V O L U M E 4 6 - I S S U E 4 – F A L L 2 0 1 6

IN THIS ISSUE

NEW Officers and

Committee Chair-

man on back page

NEW Prez SEZ

Editorially Speaking

with JIM

GARAGE TOURS ,

Explosive Hy-

drographics, & PRUGH

DESIGNS

COMING EVENTS

It’s indoor activity

time, AWA RDS

BANQUET, Nov. 19,

COUNTS CHRISTMAS

PARTY Dec. 18th. and

COUNTS CAR SHOW

Feb. 17, 18 & 19th

Cruiser CAR SHOW

was rescheduled for

Oct. 16 —COVERAGE

KOOL DEADWOOD

NITES story

AWARDS BANQUET

story and photos

National Street Rod Assn.

Charter Club since 1975

The COUNTS are in their

59th.yearFun With Cars Since

The Counts Streetin’ News

.

Sect. Bob Dunfee, Prez, Chad Raterman

V. Prez. Glen Shield, Treas. Bob Diekmann

HI TO ALL, I AM BAAAAAAAACKTHANKS TO ALL OF THOSE THAT VOTED FOR ME AGAIN ALL2 OF YOU.THANKS TO TOM FOR A GREAT JOB THAT HE DID AND WEWILL MISS HIS WIFE'S COOKIES!!!!!!I WANT TO MOVE AHEAD ON PLANS TO HELP THE CLUBMOVE FORWARD AGAIN. I WOULD LIKE TO DO A MEMBER-SHIP CAMPAIGN TO GET NEW AND YOUNG MEMBERS IN-VOLVED IN OUR CLUB, AND WOULD ALSO LIKE TO TALKABOUT LETTING MEMBERS PUT THERE CARS IN THE SHOW. ITHINK WE HAVE A LOT OF GREAT CAR GUYS NOT JOINING

OUR CLUB BECAUSE THEY WANT TO PUT THERE CAR IN THE SHOW. I WOULD AL-SO LIKE TO GET OUR ROD RUN OUT OF THE RED AND HOPEFULLY WORK ONSOME NUMBERS THERE. WE NEED TO START WORKING ON PLANS FOR OUR 60THANNIVERSARY EVENT IN OCTOBER OF 2017!WE ALSO NEED TO FIND SOMEONE TO HELP JIM WITH THE NEWSLETTER, MER-CHANDISE ,ETC. HE HAS DONE SUCH A GREAT JOB WE NEED TO GET HIM HELPBEFORE HE BURNS OUT.LOOKING FORWARD TO OUR AWARDS BANQUET AND HOLIDAY PARTYDRIVE EM ……….LATER MAN COUNTS PRESIDENT , LYNN DELAMETER

Inc.

One thing I have liked and been surprised by with the car club is theamount of money it donates to charities and causes. As with most or-ganizations some put in more time than others generating the charitabledonations. I guess its normal. And that group of volunteers should be

heard when it comes time to disbursing funds. I believe it should be a communityevent ,but none the less inevitably some members will have more input than oth-ers. One thing that disappoints me, and the only knock I can see with the decisionson how funds are disbursed, is that more money seems to go to causes than peo-ple. That seems odd to say. Some might argue that donating to causes is what thecharitable giving should be all about. I’m not so sure. I have always been a fan ofsupporting people not causes. I've never liked being a crusader.

On the other hand some might disagree. And that’s good. Reasonable people candisagree. Hopefully we will have a full house with lots of opinions when it comestime to fund our charities. This club is fortunate to have the resources to support alot of interests and those that receive that donation are indeed fortunate. I vote togive priority to people after reasonable discussion. Go Counts!! Past Pres, Tom

GET YOUR STREET ROD OR MACHINE FEATURED IN THE CIOUNTS NEWSLETTER

E-MAIL JIM SOME PHOTOS FINISHED OR UNFINISHED AND A STORY!

studeman40@hotmail.com

THIS STORY WASN’T COMPLETE IN THE LAST NEWSLETTER

BLU SHUZ It seems only natural that we

feature the BIG WINNER at the Counts 48th. AnnualRod Run. Ron Meis is no stranger to the Countsevents and has participated as an “Associate Mem-ber” for several years. He lives in Lead, SD 6 monthsout of the year and lives in Arizona in the winter.

