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The Vette Set Volume 42, Issue 4
February 2009
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Club Officers
President Sean Pazdzior - 243-0161
1st Vice President Patty Strauch - 442-0247
2nd Vice President Alta Olejnik - 481-4587
Secretary Rob Miskowitch - 548-8667
Treasurer Gary Yale - 598-9127
Governor Walt Jenkins - 302-5472
Board Members
Anne Silvers [email protected]—598-6713
Hal Tumbleson [email protected]
- 641-7275
Craig Wisniewski [email protected] - 282-0161
John Gue [email protected] - 487-8619
Web Master
Rik Noring Jr. - 635-2889
Deadline to submit newsletter articles and in-
formation is the 15th of the month. Send or e-mail to:
Rob Miskowitch. ([email protected]) 5140 Saddle Dr. Colorado Springs, CO. 80918-3630
WEBSITE is http://www.coloradospringscorvetteclub.org
Meeting Information
This month’s Board Meeting will be on
Tuesday, February 3rd 7:00PM At
Gary Yale’s house 1620 Cragin Rd
Colorado Springs, CO 80920
(719) 598-9127
This month’s board meeting is open to any member wishing to attend. An
event chairperson should plan to attend the board meeting prior to his or her
scheduled event.
The CSCC general meeting this month will be held at the Inn at Garden Plaza
located at 2520 International Circle on Thursday, February 5th at 7:00 p.m.
Off of Pikes Peak go south on Parkside (by Colorado Music Hall) then go east
onto International Circle. Park on the south side in unmarked spaces or on the
street. Come through the main entrance and take the elevator down to 1 and go
to the Recreation room just outside of the elevators. Immediately following the
meeting, we will enjoy dinner and refreshments, see page 9 for details and
directions . All guests are welcome.
Minutes General Meeting
January 8th
Members Present
Ray Pazdzior Sean Pazdzior Melvin Swindale Paul Thompson Pete Olejnik Alta Olejnik Shawn mess Dana Cherry David Cherry Bill Ryan Dick Ary Denise Phillips Jerry Phillips Wayne Umland Susan Umland Rob Miskowitch Kelly Z Patty Strauch Walter Jenkins Hal Tumbleson Cindy Tumbleson Larry Lukenbill Debbie Yale Gary Yale Anne Silvers Karen Goodman Jim Goodman Rik Noring Jr. Florece Noring Larry Valentine Gwenda Valentine Nick Renfro Jane Creighbaum Gail Creighbaum
Cliff Wright Jim Nile Judy Nile Charlie Boland Joy boland Jack Frazee Indy Frazee Johnny Harris Mark Burroughs Lynn Wittrock Carol Wittrock Sean Soulvie Belinda Russell Dan Russell Mike Bochnak Winnie bochnak John Gue Judith Gue Jerry Stermer Diane Stermer Jim Mesite Michael F Sabo Craig Wisniewski Don Adametz
Guests Present
First Meeting Corvette Sponsor
Amy Phillips 04 Convertible Bob Adames 98 Walt Tim Greenshields 2006 Z06 Ed & Lorice Pinson 69 Jim
Second Meeting
Lee Partee 02/60 Bill Ryan
Third Meeting
Paul Heatwole 02 Walt
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Rob’s filler photo - Barn near Mueller state park.
1/8/09 Meeting Minutes Newsletter Corrections • John Gue as board member • Spelling of Loewen • Nik Renfro should be Nick Renfro • Wrong year on Dub Bridge Party Birthdays: Rob
Introductions: Alta - CSCC welcomes our newest member Paul Heatwole to the Colorado Springs Corvette Club. Merchandise: Denise - Please check with Denise for any mer-chandise you have ordered or would like to order Treasurer’s Report: Gary - Read and accepted. SCCC: Bob Adams - Bob, president of the Southern Colorado Corvette Club spoke at our meeting. We are two clubs that have-n’t crossed paths very often. He encouraged us to work on some combined events. He would like information and help possibly becoming NCCC members. Bob wished us congratulations on getting the NCCC national convention and offered to help as they can. Parade of Lights Parade - Around 90,000 people attended. The night was fantastic and warm (relatively speaking for the parade). One Corvette ran out of gas. Met at Culvers after dinner. It was a great parade.
