Joe THE VETTE SETTE. President s Corner. Volume XV Issue 3 March 2005

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1 THE VETTE SETTE President s Corner Spring is upon us once again! Time to get those Classic Glass Corvettes out of mothballs, bathed and shined for the upcoming Car Show season!!! I will start on a sad note. Ed Tillirson from Peach State Corvette Association in Fayetteville passed away recently. He was a class act and a very active part of the Corvette community. Ed will be sorely missed and leave a void that will be hard to fill. The Board of Directors has approved a donation to the Hospice where Ed was being cared for at his passing. Since Hospice does not normally receive funding from the government and relies solely on private donations, I feel that Ed would be pleased with that decision. Ed lived the way he wanted to be remembered and he was very highly thought of and was a Class Act. Now we move on to a more upbeat note. We had a great time on the Valentine s Cruise through northwest Georgia. We had a great turnout and very decent weather for the cruise. A great time was had by all and a delicious dinner at D. Morgan s in Cartersville. One thing we did find was that we need to practice more on passing information on back through the group so that everyone has the correct instructions on straight, left, right, etc We had 5 Corvettes participate in the East Marietta Little League parade this year. They were celebrating those who have helped keep the park and program running great for as long as 40 years. Our very own Bridget Stephens uncle was one of those who rode in the Corvettes and was celebrating 40 years!!! Congratulations and keep up the good work! A Monthly Publication For The Members of The Volume XV Issue 3 March 2005 Page 1 As I finish my column, we are preparing for the Head to the Highlands IV the weekend of March 19/20. All should have a great time, and if anyone doesn t have a good time they aren t trying. We are hoping for Mother Natures blessing of a dry weekend. We will let you know afterwards if we were successful. The NCM Cruise is rapidly approaching, and we are counting the days. We are looking forward to being waited on hand and foot Plus the added feature of spending quality time with Corvette friends! We will have pictures posted to our website and with us at the next events afterwards. Jack Kreger has pretty much buttoned up the AJC Auto Show event had we are hoping to have a great response by getting more new members and getting out the word and flyers for our Bogey s and Super Vette Saturday shows. Speaking of Super Vette Saturday, we still are planning the event and have got some new surprises that should take the show to the next level. Check with Gail Smith for more information on the jobs that we still need assistance with and when the next planning meeting is to be held. Also, we will be looking for donations for door prizes and goody bags. Make sure you tell everyone you know about the show and I am cordially inviting all of our sister clubs to join us for the Friday night sock hop. After all. It s about the people who love the car! Every day is a Ragtop day! Joe

2 Officers for 2005 President Joe Owens Vice President At Large Randy Cooper Vice President of Membership Don Shamel Vice President of Activities Gail & Robert Smith Secretary Cheryl Tomlinson Treasurer P.J. Ray Board Members John Iroff Jack Kreger Bob Renneke Barry Tomlinson NCM Ambassador Ron Floyd Webmaster Bridget Stephens Newsletter Editor Cindy Owens I want to wish Joe Owens and Robin Floyd a Happy Birthday. Happy Birthday! As always, if you have any news worthy articles, or just something to put into the newsletter, send it to me at cindyowens@mindspring.com. As Always, Have a SUNNIE day! Valentine s Cruise Cindy February 19, 2005 turned out to be a great day for a 100- mile cruise with 17 corvettes and 31 people in tow. We all met at the Glade Road exit on 75 and proceeded up to White, GA. This is where the Historic Pine Log Loop is located. We traveled ¾ of the entire loop on our journey. There was plenty of scenery and also an unexpected right hand turn that we are told that some people didn t make. There were unusual farms along the way including Possum Trot Farm and a Pallet Farm. We finally made it to Barnsley Gardens where we had a special guided tour by the