Tim Elder launches the Silver Trumpet – an inter-chapter communications newsletter designed to convey time-sensitive information between issues of Enjine!-Enjine! Some 65 copies of the ST were mailed to SPAAMFAA board members and regional chapters. For the first time, muster insurance was available to all SPAAAMFAA chapters through Cicero NY member Robert N. Potter’s insurance agency.

The Florida Chapter held an Earlybird Muster in sunny Tampa on March 1.The 1981 SPAAMFAA Summer Convention/Muster returned to Syracuse, N.Y. August 6-7-8. The Indiana Chapter held its annual muster at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Rig owners were allowed to take their fire trucks on a leisurely spin around the fabled Indy 500 track. The just-chartered Genesee Valley Chapter held its first muster in nearby Rochester, N.Y. with a respectable 50 rigs in attendance.

Dexter and Edna Shilling began writing their Price-Wise column in Enjine!-Enjine! This new feature provided useful guidance for members looking to buy or sell a rig.