Joe THE VETTE SETTE. President s Corner. Volume XV Issue 8 August 2005

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1 THE VETTE SETTE President s Corner Here we are heading into the Dog Day s of summer No, not the UGA kind ;-) First I want to thank all of our Volunteers that helped make the Sock Hop and Super Vette Saturday the best ever! Without you, we would not be able to perform such an amazing task. Now onto the regular program We started the last month with Tequila s First Annual Wine Tour. The response was overwhelming! We had a great time tasting at Three Sisters Winery. Several took home their favorite vintage for later consumption. Then we made our way up to Habersham Winery for an informative tour and tasting. You would be amazed at the tidbits of information you can learn at a winery. Our last stop was Hans Restaurant in Helen. We took over the entire Lounge area on the third floor for some great German food. We are going to try and put together another tour in cooler weather as we had several close calls with wine bottles overheating and one casualty of all things, a red wine in a light colored interior due to the hot weather! DOHHHHH!! Keep your eyes open. The Sock Hop was an even bigger and better event than last year. We had almost 100 folks attend the Sock Hop and dance the night away to the tunes from the 50 s, 60 s and 70 s as presented by our band The Sock Hops. We danced so much and with such vigor we rotated the dance floor about 2 feet! (insert Chubby Checker s Twist joke here). Once again, the adage by Dave Hill stands true, God loves Corvettes! as the weather cooperated again and we had pretty much a great day for a car show for Super Vette Saturday. The morning started overcast and daunting, but cleared by 1:00 PM or so to shine bright on that beautiful sea of fiberglass. We A Monthly Publication For The Members of The Page 1 had 156 Corvettes registered and another that came by and took a look. Some of our friends from the Columbus area didn t fair so well. They ran into rain about 30 minutes out from Columbus and turned back. They should have come on up, the cars were already wet! Johnny O Connell was a great hit with his stories of Corvette Racing and then promoting his Corvette Camp. We had him auction some items off for us like a set of Kumho tires, an electric scooter, a RV package and one of the door signs from the drivers paddock at Le Mans France. Now if we could just get Johnny to come out of his shell and open up I want to personally thank everyone that attended both the Sock Hop and Super Vette Saturday. I also hope that everyone enjoyed themselves and will plan on returning next year for an even bigger and better event. Our next outing is to make the Operation One Voice run from Alpharetta to Ft. Benning near Columbus. This benefits the families of fallen soldiers. Then we venture to the Mountain City Corvette Association Show and Drags in Chattanooga. It is going to prove to be another great outing!! Hope to see all of you there! We have plenty of events on the horizon to keep us busy through the rest of the summer and on into fall. Check our website regularly to see what new events are there and plan on attending. You won t regret it. 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 Editor s Corner By Cindy Owens Hello Corvette Lovers! SuperVette Saturday has come and gone and from all accounts, it was the most successful show to date. But with all of the best volunteers and best sponsors, how could it not be? Next year, we will have to kick it up a notch to top this one. We will also have to work on getting more of our Classic Glass members to participate. The ratio this year was 52 CGCC versus 104 non-cgcc, compared to last year of 60 CGCC members versus 93 non-cgcc. SuperVette Saturday is not the end of Classic Glass Activities. Check the event calendar on the website to see what I mean. Remember to mark your calendars for the Mountain City excursion we are planning in September. Look for more details later in this newsletter. Now is the time to start thinking about New Officers and Directors and Renewals for next year. Our leadership has done a great job this year and I m sure next year will be the same. Last year we finished the year with 245 members. A year ago this month, we had 223 members. This year we have 205. I will be putting a Renewal Form in all of the newsletters starting next month. Please fill this out and Page 2 send it in. At the start of January 2005, we had 154 members renew. Let s see if we can beat this. 