VOLUME 51 DECEMBER 2015 ISSUE 12

PRESIDENT SDC ELECTIONS RESULTS Brian Blankenbiller 610-985-0271 The SDC election was held at the November meeting. The by-law amendment was ap- proved. Membership now runs from Jan 1st to Dec 31st. Tom Suchon and Barry VICE PRESIDENT Goodhart won the 2 year Board position. Bill Pizzichil will fill the one year past president Norm Burton spot since Brian Blankenbiller ran unopposed. All other incumbent officers ran unop- 610-779-8789 posed.

TREASURER Ted Stalnecker 610-4887967 FROM THE PRESIDENT by Brian Blankenbiller RECORDING SECRETARY Well gang, hope everyone had a very Happy Thanksgiv- Linda Spangenberg ing with their families! Thanks to everyone who showed 610-856-1497 up for the Holiday Parade, great turnout! Want to give a big shout out to Ron Grove for his new C7R being CORRESPONDING part of the Corvette Race Teams event at the Simeone SECRETARY Museum, one sweet Vette! A perfect example of a Donna Zeigler member living his life to the fullest. 610-693-8225 Speaking of that, Kerry Koch, you better give us full BOARD OF details of your engine build experience and Museum DIRECTORS Delivery of your Spice Red Z06! I hope everyone com- ing to the Christmas Party is planning to have a good Fred Helm time, Bev and her 'elves' always put on a great gig! 610-334-6589 With everyone probably putting their cars away for the Barry Goodhart winter, get your winter maintenance started, oil chang- 484-824-5588 es, battery tenders hooked up. I strongly suggest Dr Brian Blankenbiller Colorchip for those damn stone chips that happened 410-913-7451 over the summer. The stuff is fool proof! John Moore 484-824-5126 Don't forget the Toys for Tots day at County Corvette on Dec 5th, great cause. As for Randy Kershner the Clubs pursuit for an additional charity to get involved with, please do the needed 484-769-3055 research to present to the Board. We want to have as much info as possible to present Lisa Heck to the membership. Since the winter months are our 'downtime', think about how you 610-413-1052 want to get involved and bring those ideas forward! As for me, I'm getting my 600 Mod- Cheryl Micale ified ready for the 2016 season. Anyone interested in an advertising opportunity, let me 484-797-1031 know. I take your sponsorship very seriously and promote them as much as possible. My car will look like my GrandSport this year! I hope everyone has a safe and happy NEWSLETTER Holiday season and a Merry Christmas! Save the wave! Joe & Joy Golt 610-678-3310 Issue Highlights Page NCM AMBASSADOR NEW C7’S 2 Jack DeLong 215-657-4418 FOR SALE 2

WEBSITE ATLANTIC CITY 4 Ted Stalnecker 484-955-8415 C7R AT SIMEONE 5 SKYLINE DRIVE CORVETTE CLUB FIBERGLASS FLYER PAGE 2

NEW MEMBERS this month

Tara Moyer from Womelsdorf, no Vette yet Alan Kohler from Reading drives a 1984 Coupe 284 Harold Missimer from Spring City, has an 03 50th Anniversary Vert MEMBERS

BIRTHDAYS

Kevin Grover 12-3 Kim Petsch 12-3 Kathryn Hertz 12-4 Gregg Kerschner 12-5 Lindon Craig 12-7 Sharon Moyer 12-8 Richard Decker 12-9 Gene Klinger 12-10 Lois Hein 12-10 Karen Hill 12-13 Chet Murphy 12-15 Larry Lake 12-15 Ann Berkis 12-16 Rod Bieber 12-16 Janet and Harry Blankenbiller next to their 2016 Z06 Betsy Messner 12-16 Jack Gage 12-16 Betty Jane Bernet 12-17 John Houp 12-18 Peggy Dubowitch 12-19 Kathy McDonough 12-24 Barbara Gramata 12-25 Richard Snyder 12-26 Maynard Hindenach 12-28

ANNIVERSARY

Pam & Bill Pizzichil 12-2 Beverly & George Hoover 12-5 Gail & Bernard Richards 12-12 Carole & Barry Kalbach 12-17 Joanna & David Roche 12-18 Katrina & James Schadler 12-28

