The World s First Corvette Club The President s Corner - Jim Parisi

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1 The World s First Corvette Club The President s Corner - Jim Parisi June 2014 First, I would like to keep in our prayers all the members who have recently had surgery and health care issues, Frank Merendino, Don Haller, Tommy Armstrong, and Jim Wade. We all hope for your quick and healthy recovery. This weekend, June 6-8, is the weekend for the Hospice Buddy Camp. Elisa Merendino and I will be attending. I look forward to spending the weekend with our little buddies for some good fun and positive reinforcement for their losses. I will not be able to have computer or phone this weekend so I hope you all can reach me Sunday evening for all communications. Our 41 st Annual Car Show, The Return of the Stingray, went off perfectly at Sport Chevrolet with great weather and a great group of people. All GM vehicles were welcome and there was a special section designated for our Wounded Warriors! I would like to say thank you to all that participated in the club, Nita Armstrong was outstanding along with Lee Shirley and all that came both days for Sport, moving cars and doing everything that needed to be done. This was a club effort from many people and the responses from all were very good. Again, thank you all! Treasured Motorcar Services, LTD brought two cars to our show. They brought a 57 fulie, black with red interior. It is a beautiful car. They also brought a Pratt & Miller built 2006 Z06 pure race car. It was a very special showing. They also specialize in restoration of European cars as well. Alan Curtis is the general manager and available at your request at Smokey D s was back with their great BBQ and Adam s demoed their products on cars all afternoon. Congratulations to all the winners and hope to see you all back next year!

2 June 2014 Page 2 We have Joe and Angie's pool bash coming up July 19 th. It should be a great, wet day in the pool. I hope the weather is fantastic! See the flyer later in this issue. We also had a great find by our Membership Director, Jean Wade, from Bill Diely who was a former member back in the `60 s. He gave the club some great historical information to be restored and revitalized. See Jon Thorn s article this month for more information on this. The summer is off to a great start and I hope every one has a safe and fun time. Pictures from Sebring My car on the track. Pictures of my next car I hope! The Pratt and Miller C6RS on display at our 41 st Annual Car Show courtesy of Treasured Motorcar Services, LTD. It s all about cars and people sharing their passions. Jim Parisi CCA President jp71234@gmail.com (410)

3 June 2014 Page 3 Membership Director Jean Wade CCA Membership Update MEMBER NEWS AND INFORMATION Welcome New Members Sponsor John Byrne Parkton, Md. 14 Red Stingray Google Dave & Jeanne Sealing Fulton, Md 66 Blue Roadster Car show Martin Wolf Annapolis, Md. 14 Cyber Gray Stingray Sport Michael Wormald Silver Spring, Md. 77 White Coupe Car show Sponsor a new member and receive CCA cash. Contact Jean Car Show shirts - I have limited sizes of Show Shirts available. Cost $20. Check payable to CCA. Contact me vettehon@aol.com Please make your subject CCA or call Contact me and I will pull the size and save it. No XL left. Members, if you have a new , home address, phone, or new rides, please contact me. We like to keep our membership information up to date. Send changes to Jean Wade. NCCC Questions to our Gov. Ron Hamrah rhamrah@gmail.com CCA Embroidery Club shirts website. CCA wine glasses. $5 ea. Get yours now before they sell out. CCA events coming up don t miss out on all the fun. June 10th th 7:30 PM July Sat. 19th July Sat. 26 th August 9 th August 22 nd - 24 th August 23 rd - 31 st Membership, bus. meeting Golden Bull Bash N Splash at Joe and Angie s house. Car Show at Lincoln Tech. 25 th Annual all Corvette cruise-in Sudley Town Plaza 1187 Sudley Rd. Manassas, Va. Corvettes at Carlisle. carlisleevents.com 2014 NCM Corvette Caravan & 20 th Anniversary of the NCM Fun things to do with your Corvette You can cruise Jimmie Cone Cruise every 1 st & 3 rd Sat. of the month in Mt. Airy S. Main St. & Ridgeville Blvd. Food Lion center. Open 5:30-dark. Every Sat. 8am-9am Cars 'N Coffee/Bethesda at the Corner Bakery Westlake Dr. Also Katie s Cars and Coffee, Great Falls, Va. Sundays at Burtonsville Md. Jean Wade - Membership Director, 2000 Red coupe, vettehon@aol.com

