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06 2013 GTR News GTR Newsletter June 2013 Inside this issue: • GTR News & Calendar • Monaco GP Remembered – 1961 & 62 • Dean Jefferies RIP • Kit Review: AMT Opel GT Monaco GP 1962 GTR Auto Modelers Based in the Chicago, IL Northwest Suburbs 2002/2003 IPMS/USA Region 5 Chapter of the Year 2007 and 2008 IPMS/USA Region 5 Newsletter of the Year 2013 Meetings: Every 1st Saturday @ 7:00 p.m. Location alternates between member’s homes and the Algonquin Township Building Your current GTR Officers are: President: Open Vice President: Steve Jahnke 847-516-8515 [email protected] Secretary/Contact: Chuck Herrmann 847-516-0211 [email protected] The GTR Newsletter is edited by Chuck Herrmann Please send all correspondence, newsletters, IPMS information, articles, reviews, comments, praise, criticism to: Chuck Herrmann 338 Alicia Drive Cary, IL 60013 Unless indicated, all articles written by the editor. All errors, misspellings and inaccuracies, while the editor’s responsibility, are unintentional. Feel free to copy for any other nonprofit use. Check out the GTR Auto Modelers website at: www.gtrautomodelers.freeservers.com GTR Auto Modelers Newsletter June 2013 1 of 16 And on Facebook at GTR Auto Modelers IPMS GTR GTR Mailbag by Chuck Herrmann COVER PHOTO May for Grand Prix fans means Monte Carlo, the most prestigious race on the F1 schedule. This month our cover is a great vintage photo News taken at the Monaco Grand Prix in 1962. Fred Horky of IPMS/USA (he forwards the various GTR Update chapter newsletters each month) has contributed Due to last minute scheduling conflicts of the a look back at the 1961 and 1962 Monaco GPs, officers we were forced to cancel the May which he attended in person! And next month we meeting. We will work on being able to have will feature his review of The Limit: Life and more backup members available to open the Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit by Michael meeting room to try to avoid this happening in the Cannell. So before you watch this year’s race future. check out Fred’s memories for some neat The next regular meeting will be Saturday, historical perspective. June 1, at my house in Cary. IL. I will be mailing out directions to members prior to the meeting. Please RSVP as this meeting will include Sloppy INDUSTRY NEWS Joes for dinner. Except for June, the regular monthly meetings will meet at the Algonquin Township Building. The 2013 GTR Club Calendar is still available; cost to members is $10. Let me or The Shizuoka Hobby Show was May 16-19 in Steve Jahnke know if you want one. We are Japan. The Japanese manufacturers usually planning to do several photo shoots for the 2014 make kit announcements. As I go to press there Calendar throughout the year. Steve took photos were not many auto kits that I saw, maybe more at the April meeting, watch for notice of the next will surface in a while. shoot. Any member who wants to bring up other EVENTS ideas or suggestions for future meetings or activities, do so either at the meeting or contact Locally, June is a quiet month for hobby me. shows but July has several big ones, and of Past issues of the GTR newsletters are course the first weekend of August is the GTR available on line. Summer NNL – see the full page notice later in Go to www.carsandracingstuff.com , then click this issue. on Newsletters, find GTR and our newsletters are achieved back to 2004. Thanks to Bill Crittenden See the events calendar for details for all of for storing our newsletters on his site. the events that I know of. If any readers wish their events or any other events of interest to GTR th listed send the information along to me. 2013 6 Annual GTR Summer NNL GTR is on Facebook The GTR Summer NNL will be held Sunday August 4. The Theme will be 60 Years of the Corvette, with trophies for Best Street and Best Racing Corvette models. We have added a new additional category this year, Military Vehicles, so GTR now has a Facebook hopefully some of our military modeling brothers page. Check it out and join up! will join us at the show! And we are now accepting trophy sponsorships ($35 per trophy) and raffle GTR Auto Modelers Newsletter June 2013 2 of 16 donations. Over half have already been sold so contact us if you are interested. The Grand Prix of 2013 GTR Club Project To promote the NNL and to motivate Monaco 196162: members to build, the GTR club project this year will be Corvettes. Finish a Corvette model A personal historical perspective between