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4th Downtown Parade [Santa Barbara]

7th General Meeting [Mulligan’s Cafe]

27th Nethercutt Museum [Sylmar]

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EVENT CALENDAR

2nd General Meeting CANCELLED

7th Installation Picnic CANCELLED

27th Condor Café CANCELLED

June

Top of the morning to you all. Unfortunately, we have had to cancel everything (except a run on May 9th) through the end of June. This includes the May/June CCSB General Meetings, Lyons Museum Run, Reagan Museum Dinner, Paso Wine Run, Installation Picnic and finally the Condor Café Run. We will try to reschedule the Paso Wine Run and Condor Cafe Run but I think it would be better if we just wait until next year on the Installation Picnic. The picnic is a well-attended event but for right now I want to err on the side of caution. We are also cancelling the 4th of July BBQ but we will try and schedule a Club BBQ before the end of summer. Please see the Activities Column for an upcoming scheduled event on May 9th. The elections for next year’s board will be done online via our club website. We are in the process of setting this up now. We are also still looking for someone to run for Activities Director so if you are interested in that or any of the other positions let me know before May 11th. If anyone is interested in running for any of the positions on the board let me know ASAP. For right now, the main thing is for everyone to stay safe and healthy (oh yeah, and sane). We still miss our interactions with the members and friends of the Corvette Club of Santa Barbara and if any of you need anything please let me know and I will do my best to see that you get the help you need. In these trying times we need all the encouragement, help and support we can get. Paula and I really miss all of you and look forward to the time when we can all get together and swap stories. Again, PLEASE stay safe, healthy and sane and let me know if you need any help.

Tony Megowan

5th General Meeting CANCELLED

16th-17th

Paso Wine Run CANCELLED

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Hib Halverson VEEPEE’S PAGE

Working at home? That's nothing new for me because the CCSB Vice Presidential Command Center ("VPCC", aka: my office) adjoins our house in Goleta. What's new is how much more time I spend there because of the China Virus. Think how many different names there are for this affliction. It's known as: "Corona Virus", "COVID-19, "2019 novel coronavirus” or “2019-nCoVAs", however, I call it the "China Virus" because, whether it came from one of the"cold meat markets" common in Communist China or from PRC's "Level 4" bio-research lab; it still came from "China.”, but, I digress…

Because your Secretary, the Fairest Sandra the Red, and I can't go out to our favorite microbreweries, the restaurants we like, Sunday Cars and Coffee, movies and even Taylor Swifts now postponed Tour, I'm spending more time, working in the office or working in the shop on our cars. The other night, I was sitting here surfing the web and pointed my browser at the Autoextremist website. If you haven't read the AE, you ought to check it out. It's a widely read automotive opinion site. Peter DeLorenzo is the guy who started it, continues to run it and is the lead writer. He has a strong Corvette connection, too, in that his brother, Tony, was the lead driver for the famed Owens-Corning Corvette the quasi-factory-backed team of the late-60s which won SCCA and other championships in road racing. There is a lot about that Corvette racing in that era on the AE site. Sometimes Peter posts links to other web pages he thinks readers might appreciate. The other night I clicked on one of these links which took me to DailyMail.com, a site run by the famed British publishing concern. The site obviously covers the U.K., but it contains news, opinion and features from all over the world. Peter's led me to a photo story about the cruising scene on Van Nuys Boulevard back in the early-mid-1970s. Freakin' everybody in this club had to have been a cruiser at some time in their teens and '20s and for many of us, that was the early-'70s. I mean, what red blooded, American kid back then wasn't into cars and cruising? I got into the Corvette hobby in '69 with the purchase of a 327/340, four-speed Ermine White Convertible. I was 18 and two years into a three-year California hiatus living with my Dad back east. I drove the car though the last half of my junior year in high-school and all though my senior year. It didn't take long before I started hot rodding that Corvette. I replaced the 327 with a more powerful 350. After high-school, I worked most of the summer until I had enough money to drive back to California for good. I put a luggage rack on the back of my '63, to share costs found a acquaintance who was on leave from the Navy and had to be at the Long Beach Navy yard in two weeks and hit the road on my first long-distance Corvette trip. Two 19-year olds driving a Vette across the country–what an adventure that was. I arrived back in California, moved in with Mom and took two jobs, selling auto parts during the day and working at a gas station at night. That went on for a couple of years. In June of 1971, I joined Corvettes Limited of Los Angeles. Later that year, the front of my '63 was damaged in a service bay fire. It never ran again. In '74, I finally pulled the motor and sold the '63 as a roller. That money, along with the 350 I kept, went towards half-interest in a friend's SCCA road race Corvette. At the time, I wanted to get into racing Corvettes more than I wanted to drive them on the street, but the rest of that story is best for another time. As an early 20-something, the nights I wasn't working I was into cruising. As I didn't own a streetable Corvette, I drove a '57 Chevy station wagon I bought after my Corvette became a partially-fried garage queen. It wasn't just any '57 Chevy. It had a Rochester fuel injected 327 I built as an autoshop class project at Pasadena City College, a Muncie four-speed and a 3.70 rear end. The bodywork was a bit rough but, back then, I was more interested in acceleration than I was in paint and body.

