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THE JUMPSTARTER
  Volume 26, Number 1                                         January 2019

            Happy New Year, 2019!                                  MEMBERSHIP

                                                                   Monthly Dinner
As we say good-bye to 2018, we welcome 2019 with the               2nd Tuesday’s
hope that we will all enjoy a year of good Health, Happi-
                                                                  September—May
ness and Peace in the World. January is, of course, the
Automobile Auction Month of the Year here in Scottsdale.               6:00 pm
We are blessed to have the major auctions right here in
our backyards. Please refer to our events schedule which
gives dates, locations and contact information for each
auction.                                                       10100 North Scottsdale Road

                                                                      Scottsdale AZ

While doing your purchase inspection of any vehicle, re-
member that we have members who can help with advice,
either pre or post purchase.. Dave Dubie of Collector Car      WWW.CLCSDR.ORG
Consultants, who is a Director Emeritus of the CLC-SDR,
is an authority on collector cars. Danny Smith of Legends
Luxury Auto Repair can handle most repairs on Vintage
cars, especially Cadillacs. Dean Kanocz specializes in an-
tique cars. USA Collision is your “go to” shop for body re-
pair / restoration. Each of our Advertisers can help you
with your “ride”. So please patronize them. They support
us and we should and must support them.

In closing, as usual, I ask for your help in producing the
Jumpstarter, Without your input, I am at a loss for report-
ing members cars, experiences, Shows and other car re-
lated activities. Keep the info flowing.
     Joe Luber. jluber306@cox.net 480 588-8008.
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C & LC—Sonoran Desert Region Directors and Officers

                                            Directors & Officers
  Directors Emeritus                    Jerry McGilsky, Director & Treasurer
                                                jmcgilsky@hotmail.com

         Phil Terry                      Dee Pellegrini, Assistant Director
       phildeville@cox.net
                                                deexlr1962@gmail.com

       Dave Ritchie                Richard Dormois, Secretary & Membership
       daveritchie@cox.net
                                              cadseventyfive@earthlink.net
       Dave Dubie
                                        Rick Simonick, Advertising Director
   oldcadillac1959@gmail.com
                                                  motor3809@cox.net
     Peter Hilgeman
                                          Joe Luber, Newsletter/Web-Site
       pete@hilgeman.org
                                                   jluber306@cox.net
         Fred Lee
                                           Fred Rank, Activities Director
       azsunbuff@cox.net
                                                   fredrank@cox.net

                                    Seth Robinson, Director of Scholarships

                                              seth@usaclassiccustoms.com

                                   Bob Groves, Assistant Activities Director
                                                 bobscaddy@aol.com
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                                     Presidents Message
                                          January 2019
                              By Jerry McGilsky – Director
Another year comes to an end, BUT the fun still goes on! I want to thank all of our Members for making
2018 a great year with your contributions and attendance at our activities. I hope to see you all at our
2019 events. Our events have proven successful over the years as we seem to always “rope in” some
new Members. Easy to do with our group of Members and the knowledge and Cadillac advice they can
provide.
We have two new Board Members: Robert Groves our Assistant Activities Director and Seth Robinson
our Director of Scholarships. I’m sure you are asking, ”Director of Scholarships”?, YES!, the Club Board
has decided to start a Scholarship Fund to help keep the hobby alive. The Board meets the last
Wednesday of every other month, should any Members have a suggestion to place on the meeting
agenda, please shoot me an e-mail with your suggestion at jmcgilsky@hotmail.com. Our next Board
Meeting will be January 30th, 2019.
DUES-DUES-DUES…….Annual dues are coming up, Membership dues are due on, or before, March 1st
of each year. Dues are $35.00, or $100.00 for three years. You may bring your dues payment to the
January or February Membership Meeting or mail them in, club address is listed below.
Our Monthly Membership Meetings will continue to be the second Tuesday of each month through May
2019. California Pizza Kitchen in N. Scottsdale will continue as our host restaurant, fun always begins at
6:00pm, general meeting at 7:00pm. If you can not make the meetings be sure to read the minutes of
the meetings in your e-mails. Richard Dormois (Club Secretary) does an excellent and detailed job of
the meeting, these minutes will give you details for local and National news and events.
As always, check the web-site often as changes will occur in the events and photo pages, not to mention
the GREAT Newsletters! Remember to support our sponsors, you can find a full list on our Sponsors
Page on the web-site.
Remember-Bring a kid to a car show, let’s keep the hobby alive!
Website: http://www.clcsdr.org

Club mailing address: CLCSDR
        Jerry McGilsky
        9031 E. Sheena Dr.
        Scottsdale, AZ 85260

!
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                                                Events
                                Fred Rank, Events Coordinator
NOTE: Dates and information subject to change. Please refer to later publications of the

         Jumpstarter Newsletter and emails from the Club

Monthly dinner meetings, 2nd Tuesday of Each Month @ 7:00 p.m. (Dinner @ 5:45 p.m.)

