The Vapor Trail May 2019 Vapor Trail Vettes, P.O. Box 5241, Santa Maria, CA 93456 www.vaportrailvettes.com President ’s Message Inside this Issue By Clay Beck Presidents Message/Birthdays 1 Weather! Can you believe it? When do you remember it Meeting Minutes 2-3 raining in May in past years? Well in spite of it raining, AHC Scholarship Banquet 3 the weather is mostly good and warming up to make it great for Corvette driving. VTV Fun Run 4 WC Region Gov. Mtg/Tech Corner 5 Speaking of Corvette driving, I finally replaced my crankcase sensor in the Z06. After lifting the car it only CareNet Golf Tournament 6 took me about an hour to do the replacement. I basi- For Sale/Business Cards 7 cally disconnected the starter motor and slide it forward a 2 to 3 inches that gave me enough access to the sen- Home Motors—Corvette Inventory 8 sor. I’m ready for the next run. Calendar of Events 9-11 I got my copy of “Blue Bars” magazine the other day and looking threw it I saw last years points results on May 2019 Birthdays page 60. Listed below are the REGIONAL WINNERS for 04 Brenda Parks 2018: 12 Clay Beck Men's: Women's: 13 Patty Santmyer Bee Jay Jones Holly Palmer Larry Wright Dave Schultz June 2019 Birthdays Cliff Harris 01 Wayne Mancebo Jeff Palmer 05 Kevin Sullivan 07 Chuck Robertson Workers: Club Standings: 21 Paula Malone Clay Beck Vapor Trail Vettes Gerry White Pacific Coast Corvettes Charles Robertson The Vette Set Jeff Palmer Orange County Vettes Corvette Super Sports 2019 Board Members For a small club, we sure do a good job with Regional points. President Clay Beck 481-4597 Vice President Holly Palmer 588-0246 Treasurer Chuck Robertson 934-0694 Later, Clay Beck Secretary Beverly Erickson 941-786-6575 Governor Gale Haugen 773-4515 Newsletter Gale Haugen 773-4515 Sunshine Lady Brenda Parks 315-0070 Webmaster Chuck Robertson 934-0694 1 May 2, 2019 VTV Meeting Minutes May 2, 2019 VTV Meeting Minutes By Chuck Robertson/Beverly Erickson By Chuck Robertson/Beverly Erickson In attendance: Larry Wright, Holly Palmer, Clay Treasurer’s Report– Chuck Robertson Cont’d Beck, Gerry White, Brenda Parks, Jeff Palmer, Clay asked for a motion to approve the report and Chuck Robertson, David Schultz, Jan Webb, Cliff Dave made the motion, which was seconded by Erickson, Beverly Erickson Holly. All present approved the report. Clay opened the meeting at 6:30 and announced VP Report– Holly Palmer the month’s birthdays: Brenda, Clay, Patty Santmyer and Mary Carson. He reminded every- Holly was up next to give the VP report. She said one that Mother’s Day was on the 12th. that Gale Haugen had forwarded an email about the Sport Cars at the Museum Car Show on June Approval of Meeting Minutes 16th in Bakersfield. Holly said that the Kern Coun- Clay asked for a motion to approve the April ty Museum was a great location for a car show. If minutes. Dave made the motion and Gerry se- anyone is interested, they can contact Holly for conded it. It was approved by all present. more information. The next fun run is on May 11th. The route will be down Foxen Canyon to the New/Old business– Clay Beck Ridel Winery and then maybe go to the miniature The April autocross was a success according to horse farm. The June fun run will be up highway Clay. There were 57 drivers and we didn’t have 1 and possibly do a picnic lunch. She is still plan- any timing problems except for one person walk- ning on doing a Morro Bay cruise in July when the ing through the timing lights. There were eight May gray/June gloom season has passed, and in runs and the event was finished by 5:30. the fall, a run to one of the car museums in the LA area. Gerry asked about participating in the Sol- Clay passed on that we have been invited to the th annual scholarship awards banquet at Alan Han- vang 4 of July Parade. That is fine with her and cock College. Chuck indicated that he planned to she will get the necessary information out to the attend to take pictures and Clay asked if anyone members when she can. else wanted to go. It will be on May 23rd. Larry Governor’s Report— Clay Beck for Gale H. said that he enjoyed attending last year. The on- There was no Governors meeting in April, but Gale ly restriction was that we only had two invites. had provided Clay with the points that members The nice food that Joe Garcia provided at the last had accrued so far this year. He went over some autocross was by