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We Are Taking a New Trip This Time It Is to River Ranch We Are Taking a New A Monthly Publication of The Indian River Corvette Club March, 2015 Vol. 15 No. 3 The Prez Says The March meeting was well attended by all including COMING IN MAY (4) four past 5 - Tuesday - Board of Directors Meeting presidents Ro, Officers and Directors are asked to please attend, Louie, Stan Club members are always welcome! and Rich. The 14 - Thursday - General Membership Meeting “12 Hours of C.J. Cannon's at the Airport Terminal Building Sebring” was 26 - Tuesday - Mystery Dinner Cruise the 19-21 of Our Host Louie & Sue March. The weather was great for both Thursday and Saturday, a little COMING IN JUNE hot but no rain. The Parade laps 11 - Thursday - NO General Membership Meeting Thursday night were full with 100 Due to low attendance in the summer Corvette's on the track. Saturday the The regular membership meeting at C.J. Cannon's race went well for the Corvette Team will be suspended for June, July and August. Mystery Dinner Cruises and Shout Outs will still go on. with a 1st place win! 13 - Sat - River Ranch Trip The Mystery Cruise was hosted by Sue has planned another fun filled activity Brian and Kathy, thank you! The food 30 - Tuesday - Mystery Dinner Cruise and service were great. Thank you to Our Host Bill Fenton Hollyann and Tom for setting up the “Four Preps” concert at the Endless OUR JUNE CLUB EVENT Summer Winery. I know everyone We are taking a new trip enjoyed the show. The group put on a very interesting and entertaining This time it is to River Ranch show. See you soon and remember Save the WAVE! Brad MEMBER BIRTHDAYS Birthdays for May Richard DeSocio May 3 Mike Flipse May 12 Sue Smith May 14 Arlene Silva May 18 The trip is set for Saturday, June 13th. Jerry Link May 19 Brian Blaschke May 20 Sue has worked out a deal for us Nan Dunne May 26 that want to stay over night. Birthdays for June Dar Halliday June 13 BUT, YOU MUST MAKE RESERVATIONS Judy Grandage June 17 BY Tuesday, May 19th Diane Bernardo June 17 Beth Butcher June 22 By calling 863 692-1321 ext 40064 to Christina Birthdays for July Rooms starting at $135.00 Lisa Grandage July 9 when you tell her you are with IRCC! Sherry Brown July 24 Jim Hunt July 30 Sue would like a head count so please email her at Eva Sandlin July 31 [email protected] Happy Birthday to everyone! We want to get there early for a day of activities, ending with the RODEO!!! Page 2 March, 2015 Vol. 15 No. 3 March Mystery Cruise Brian and Cathy Blaschke were our cruise directors for the evening. They led us on a short ride to The 14 Bones Restaurant on US1 in Vero. The turnout was great! Several of our new members came on their first club cruise. The restaurant seated us on the side porch and we filled up the whole area. The food was really good, ribs, steaks, fried chicken grilled fish and so much more. Other than some over cooked sweet potato fries all the food looked delicious. It was very pleasant evening for everyone. A big club thanks to Brian and Cathy from all of us. Save the Wave, Hollyann Page 3 March, 2015 Vol. 15 No. 3 ENDLESS SUMMER MUSEUM REPAIRS 2015 C7 to Receive PDR SHOUTOUT CONTINUE Patrick George Jalopnik.com 3/12/15 Camera Quality Update A group of hardy club members Tomorrow marks exactly one year In The Near Future showed up at the Endless Summer since a sinkhole opened up Sean Szymkowski 4/16/15 - GM Authority Winery on a chilly Saturday evening underneath the National Corvette It's something you really wouldn't to enjoy The Four Preps. The group Museum in Bowling Green, think about unless you were behind lead singer is Bruce Belland. Bruce Kentucky, swallowing eight rare and the wheel of a 2015 C7 Corvette, but is the original lead member of the unusual Corvettes like in some tragic according to many owners, the PDR group. Back in the sixties he wrote Greek mythology story except with system has a few issues. That's not the hit song Twenty Six Miles. His Corvettes. But time marches on, and to say the PDR system hasn't been group had many other hits during today, the sinkhole is no more. well received. their journey in their music. With his first serious royalty check in 1958 he The Corvette Museum's official blog purchased his first Corvette. How has an update on their progress, and about that! it shows that the hole has been entirely filled up with limestone and sand. When the sinkhole opened last year, six museum-owned Corvettes and two on loan from General Motors fell between 20 and 30 feet