California Pizza Kitchen
Gold Dust and Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, AZ
Check emails for complete information

Monthly – Scuderia Southwest Cars and Coffee – 1st Saturday, 7:00 to 10:00 AM

Scottsdale Road and Mayo Blvd. (near the 101)

January 2019 – See Emails for Details

Monthly Dinner Meeting, January 8, 2019

California Pizza Kitchen
Gold Dust and Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, AZ

January 10-12, 2019

Silver Auctions, Peoria Sports Complex

January 12-20, 2019

Barrett -Jackson, West World of Scottsdale, 480 421-6694 www.barrett-jackson.com

January 16, 2019

Worldwide Auctioneers, 6400 East McDowell Road, 260 925-6789 www.worldwide-auctioneers.com
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                                        Event - Continued
January 16-20, 2019

Russo and Steele. Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, 602 252-2697 www.russoandsteele.com

January 17, 2019

Bonham's, The Westin Kierland Resort, 415 391-4000 www.bonhams.com

January 17-18, 2019

RM Sotheby’s, Arizona Biltmore Resort, 519 352 4575 www.rmsothebys.com

January 19-19, 2019

Gooding & Company, Fashion Square Mall, 310 899-1960 www.gooding.com

January 24, 2019

Luncheon at the Stockyards Restaurant, 5009 E. Washington Street. Watch Emails for more information.

February 2019 – See Emails for Details

Note: No Monthly Dinner Meeting, February 2019

February 9, 2019

Concours in the Hills, Fountain Hills, AZ. Register at concoursinthehills.com, $60.00, convoy to event starts at
the Northwest corner of Shea Blvd. and the 101 next to Culver’s and the PGA Superstore at 7:30 am. Rain date
is Feb 16, 2019
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                                    Events – Continued
.

February 10. 2019
Sonoran Dessert Region Member Appreciation Dinner at Don & Charlies Restaurant, Camelback Road, Scottsdale
AZ, @ 4:30 p.m.

Special Parking for our Cars, Drawing for Car Detail and a set of Cadillac Legacy of Leadership Books.

March 2019 – See Emails for Details

Monthly Dinner Meeting, March 12, 2019

California Pizza Kitchen
Gold Dust and Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, AZ

March 24, 2019, 10;00 a.m. to 3:00 PM Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac & Cadillac Show at the Pavilions. Many Prizes
including 3 Car Detail Certificates.

April 2019 – See Emails for Details

Monthly Dinner Meeting, April 9, 2019

California Pizza Kitchen
Gold Dust and Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, AZ

Sedona. AZ / Lunch Mariposa Restaurant

May 2019 – See Emails for Details

Monthly Dinner Meeting, May 14, 2019

California Pizza Kitchen
Gold Dust and Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, AZ
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Editors Note: The following Article and Pictures are from The Brougham Owners
Association, Inc., a division of Allan & Co. Antiquities, Inc. Strongsville, Ohio. It was
published in the Summer of 2000.

                              Eldorado Brougham No. 273

                          By: Charles D. Barnette of Texarkana, Arkansas

            For some time now there have been two rumors coming out of Ft. Worth, Texas, regard-

     ing the 1957 Eldorado Brougham No. 273. (This car has been mistaken in recent years for No.

     274 even on the internet. My research shows No. 274 has for many years resided in Charlotte,

     North Carolina). One rumor is that the car was once owned by Elvis Presley, and the other ru-

     mor is that over $350,000 has been spent on its restoration. Since I am an avid fan of the Eldo-

     rado Brougham and since I only live 250 miles away from Ft. Worth, I decided it was time to

     check out No. 273.

