July, 2011
The next club meeting:
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Poolside with Seaby and Floy Bess
A short meeting will precede festivities
Watch email for details and time.
Fantastic art on the hood of a C5 at the 2011 Vettes-4-Vets event at the
Talladega Super Speedway
photo by bgrly. Click on Journeys to see the rest of this car.
June proved to be, as usual, a slow month for the club. Recovering from our
Beach Caravan event in May and the hot summer temperatures cause us to take
a break from club activities this time of year. But we still got together
for one event on the 25th. The Cruisin Corvette club of Tallahassee invited
us to attend a private screening on the “Cars 2” movie at the old Zebulon
Theatre in Cairo GA with their club. We left Dothan with 13 Corvettes and
had a nice caravan to Cairo. The old theatre has been restored and it was
like going back in time when we walked through the curtains into the seating
area, plus the popcorn was really good!! After the movie, we made a short
drive to Mr. Chick for lunch. After lunch, we were invited to tour the
antique car museum behind the restaurant which is owned by the owner of Mr.
Chick. He had some really nice old Studebakers and the actual Cadillac used
in the movie “Driving Miss Daisy”.
In July, we will be having our annual 4th of July party at Seaby and Floy’s
place in Ashford on the 9th. Seaby will be grilling burgers and hot dogs
while we enjoy the day in and around the pool. Definitely put this one on
your calendar.
John has locked in the dates for next year’s Caravan with the Marriott. Our
dates for Caravan 2012 will be May 17 – 19.
Bruce
Click for the Museum Homepage: National Corvette Museum - opens in its own window.
Click here for Charley's NCM Newsletter with working links or read it here :
Courtesy of your NCM Ambassador
- Charley Robertson
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| If you have a 2001 - 2004 C5, there’s a pretty good
chance you have got the warning on the DIC of: ABS INOP, then, Traction
Control Inop, then Active Handling Inop. And if you pulled up the code
it was likely C1214, failure of the Electronic Brake Control Module (EBCM).
This is a common failure on 100k + mile C5’s. Well, our ’01 coupe with
almost 140k miles had this come on every once in a while for about a
year, then a few months ago came on and stayed on. So, after a brief web
search, I found ‘ABSFIXER.COM’. This is an outfit in MO that will
rebuild a faulty 2001-2004 EBCM for only $150 + shipping. This is WAY
cheaper than taking it to the dealer and paying around $1000 for a new
unit to be installed. Removing and re-installing isn’t really that hard. I did mine on my lift, but it could be done from above, and in fact, on the absfixer’s web site, they gives detailed instructions on removal and re-installiation. I got the unit back in about 10 days, put it back on, and everything works fine now!! So consider this course of action when your EBCM starts to fail. Go to www.absfixer.com Bruce |
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July |
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9 |
Annual 4th of July Pool Party - at Seaby and Floy's backyard in Ashford. Watch your email for details |
| 9 | Vettes of the Smokies 3rd Annual All Corvette Car Show at Bill Gatton Chevrolet- Cadillac in Bristol, TN. Click here for the flyer. |
12 - 16 |
Black Hills Corvette Classic |
August |
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| 4 - 7 | The Emerald Coast Corvette Club (PC, FL) has again graciously extended to Circle City to accompany them on their annual cruse to Helen GA cruise. Contact Bruce Carter for information, check for his email, or click here for the flyer. |
| The Cruisin Corvette club of Tallahassee invited us to attend a private screening on the “Cars 2” movie at the old Zebulon Theatre in Cairo GA with their club. We left Dothan with 13 Corvettes and had a nice caravan to Cairo. The old theatre has been restored and it was like going back in time when we walked through the curtains into the seating area, plus the popcorn was really good!! |  |
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After the movie, we made a short drive to Mr. Chick for lunch. |
| After lunch, we were invited to tour the antique car museum behind the restaurant which is owned by the owner of Mr. Chick. He had some really nice old Studebakers and the actual Cadillac used in the movie “Driving Miss Daisy”. |  |
| 'Vettes-4-Vets, an event benefitting groups caring for the families of veterans in North Alabama. Here's the rest of the hood featured in the banner pic at the top of the newsletter. Taken with a Verizon Motorola Droid X phone and its 8 mega-pixel camera. Can you see the photographer's reflection in the car's front tag recess cover? |
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| This space waiting for your car (past or present) and your story. |
We welcome our new members to the club!!!
| HAPPY July
BIRTHDAYS 3 Carrie Williamson 4 Elaine Dodd 7 Jean Carter 8 Bill Rawson 11 Michael Walker 12 Laura Capps 18 Jim Dinges 20 Kittie Eggleston 22 Roger Flythe 23 Glenn Bowens |
and July
ANNIVERSARIES:
1 David & Dot Miller 7 David & Tammy Godby 18 Russ & Connie Smedley 19 Jim & Laura Capps |
| Seen on the Lemon Lot on Fort Rucker - a yellow
2000 C5. Sorry, don't have a photo. Reasonable mileage and asking 17,000. It has a Borla exhaust and large LED tail lights. |
The editor has removed references to Top Gear, as they have been inconsistent in their reviews of the ZR1, and in this writer's opinion fabricated part of the poor review, and have been accused of scripting a bad review of the Tesla Roadster.
the 2012 ZO6 on the Nurburgring woww
and you thought your kids played a tough game of croquet
The Texas Mile - 231 mph TT in 2011
Corvette advertisement - from 1992.
How to make the carbon ceramic brake disc, from the TV show and Corvetteblogger.
Honolulu, VJ Day - Thanks for their service!
Consumer Goods Safety (not autos) http://www.saferproducts.gov
Car of the DECADE is ... but we already knew that!
Click for Bugatti Veyron Engine - the W16 and See the factory video here!!
RECALL - 2004 - leaky C5 fuel tanks
Race to Win
Corvette - check the videos /
How to clean a car, by the MiniCooper group.
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: Seaby Bess
Secretary: Floy Bess
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
2014 NCM Caravan Coordinator for NW FL & S. AL:
our own George Heneveld
See our website contact page to reach us.
