September 2017 The World’s First Corvette Club President - Bob Atwell Celebrating our 61 st Anniversary Year " Bob, you look very proud ! " April Hussey, our Web Queen, said that to me about 4:00 pm Saturday afternoon at "Corvettes at Car- lisle". We, about eight of us from CCA, were watching the beginning of the Make-A-Wish Foundation - Corvette Dream Day - for Collin Brown's special presentation. A little background is probably needed here. Collin Brown is a young man that has a close relationship with his grandfather, Larry, and Larry's 1968 LeMans Blue, Corvette Convertible that Larry bought new with a $1.00 deposit in 1968. Story has it, they used to go everywhere together in that Corvette. An agreement was made that on Collin's 16th birthday He would get the keys to the Corvette so that Collin and his dad could have a Father and Son bonding project to restore the old 68 vette. About six months later Life really got in the way. Collin was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He under went a long operation followed by 12 months of chemotherapy. Make-A-Wish Foundation contacted Tony Avedisian / Tony's Corvette Shop. Grandfather Larry and Collin drove the 68 vette to Tony's on a Saturday and explained the wish, Tony smiled and said " Of Course ". Tony started the restoration on May 1st, 2017 and with the help of so many in the Corvette Community including parts suppliers, body and paint shop, his mechan- ics that all worked on this car ( on their own time ...... because they like to smile ) to make it perfect on August 26th. I spoke to Tony at Carlisle on Friday, he said that he had never completed a restoration in less than five months time before. That is a very Big WOW !! Along the way a CCA member brought this Wish to the attention of your CCA Board of Directors. We all agreed that it would be a special honor to make Collin Brown an "Honorary Life Member" of Corvette Club of America. Thanks to April, Van and Jean, I was able to present to Collin a beautifully framed certificate of "Honoray Life Member- ship" (look for pictures in this issue of the Corvette Courier), a Blue 60th Anniversary T-shirt and a Blue CCA hat, all in the correct size and they match the '68 Corvette very well!! Back to 4:00 pm Saturday, Corvettes at Carlisle, we had kind of figured out who was who in the Collin Brown family. They were all smiling along with Tony. I was just taking it all in when April came up to me and said " Bob, you look very proud ! " I was and I still am " Very Proud " to have represented Corvette Courier
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September 2017
The World’s First Corvette Club
President - Bob Atwell
Celebrating our 61st Anniversary Year
" Bob, you look very proud ! "
April Hussey, our Web Queen, said that to me about 4:00 pm Saturday afternoon at "Corvettes at Car-
lisle". We, about eight of us from CCA, were watching the beginning of the Make-A-Wish Foundation -
Corvette Dream Day - for Collin Brown's special presentation.
A little background is probably needed here. Collin Brown is a young man that has a close relationship
with his grandfather, Larry, and Larry's 1968 LeMans Blue, Corvette Convertible that Larry bought new
with a $1.00 deposit in 1968. Story has it, they used to go everywhere together in that Corvette. An
agreement was made that on Collin's 16th birthday He would get the keys to the Corvette so that Collin
and his dad could have a Father and Son bonding project to restore the old 68 vette. About six months
later Life really got in the way. Collin was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He under went a long operation
followed by 12 months of chemotherapy. Make-A-Wish Foundation contacted Tony Avedisian / Tony's
Corvette Shop. Grandfather Larry and Collin drove the 68 vette to Tony's on a Saturday and explained
the wish, Tony smiled and said " Of Course ". Tony started the restoration on May 1st, 2017 and with the
help of so many in the Corvette Community including parts suppliers, body and paint shop, his mechan-
ics that all worked on this car ( on their own time ...... because they like to smile ) to make it perfect on
August 26th. I spoke to Tony at Carlisle on Friday, he said that he had never completed a restoration in
less than five months time before. That is a very Big WOW !! Along the way a CCA member brought
this Wish to the attention of your CCA Board of Directors. We all agreed that it would be a special honor
to make Collin Brown an "Honorary Life Member" of Corvette Club of America. Thanks to April, Van
and Jean, I was able to present to Collin a beautifully framed certificate of "Honoray Life Member-
ship" (look for pictures in this issue of the Corvette Courier), a Blue 60th Anniversary T-shirt and a Blue
CCA hat, all in the correct size and they match the '68 Corvette very well!!
Back to 4:00 pm Saturday, Corvettes at Carlisle, we had kind of figured out who was who in the Collin
Brown family. They were all smiling along with Tony. I was just taking it all in when April came up to
me and said " Bob, you look very proud ! " I was and I still am " Very Proud " to have represented
Corvette Courier
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"Corvette Club of America" at this very special event. You had to have been there. Few dry eyes in
the crowd were to be found by the time the Carlisle Events representative finished the ceremony. The
Corvette Community really came thru along with Tony Avedisian who is a Giant in that community.