4 June 2014 Page 4 The Editor s Corner Jon Thorn Corvette ramblings I wonder what has happened to all this free time that you are supposed to have in retirement. It does not seem to be working out that way. There is no real complaint here because the time is mostly taken up with fun things but there is very little real relax time. At the end of May, Evelyn and I spent a little over a couple of weeks on a river cruise through Western Europe starting out in Amsterdam and ending up in Zurich after a little time on a bus. We had one day back home before the 41 st Annual Car Show and the week since then has been pretty much non-stop as well. I do have some good news to report. Jean Wade received an from Bill Deily saying that he had some old CCA documents that he wondered if we wanted. He and his wife were members back in the early 70 s and his wife was the club secretary for a period around I contacted Bill and found out that he was planning to move to Arizona in a week and needed to get the binders and some old Courier newsletters to us in a hurry. I found out that he lived in Mechanicsville, MD and I offered to drive down to meet him. I picked up the materials from him and I ve started going through them. He believed that the earliest documents were from 1962 but I discovered the minutes from the very first meeting on July 17 th, Needless to say, this is a significant historical find for the club. It is going to take awhile to go through all the documents. I think when everything is looked at that we will have a much better picture of the early years of the club and some of the challenges that they faced. Many of the documents are not in great shape. I plan to digitally scan everything to add to the library of important documents that we started last year. From what little I have seen so far I think we will have a fascinating story for generations of future club members. As I am sure you know, next month is July and that makes it the 58 th anniversary of the club. I hope to have an initial article on these documents ready in time for the July issue of the Courier. It is clear from the minutes of the July 17 th meeting that a lot of discussion had occurred before this initial organizational meeting. It is also clear that there are some mysteries in the club s past. There are gaps in the record that may be a result of lost documents or due to club inactivity. The early road for the founders was clearly not a smooth one. What I have seen for certain already is that the club from the very beginnings had a close relationship with GM and both provided influence to GM and was influenced by GM. If you have an interest in history this should turn out to be a lot of fun to look through. I may be over estimating the value but I think this collection is the CCA equivalent of finding the Dead Sea Scrolls. In other news, it is hard to believe that you might not be aware of this, but this coming weekend is the 91 st anniversary of the first running of the 24-Hours of Le Mans. Unlike some of the TUDOR events this one is fully covered on TV by Fox. If you would like to watch or just set your DVR s here is the schedule for the event coverage: (Saturday, June 14-Sunday, June 15 - all times ET) 8:30 a.m-4 p.m., Saturday, June 14 (FOX Sports 1) 4-5 p.m., Saturday, June 14 (FOX Sports 2) 5-6:30 p.m., Saturday, June 14 (FOX Sports GO) 6:30 p.m., Saturday, June 14-1 a.m., Sunday, June 15 (FOX Sports 2) 1-7:30 a.m., Sunday, June 15 (FOX Sports 1) 7:30-9:30 a.m., Sunday, June 15 (FOX Sports 2) You will also find updates and some live coverage over the IMSA.com website. In addition there is also

5 June 2014 Page 5 the excellent broadcast audio coverage from radiolemans.com. It is going to be a big weekend for Corvette and they could use your fan support. You probably also heard the news that Corvette announced the performance numbers for the LT4 engine at 650 HP and 650 TQ. That is pretty amazing and a substantial jump over the earlier estimates. If you want early access to club chatter like the above you really should join the closed CCA group on Facebook. We only have a small fraction of the members in this group but there is a ton of good information available. Consider joining the group today! Just do a search of Corvette Club of America and request to be admitted to the group. I m going to close out with a picture of the whole Corvette Racing Team at the Place de la République, in downtown Le Mans. It is hard to believe it has been 15 years for Corvette Racing. Unfortunately it was a wet day there this afternoon. GO JAKE! Jon Thorn, CCA Courier Editor

6 June 2014 Page 6 Competition Chair Stephen Catlin Corvette Competition Competition Report Unfortunately, we have completed our spring CCA autocross events and our fall CCA autocross events are not until September and October. However, there are still many things to keep competitive club members busy throughout the upcoming summer. For those interested in track day events, there were several fun events in May and several more coming up in June, including Chin s VIR track days on 6/25-6/26, BSR s Summit Point Jefferson Circuit track day on 6/28, and NCM s VIR track days on 6/30-7/1. Can t believe I ve had my C6 Z06 for over a year and still haven t made it to a track day. I m hoping to make the BSR event using my current LS7 setup, but unfortunately will be holding off on VIR until I get new LS7 heads worked up and installed. Hope to see you track guys soon... Besides the numerous track day events continuing throughout the summer and various social events on the calendar, let us not forget that this is the first year for the Dick Thompson Award and that points can be accrued by CCA club members at any NCCC competitive event! Full details and Flyers for upcoming points-paying NCCC events can be found on the NCCC East Region Event-List Website linked below. In order to encourage some summer road trips, I will highlight some of the upcoming NCCC East Region competitive NCCC autocross events that CCA club members should consider attending. I will be at the first two, and likely others as well throughout the summer, and will of course be attending our fall CCA events. June 15, 2014 Double Autocross Cumberland Valley Corvette Club, York, PA R03 AND R04 FLYER.pdf June 22, 2014 Double Autocross Lancaster County Corvette Club, Manheim, PA

