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Fiberglass Bulletin The Newsletter of the Crescent City Corvette Club New Orleans, Louisiana Our Website: www.crescentcitycorvetteclub.com Our Sister Club: www.capitalcorvette.org.nz Volume 9 Issue 5 May 2016 Page 1 2016 Officers Announcements President: Bob Darcey [email protected] Vice President: Gordon Willhoft [email protected] General Membership meeting Secretary: Lisa Sansoni [email protected] Friday, May 20th, 2016, at the Treasurer: Elisha Darcey [email protected] Italian Pie, 5650 Jefferson Hwy, Harahan. Dinner at 6:00 2016 Board of Directors PM and meeting will start at 7:00PM. Joe Mesa [email protected] Burning Up the Beaches at James Boudreaux [email protected] Destin & Ft. Waltin. May 5-7 Michael Leeds [email protected] Page 19 Bill Folse [email protected] Robert Leeds [email protected] Grand Isle Style Car Show at the Jimmy Herod [email protected] Tarpon Rodeo Pavillion. May 7th. Mac Besnard [email protected] Set up prior to 2:00pm. Page 20 Bill Matthews [email protected] Legends Open Car Show. May Stanley Kenney [email protected] th 14 at Boomtown Casino. Set up starts at 7:00AM. Immediate Past President: Felix Famularo President Emeritus: Terry Gilbert CCCC Crawfish Boil. May 15th at Webmaster: Wayne Latour the Knights of Columbus Hall in Membership Director: Bill Folse Slidell, LA. RSVP required. See info Newsletter Editor: Bob Darcey on page 9. Postmaster: Dusty Portie To see the USA in a Chevrolet see Corvette Events: Check for our sponsor: upcoming events on the Confederation Calendar: http://www.localcalendar.com/pu blic/confederation Page 2 President’s Signals May Birthdays May 2016 Hello Everyone! Our Legends Open Car Show is scheduled for May 14th! Pre-registrations will be extended to May 6th. This will be a “rain or shine” event! We need everyone’s help to make this a success. It takes a lot of work to plan and execute a show like this. If you haven’t already volunteered contact our show Chairman, Gordon Wilhoft, to Violet Ertel May 5 see where you can be of service to the club and our charity, Children’s Hospital. Edna Centola May 6 Last weekend we traveled to Plaquemine, LA for Baton Rouge Corvette Club’s Labor of Love car show that benefitted the St. Jude Medical System. The weather Lori LaFrance May 6 was beautiful as we joined Bob & Jimmie Leeds for the drive up. We met Linda & Stanley Kenny on the way and Mary & Felix met us at the venue. There were lots of great cars and we got to meet Rodie Sanchez, from the Discovery Channel’s “Killing Sue Gegenheimer May 9 Field” series. See the pictures in this newsletter. Mary Sue Oehlke May 19 Charlie Horton is setting up a trip to a High Performance Driving Event at Road Atlanta. The dates for the trip are September 23rd – 25th. You will have an instructor Lydia Ruiz May 23 in your car and three hours of track time interspersed with classroom sessions. If you are interested contact Charlie at 504-495-5379 or [email protected]. My physical recovery continues. I was able to drive all the way to, and from, Baton Rouge last weekend without much discomfort. That’s my longest stint behind the wheel since my surgery in January. I have come to the realization that I will never get all of the range of motion back in my cervical spine and I’m OK with that. It’s an adjustment, that’s all. Man I love driving the Corvette! As I mentioned last month, a recent CT Scan has revealed three growths on my left kidney, the same one that was partially removed due to renal cancer in 2013. It is believed that my cancer has returned. Surgery has been scheduled for May 10th to remove the rest of the Kidney. The CT Scan also showed a tiny anomaly in my right kidney, but it is too small to determine what it is. It will be under close observation. Elisha & I ask for your prayers as we have many choices to make that may affect our lifestyle. Enjoy your Corvettes! Wave at ‘em. Wave even if they don’t wave back. They might not know any better. BobD Membership Notes: 52 Regular Members 4 Auxiliary Members 11 Honorary Members GM Student Intern/Muscle-Car Lover In Awe Of GM’s Heritage Center JULY 31, 2015 POSTED BY Ron In Corvette Enthusiasts, Corvette History, Corvette Museum, Corvette News and tagged Corvette, GM Heritage Center, Matick Chevrolet A pair of 1963 Corvettes, one a convertible and one with hard top, both with a 327 under the hood. Guest post by Mitchell Bergslien Growing up, my dad always took me to local (and not so local) muscle-car shows, which only grew my love and appreciation for American muscle