gardens own historian, Clent Coker. He was very interesting and informative. After wandering the grounds for a little while longer, we were back in the saddle to head to our next stop. Editor s Corner By Cindy Owens Hello Corvette Lovers! This month a group of us participated in our Valentines Cruise to Barnsley Gardens. We had a wonderful time and most of us are still talking about how great the food was at D.Morgans in Cartersville. The pictures from the Cruise have been posted to the Classic Glass Website on the events page. The club will be participating in the Little League Parade in Marietta this coming weekend and then on to Highlands, NC for our 4 th annual Head to the Highlands Weekend. From the rumors I have heard, this trip will be the one not to miss. Joe and I made a scouting trip to the North Georgia Mountains last weekend. We were making a dry run of the Georgia Wine Trail. We found 3 excellent wineries and all 3 of them said they would welcome the group with open arms. One of the Wineries even said they would set up a picnic for us. How cool is that? We are looking at free weekends for doing this. The months of June, July and August are all pretty much open currently. I wanted to go in August but it was brought up that it might be too hot. Of course, this is when the grape harvest takes place and there are grape festivals to celebrate. Anyway, if ANYONE has any preferences, please let us know. Page 2 Our next stop was the Covered Bridge in Euharlee, GA. A great photo opportunity for those in attendance! You would never think there was so much history here in Georgia. Now on to our last stop for dinner. This stop was at D.Morgans, a quaint restaurant in downtown Cartersville. The food was great and the atmosphere fantastic. Definitely a place to put on your I ve got to try it once list. During our drive, Joe and I had asked everyone to answer a couple of questions that we had put in our directions packet. I am amazed at how serious our cruisers took this. We had 3 clear winners to our quiz and they each received a Chocolate Valentines Heart for their participation. If you did not attend, you missed a great trip. Teddy Bear Collection in progress We are collecting teddy bears for the Cobb County Police Department. They carry them in the police cruisers to give to small children in a crisis. They should be about 6 inches in size, just the size for little arms to hold tightly. Bring your final donations to the April club meeting and we will deliver them to the Cobb County Police Department. **We are challenging other Corvette clubs to collect stuffed animals for their local police and fire departments. They need these items year round, not just at Christmas.

3 As the Steering Wheel Turns By Joe Owens Wow, another 30 days has gone by time flies when you are having fun in a Corvette! Sunnie is very happy with her new rotors. They look pretty good and they are drilled/slotted and the center is, of course, yellow. Now time for some new shoes I guess Blue will want the same treatment. I will contact the company and price the ones for her. I did put a new chrome ACCEL coil on and she seems to have some additional pep in her step. I have more chrome and blue stuff to go on, just have to set the time aside. I guess now with warmer weather coming I will be able to do it. On the Tequila front, we have basically given up on the 2005 model year. First GM holds the beige and gray tops and then drops them for the 2005 production year. Even if they did start them today, the Z51 option is now on constraint. We have told the dealer that he should just make this a 2006 order and we will hope for the best. I am glad to see other C6 s in the club already and we will have lots of company once we get Tequila. We will see you next month with more tales from the Busted Knuckle Garage. Corvette Racing Update C6R Corvette Racing Sebring and I would suspect this would hold true the remainder of the year. Good Luck Corvette Racing!!! We are all behind you! Upcoming 2005 ALMS Race Schedule 3/19 SebringRaceway Speed Channel 4/17 Road Atlanta CBS Sports Benefit Dinner There is a benefit dinner for the Foster Care Support Foundation. The dinner is Friday, April 29, 2005 at 7 PM. There will be a silent auction, a live auction, dinner, dancing and special guests. If you are interested contact Debbie Beddingfield at