7 June 2014 Page _AutoX.pdf August 10, 2014 Double Autocross Lancaster County Corvette Club, Manheim, PA September 7, 2014 Double Autocross Lancaster County Corvette Club, Manheim, PA September 20-21, 2014 CCA Double Autocross & School, Columbia, MD October 18-19, 2014 CCA Double Autocross & School, Columbia, MD There also are other local autocross clubs that CCA club members such as myself and Jay & Denise Parsons frequent that will be hosting local autocross events this summer, including Capital Driving Club ( I hope to be doing several of these this summer as well. Hop on board and consider attending...maybe we can get a summer traveling caravan of CCA autocrossers. Events outside of the CCA are opportunities to meet and socialize with fellow Corvette owners from other clubs, encourage other club members to likewise attend our club events to grow our participant base, to get more seat time in our Vettes, and if nothing else to get away from DC for the weekend! As at our last event, for those who ask (while my personal supply lasts) I will being handing out free small CCA decals to club participants (perfect for the B-pillar or rear window glass) at any event I attend. These can help advertise our club and show our CCA pride and attendance. Remember we are the first and oldest Corvette Club! Here is a report on the Chin Motorsports Watkins Glen HPDE on May 19 th and 20 th from Pat Roney. CHIN MOTORSPORTS AT WATKINS GLEN MAY 19 & 20, 2014 The Corvette Club of America was represented by 6 members for the Chin Motorsports HPDE at Watkins Glen International Raceway. Gary N., Bob C., John & Diane D., Art B. and myself made the 5 hour trip to The Glen and were rewarded with some nice weather, and a little rain, and a lot of great laps on this historic track. As you can see from the photo below, we were in good company.

8 June 2014 Page 8 Bob C. climbing into Leona for a ride with Gary N. (holding the door) in the Advanced group. Bob C., John D. & myself lined up to go out on track. Gary N. had a talk with me about putting my big boy pants on before going out on track that helped me keep up with these faster buddies.

9 June 2014 Page 9 Bob C. changing brake pads between sessions with lots of supervision from Gary N. & John D. Notice John s neat portable lift under Bob s car. John s lift is a big hit where ever we go. Another happy participant enjoying the use of John s lift.

10 June 2014 Page 10 John D. crossing the finish line. Art B s car being loaded into that beautiful sleek trailer.

11 June 2014 Page 11 The only picture I have managed to get of the elusive Art B. in all of the events we have been to together. Thanks to Diane D. for the photos. There is a lot more action coming up so if you are interested, please come talk to myself or one of our group and see how High Performance Driver Education could fit into your plans. Please remember to keep it at the speed limit on the highway and do your high speed driving on the track. I hope to see you soon. Pat Roney Until next month... Stephen Catlin CCA Competition Director catlin3@verizon.net

12 June 2014 Page HPDE & AUTOCROSS TRACK SCHEDULE DATE TRACK ORGANIZATION SIGN UP ~COST* OPENING DATE 6/25-26/14 VIR FULL CHIN TBD TBD 06/28/14 SP JC BSR SATT OPEN NOW $ /30-7/1 VIR FULL NCM OPEN NOW $525 7/12-13/14 VIR MAIN TRACKDAZE OPEN NOW $450 07/18/14 VIR MAIN NASA-MA: TT & INST CL TBD TBD 7/19-20/14 VIR MAIN NASA-MA TBD TBD 7/19-20/14 SP SC SCCA-DC ~6/16/14 $310 07/25/14 SP MAIN BSR FATT OPEN NOW $ /15/14 SP MAIN BSR FATT OPEN NOW $ /16-17/14 SP MAIN NASA-MA TBD TBD 8/25-26/14 SP MAIN NCM OPEN NOW $525? 9/26-27/14 NCM MSP NCM OPEN NOW $485-$525 9/28-29/14 NCM MSP NCM OPEN NOW $485-$525 *Pricing is my best guess. TrackDaze offers $35 discounts for early sign up and an additional 10% discount if you sign up for 4 events at a time. Register early as these events fill up quickly, especially in the Novice groups. Please check this schedule often as it will change as the season goes on. SP=Summit Point, SC=Shenandoah circuit, JC=Jefferson Circuit, F(S)ATT=Friday(Saturday)At The Track. GREEN= already signed up. YELLOW= planning to sign up. RED= don t plan to attend. Last updated: 6/9/2014