            My quest was not to confirm or deny these rumors, but rather to see for myself the quality

     of the restoration and report same back to the BOA. It is well documented that Elvis Presley did

     own the chief rival to the Eldorado Brougham, i.e., the 1956 Continental Mark II. By the way, Pres-

     ley's Mark II can be seen on display at Gallery Furniture Store in Houston, Texas, having been

     bought by "Mattress Mack" the owner of the store for the sum of $250,000 plus commission at the

     Presley Las Vegas auction in October of 1999.

            In consulting the roster prepared by Cy Strickler, the first president of the BOA, dated

     1977 through 1978, we find the following about No. 273 from that roster: the exterior color code

     for the car is 110 which is ebony (black), and the interior code is 1281 which is light gray Paris-

     ienne cloth with white leather, and it was shipped from the factory to North Carolina.
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       Through a fellow member of the BOA, I received the name of the restorer of the car

and set up a visit for Saturday, April 29, 2000, in connection with my yearly trip to Pate

Swap Meet at the Texas Motor Speedway. I am happy to report that I found No. 273 to be

receiving a meticulous and the most perfect restoration ever to be bestowed on an Eldora-

do Brougham. The restorer has consulted with several BOA members in the process and

has spent 5 1/2 years restoring No. 273. He began work on the car on Thanksgiving Day of

November 1994. The restorer says he lacks approximately 240 hours before finishing

same and hopes to have it completely restored in July of 2000. No. 273 has none of the

"goodies" i.e., compact, cigarette case, perfume bottle with atomizer, etc.; but when fin-

ished it will be the most perfect Eldorado Brougham on the face of the planet! It is a "frame

up" restoration as opposed to a "frame off" restoration and no expense is being spared.

The restorer and owner wish to remain anonymous at this time, and this article will re-

spect those wishes. I am authorized however by the owner and restorer to have published

the pictures I took of the restoration as I found it on April 29, 2000. At that time the hood

and front fenders were off as well as seats yet to be reinstalled. Enjoy the pictures. I was

invited to view the car underneath and was amazed at the beauty. I wish to give credit to

Stephen Nadon of Ontario, Canada, for the motivation given to me by him to do this article

and take the pictures.

       The exquisite and beautiful restoration being done on this Eldorado Brougham

should raise the public awareness of our cars to a new height. The work being

done should be appreciated by all of us who love the Eldorado Brougham.
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Cadillac LaSalle Club - Sonoran Region #1 Sponsor

    8310 West Bell Rd. Glendale AZ 85308
                 (623) 455-6910
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                                      Fred Rank, Activities Director

Presentation of Check to Ronald McDonald House Charity from CLC-SDR by Fred Rank and Jerry
                                McGilsky, December 9, 20018.
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Glendale Christmas Parade 2018 for Arrowhead Cadillac, Dec. 8, 2018
The Cadillac LaSalle Club Sonoran Region provided 7 Cadillac convertibles for the Show. Drivers
with their cars were Fred Rank, Rick Simonick, Tony Albany, Bob Groves, Ron Terry, Richard Marker
Dwight Thomas drove a car on loan from Mark Ellingson’s collection. A special thanks to Mark and
Dwight. All drivers received the customary club event gasoline allowance of $20.00 . After arriving at
the staging area at 9:30, we had to kill some time until 11:15 when the parade started. We all had s
dignitaries in our cars with introductory placards. The snail’s pace route entailed 52nd Avenue to 58th
Drive and lasted until12:15. The crowd size was estimated to be10,000 and they loved the Cadil-
lac's .
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                        That’s My Story And I’m Stickin’ To It
           Story and photo by Richard Dormois
           Reprinted with permission of Bill Levy, Editor, "THE STANDARD OF THE WORLD" North Texas Region CLC

As I write this next chapter of the Cadillac history of our family for the of the “Standard of the World" I'm mindful of a pretty rough time for me
and my sister Sue. We were raised in suburban Saint Louis and loved it. Our lives were full of friends in school and our ch urch group and we
felt a real fondness for Overland, our Saint Louis suburb. I had a good job at the Saint Louis airport, was now a supervisor on the midnight shift
making $1.25 an hour, had graduated from high school and was still caddying at Lakeside Golf Club and some at a few nearby PGA events.
Rubbed shoulders with a few touring pros. Do the names Doug Sanders and Ken Venturi ring a bell? I still had my '41 Cadillac and daddy had
traded the 1947 slate Cadillac Club Coupe for a black 1952 Cadillac sixty two four door sedan. I have to say, it was one of my favorites, but it
has to be black. I had asked if I could use it to take my date to my senior prom but daddy wasn't too keen on the idea because I had had a cou-
ple of minor mishaps with my '41. One of my golfers, Dr. Gene Egle, said I could use his 1953 Ford Convertible for the prom. When I told my
dad, he let me use the '52 Cadillac sixty two. Truth was, I was a little ashamed of the appearance of my '41 and I think I really did impress my
date, Barbara Boulware, with the black Cadillac sedan. Sure wish I had pictures of us with that motorcar to share with you now.

