As part of former member Leo DeSautel's estate the family contributed 16 boxes of miscellaneous parts to the Club to be sold to help augment the Club's coffers. The resultant sequence began in late 2017 when Al Shannon and Paul Chudek picked up the boxes involved and moved them to the Clubhouse where they were then stored for the winter of 2017- 2018.
On April 18th of 2018, at President Gord Rouse's instigation a group of 12 Club members met at the Clubhouse to both sort the parts and review our disposal options. Amongst the group was Yvon Picot who also contributed a number of Model A items for the Club to sell to its benefit. As it turned out about 3 or 4 of the DeSautel boxes contained Model A items, 4 items related to Model T's, and the bulk of the items involved, (many of them unidentifiable by our members), turned out to be 1950's era Chevrolet pickup parts that Leo had been accumulating on prospect of eventually buying a truck of that era to either upgrade or restore.
With the Red Deer swap meet being a mere two weeks away, and with Glenn Smith generously offering the use of a portion of his sale table space for the Club's use, it was agreed that unless items could be disposed of prior to that date everything involved would be hauled to Red Deer at month's end in an effort to sell as much of it as possible.
Surprise of surprises was that former Club President Hank Biesbroek agreed to give the Club a donation in exchange for the Model A parts involved, Brad Jarabak agreed to buy the few Tillotson carburetor parts, Barry Osborne bought the decrepit old trunk, Ross Benedict of the Model T's Club agreed to buy the Model T items, and Ray Watier of the 55 – 56 – 57 – Chevrolet's Club bought the complete Chevrolet truck parts inventory, - - thus, generally eliminating the need to haul much of anything to Red Deer, - - and of course, as so often happens, - - to end up hauling some portion of it back to Calgary for future disposal in one manner or another.
With the late spring and snow still on the ground this proved to be an excellent exercise with which to begin our 2018 'Touring and Related Activities' season!