Collin has been through a lot in his young life and he has a whole lot more in front of him. I hope and
pray that he has a full recovery, that he can enjoy life, his beautiful 1968 Corvette and become an ac-
tive member of the First Corvette Club on the planet - Corvette Club of America ! ! !
Our next Monthly Membership Meeting will be October 10th at the Greene Turtle in Burtonsville,
MD from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm.
September 26th, Tuesday will be Shop Night at Sport Chevrolet. *** Important Note *** IF you are
not in the Service Area by 7:30 pm you may have to turn around and go home if everyone else has al-
ready finished working on their cars. I will wait until 7:30. BUT, I am not going to ask Randy and the
others to wait until 9:00 on the chance that someone might show up. Generally you can start working
on your car between 5:30 and 6:00 pm.
Safe Motoring and " Save the Wave",
Bob Atwell
2017 President, Corvette Club of America
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Membership Director - Jean Wade
CCA Membership Update
MEMBER NEWS AND INFORMATION
Welcome our Newest Members: Sponsor:
Karl Burghardt Warrenton, Va. 15 orange C & 02 yell C Roney
Paul Loftus Poolesville, Md. 93 white coupe Web
Nick Nucci Woodbine, Md. 17 gray GS C Webs
Winston Lee Ripon, CA No Corvette Sport
Collin Brown Frederick, Md. 68 Blue R Tony
James & Ellen Rossmeissl Menasha WI 2011 white GS Web
I joined CCA because:
Karl - I love high-speed racing. Roney told me it was the best club to join.
Paul - owned a C3 and belonged to Delaware Cub. I just bought a 93 40th anniversary. Look forward to
joining in on events.
Nick -’17 is a GS collector’s ed. Watkins Glen gray. Interest high-speed race. Donated $5.
Winston - Looking for a Corvette at the moment.
Collin - C3 Lemans blue R was handed down from grandfather for his 16th birthday. Soon after he
developed brain cancer. Tony’s Corvette’s did a complete make over on the car. The car was
presented to Collin at Carlisle. He is an honorary member of CCA and NCM.
James - Social events NCM trips.
New Maryland CCA License Plate Rep Mr. Wayne Hatcher from Hagerstown, Md.
Looking for CCA Organizational Maryland Plates for your Vette or even maybe
the daily driver? Wayne will help. 204-382-4476 13405 Windson Dr. Hagerstown
This month’s Courier is being produced on the road. I am currently on a two week trip to Canada. I guess
you would call it a vacation but I’ve been retired since 2009 so I doubt that the word “vacation” really
applies. Last week we got together with Evelyn’s sister in Sydney, Nova Scotia and this week we are
staying at Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island. It is a very long road trip but it has been a lot of fun.
This coming weekend we will be spending a little time in Maine as we head for home. The only bad
news from all this has been that the September issue is being brought to you later than normal and it is a
little harder putting the newsletter together without my nice desktop PC setup at home.
I would like to pass along congratulations to our NCM Ambassador, Terry Popkin, for graduating from
the Citizen Academy. Be sure to check with him if you would like more information on this program.
From the Montgomery County Police Department Facebook
page:
"Congratulations to the 37 recent graduates of the 53rd Citizen
Academy!
The Citizen Academy serves to increase resident awareness of
the function of the police department. Participants learn about
topics relative to the role of the police officer in their commu-
nity. During a 15-week academy, residents are instructed on
such topics as criminal law, Maryland traffic law, and investi-
gations."
There are three special articles for your enjoyment this month. One is by Mike Newlander with his com-
ments on the NCM HPDE in August. The second is by Van on the very special presentation during Cor-
vettes at Carlisle. The third is from our long distance members, Kim and Donna Lewis, in Queensland,
Australia who are restoring a ‘58 right hand drive. Be sure to check out all these articles!
Save the Wave!
Jon Thorn
CCA Corvette Courier Editor
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Competition Director - Stephen Catlin
Corvette Competition
Competition Report - August 2017
NCM Motorsports Park HPDE – August 26-27, 2017 Several CCA club members including myself traveled to Bowling Green, KY for another fun 2-day
HPDE at ever-so-fun NCM Motorsports Park. Weather was great and there was a nice gathering of
CCA members and friends throughout the weekend to hang with. A more detailed report on this
event will be covered later by Pat R., with a special go-kart event report by guest writer and NCM
Board member Mike Newlander. Here is my recap.
A familiar hang out place for CCA members and friends was Pat S’s RV.
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Friday – I rolled into NCM at noon and spent the afternoon with Tom A., Pat R., and a few others helping with tech. Afterwards we drank a couple beverages, and checked out the new NCM go-kart track – Round 1. Pat R. kicked our butts with me a somewhat close 2nd.
Saturday – A wonderful issue-free day with plenty of track time and lots of comradery with several
CCA members and friends hanging around Pat S.’s camper. I managed to remember the course from
last year, and dropped several seconds off my best lap to date, getting several low 2:18s running in the
Black group.