There had been some talk of the family moving away from Saint Louis and the extreme winters, which really concerned me and my sister. Dad-
dy took an exploratory trip to Houston, Texas and returned saying it was very clean for a big city, but job prospects were slim. Then he went to
San Jose, California, where the climate was to his liking and job prospects were good. A “For Sale” sign went up in our front yard but my friend,
Nelson Whitecotton, and I stole it and hid it in his basement. Most conversations about moving ended with raised voices, pleading and my sister
in tears. So, there was no more talk with the kids about moving, but it was evident that it was going to happen. The '52 Cadillac sedan was trad-
ed for a beautiful Alpine White over Iris, 1954 Cadillac Sixty Two Series, four door sedan, in preparation for the trip to California. I was eighteen
and tried everything to get my parents to let me stay in Saint Louis, but my father insisted the age of majority was twenty-one and I was not ma-
ture enough to be on my own. I arranged to share an apartment with a work mate from the airport, our minister vouched for me and my girl-
friend's dad put in a word for me, to no avail.

I was still working the midnight shift at the airport and came home from work one Friday morning in early September 1956, doffed my white
coveralls and went to bed, as usual. Dead asleep a few hours later, I was awakened by a very large uniformed man who said "Get up son.
This bed has to go". I think the shield on his cap said "ALLIED VAN LINES." I jumped into my coveralls and went down stairs to find the house
devoid of furniture. There was no one to argue with. This was serious. There was an unsigned note tacked to the front door saying we were
leaving at eight o'clock Saturday morning and I had better be there. In the next twenty hours, I closed my bank account, said goodbye to my
girlfriend, met with my pastor, sold the '41 Cadillac to Al for $25.00 and quit my job at the airport. On short notice, they didn't have anyone to
work for me so I pulled the shift. I remember the last flight I catered. TWA Flight One, a Lockheed Super G Constellation bound for New York.
In those days, a cordial of wine and a four pack of cigarettes were served on the tray with every adult meal. Younger folk reading this may
have trouble with that one, but if you were flying commercial in the fifties, you may remember. (Continued next page)

                                           1954 Cadillac Sixty Two Series
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                      That’s My Story And I’m Stickin’ To It

We were on the road to a new life in California and Sue and I were sad, very sad, and the 1954 Cadillac was taking us there. The
next morning in front of my grandparent’s home, on Grandview Boulevard in Kansas City, Kansas sat the 1954 Cadillac Sedan with
my family in the same configuration as the day before. I was to drive again. Things remained pretty quiet. There is no longer ride,
with nothing, than across Kansas. Some say Texas, in places, but it is Kansas! Approaching the Denver suburb of Littleton, I
missed a "45 MPH" sign and when I saw the trooper's red gum ball revolving behind me the Cadillac was going fifty six miles an
hour. The trooper took my Missouri Driver's License and asked me where we were going and I told him California. He asked if I
knew how fast I was going and I told him fifty-six. He said "Your speedometer is right." We made a U Turn and stopped behind a
hamburger stand about a mile back and went in a back door. A large man in his forties, appeared from an inner door, doffed his
stained apron, tapped a small desk and said "Court is now in session. Officer state your case." The trooper said he clocked me at
fifty-six in a forty-five zone and the "JP" said "How do you plead son? Guilty or Not Guilty? If you plead guilty we can take care of
this right now, or if you plead not guilty, we will set a court date for you sometime in the future." I said, "Guilty," and the man said,
"That will be twenty-two dollars in fines and ten dollars court costs. Thirty-two dollars. Payable in cash now." Upon leaving, my
dad and I had our first conversation since Saint Louis. He put his arm around me and said, "I wonder how they split that up?" That
series of events may have been common in 1956, but not so much today, I think.