13 June 2014 Page 13 NCCC Governor Ron Hamrah NCCC Report Points of Contact Listing NCCC Questions direct to our Governor Ron Hamrah , NCCC Governor s Report By Ron Hamrah, NCCC Governor for CCA MISS ANYTHING ELSE BUT NOT THIS August TIME IS RUNNING OUT to sign up for the 4 th Quinquennial (every 5 years) Celebration of the National Corvette Museum in August Corvette Clubs will caravan from all over the USA to Bowling Green, KY for an agenda packed with technical seminars, social functions, plant tours, museum events and much more. See the VIDEO at TAKE ADVANTAGE - Run track laps at the Charlotte Motor Speedway track, have lunch at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC and join 12,000 Corvette enthusiasts in Bowling Green, KY. Block your calender, reserve your hotel rooms and join us as the Corvette Club of America leads this MULTI-CLUB MID-ATLANTIC CARAVAN. We will travel with more than 200 caravaners from clubs in PA, WV, DE, DC, MD, VA, NC and SC. Check it out and REGISTER NOW at BOTH and celebration/20info.shtml If you have any questions, or call me. Follow the instructions for reserving your hotel rooms. Bowling Green area lodging for August is at the Mammoth Cave Hotel and Resort 30 mile drive to the NCM, two double beds at rate of $ per night, tax included. Three on-site restaurants are available. Call the Mammoth Cave Hotel at and ask for Lynn and the August Mid-Atlantic Caravan rooms blocked by Ron Hamrah. See the special Discounts for NCCC Members -

14 June 2014 Page 14 NCCC NATION-WIDE TRAVEL SUPPORT NCCC has a cross-country directory of Corvette Club members from affiliated NCCC clubs who have volunteered their Point-of-Contact (POC) information in the event a fellow NCCC member needs support while driving cross-country or a distance from their home territory. I have signed up as a CCA volunteer and would like to have a few other CCA members provide their Point Of Contact (POC) information. The only obligation is to provide your phone and information, so a stranded fellow NCCC member can contact you for some local guidance. Please contact me for additional information or if you will be driving far from our area and would like the reference list. Check out the following informative websites: East Region NCCC website at Corvette Forum at Insurance Link - EAST REGION NCCC Vette-work All NCCC members are invited to join the East Region Vette-work, the heart and soul of Corvette enthusiasm. If you have CORVETTE ITEMS FOR SALE There is a new App that will handle classified ads better than the Forum did. You will find a new section called "Listings" where you can list items. VERIZON CELL PHONE SERVICE DISCOUNT If you are a military veteran and use Verizon for your cell phone service, you can get a 15% discount on your service. All you need to do is take a copy of your DD-214 to a Verizon store and tell them you would like to have the Vets Discount. Tell them the discount code is You should get a 15% discount off your monthly bill. You can even fax them your DD-214 for the discount. East Region Club Sponsored Events: I am out of town for a few days and do not have computer access to construct my regular events report format. Thank you for your understanding. However, the information is readily available. Just follow the guidance in the next paragraph. June is packed with numerous exciting events in the East Region. See the detail at public-listing/ and click on the Flyer button for each of the events of interest to see the detail.

15 June 2014 Page 15 NCM Ambassador - Terry Popkin National Corvette Museum Report Terry Popkin, NCM Ambassador, tjpopkin@mac.com,

16 June 2014 Page 16 CCA Party Event! Saturday July 19 th "Bash N Splash" backyard party: Time: Noon-till Where: Joe & Angie's Vaeth Cutsail Dr. Damascus, Md, Bring: a dish to share Bring: your own drinks Bring: a chair if you like Bring: a bathing suit if you plan to swim or play pool games Bring: your Corvette to park in front yard RSVP: Jean Wade vettehon@aol.com Meet your CCA buddies, see Joe's spectacular garage. Come and have fun. Jean Wade CCA Membership Director

17 June 2014 Page 17 Corvette Club of America 41 st Annual Car Show We were blessed with fantastic weather this year for the annual car show and that resulted in great attendance from both registrants and spectators. It will be a few more days yet before we have the details but it appears to have been a very successful show. We have hundreds of photos from the event and it won t be possible to show them all here but I wanted to include a few from the show in this issue of the newsletter because it is a major event for the club and so many people worked so hard to make it successful. Don Haller helping out while on crutches! Below, Evelyn Thorn on the left and Nita Armstrong on the right getting organized in the registration area.

