September 2017
BACK TO THE BRICKS WEEK September 2017
Officers
President Mark Lozen [email protected]
Vice President Michael Lysher Visit Team Corvette Online: www.teamcorvette.org [email protected]
Secretary Contents Marge Laird [email protected] September 2017 Vol. 17, No. 9 Treasurer Clay Hexton Table of Contents [email protected] Team Corvette Calendar Membership Director President’s Page Dee Schoenfield Board Meeting Minutes—August [email protected] General Meeting Minutes — August Members-at-Large Membership Director’s Corner Jack Matsko Fall Color Tour Agenda [email protected] Team Photo, Flint Golf Club Jerry Laird B2B Viewing Party Photos [email protected] Brick Street Grill Photos Corvette Reunion Photos Social Director John Schoenfield Mackinaw City Crossroads Corvette Show Photos [email protected]
NCM Ambassador Bill Prince [email protected]
Editor Bill and Sue Prince [email protected]
Webmaster Mark Lozen tcwebmaster @teamcorvette.org
Newsletter printed by: Jim Schoenfield
How to contact Team Corvette: Mail: P.O. Box 415, Grand Blanc, MI 48480-0415 Page 2
September 2017 Team Corvette Calendar 2017
Date: Time: Event: Location:
January 11, 2017 7:00 p.m. Board Meeting Structured Technologies
January 17, 2017 7:00 p.m. General Meeting Mario’s Restaurant
February 2, 2017 7:00 p.m. Board Meeting Bill and Sue Prince
February 21, 2017 7:00 p.m. General Meeting Mario’s Restaurant
March 9, 2017 7:00 p.m. Board Meeting Dee and Jim Schoenfield
March 21, 2017 7:00 p.m. General Meeting Mario’s Restaurant
April 13, 2017 5:30 p.m. Board Meeting Marge & Jerry Laird
April 18, 2017 7:00 p.m. General Meeting Mario’s Restaurant
April 29, 2017 10:00 a.m. Lingenfelter Car Collection Depart from Angelo’s Charity Spring Open House At 9:00 a.m. May 6, 2017 10:00 a.m. Get your Car out of Hibernation Meet at Angelo’s on Grand Blanc Road May 10, 2017 5:30 p.m. Board Meeting American Legion Hall
May 16, 2017 7:00 p.m. General Meeting Mario’s Restaurant
May 21, 2017 9:00 a.m. Baker College—Flint 1050 W. Bristol Road Flint, Michigan 48507 June 10, 2017 8:00 a.m. Team Corvette Car Show Suski Chevrolet—Buick
June 14, 2017 5:30 p.m. Board Meeting Flint Golf Course
June 20, 2017 7:00 p.m. General Meeting Zukey Lake Tavern Pinckney, MI June 24, 2017 8:00 a.m. Road Trip to Depart from Angelo’s Gilmore Car Museum At 8:00 a.m.