Gail Creighbaum 1/1
Ron Akner 1/3
Melvin Swindale 1/6
Cindy Powers 1/8
Joe Ewing 1/19
Diane VanHorn 1/20
Joan Joseph 1/21
Larry Smith 1/23
Christmas Party: Anne - The Christmas party was attended by 52 members at High Forest Ranch. We had our pictures taken, played games, ate and danced or watched a video of the new ar-chives. I want to thank Denise Phillips for being the greeter and game organizer, Rob Miskowitch as our photographer, Diana Dittman for the picture frames, jane Creighbaum for decorations, Charlie and Joy Boland for bringing the archives, coffee and help-ing with clean up, Bud Silvers and Walt Jenkins for parking and all the members who brought food for the pot luck. Thank you all for coming and I hope you had a nice time. (Editor note. Thanks to Anne for organizing the event and reserving the High Forest Ranch building.) Christmas Baskets: Judy and Hal - Congratulations to everyone. We stocked and delivered 160 baskets to families (778 people) in need this made both nutritional and spiritual differences in their lives. Thanks to Patty and Dick Strauch, Vicki and Tom Ury, Dana and David Cherry, Rik Noring, Hal and Cindy Tumbleson, and Judy and John Gue and everyone who donated food, helped assemble and deliver the baskets. We voted to use up to $5000 of the treasury to do this and we only needed $373.73. Special thanks to the following for donations: • Dave Beam • Wreckmasters • Elite auto • Culver Collision • Blossers • Vand Davis Company • Melvin Swindale for 560 hotwheels • Christmas Unlimited for plush toys • And many club members for donating money and food (editor
didn’t know who wanted to remain anonymous so I didn’t print all names)
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After meeting dinner February 5th
Hooters 750 Citadel Dr. East, Suite 1012 Colorado Springs, CO 80909
(719) 596-3111
http://www.hooterscolorado.com/menu.shtml
Manitou Parade: Patty - It appears we were the only car club. It was very windy, so decorations where minimal. Garage Tours: Rik - Didn’t have a garage tour in December. This month’s tour will be on January 22nd. Menu will be pizza and associated refreshments that go with pizza. This month’s theme is deciphering numbers, engine code, VIN numbers, matching numbers. Bring your car. Club Charity: Sean - Two charities were presented: Mission medical, and the Trolley Museum. A vote was taken and Mis-sion medical was selected. 1/3 of our dues will be donated which totals $426. Other donations will be made throughout the year.
Trailer update: Craig - Our new trailer will arrive in late Febru-ary. Thanks to Hal and Walt for driving it back from the conven-tion meeting in St. Louis. There was some discussion about post-poning the purchase, but we voted not to revote. /CCC Update: Walt - See page 28 and 29 for NCCC events and officers. You must have event paperwork completed and submit-ted to the regional competition director 70 days prior to the event, and flyer must be complete 30 days prior to the event. We have opening for the following convention positions: • Decoration chair • Volunteer chair • Publication chair Dub Bridge Party: Winnie - Last month’s flyer had wrong year. See flyer. Door prizes, $5 per person, bring snack or appetizer. Silver State Classic Challenge: Sean Soulvie - Sean Pazdzior and Sean Soulvie invite you to join them in this event. It’s a 90 mile timed event. Various categories based on your preferred speed (95mph through 180 and unlimited). Tim Greenshields mentioned this is fun event. He expects the Z06s to dominate.
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VOTR: Walt - Should we help VOTR with timing for their event. They will compensate us with two entrees into VOTR plus gas money for hauling trailer. We agreed to help. Joint Car Show: Rick - On May 30th at PPIR there will be a joint car show with MOPAR, Ford, and Chevy. We have been invited to participate. No one volunteered to coordinate our participation. It might be an event we work together with SCCC on. Not quite sure if Rik volunteered to coordinate the event. Corvette Upgrades: • Rik installed a new DVD player in his C6. Trophy Help: Melvin - For this year’s Ruth’s Car show, Melvin would like to incorporate a coffee cup theme to the trophies. If you have any ideas please share them with Melvin. Ruth had a love for coffee, so this would be a nice theme. Good News/Bad News: Jim Mesite won the good news/ bad news suite case. Mostly good news. Very nice ear muff baseball cap was included. I have a feeling we may see that again.