My dad "hung up his slip" at the San Jose Mercury News and went to work on the swing shift the day we arrived in San Jose, Cali-
fornia. I went to work at the Insurance Company of North America at the Northern California Service Office as a mail clerk for nine-
ty-five cents an hour. The majority of the several hundred employees were women with less than a dozen single males. I was
eighteen, as was my workmate, Bob Long even, whose parents allowed him to drive their Belden Blue1947 Cadillac Series 62 four
door sedan sometimes. I remember it being quite oxidized. All the personnel were older than I but I managed to attract the atten-
tion of a nice single girl about three years older than I, asked her out to dinner and she accepted. My dad let me use the 1954 Ca-
dillac sedan and it got the best detail job I could provide. That Alpine White and Iris and chrome never shone so brightly. In my
dark blue pin striped suit, with a small bouquet of flowers, and the Cadillac parked at the curb in front of the house, I rang the door
bell promptly at six. My date's father came to the door and stepped out. He said, "You must be Dick." I said I was and he said, "As
long as our daughter is living under our roof, she will abide by our rules. We understand you are not Catholic. I'll see that she gets
these." He took my flowers and said "That's a nice car." Devastated would be a pretty mild description, I guess. I just knew I want-
ed to get off of their porch before I got sick.

I pulled the Cadillac down the street and stopped to think. I had never been in such a situation in my life and I just felt lousy. "All
dressed up and no place to go." But, I did go some place. I went to the drive-in down on the Alameda. I think it was "Mel’s" and
my car hop, Jeanie Causey, from Clovis, New Mexico was very impressed with the Cadillac and my blue suit and agreed to go to a
movie with me when she got off work. Getting to know each other, I confessed to being a real serious Elvis nut, which brought
tears. She said she had dated Elvis, they had broken up and she had come to San Jose to live with her sister. The date did not go
well.

About fourteen months later, I was alone at Charleston Air Force Base, on Thanksgiving Day, awaiting orders to go to Saudi Ara-
bia. A quartet of Field Maintenance Squadron airmen invited me to come eat with them in the nearly deserted chow hall. They
introduced themselves to me and one of the airmen said he was from Clovis, New Mexico. I shared my story with them and he lit
up and confirmed it was true adding some detail. I had had a date with an ELVIS PRESLEY playmate in daddy's 1954 Alpine
White over Iris Cadillac four door sedan. 'THAT'S MY STORY AND I'M STICKIN' TO IT".............Be safe.
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    Editors Note: Before anyone questions my including a “FORD TRUCK” in the
    Jumpstarter, this beautiful Truck was built by USA Classic Customs, owned by
    our new Board Member, Seth Robinson. For all types of body work, call Seth.

While not everyone loves the lowered look with the big wheels, this truck has been beautifully restored
by USA Classic Customsand it might be one of the nicest 50’s Ford pickups we have seen. If nothing
else, it is the nicest antique F-Series at SEMA 2018.

USA Collision is now USA Classic Customs. Visit our new web-site at:
                             https://usaclassiccustoms.com

Seth Robinson 602 861-1982                                      seth@usaclassiccustoms.com
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                       Interesting Predictions - Author Unknown
Auto repair shops will go away. A gasoline engine has 20,000 individual parts. [NOTE: I believe this is
greatly exaggerated! – DM] An electrical motor has 20.
Electric cars are sold with lifetime guarantees and are only repaired by dealers. It takes only 10 minutes
to remove and replace an electric motor. Faulty electric motors are not repaired at the dealership but
are sent to a regional repair shop that repairs them with robots. Your electric motor malfunction light
goes on, so you drive up to what looks like a Jiffy-auto wash, and your car is towed through while you
have a cup of coffee and out comes your car with a new electric motor!
Gas stations will go away. Parking meters will be replaced by meters that dispense electricity. Compa-
nies will install electrical recharging stations; in fact, they’ve already started. You can find them at select
Dunkin Donuts locations.
Most (the smart) major auto manufacturers have already designated money to start building new plants
that only build electric cars.
Coal industries will go away. Gasoline/oil companies will go away. Drilling for oil will stop. So say good-
bye to OPEC!
Homes will produce and store more electrical energy during the day and then they use and will sell it
back to the grid. The grid stores it and dispenses it to industries that are high electricity users. Has any-
body seen the Tesla roof?
A baby of today will only see personal cars in museums.
The FUTURE is approaching faster than most of us can handle.
In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few
years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt. Who would have thought of that ever
happening?
What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 5-10 years and, most people don't
see it coming.
Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later, you would never take pictures on film again? With today’s smart
phones, who even has a camera these days?
Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore's
law. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a time, before it became
way superior and became mainstream in only a few short years. It will now happen again (but much fast-
er) with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture
and jobs.
Forget the book, “Future Shock”, welcome to the 4thI industrial Revolution. .

