Dallas Area Classic Chevys Club Celebrates its 40th Anniversary

Dallas Area Classic Chevys Club Celebrates

Its 40th Anniversary With The 

Best Tri-Five-Classic Chevy Spring Show, EVER!

   -Alan Arnell

Today's assignment is to let everyone know that the largest Tri-Five only car show in Dallas/Fort Worth since the Lone Star 29 will spring to life April 10th in Richardson, Texas.

DACC will celebrate their 40th Anniversary on Sunday April 10, 2016 with a VERY special show.

The Show is for all '55 - '57 Chevy cars, trucks and Corvettes at Reliable Chevrolet.  You do not have to be a member to show your Tri-Five.  Event activities will include:

'Favorite Picks' by club sponsors and celebrity judges, door prizes, best dressed 50's contest, live music by Johnny Diamond and the Silver Hubcaps, Candy Clark from American Graffiti!  And of course, the many gleaming Tri-Five Chevys.  All former and current club members are encouraged to attend what will be the largest gathering of Tri Five Chevys this year in North Texas!

The 40th ANNIVERSARY OF THE DALLAS AREA CLASSIC CHEVYS SHOW will celebrate DACC’s 40 years of tribute to the Tri-Five Chevy.  If you have any feelings for Tri-five Chevys at all you must certainly schedule your calendar for a Tri-Five surfari to an out of this world classic car gathering on Sunday, April 10, 2016 from 1PM to 4PM.  If you live in N. Texas there will be no excuse for you not attend with your Tri-Five Chevy or daily driver at Reliable Chevrolet, which is located at Arapaho and Central in Richardson.  At this wonderful spot in Texas there will be the best quality and quantity of Tri-Fives one can only imagine.  

Showing your Tri-Five. The Anniversary Show has NO JUDGING and NO FEES for all Tri Five Chevy cars, trucks and Corvettes

Attending the show.   Even though the main showing area is for Tri-Five cars only, all classic cars are welcome and may park on the Reliable dealership grounds.

Celebrity judges will make personal favorite choices from the loveable in the main show. Their picks will be awarded a “Favorite Pick” plack during closing ceremonies by the Celebrity.  Among the celebrities in attendance will be Candy Clark from American Graffiti.  Be sure to check back at http://www.dallasclassicchevy.com/,which is the DACC web page, for further anouncements of celebrity appearances and much more.  

Along with free food and drink, for your listening pleasure, Johnny Diamond and the Silver Hubcaps will be playing live!  video https://youtu.be/oqdVi-DhuGA  Johnny Diamond and the Silver Hubcap Band plays all the old 50's & 60's Rock n' Roll songs.  They put on a great show that you as a car show participant or spectator will thoroughly enjoy while attending the DACC Anniversary Show.  The Johnny Diamond Band is an unique band that performs a complete period correct show. A great experience not to be missed while you are looking at all those great Classic Chevy cars. Many music fan favorites of yesteryear hits will be performed include the Twist.  Bring your Hula-Hoops and Bubble Gum while wearing your poodle skirts, white socks and rolled up dungarees.  Be just like Rapid Roy by wearing a white T-shirt with an extra pack of cigarettes rolled up in your T-shirt sleeve.  You too can be too much to believe!

Johnny Diamond & the Silver Hubcap Band are definitely not your average "run-of-the-mill" guitar-pickin' band.  Johnny plays the best Tenor Saxophone in the State of Texas and has played with major stars such as the Coasters and the Beach Boys. You and your friends will have a "blast" and will not want to miss the Johnny Diamond & the Silver Hubcap Band’s performance at the DACC Anniversary Show.