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Some evenings those heady years of the early 1970s, I would cruise Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena driving my '57 wagon, or occasionally a

'71 Big-Block Chevelle owned by a girlfriend. Sometimes we'd go street racing in Glendale on Airway Street, a favorite drag strip of local gear heads back then. I can't tell you how many miles I drove cruising Colorado or how many hours I spent leaning on my car in some parking lot hanging out with other cruisers. It had to have been '72 or '73 when I discovered that nirvana of cursing, Wednesday nights on Van Nuys Boulevard. At the time, I lived in South El Monte, so a trip to Van Nuys was an adventure which began with a drive into L.A. on the 10 and then out the 101 to Van Nuys. If Colorado was cool, Van Nuys was freakin' awesome. Really cool cars were a lot more plentiful. "Real" street racers hung out there, too, including famed L.A. Street Racers founder, "Big Willie" Robinson. He had a killer Dodge Daytona–the one with a wing bigger than the one on my ZR1. The best thing about Van Nuys were lots of girls who liked cars and the guys who owned them. Indeed cruising was a lifestyle back then. It was a great time to be a twenty-something and into cars. That brings us back to my web surfing on Autoextremist. I found that link led to a photo story about cruising Van Nuys. Back then, in the Summer of 1972, there was a photographer, named Rich McCloskey, who was going to San Fernando State College (now CalState Northridge) and taking photography classes. He also an an interest in "woody" station wagons and had been a cruiser, himself, when he was in high school. He was 26 at the time and decided to do a class project as both an art and documentary exercise which would preserve the Van Nuys cruising experience in black-and-white imagery. All his work was shot with available light. The quality of the imagery is just amazing. McClosky had no idea that he was chronicling a culture that would soon be disappearing. By mid-decade, the Van Nuys era shown in his work was over, a casualty of the first Arab oil embargo, the LAPD's interest in stopping cruising and the growth of shopping malls which wanted the money those teens and twenty-somethings could spend hanging out indoors. Anyone who was a cruiser back then will love this photo story. Click here to see it. Questions? Comments? Email me at vpccsb@netmotive.net Hib Halverson

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Frank LoMonaco NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM MASTER AMBASSADOR

The National Corvette Museum has a fund-raising program each year in which they encourage Corvette Clubs from all over to show their support for the Museum by buying a spot in one of the Museum’s park-ing lots to fly a banner with their club logo on it. There are only a limited number of spots available to purchase and they always sell out quickly. We were lucky enough to get a place again before they were all sold out so the CCSB banner is flying for another year! Our club has been participating in the program for a number of years as a fun

way to show support for our Museum. The Museum produces a new banner each year from the logo that we send to them. It’s been especially fun for club members who visit the Museum to find our banner somewhere in the various parking lots and have a picture taken standing underneath it. Most of the many club members who went on the Caravan last year were delighted to see the CCSB ban-ner flying high! We are lucky enough again this year, to have our club banner placed in a terrific and very visible spot – as you drive in the main entrance, it’s over to the right in the front parking lot. Photos of all club banners along with a map showing the location of each is available online at this link: https://corvettemuseum.smugmug.com/Banners/ We are #8 on the map.