Tearing up the track on Saturday and giving Radial Tire some high-speed advertising!
After the last Session of the day, many of us again gathered around Pat S’s RV for a couple beverages.
Then the kart track called to us for Round 2 and Round 3! Round 2 I was outgunned by 1/2 the field. ®
Round 3 I started in 3rd and soon got to the lead. It didn’t take long before I started taking love taps
from multiple cars looking to punt me out of the way! I managed to counter-steer quickly to avoid get-
ting spun and stayed wide enough (and straight enough) to avoid a pass. Then after a minor calming
period NCM instructor Chuck grabbed sole possession of 2nd and found a new attack method-
stealthily getting up to and against my back bumper and not braking (trying to get me to overshoot the
tight corners). I countered by coasting in the straights and braking early to keep him tight on me to
lose his momentum, while steering to take away the inside line. That resulted in 2 karts with locked
bumpers for the last several intense minutes! Somehow I survived the onslaught to take the checkered
flag for the win! Whew! That generated more adrenaline than running the real NCM track with the Z!
LOL.
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Sunday – Another issue-free day, but today I only ran 2.5 sessions as I was running out of equipment.
Eric M. rode along in Session 1 and got me down to an even lower 2:17.5 lap time! Session 3 I never
got enough clean track for a whole hot lap so I practiced my line. I came in with less than a session
worth of brake pads and fuel and 1 tire cording the edge. Rather than shut down for the day I chose to
turn 30 minute Session 4 into a warm up lap, two focused hot laps, and a cool down lap to bring the
car home with everything THOROUGHLY used up.
Running the lines Eric taught me (but with much improvised heavy drifting through turns 6, 7, 19 and 20 because it was fun and helped kill tires) I ran the most consistent and fun laps of the event with a 2:17.92 and 2:17.93! I was content knowing that times could have been even faster had I not been hot-dogging the corners so much!
CCA Autocross #4 @ Lincoln College – September 10, 2017
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While Florida hunkered down for Irma, we had perfect cool and sunny weather in Columbia! This was
our largest event to date with 41 drivers! Thank you to all for attending! Tons of pics from this event
are flowing in and can be found at https://www.vette-club.org/autocross/2017-09-10/ along with the
full results.
We had several newcomers, including my son Tyler who had a blast running my 08Z!
Another newcomer was our own Paul D. who stepped out from timing to run his ZR1!
We also had a very unique 1990s imported Mazda AZ-1. A what you say???
This little “car” is right-hand drive, has gullwing doors and makes a Miata look roomy!
The drivers appeared to enjoy my improvised layout, which was fairly fast and had a couple nice
sweeping turns that got the tires squealing and the driver’s faces grinning!
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Thanks to all the hard work by our club members for making this event a huge success. A special
thanks to April and Paul for rewriting the timing software, fixing various hardware issues, getting
online registration streamlined, and results streamed! The timing went flawless Sunday and allowed us
to get in 4 runs in both the AM and PM sessions and allowed the drivers to see their times and penal-
ties in real time!
Paul aka “Schroeder” doing timing “debug” April aka “Lucy,” Bob and Jon helping too. Our live streaming results shown at timing as the cars drove by (and via cell phone).
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We again held a little awards ceremony after the event to honor our various class winners. Mike T.
took OF (FWD) honors with a 41.949. Tom R. took C6 (Corvette) honors with a 39.719. Zachary H.
took ORD (RWD domestic) honors with a 39.546. Robert H. took ORF (RWD foreign) honors with a
38.959. Henry S. took CZ (Corvette) honors with a 37.692 and also took home a $25 gift certificate
for 2nd place overall. Jerry B. took OA (AWD) honors with a 37.582 and also took home a $50 gift
certificate for overall FTD!
Overall FTD Jerry B. 2nd Overall Henry S.
Our last autocross of the year is on October 1, 2017 and registrations are filling up fast at
https://www.vette-club.org/events/183/. Please come out to participate, help or just hang out and
Business & Membership Meeting Location: The Greene Turtle Sports Bar & Grille 15660 Old Columbia Pike Burtonsville, MD 20866 (301) 421-4012 Second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 PM Next meeting:
October 10th
Shop Night Location: Sport Chevrolet 3101 Automobile Blvd. Silver Spring, Maryland 20904 Fourth Tuesday of each month except November and December when it will be the THIRD Tuesday because of holidays. Shop Night begins at 6:00 PM. You must arrive no later than 7:30 PM or the shop may be closed. Next Shop Night:
September 26th
CCA Monthly Meeting Locations
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Tony Avedisian, Owner 7500 Rickenbacker Drive
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
301-987-0565
http://www.tonyscorvetteshop.com
Contact CCA Tag Leader Wayne Hatcher
240-382-4476
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