CLC Honors Bestowed on Peach State CLC Members

 CLC Norm Uhlir Award for Most Active Region:
Peach State CLC 2011
Peach State CLC 2016
  • For special member services, regional meets, membership stability, quality reports and articles, participation in Grand Nationals and special regional club activities.
 
CLC Ken Moss Lifetime Achievement Award:
  • Ron VanGelderen, Dalton, 1998
 
CLC Maurice Hendry Award for Journalistic Contributions:
  • Ron VanGelderen, Dalton, 1986
 
CLC Ansel Sackett Award for 1941 Cadillac Excellence:
  • Paul and Janice Phillips, 2018
  • Ed Goehring, Acworth, 2007
 
CLC Mary Lou Evans Membership Award:
  • Doug Bailey, 2012

CLC LaSalle Discovery Award for conspicuous recognition of LaSalle autos:
  • Ron VanGelderen, Dalton, 2012
 
CLC Newsletter Excellence Award
  • Sandy Barth, 2020
  • Sandy Barth, 2018
  • Sandy Barth, 2017
  • Elizabeth Boggs, 2002
 
CLC Decou Long Distance Driving Award for Grand Nationals:
  • Lee Dunn, Waleska, 2018
  • Lee Dunn, Waleska, 2015
 
CLC Past President’s Preservation Awards:
  • Ed Goehring, Acworth, ’41 6319D sedan
  • Ron Van Gelderen, Dalton, ’41 6227D coupe
  • Stan Tucker, Marietta, ’56 6019X 60 Special
  • Lewis Schwartz, Atlanta, ’76 6EL67 Bicentennial Eldo convertible
  • Doug Bailey, Roswell, ’66 Sedan DeVille
  • Lee Dunn, Waleska, ’76 Eldorado convertible
  • List to be finished as details come in!


Picture
ABOVE - A plaque noting our contributions to the
Cadillac - LaSalle Museum & Research Center.  

Peach State is listed at the bottom of the middle column as a founder for the CLC Museum (CLICK ON PHOTO TO VIEW LARGER).

Quite a feather in our caps, since this represents us being among the heaviest givers of the entire club!

Wish to submit an article, photographs, want ad, etc. to The Self-Starter (CLC's National magazine)?  Visit this page for details:  http://www.cadillaclasalleclub.org/publications/
Published articles in the Self Starter
Jay Friedman - CLC Author of the Year, 2010:
  • 1/87, “Pride and Joy” (Jay’s car);
  • 1/90, “Pride and Joy Goes to Hollywood” (Jay’s car in a movie);
  • 6/92, “Pride and Joy At the Grand National” (Jay’s car driven to the '91 Grand National);
  • 11-12/97, “More On Rocker Arm Squeaking” (Tech Tip);
  • 6/98, “How I Almost Won the Hard Luck Award at the 1993 CLC Grand National” (Technical problems driving Jay’s car to the '93 GN);
  • 8/98, “As Sweet As Peaches in the Georgia Sun” (History of the Peach State Region, written with 3 others.);
  • 1/99, “Greasing Your Cadillac: It's a Dirty Job But Someone Has To Do It” (technical);
  • 5/99, “We Were Grand National Bound: Georgia to Long Island” (driving Jay’s car in a convoy to the '98 GN);
  • 6/99, “1949 Cadillac Sales Literature” (Technical in '49 anniversary issue);
  • 11-12/99, “Why I Had to Have My 1949 Cadillac: One Last '49 Cadillac Story to Close Down the 50th Anniversary Year”;
  • 5/00, “Always There, always Serving: Ron Van Gelderen” (tribute to RVG commissioned by SS editor Michaline Larsen);
  • 9/00, Letter To the Editor (opposition to modified Cadillacs in the CLC);
  • 3/01, “Denver Bound?” (Technical: getting your car in shape to drive to the '01 GN);
  • 3/02, “Tuning Up Your Cadillac's Ignition System” (Technical);
  • 8/02, “Transmission Removal and Installation” (Technical);
  • 4/04, “Those Other 1941-53 Cadillacs Or Stick Shift's Last Hurrah” (Technical);
  • 5/04, “The Forty-Niners Chapter, There's gold in them thar cars” (profile of CLC chapter);
  • 10/04, “Replacing a Front 'Knee-Action' Shock Absorber, It Ain't as Hard as it Looks” (Technical);
  • 11-12/06, “Cadillacs and Other Old Iron In Havana (Cadillacs in Cuba)”;
  • 7/08, “Replacing Cadillac Motor Mounts” (Technical);
  • 2/10, “The 1937-53 Cadillac and LaSalle Standard Transmission of the World” (Technical);
  • 12/11, “Replacing the shift lever spring in 1942-56 Cadillacs,” co-authored with Art Gardner (technical)

 Peach State CLC Members’ Articles Published in The Self Starter
In 2019 we continued our run of helpful articles in The Self-Starter:
  1. Frank Butler III, the April 2018 The Self Starter Author of the Year, “Cadillacs in Deutschland: Treffen 2018.”
  2. Doug Bailey, June 2019 issue, “It Lives! Bringing a ’53 Cadillac Series 62 Back to Life.”
  3. Lee Dunn, October 2019, “Let there be Smoke, Peach State Region's Fall Driving Tour.” 