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September 2017 Team Corvette Calendar 2017
Date: Time: Event: Location:
June 30, 2017 6:00 p.m. Cruis’n Flag City Main Street Corvette Club Night Davison, Michigan July 12, 2017 5:30 p.m. Board Meeting Brick Street Grand Blanc July 15, 2017 5:15 p.m. Dinner Cruise to White Horse Inn JC Penney lot, at Courtland Depart Metamora Center Mall, Burton July 18, 2017 7:00 p.m. General Meeting Mario’s Restaurant
July 19, 2017 6:00 p.m. Cook’s Farm Dairy for Ice Cream Old K-mart, S. Saginaw/ Depart Ortonville Holly Rd. Grand Blanc August 9, 2017 5:30 p.m. Board Meeting American Legion, Grand Blanc Rd. Grand Blanc August 10, 2017 12:00 p.m. Downtown Fenton Bricks Tune Up Host: Tim Stone, see Party whoozin for info August 15, 2017 7:00 p.m. General Meeting. Parking vettes on Flint Golf Club, 3100 Lake- lawn after 4:30 wood Dr. Flint August 16, 2017 3:00 p.m. Back to the Bricks viewing party 3725 S. Saginaw til 9:00 Great Lake Plaza. RSVP by 8/14 Flint, Michigan August 18, 2017 About 4:00 Corvettes at Brick Street, special Brick Street, 1223 E. Grand parking on lawn, social get together Blanc Rd. Grand Blanc MI August 19, 2017 TBD Back to the Bricks TBD
August 25, 2017 10:00 a.m. 2017 Corvette Crossroads Mackinaw City
September 3,2017 Lozen Show, Cancer Fund raiser 6012 Linden Rd. at Hill Rd 12-4 Swartz Creek MI September 6, 2017 5:30 p.m. Board Meeting Brick Street, Grand Blanc
September 19, 2017 7:00 p.m. General Meeting Mario’s Restaurant
September 29, 2017 5:00 p.m. Flushing Homecoming Parade Flushing A Need 10 Vettes See Bill Vollmer
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September 2017 Team Corvette Calendar 2017
Date: Time: Event: Location:
October 4, 2017 5:30 p.m. Board Meeting TBD
October 5-8, 2017 10:00 am Fall Color Tour meeting at K-mart Garland Resort depart M-57 and I 75 Lewiston, MI October 17, 2017 7:00 p.m. General Meeting Mario’s Restaurant
November 1, 2017 5:30 p.m. Board Meeting TBD
November 4, 2017 TBD Thankful Feast American Legion Post Grand Blanc, MI November 21, 2017 5:30 p.m. General Meeting Mario’s Restaurant
December 9, 2017 TBD Christmas Party Brick Street Grand Blanc Road
2018 January 16, 2018 7:00 p.m. General Meeting Mario’s Restaurant
February 20, 2018 7:00 p.m. General Meeting Mario’s Restaurant
March 20, 2018 7:00 p.m. General Meeting Mario’s Restaurant
April 17, 2018 7:00 p.m. General Meeting Mario’s Restaurant
May 15, 2018 7:00 p.m. General Meeting Mario’s Restaurant 2019
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September 2017 President’s Page By: Mark Lozen
Happy September Team Corvette! Yes, unfortunately September is upon us and the cooler weather is already hitting Michigan! I pray that we get at least 2 more solid months of drivable weather so we can enjoy our cars just a little longer!
The August membership meeting was held at the Flint Golf Club. All of our cars looked GREAT sitting there on the lawn. From what I can tell, our group picture looks awesome! Not sure how my car got cen- tered in the picture, but I am sure glad Gary Drago brought out his recent acquisition, a 1990 Black ZR1! I would like to once again thank Dee and Jim for arranging to host our meeting at such a GREAT Golf Course! And most importantly, thank the staff of Flint Golf Club for another amazing evening and AWE- SOME food prepared by Chef Bob! I think I ate too many ribs.
If you missed the Back to the Brick viewing party at the Great Lakes Plaza, you missed another fabulous night! We had the most Corvette’s in attendance since Jim and Dee started hosting this event! To my knowledge, we had five difference clubs represented that evening, more than a 100 Corvette’s, along with WNEM channel 5 doing a spotlight on Corvette’s. If you haven’t seen any of the pictures or videos, check out our Facebook page for full details!
And to top off the week, on Friday, August 18th, Brick Street of Grand Blanc hosted their annual “Corvette at Brick Street”. Although the weather looked questionable, we had another awesome turn out with several Corvette clubs in attendance! On behave of Team Corvette, I would like to thank Brick Street of Grand Blanc and Gary Drago for arranging another awesome night! The 8th Annual Back to the Bricks Corvette Reunion was another success with so many Corvette’s in at- tendance. Roger Norton, Jr. reported that we had more than 325 cars attend the reunion and from what he can remember, that is the most cars he has seen there in a while! We literally had Corvette’s from the downtown bridge to almost 5th Avenue on both Saginaw Street and M.L King Jr. Avenue. If you have pho- tos you would like to share, please get with Gary Drago at 810-771-8531 or share them on the Corvette Re- union Facebook Page.