NEWSLETTER GUIDELINES

Anyone is welcome to submit Norm Burton behind his 3LT Stingray with silver stripes items or articles for publication in the newsletter. Please try to be brief and to the point. E-mail is the very best way to submit infor- mation. Our e-mail address is [email protected] . Deadline FOR SALE for submission is noon on the 26th of each month. If you don’t have 2008 CORVETTE; 32,000. mi., white w/red interior, 6 spd., C6R body access to e-mail, then a typewrit- package, one of one. brand new tires, just installed. $29,500.00 firm. Call ten document is preferred. Harry, 610-929-5627 or 610-972-0408 SKYLINE DRIVE CORVETTE CLUB FIBERGLASS FLYER PAGE 3 SDC TAC TEAM (Technical Advisory REDNERS SAVE A TAPE INFO by Diane Suchon Committee) Please DO NOT ALTER the tapes in anyway (highlight, remove bottom). Entire tape C1(1953-1962) must be submitted. Please use participation/gas card when checking out. George Evans 610-777-7161 You may also send the tapes to me directly, as well as to Barry (ultimately I end up Vern Levengood with them). My address is: Dianne Suchon, 415 Omicron PL, Wernersville, PA 19565. 610-689-5556 Don Oxenreider 610-678-4866

C2(1963-1967) THIS FROM RANDY KERSHNER Harry Blankenbiller 610-929-5627 Reminder for all SDC members that you can support SDC in two ways by shopping at Rich Snyder Redner’s and Bob Fisher Chevrolet. 610-926-4937 Gene Miller If you shop at Redner’s and have their reward card, all you need to do is bring your gro- 610-683-5923 cery receipts to the monthly meetings and put them in the Redner’s jar. We submit the receipts to Redner’s and our club receives a bonus check from your purchases. C3(1968-1982) Bill Flamm Are you or someone you know shopping for a new or used car? Pick up some of our re- 610-944-9541 ferral cards at a monthly meeting and give them one. If they buy or lease at Bob Fisher Joe Morroney Chevrolet and present the card to their salesperson, SDC gets a referral check from Bob 610-779-8442 Fisher. Keith Rissell 610-385-3275 Support our monthly 50/50 drawings. 50/50 Drawings at our monthly meetings support the National Corvette Museum and gives one of our members the chance to win a brand C4(1984-1996) new Corvette at each and every meeting. Along with the Corvette Raffle Ticket, there Bruce Clelland are various cash prizes based on the amount of tickets purchased. So even if you don’t 610-926-2251 win, your dollars help in the preservation of the cars we love. Bill Burns 610-926-3832 HOLIDAY PARADE Jack DeLong 215-657-4418 SDC was well represented at the Reading Holiday Parade on Saturday C5(1997-2004) November 24th. 24 beautiful Cor- Joe Morroney vettes lined the streets of Reading to 610-779-8442 help welcome the arrival of Santa to Jack DeLong downtown Reading. Hope everyone 215-657-4418 caught the picture in the Reading Ea- gle of Barry Goodhart, his daughter C6(2005-2009) and grandson representing our club Tim Brickel on the front page of the Berks and 610-926-2692 Beyond section. Special thanks to Jeff Charlie Weaver Calpino for sharing his photographic 610-779-5983 talents and getting some great pic- tures from the parade. C7(2014+) Joe Golt Our last parade for 2015 will be the Fleetwood Santa Parade on Saturday December 610-763-5112 12th. We are meeting for breakfast at the Crossroads Restaurant on Rte 61 at 7:30 a.m. George Hoover and will caravan from there to Fleetwood High School for the parade starting at 9:00 610-584-6558 a.m. Come join and join the fun!

This is more filler, we would like to have something im- MYSTERY TRIP VII by Albie Reppert portant here, but we can’t find anything. MYSTERY TRIP VII will be in June of 2016, we will depart on Sat. June 4th and you will Will anyone notice? be home on the evening of Thursday June 9th. I do not have a final cost at this time, I`ll try to have one by the Dec. meeting, at which time there will be a sign-up sheet available. If you cannot make the meeting, you can contact me at 610-939-9575. If you are a new member of SDC, and need info on a Mystery Trip, feel free to contact me.