way of saying good-by as he of the points and had the sheet if anyone else was and his wife are moving out of state according to interested. Clay said that he thought that there Clay. The good news is that a niece was taking was a meeting in May but didn’t know the date. over the business. We will see how she does at He encouraged anyone who was interested in go- the next autocross in June. ing to do so. Clay announced that we had signed up 4 new Around the Table members at the autocross. The new members Gerry related that he and Brenda were at a play are Karl, Brenda and Sam Johns, and Phillip Rob- and ran into the owner of Home Motors. Gerry erson. thanked him for their support. He had also at- Another item that Clay covered was the great ar- tended a draft party for the 49ers. He entered a ticle in the newsletter on the C8 Corvette and he raffle and won a numbered jersey and a t-shirt. encouraged everyone to read it. Cliff brought up Brenda said that the party was so loud her ears some of the problems that Chevrolet apparently rang for some time afterwards. This was her first haven’t fixed. One was that the chassis flexed in trip to San Francisco, and she enjoyed it very the high horsepower version that caused the rear much. Jeff said that he and Holly had used their window to pop out. Cliff also said that the C8 lost PDRs to record their runs at the autocross and in drags against the Hellcat. said that he determined that the Michelin 3+ all Treasurer’s Report– Chuck Robertson season tires stick as well as the Super Sport tires that come with C7’s. He added that the experts at Chuck went over the income and expenses from Spring Mountain also said that they couldn’t see a the last autocross and then the monthly report. difference between the two types. 2 May 2, 2019 VTV Meeting Minutes Allan Hancock Scholarship Banquet By Chuck Robertson/Beverly Erickson By Larry Wright Around the Table Cont’d The annual Allan Hancock Scholarship Banquet called " Rising Stars" was held in the Joe White Brenda added that her daughter was graduating Gymnasium building at Hancock College, Santa from Texas Tech. Cliff warned everyone not to Maria, CA on May 23, 2019. use PayPal as users were having problems with the service – especially with larger dollar Vapor Trail Vettes Corvette Club awarded two (2) amounts. He added that banks were also experi- Scholarships in the amount of $500 each to Gerar- encing problems with the service. Beverly said do Mendez and Jose Velasquez, both students in that they were late to the meeting due to attend- the automotive studies programs. ing a grandson’s graduation from 6th grade and A very nice Santa Maria BBQ style buffet meal was would leave early to attend a granddaughter’s re- served to recipients, their guests and scholarship cital. Larry said he had attended the CareNet donors. I enjoyed the meal and the evening of event and presented our check to them. He had visitation with our two recipients and their a picture for the web site and will write up a short guests, after which, presentations were made and account for the newsletter. Holly asked for more pictures were taken. Both were very interested in recommendations for future fun runs and monthly our club's activities. meetings. The June meeting will be at Pappy’s Restaurant. Clay talked about his problem at- Over 400 people were in attendance and close to a tending the Long Beach Grand Prix. While on the half million dollars was awarded in total donations Ventura Freeway in the fast lane his car died. He to students of Hancock. A very successful evening managed to get across most of the lanes until a and the officials from Hancock orchestrated a very truck blocked him and he had to stop in the next "top-notch" event. to right lane. Fortunately, the truck driver I received personal thanks to our club from Mr. stopped as well and helped him push his car onto Jan Hooten, Hancock College Executive Direc- the shoulder. He couldn’t open his door because tor, College Advancement, for our donations and of the cars zooming by so close. He called and who liked our "big check" idea for picture taking, arranged for AAA to pick him up. While waiting (although not our first time to do that). for AAA a highway patrol did a traffic break and slowed traffic down a bit. The officer set out Thanks to the club for allowing me to present some cones and stayed until AAA showed.