Welcome to the NWVCMM
The mission of the museum is to promote the life-long education of our community, by interpreting the heritage, history, and evolution of automobiles and motorcycles over twenty-five years old. Appropriate activities generate interest, fund raising, and a sense of fun and camaraderie among the members and visitors.
ANNOUNCEMENT: We are open every weekend from the
7th of May to the 25th of September 2011
Our hours are Saturdays and Sundays
from 9:30 am to 4:00pm.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
What a year it has been! The Exhibit Hall has been open on weekends
since May and the Steam-Up weekends were a good time for the Museum. We
had 8,000 people come through the door to see what we have done.
Everyone we talked to was very positive and impressed with our
accomplishments.
I wish to thank Don Feller for all his hard work in setting up the
docent program and all the docents that worked on the weekends this
year. It was a real experience to be a docent, talking to people about
the cars and bikes and the museum programs. Think about being a docent
next year.
This year the High School Kids Car Show and the Swap Meet & Car Show
were on the same day in July and it went off very well as a joint
adventure. The committee will be starting to work on next year’s event
(July 8, 2012) soon, so if you are interested helping with the event
please contact Don Petersen at 503-246-6939.
The existing committees are working hard for you. The Education
Committee has worked hard to find and develop programs to educate and
inform members and non-members. The Speedster Group has helped students
build two speedsters and started on a third. The mentors are doing a
great job and appreciated by the students and their families — thank
you! The Construction Committee has started on the next phase, the front
part of the building, a 60’ X 100’ with two floors, which will complete
the building, but there will be a lot of finish work.
Is it time for you to become one of the small group of members that are
working very hard for all of us? Let’s make it a large group! I would
like to thank all of them for their hard work and dedication to the
Museum. The meetings are the third Wednesday of the month at 6:30 PM in
the Texaco Station at Powerland, and everyone is welcome to attend.
Please try to come, the more members that get involved the easier it is
for everyone.
Throughout the year the Museum needs all kinds of help on all kinds for
projects and we will be expanding the number of committees we will need
to operate the Museum. The new Finance, Vehicle Donation, Merchandising
and Publicity & Social Networking Committees will meet monthly, others
only once or twice a year. Please think about how you can get involved
and help the Museum grow and improve for you and the community.
The Museum Board Officers are up for election and the positions are
open, so if you are interested please give me a call. This year the
Secretary position is an important one that needs filling.
The Museum is you and your friends, and what the Museum becomes in the
future is up to you and your friends and the effort you all are willing
to put in to it. Come to Powerland and go back to the Museum at the
Texaco sign to see what has happened so far, or just look on the web
site, www.carandcyclemuseum.org for the latest information on the
Museum.
Thank you for being a member and supporting the Museum. If you have any
question or comments for me or the board please call or email.
President Mike Bostwick
503-245-5444
reb.mlb@netzero.net
Studebaker Sign Needs a Lift...Literally! By Doug Nelson
Our
extra-large neon Studebaker sign is a big attraction in the display
building. It originally
hung on a dealership in The Dalles.
Now it currently rests on a wheeled dolly at floor level. However, it
would be much more attractive permanently mounted 15-18 ft. up on the
inside east wall. The bids to have it professionally mounted by a sign
company are in the $1200 range. We currently do not have the funds to do
the mounting. The display committee is looking for help to get this
done. After passing the hat at the September board meeting, $102 was
raised.
If each member would send $5 or $10 (or more) to the museum for this
single purpose, we could easily get it up where it belongs by next
season. Thanks for considering to support the sign. The sooner the funds
come in, the sooner it goes up.
Thanks in advance. Checks should be made out to: NWVC&MM
Send to: Studebaker Sign, c/o NWVC&MM, P.O. Box 15, Salem, OR, 97308
Winter Storage Now
Available
By Doug Nelson
A
timely benefit of your membership is dry, secure storage for your
vehicle, in our main display building. The rental, at $50.00 per month,
is below market rates. Your car must stay in storage until May 1, 2012.
Last year’s renters found many reasons to use this membership privilege
— the most popular was to free an indoor space at home for use.
We already have four reservations for October 1, 2011 to April 30, 2012.
To save your space, call Doug Nelson at 503-399-0647.
Paver Stone Alert:
We Need You
By Ed Weber
We need about 15 folks to step up and purchase paver stones within the
next couple of weeks. If you were planning on getting a stone or stones,
now is the time. We need these extra stones to complete an engraving
order that could take place in early October. If we wait too long, the
rains will set in and interfere with the engraving operations.
Many of you can remember last year. We had a big order ready for fall
engraving and the rains set in early and those folks had to wait until
June of this year before their stones were dry enough to be properly
engraved.
Call John Chandler at 503-371-1852 or Ed Weber at 503-390-3804 and get
your information to them soon.
Doug Nelson’s grandson Henry
proudly
points to his paver stone.
Museum Offers LivePostcard.com
By Doug Nelson
A Salem company owned by Kevin Roudebush has put together a unique
program using a digital camera and the internet. When a visitor comes to
the Museum, one of our hosts takes their picture and saves it to a card.
When the visitor goes home, they can email this picture to friends and
relatives. The picture is put on a template that describes the museum
and has links to other attractions. It does not cost us anything, in
fact, if we do enough volume, we may actually make some money. The main
benefit to the Museum is the exposure gained when visitors spread the
word with the photo. It is another example of the “social” media that is
becoming a major way of communicating in this 21st century.
We have already had positive feedback on this program from visitors.
The 2010 Great Oregon Steam-Up NW Vintage Car & Motorcycle Museum
Preview Show Photo Album
To see the photo album click here.
For news about the construction of our Museum,
click here.
For a list of upcoming events, see our Calendar,
click here.
The newest Museum Quarterly Newsletter is available.
Click here
For a complete list of the Museum Quarterly newsletter,
click here
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