Antique Mechanics Society

almost 28 years ago.

When I think back about my time as a student in Antique Mechanics I recall that our first location was at the back of a room at Bainer Hall that Ag Engineering let us use. This really limited the mess that we could make since we only had room for a couple of projects in the building. Unrestored machinery was kept anywhere on campus that someone would allow, the largest area was by building TB-22. After awhile the space in Bainer was needed for Ag projects or classes and we needed a new home. TB-22 was a storage building for Ag Engineering and they emptied at least half of it for us to use. This was good in that it actually provided us more indoor working space, but since it was on the west side of Highway 113 we did not get many students happening upon us and deciding to join. Antique mechanics really wanted a home of their own and not everyone wanted us storing equipment all over the campus all of the time, so with the help of Ben Sharpsteen's original donation and the Alumni foundation's matching funds we were able to

rom the President: Another year has gone by and we are once again thinking about the upcoming annual meeting on June 2. Time does seem to fly, and I am told that this past February marked Antique Mechanics' 30th Anniversary. I was not an original member as I joined the club in 1973 and missed the actual start up. Thinking back to my start at Antique

ANTIQUE MECHANICS SOCIETY

ANNUAL MEETING

JUNE 2, 2001 at the shop

Meeting at 2:00pm

Tri-Tip BBQ at 4:00pm

Help Us Celebrate 30 Years of the

Antique Mechanics Club!

Mechanics, I remember that I was a transfer student at the time, coming into my Junior year as an Engineering major. I had seen something on the news about the old tractors at UCD during the summer and I thought I would take a shot at finding them even though I had no idea where to look. One day when I finished my last class in Bainer Hall (the only engineering building at the time) I grabbed my bicycle from the front of the building and headed west since I figured tractors would be kept in the more open spaces of the Campus. At that time just about everything west of Bainer was open space. As I rode around the back of Bainer, ready to start my search, there they were, several old machines and people hanging around working on them. It turned out not to be too complicated to join, just show up and work on stuff. It sure doesn't seem like that was