Debbie.Conrad@cox.com or call Relay for Life Please join those in your community and support the Relay for Life sponsored by the American Cancer Society. For more information, check Cobb County is May 13, The C6R will be making its debut March 19 at the 12 hours of Sebring in Sebring, FL. This new car has some pretty big shoes to fill with the C5R and its drivers winning 35 out of 55 ALMS events and winning Sebring class wins 3 years in a row. They also have finished 1-2 in GTS class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. New this year is not only a new racecar, but also a new class. GTS class is gone and now we are in GT1. The four classes are now LMP1 (Le Mans Prototype), LMP2, GT1 (Grand Touring), and GT2. This should provide some renewed interest in the ALMS racing. PCM, a privateer, will be taking on the factory backed Corvette Team in the 2004 C5R car. This team will have their hands full, but they know the car is tried and true. Also, this year, The Corvette Corral will require participants purchase their tickets through IMSA. If you do not have an IMSA purchased ticket, you will not be able to access the corral. This is the case at Page 3

4 Meeting Minutes from March 8th Meeting Volume XV Issue 3 March :33pm - Welcome Joe Owens called the meeting to order and welcomed every one to the meeting. Joe announced that Ed Tillirson, a long time friend of many people at the club, had passed away from cancer. His viewing is tonight and the funeral will be Wednesday in Jonesboro. Peach State Posse is looking to put something together to raise some money for the family. We will be making a donation to Hospice in his name; the amount is to be determined by the Board at the next meeting. We had 31 people with 17 Corvettes for the Valentine cruise. We went by the oldest Methodist Church in Georgia and took back roads and ended at Barnsley Gardens. After a tour of the gardens we ended the evening at D. Morgans in Cartersville for dinner. Also there was a questionnaire on the back of the day s agenda and everyone had fun looking for the answers along our route. There were prizes given to the top 3. When you see Bob Dukas remind him hard right-not straight. We also still have the boxes in the back of the room for the bear collection for the Cobb County Police Department. 7:45 pm Secretary Report Cheryl Tomlinson asked for a motion that the minutes from the last meeting be approved as written in the newsletter. Minutes were approved. 7:46 pm Treasurer Report P. J. Ray gave us a summary of the treasurer s report and asked that a motion be made to accept the report. The report was approved. Treasurer s Report-P.J. Ray P. J. reported a financial summary of the below numbers for February 2005: Beginning Balance: $3, Receipts: New & Renewal Memberships $ Calendar Sales $ /25/25 Raffle $ Total Receipts: $ Disbursements: Newsletter Postage & Copying $ Shipping charge for club pens $ St. of GA Annual Registration $ Prizes (Highlands Cruise) $ Ending Balance **$ 3, **Includes $2, Emergency Rainy Day Fund 7:47 pm V. P. of Membership Don Shamel announced that we had 60 members present and 3 guest couples who had also just joined giving us 179 paid members. Don introduced the new members. Welcome: Wayne Mobley, Don & Joan Jones and Reggie & Becky Martin. Don also asked that all members that had with us for less that 1 year to stand up and be recognized. The membership drawing was $60.00 and was won by Tom Wilcox. 7:55 pm V. P. Activities Gail Smith thanked Joe and Cindy for all their hard work on the Valentine cruise. She also thanked Barry Tomlinson for all of his help with the Valentine cruise and all the other activities he is helping on. Gail Announced the Super Vette Saturday planning meeting for Wednesday March 9 th at the Three Dollar Cafe on Barrett Parkway. Anyone interested in helping is invited to come. Bridget Stephens thanked everyone that is volunteering for the East Marietta Little League Parade. She now has plenty of volunteers but they still need a full size pick-up truck to carry the large baseball for the parade. Tom Wilcox spoke about the upcoming Highlands IV trip March There have been a couple of cancellations so there are a couple of rooms available. We will be meeting at the BP on Holcomb Bridge and then cruise to Highlands. We will attend a wine tasting and have dinner at