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Celebrating over 40 Years 1974-2015
The Blue Flame
March 2015 Visit Website: www.neovc.org
Sponsored by
Tim Lally Chevrolet, Bedford, Ohio
Save The Wave!!!
Our business meetings are held the first Wednesday of each month
at Tim Lally
Chevrolet, 19000 Rockside Road, Bedford, OH 44146 Light dinner is at 6:00 PM, followed by the business meeting at 7:00 PM. Our next (regular) meeting will be April 1, 2015
2015 Club Officers
Office Name Email PhonePresident Paul Reynolds [email protected] 440-382-2502Vice President Ed Suit [email protected] 440-248-0819Governor/Competition TR Aldrich [email protected] 330-274-8649Treasurer/Membership Dean Cole [email protected] 440-248-8830Secretary Rosemary Suit [email protected] 440-248-0819Social Sam Mansell [email protected] 440-669-3690Newsletter Editor Sam Mansell [email protected] 440-669-3690Webmaster Tom Fetchik [email protected] 330-524-5009Trustees Chuck Bart
Bill HortonSam Mansell
GENERAL MOTORS BILLBOARD IN DETROIT
Presidents Report
Thank you for the input at our meeting. Our club is fortunate to have well-
informed and active members. Enjoy the two car events at the IX center
this month. Hope to see everyone at our March socials.
Paul
Social Report
Our March social will be Tuesday March 10 at Mario Fazio's located at
34400 Chardon Rd, Willoughby Hills 44094. We have reservations for
6 PM. E-Mail me @ [email protected] or call 440-369-3690 by
March 8 so I can confirm.
Our 2nd March social will Friday March 27 @ Bravo Cucina Italian in the
private room located @ Eton Chagrin Boulevard, 28889 Chagrin Blvd,
Woodmere, OH 44122. We have a reservation for 6 PM RSVP
[email protected] or call 440-669-3690.
Thank You,
Sam
February Social at Daytona 500 Party
The Daytona 500 race results: 100-lap winner was Ted Mo Final race winner was Joey Logano . Kim Lally held the winning ticket.
Congrats to you both and thanks to Sam for organizing this great social event.
Kim, thanks for making all this possible! Dave and Joanne
The winner of the money raffle was Paul Reynolds
February Social at the Bertram
Governor’s Report
2015 NCCC pins are in--be sure to see Dean at the next meeting.
At the Governor’s meeting Sat.--membership cards-if you lose yours, the
replacement will be a copy of the original, not another card--it is suggested
that if you do not carry your card always, then put it in your Vette as you
will most likely need it when you are driving or at an event.
Has anyone NOT received your 2015 NCCC membership packet? Please let
me know. Also, are you receiving your Blue Bars?
We have permission to use the 2015 Corvette logo for flyers, etc.--but not
the Stingray logo!!
Tim Obert, the region webmaster, is the operations manager at a new Kart
track in Medina; go to highvoltagekarting.com--I say let’s do a social there
so all of you can be ready to race this year!!!
TR
February Meeting Minutes
Minutes for March 4, 2015 NEOVC Meeting The meeting was called to order by the President, Paul Reynolds, at
6:25 PM on Wednesday, March 4 with 21 members in attendance.
Since our club will be only using 7 of the 10 sanction shows for our NCCC
show on August 16, TR Aldrich suggested we donate the three we are not
using to East Ohio Region. Ted Mowinski made the motion and Dean Cole
seconded, to give three of our sanction shows to the NCCC. Motion passed.
Sam Mansell announced our Club’s 41st birthday is today, and he felt we
could celebrate it at our club social on March 10 at Mario Fazio’s. Sam
Mansell made the motion and Bill Horton seconded, for the club to purchase
a cake for this occasion. Motion passed. Sam also announced our seconded
club social will be on March 27 at Bravo’s in Woodmere. Since the club’s
preferred date of December 12 is unavailable for our Christmas Party at
Dadonna’s, Sam is looking into information at the Bertram’s Inn and
Conference Center and will report back to us at the April meeting.
Paul Reynolds led a discussion regarding yearly planning of our club’s
finances. After this discussion, Sam Mansell made the motion and Dean
Cole seconded, the club, each November, set aside a balance of $3,000 to be
used to start off the next year, with the remainder of the monies being
donated to the club’s charity. Motion passed.
A lengthy discussion regarding the Aurora Farms Car Show took place
listing the positive and the negative aspects of having this show. At the end
of this discussion it was felt that along with our NCCC Show and the Aurora
Farms Show dates being very close together and the fact that we are a
relatively small car club, we would not have enough manpower to staff this
event. Ed Suit made the motion and Rick Farley seconded that we cancel
the Aurora Farms Car Show. Motion Passed. Ed Suit will cancel the
listings in the Cruisin’ Times and on Big Al’s List, and the committee will
meet with Kyle Hersh to inform him of this decision.