cars —where they came from, why they were important and the heritage that they represented. GM Intern Mitchell Bergslien. Page 3 When muscle cars were hot, it was a simpler time — it was all about who had the biggest V8 and things like the “radio delete” option, checked off to save weight for your quarter-mile time. One of the most important vehicles, I think, that represents heritage, speed, V8s and pure Detroit Muscle is the Chevrolet Corvette. As a General Motors intern this summer and muscle-car lover, I (and fellow interns) was given the amazing opportunity to visit the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights, Mich. Walking in, the first car you see is a perfect-condition 1956 Chevy pickup, beautiful in black with black wheels and chrome hubcaps — the epitome of what every Chevy truck guy would love to own. That truck was just the tip of the iceberg in the GM North American Heritage Collection. In addition to a facility full of 600 concept vehicles, rare and classic muscle cars, and experimental vehicles, a very cool part of the museum features archives that contain records of every GM car and truck going back forever. A visitor could look up, for example, the marketing campaign for the original Corvette from 1953, which is amazing compared to the modern-day marketing for the current C7 Corvette. (Ok, it was cool for me, anyway, considering that I am a marketing major/intern at GM's world headquarters in Detroit this summer.) After touring all of that, we were invited to the museum’s warehouse. It was GM muscle-car heaven — a dream come true for me to see all these cars in perfect condition, and with such great heritage. You could see anything from a 1957 Bel-Air or 1996 Chevrolet Impala SS to a 1970 Nova SS or a 1939 Buick Roadmaster. There is a full line of Chevy and GMC trucks from the first Chevy Suburban and 1902 Cadillac. The progression of cars is amazing — it’s exciting to see how far we’ve come. Page 4 Here's the rear view of the beautiful pair, got to love that split window styling! They don’t make them like that anymore. By far the coolest section was the Corvette line-up, including a perfect Sebring Silver 1963 split-window 327 4-speed with a black interior. Prominently on display next to her is the 1963 convertible 327 4-speed, fashioned in tuxedo black with a gorgeous red interior. Those two were my personal favorites — the split window was the coolest thing that Chevy ever designed! Of course, the holy-grail Corvette would have to be the 327 fuel injection, 360 horsepower engine, but beggars can’t be choosers. Still, it’s a beautiful car to look at and it is in good hands! I’m so glad that these cars are preserved and kept as a piece of Chevy history. Two Mako Shark Corvette concepts – painted with the fade from dark blue to light gray just like the Mako Shark itself. Right next to those two beauties sat a pair of 1973 C3 Corvettes, one in classic white and the other in pace car spec. It was really cool to see the progression of the Corvette in just 10 years. The biggest surprise is the amount of horsepower coming out of those engines. In 1963, the 327 made more than 300 horsepower. Fast forward to 1973 through the gas/oil crisis, a Chevy small block 350 can’t even make 200 horsepower. As cool as the 1973 Stingray looked, it just didn’t have the performance to match it. Page 5 A display of Corvette racing memorabilia. The next generation C6 Corvette was much farther ahead in 2006 — a beautiful car painted in the classic Lemans blue with a black interior. Today’s Corvettes share similar qualities with their older generations, but are still very different, long, low and lean with a big engine. A C3 interior. Even in today’s C7 you can now get an all-red leather interior, but with much more gadgets and technology. The most important feature shared was the four circular taillights. Corvette has stayed true to those taillights throughout the years. While other things have changed, including the exterior styling, the interiors and even the Corvette badge, one thing that stayed for a long time was the four round taillights ... until the big change with the C7 generation. This particular C6 had the 400 horsepower LS2 6.0L V8. One thing I don’t like that all the manufacturers did was switch to liters instead of cubic inches. “Cubic inches” just sounds way cooler than liters, but that’s just me. Either way, the new Corvette engines are monsters and if they had put this kind of power into a classic ’63 Corvette, it would be beauty-meets-the-beast and it would definitely own the street.