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WEBSITE ATLANTIC CITY BUS TRIP Ted Stalnecker The 16th annual SDC bus trip will be scheduled for Saturday, February 27th 2016. DATABASE SDC will be going to the largest classic car and specialty car show / auction, located in- John Mullen doors at the huge Atlantic City convention center. This notice is for you to check and 610-779-2761 mark your calendar, to arrange for a baby sitter/grand-child sitter/ dog sitter or what ever, you must do to be available for this trip!!!!! Yes, it is a long way off, but to re- PARADES serve a proper size bus and get club admission discount tickets, we need to get a good Randy Kershner head count, which also helps with establishing a trip price. 610-929-4654 Last year price per person was $45 for members going to the convention center and SPONSOR LIAISON $30 for members just going to the casino to spend the day, exercising there arm! The Pete Micale pricing this year will be about the same, if we can fill a bus! I will need names of mem- 484-797-1031 bers and there quests who can commit to the trip by the January SDC general meeting, if your not able to get to the meeting give me a call for details and if you are going CONCOURS ( Barry Goodhart 484-824-5588) Open For new SDC members and members who have never been on this trip, this event is a CLUB HISTORIAN nice one day winter get-a-way to get in the mood for Spring fun. The car show has a Diane Goodhart fabulous 300 vender flea market and amazing antique section of auto parts to jewelry. 484-824-5588 In the middle of the convention center is the action packed car auction were you can MAILING watch cars cross the auction block, plus a large car corral with all makes and models for ADDRESS sale by their owners. There will be a sign up sheet at the SDC December general meet- SKYLINE DRIVE ing CORVETTES, INC. PO BOX 14231 READING, PA 19612

INTERNET ADDRESS THE BASH by Jack DeLong www.skylinedrivecor vettes.org NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEM, April 28-30, 2016

MEETING PLACE The kick-off event at the NCM each year is the “Bash” and it traditionally highlights the Alvernia University rollout of the next model year Corvette. With the new C-7 recently unveiled what could be new you ask? Well, the place to be is at Bowling Green. Seminars will feature speak- If you know of a club ers detailing chassis, power train , interior design, and manufacturing all presented by a member who is sick large contingent of GM designers and engineers. There is no other venue that brings or has had a death in you so up-close and personal to those that design and build the cars that we drive. the family, please notify the Corre- There is much more on the itinerary including road tours, and a wonderful closing ban- sponding Secretary quet, a ladies oasis, poker run, race team seminar and more. To view the whole agen- da, go to the NCM web site, www.corvettemuseum.org and click on events. Registration is not yet open but if you are interested do not delay because some of the events are TELL BOARD space limited. WHEN YOU BUY Also and of most interest to One Acre Track Members, there will be something very spe- cial for One Acre Members who opted for track time as a reward for their one acre do- Bob Fisher Chevrolet nation. will give the club $75 for each car sold via In addition, The Museum in Motion Tour “Tail of the Dragon” departs at the conclusion SDC referral. If you of the Bash and heads to Ashville, N.C. for four days of adventure, May 1 thru 4. Again, buy a car from Fish- go to the Museum website for full details. er please inform a Board member. We are going so if you would want to travel with us, please contact Jack or Dor at 215- 657-4418. We have already made our reservations at The Bowling Green Hampton Inn, telephone number 270-842-4100.

As I receive more detailed information, I will update at the Club meetings and on the newsletter. SKYLINE DRIVE CORVETTE CLUB FIBERGLASS FLYER PAGE 5

THE GROVE’S C7R AT THE SIMEONE MUSEUM

The Simeone museum asked Ron and Jesse Grove if they could display their C7R at the recent Corvette event. Naturally they were eager to participate.

TAYLOR BROTHERS TO TACKLE LE MANS AS THIRD DRIVERS FOR CORVETTE RACING

Preparations well under way for attempt at ninth class victory at 24 Hours

Jordan Taylor part of winning Le Mans lineup in 2015 and returns for fifth straight year First start for Corvette Racing at Le Mans for Corvette Racing full-season drivers to lead charge again at Le Mans

Corvette Racing has confirmed its lineup for next year's 24 Hours of Le Mans with brothers Jordan and Ricky Taylor as third drivers in the team's two Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs. They will join full-time Corvette Racing teammates Antonio Garcia, , Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner in the 84th running of the 24 Hours race in France.

Corvette Racing is the defending race winner in the GTE Pro class. In addition to going for a second straight victory, Corvette Racing will try for a ninth class win since 2001. Gavin, Milner and Jordan Taylor scored a vic- tory in the No. 64 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R in June.

"The 24 Hours of Le Mans is a key part of Corvette Racing's schedule," said Mark Kent, Director, Chevrolet Racing. "Racing against the best teams, drivers and manufacturers in the world on the demanding 8.47-mile circuit is something that we look forward to each year. It allows us to demonstrate, on a global stage, the per- formance, reliability and efficiency of the Chevrolet Corvette. Corvette Racing has eight class championships at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and our goal is to repeat as champions in 2016. We hope that the addition of Ricky and the return of Jordan help us achieve our goal of a ninth class victory."