Over the past several years Ron has been having KinDigit build some fantastic cars for him. This 1959Buick Invicta hardtop is the last one he has finishedfor Ron. It has won many awards at the Goodguysevents as well as cleaning house at this years BlackHills Rod Run. It was built to driveowered by a LSXengine made to look like a Nailhead Buick V8 Rontells about the mods on ‘59 BLU SHUZ \Buick Invicta. The Buick sets and looks right from

all angles

Those wide whites are part of custom wheel with low profile tires, and it runs the wheels off mostcars in comfort too!

Custom yet seemingly original Custom taillights are cool too! Remember those stock ‘59

Buick Grills? Not quite stock

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This has to have been the weirdest part of the summer that I haveever experienced. This is referring to what took place with our ‘Trusty” (used to

be) ‘40,Studebaker street rod. After 6 weeks of testing, replacing and scratching our heads to diagnosea serious backfire on the passenger bank of the LT1 V8 that has powered the car for 65,000 miles. Thefinal cure was that 2 spark plug wires, 6 and 8, were reversed. This was done by one of 2 professionalshops that installed headers and modified the exhaust system. Thanks to Denny Henrickson and somewater he sprayed on cold headers the problem was figured out. Back on the road again!

I have been to several one day outdoor car shows during August, September, and October andgot quite a few pictures from these events. Now what I would like from you fellow club members that at-tended some shows this summer to write up your experience of the show or shows you attended. It’s alittle one sided when it’s all my thoughts on all the shows. It’s not hard and if you want I can edit whatyou write so that’s not a problem. This includes the Awards Banquet in November, the Christmas Partyin December and the Counts Car Show in February. Pictures would be appreciated also. Garage toursneed to be covered also!

Speaking of Garage tours, we have been fortunate to attend several shop tours and get a demon-stration of what’s new out there for the car or bike enthusiast to use and apply to their own project ordriver! Check out some of the garage tour articles in this issue.

Another unbelievable tour was on Saturday October 1st. when we had about 30 Counts, spousesand friends take a tour through A & A antique auto museum. The Gorman family has accumulated hun-dreds of cars, motorcycles and lots of misc. automotive related memorabilia and only offer it to be seenby invitation. The quality of these vehicles and almost all are running and driven often enough to main-tain their battery and fluid systems. We may be doing another tour this year for those that missed this

one. Call Jim if you want to be put on the list. 605-390-2238 or e-mail me at stu-deman40@hotmail.com .

This years AWARDS BANQUET featured somereally nice hand made wooden plaques with pic-tures of all the winners cars on a beautiful red ce-dar with wood burned lettering and Counts logos.This was done by our friend, Jimbo Buck and waswell received by all the winners.

The awards banquet was a rousing success wit 53members and guests present and taking part inthe food and festivities. Two members were pre-sented with lifetime memberships with over 25years of dedicated membership each in theCounts.

As always it has al-ways been a privilege

to belong to such a dedicat-ed group of friendly peo-

ple and I'm glad to have been in the club for over 58 years!!!!

Check out our entire website

Www.countscarclub.comCounts Streetin’ News, FALL 2016, PAGE 3

This years “Kool Deadwood Nites” was once again a big event.The only drawback was the car auction held at the DeadwoodMountain Grand casino ballroom . The sound was atrocious ac-cording to some members attending and the sales were onlyabout 40%. Some said it was too high of reserves but who knows!

The cars seen at the Saturday judging down at the fairgroundswere outstanding.. Ron Meis from Lead was the big winner withhis fantastic 1959 Buick Invicta custom built by Kindig-it in SaltLake city. Here are a few of the cars I saw at the fairgrounds. JN

Congratulations to the Committee'sChoice Winner (Best of Show) for2016 - Ron Meis of Lead, South Dakotawith his 1959 Buick Invicta!

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Nice Pontiac GTO Cool 60’s Corvette

Neat late 40’s Ford pickup Another nice 60’s Vette

Neat ‘40 Ford sdn Don Oskey’s ‘33

Very nice 1940 Ford pickup

Wild green ‘60 Chevy

Name: Bob Grantz Spouse: Judy Joined Club: Dec 2015

Current Project: 1960 Corvette

My brother, Jim, bought this car in 1970 while in the USAF in CA. I was in college at the time & neverknew much about the car’s history. I do know that after his tour of duty he brought the car home and he andmy dad did a minor overhaul on the engine and painted the car. Jim only drove the car until 1976 and thenparked it in our back yard in Winner, SD.

