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Opel Motorsport Club Newsletter Volume 32, Issue 6 November-December 2012 Opels at Bonneville One land speed record, one near disaster, and one LeMon Featured Car – Roy Moulton’s Ignition Timing for Modified Photoshopping your Car - restored 1969 1.1L Opel GT Engines • Brakes for the Turn your photograph into a Tinyvette • Materials • More line drawing. Welcome to the Opel Motorsport Club The Opel Motorsport Club is celebrating its 32nd year of dedication to the preservation and appreciation of all German Opels, with special emphasis on models imported into the United States. We are headquartered on the west coast and have chapters across the country, in Europe, as well as members in Canada and Mexico. Membership benefits include subscription to this, listings for parts and service suppliers, the Blitz index and tech tip index (1985-date), free classified ads (3 per year), club items, a member roster, owner support and activities, including meetings and our annual picnic and car show. Regional Chapters Officers European Chapter (Netherlands) President: TBA. Contact: Louis van Steen: (011 31) 297 340 VP/Secretary: Matt Newman 536, [email protected] Activities: TBA Treasurer: Dick Counsil Florida Chapter (Coral Gables, FL) Blitz Editor: Mike Meier, interim Contact: John Malone: 305-443-8513 Web Master: Richard Kavadas To Join OMC: Michigan Chapter Write to Contact: John Brooks: 616-233-9050 ext 12 Contents [email protected]. OMC TREASURER Official Club Business. 1 c/o Dick Counsil 2013 Calender. 3 3824 Franklin Street Mid Atlantic Opel Club (Richmond, VA) La Crescenta, CA 91214-1607 Contact: Charles Goin: 804-379-9737 Chapter Opels. 4 cgoin@ mindspring.com International Opels.. 4 or email him at: From the Archives. 5 New England Opel Club (Swansea, MA) Bench Racing. 6 [email protected] Contact: Gary Farias: 508-679-2740 Gary@ opelgt.com The Blitz Centerfold.. 8 Membership Dues: Photoshopping Your Opel. 11 Regular: $45 annually, via check or North American Opel GT Chapter Contemplating Bonneville. 14 money order (US funds only, made (Chicago, IL) 11 Years, 209 mph, and 1 LSR, Black Contact: Jim Toler: 630-964-9797 payable to Opel Motorsport Club) or $47 Opel Racing’s Success at via PayPal. Northern California Chapter (Yuba City, Bonneville. 17 Online: $20 annually or $21 via PayPal CA) Contact: Chris Cleveland: A Near Disaster on the Salt, Followed Send PayPal to: [email protected] [email protected] by a Real Disaster on the Salt. 21 Include your name and address information. Ohio Chapter (Columbus, OH) Bill Ward Racing.. 25 Meetings: Contact: Larry Shal: 614-861-1565 A Visit With John Paxson and the Bill The OMC meetings are as announced, at Ward Opel GT.. 33 varying locations. Please consult the OMC Pacific Northwest Chapter (Shelton, The Opel-Nosed Berkeley. 35 Blitz calendar or the OMC website to find out WA) Contact Paul Kaman: 360-426-9267 So How Would One Approach the who is hosting the next meeting or event. Rocky Mountain Opels (Security, CO) Challenge of Setting a Land Speed Contact: Branston DiBrell Jr 719-391-9421 Record in a G/GT Class Opel GT? [email protected] . 39 The Blitz Crapcans Invade Bonneville. 41 The Blitz is the official publication of the Opel Southern California Chapter (Rialto, CA) Brakes for the Tinyvette.. 43 Motorsport Club (OMC). It is published bi- Contact: Todd Martin: 909-355-6735. monthly. Circulation is limited to club Ignition Timing for Modified Engines members and prospective club members. Texas Opel Club (Leonard, TX) . 47 Contact Rodney Killingsworth, 903-587- Materials. 53 The Blitz is copyrighted © by the OMC. 9640 [email protected] Photo Opels. 55 Articles, photographs, drawings, technical tips, and other materials appearing in the Blitz may Carolina Opel Club The OMC Mall. 56 not be reproduced without the expressed, Contact: Roy Bell: 704-782-1866 Classifieds, swag, etc. written permission of the OMC. Views E-mail: [email protected] The Business Page. 57 expressed are not necessarily those of the Advertising rates, submission guidelines, officers or members of the OMC. copyright, etc. Cover Photo: Team Tinyvette took it’s 24 Hours of LeMons 1969 Opel GT to Bonneville to make history as the “World’s Fastest LeMon”. Photo by Kurt Bainum Opel Motorsport Club The Blitz you like to see this new standard for The Blitz become the Official Club Business standard for all future issues? That standard being, color, page count (maybe but probably not quite 60, more like 30- 40 pages), a well developed primary theme with About This Issue accompanying technical and general interest articles? Your Yes, it’s pushing 60 pages, which is probably a record for new editor would like to be able