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3 Club Officers President Sean Pazdzior spazdzior@msn.com 1st Vice President Patty Strauch patty@pattystrauch.com 2nd Vice President Alta Olejnik olejniks_2@msn.com Secretary Rob Miskowitch miskowitch@yahoo.com Treasurer Gary Yale yale1963@comcast.net Governor Walt Jenkins Anne Silvers Hal Tumbleson WaltJenkins@comcast.net Board Members cuttup@juno.com Hal.T@thespringsfuneralservices.com Craig Wisniewski c.a.wisniewski@gmail.com John Gue jjgue01@yahoo.com Web Master Rik Noring Jr rik@corvettecenterusa.com Deadline to submit newsletter articles and information is the 15th of the month. Send or to: Rob Miskowitch. (miskowitch@yahoo.com) 5140 Saddle Dr. Colorado Springs, CO WEBSITE is

Meeting Information This month s Board Meeting will be on Tuesday, August 4th 7:00PM At John Gue s house 80 Rangely Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80921 (719) 487-8619 This month s board meeting is open

4 Meeting Information This month s Board Meeting will be on Tuesday, August 4th 7:00PM At John Gue s house 80 Rangely Drive Colorado Springs, CO (719) 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, Sep 6th 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.

5 Minutes General Meeting Aug 6th Members Present Larry Schubert Sheryl Schubert Pete Olejnik Alta Olejnik Lorren Loewen Laurie Loewen Cindy Tumbleson Melvin R Swindale Dana Cherry David Cherry John Ames Paul Thompson Lynn wittrock Carol wittrock Larry Valentine Gwenda Valentine Debbie Yale Gary Yale Dick Strauch Patty Strauch Diana Dittman Rob Miskowitch Rik Noring Jr. Florece Noring Nick Renfro Mike bochnak Winnie bochnak Wayne Umland Charlie Boland Joy Boland Paul Heatwole Jim Goodman John Houston Todd A Butts Ron Garcia Tom Ury Jim Fockler Ed Pinson Lenice Pinson Jim Nile Judy Nile Jerry Phillips Denise Phillips Jane Creighbaum Gail Creighbaum Judith Gue John Gue Michael F Sabo Tom Hanon Belinda Russell Dan Russell Tom Burk Diane Stermer Jerry Stermer Anne Silvers Joe Horvath Johnny Harris Judy Harris Dick Ary Jerrie Ary Susan Umland Walt Jenkins Vicki Ury John LaSage Ed Redlin Gitta Redlin Sean Soulvie Don Adametz Denice M Butts Steve Rummel Rick Hudnall

Guests Present First Meeting Corvette Sponsor Chris Aleteanu 2000 Coupe Pete Michelle Burk Don Blunt Jerry Hinkle 2003 Lorren Jeff Scott 2008 Dick Second Meeting Corvette Sponsor Jeff

6 Guests Present First Meeting Corvette Sponsor Chris Aleteanu 2000 Coupe Pete Michelle Burk Don Blunt Jerry Hinkle 2003 Lorren Jeff Scott 2008 Dick Second Meeting Corvette Sponsor Jeff McCutchen 1979 Joel Midkiff 2003 Third Meeting Corvette Sponsor Miguel Castrejon 99 Sean Pazdzior Patricia Castrejon 2005 Rob s filler photo. High speed autocrosser tearing up the finish line. Pg. 6

7 7/2/09 Meeting Minutes ewsletter Corrections Neither Don, nor Pete attended board meeting Both Craig and Dick attended the board meeting. Birthdays: Keith Swansen 7/4 Hal Tumbleson 7/6 Bob Jennaro 7/11 Joyce Small 7/13 Craig Wisniewski 7/14 Kathy Huffman 7/14 Bobbie Mesite 7/20 Mike Bowman 7/20 Carol Fender 7/22 Dick Strauch 7/25 Alta Olejnik 7/26 Ashley Mess 7/28 Joe Vlasek 7/28 Treasurer s Report: Gary - Read and accepted. Guests: Alta - Guests were introduced and the club voted in Miguel and Patricia Castrejon. ew Members: Sean - The Colorado Springs Corvette Club welcomes our newest members Miguel and Patricia Castrejon. Merchandise: Cindy - Club merchandise is available for club night. Convention Volunteers: Anne, Winnie, and Alta - Volunteer shirts were passed out. Still need some help with registration, goodie bags, information table, and low speed autocross. Thanks to all who helped with stuffing party. All bags were filled in 2.5 hours. Joe needs some help with fence construction. Thanks to everyone that has helped. Garage Tours: Rik - Next tour will be on the 20th at Nick Renfro s garage. Please bring lawn chairs. Please for RSVP.