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! Cindy ** Upcoming Event ** Have you ever wanted to say you remember that time at camp?. Well now you can. Johnny O Connell will be holding his inaugural Corvette Camp on September 17 & 18. You will have the opportunity to see what you and your Corvette can do on a racetrack with the emphasis on speed, fun and safety. For more information see ** Upcoming Event ** September Mountain City Corvette Association is holding their 8 th Annual Corvette Show and Drags in Chattanooga, TN. We have blocked 10 rooms at the Howard Johnson s in Chattanooga. It is off of exit 1A. Please see the website for more details. We will be going up for the cook out sponsored by Mountain City CA and then we will follow that with good old Classic Glass fun. The official Classic Glass Blender will be attending also. On Sunday will have the show and drags. Come out and join the rest of CGCC in supporting one of our sister clubs and enjoy a great weekend of fun, show and drag racing ** Special Cruise In Event ** We have been informed that on the 1 st Saturday of every month there is a Breakfast Cruise In at the Avenues in East Cobb. This is on Roswell Rd off of Johnson Ferry Rd. We will get more details on this and add it to the Web Page under Cruise In s. As the Steering Wheel Turns By Joe Owens After all of the hard work I put into the top end of Blue, I was testing her out and once she got warm she started acting like she was not getting enough gas. A check with our Corvette Guru s and a heat sink plate later, she is good as new. She even proved it by getting her first 1 st place trophy at Super Vette Saturday! Sunnie has decided to pitch a temper(ature) tantrum and blow hot air on the driver side and cold air on the passenger side. I guess it is time to tear into the dash and find out why. Maybe she just wants some attention After all we left her alone in the garage at home on Super Vette Saturday for the first time.

3 Tequila is having the time of her life bonding with Cindy. We will be making the inaugural run to Bowling Green for the Labor Day Celebration. Maybe she will be a lucky lady and win a trophy in the Celebrity Choice Car Show. Yellow was a lucky color for Sunnie; maybe DSOM will be a lucky color for Tequila as well. We will see you next month with more tales from the Busted Knuckle Garage. Corvette Racing Update C6R Corvette Racing Sibling rivalry can be a good thing. The #3 and #4 C6-R cars keep testing the drivers and challenging each other for the win, plus it keeps the drivers on their toes. This last race at Portland was no exception. The #4 car, driven by Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta, won their second ALMS victory of the 2005 season edging out the #3 car driven by Johnny O Connell and Ron Fellows by only.623 seconds!!! Don t blink or you will miss that one. The Corvettes continue to dominate everything but the P1 and P2 cars. They finished 5 th and 6 th overall just behind 3 P1 cars and 1 P2 car. Get them on a more even playing field and say bye-bye to the P cars Corvette Trivia 1. In the 1971 model year, you could order an automatic transmission on the ZR1 package. True or False 2. The 450-hp decal was one of the rarest on top of the 1960 s big block air-cleaner. True or False 3. The LS6 originally sold as an option for a mere $1,221. True or False Bonus: There was a TV Series in the 60 s that created a lot of interest in Corvette because the lead characters shared one. The series was named after a famous road in America. What was the name of the series? A: Highway 1 B: Route 101 C: Route 66 D: 77 Sunset Strip Answers on the last page Congratulations Corvette Racing!!! We are all behind you! August 21 Road America Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin September 4 