to continue this. Producing the Blitz. But then again we’ve missed a couple of issues this issue has been fun and I’ve met some great, even and we sort of owe you, and the Blitz has a fresh new legendary, people. I have learned a lot and I think this style editor, and this editor found the theme of this issue, Opels at of newsletter could be really good for the Opel community. Bonneville, compelling and very productive. But, however, and of course, unless this became a near full- time job it would not be possible to do this as a bi-monthly This issue also contains columns that hopefully will be publication. Researching and producing this issue has regular items in The Blitz. Columns such as Bench Racing, required some travel, many hours on the phone, constantly where members tell us of their Opel projects, or Opel sending annoying emails to friends I am trying to get fantasies, or blatant but entertaining and family-friendly articles from, plus many hours writing and editing. But it is lies. Or the Opel Centerfold, Chapter Opel, Photo Opel, a volunteer position, done in my spare time, and it sure etc. These are sections created for the sole purpose of giving would be nice if I had an extra month to do each issue. and also encouraging, members to tell us their stories. Please note your preference on the ballot and/or contact any Finally, we should say thanks to people who contributed of the officers directly. articles for this issue. The Bonneville teams have been very generous with text and photos and the submissions by our Call for Authors members are what makes this a community publication This is your newsletter. It is about you and what you do and rather than just something for one’s amusement. The Blitz is want to do with, to, and for your Opel. But who are you? your newsletter and as such it should include the many What do you want and need? What are you doing with your voices that make up the classic Opels world. Opel? Other than lurking in the forums at OpelGT.com I, your editor, as well as other members, have no way of Ballot and Membership Survey knowing. So tell us. Call or write or make a tape and send it Your annual ballot is enclosed with this issue. Instructions in and I’ll find a way to get your story into the Blitz. If you on how to fill it out and when and were to submit it are race you already know you need to be a shameless self- included on the ballot. The results will appear in the next promoter, and the Blitz is here for you. Or are you in the issue of the Blitz. car business, or have special skills or knowledge in related areas? We want to hear about it. Teach us. Inform us. Make Treasurer’s Report us better Opelers. Oh, you say your computer died, your Our treasurer had been out of the country for several typewriter has rusted up and you lost all of your pencils, months and is back at home now and getting caught up on but your fancy new DSLR works? Winter light is great for OMC business. The treasurer’s report will be in the next photographs. Shoot away and send your best in. The Photo issue. Opel section was created just for you. Or do you have big plans, or dream of an ultimate classic Opel, or have an Opel A Proposition story to tell, possibly true, possibly not? The Bench Racing So now that the Blitz is being refreshed and renewed, and section can be yours for a whole issue. Just send in your tall thinking a moment about the quality and content you find in tales and I’ll make sure you get an audience. this issue, please consider the following proposition. Would Classic Opels Online Opel Motorsport Club – www.opelclub.com and www.facebook.com/OpelMotorsportClub/ OpelGT.com – www.opelgt.com Classic Opels Yahoo Group – [email protected] (Email them to subscribe.) The Opel Association of North America – www.clubs.hemminsgs.com/oana November-December 2012 Page 1 Opel Motorsport Club The Blitz Editor’s Notes About a year ago Gil approached me about taking on the My plans? I’d like to give the Blitz a more Euro and job of the editor of the Blitz. I promised to think about it, motorsport look. I also want to create regular columns that telling him that I needed to free up some time, etc. you, the readers and members will write. Meanwhile I hope Especially the etc. part. Well, I never did free up any of that to focus on each issue’s feature topic, such as the but after a visit to OGTS recently I felt the time had come Bonneville theme of this issue, and coming in future issues, for me to make a contribution to a community that had so drag racing, road racing, maybe even LeMons, and of generously supported Alan and my efforts with the course non-racing topics such as engine swaps and Tinyvette.
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