Don’t forget that our Fall Color Tour is coming up on October 5th through the 8th. We will be leaving the parking lot of Kmart on Vienna Road in Clio at 10:00 a.m. We ask that all attendees bring their radios so we can keep in contact with each other as we head up to Garland Lodge and Golf Resort. If you have not booked your room at the Super 8 Hotel in Grayling for Saturday night, please contact them ASAP at 989- 348-8888 and make sure you inform them that you are with Team Corvette. If you are available and still want to attend, we have 3 more openings.
Our September meeting will be held at Mario’s on Fenton Road. As we did at the August meeting, we will be holding nominations for the 2018 Team Corvette Board of Directors. If all possible we would love to get all of our members in attendance for both the September and October meetings. We will publish all of nominees in our October newsletter. Lastly, I would like to remind our members take advantage of the “Suski Bucks” that Suski Chevrolet- Buick provides our members. To get more details on how this program works, please contact Jack Matsko directly! Thank you!
Mark, President
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September 2017 Board Meeting Minutes, August 9, 2017 By: Marge Laird
President - Mark called meeting to order at 6:18pm at America Legion Hall – Grand Blanc Mark turned over attendance sheet from Zuckey Lake membership meeting to membership director
Mike Lysher received invoices to give to Andy Suski from car show. Received check for $56 from last membership meeting. Asked Treasurer to file report with state on our club stats and showing we are still a club.
Vice President - Mike stated they are putting trophies together for Back to the Bricks. Corvette Reunion to be given $500 seed money.
Treasurer - Clay reported on the financials of the club
Membership director - Dee asked for deposit slip to deposit checks from new members and asked what to give to new members
Member At Large - Jerry will set up next board meeting. Jack mentioned when soliciting donations for club events don't mention the Suski dealership
Social director - John reported that 5 people haven’t booked for fall tour. We will have the hospitality room at a cost of $108. Fall tour is going to be in 3 phases of travel. John Schoenfield will get us to Garland, Friday Jim and Dee are in charge of getting us to our next leg of our cruise. Jack will be in charge of get- ting us to our Sunday location and getting us home.
National Corvette Ambassador - Bill got letter about how much referrals and points needed to stay our ambassador and the number was 50 .
Webmaster - Nothing to report
Old business - None
New business - Appreciation Dinner at Great Lakes Plaza hosted by Walker Electric. We will have full menu including sloppy joes and chicken, DJ will be there at 4pm. Need volunteers for cleanup.
We also have members not doing well. Ernie Callard called and said his wife, Kathy is not doing well. Tom Poloskey’s wife Judy just got home from hospital. Bev Tokar stated husband John is also having health issues.
Election committee will be Kerry Gardner, Bill Vollmer and Jim Vroman, we will open up nominations at August membership meeting.
Open conversation - We don’t have dinner reservations yet for Thursday on our fall color tour. Friday lunch and dinner taken care of.
Homecoming parade in Flushing needs 10 cars and we one have 2 committed. Team corvette has sup- plied cars for this event for many years.
Does anyone know who would want to advertise in our newsletter?
Mark made motion to adjourn and Jerry seconded. Meeting adjourned 7:30
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September 2017 General Meeting Minutes By: Marge Laird D ate: August 15, 2017
President - Special thanks to the Flint Golf Club and the Schoenfield’s for a great evening Remember September 19 meeting at Mario’s
Bill and Sue Prince donated a computer to Team Corvette for Treasurers to keep reports on.
Vice President - Mike said all award are done for Back to the Bricks
Secretary - Jim made motion and Tim seconded to accept minutes and motion passed
Treasurer - Clay reported balance of $2594.99. Had expense of $500 to corvette reunion. $20 for registration to state to file form needed for the club. Tim made motion and Bill seconded to ac- cept treasurers report and motion passed.
Membership Director - New member Larry Notarianni. Guest Al Pickett. Mark Compton guest of Amy Petiprin.