8 4th of July Parade: Pete - We won the best motorized group award. 4th of July BBQ: Winnie - Lots of food, good times, everyone brought lots of food. Thanks to Winnie and Mike for sponsoring this event at their house again. Pagosa Springs: Pete - So far 5 people are signed up for the Car Show in Pagosa Springs. This event coincides with a balloon festival, beer and wine tasting, and live bands. The show is from Pete is working on discounts for the hot springs. New hotel this year. Car show is across from the chamber of commerce, on the east side of the street. Club Picnic: Larry Valentine - It will be at the top of Crystal Park on August 30th. Please pay by August 14th Convention: Walt - People start arriving on Friday night. Both Kumho and Bridgstone will be there. Tech people will be at PPIR. 207 registered for low speed, and 175 for high speed autocross. Over 700 people have registered for the Flying W. Over 700 people have registered for the Woodland Park BBQ. Approximately 765 people are signed up in total. ew Computer: Walt - We made $660 helping VOTR with timing. A proposal was made and passed to spend up to $675 for a new laptop for timing. PMI Drag Racing: Rik - PMI drag racing on Friday at PMI. Starts at 6:00PM. $3.00 to watch and $20-$25 to race. Car and Motorcycle show: Alta - An was sent to the club about a benefit show on August 22nd. There will be food and Hooter girls will model on cars for pictures. Trash Pickup: Ed - August 29th at 8:00AM will be the next trash pickup. Pg. 8

9 After meeting dinner September meeting Johnny Carino s Italian Restaurant 3015 N New Center Pt Colorado Springs, CO (719) Pg. 9

10 Good ews Bad ews suite case: Congratulations to Dick Ary for the winning bid of the good news bad news suite case. Corvette Upgrades Dick Strauch has his new blue 07 coupe. Ed Redlin needs a new clutch. Tom installed new X-pipe on his car. Patty is selling Dick s 67 to pay for the 07. Johnny Harris has his 63 split Z06 running in time for the convention. Paul Thompson has waxed his car. Rik Noring has new tires. Door prizes were $25 gift certificates from Daniels. As always thanks for your support Daniels! For those of you that helped us with registration at the convention, we want to say a BIG THANK YOU!!! With all of your help, it went very smoothly and it seems like people were pleased. We registered about 250 people in the first 1 ½ hours on Friday night. We registered over 750 total and we received many compliments that it was one of the smoothest and best registrations ever and everyone felt welcomed. Also, a BIG THANK YOU to those that helped the night of our stuffing party. We could not have accomplished either of these without you. Thanks, again. Sheryl and Alta Pg. 10

11 I just want to say thanks to everyone that helped unload the trailer with all the goodie bags and who helped to unpack the boxes and set-up the goodie bag area, at the hotel on Friday morning. I am sorry that I did not have your names to personally thank you. A special thank-you to the following Volunteers that signed up on Thursday night at our club meeting to help me distribute those goodie bags. Your help made everything go very smoothly. Jim & Judy Nile Anne Silvers Todd & Denise Butts Brigitta Redlin Mike Dittman Gary & Debbie Yale Also, thanks to Patty Strauch, Vicki Ury, Hal Tumbleson for getting some of the contents that went in the goodie bags, and Sheryl Schubert for getting the wave hands and her goodie bag advice. In addition, to all those members that came out to stuff those goodie bags. Thank you all, for a job well done! Winnie Bochnak Convention/Goodie Bag Chair

12 Jim Mesite 9/2 Anne Silvers 9/4 Patty Strauch 9/7 Ray Pazdzior 9/8 Bill Ryan 9/10 Brigetta Redlin 9/10 Jan Creighbaum 9/10 Jim Fockter 9/12 Larry Lukenbill 9/14 Kia Silvi 9/15 Steve Erickson 9/17 Dick Klatt 9/18 John Martin 9/22 William Silvi 9/22 Todd Butts 9/23 Tom Rogers 9/23 Debbie Martin 9/24 Darlene Sabo 9/28 Larry Valentine 9/30 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:

13 August 2009 COLORADO SPRINGS CORVETTE CLUB Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat BOD 5 6 Club Meeting 7 NCCC Convention 8 NCCC Convention 9 NCCC Convention 10 NCCC Convention 11 NCCC Convention 12 NCCC Convention 13 NCCC Convention 14 NCCC Convention 15 Walt celebrates Trash pickup BIRTHDAYS - SEE PAGE 12

