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“A Tradition Of Performance” Website: www.gtoaa.org President Bob Alexander (970) 221-0754 GTOAA TECH ADVISORY STAFF 2950 Neil Drive, Unit 10 Tech info online: visit www.gtoaa.org, click on "Tech Advisors"- links to PY Forums Fort Collins, CO 80526 [email protected] Chief Technical Advisor Steve Lucas (630) 346-2967 Club Store / Board Member 230 South Hudson, Westmont, IL 60559-1936 [email protected] Robert J. & Connie Maher 5829 Stroebel Road (989) 781-0807 1964 Mike Schulz (952) 472-2125 Judges Jon Wacholtz (507) 433-5201 Saginaw, MI 48609-5249 4878 Edgewater Dr 706 13th Ave S.W. [email protected] Mound, MN 55364-2006 Austin, MN 55912-2726 [email protected] Legend Editor / Board Member 1965 Scott Tiemann (517) 647-2433 Tom Szymczyk phone (856) 439-0314 11817 E. Grand River GT-37 Position Open 30 Sandhurst Drive fax (856) 866-9003 Portland, MI 48875 Volunteers may send resumes to Steve Lucas, Chief Tech Advisor Mt. 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The Legend 1 December 2008 IN THIS ISSUE Volume 26 Number 12 December 2008 1 Officer & Staff Info 2 First Gear Tom Szymczyk 3 From The Prez’s Pen Bob Alexander Bye-Bye 2008 So the Chapter Survey info may 4 The Real 326 Story The end of the year seems like a have gone off into cyberspace and never John Sawruk good opportunity to thank all the people reached the right person in a chapter or that help to bring you this magazine each two. If that sounds like your club, con- 5 Convention Cruisin' month. Our feature car owners share tact Bill at [email protected] right John Spiess their unique stories with us, while our away and Bill will resend. It's important monthly columnists keep our publication that we get your updated info ASAP. 7 2009 Meet Forms filled with interesting and informative articles. Good job, folks! Happy Holidays Regular contributors like Bill Van- May all of you have a safe and 10 Cover Car Feature tuono, Tim Sickle, Jeff Lovich, Steve peaceful holiday season. Please remem- Wally Visocnik Schaeffer, Bob Alexander, Dennis Kir- ber our service men and women who are ban, Gary Major, and Chuck Catalano away from their homes and families at 13 Tiger Run 2008 Report help to keep our pages filled. They vol- this time, and keep them in your Frank Salerno unteer their time and effort to give our thoughts and prayers. readers various ideas and perspectives. 16 Club Store Thanks also to those members who send Last But Not Least . an occasional letter or e-mail. Your thoughts, suggestions, com- We should make special mention of plaints, comments, letters, and ideas are 19 Kirban's Side Of The Road one of our main monthly contributors, always welcome. The Legend is a publi- John Sawruk. Even though battling can- cation of the members, by the members, Dennis Kirban cer and the side effects of the medication and for the members. So feel free to add his doctors had him on, John never your two cents -- articles, reports, and 22 Return Of A Champion missed a deadline. Worsening health stories from the membership are what Bill Vantuono may prevent John from continuing, but this newsletter is all about. My e-mail we are ever grateful for his great work address is [email protected] and 26 Disc Brake Upgrade over the years. Please keep the Sawruk my phone number is (856) 439-0314. Cap Proffitt family in your prayers. Feel free to call anytime up to midnight Advertising dollars help our publi- Eastern Time. As they say on TV, op- 28 Chapter Directory cation, and we are appreciative of the erators are standing by. continued support of our vendors and advertising director John Johnson. Tom Szymczyk 29 Classifieds Chapter Survey 2009 If you are a chapter president, you In Memoriam should have received your 2009 GTOAA On October 29, 2008, Quint Stires Chapter Survey from chapter coordinator died of thyroid cancer. He was 48 Bill Vantuono. Bill e-mailed the survey years old. Quint was the GTOAA to the e-mail address we have on file for tech advisor for 1970 GTOs and a your chapter (see page 28 for the Chap- Concours Judge at the Nationals for ter Directory). We recognize that people many years. Quint worked for Ames occasionally change Internet providers Performance and was a writer for and don't tell us right away (that's hard to High Performance Pontiac and other automotive publications. Quint will be believe -- GTOAA must be the most im- missed by the Pontiac hobby. Our portant thing on your to-do list every condolences to the Stires family. day, right?). Or maybe not. The Legend 2 December 2008 HIGHLIGHTS: 2008 In Review Looking Ahead To 2009 It is already mid-October as I write The GTOAA Concours Judging the Co-Vention in Dayton, I hope to see this article for the last issue of the year. program continues to improve slowly, a new Concours Standards Manual. As with the previous December issues but surely. Yes, a draft standards man- Again this means a draft should be ready during my presidency, I like to take a ual was not ready by this year’s Meet in for review by January. Third, just like look back at the year and assess accom- New York; however, Bill Markowski is last year, I want to see two new chapters plishment of our annual goals and then confident it will be ready by January incorporated. I know that our new Chap- set a course of action for the year ahead. 2009. Our Concours Judging program ter Coordinator, Bill Vantuono, is al- As I considered 2008, I reviewed must be of the highest quality and on par ready aggressively working on this. my goals for the organization. As you with that of any car club in the country Finally, my goal is for us to imme- may recall, by March I wanted to see the due to ever increasing value of the GTO diately work together to become a online membership system and online and the unfortunate rise in fraudulent stronger, tighter organization and elimi- Club Store fully operational.