Edmonton Antique Car Club

02/25/2025

The Alta Kitchen Restaurant at Pure Casino on Argyll was hopping today as 16 EACC gals met for their second monthly "Ladies Luncheon'... lots of visiting, zero old car talk, and no boys allowed.

02/09/2025

ROAD TRIP STORY

Four hardy EACC adventurers set out Friday Feb 07 for their annual run to the Lethbridge 'Early Bird" Swap Meet the next morning. Their steed of choice: a mighty '47 Dodge sedan, the veteran of many long distance road trips, including two previous Lethbridge swaps and assorted forays around North America.

It was a fun, old fashioned road trip — Bob, Brian, Chris and Ryan all had wheel time, we used paper maps, drove some gravel roads and explored some new territory.

Fortunately for all concerned, the old heap runs a LOT better than it looks...the old gal never skipped a beat over the 684 mile round trip and the tool box was never touched. We averaged 45.8 mph, hit a high speed of 57.8 mph (Ryan, Chris would like a word) and the original flathead six delivered a respectable 16.2 mpg despite the roof rack doing fuel economy no favours.

Point of interest: with outdoor temps in the minus-teens and both heaters on full tilt, four distinct micro-climates were evident in the interior: driver's seat, comfortable; right-front seat, way too hot on the left leg; right-rear seat, noisy and drafty but OK on the feet (exhaust pipe inches below the floor); and left-rear seat, OK from the calves up but ice-cold on the feet. Truely, they don't make 'em like they used to.

SWAP MEET STORY

February 08 was the SACAAC's 49th annual Early-Bird Swap Meet, and their second year in the shiny new Agri-Food Hub and Trade Centre at the Lethbridge Exhibition Grounds. Vendors set up all day Friday and the doors were scheduled to open at 8:00 Saturday.

Team EACC (Ryan, Brian, Bob & Chris) arrived at about 7:45 to find a busy parking lot, open doors, and a good many customers wandering the hall. Several other EACC members (Garnet, Justin, Matt and Jim) were spotted before we hit the road for home around 11:00. By that time the aisles were thick with shoppers and many vendors had done a pretty good trade.

We all came home with a treasure or two: Ryan scored some reading material and a '23 Alberta plate for his T speedster, Bob picked up a vintage auto clock and a '29 Alberta plate for the Hudson, Chris bought his second 1926 Ford T Touring (this one on a $1.00 Jello collectable 'coin' from the 1960s) and Brian had the BIG score... a very nice spare radiator shell for his '26 Studebaker Big Six Roadster. Not needed anytime soon, but you never know and it was good to get this shell into the Studebaker community, cuz somebody, somewhere, sometime, is going to need it. The rad shell rode proudly all the way back to Edmonton on the front of the '47 Dodge, kind of like we were four hunters coming home with a dead moose roped down over the hood.

02/07/2025

EACC member Ryan trying out an accordion for sale at last night's mini swap meet.

02/06/2025

More photos from last night's EACC annual mini swap meet.

02/06/2025

Tonight we had our EACC February general meeting and annual mini swap meet.
Here's a few photos of the fun.

01/31/2025

Last night was the combined meeting of the EACC's 2024 and 2025 Executive and the Events Planning Committee — nineteen members met at Ron's place to set a very active schedule of tours, shows and events for the 2025 season. Check out the Event Calendar on eacc.ca a few days from now for full details.

Next up is our first General Meeting of 2025 on Wed, Feb 05 at Bison Lodge, 9430 Scona Rd/99 St in Edmonton. A brief business meeting will be followed by refreshments, tire-kicking and our traditional February Mini-Swap meet.

Are you EACC-Curious? C'mon out next Wednesday and see what we're all about!

01/29/2025

Car Club ladies first luncheon Jan. 2025

01/23/2025

Last night was our annual EACC Annual General Meeting and election of our new board members for 2025. Quorum was met with a vengeance with 67 members in attendance.

EACC members Arend and Ed also received their awards as they were unable to attend our year end banquet in December.

Arend received the "Post 1948 Classic Vehicle Restoration Award" for his 1952 Ford F1 pick up and Ed received the "Honorific Memorabilia Award" in recognition of his enthusiasm and contributions to the hobby.
Congratulations to them both.

01/16/2025

Interesting clipping from the Edmonton Journal, Sept 02/69...

1. References the 3-day 'Hinton Runs' that were a big part of the EACC schedule in the early years (and revived for several years in the 2010s);

2. Mentions a couple of late EACC members, Joe Sheckter and Steve Latoski: both joined the club in 1964, Steve with his '29 Model A Tudor and Joe listing a '17 Buick touring.

3. Note how back then The Journal regularly printed the street addresses of folks in the news. Imagine the commotion if they were to do that today!

01/09/2025

As we were leaving Bonnie Doon Shopping Center yesterday we noticed these historic photos of the center from 1959 - 63.

01/09/2025

A full selection of action shots from yesterday's EACC annual bowling outing at Bonnie Doon Bowling Lanes.

01/09/2025

A group of EACC members out for a few games of bowling this afternoon at the Bonnie Doon Lanes.

12/31/2024

Happy New Year from the Edmonton Antique Car Club.
All the best in 2025.

12/29/2024

A few hardy EACC Members got together for the first "Winter Be Damned" run of the season on Sunday. It was a small group: two Model As, two brides, and four drivers, all of whom enjoyed some wheel time. Throw in a meal and you've got a perfect way to spend a sunny winter day.

The rusty blue be**er in the muster photo carried the Edmonton contingent out to Sherwood Park, but was clearly too modern to go on the run.

12/25/2024

12/24/2024

Merry Christmas from the Edmonton Antique Car Club.

12/21/2024

A few more days until the big run.