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first leg they arrived in El Paso seven hours ahead of the Sunset Limited (a crack passenger train). On the way back from New York, they stopped in Detroit for three days and visited the Cadillac plant.

Remember, folks, this was before the age of smooth, interstate highways and - yes - they did have the car shipped to Havana. Most amazing was one of the driver's remarks upon return, "If we had wanted to do a record trip, I believe we could cut the time in half."
STATS: Normal Cruising Speed: 60/65 mph
Overall Gas Mileage: 8-1/2 mpg
Oil Consumption: 150 miles per quart\
measured over the 10,000 miles.
There were no breakdowns.

Makes you wonder what these guys could do today with an Eldorado TC, some ZZ Topp CDs and a good laser/radar detector.

Happy Birthday!
Darrin Ware 1/1
Kevin Garner 1/3
Glenn Brugman 1/11
Bert Tibbits 1/11
Steve Magliaro 1/15
Duane Medley 1/23
Pete Reinthaler 1/26

Show of luxury
More is developing on what Cody Gray of the Lincoln Club has appropriately dubbed, "Heavy Metal" - our all-American luxury show later this year. Stay tuned.

Officers
Steve Stewart, Regional Director
Duane Medley, Assistant Director
Bill Coleman, Treasurer
Doyle McDonald, Membership
Janet Henry, Distribution/Mail

 Tech Talk: Tail Lamp Operation
Voltage is applied at all times through the tail lamp fuse to the headlamp switch. With switch in park lamp mode or headlamp mode, current flows through the tail lamps and license plate lamp - on newer models, rear side marker lamps.

The instrument panel lamps work in conjunction with tail lamp circuit in the event tail lamp fuse is blown.

Voltage is applied through the tail lamp fuse to the headlamp switch - with headlamp in park mode or headlamp mode - current flows through the switch to the instrument panel fuse to the panel lamps in the dash.

Front parking lamps and front side marker lamps are usually on a separate fused circuit - so are the turn signal lamps.
- Dick Rodriguez

February Meeting
Where: Dirty's
1710 Durham (one block west of the Cadillac Bar)
Ph.# 861-7046
When: Sunday, Feb. 2, 2 p.m.

Trivia Question

This question was submitted by Fred Hollins:
What year was the push and pull type ignition switch introduced?

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