It Is Time for the Annual July 4Th Parade and Eats at the Lomonaco's. Barbara and Frank Have Again Opened up Their House
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www.corvetteclubsantabarbara.com PRESIDENTS MESSAGE EVENT CALENDAR Mike Christeson July It is time for the annual July 4th Parade and Eats at the LoMonaco’s. Barbara and Frank 4th 4th of July Parade have again opened up their house for the festivities. This year Barbara has arranged for [Santa Barbara] chicken from Von’s as the meat course and Frank is mixing up a new drink surprise for 4th 4th of July Post-Parade us to try. As Barbara has been sick and in bed with a cough, I have been worried about Eats her over doing it but she says it will be ready!! [Santa Barbara] 15th Jalama Beach Run [Lompoc] The parade is scheduled to start at 1:00pm and we do not yet have exact line up location and timing. For those not driving in the parade you should plan to arrive at the August LoMonaco’s between 2:00 and 2:30 pm for drinks and appetizers. We want to have the July meeting combined 1st General Meeting with this event and will have our meeting before the meal is served. [Goleta] 19th Wings Over Camarillo During the month of June, we had the Avenue of the Giants Run to the Redwoods. Ed Clerkin scouted out the [Camarillo] stops, lodging, meal locations and activities. This was a big project and we want to give a special thanks to Ed for this great run. Ed’s guide book raised the bar for all of us for the future runs. Also during June, Peter September Mackins led us on a run to Vic Edelbrock’s facility in Torrance, CA. Vic Edelbrock Junior had built their company into a major supplier to the automobile manufacturers. This was in addition to their roots in the 5th General Meeting [Goleta] performance car parts after market. A very impressive manufacturing facility and car collection. On the return 10th Magic Castle to Santa Barbara, we stopped at “Stacks” in Thousand Oaks Mall for one of their design your own gourmet [Los Angeles] burgers—always a treat. So, we will see you on the 4th at the parade and at the LoMonaco’s. As a bonus side event, there is an art show at the Mission which is a short walk from Frank and Barbara’s house. IN THIS ISSUE Presidents Message 1 NCM Ambassador 2 Activities 3-4 Membership 5-14 Last Month Minutes 15 Sponsor Page 16 Member Advertising 17-18 Meetings are held the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM High Sierra Grill, 521 Firestone Rd Goleta Ca. Editor/Publisher: Ed Clerkin-Publicity | Our Board/Contact Us www.corvetteclubsantabarbara.com NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM MASTER AMBASSADOR Frank LoMonaco 2017 Model Year: Corvette Sales Statistics Here are the total sales statistics - listed by model and listed by color - for the 2017 Corvette Model Year as they were released from the National Corvette Museum. Number of vehicles sold, by model: Total Stingray Coupe 11,253 Stingray Convertible 2,298 Grand Sport Coupe 9,912 Grand Sport Convertible 2,046 Z06 Coupe 6,197 Z06 Convertible 1,076 Grand Total number sold in 2017 32,782 Number of vehicles sold, by color: Total Arctic White 6,199 Watkins Glen Gray 5.822 Black 5,338 Torch Red 4,621 Admiral Blue 3,068 Blade Silver 2,105 Long Beach Red 2,004 Corvette Racing Yellow 1,371 Black Rose 1,333 Sterling Blue 921 2 www.corvetteclubsantabarbara.com ACTIVITIES COLUMN Tony Megowan Happy July All. For this month we have the 4th of July Parade followed by a General Meeting and luncheon at Frank and Barbara’s. Also this month we have the Jalama Beach Runch Run on Saturday the 15th. We will plan to leave Timbers in Goleta at 9:15 AM and should be there by about 11:00 AM or so. We will then have lunch at the Jalama Beach Grill. Afterwards for those that want to, we will plan on visiting a couple of wineries in the Lompoc/Buellton area. For the month of August, we are planning the Wings Over Camarillo Airshow at the Camarillo Airport. Tickets are $17.00 and can be purchased online. There will be numerous warbirds and Aerobatic demonstrations including Ventura Counties own Judy Phelps (pictured on left). If you love airplanes this is a must see. For September we have the Magic Castle run on Sunday the 10th. Peter Mackins will have fur- ther information as we get closer. This run is always a good time an I highly recommend it. We will more than likely be adding a run or two in October or November. I will let you know as it gets closer. One