Software has disrupted and will continue to disrupt most traditional industries in the next 5-10 years.
UBER is just a software tool, they don't own any cars, and are now the biggest taxi company in the
world!
Ask any taxi driver if they saw that coming.
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Airbnb is now the biggest hotel company in the world, although they don't own any properties. Ask Hilton
Hotels if they saw that coming.
Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in understanding the world. This year, a
computer beat the best Go-player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.
In the USA, young lawyers already don't get jobs. Because of IBM's Watson, you can get legal advice
(so far for right now, the basic stuff) within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy
when done by humans. So, if you study law, stop immediately. There will be 90% fewer lawyers in the
future, (what a thought!) only omniscient specialists will remain.
Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, its 4 times more accurate than human nurses.
Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognize faces better than humans. In 2030,
computers will become more intelligent than humans.
Autonomous cars: In 2018 the first self-driving cars are already here. In the next 2 years, the entire in-
dustry will start to be disrupted. You won't want to own a car anymore as you will call a car with your
phone, it will show up at your location and drive you to your destination. You will not need to park it, you
will only pay for the driven distance and you can be productive while driving.
The very young children of today will never get a driver's license and will never own a car.
This will change our cities, because we will need 90-95% fewer cars. We can transform former parking
spaces into parks.
1.2 million people die each year in car accidents worldwide including distracted or drunk driving. We
now have one accident every 60,000 miles; with autonomous driving that will drop to 1 accident in 6 mil-
lion miles. That will save a million lives plus worldwide each year.
Most traditional car companies will doubtless become bankrupt. Traditional car companies will try the
evolutionary approach and just build a better car, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) will do
the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels.
Look at what Volvo is doing right now; no more internal combustions engines in their vehicles starting
this year with the 2019 models, using all electric or hybrid only, with the intent of phasing out hybrid mod-
els.
Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi; are completely terrified of Tesla and so they should be.
Look at all the companies offering all electric vehicles. That was unheard of, only a few years ago.
Insurance companies will have massive trouble because, without accidents, the costs will become
cheaper. Their car insurance business model will disappear.
Real estate will change. Because if you can work while you commute, people will move farther away to
live in a more beautiful or affordable neighborhood.
Electric cars will become mainstream about 2030. Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run
on electricity.
Cities will have much cleaner air as well. (Can we start in Los Angeles, please?)
Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean.
Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning
impact.
And it’s just getting ramped up.
Fossil energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from
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Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, but you can now see the burgeoning
impact.
And it’s just getting ramped up.
Fossil energy companies are desperately trying to limit access to the grid to prevent competition from
home solar installations, but that simply cannot continue - technology will take care of that strategy.
Health: The Tricorder X price will be announced this year. There are companies who will build a medi-
cal device (called the "Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina
scan, your blood sample and you breath into it. It then analyses 54 bio-markers that will identify nearly
any Disease. There are dozens of phone apps out there right now for health purposes.
WELCOME TO TOMORROW – it actually arrived a few years ago.
                     —————————————————————————-

        Dwight Thomas’ 1940 Lasalle has 43k miles on the Original Drive Train

Recently, William Link supervised and did most of the total refresh of the engine compartment.
Everything in the interior is original or restored to as original.
The car has won numerous 1st in class awards and won best of restored award at Good Guys 2017 in
Scottsdale. It also won best in show at the 2018 Laveen show, put on by our member Art Downs.
It has been a wonderful experience for me to be a part of the Cadillac Lasalle club, Sonoran region.
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                           CLC-SDR Store

    We invite you to browse our store with confidence. All of our

    items are of the highest quality and carry the embroidered

    logo of the Cadillac LaSalle Club —Sonoran Desert Region.

                     More items to be added !

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Full Zip Windbreaker Jacket                Camp Shirt
          JST70                               S535
                                              L535

        Polo Shirt                      Dress Shirt
          K528                             S608
          L528                             S508
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    Denim Shirt                              Jacket
       SP10                                   J318
      LSP10                                   L318

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