[Flathead Fever]

My dad was in the Model A Club and he always carried a spare distributor, generator and water pump.

When I was a little kid, during the winter months, the club took a trip to Death Velley CA. Something happened to one of the cars on the way there, so they got out the club owners roster book and called a member. We drove out to the guy's house, and he had the part to fix the car. I was too young to remember what it was that had broken, but a couple hour delay and the club was back on the road again. The next year's Death Valley trip they left me at my grandparents so I wouldn't freeze in a rumble seat. There's a steep road that descends into the upper end of Death Valley. On the way there, in the dark, a burro ran out in front of one on the Model A's and it shoved the radiator back into the fan. That was the last year the Model A Club went to Death Valley, or any other faraway places.