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
Secretary/Treasurer/Editor:
Pat Farrell,
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
2006 (Vol.19)
2005 (Vol.18)
2004 (Vol.17)
2003 (Vol.16)
2002 (Vol.15)
2001 (Vol.14)
2000 (Vol.13)
1999 (Vol.12)
1998 (Vol.11)
SACA NW Member Ads
SACA NW Members and Projects
Upcoming Events
2006:
SUNDAY, Oct. 15th,
Pat & Merrily Farrell’s Museum Open House - 9AM to 3PM:
6647 Bridgewaater Lane,
Sedro Wooley, Washington.
Collection of 5 restored Stanley steam cars as well as other classic vehicles. Lots of good conversation and knowledge available. For directions contact: Pat Farrell, 360-856-1294 or Wolfgang Schlager, 360-647-5112.
2007:
June
30 - Open House at Gordon Sullivan's, Custer, Washington., this is a NWSS event
The first one was such a success that a second is planned. More details will follow. Contact: Gordon Sullivan, telephone: 360-366-3171, email: sullivan@premier1.net
August
10 through 12 - NWSS Annual Meet, Seattle, Washington.
To be held at the Center for Wooden Boats on the south end of Lake Union. The web page should be up by late September. Contact person is Dan Lyons, telphone: 206-546-2970, email: danlyons1@verizon.net
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
My Cell Phone # is 916-708-6356. The shop number is
1-800-543-6566. Christopher
W. Roberts
2006 Recent Events
September 14-16th,
2005 Berrien Springs Steam Meet,
Symposium and 9th Annual
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 1st place in the time trials as Chuk’s dragster was effectively running on only 1 cylinder and only reached 17seconds in the 1/8th 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.
SACA President Tom Kimmel shows what steam time trials are all about
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
Past Tours and Events
2004 Western Steam Car Tour ("Steaming to Steamboat") Steamboat, Co., Sept.19-24, 2004
Steaming to Steamboat intro and description
2002 NW SACA Tour ("Hot Fog Tour") Images - Monroe, Wa., Sept.22-26
Hot Fog Tour intro and description
Steam Links
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