Mosport International Raceway Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada 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 $30, O.B.O. Contact Martha Nedderman or (cell) ****New**** *Corvettes For Sale* If you have a Corvette for sale, we will put it into the newsletter for 1 month free of charge. The ad can have up to 3 lines and contain only a basic description and contact information. After that you can run an extended ad for 6 months and only have to pay $10 for members and $25 for non-members. This should be a great new feature to the newsletter. If you have any questions, please contact Joe or Cindy Owens.. Page 3

4 Super Vette Saturday By Cindy Owens The Friday Night Sock Hop was again a great success. This year we tried something new. We had a live band called The Sock Hops. They are a local band that performs at local events and at Houck s, a bar and dance establishment. They performed many of our favorites from the 50 s, 60 s and 70 s. We gave away Best Dressed Awards based on the crowd s favorite. Roxanne Roseberry and Walt Baer walked away with these. After hours of dancing the night away it was time to say goodnight and get ready for our important day tomorrow. Super Vette Saturday started out to be a partly cloudy day but that was ok because it wasn t raining. This year we were prepared for the early cars that we knew would show up. We had our great crew of volunteers positioned and ready. Fred O Neill and his wife Ann did a great job with the announcements and door prizes. The registrations started coming in at a steady pace and would not stop until well after noon. The silent auction was a great success. Did I mention that Johnny O Connell helped us auction some special items? Including a sign plate from Max Papis. Adam Boca and his wife Kelly, with the help of Ron and Robin Floyd came down to represent the NCM. They told us they doubled what they had done last year. Bobby Kay had the club store open and our many vendors filled the Vendor Area. The Ice Cream Guy made quite a hit especially when the temperatures started to rise. At promptly 2:00pm, we had the loudest exhaust sound off with Johnny O Connell doing the judging. At 2:30 pm, awards were given out to the Peoples Choice in all generations of the Corvettes. A special award in honor of Ed Tillerson was given to Joe and me for contributing to the corvette community. This was quite an honor for us both. We ended the show promptly at 3:00pm. Thanks to Days Chevrolet and Reese Cox and MTI Racing for being Sponsors again this year. And a special thanks to all of our volunteers. We couldn t have done it with out you. SUPERVETTE SATURDAY RECAP: Pre-Registered CGCC: 43 Pre-Registered Non CGCC: 16 Non Pre-Registered CGCC: 9 Non Pre-Registered Non CGCC: 88 Total: AWARDS: C1 1 st Place: Joe Izganics (1959) C2 1 st Place: Ken Thaxton (1967) C1 2 nd Place: Don Jones (1959) C2 2 nd Place: Gerald Copeland (1967) C1 3 rd Place: Bob Carr (1962) C2 3 rd Place: Mike Haynes (1963) C3A 1 st Place: Steve West (1972) C3B 1 st Place: Frank & Necia Grant (1978) C3A 2 nd Place: Andy Tullos (1969) C3B 2 nd Place: Ken Dearmon (1974) C3A 3 rd Place: Randy Slomian (1969) C3B 3 rd Place: Keith Arnold (1977) C4A 1 st Place: Chip Salisbury (1990) C4B 1 st Place: Steve Proper (1991) C4A 2 nd Place: Gary Doughton (1990) C4B 2 nd Place: Chuck Gillen (1996) C4A 3 rd Place: Rick Hyde (1990) C4B 3 rd Place: Rick Burkett (1995) C5A 1 st Place: Mike & Tammy Bruce (2000) C5B 1 st Place: Ivan Hawkins (2004) C5A 2 nd Place: Walt Baer (1999) C5B 2 nd Place: Sten & Teresa Oxford (2001) C5A 3 rd Place: Jack Jett (2000) C5B 3 rd Place: Sam & Linda Schember (2004) C6 1 st Place: Ron Langwell (2005) Modified 1 st Place: Jeff Price (1962) C6 2 nd Place: Randy Kicklighter (2005) Modified 2 nd Place: Howard Daws (1972) C6 3 rd Place: Harry Wilson (2005) Modified 3 rd Place: Jim Prather (1963) BEST IN SHOW Mike & Tammy Bruce (2000) Day s Choice Jack Jett (2000) Best Vanity Plate George Brown (1977) GOFASTR Loudest Exhaust David Van Winkle (1997) Club Participation Peach State Posse CLASSIC GLASS CORVETTE CLUB WINNERS: C1 Bill Smith (1957) C2 Tim Eason (1965) C3A Joe Owens (1971) C3B Jerry Belk (1974) C4A Mike Greene (1986) C4B Tom Sauntry (1995) C5A Jackie Robert (1997) C5B Jack Kreger (2001) C6 Roman Sabadaszka (2005) Page 4