Ron Garcia 2/4
David Cherry 2/11
Jim Nile 2/12
Fred Davison 2/25
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Here is some great information passed along to us by Cliff Wright High Plains Raceway | Your Colorado Performance Driving and Racing ... High Plains Raceway: The Colorado Amateur Motorsports Associates (CAMA) is proud to invite you to contribute to your performance driving and racing future. www.highplainsraceway.com/ - HIGH PLAINS RACEWAY will be the newest road racing motorsports facil-ity in the Rocky Mountain area. The project has been developed by of the Colorado Amateur Motorsports Associates, LLC (CAMA). Thanks to funding from the participating clubs, all the wonderful Founding Contributors and Founding Sponsors, and participants in the lending program (largely racers and club members) construction was begun in August of 2008 and all paving com-pleted in early October. HPR will be available for the 2009 racing season. The HPR property is located approximately 60 miles east of Denver's I-25 and I-70 interchange. Visit the Track Details page for exact location and directions. It's a mere 60 minutes from about any place in the Denver metro area. If you have a business which could take advantage of track advertising possi-bilities, please visit our Contact Us page and we will be delighted to help you with a program. Please check out all the other areas of this website for further details on this exciting project. At 2.5 miles in length with 15 turns and several significant elevation changes, High Plains Raceway will be one of the nation's great tracks. CAMA, and the respective clubs and their members, are extremely ex-cited about the realization of this new facility. ________________________________________ =Regards, Cliff 2005 White Corvette Coupe Corvette -- Everything else is just "transportation".
President Trivia 1. What date did FDR sign the U.S. decla-ration of war against Japan? December 8, 1941. 2. Which future U.S. Presidents signed the Declaration of Independence? Thomas Jefferson and John Adams 3. Who was the only U.S. President to also serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court? William Howard Taft 4. What U.S. President won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage? John F. Kennedy 5. Who was the first U.S. President to be married in the White House? Grover Cleveland 6. Which president created a scandal when he married his wife, who had never been officially divorced from her first husband? Andrew Jackson 7. Which president was known for his 'harem', a group of young, attractive White House secretaries? Lyndon Johnson 8. President Coolidge was a very quiet man. Once, a senator's wife came up to him and said that she had bet that she could get more than two words out of the president. What did Coolidge re-ply? You lose. 9/ Who was the only bachelor president to occupy the White House? James Buchanan 10. Who was the first president to appear on television? Franklin D. Roosevelt 11. What president was once president of a labor union? Ronald Reagan 12. Which president fathered the most children? John Tyler 13. Which President could simultaneously write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other? Garfield 14. Which President was aboard the presidential aircraft when it's official radio call sign was changed mid-flight? Nixon 15. Which Presidential wife was the first to be referred to as 'The First Lady'? Mary Todd Lincoln
Board Meeting
Members present: Sean Pazdzior, Anne Silvers, Alta Olejnik Walt Jenkins, Gary Yale, Patty Strauch, and Craig Wisniewski, Rob Miskowitch, Hal Tumbleson, and John Gue
Agenda:
1) Newsletter corrections 2) Christmas Baskets 3) NCCC has 2009 calendar 4) NCCC executives 5) 2009 convention updates 6) Online Registration 7) VOTR Timing Help 8) PPIR Car Show
Tentative Board Meeting Hosts
See next newsletter for next year’s meeting places.
