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Undertheradar Under The Radar Volume 58 Number 9 September, 2017 The Award Winning Monthly Newsletter of Corvette Super Sports WWW.Corvettesupersports.com Officers 2017 President …………..……Tony Schavone Vice-President ……………..…Rick Miller Secretary …………….………. Bert Wiest Treasurer………………..Michael Baddley NCCC Governor…..…..………Joe Orrico Webmaster……….…….Douglas Mariani Newsletter Editor……………Debra Ruby Board of Governors Sal Cruz Eric Ellsworth Photo by Rick Miller Wayne Heard Laura Schavone Donna Stewart Dianne Wiest Who We Are Committee Chair We are a car club made up of Corvette owners with a passion for a fine Banquet………..……………Marcia Lynch driving machine, with the goal to participate in and support auto-related Car Show……………………Wayne Heard activities, such as: car shows, auto-crossing, rallies, drag racing, caravans, Care & Kindness…………. Dianne Wiest cruises, parades, etc. Charity……………………….Dianne Wiest Clothing………………………...Rick Miller Historians……………..……… Jan Works We support (N.C.C.C.) National Council of Corvette Clubs, National Meeting Hostess………..…Dianne Wiest Corvette Museum, several social, civic, and charitable organizations. CSS is Membership……………………Bert Wiest incorporated as a non-profit organization in the County of Orange, California. Public Relations…………Richard Cheek Raffle.…………………….…..…………TBD Sergeant at Arms….Ron DeBartolomeis www.CalicintoRanch.org Trophies/Awards……………Tom Cuccio Car Show Champion Rally Champion CSS Family Updates Auto Cross champion Please continue to send healing prayers to Joyce Grohmann and Steve Milton. CSS Upcoming Events 2017 Oct. 6-7 Vapor Trail Vettes Annual Blast Oct. 7 Patriots and Paws Car Show Oct. 14 Vapor Trail Vettes Low Speed Autocross Oct. 21 CSS Car Show People’s Choice Concours! Nov. 12 North County Vettes presents "Vettes for Veterans" Car show in Carlsbad, CA Please let us know of any events of interest to Club members. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * SAVE your POP TOPS from cans for the Ronald McDonald House! * * Please bring your pop tops to our next meeting and give them to Dianne. Thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OUR ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET The outstanding Phoenix Club is the setting for our banquet. The date is January 20, 2018 and the time is 6 P.M. As you might remember, we voted to have the club’s treasury pay $10.00 toward each member’s din- ner. Members will then pay $35.00. Non-members will pay $45.00. We will be taking reservations at the December and January CSS meetings. We must let the Phoenix Club know how many people will be attending by January 5, 2018. Please mark your calendars for January 20, 2018. If you have any questions, please contact me. Marcia Lynch President The VP’s Column Tony The VP's Word By Rick Miller This year is certainly going by fast. The start of October Hi All, means the CSS Car Show is happening. I encourage all members to get involved in this important Club event. Wow, another month has gone by and we are now into the Working in some area of the Show and entering your last quarter of the year. September gave us Tahoe 49 and Corvette, helps make this show a huge success. the opportunity to visit old friends, make new friends and enjoy a great event in Reno/Tahoe. What a great event this was too. Many CSS members made the trip for the 1st time A big ‘Thanks” to those who went to Reno for the 49 th and I believe all enjoyed it. If you have an interest in running of the Fresno Corvette Club car show. CSS had the attending Tahoe 50 next year now is a good time to start th most cars and members in attendance for the 4 year in a saving for it. Worst case, if you can't make it you'll have a row. We all had a great time. tidy "fun sum" come next September. The Open House at Patriots and Paws was attended by This year has been filled with nearly everything imaginable. Ron & Karen DeBartolomeis, Bert Wiest, Bill & Marcia Planes, trains, boats and automobiles in abundance and Gallivan, Doug Mariani, Bill DeForrest, Steve & Kathy Dull there's more to come. There's several car shows in October, and myself. Breakfast and Lunch were available. Penny Patriots and Paws on the 7th and our annual car show Lambright has a great mission - giving to our Veterans. It heading the list on the 21st. Also in October is Vapor Trails would be nice to support their cause by attending their car Annual Blast as well as their Low Speed autocross show on October 7th. (2 events). November presents an opportunity to support Veterans at the "Vettes for Vets" car show in Carlsbad. This The success of CSS depends on individuals