Many years later after all the other Grantz’s were deceased, I brought the car home to Rapid City in 2001.We had moved to Rapid City in 1997. And the car sat at my place until last year I finally committed to getgoing on restoring it with some financial assistance from my son Steve. So, it was driven for 6 years andsat deteriorating for 39 years. I had always wanted to restore it to honor my brother, but just couldn’t getaround to it. Perhaps Steve will keep it and enjoy it for the next 45 years and even have an appreciating as-set. So, I joined the Counts Car Club in Nov 2015 hoping to find some support and encouragement. It hasbeen a very good experience for me. I should have joined many years earlier.

Current status of the project: The body is in primer and is sitting on a rack while I complete the chassis res-toration. The chassis and most of the pieces were sandblasted & powder coated. The chassis is mostly putback together. I am looking forward to setting the engine and transmission in and starting it up.

After all the work I have done, I think I understand why it was parked in 1976. I think it was just worn out.Virtually every part that could wear out has had to be replaced. When completed it should be very close toa brand new 1960 Corvette. I just hope everything works properly.

FEATURE MEMBER…..BOB GRANTZ

and his 1960 CHEVROLET

“CORVETTE”

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This year Counts Club member, Mike Priois, let the Custer County Fair Board run theSunday car show. Mike had set up a great show last year with over 100 cars for thefirst year, It was a no charge show and the fair board decided to charge $5 this year tohelp cover expenses. It turned out that they drew 78 cars and pickups. Not too bad fora group of cowboys that don’t have a clue about the difference between street rods,street machines or classic cars. They set up a decade division for awards and several ofthe fair board ‘judged’ the cars in each decade. I think a better idea will be used nextyear with spectators being the judges.

Our own Don Oskey managed to get the Fair Board Presidents pick. At least he hasgood taste., There were lot’s of new car and trucks on the grounds this year and thatalways interests the spectators! Good fair food too and a hearty thanks for comingfrom the locals too! JN

Unique wooden car and bicycle Winner was this ‘cool’ Dodge PU Very nice Mopar hardtop

Ralph Allen won the 50’s division NSRA rep Lonnie had his chopped ’40 New paint for an old classic

Gary Mahan had his Big Block “A” Nice GTO convertible Another nice black ’68 Charger

COMING EVENTSPlease check dates and times before attending distant events, editor

NOVEMBER 26th. Downtown Parade Of Lights. We have been asked to decorate our cars and particioateagain this year. See Bob Mallow for details.

DECEMBER 11th, 2016 Counts handle the Storybook Island Festival of Lights. Lots of fun, hope you signedup with Bob Mallow to help out this year.

DECEMBER 18th 2016, Counts annual Christmas Party at the Counts Club House at 5 PM for Happy Hourand 6 PM for dinner followed by the famous Christmas White Elephant Gift Exchange. Please sign up withTom or Lynn so we prepare enough food. Chef is Kurt Desinger

FEBRUARY 17, 18 and 19 2017, Counts Car Show to be held at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center

Move in is on February 17th and Friday until 2 pm

Go to our website for an entry form and get it sent in by February 1st. 2017

On Tuesday eve, November1st. The Counts were invited toa shop tour of Explosive Hy-drographics opened and runby Tony Zacher. This shop islocated behind Taco Bell on E.North St. on East Watertown St.

This shop uses water as a medi-um to coat almost any itemthey can put in their 3 x 8 ft.vat. The finishes are limited on-ly to what Tony can get out ofhis catalog.

After the base coat is appliedthe desired coating is applied inthe hot water vat ad then leftto dry overnight when a clearcoat finish is applied over theentire item. This sets up and it’sready to install.

Many woodgrain finishes areavailable and I can see dashesand window frames lookingcool done this way! Check itout atwww.explosivehydrographics.com Counts Streetin’ News, FALL 2016, Page 7

Tony shows the material & pattern and nifb your item fits in 8 ft x 3 ftvat in can be covered in hundreds of possible patterns or colors

Ple These are samples of items that can be covered