The Dallas Area Classic Chevys Club was founded in 1976.  The club is dedicated to Classic Chevy Tri-Fives.  DACC’s main existence is to establish an association of members based in the North Texas region for the purpose of encouraging the enjoyment, restoration and/or preservation of the 1955, 1956 and 1957 Chevrolet automobiles and trucks.  DACC has a wide sampling of monthly activities such as car shows, poker runs, cruises, Chevy conventions, National events, drive-in movies, fall foliage tour, end of the year party and a community service project.  The club is into events and fellowship of club members.  All current members enjoy a monthly NewsLetter and a bye-weekly Email Newsletter.   The biggest reason for the club is club members’ reverence for Tri-Five Chevys Cars.  We are about the cars and not into meetings and “Robert’s Rules of Order.”  I am a member and will tell you, “We are a group a laid back Chevy Loving guys and gals.”  I personally invite you the the 40th Anniversary Show and well as becoming a member of our club.  Click HERE for info about DACC membership Owning a Tri-Five Chevy is not required.  Only the love for all things Tri-Five Chevys is necessary.

The show’s sponsor and host is Reliable Chevrolet.  Reliable Chevrolet is one of the premier Chevrolet dealerships in Dallas, Texas specializing in sales for Chevy and GM Brands.  Reliable Chevrolet is conveniently located at 75 & Arapaho in Richardson, Texas.  Visit them for your next new or pre-owned vehicle purchase, service maintenance and repairs, GM Parts and GM Accessories, and collision repair: serving North Texas DFW Metroplex located next to Plano, Allen, Garland, Mesquite, McKinney, Grapevine, Fort Worth, Arlington and Dallas, Texas.   While at the DACC Anniversary Show feel free to take a look at Reliable's inventory.  Reliable Chevrolet has as many as 822 new vehicles in stock every day.  Link to new cars in stock.  Search New Get a new Car Quote Reliable also has generally over 100 pre-owned cars in stock.  

 Link to new cars in stock.  Search New Get a new Car Quote Reliable also has generally over 100 pre-owned cars in stock.  Link to pre-owned Cars.

The Dallas Area Classic Chevys Celebrates its 40th Anniversary Show and the show will undoubtably will be a Tri-Five gathering not to be missed and a fun party for all.  Remember, then, your objective is Richardson, Texas.  So, synchronize your watches boys and girls to April 10, 2016 from 1 to 4 PM for one of the GREATEST DACC Spring Shows, EVER!

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Everything You Might Need on the Way to Tri-Five Nationals

Everything You Might Need on the Way to Tri-Five Nationals 

Lists! Why do we make lists? 

    - Alan Arnell 

A follow up story to "Let's go to the 2016 Tri-Five Nationals."   LINK TO PREVIOUS POST.

I have been a part of the Texas Classic Car Experience now for 15 years.  15 great years, I must add!  There are two Texas sayings that are my favorites:  "You can't know what you don't know" and "I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it!"  As I have posted before, driving and owning hot rod classic cars has made a permanent black mark on my trust of mechanical devices.  Murphy was correct when he said, "If anything can go wrong, it will."  Click here to tweet

Ok, I'm sorry, but my inquiring mind wants to know who is Murphy?  This is what I found: 

Murphy's laws origin 

•  The following article was excerpted from The Desert Wings March 3, 1978  Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") was born at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 at North Base.  It was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash.  One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."  The contractor's project manager kept a list of "laws" and added this one, which he called Murphy's Law.  Actually, what he did was take an old law that had been around for years in a more basic form and give it a name.  Shortly afterwards, the Air Force doctor (Dr. John Paul Stapp) who rode a sled on the deceleration track to a stop, pulling 40 Gs, gave a press conference. He said that their good safety record on the project was due to a firm belief in Murphy's Law and in the necessity to try and circumvent it. 
• Aerospace manufacturers picked it up and used it widely in their ads during the next few months, and soon it was being quoted in many news and magazine articles. Murphy's Law was born.  The Northrop project manager, George E. Nichols, had a few laws of his own. Nichols' Fourth Law says, "Avoid any action with an unacceptable outcome."  The doctor, well-known Col. John P. Stapp, had a paradox: Stapp's Ironical Paradox, which says, "The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle."  Nichols is still around. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, he's the quality control manager for the Viking project to send an unmanned spacecraft to Mars. 

