June, 2010
The next club meeting:
7:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Golden Corral, Dothan.
Join us for dinner at 6:00 p.m.
a fuel rail cover at the Caravan Car Show
Along with the warmer weather comes a slow down in car related events cause hey, who wants to sit in a parking lot for a car show when its 95 degrees and sunny!! So in May, we had what will likely be the last shows we will attend until the cooler weather arrives in late fall. But we did have a nice turnout for the Cruisin Corvettes show in Tallahassee with 9 cars, and we had 3 cars attend the Classic Glass Corvette show in Atlanta. Check out the photos (below) of both these shows.
In June John Hickman has taken the time to organize a ‘Vintage Beach Caravan’ for all club members. John is trying to plan the event as it was done back in the ’80’s. We have settled on June 19th for the event, and it should be lots of fun.
Looking ahead to July, several from the club are signed up for the Vettes for Vets at Talladega event on July 3rd. We did this last year and I still can’t get over how steep the banking is on the Talladega track – it was a blast. Also in July as well as August look forward to some pool parties and maybe a Mystery Cruise or two.
And finally, Drive that Vette!! The Corvette was designed to be driven, not to sit in the garage. But hey, they do look great in any garage!!
Bruce
Click for the Museum Homepage: National Corvette Museum - opens in its own window.
Click here for Charley's NCM Newsletter
Courtesy of your NCM Ambassador
- Charley Robertson
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Somewhere, somewhen among the
members I heard mention of a vehicle coating called Rejex. I wrote down the
name, thinking it worth googling, considering my aversion to w*o*r*k. Find
it on the internet at www.corrosionx.com. The Corrosion Technologies Company
also makes CorrosionX, a spray-in compound to treat and prevent corrosion in
airplane structures. The website offers RejeX as a coating for the outside
of aircraft. Buy it online at that website.
Follow the on-line directions. Wash the car with Dawn,
the dishwashing detergent. Anything that will clean up barbeque will clean
your car; including complete removal of the wax. Then claybar the car
according to the directions; use car wash and water as a lubricant; save the
spray and shine that came with the claybar for other uses. Cut the claybar
into quarters or smaller, make it flat enough to cover three fingertips. If
you drop it, throw it away. Fold it once, that way you get three sides to
use.
Apply RejeX with a cotton rag to the cool surface. Let it dry; wipe it off.
No buffing. Let it rest in the shade overnight for the polymer to set up.
Your car's finish will now feel wet to the touch. Most Bugs come off with
wipe of a wet rag. Use eye protection to look at a treated white 'Vette
parked in the sun. It's s'posed to last 6 months or so. That's not as long
as the product at the end of the alphabet, but it looks like a lot less work
for a remarkable finish on a 1999 car with 137,000 miles.
Next, click here to hear the announcement of
new transmission components required to meet the new EPA mileage standards.
Large file, may load slowly. Keep tongue firmly in cheek.
obtw, the club website, current version and archives, occupies 5730 files in 214 folders on my computer.
Brent
July
3 "Vettes 4 Vets" - pace
laps at Talladega for donation. The first 200 cars - Corvettes only.
Click here
for registration form;
click here for the flyer.
If you
registered, you should have received the almost final starting grid email on
24th of May. Expect the really final email on June 1st.
October
dates tbd. Columbia Manor Haunted House benefitting the Volunteer Fire and Rescue Departments.
The Classic Glass Corvette show. We were well represented at the Classic Glass Corvette show in Acworth GA with 3 of our cars attending. Here, David and Debra Brown show off their 1st place award in the C6 class, 08-10 class. A real honor with all the fine cars there.
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 Tallahassee Car Show
The Corvette show with the Cruisin Corvette club of Tallahassee was a great time yesterday. We had 7 club members attend, but we had 9 cars as Brian Webb brought 3 cars |
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We also brought home several awards as Roy and Shannon won 2nd place in the C3 class, George and Peggy won 2nd place in the C4 class, Curtis and Melody won 2nd place in the C5 class, and Brian won 1st class in the C1 and the C3 classes. |
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Charley's Birthday Bash Pictures: Click here.
We welcome our new members to the club!!!
Mike Bullard & Sandy Money, Elba, 2008 black coupe
Rich & Marilou Alexander, moving from Kentucky,
2000 black coupe, 2004 blue Z06, 2007 red coupe
Belinda Collins, co-driving with Bruce Wyatt
| HAPPY June BIRTHDAYS 7 Kelly Walker 8 Russ Smedley 28 Charlotte Kloos 28 Carl Shea
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and June
ANNIVERSARIES: 3 Roger & Debra Flythe
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Get ready for Halloween at Columbia Manor.
Nitrogen in your tires? Explained. The NitroFill Website.
Z06 Carbon explained by Autoweek..
Toyota invests $50 million in Tesla, thus providing a place to build the sedan. Click to see the announcement.
Who built your C6 parts? Click here for the .jpg or here for the .pdf
New record, 6:58, on Nurburgring by Ferrari
Vettes for Vets Event ON the Talladega Motor Speedway
How to clean a car, by the MiniCooper group.
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
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:
Brent Gourley
Member at Large:
Charley O. Robertson
Member at Large:
Rick Early
Webmaster: Brent Gourley