Member At Large - Jerry had nothing to report - Jack thanked everyone for coming
Social Director - Fall Color Tour has 17 cars going. 3 phases of our trip.
First phase will be led by John Schoenfield.
Dee and Jim will have second phase taking care of cruise and making arrangements for lunch and dinner.
Renee and Mark will have third phase to Grayling
Jack is phase 3 getting us to Doherty Hotel in Clare on Sunday and going to John’s apple orchard and home.
September 3rd is our president Mark Lozen’s car cruise at his mall - Monticello Plaza on Hill Rd. and Linden Rd.
Editors Report - If you have had any adventures with your corvette let Bill and Sue know. Need articles for newsletter. Articles need to be into Bill and Sue by August 28th to publish.
National Corvette Museum - NCM Anniversary Celebration is Aug 31 - Sept 2. The last of the 2018 corvettes have been built using existing line. Production will start up using renovated line and build more 2018 late this year. Always check the museum website for the latest information and updates.
Meeting minutes continue on bottom of page 9
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September 2017 Membership Director’s Corner By: Dee Schoenfield
SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS: SEPTEMBER ANNIVERSARIES: — Lorie Bacon— Sept 10 Joe and Lisa Beal Sept 7 — Gregg Rasmussen —Sept 12 Dan and Leann Mushall Sept 12 — Ma Bacon — Sept 17 Mark and Renee Lozen Sept 19 Jane Hexton — Sept 22
NEW AND RENEWED MEMBERS:
Total 2017 Membership to Date: 58
New Members since last Newsleer: Honorary Members: 5
General Membership Aendance:
Name Tags: Anyone wishing to order a name tag, please contact a board member at our next member- ship meeng. The cost per name tag is $8.48. Magnec back replacements are $2 each.
Club apparel can be ordered by vising Image Projecons located at 1470 Torrey Road, Fenton, Michigan 48430 (Telephone: 810-629-0710).
Meeng minutes connued from page 8
Back to the Bricks - Gary Drago communicated info on the event. 50/50 tickets will be sold on Fri- day and Saturday. Also the heritage car registration is going great. This event is rated #3 in the country. How great is that!!! If you are going to back to the bricks be at the old farmers market at 6:15am and cruise in together at 6:30.
Opening up nominations for 2018
President - Mark Lozen Vice President - Mike Lysher Secretary - Marge Laird Treasurer - Clay Hexton Memmber At Large - Jerry Laird - Tim Stone - Jack Matsko Membership Director - Dee Schoenfield
Motion to adjourn made by Tim Stone and Jerry Laird seconded. Meeting adjourned
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September 2017
Date: August 31, 2017 Re: Fall Color Tour Agenda, October 5-8, 2017 From John Schoenfield
Thursday at Vienna Road at 9:45 a.m. led by John Schoenfield 1. Start from Vienna Road Kmart parking lot, we are leaving at 10:00 a.m. – Our radios will be on channel 10 2. Stopping for lunch at Ma Deeters Bar and Grill th 3. Garland Lodge and Golf Resort from October 5th through the 7 4. Dinner will be at Redwood Steak House in Lewiston at 6:00 p.m. 5. Hospitality room at 8 p.m. Can bring own drinks and food in.
Friday – Day trip to Presque Isle led by Jim and Dee Schoenfield Leaving at 9:30 a.m. 1. Half Day Trip to Presque Isle Old Light Houses 2. Lunch at The Portage 3. Dinner for Team Corvette as a group at 6:00 p.m. in Garland Lodge and Golf Resort, Tamarack Dining Room. 4. Hospitality room at 8 p.m.
Saturday – Fall Color Tour led by Mark and Renee Lozen 1. Leave Garland Lodge and Golf Resort at 11:30 a.m. for fall tour. 2. Lunch at Sugar Bowl Restaurant at 12:30 p.m 3. Super 8 Hotel 4. Dinner at Dead Bear Brewery at 6:30 p.m. 5. Hospitality Room at 8:30 p.m.