14 September 2009 COLORADO SPRINGS CORVETTE CLUB Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 Board of Directors Meeting 2 3 Club Meeting Pagosa Springs Car Show BIRTHDAYS - SEE PAGE 12

15 Board Meeting Members present: Don Adametz, Sean Pazdzior, Anne Silvers, Walt Jenkins, Patty Strauch, Rob Miskowitch, Hal Tumbleson, John Gue, Wayne Umland, Gary Yale, Alta Olejnik, and Pete Olejnik Agenda: 1) Newsletter corrections 2) Treasurer s report 3) Merchandise 4) NCCC Volunteers 5) Garage Tour 6) Pagosa Springs 7) NCCC Updates 8) Convention 9) Car Show 10) Charity Event 11) Better Trailer Hitch 12) New Computer Tentative Board Meeting Hosts See next newsletter for meeting places. Oct Sean Pazdzior Nov Sean Pazdzior

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18 Thanks for the photos Diana.

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panels and trim, black carpet; 365 HP; Muncie 4sp; posi-traction rear end with 3:70 gears; I still

20 For Sale 1964 Corvette coupe; midnight blue metallic exterior, body is in very good condition with slight modified wheel wells; interior is black and white with white leather seats, white door panels and trim, black carpet; 365 HP; Muncie 4sp; posi-traction rear end with 3:70 gears; I still have the stock wheels and hubcaps plus some other parts. Call Dick at Asking $39,950, OBO.

22 2009 Event Planning Schedule Date Event Chair Sept 12th 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 Pg. 22

Get a free Corvette Hat ($20 value) with your Oil Change. Appointments available Monday through Saturday.

23 Corvette Weather is just around the corner. Has your car had it s annual check-up? Bring your Corvette in for a free 30+ point inspection and evaluation. Suspension, brakes, overall car health... Corvette Oil Changes too. Get a free Corvette Hat ($20 value) with your Oil Change. Appointments available Monday through Saturday. Call to make your appointment today John s Trailer Sales Michael Marvin Sales Manager CR 2 Phone: Middlebury, IN Fax: We beat any price in the USA! Pg. 23

24 REGIO AL UPDATES to Corvette Roundup - Casper CWC to National Governors Meeting Pagosa Springs Show CSCC Low Speed AutoCrosses - GoKart Track - Grand Junction CWCC to AutoX/HighSpeed Events, LaJunta DCA LowSpeed AutoCrosses CSCC Cares Food Drive CCC Non-sanctioned All Hallow's Eve Rallye TORCA Low Speed AutoCrosses CWCC Sno Flake Rallye CSCC Veterans Day Parade CCC Non-sanctioned to National Governors Meeting NCCC RENEWALS DUE TO RMD Sno Big Deal Charity Shows (5) DTRC Turkey Rallye DCA Regional Governors Planning Meeting RMR CCC - Colorado Corvette Club CSCC - Colorado Springs Corvette Club CWC - Central Wyoming Corvettes CWCC - Colorado West Corvette Club DCA - Denver Corvette Association DTRC - Down the Road Corvettes GRCC - Glass Reunion Corvette Club RMR - Rocky Mountain Region TORCA - Top of the Rockies Regional Officers Regional Executive - Pete Urenda rowdy68@comcast.net Regional Competition Director - Rik Noring Jr. riknoring@gmail.com Regional Membership Director - Ellouise Morrison GramaRP@aol.com Treasurer - Open Secretary - Barb Reynolds barb_reynolds@comcast.net

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We would like to thank Rex Tire & Custom Wheel for their donation and sponsorship for our 2008 autocrosses. Rex s now offers nitrogen. Want to Advertise?

26 We would like to thank Rex Tire & Custom Wheel for their donation and sponsorship for our 2008 autocrosses. Rex s now offers nitrogen. Want to Advertise? If you are a member of the Colorado Springs Corvette Club, you may place a personal FOR SALE ad in the VETTE SET at no charge to you. The cost of advertising for business ads for non-members are below and members receive a 20% discount or two months free when they purchase one full year. 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. Pg. 26

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inc. The Vette Set Volume 42, Issue 4 February 2009 Club Officers President Sean Pazdzior - 243-0161 spazdzior@msn.com 1st Vice President Patty Strauch - 442-0247 patty@pattystrauch.com 2nd Vice President