18 June 2014 Page 18 Above, Membership Director, Jean Wade getting the Membership Table set up. Below, center, the always smiling Pat Roney handling tech-in and classification.

19 June 2014 Page 19 Front gate staff checked in registrants and spectators and handled getting the waivers signed. The folks from Adam s Polishes were on hand demonstrating their great products.

20 June 2014 Page 20 Above, Smokey D s getting their fantastic food ready for us. For the past couple of years we have had an All GM show along with the Corvettes and the quantity and quality of the GM entries continues to grow. The cars vary from almost identical to what came off the assembly line to highly modified cars.

21 June 2014 Page 21 This is a small sample of the Corvettes that turned out for the show. I think we had every generation represented by several cars. Trust Tony, of Tony s Corvettes to show up with something really special - a tanker fuelie. This highly modified C6 had a paint job that you had to be able to stand right next to in order to fully appreciate it! We had several C7 s on display in addition to a large number of C5 s and C6 s.

22 June 2014 Page 22 Ready for Spring! 1989 C4 Roadster, Black with Saddle leather power seats and top. BOSE sound system (new amplifiers, one year old). Telescopic steering wheel, brass gearing on headlights, high performance injectors, luggage rack, performance axle, automatic with overdrive, heavy duty radiator, A/C, dual, electric outside mirrors, fog lamps, PSPB. Instrument cluster is fully operational. Car cover included. LoJack and additional alarm system with remote door unlock and 2 sets of keys. 60K highway miles. $10,000 OBO. Contact: JoAnne jmca110@gmail.com

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24 June 2014 Page 24 Corvette C6 base OEM rotors, front & rear, Used These rotors have less than 1,274 miles of street use only on them and are in good shape. $ Contact: Pat Roney, proney42@verizon.net

25 June 2014 Page 25 The Corvette Club of America is proud to be exclusively associated with Sport Chevrolet. Be a Sport fan too!! 3101 Automobile Blvd Silver Spring, Md Our contact at Sport Chevrolet for a new or used car is Lee Shirley, or him at lshirley@sportautomotive.com. Be sure to let Lee know that you are a CCA member. The Corvette Club of America, Inc was founded by John Ralph and Charles Eyre who organized the first club meeting on July 17, 1956 at a Chevrolet dealership in Arlington, Virginia. At that time the club charter was formulated and a tentative club name, Capital Corvette Club was considered. At a subsequent meeting in September 1956, however, the club name was changed to the Corvette Club of America since it was the intent of the members to make the club a national organization. In the months that followed, the Corvette Club of America took the first steps toward forming a national organization by laying the ground work for the National Council of Corvette Clubs, a group which now includes 275 clubs with more than 17,500 members. Today the NCCC is the largest non-profit, all volunteer Corvette organization in the United States. The Corvette Club of America is a proud member of the East Region of the NCCC. As one of the founding clubs of the National Council of Corvette Clubs, the CCA is honored to have been assigned club number 1 in the organization. Through the years the CCA has seen many fine members come and go; however, one thing remains unchanged. The membership is composed of individuals both male and female, young and old, that share a common interest - The Corvette! President Jim Parisi (410) Vice President Rick Roe (410) Secretary John Durscher (443) Treasurer Nita Armstrong (443) NCCC Governor Ron Hamrah (202) Membership Director Jean Wade (301) Competition Director Steve Catlin (703) Parliamentarian Jon Thorn (301) Member-at-Large Rich Taylor (240) Non Board Member Positions NCM Ambassador Terry Popkin (301) Mkt & Promotions Jim Streight (301) Vendor & Club Relations Van Vander Haar (410) Webmaster Rick Roe (410) Courier Editor Jon Thorn (301) is published monthly by the Corvette Club of America, Inc. P.O. Box 3355, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20885

26 June 2014 Page 26 Business & Membership Meeting Location: Golden Bull Grand Café 7 Dalamar Street Gaithersburg, MD (301) Second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 PM Next meeting: June 10 th CCA Monthly Meeting Locations Shop Night Location: Sport Chevrolet 3101 Automobile Blvd. Silver Spring, Maryland Fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM** (** Shop Night is the THIRD Tuesday in November and December due to Holidays) Next Shop Night: June 24 th

27 June 2014 Page 27 Simply the Best Tony Avedisian, Owner 7500 Rickenbacker Drive Gaithersburg, MD This modern storage facility offers the best environmental controls to store and preserve your vehicle under optimal conditions. Contact: Michael Milan Contact CCA Tag Leader Richard Roe