Authors and Articles from 2002 - 2018:
Frank Lindauer:
  • Date Unknown “The Wanderer”
  • 06/02, The Self Starter, page 7:  "A Shop Tour... from Frank Lindauer."
Martina Butler:
  • “Big Blue…” March 2010…
Lee Dunn
  • 5/12, “Spring Awakening,” The 2012 Peach State CLC Spring Driving Tour
  • 10/12, “North Georgia High Roads (Driving the Tail of the Dragon),” PS CLC Fall Driving Tour
  • 2/18 George Celini Story
Doug Bailey:
  • 9/08 Letter to the Editor & photo: Cadillac Dog Food (silo outside Philly)
  • 10/11, “I Drove a Hot Rod Cadillac!” Submitted for publication
  • 7/13, “My horns didn’t work, now they do!” (technical)
  • 7/17, "Dateline Detroit: Wally Barth, Cadillac Engineer"
Rob Johns:
  •  02/16, “My 1941 Series 62 convertible…”

Frank C. Butler:
       •  2/14, “Interview" Ron VanGelderen, with Martina Butler."
  • 6/15, “Amelia Island: Rare Cadillacs made a splash at this 20th annual event”
  • 8/16, “Amelia Island sequel:This year's event featured Cadillac V-16s, including the 2003 Sixteen concept."
  •  7/17, “Amelia Island: Cadillacs on display and for sale at this year's Concours d'Elegance."
  • 4/18, “2017 Hilton Head Island Concours d'Elegance” + cover photo.
  • 6/18, "Amelia Island Event"

Ron Pair:
  • 10/18, "1941 Resurrected"
Click Here to see the Peach State CLC Touring Miles by Car  (as of May 11, 2021)
CLC Touring Program Badges:
There have been 148 members nationally participate in the touring program, driving 198 Cadillacs. Peach State CLC owns 30 of the 82 badges that have been awarded by the CLC Touring program. That’s 37% of ALL touring badges awarded!
  • #1  Lee & Mary Jean Dunn/Jack & Donna Hurley: ’76 Eldorado
  • #2  Vince and Karen Haaland: ’66 Fleetwood Brougham
  • #4  Norm and Linda Penfield: ’93 Allante
  • #5  Jimmy Dorsey: ’63 Series 62
  • #6  Ray and Dottie Diodati: ’57 Coupe DeVille
  • #7  Lee and Mary Jean Dunn: ’57 Series 62
  • #8  Doug Bailey: ’58 Series 62
  • #9  Bill Greene: ’74 Eldorado
  • #10  Bob Hendershott: ’65 Eldorado
  • #11  Ron and Annette Benneche: ’62 Coupe DeVille
  • #13  Stephen Page: '02 Eldorado
  • #16:  Buster and Kim Miller: ’58 Series 62
  • #17  Mark Nichols: ’64 Fleetwood 60 Special
  • #18  Henry Mainwaring: ’63 Fleetwood 60 Special
  • #19  Sandy Partridge: ’76 Coupe DeVille
  • #20  Doug Bailey: ’66 Sedan DeVille
  • #33  Tom and Linda Di Nucci: ’61 Series 62 convertible
  • #34  Jimmy Dorsey: ’83 Coupe DeVille
  • #35  Stan Tucker: ’56 Fleetwood 60 Special
  • #36  Mike Dougherty: ’78 Eldorado
  • #37  Lewis Kelly: ’93 Allante
  • #39  Doug Bailey: ’66 Eldorado
  • #40  Mike and Michelle Anderson: ’64 Fleetwood 60 Special
  • #61  Eddie & Suzanne Bibb ’89 Sedan DeVille
  • #64  Rory & Lucille O’Neil ’78 Eldorado Biarritz
  • #67  Michael Kelly & Bill Breuer ’77 Seville
  • #68  Donald & Dollie Smalley ’77 Fleetwood Brougham
  • #69  Jim Sabastian ’89 Allante
  • #71  Mark Nichols '76 Fleetwood Talisman
  • #72  Eddie and Suzanne Bibb '68 DeVille Coupe
  • #73  Lewis Kelly '91 Fleetwood Brougham
  • #78  Glenn Novak  '92 Eldorado Coupe
  • #79  Eddie and Suzanne Bibb '76 Fleetwood
  • #81  Eddie and Suzanne Bibb '11 DTS
  • #82  David and Jody Wall '82 SDV

  • Ten of us who own the “second level” SENIOR TOURING badges, for touring over 2,000 miles in the same Cadillac, are:
  • Lewis Kelly (’93 Allante)
  • Tom Di Nucci (’61 convertible)
  • Buster and Kim Miller (’58 coupe)
  • Lee Dunn (’76 Eldorado)
  • Doug and Barb Bailey (’66 Eldorado)
  • Stephen Page (’02 Eldorado)
  • Mark Nichols ('76 Fleetwood Talisman)
  • Lucille O'Neill ('78 Eldorado Biarritz)
  • Mike and Michelle Anderson ('64 Fleetwood)
  • Donald and Dollie Smalley ('77 Fleetwood Brougham)
  • This means our single region owns 56% of the 18 Senior touring badges awarded by the CLC.
— Peach State Cadillac & LaSalle Club Member of the Year Awards —

2021: Art Gardner
2020: Sandy Partridge
2019: Buster Miller
2018:  Judy Winchell
2017:  Dick Peden
2016:  Lewis Kelly
2015:  Jay Friedman
2014:  Bill Greene
2013:  Bob Winchell
WINNER - 2016 Norm Uhlir Regional Activity Award

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