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In This Issue: Awards Ban- Quet, Willow TT & Race, Up Alfa Romeo Owners of Southern California Newsletter of the February 2011 In This Issue: Awards Ban- quet, Willow TT & Race, up- coming events, and more..e... Alfacionada - February 2011 Page 1 Alfa Romeo Owners of Southern California Meeting Information General Meetings are usually held the last Friday or Saturday of each month at various locations. Check the Calendar information on the outside back cover for an overview of the year, and the Previews section on Page 4 for details of events planned for the near future. AROSC Mailing Address: Alfa Romeo Owners of Southern California AROSC Web Site: 17041 Malta Circle www.arosc.org Huntington Beach, CA 92649 Important Deadline & Info! Please send classified ads, articles, letters, and photographs to the Editor in time to arrive by the monthly general meeting to permit publication in the next month’s issue. General Information Alfacionada is the monthly publication of the Alfa Romeo Owners of Southern California, a Chapter of the Alfa Romeo Owners Club, Inc., a national non-profit organization of Alfa enthusiasts. Subscription to this newsletter is included as part of the annual AROSC membership fee of $70; non-members of AROSC may subscribe for $22 per year. Permission is hereby granted to other Alfa Owners Clubs to reproduce any original material herein, provided credit is given to the author and to the AROSC Alfacionada. Classified Advertising Classified (non-commercial) ads are available as a free service to members and for a nominal charge of $10.00 per insertion to non-members. Ad content must be Alfa-related or of special interest to the members. Commercial Advertising Rates (modified for new page size) Full page $275 per year 1/2 page $150 per year Membership Information 1/4 page $100 per year See the inside back cover of Alfacionada. Business card $100 per year This Month’s Cover: Team Escargot Racing cut up at the Annual meeting. Their team logo is also shown, a “racing” snail. Art Russell’s clan and Doug Bender and wife are the team members. Photo by Tom Suter. Disclaimer (a.k.a. Lawyer Repellent) AROSC and the authors and editors of this newsletter assume no liability for the accuracy or legality of any technical information appearing herein. They are also not responsible for the safety or practicality of modifications performed by individuals or companies and described in these pages. You should always check with your mechanic before performing any work or modifying your car in any way. Page 2 Alfacionada - February 2011 Alfa Romeo Owners of Southern California AROSC BOARD of DIRECTORS – 2011 President: Mike Riehle & Chris Burke (310) 780-5427 (H) [email protected] Vice President: Jim & Elyse Barrett (714) 964-9530 (H) [email protected] Treasurer: Jay Mackro & Catherine Kusnick (949) 412-5830 (cell) [email protected] Secretary: MJ & Sheila Kutkus (310) 542-3448 (H) [email protected] [email protected] Competition Director: Terry Watson (310) 372-5027 (H) [email protected] Membership Chair: Norm & Evie Silverman (818) 427-2054 (cell) [email protected] Programs Chair: Margi Brown-Orozco (818) 264-8964 (H) [email protected] Technical Chair: Gene Brown (805) 527-8103 (H) [email protected] Concours Chair: Fred Firschein (714) 773-1473 (H) [email protected] AROC Liaison: Will Owen (626) 345-9659 (H) [email protected] AROSC Committees Newsletter Editor: Phyllis Gaylard (714) 377-6377 [email protected] Web Master: Bruce Colby [email protected] Electronic Notices: Jay Negrin (310) 399-0538 (H) [email protected] Alfacionada - February 2011 Page 3 Alfa Romeo Owners of Southern California 2011 AROSC Previews -- An Outline of Coming Events February 19 – General Meeting @ Autobooks, Lunch nearby. See info on page 19. February 26 – Desert Classic Weekend, Lunch @ Schwartz’s in Joshua Tree, Dinner @ McHattie’s in La Quinta February 27 – Desert Classic Concours & Club Concours #1, La Quinta See Info on pages 20-22 DON’T MISS: Feb 19 -- General Meeting at Autobooks-Aerobooks Feb 26-27 -- Desert Classic Concours Weekend at La Quinta March 26 – General Meeting & Chili Cook-Off Get your recipes out and stock up on ingredients for our second annual chili cookoff in a park. More info on page 18. April 9-10 – Spring Driving Tour A tour of the low-desert byways in search of wildflowers, petroglyphs and photo ops. More info on page 17. April 16-17 – Driving School, Streets of Willow April 30 – General Meeting & Tour of Petersen Museum May 14-15 – Buttonwillow Time Trial & Race (new Date!) Page 4 Alfacionada - February 2011 Alfa Romeo Owners of Southern California The wine tour has been rescheduled to July 15-17 to add this competition event