Feb—Gary Yale Mar—Hal Tumbleson Apr—Anne Silvers May-Walt Jenkins June—Alta Olejnik Jul—Patty Strauch Aug—Rob Miskowitch Sep—John Gue Oct—Sean Pazdzior Nov—Sean Pazdzior
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COLORADO WEST CORVETTE CLUB
3 LOW SPEED AUTOCROSSES
MARCH 15,2009
REGIONAL SANCTIONS 1,2&3-CWCC 3 LOW SPEED AUTOCROSSES
REGISTRATION OPENS: NOW ON THE REGION WEB SITE
2 RUNS PER EVENT REGISTRATION CLOSES: 9:00AM MARCH
15,2009 ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION
TECH 8:00AM MARCH 15,2009
FRUITA HIGH SCHOOL LOT
DRIVERS MEETING 9:15AM 1815
J ROAD
FIRST CAR OUT 9:30AM
FRUITA,COLORADO 81521
EXHAUST: CLOSED
Please fill out and submit the Online Pre-registration at:
http://www.rmrnccc.org/cwccRegistration.html This is so that we can get the run groups and labels set up ahead of time. We can then start racing as soon as possible after the drivers meeting. The online form is solely for our information, there is no need to send in any money ahead of time. $15.00 PER DRIVER PER EVENT NO TROPHY
$35.00 PER DRIVER FOR ALL 3 EVENTS NO TROPHIES
TROPHIES ARE AVAILABLE FOR $10 PER DRIVER PER EVENT
THESE AUTOCROSSES WILL BE RUN - WORK EVENTS, ALL EN-
TRANTS WILL BE REQUIRED TO HELP IF ASKED
SNELL APPROVED HELMENTS NO OLDER THAN 10 YEARS FROM
DATE OF MANUFACTURE ARE REQUIRED, AS PER NCCC RULES
AND INSURANCE
THESE REGION SANCTIONS WILL BE RUN WITH NCCC RULES
AND CLASSES
EVENTS CHAIRPERSON/GOVERNOR:
LARRY MORRISON
LARRY M. MORRISON
492 MEADOWLARK WAY
CLIFTON, CO 81520
E-MAIL [email protected]
Daniels CSCC Discount letter: We have an updated Daniels discount letter. If you would like a copy please contact Gary Yale. We receive the following discounts from Daniels:
• All parts will be offered at 25% off retail pricing
• Based on availability, new vehicles will be offered at invoice plus $499 dealer handling fee (This does not apply to current model year Corvettes)
• Service and body shop labor will be offered at 10% off retail rate.
Thank you Daniels for your generous support
of the Colorado Springs Corvette Club. Questions: 632-5591
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Dear CSCC Members, We want to thank you for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers during the recent passing of my mom. The "Seeds of Life" gift you sent us is much appreciated. We've planted the seeds and are anxiously waiting for our little tree to sprout so we can plant it outside in the spring. It will be a lovely, living reminder of a wonderful mother and our caring friends in the Corvette Club. Thank you all for your support. John and Judy Gue
Michael Marvin
Sales Manager 11055 CR 2 Phone: 888-825-0777 Middlebury, IN 46540 Fax: 574-825-7706
“We beat any price in the USA!”
John’s Trailer Sales
January 2009
BIRTHDAYS - SEE PAGE 12
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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2 3
4 5 6 Board of Director meeting
7 8 Club meeting
9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 Garage tour
23 24 Dub bridge party
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
COLORADO SPRINGS CORVETTE CLUB
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February 2009
BIRTHDAYS - SEE PAGE 12
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 Board of Directors Meeting
4 5 Club Meeting
6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 Gover-nors Meeting
28 Gover-nors Meeting
COLORADO SPRINGS CORVETTE CLUB
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All; I just spoke to Vicki Smith and our good friend Larry Smith passed from this world at 4:50 am on 9-Jan-2008. His funeral, which will be with full Military Honors, will be held on Monday, January 12th, 2009 at Brown Funeral Home located at 5430 W. Gulf-to-Lake Highway, Locanto, FL. 34461. The Phone number at the funeral home is 352-795-0111. Cards and letters can also be sent to Vicki at her home at 1637 S.E. Paradise Circle Unit 206 Crystal River. FL 34429. I've attached a few of my favorite Pictures of Larry and Vicki to this message. For those of you that may not remember Larry, he was the origi-nal organizer for the Pagagosa Springs Classic Car Show that the CSCC puts on every year. There is also a Memorial page on the CSCC Website that has more pictures. <Walt>