Several items were discussed regarding the Tim Lally NCCC Car Show on
August 16. Ball caps will be supplied by the dealership and the club will
supply pens, 23 trophies and 10 gift baskets for the show. Gene Strine
volunteered to complete the NCCC forms for this event. Due to the
possibility Lally’s new facility will be completed by Labor Day, our car show
date and location may be moved to coincide with the Grand Opening of
their new dealership, it was decided we hold off on any flyers or adverting
at this time. We will have to finalize this information by our May meeting.
Rick Farley made the motion and Dave Owens seconded, we hold off on any
advertising for the Tim Lally NCCC Car Show until the May meeting.
Motion passed.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:40 PM. Rosemary Suit, Secretary
Membership
Total Members 52
March Birthdays
March-1 Bob Wykoff March-10 Ted Mowinski
March-3 Mike Lally March-16 Donna Horton
March-6 TR Aldrich March-20 Ronald Welch
March-24 Bill Horton
April Birthdays
April 13 Lou Morganti
April 14 Barbara Lupca
We’ve found your Corvette
"We’ve found your car" are the four most desired words you can hope to hear when your car has been unlawfully taken from your possession. In the case of Terry Dietrich, those words were uttered to her earlier this month some 42 years after her first love – a 1972 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray – was stolen in Duluth, Ga., just six months after it was bought.
But, as is typical with stories of long lost automotive loves, those four words were often followed by an endless amount of bureaucratic red tape and an unmovable state agency.
The story begins in North Carolina, where earlier this year a 1972 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray went up for sale and was purchased by car restorer Gary Green. The car had been owned by a neighbor who’d cruised the local streets in the Vette since 1975. Due to being around for so long, the sight of the blue Corvette was ubiquitous amongst fellow townsfolk, and Green thought he knew its history well enough. When the Corvette’s owner passed away, Green purchased it from the man’s wife without worry.
Green checked the VIN after purchase and immediately recognized the string as belonging to a 1969 Corvette convertible and, upon closer inspection elsewhere, found a different VIN stamped into the frame and engine. Like any law-abiding and upstanding businessman, Green reported it to the police.
Sure enough, the car was the same one stolen from Dietrich in November 1972; police quickly impounded it. Here's where the next step would be for Dietrich to be reunited with her missing ride — but thanks to the aforementioned red tape, Dietrich’s Corvette will likely occupy the police impound lot, unless the North Carolina DMV changes its rules.
Back in 1972, Dietrich financed the Corvette and insured it through Allstate. Since she did not own the car free and clear, the lending institution held the title until the car’s eventual theft, thus giving Allstate title of vehicle when they paid out for the theft. North Carolina requires a title to release the vehicle and they won’t bend the rules an inch by considering the original police report from 1972.
Given the 42-year gap, neither Allstate nor the state of Georgia can provide a title to Dietrich, blocking her ability to lay claim to the well-cared-for Stingray sitting in a North Carolina impound lot.
Worst of all, unless a court order allows her car be released, it’ll head off to police auction for the highest bidder, a situation Dietrich is not likely able to afford. They say it's better to have loved and lost than never loved at all. But, twice over a span of 42 years is absolutely heartbreaking.
1959 Chevrolet Corvette: All American Sports Car - From the Archives
The white Corvette in this press release photo from Chevrolet shows off a couple of the subtle changes Chevy made to the Vette for the ’59 model year. The car went through a major styling revision in ’58, growing in size and gaining quad headlamps, bigger bumpers, simulated air ducts flanking the grille, hood louvers, and chrome trim on the trunk lid and in the coves. As if sensing they had taken the gingerbread a bit too far, Chevy’s stylists removed the trunk lid trim and smoothed the hood for ’59, while making a few small revisions to the interior as well.
Ray Brock, Hot Rod magazine’s technical editor, spent two weeks testdriving a fuel-injected ’59 and devoted quite a few column inches to the review in the May ’59 issue. Right off the bat, in the story’s subhead, he called the Vette “rugged,
fast and well finished” and said the car “competes with Europe’s best at a fraction of the cost.” Later in the story he wasn’t afraid to name names among the Vette’s racing competition. “Since the Corvette is a sports car in the truest sense, the car can be very effectively used in road races. Owners who plan to race their Corvettes can order heavy-duty chassis parts from the factory, which will give the car the necessary improvement in roadability to outrun such high priced foreign machinery as the Mercedes 300 and Ferrari Grand Tourismo coupe.”