Back to Tri-Fives  

My Uncle Mark Orton used a saying that has stuck with me for over 40 odd years.  He said, "I feel

bad for the man with only one place for his hammer when I have a million."   

Organization for any long trip is more than likely a very good idea. I try to be organized and many

times I succeed.  However, organization with my, do it now and get-R-done yesterday, modus operandi is a constant struggle. 

This poses another question to "why do people make lists?"  There is Jodi who is a big list maker.

Every Monday morning she logs on to her Google Calendar to plan out the next five work days ahead.  On each day she plugs in what tasks that must to be accomplished.  She says, "If I don't make my lists, I feel listless." Get it?  Listless! 

As her day progresses about every hour or so Jodi checks her calendar to see how she's doing. Psychoanalyst Francois Leguil said, "Writing things down supports what is most fragile in our memories, We spend our time forgetting what we ought to be doing and what we've already done. 

Lists provide support, backing up these things we've been unable to memorize."  Lists help us to overcome the occasional lapse in memory.   

I used this paper list to complete a rear differential upgrade to a limited slip, new bearings and axles
for my 10 bolt rear end in my '57-150 Chevy.

+Sharon Nixon of Redondo Beach, California wrote, "I'm one of those types who likes to make a list of what to bring when going on a trip so I don't forget anything.  I felt strongly that this should especially apply to a trip with my '57 210 (Chevy) (a.k.a. Gumby). 

Sharon's Generic List for an extended trip with your Classic Chevy Car+ 

• Fire extinguisher 
• 2 quarts of oil 
• Brake, power steering  and transmission fluid 
• Funnel 
• Flashlight with extra batteries 
• Bulbs - #1156 (backup), 1157 (taillight/turn signals), and/or #2357 (extra bright taillight bulbs) 
• Pre-gapped spark plugs 
• Anti-freeze (already diluted 50/50...) 
• Typical tools (wrenches, screwdrivers, etc.) 
• Bottle jack (2 to 3 ton) 
• Jumper cables 
• Emergency road light  
• CB (Note from Alan:  This one may be dated, however if you are in a caravan, hand held radios for communication between cars is fun and a good idea.) 
• Cell phone (Today we are lucky to GPS on our phones.  How did we live before smart phones?) 
• Car cover 
• Cone (to save your parking spot) 
• Maps  
• Hotel reservations information & (phone) numbers... 
• A few bath-sized towels, diapers, shop towels, paper towels 
• Cleaning and polishing supplies 
• Rain-Ex 
• Snack (such as raisins) in case you're hungry and we aren't scheduled to stop 
• Light blanket or bed sheet to drape on the front seat for protection against dirt (or, in my case so you don't have to peel yourself off the seat!) 
• Scotch tape and marking pen for car show entry on the windshield 
• Clipboard for voting (so you don't have to use someone's back to write on) 
• Bra for the front of car 
• Rubber mats or carpet pieces to protect your good carpet from getting dirty 
• 1 to 2 gallons of gas (optional) 
• Small fold-up chair(s) 
• Vacuum cleaner that plugs into lighter 
• Toilet paper & small can of Lysol for pit stops to filthy bathrooms 
• I also have a compact air compressor that plugs into the cigarette lighter just in case the air is low in my tires (only use with the engine running) 

Sharon finishes with, "Now granted, you probably would not necessarily bring everything on the list, but you never know when you or someone else on the caravan may need something you brought." 

I believe both Jodi and Sharon would attest that a list will keep you from standing around in your

garage trying to think of what to pack for the next trip.  Remember Murphy's law and my favorite Texas saying, "I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it!" 

+Nixon, Sharon. "Everything but the Kitchen Sink!" Bow Times June 1997: 6. Web. 18 Dec. 2015.