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Date Event Chair
Jan 24th Dub Bridge Party Winnie Bochnak
Feb 14th Valentines Party
Mar 14th St. Patrick’s Parade Ed Redline
Apr 25/26 Autocross/Driving school Don Adametz
May 2nd Ruth’s Car Show Melvin Swindale
May 9th Fun in the Sun Sean Pazdzior
Jun 20 or 21 Summer autocross
Jul 4th Monument parade and BBQ Pete (Parade) Winnie (BBQ)
Jul ? PP or Bust Parade Ray Pazdzior
Aug 7-14 NCCC Convention Walt Jenkins
Aug ? CSCC Picnic
Sept 9th Pagosa Springs Car Show Pete Olejnik
Oct 4th Fall Autocross
Oct 30th Halloween Party
Nov 8th Sno*Flakes Rik Noring & Craig W
Dec Parade of Lights
Dec Manitou Parade
Dec 5th CSCC Christmas Party
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2009 Event Planning Schedule
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(above flyer has wrong year, should be 2009)
REGIO/AL UPDATES
02-27 to 02-28 National Governor's Meeting 03-07 Regional Awards Banquet - Denver RMR 03-08 Governors Meeting - Denver RMR 03-15 3 Low Speed AutoCrosses CWCC 04-05 Charity PC Show DTRC 04-05 April Fools Rally DTRC Non-Sanctioned 04-25 AutoCross School CSCC 04-26 2 Low Speed AutoCrosses CSCC 05-01 to 05-03 National Governor's Meeting 05-02 Ruth's Memorial Car Show CSCC 05-09 Fun in the Sun Car Show CSCC 05-16 Governors Meeting RMR 05-16 Show Us Your Vette Car Show TORCA 05-22 to 05-25 Big Sky Corvette Meet - Billings, MT 05-23 AutoCross DCA 05-24 AutoCross DCA 05-30 Memorial Day Parade - Denver CO CCC 05-30 Car Show CWC 05-31 AutoCross CWC 06-06 Dealer Appreciation Show CCC 06-07 3 Low Speed AutoCrosses CWCC 06-20 9 Cares Food Drive CCC Non-sanctioned 06-20 PC Show Burt Chevrolet DCA 06-21 Low Speed AutoCrosses CSCC 06-27 2 Low Speed AutoCrosses - CSP track Golden DTRC 07-03 to 07-05 DCA Fourth of July Events DCA 07-12 AutoCrosses CWC 07-15 to 07-18 Black Hills Corvette Classic – Spearfish Non-NCCC 07-23 to 07-26 Vettes on the Rockies Non-NCCC - 07-25 Buffalo Bills Day Parade - Golden CCC 08-07 to 08-14 NCCC 50th Convention 08-22 Car Show - Kremling, CO CCC 08-29 Governors Meeting RMR 09-05 to 09-07 Corvette Roundup - Casper CWC 09-11 to 09-12 National Governors Meeting 09-19 Pagosa Springs Show CSCC
09-20 3 Low Speed AutoCrosses - GoKart Track - Grand Junction CWCC 09-26 to 09-27 AutoX/HighSpeed Events, LaJunta DCA 10-04 2 LowSpeed AutoCrosses CSCC 10-17 9 Cares Food Drive CCC Non-sanctioned 10-18 All Hallow's Eve Rallye TORCA 10-25 3 Low Speed AutoCrosses CWCC 11-08 Sno Flake Rallye CSCC 11-11 Veterans Day Parade CCC Non-sanctioned 11-13 to 11-14 National Governors Meeting 11-18 NCCC RENEWALS DUE TO RMD 11-21 Sno Big Deal Charity Shows (5) DTRC 11-22 Turkey Rallye DCA 12-06 Regional Governors Planning Meeting RMR
Club Contact Info
CCC - Colorado Corvette Club - 970-724-3506 CSCC - Colorado Springs Corvette Club - 719-302-5472 CWC - Central Wyoming Corvettes - 307-258-4451
CWCC - Colorado West Corvette Club - 970-434-5120 DCA - Denver Corvette Association - 303-980-1079 DTRC - Down the Road Corvettes - 303 465-4664 GRCC - Glass Reunion Corvette Club - 406-628-2224 RMR - Rocky Mountain Region - 303-739-9515 TORCA - Top of the Rockies - 303-678-1816
Regional Officers
Regional Executive - Pete Urenda [email protected] Regional Competition Director - Curt Ingram [email protected] Regional Membership Director - Ellouise Morrison [email protected] Treasurer - Genja Reese [email protected] Secretary - Barb Reynolds [email protected] Pg. 29
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follows: Business Card (1/4 Page) $10.00 per month
1/2 Page $15.00 per month
Full Page $20.00 per month
The information must be received by the editor not later than the 15th of the month preceding the month you want the ad to appears.
We would like to thank Rex Tire & Custom Wheel for their do-nation and sponsorship for our 2008 autocrosses. Rex’s now of-fers nitrogen.
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