a lot of fun.

Time trial winners were awarded trophies and cash prizes as well as sponsorships for steam vehicles which made it to the start line.