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May 5th CCSB General Meeting—CANCELLED. May 9th COVID—19 Fun Run—SIGN UP ON WEBSITE May 16th and 17th, Paso Robles Wine Run—CANCELLED. June 2nd CCSB General Meeting—CANCELLED. June 7th, Installation Picnic—CANCELLED. June 27th, Condor Café Run—CANCELLED. July 4th, Post Parade BBQ—CANCELLED.

On Saturday, Paula and I decided we really needed to get out and just drive. So, we joined the Coachmen on their Cruise Around the County. I would estimate 200 to 250 cars joined this event. There were Hot Rods, Muscle Cars, Corvettes (including a C-8), and others. We had a great time just driving around the county. It was a beautiful day, so we took the top off (the cars, not ours) and just enjoyed ourselves. At one point I was leading a string of Vettes (Deja Vue all over again) as we wound our way through the mountains and into Oxnard. Needless to say, I think a good time was had by all. And as you can see in the first pic-ture I think I need a haircut.

On May 9th we are going to do the same thing on a smaller scale as Dennis Trammell leads the club on the Covid-19 Safe Run. Be sure to sign up for this run on the Website and come join us as we wind our way through the mountains of Santa Barbara. It will be a good time to get together and interact SAFETLY. I think we could all use a little interaction (even if it is by radio or long distance). The weather should be nice so take your tops off and join us.

Tony Megowan ACTIVITIES COLUMN

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There are currently 77 members with 59 Corvettes. Best wishes to our May Birthday People: Member Highlight: Ed Clerkin—Leaked C8 Introduction Schedule

5/5 Larry Stayton

5/10 Roger Dunham

5/12 Tony Megowan

5/22 Robert Stassinos

5/24 Brenda Coronel

5/30 Sharon Smith

5/31 Richard Nohr

QUOTE OF THE MONTH: The world is turned upside down. Old folks are sneaking out of the house and their kids are yelling at them to stay inside!!

Pat Bloom MEMBERSHIP COLUMN

Hagerty recently published the following leaked C8 Corvette Introduction Schedule.

I cannot imagine that a 1000 HP Corvette will hit the streets in 4 years but hey you never know.

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Story Below

Model Year Engine Power (est.) Torque (est.) Likely Application

2021 LT2 6.2-liter 16-valve OHV 490-495 hp 465-470 lb-ft RHD Corvettes for export

2022 LT6 5.5-liter 32-valve DOHC 600 hp* 470 lb-ft* Corvette Z06

2023 LT2 6.2-liter 16-valve OHV hybrid 600 hp 500 lb-ft Corvette Grand Sport

2024 LT7 5.5-liter twin-turbo DOHC 850 hp 825 lb-ft Corvette ZR1

2025 LT7HP1 5.5-liter twin-turbo DOHC hybrid 1000 hp 975 lb-ft Corvette ZORA

MEMBER HIGHLIGHT: LEAKED C8 INTRODUCTION

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NO MEETING FOR APRIL OR MAY 2020 MULLIGANS CAFÉ—SANTA BARBARA

Respectfully submitted, Sandy Rubel-Halverson, Secretary

Sandy Halverson MINUTES OF CCSB MEMBERSHIP GENERAL MEETING

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For clothing embroidered with the Corvette Club Santa Barbara logo contact Frank or Barbara LoMonaco.

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