to our calendar. May 21– Cars & Coffee & General Meeting/ garage tour @ Don Murray’s/ brunch @ Cline’s June 5 – Huntington Beach Concours & Club Concours #2 June 25 – General Meeting at Shin Yoshikawa’s, Frazier Park July 2 – Alfapalooza, Gladstone’s Long Beach July 15-17– Wine Tour -- Rescheduled due to conflict July 31 – General Meeting and Summer Party at Phyllis’, Huntington Beach August 6 – Braille Rallye and lunch August 18-21 – Monterey Historics Weekend August 27 – General Meeting TBD September 24 – General Meeting, Agua Dulce Winery & Big Mouth Pizza October 1-2 – Time Trial & Race, Willow Springs October 29 – General Meeting & Tour of Nethercutt Museum November 6 – Concours #3 at Best of France & Italy Car Show, Woodley Park November 19 – General Meeting, Elections, and White Turkey Auction, Dirk’s NOTE: Board meetings are currently flexible as to date and location. If you are interested in attending, call Mike Riehle. Alfacionada - February 2011 Page 5 Alfa Romeo Owners of Southern California View from the Top -- The Annual Meeting was a great about who was getting the award success. Many thanks to MJ & and the people in the know Sheila for pulling it together and managed to keep it from Bruce. extra kudos to Sheila for doing a Our Editor, Phyllis Gaylard, fantastic job with the raffle. It’s warned us that Alan Ward was just no wonder I made a Freudian slip getting back from a cruise and he and introduced them as our social would likely back out as guest directors. They may have speaker. What she didn’t know assumed the role of Secretary, but was that we had recruited Alan to they have not dropped the Social present her with a Lifetime Director ball. Achievement award. Phyllis drove Alan Ward was our guest speaker. a Formula 4 car in SCCA back He talked about the early days of when the local Alfisti were still the Alfa Club, his racing focused on keeping their cars adventures and how Ward & running and, according to Alan, she Deanne Racing came to be. It was very competitive. She was seems that many dealers sold Alfas there when the AROSC held its back then, but very few had a first slalom/auto-x events. Later qualified Alfa mechanic, so the she acquired and raced an Alfa main interest in the Club was GTZ. She invented the Time Trial figuring out how to fix the cars. I Intro group for those unsure about don’t go back that far, but even in competing and served a time as the 70s, I can’t tell you how many Competition Director, both locally people assumed my Sprint was a and for the National AROC. And VW kit car and looked in the trunk she was there helping hold the to check the oil. Remember when Club together in the 80s and 90s. service stations were full service? There is so much to remember; I should have grilled Alan afterward Norm presented the Charlie Award and taken notes. Today she is our (in honor & memory of Charlie Editor which is a largely thankless Thieriot) to Bruce Colby our job and a fair bit of work. Our outgoing Competition Director. many thanks. Have to say it was absolutely perfect, not only is Bruce very After the meeting I just had to talk deserving of the honor, but he to Alan Ward some more. Found never saw it coming. It seems out that BRE Datsun’s suspension Norm had misled (lied to) Bruce expert, Trevor Harris, had briefly Page 6 Alfacionada - February 2011 Alfa Romeo Owners of Southern California been cut loose (1970?) and did doing this event for 2 or 3 years some suspension analysis for Alan now and it has blossomed into a in the interim. Alan credits Trevor great weekend. Pack a light lunch with the suggestion to turn the and visit Charlie and Bonnie front sway bar around. That Schwartz’ desert retreat followed shifted the center of gravity back a by a drive through Joshua Tree. tiny bit, but the real reason was to Or, drive directly to the hotel and attach the sway bar to a stiffer join the group at the dinner party point in the chassis. Alan said it hosted by Doug & Joyce made a significant difference McHattie. Sunday’s festivities which they could measure on a begin early with parking on the skidpad. I got the impression that green at the La Quinta Resort. the skidpad was Trevor’s idea too, This will be the Club’s first points but maybe not. concours of the year. For those who concours semiseriously, get up Our next General Meeting is early, scrub off the bugs, and put a February 19th at ‘Autobooks – few last minute touches on your Aerobooks’ in Burbank at 3524 W. pride and joy. Our new Concours Magnolia Blvd (page xx). Come Chair, Fred Firschein, will be on early to score a parking spot in the the green hustling up some parking lot in back and participate volunteers for the judging.
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