Central California Falcon Club

The Bakersfield Branch of the Central California Falcon Club will be meeting at Pizzaville on Oak St.. There will be no meeting of the Bakersfield branch in January.The February meeting will start at 7pm. Join us for dinner, stay for the meeting!
If you have any questions or need directions, please call Dave or Marcia @ 587-8539.

The Fresno Branch of the Central California Falcon Club meets the 3rd Thursday of the month. For more information, call Bob Binaski @ 559-673-2747.

See you there!

    The Central California Falcon Club is having at Tech
Day Saturday, February 26th! This day is being hosted by Richard Traugh
of Protech Automotive, in Tehachapi, California. We will be meeting at
the Highway 58 and Weedpatch Highway Park & Ride at 11 am, and
cruising up to Richard’s shop. Once there, you will be able to put you
car up on the rack,  have some lunch (provided  by the club),
and enjoy either the snow or the flowers! Bring your car and your self,
and join us for an educational, fun filled day! If you can’t bring
your  car, bring yourself and have some fun with us- There will be
lots of food, fun and company!
For more information, please call either 587-8537 or 588-9468. Hope to see you there!

Come join us at the 2002 Pacific Regional Car Show on April 26 and 27 in Bakersfield, CA.
This year Regionals are hosted by Central California Falcons chapter of the Falcon Club of
America.

We will be holding the Falcon Regional car show at the Rio Bravo Resort at Lake Ming. Make a
note that the Western National NSRA event is in town at the same time.

On Friday night we will be doing a Poker Run around Bakersfield to help raise money for a local
charity, LOVE Inc. The car show is all day Saturday with the awards banquet Saturday evening
at the Resort. We will be having live Oldies Music on Saturday afternoon under the big tent. It
should be a great time. We especially encourage our Falcon Friends from Southern California to
come and join us for this event being held for the first time in Southern California. We also
welcome our many friends from up North, whom we have met in past Regionals. Call me at
661-588-9468 or email me at lking@igalaxy.net

See You There!

Nick

Vendor and Swap Spaces – 2002 Pacific Regioanls
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New FCA Chapter in Los Angeles – To see the Newsletter click on the
Owner’s Manual link!!

Click here for Directions to the 2002 Pacific Regional

Exciting News: 2002 Pacific Regionals are in Bakersfield, CA on April 26 – 27, 2002. See the registration form below for more information.

Presidentís Message

As I was typing the title of this column it gave me the idea for this monthís message. The Ownerís Manual in the new cars is a must. There are so many different buttons and knobs and lights that you really need to read that manual just to figure out how to honk the horn or turn on the headlights. The radio, it gives a guy a headache just thinking about how ëcleverí the designers were with all the buttons, knobs, and lights on the new radiosÖÖÖÖÖÖ. Now take the old Falcon ownerís manual, lots of great information on how to clean the upholstery or the optional white walls. I find that when I climb into one of the new cars, I still think like Iím getting into Little Red or the Ranchero and I can just figure out how things work if I stare at the knobs long enough. Generally that technique works with our Falcons, with a little bit of experimentation of turning and twisting, etc.

This leads me to what I see on the Falcon discussion groups on the Internet. I have nothing but good things to say about the Falconeers and TFFN groups and the old FDG, I have learned tons of stuff, solved tons of problems and even saved some money along the way. It has, of course, gotten me into some trouble, (see past references to a certain 65 yellow station wagon). Anyway, often on these discussion groups someone will ask a question about how to do something on the Falcons. For example, a common problem for new Falcon owners is the location of the fuses in a round body Falcon. IF a person bought a Shop Manual and IF they used it, they would be able to find the fuses and would know how to get the darned thing out. Just so you all know, the fuses are located on the top of the headlight switch, and there is a little button you push to release the knob and pull it out and then you can get the switch loose and get to the fuses. Oh yeah, back to the point about manuals. Like I said, it is not uncommon for people to ask how to do something and the discussion group members respond by suggesting the purchase of a manual. I agree with this whole-heartedly. The manual can solve all kinds of problems and allow you to get that job done quicker and with a lot less frustration, AND, you donít have to irritate your fellow Falcon owners. When a suggestion is made to buy a manual, I usually write in that another good idea is to join a Falcon club, as the wealth of knowledge from club owners is something that you canít get anywhere else. If there is no club in your area, START ONE.

Now, if the Shop Manual just didnít have the same instructions over and over againÖ..Remove the old part, to install the new part, follow the procedure for removal, backwards!!! WhatÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖ.?

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Featured Falcon

A Ranchero For Our Kids

“Our daughter and son-in-law in St. Paul, MN were talking about getting a pick up to help with tasks related to the house they bought and we figured that if they tried to find a truck there it would be expensive and rusted. So we bought a Ranchero here in Bakersfield from Dave Simpon’s father. It is a 289 V8, three on the tree???”

Well, the car show Season is pretty much over and we can look back and see some successes for Central California Falcons. We had our own class in two local car shows this season for the first time, the Muscle Car Show at the Museum and (of all things) the Chevys Limited show at Lake Ming. The Chevy’s Limited Club was nice enough to make a point of mentioning Central California Falcons during the trophy presentations. At the Falcon Western Regionals in Sacramento, our clubs had three Falcons in attendance and all three brought home a trophy.

In April of this year I got a ‘64 Falcon. We had seen the Falcon in the Camera Ads. The person I got it from did not want to trade for it at first, then a week went by and he called back and said he would trade. When we called back he said yes, so I traded a 84 GMC 4wd fullsize Jimmy for it. We bought the Jimmy for $4,000 and the car was $3,500. So then we went and looked at it and fell in love with it.

The person we bought it from put a 302 V8 in it, a C4 transmission, and a 9 inch rear end. He gave us disc brake for it, and factory air, and a set of 8inch rims. So we bought mags for the front, and tinted the windows When we bought the car it had 110,000 miles on it, and now as of October it has turned to 200,000 miles so I had to talk to my husband into getting me another car because I want my classic Falcon to be used more for car shows, so he bought me another car.

The only problem we have had with the car was putting 2 new tires on the front and changing the water pump before we went to the Tehachapi car show. Other than that the car has run perfectly. The only thing I have left to do to my car is fix the headliner.

I would never sell my car for anything. I have always wanted to be in car clubs, and now I am in one – thanks to everyone in the Central California Falcon Club for letting me join and for being so nice and welcoming us to your car club. I sure hope it stays around for a very long time, because I plan on staying an the club for as long as it exists.

Thanks

Trisha Caples