Brock was a big guy. By his own admission in the story he “leans toward the beefy side with 220 pounds lumped here and there on a six-foot two-inch frame.” So as you might imagine, he found the Corvette a snug fit. He likened it, in fact, to putting on a new pair of shoes—“they’re tight!” But he also recognized that, like new shoes, the car “showed promise of being much more comfortable after a bit of wearing.”
His initial driving impressions were colored by his size versus the Vette’s. He felt constricted, with the steering wheel too close despite the seat being moved all the way back. “We had difficulty getting accustomed to the Corvette when it came to corners, mainly because we didn’t have enough arm room to swing the wheel back and forth smoothly.” But once he got used to the snug quarters, he found the car to be “an agile piece of machinery. It will corner very fast and flat even with the standard suspension parts and, with the four-speed transmission, can be dropped into the proper slot for fast acceleration any time before, during, or after making the corner.”
His test car was equipped with the 250hp version of the fuel-injected 283 V-8 and 4.11 gears—but no Positraction, equipment he said would have been a “welcome addition” to the drivetrain since he had to feather the throttle to keep the inside wheel from spinning in tight corners.
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The lack of a Posi in the diff also made it tough for Brock to get acceleration figures. He compensated by dropping the air pressure in the right rear tire to 18 pounds while leaving the left rear at 28 and got an average 0-60 time of 7.6 seconds and a quarter-mile e.t. of 15.65 seconds at 92 mph. Traction aids and “a sharp injection specialist” could likely drop the e.t. and add a couple miles per hour to the trap speed, he said.
Why didn’t he opt for the top-of-the-line 290-horse fuelie mill? He had sampled a pre-production version a year before and felt this engine “had more than enough power for the average public.” Plus, he said later in the story, the 270- and 290 hp versions of the 283, with their “wild cams,” were “a bit too noisy for the average driver.”
Brock was very complimentary about the fuelie engine, mentioning its smoothness several times. He did call it out as an expensive option, considering it only added 5 hp over the same engine equipped with dual quads. He also said it
could be “a little temperamental to start after the engine was hot and the car left sitting for an hour or so.”
Yet despite the car’s snug confines (and a complaint about how the cockpit had “an overpowering odor of gasoline” after “fast cornering or leaving the car in the hot sun with a full load of fuel”), he came away appreciating the car’s sporty nature. “Drive the Corvette and it doesn’t take you long to start feeling like one of the sporty set. The slightly choppy ride, flat cornering, quick acceleration and maneuverability have you imagining that you’re Juan Fangio’s replacement after a very short time behind the wheel.
Buckeye Corvette’s Spring BBQ March 21, 2015
Location Skipco Auto Auction
700 Elmridge
Canal Fulton 44614
Time: Arrive 4PM – Start Serving 5PM
To include BBW Ribs, chicken, pulled pork
Dinner rolls furnished
Drinks furnished (beer, soft drinks and coffee)
Guest may bring wine and a bottle to share
Cost: 14.00 per person
RSVP: send check to Buckeye Corvettes Inc. % Bruce Warnick
8611 Parks Ave ne Alliance OH 44601
Money to be in by February 28, 2015
Bring your own dinner service (If you forget, we will have extra)
Chairpeople: Bruce Warnick 330-823-9923
Co-chairs: Ben Stores 330-677-4298
For Information, Call Chairpeople.
DO NOT CALL SKIPCO! Name___________________________________ No. of People Attending_____
Amount Enclosed__________________
Please mail this slip with your check to Bruce Warnick on or before February 28th.
Buckeye Corvette’s Spring BBQ March 21, 2015
Location Skipco Auto Auction
700 Elmridge
Canal Fulton 44614
Time: Arrive 4PM – Start Serving 5PM
To include BBW Ribs, chicken, pulled pork
Dinner rolls furnished
Drinks furnished (beer, soft drinks and coffee)
Guest may bring wine and a bottle to share
Cost: 14.00 per person
RSVP: send check to Buckeye Corvettes Inc. % Bruce Warnick
8611 Parks Ave ne Alliance OH 44601
Money to be in by February 28, 2015
Bring your own dinner service (If you forget, we will have extra)
Chairpeople: Bruce Warnick 330-823-9923
Co-chairs: Ben Stores 330-677-4298
For Information, Call Chairpeople.
DO NOT CALL SKIPCO! Name___________________________________ No. of People Attending_____
Amount Enclosed__________________
Please mail this slip with your check to Bruce Warnick on or before February 28th.