Sunday – Doherty Lunch and Uncle John’s Cider Mill led by Jack and Jan Matsko 1. Line up cars at 11:15 a.m. for cruise to Doherty Hotel down town Clare, MI 2. Lunch at the Doherty in Clare @ 12:30 p.m. 3. Uncle John Cider Mill in St. Johns 4. End of Tour
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September 2017
Group Photo of Team Corvette Members at Flint Golf Club
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September 2017
Team Corvette members and other local clubs at the channel 12 live shoot. Downtown Flint at 5:00 AM Wednesday.
B2B Viewing Party at Great Lakes Plaza Wednesday
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September 2017
Thanks Jim and Dee for hosting another great party at your mall. The weather was great, the corn was great and the lot was full of great Corvettes.
Brick Street Grill Get Together Friday PM
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September 2017
Corvette Reunion at Back to the Bricks Saturday
Top right. Corvettes rolling into downtown Flint. Bottom right. Team Corvette encamp- ment and flag. Bottom left. Team Corvette President Mark Lozen helping out with awards. Our member Jerry Gardner getting his trophy .
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September 2017
Team Corvette members join other Corvette lovers at the Crossroads Corvette show. It was a great day in Mackinaw City for this event. Gary Drago thinks it was a record turnout of vettes, over 200.
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September 2017
Team Corvette member Jerry Gardner and his 2017 Grand Sport being inter- viewed by local St. Ignace newspaper reporter. Nothing But Vettes
Corvettes line up for parade thru downtown Mackinaw City, then across the Mac bridge.
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September 2017 Car Show Sponsors and Advertisements
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September 2017 Car Show Sponsors and Advertisements
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September 2017
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September 2017
Official Team Corvette Merchandise Available from: IMAGE PROJECTIONS 1470 Torrey Road Fenton, MI 48430 Phone: 810-629-0700 Fax: 810-629-0710 Manager: Savannah Assistant Manager: Pam Hiatt
Members may contact Image Projections (and only Image Projections) directly to purchase any item in “Good Taste” from any of the items they have available for embroidery. You will be quoted the current prices for the item and the embroidery charge. Remember: to pur- chase logo items, you must present a current year membership card and photo identifi- cation. Also, expect your order to take from 7-10 business days to receive, depending on whether the item has to be ordered or is in stock and depending on their schedule. Our membership director has catalogs available to look through. If you have any questions, please contact our current Membership Director.
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September 2017
TEAM CORVETTE - 2017 MEMBERSHIP NEW/RENEWAL FORM Dues are $36 for a single membership and $48 for couple membership and are pro-rated only for the first year’s membership. Couple is defined as spouse or significant other
LAST NAME______FIRST NAME______B’DAY______
LAST NAME______FIRST NAME______B’DAY______
STREET______CITY, STATE, ZIP______
PHONE ______WORK or Cell PHONE ______
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY______MEMBER IN THE PAST? Y/N______
IF YES, MEMBERSHIP REINSTATEMENT REQUIRES BOARD APPROVAL
EMAIL (please include: .com, .org, .net)______
HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT TEAM CORVETTE?______
CORVETTE INFORMATION
YEAR______COUPE ______CONVERTIBLE______TRANSMISSION______
MOTOR______STOCK______CUSTOM ______
EXTERIOR COLOR______INTERIOR COLOR______
VANITY PLATE ______
ARE YOU A MEMBER OF THE CORVETTE MUSEUM? YOU: YES___NO___ SPOUSE: YES___NO___
If you have more than one Corvette, please add additional information here.
WAIVER FOR 2017
By signing form, I hereby for myself, my heirs, executors, and administrators, waive and release any and all damages I might have against the Team Corvette Club and their agents, for any and all injuries that may be suffered by me in my participation during or travel to and from the Club’s location.
______Signature Signature Rev. 6/2017
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September 2017 Grand Blanc, MI 48480 Team Corvette, Inc. P.O. Box 415 Proud of Sponsor
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