now and the NNL in August, and bring it By Fred Horky IPMS/USA #6390 to a meeting, the NNL or send a photo to me and your 2013 dues will be refunded! There are lots of options as the Corvette is probably the most modeled subject there is. We are seeing projects each meeting that hopefully will be done by the show. So grab a kit and start building! I will have one this month….. IPMS News GTR is a local chapter of IPMS/USA, in My many years in the Air Force left many Region 5. Local chapters need five active happy memories …and a few of the other kind. national IPMS/USA members to remain an IPMS Among the former, many are from a three year chapter. We had enough National IPMS tour in Germany from 1959 to 1962, which was members this time, but we can use some more. with the initial deployment overseas of the then- So we urge those who have lapsed to renew their new TM-76A “Mace” surface-to-surface missile. IPMS/USA membership, or if you have never As a bachelor on my first trip to Europe, I worked been a member enroll now! Details can be found hard, and played harder. There were many at their web site, www.ipmsusa.org, or see me for delights in Germany, but the German weather membership forms. wasn’t usually among them. Therefore, the The 2013 IPMS/USA National Convention will French Riviera became one of my very favorite be in August in Loveland, CO – see the website places, and I managed to get there on leave at: three times. It was a time when, while military pay was meager, the prices weren’t that bad, www.ipmsusa2013.com/ gasoline (for G.I.’s) was cheap, and we could From Kelly Quirk, IPMS/USA Region 5 travel from country to country, decades before Coordinator, we have the annual Chapter today’s European Union with its much more open Awards. For 2012-13 they are: borders; our military I.D. cards and U.S. Forces Newsletter of the Year: IPMS/Butch O'Hare license tags had us waved through border Web Site of the Year: IPMS/Fort Crook crossings all over Western Europe. In fact, I Chapter of the Year: IPMS/Alexander Lippisch didn’t receive my first passport until after I had Congratulations to the winners. returned to the U.S.! We await news of the 2014 IPMS Region 5 Chapter Being a bachelor I must confess that Convention. what I was most interested in seeing on the Riviera was not a race, but rather to investigate a new French invention, something that had been given its generic name after a previously obscure Pacific island; a place the U.S. had used as a nuclear weapon test site. In the half century that has passed since, most observers will have been 2013 IPMS/USA Nationals: numbed by the general exposure of flesh seen in that period, and they thus wouldn’t really August 1417 Loveland, CO th understand my situation then. But please 2014 50 Anniversary IPMS/USA consider; this was a time before the bikini was Nationals at Hampton Roads, VA. been exported to America, when women’s 2014 IPMS/Reg 5 Convention: TBA bathing suits were very considerable garments, GTR Auto Modelers Newsletter June 2013 3 of 16 still seemingly all designed by Omar the distance of more than a half-century, it’s difficult Tentmaker. to describe just how naive my reaction to Formula 1 had been Dick and I had briefly visited the principality the previous October, zipping through on a fast late fall grand tour with another bachelor friend, Three Amigos in George’s 1955 Buick Roadmaster Convertible. The Buick had been big car in the U.S., but was positively gigantic in postwar Germany, where the VW Beetle was classed as an “intermediate” sized car, and many folks were still riding bicycles to work year round. The locals termed the Buick as Der Panzer You just had to BE there THEN to Amerikaner . On that fall trip, the beaches were understand my attraction to the Riviera! (Over empty and from the Riviera we had continued and above the Riviera’s generous sunshine, of down the Italian coast, among other things in which we didn’t see all that much in Germany.) Pisa climbing every one …puff, puff …of the 296 As a flatlander from the Midwest, I knew steps of that famously crooked tower. In Rome little about international racing. In fact, I didn’t we of course “did” the Forum and all the other know much about ANY racing. In those days, the sights, and when circling the Coliseum had Indianapolis 500 was pretty much synonymous schools of Vespa scooters scattering in front as if with “racing” for most Americans. NASCAR was minnows in front of a whale.
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