the Inn, which will be served buffet style. A skit will follow with Barry Tomlinson as the MC. Jack Kreger is the event manager for the AJC International Auto Show April We have a C2 and a C3 for the show but will still need a C1, C4 and C5. The cars will be out of pocket for 10 days. If you have a car you would like to show, please contact Jack Kreger. Bill Gohr is the event manager for The Gathering VIII in Savannah at Tybee Island April This is a great show that you don t want to miss. Details on our website. Robert Smith is the event manager for VetteStock at Bogey s on April 7 th. We will have entertainment and Bogey s has agreed to pay for the trophies. We need an event manager to the Champagne Show of the South in Birmingham this year April Jackie Roberts and Joe Owens are trying to coordinate this with the local club that sponsors this show. All we know so far is that it will not be held at the Temple this year. Stay tuned for more details. Total Expense: $ Page 4 The Panama City Run is May We will drive to Dothan on Thursday and meet with the club there and have

5 an event at the Barn in the evening. The next day we will head for Panama City for 2 days. More details are on the website. Also Upcoming: Top-O-Mountain - June 11 th - Ron Floyd Event Manager Annual Picnic June 9 th at Cooper s Furnace Gail Smith Event Manager Peach State Posse sponsors the Corvettes against Cancer Last part of May Auto Show in Motion at Turner Field go to autoshowinmotion.com for details The next Board Meeting will be March 15 th. 8:32 End of meeting (minutes) 8:17 pm NCM Ambassador Ron Floyd was not with us tonight. Joe Owens went over the events for him. The Caribbean Cruise is set for April 2-9 and several of our members will be attending. The C5/C6 Birthday Bash at the museum will be April with Joe Owens as the Event Manager. The Corvette Museum needs $6 million dollars for their building fund and so far they have raised $1.3 million. This is a great cause. 8:20 pm CGCC Store Rhonda Kay says they have shirts and hats for sell. She will also be ordering some special items for members like cardigans and sweatshirts. If there is something you want, please see Rhonda. 8:21 pm Webmaster Bridget Stephens said she posted the member photo album on Sunday night. New members please get your photos to Bridget so she can add them. Members garage have 3 new photos to add and she needs photos of all the new members cars as well. 8:24 pm Wrap Up Darrell Bullock has some Black Zo6 wheels for sale. Heck Hoeckendork knows where there is a 1973 Coupe for sale with 83K original miles, Green w/tan int, all original. Foster Care Support Gala April 29 th, see Joe Owens for details. Don Shamel left the Board meeting last month and got hit by a taxicab on Highway 92. He now has a new 2001 Black coupe. Glad you are ok Don. Also Bill and Linda Smith have a new 1957 Corvette Fuelie on its way. Congratulations. Personal Advertisements For Sale: 2003 Spiral Gray Corvette Convertible with a Black top and Black interior. Cold Air Induction and only 16,554 miles. Asking $40, O.B.O. Contact Martha Nedderman or (cell) Corvette Trivia 1. The 1970 Corvette was the first year for rectangular exhaust tips. True or False 2. The first Collector Edition came in Gold metallic color. True or False 3. General Motors produced Corvettes in two different GM plants and states in True or False Bonus: What year was the hatchback first offered in the Corvette? A: 1983 B: 1982 C: 1976 D: 1974 Answers on the last page 8:29 pm V.P. at Large Randy Cooper announced the 50/25/25 drawing had $158. Steve Hodge and Linda Smith each won $39.00 Congratulations! Page 5

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11 Upcoming Activities: Mar Head for the Highlands IV Apr 9-17 AJC International Auto Show Apr ALMS Grand Prix of Road Atlanta Apr The Gathering VIII in Savannah May 7 Bogey s May Panama City Run with Circle City Corvettes National Corvette Museum Activities April 2-9 Western Caribbean Cruise April C5/C6 Birthday Bash May ZR-1 / C4 Gathering Answers to Trivia: 1 - True, 2 False, 3 True, Bonus B: 1982 P.O. Box 4936 Marietta, GA HOTLINE (770) Web Page: Meeting Location Sidelines Grill 1440 Roswell Road Marietta, GA Approx. 1 Mile East of the Big Chicken 2nd Tuesday of Each Month Meeting Time: 7:30 PM Next Meeting: April 12 th THE VETTE SETTE Page 11