participating in is an all Corvette event that is likely to have more than 250 the Club. As the end of the year approaches, you have an entries and a really good show for a great cause. In addition opportunity to run for an Officer position or for a Board to all the regular prizes their sponsor just added $500 to be Member position. If you have always wanted to become awarded to the "Best Detailed" entry. Be sure to check the involved in the runnings of a fun and active car club, you CSS website for specifics on dates, times and locations of now have a chance. all upcoming events. Tony There's still room on the calendar for that event you've been Save the Wave wanting to head up. If not this year, put your plans in motion for 2018. Speaking of 2018, which by the way is just around the corner, begins with our Annual Banquet and marks the start of what should prove to be another great year of fun August Trivia Question & Answer: The 1953-1955 Corvette meetings, captivating events, car shows, cruises and body weighed? socializing. Answer: 411 lbs. Our love for Corvettes brought us together, the resulting friendships keep us returning. September Trivia Question: What was the unusual feature of the 1966-1967, 427’s with Powerglide and AC? Save the Wave Corvette Time Line : October 4, 1973. The four-rotor Corvette show car, later renamed the “Aero Vette” debuts at the Paris Auto Show. Irwindale Follow Up - Article from HOT ROD Southern California is Losing Yet Another Racetrack Just to Open a New Shopping Mall What's that old saying about when one door closes another opens? As you read about our Dec. 2017 cover car, Grady Burch's outstanding day-two COPO Camaro (Street/Strip 1969 COPO Camaro Lives Again), make note of the location photographer Richard Prince used for the photo shoot. It's the beautifully renovated Dragway 42 in northeastern Ohio (West Salem, to be exact, south of Cleveland and west of Akron). A continuously operating dragstrip since 1957, the track was shuttered a few years ago so it could be reborn as a multiuse facility with a brand-new dragstrip and autocross track, plus plenty of space for concerts and other events. We very much appreciate the hospitality shown us by the folks at the track and hope readers in the area will stop by to check out the sparkling new venue. Research That's the open door. The one that's closing is a literal closure. Southern California is losing one more racetrack, the Irwindale Event Center. After it closes in January it will be demolished to make room for yet another mega shopping mall. Irwindale, located in the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles, has been home to two tracks over the years. The original Irwindale Raceway was a dragstrip that opened in 1965 and operated until 1977, when the city turned the land over so it could become the site of a huge brewery (still there, fragrantly, right off the 210 freeway). In 1999 the Irwindale Event Center opened a few miles south near a gravel pit, with a paved oval racetrack. An NHRA-sanctioned eighth-mile dragstrip was added a year later. The center is a busy place, with Thursday-night drag racing, regular Stock Car events, and even drifting races on the oval track, not to mention concerts, TV and movie shoots, and quite a few magazine shoots (including some that have appeared on these pages). I had the opportunity to take a few laps on the banked half-mile oval as part of the L.A. Racing Experience driving school and had a blast. You obviously cannot get up to the speeds that you would at, say, the Richard Petty Driving Experience at the 1 1/2-mile Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but it's a great place to pull on a fire suit, strap in, and get a taste of Stock Car racing. Irwindale has also been home to several car shows put on by Mooneyes. In fact, you have one last chance to take in the Mooneyes experience at the track by attending the Mooneyes Xmas Party on December 9. With a greater emphasis on hot rods and customs, it's not a muscle car show per se, but you will find plenty of muscle on the dragstrip, as racing goes on right next to the show. Visit Mooneyes' Facebook page or mooneyes.com for more info on the party. Without getting too far into geezer territory here (cue the "back in my day" wheezy voice), it's a sad irony that in the greater Los Angeles area, arguably the birthplace of hot rodding, if you want to go drag racing your track choices are now down to two: the Auto Club tracks at Pomona and Fontana. Thank goodness Famoso in Bakersfield is still going strong, and there are tracks in the San Diego area.
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