5 Meeting Minutes from August 9th Meeting 7:29 PM Joe Owens, President Joe opened the meeting with a run down of the previous events. Wine Tour- We had a great turn out for the North Georgia Wine Tour. There were 24 people signed up for the event. We had 48 people show with 19 Corvettes and 2 non- Corvettes caravan to Three Sisters and Habersham Wineries. Everyone had a great time. Sock Hop On Friday night we more than doubled our attendance from last year and we want it to keep growing. Everyone enjoyed the Sock Hops and we have T-Shirts and CD s for sell in the back. SuperVette Saturday- Joe acknowledged the volunteers and thanked everyone for helping and for the great job. Greg Brooks was selling 50/50 tickets and said that several people told him it was the most organized show they had been to. Thanks to all who helped. There were 156 cars registered, 3 more than last year. Last year we had a net profit of about $ Not all of the receipts are in but the rough estimate for this year is $ Part of that was an auction item that was donated from Gary Claudio from GM racing, a Max Papis door plaque that sold for $ We will donate $ to the NCM from those proceeds. Another $ will go to Calvary Children s Home event in January. The Board will decide at the next meeting how much to set aside for the needy families program in December. Joe asked for a vote from the club members to donate another $ to the NCM Building fund. A motion was made and passed. 7:39 PM Cheryl Tomlinson, Secretary Cheryl asked for a motion to be made to accept the minutes from the last meeting as posted in the newsletter. A motion was made and accepted. Treasurer s Report-P.J. Ray P. J. gave a breakdown of the Treasurer s report and asked for a motion to accept the report. A motion was made and accepted by all. P. J. reported a financial summary of the below numbers for July 2005: Beginning Balance: $6, Receipts: Memberships $ Club Store $ Charity (Operation One Voice) $ Reimburse Startup for $ SVS $ Super Vette Saturday $9, Total Receipts: $11, Disbursements: Sunshine (Flowers for Don Shamel) $ Picnic Trophies $ Operation One Voice $ Buttons for Wine Tour $ Office Supplies $ Newsletter $ Refund SVS Fee $ Website 1 yr host fee $ Super Vette Saturday $3, Startup Cash for SVS $ Total Disbursements: $5, Ending Balance:** $12, **Includes $2,000 rainy day Fund 7:41 PM Don Shamel, VP of Membership Don and Joe announced that after the membership drawing we would be giving out some door prizes. There were 60 members present and 10 guests several of whom are now new members. We have a total of 213 paid members. Vicki Hicks won the membership drawing and she donated the winnings of $60.00 to the NCM. Door Prize winners: Fred Hale, Cheryl Tomlinson, Toni Etter, Roxanne Roseberry, Charlie Willis, Wayne Mobley, Cheryl Lyons, Chris Siddell, Randy Cooper. 7:55 PM Gail and Robert Smith, VP of Activities Joe gave us a run down of the upcoming events: Operation One Voice 8/20 - More information is coming. Mountain City Show & Drags 9/ There are 10 rooms reserved. We will leave at 1:15 and have a cookout on Saturday night and have a Sunday show. Madison Car Show 9/18 - All those attending will just meet there. Petite Le Mans 9/29-10/1 - Discount ticket forms are in the back for 30% off. Vicki needs 2 volunteers for the Corvette Corral that can do 2 shifts each day. See Vicki Hicks if you can volunteer. Corvettes Against Breast Cancer Bridget is the event manager. See the website for details. More Events Upcoming: Johnny O Connell Camp 9/17-18 VetteFest in Gatlinburg, TN 9/22-25 Corvette Roundup w/american Dream 9/24 3 rd Annual Blue Ridge Train Ride 10/8 Corvette Beach Odyssey 10/21-22 Page 5