Jordan Taylor is part of Corvette Racing's Le Mans lineup for the fifth consecutive year. In addition to this year's victory, he finished second with Garcia and Magnussen in 2014. Ricky Taylor will race at Le Mans with Corvette Racing for the first time; he will make his third start in the race and last competed there in 2014.

The Taylors have raced together the last two years in Racing's No. 10 Konica Minolta Corvette . The pairing have played key roles in the development of the Corvette DP and won four rac- es the past two years in the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship - including a pair of victories this season.

Ricky Taylor claimed two pole positions in the 2015 TUDOR Championship, and Jordan Taylor is a past Driver's Champion in the GRAND-AM . They will drive the Wayne Taylor Racing Corvette DP again in the 2016 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

Corvette Racing continues its preparation for the 2016 season in an open IMSA test today and Wednesday at Daytona International Speedway. Corvette Racing's first race of the season is the 54th Rolex 24 At Daytona on Jan. 30-31. SKYLINE DRIVE CORVETTE CLUB FIBERGLASS FLYER PAGE 6 CLUB SPONSORS

FISHER DECEMBER CLUB MEETINGS CHEVROLET 4111 Pottsville Pike The general membership meeting will be at Alvernia at 7:00pm on the 14th. The Reading, Pa Board of Directors meeting will be held at Fisher’s at 7pm on the 21st. 610-921-0261

ASSOICIATE COUNTY CORVETTE TOYS FOR TOTS, DEC 5 SPONSORS Meet at the Breakfast Hut 7:30 for breakfast and then caravan to County Corvettes. STOUDT AUTO SALES 1350 Carbon St ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PARTY, DEC 13 Reading, PA 19601 (610) 375-8595 See flyer.

BRICKEL'S RACING COLLECTIBLES ATLANTIC CITY BUS TRIP, FEB 27 8537 Allentown pike See page 4 Blandon, Pa. 1-888-705-0456 MYSTERY TRIP VII, JUNE 4-9 CENTRAL TIRE & AUTO SERVICE MYSTERY TRIP VII will be in June of 2016, we will depart on Sat. June 4th and you 1027 Penn Ave will be home on the evening of Thursday June 9th. I do not have a final cost at this Sinking Spring, 19608 time, I`ll try to have one by the Dec. meeting, at which time there will be a sign-up (610) 670-9999 sheet available. If you cannot make the meeting, you can contact me at 610-939- 9575. If you are a new member of SDC, and need info on a Mystery Trip, feel free to SELECT EXHAUST 5045 Pottsville Pike Reading, PA 19605 NATIONAL CORVETTE MUSEUM BASH, APRIL 28-30 610-916-1111 The kick-off event at the NCM each year is the “Bash” and it traditionally highlights the SPEED 1 rollout of the next model year Corvette. With the new C-7 recently unveiled what 898 Old RT. 22 could be new you ask? Well, the place to be is at Bowling Green. Seminars will feature Lenhartsville, 19534 speakers detailing chassis, power train , interior design, and manufacturing all pre- 610-756-3000 sented by a large contingent of GM designers and engineers. There is no other venue that brings you so up-close and personal to those that design and build the cars that we drive. EVENT SIGN UP Jack and Dor DeLong are going, so if you would want to travel with them, please con- Sign –up sheets for tact Jack or Dor at 215-657-4418. They have already made their reservations at The our events will be on Bowling Green Hampton Inn, telephone number 270-842-4100. the front table at our general club meetings at Alvernia. If you are RHODE ISLAND TRIP MIM EVENT, MAY 19-21, new or have just never tried an event with the If you are interested in attending this Museum Sponsored Trip, don’t delay in signing club, come out and up. Go to the National Corvette Museum website to signup, slots are limited. This was see how much fun we an extremely popular trip several years ago and it is expected the trip will fill up very have as a club quickly.

REDNER’S SAVE-A-TAPE PROGRAM

Anyone who shops at Redner’s Warehouse Markets and Quick Shoppes can help SDC raise some funds. To participate, you need to have a “Save-A-Tape” card. Simply ask for a free card at any Redner’s Market. Pre- sent the card to the cashier before they start to scan your order.

For each dollar spent, Redner’s will donate 1% back to SDC. Bring Redner's register receipt tapes to each reg- ular general club meeting or mail to Barry Goodhart @ 32 Heart Knoll Lane, Robesonia 19551

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