and suffered varying degrees of damage. Sadly, only three are able to be The PDR system has picked up quite restored, but the good news is no one a few awards when it debuted was hurt. alongside the C7 Stingray, including a Everyone had a great evening few awards from the Consumer singing all the songs popular when Electronics Show. The system came we were in high school. It brought to fruition after Cosworth and the back memories long forgotten. Corvette racing team spent many hours developing a system to support The winery produces their own wines a full suite of electronic gizmos for grown from grapes on the property. customers to take advantage of. They sell their own wines as well others, beer and several Corvette Blogger has detailed how nonalcoholic beverages. Food was the PDR system has been plagued by also available and changes with the what owners say is a strange yellow events. tinge on the picture display quality. Owners also say the picture is Save the wave, sometimes grainy and even washed Hollyann out looking. I only use "national nightmare" jokingly in this headline, because the It didn't take long for an answer. Bowling Green plant sinkhole ended up being an Tadge Juechter, Corvette head, has shutdown extended unexpected boon for the Corvette already responded to the issues and WDRB.com - Jack Conway Museum, which has struggled here's what he had to say: A major shutdown at the Corvette financially at times. Attendance went “This is a perfect example of continuous plant in Bowling Green just got up 67 percent last year so people improvement and backwards compatibility that I was asked about a even bigger. UAW local 2164 could see it. At one point the couple weeks ago. GM engineering and president Eldon Renaud says the museum considered keeping it open our partner Cosworth have been working facility will now be closed the third as a tourist attraction, but this idea hard to improve the PDR and the user week of July. That brings to nine was nixed for safety and cost experience. One area of investigation has reasons. been the image quality. Coincidentally, a the total number of weeks the software change was just released for Corvette plant is being shut down So how many tons of limestone was Bowling Green production at the end of in April, May, June, and July. used to fill the massive sinkhole? The March and we will be making it available to customers who already have their cars in Corvette sales have plummeted Corvette Museum won't say, and the next few weeks. The software includes by 50% from a year ago. that's because they're running a several changes including improvements Currently, the Bowling Green plant contest where if you guess correctly in color balance and sharpness of the has about 530 employees. 115 at this Survey monkey site, you can image on the video.” are on indefinite layoff, with win a print that commemorates the Good for the Corvette team for another 57 expected to lose their Blue Devil ZR1 being triumphantly listening to customers and getting jobs by the end of the May. lifted out of it. this update out in a timely fashion. Page 4 March, 2015 Vol. 15 No. 3 CORVETTE RACING AT SEBRING: A Florida Sweep for No. 3 Corvette C7.R ·Ninth class win at Sebring for Corvette Racing since 2002 ·No. 3 Corvette C7.R increases early-season GT Le Mans championship lead ·No. 4 Corvette strong early before mechanical issues sideline challenge these two guys (Magnussen and SEBRING, Fla. - Corvette Racing the No. 3 C7.R become the first team Briscoe) and two in a row. I can't say won in class for the ninth time at the and driver combination to win their more." 63rd Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring class in both the Rolex 24 At Daytona Fueled by Fresh from Florida as Ryan and the Sebring 12 Hours in 15 JAN MAGNUSSEN, #3 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C7.R - RACE WINNER Briscoe, Antonio Garcia and Jan years," Campbell added. Magnussen added Saturday's GT Le THIS IS YOUR FOURTH WIN HERE AT Saturday's win was Magnussen's SEBRING WHERE DOES THIS ONE Mans (GTLM) victory to their Rolex fourth at Sebring - all with Corvette RANK? 24 At Daytona win from January. The Racing. Garcia won for the second trio started the TUDOR United "Sebring ranks high. It's one of the time at the event to go along with his SportsCar Championship season biggest victories you can get. To win 2009 victory, also with Corvette with consecutive victories and lead in this way like was said before we didn't Racing.
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