6 Check the website often because new events and details are added all the time. 8:02 PM Ron Floyd, NCM Ambassador National Corvette Homecoming 8/12-14 Anniversary Celebration 9/1-4 Pace Car Reunion 9/29-10/1 C3 Extravaganza 10/13-15 Every person who registers for the Anniversary Celebration and is not a member of the museum will get a 1-year free membership to the museum. Registration closes August 17 th. See the website for more details Ron has a $25.00 gift certificate that he received from Al Knoch and does not need it. See Ron for more details. 8:07 PM Rhonda and Bobby Kay, CGCC Store We have shirts, hats and flags for sale. We had an auction item that received no bids on Saturday and we will auction this off tonight. We have a 14-carat Gold Noah s Ark Bracelet and will start the bid at $ Joe passed the bracelet around for all to see and will auction it off at the end of the meeting. 8:10 PM Bridget Stephens, Webmaster We need photos for the website from the new members and all who haven t done so yet. Bridget needs photos of your cars for the member s garage and photos for the photo album. Please send Bridget a JPEG or a hard copy. There was an error during the Website Trivia last month and Bridget gave a prize to Bill Majoros for the correct answer last month. Trivia: What search engine in the month of July gave us the most hits? Answer: Yahoo from one of the visitors 8:13 PM Gary Claudio, Guest Speaker Gary is the Group Marketing Manager for GM Racing and a strong supporter of the National Corvette Museum. Gary thanked us for our support of the Corvette, not only from the racing side but also from the car side. Other interesting facts from Le Mans: They did 696 laps Drove 5902 Miles Make 53 pit stops Make Gear Shifts Use 1240 gallons of gas Use 64 Tires 6 Quarts of oil 2 Quarts of water Gary also had some great stories and tales about Dale Earnhardt and what a great person and driver he was. At the end of Gary s tales, Joe presented him with a SVS pin, shirt and an Appreciation Award from the club and made him an Honorary Member of Classic Glass. There were also prizes given out for Gary s Trivia questions that he asked about Petite Lemans. 8:52 PM New Business No one had any new business to bring before the members. 8:53 PM Auction An auction was held for the Gold Noah s Ark Bracelet and Randy Cooper was the Winner. The bracelet sold for $ :54 PM Randy Cooper, VP at Large There was $ for the 50/25/25 drawing with $81.00 given to P. J. Ray for the club. Barry Tomlinson and Susanne Renneke each won $40.50 and Susanne donated hers to the Museum fund. Joe announced that next month we will be taking nominations for officers for 2006 and would like to have all nominations made and accepted by the close of the November meeting. All nominees need to have their club dues paid by the end of the November meeting to be eligible to run. We have SVS shirts for sale for $15.00 and SVS pins for $ :59 PM Close (end of minutes) He owns a 1967 Black coupe. He is married and has an adopted son and 6 other children (4 dogs and 2 cats). He started off with a description of their day at Petite Lemans. The race starts at 4 PM but their day starts at 6:30 AM with preparations for the race and ends after they clean up and pack for home after the race. They carry everything that they need with them including their own doctors, nurses and therapists; and the drivers are checked by the doctors every time they get out of the car. They even carry their own chefs to cater their meals. They ship about 15 tons of stuff to France for the race. Page 6

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10 Upcoming Activities: Aug 20 Operation One Voice Corvette Cruise to Fort Benning Sep Mountain City Corvette Association 8 th Annual Show & Drag Sep VetteFest in Gatlinburg, TN Sep 24 Corvette Roundup with American Dream Corvette Club Sep Petite Le Road Atlanta Oct 8 Corvettes Against Breast Cancer Atlanta Motor Speedway Oct 8 3 rd Annual Blue Ridge Train Ride with Corvette Group of North Georgia Oct Emerald Coast Corvette Club s 2005 Beach Odyssey in Panama City FL Nov 12 3 rd Annual Cherahala Skyway Cruise & Picnic (Tail of the Dragon) Dec 3 Holiday Party / December Meeting National Corvette Museum Activities Sept 1-4 Anniversary Celebration Sept Camaro/Firebird Invasion Sept 29-Oct 1 Pace Car Reunion Oct C3 Extravaganza Answers to Trivia: 1 - False, 2 True, 3 True, Bonus C: Route 66 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: Sept. 13th THE VETTE SETTE Page 10