February, 2010
The next club meeting:
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Golden Corral, Dothan.
Join us for dinner at 6:00 p.m.
Scroll down to Car of the Month to see Brian's ZR1.
During January, we made a cruise to the Seacrest Wolf Preserve near Chipley FL. They were selected to receive a donation from our club, so prior to visiting the wolves we presented a check – they were very appreciative!! This completed all the donations to local charities for 2009, which totaled $3000!!!
The wolf visit was terrific. They are such beautiful creatures, and are so important in the balance of the ecology of many parts of the Pacific Northwest and Canada. Thanks much to Jim and Charley for setting up this Cruise.
What’s coming up – well in February, Bill and Jackie are setting up a ‘Sweetheart Cruise’ for us on Feb 13th. I hope the weather is good for us. Then on March 27th, the Mid Alabama Corvette club has organized an ‘all Alabama’ Corvette event that I hope many will attend. It will be at the Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, which has a 2.5 mile road course. They have coordinated with the Porsche and BMW Owners Club that has rented the track for the day to allow the Corvettes to get on the track for some ‘parade laps’. But really, the event is all about socializing with other Alabama Corvette clubs and people, so it should be a event worth trying to attend.
Beach Caravan 2010, our 30th, is coming together nicely. The motel arrangements are done, they flyers and registration forms are completed, and our advertising campaign has started. Lets hope that the improving economy will help to increase the number of participants this year. Maybe by April lots of folks will be ready for a weekend at the beach, and they’ll do it with us.
Bruce
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Brent Gourley
'93 Z25 / Z07 40th with 190,000 miles
'99 white Z51 coupe with 130,000 miles
February - see the full calendar at click here
5 - 7 Moultrie, GA swap meet ... at an airport and is a huge automotive swap meet with also arts and craft items for sale. This has always been a good place to find parts for any make or model of car and even some Corvette items. There is a for sale car corral, auction and car show. ... A lot of local Corvette Clubs attend the swap meet and enter the a car show on Saturday. ... it takes about 4 hours to walk through all the rows and buildings and it is usually cold. Their are plenty of restrooms and places to eat. ... 2 1/2 hours from Dothan.
13 Sweetheart Cruise - Departs Ozark WalMart at 2:30 p.m. for a hour or so cruise in the country and dining.
March
Dothan's Azalea Trail - exact date determined by the flowers and the weather. Lineup 1 pm in the bank parking lot corner of West Main and Woodland in Dothan. We usually need ten cars to participate and carry the Azalea Court.
17 Racing at Sebring. Contact Charley for details or http://www.sebringraceway.com or contact Charley.
20 Orange Beach 10th Annual
"Gulf Coast Fun in The Sun" Car Show at the Wharf.
Pre-show activities on the evening of the 19th.
Click for detailed info ;
the flyer ;
Condos at the Wharf ;
registration ;
and, the rules for valve cover
racing. Really.
27 Weevil City Cruisers car and truck show. Click here for the flyer for the Weevil City Cruisers Car Show
27 Statewide Event at Barber Motorsports Park sponsored by MidAlabama Corvette Club. See the calendar and flyer for complete details.
On the 23rd of January, the club (after many rain delays) returned to the Seacrest Wolf Preserve to present a donation to the Preserve to assist them in their work of maintaining the habitat and its magnificent denizens. Here's a few pics from this visit, the visitors, staff, and inhabitants. |
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| The Hickman's new Grand Sport appeareed at the January
meeting. Built on 12/16/09, and delivered at the NCM at 8 a.m., New Year's Eve. Click here to see photos Charley captured from the NCM live webcam, then scroll down, click "view album." |
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 even the carpet gets the royal treatment... |
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We welcome our new members to the club!!!
Al and Pat Fleming, Enterprise, 2000 white convertible and Warbonnet Yellow '72 coupe.
Jamie and Paula Flowers, red '67 convertible.
CJ and Vivian Cancel, black '08 Z06.
| HAPPY February
BIRTHDAYS 2 Paula Flowers 2 Brian Webb 8 Linda Johnson 15 Bruce Carter 20 Dick Maccabe 25 Melody King 25 Dale Stroud |
and February
ANNIVERSARIES:
19 Stan & Karen Kennedy |
| 73 vette. It has less than 60K and is all original >
except the radio. All numbers matching components etc. Please pass this
on to all club members in case they know someone who may be >
interested. Asking $16,000 I am the 4th owner and I have the owner
history. I am looking for a 63 to 67 Coupe but need to sell this one
first. Thanks,
Carl J. Shea
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Toyota accelerator problem explained - maybe ??
Do you have an incurable passion for 'Vettes? Seek help at Corvettes Anonymous.
Vettes for Vets Event ON the Talledega Motor Speedway
Lambo can't get away from a ZR-1
How to clean a car, by the MiniCooper group.
A Norwegian perspective (thanks, Stan) http://www.lov2xlr8.no/
GM's HyWire - the car of the future on Top Gear
Building the last C4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YII-h21xJvw&NR=1
Think you can win that ZR-1 and the '67/427 advertised on Facebook?
Read here before you donate:
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/12/05/Northpinellas/Wish_granting_charity.shtml
How to make your car last - http://tinyurl.com/qwdp7t
Nostalgia videos - http://www.oldbluewebdesigns.com/
LS2 Engine Assembly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2ZQQRDmlJc&feature=related
President: Bruce Carter
Vice President: Russell Lewis
Secretary: Barbara Pattberg
NCM Ambassador:
Charley Robertson
Treasurer: Jim Robertson
Caravan Coordinator: John
Hickman
Local Event Coordinator: Bruce Carter
Newsletter Editor:
Terry Weldon
Member at Large:
Charley O. Robertson
Member at Large:
Rick Early
Webmaster: Brent Gourley