of the runs we are looking at is the Second Sunday Supper at Plan B Winery on November 12th. The band will be Ignition, a Rock and Roll cover band that we have seen in the past and have thoroughly enjoyed. Also Paula and I will be attending the July Second Sunday Supper at Plan B Winery on the 9th featuring Unusual Suspects another Rock and Roll cover band with food provided by Middle Feast and Desserts to Die For. Come on out and join us. Look forward to seeing all of you on a future run. EVENT RECAP: EDELBROCK FACILITY/MUSEUM Our Friday June 23rd run to the Edelbrock facility was great! Everyone had Peter Mackins assembled in Ventura by 7:45 so we were able to get an early start. It was a rather patriotic group with one white, two blue and four red Vettes. I still love looking in the rear view mirror to see a string of Vettes rolling down the highway. I thought the early start was going to give us an advantage until we hit stop and roll traffic in Westlake. While doing 15 miles an hour I thinking this is not going to be good but just as quickly as the traffic backed up, within a few minutes it opened back up, no accident, no disabled car, no cops issuing tickets but as Frank LoMonaco said there was- n’t even a CHP officer tying his shoe. I will never understand how it happens that people, for no reason at all, decide to slow down but then I digress. The rest of the trip had a bit of the expected morning commuter traffic but nothing too bad and we arrived early for the tour. Our early arrival allowed those who wanted, to purchase some of the Edelbrock wears. We gathered in the lobby area that included a half a dozen or so engines from a Ford flat head to a small block Chevy to a big block Mopar Hemi. Our guide for the day was Smitty, a gentleman who had work for Edelbrock for some 30 or 40 years. He ex- Continued Page 4 3 www.corvetteclubsantabarbara.com EVENT RECAP: EDELBROCK FACILITY/MUSEUM plained that in the 40’s Vic Edelbrock Sr. started the operation with 10 Peter Mackins employees in his garage and now they have over 700 employees and are doing over $100 million in sales annually. As Smitty pointed to and described the photos hanging on the wall, Ray Seider asked about the relationship between Vic Edelbrock Sr. and Bob Joehnck. For those who don’t know about Bob Joehnck and his shop at the corner of Figueroa and De La Vina Streets, he was one of the foremost engine builders and tuners of the 60’s and 70’s. Smitty said yes they were close and pointed to a single four barrel high rise manifold and idea Edelbrock had conjured up from Bob Joehnck. Our tour began in the Dyno Room where they had three engine dynos. One of the techs was getting ready to make a pull on an engine but the warm-up was going to take 10 minutes so we moved on to another room. That room contained a couple of in-house developed testing machines and a 3-D printer for creating prototype parts. From there we proceeded to the shop where they do the installation of some of their products on owners’ vehicles. As luck would have it, there was a new C7 Grand Sport being outfitted with an Edelbrock supercharger. Along with the $7,500 for the supercharger and a few thousand or so for the installation, the upgrade comes with a three year complete drive-train warrantee. After that, we entered the first of three large buildings. The first building was pri- marily for the manufacturing of manifolds, the second for heads and the third for superchargers. It was interesting to see they were utilizing a number of the Haas machines we saw on our visit to that facility for milling their parts. The manifolds and supercharges come in what I would call the natural or raw metal finish, a black powder coated finish and what I thought was chrome but what was a bright shiny finish the process of which Smitty explained is similar to powder coating but was a cold process. Smitty mentioned that in addition to the Edelbrock label products, they produce a large number of private label parts including heads for Callaway and Lingenfelter. In the supercharger building he pointed to a large quantity of Hell Cat supercharge parts. Fred Smith wondered aloud as did others, are there that many Hell Cats on the road for this quantity of aftermarket parts. Smitty explained Edelbrock produces the supercharges for Mopar as well as for Lotus. The facility tour concluded with a trip through the marketing, graphics, and sales departments and ended up back in the lobby.