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*Aug. 10 Legends Club Meeting New Location 11:00 AM Ye Shire Tavern/Restaurant, 3600 Shire Blvd. #112, Richardson, 972-881-7570, at the SW corner of Jupiter and George Bush.

*Aug. 18 Legends Brunch 9:30 AM Mimi’s Cafe, 2486 S. Stemmons (I-35E), Lewisville, TXAug. 24 Summer’s End Corvette Show Rogers, AR http://nwacorvetteclub.com/summersendshow13.html

Sept. 4-7 Mecum Auction Dallas, TX DallasConventionCenter,650SGriffinSt,Dallas,TX75202*Sept 7 “Rude Dog’s” Car Show The Colony, TX Sat. 1 pm-5 pm at Christ Community Church, 6404 Page Rd., The ColonyInfo: Jack “Rude Dog” Hays, 214-797-3922, [email protected]

Sept 13-15 Vettes & Jets on the Lex Corpus Christi, TX Sponsored by the South Texas Corvette Club benefitting The Wounded Warior Project. Headquarters: Radisson Hotel. This is a two-day event. Vettes load on Saturday morning and unload on Sunday afternoon. For full info: VettesandJets.org

*Sept 14 Legends Club Meeting 11:00 AM Blue Mesa Grill, 8200 Dallas Parkway, Plano, (214) 387-4407 Located at the south-east quadrant of Hwy. 121 & Dallas North Tollway (across from IKEA)

Sept 21 Cowtown Cruisin’ for a Cure Downtown Fort Worth 10am-3pm Full Info: www.cowtowncruisinforacure.org

*Sept 22 Legends Brunch 9:30 AM Jake’s Burgers, 5505 Belt Line Road, Addison (West of Preston Road and East of Dallas North Toll Road)

*Sept 28 Lewisville Western Days Lewisville, TX Old Town Lewisville, Full info: www.memorylanecarshows.com

*Sept 28-29 Corvette/Chevy Expo Market Center Hall Dallas Corvettes, Camaros, Chevrolet Trucks, and Classic Chevrolets on display and for sale, Chevrolet Dealers, Chevrolet Parts at the large Chevy Swap Meet. This is an indoor All Chevy Expo! Anyone who wants to enter can be parked in the same area with all other Legends members. $50 before August 30, $75 after. Full info: http://corvettechevyexpo.com

*Sept. 29 State Fair of Texas Club Display Dallas, TX Get your name on the list. We still have room for a few cars--they don’t have to be show cars. Someone will be in the car corral all day, so you can roam the fair and then hang out with the other club members and talk to people who are interested in our cars. Caravans leaving at 7:15 am: Plano-Collin Creek Shopping Center NE side below TGIFriday. Lewisville-Starbucks, 100 S. Stemmons (I-35E at Fox Ave. shopping center on the NW quadrant). We will regroup at 8:30 am at the McDonald’s near Gate 6 at the Texas State Fair to enter together (get passes from Jerry Echols). Club furnishes bagels & coffee in the Corvette Corral. If you have any questions before you sign up, do not hesitate to contact Jerry Echols 214-435-3753 or [email protected]. Your car must stay until 6 pm.*Oct. 12 Legends Club Meeting 11:00 AM Outback Steakhouse, 1509 N. Central Expressway, Plano (972) 392-4600 (West side of US 75 between 15th & 16th St.)

Oct. 17-19 NCRS Regional Embassy Suites Frisco, TX For complete details: www.ncrstexas.org/regional.htm

Oct. 18-19 E. Texas Corvette Show Peters Chevrolet Longview, TX Friday: Welcome social, scenic run to Jefferson, TX, lunch at Auntie Skinners Riverboat Club. Saturday: Corvette Car Show, lunch, valve cover races, awards (best of show $1,000, 2nd $500, 3rd $250), door prizes, dash plaques. Before Oct. 10: $65, Late: $75. Host hotel: Holiday Inn (903) 663-6464 $84.99. Full info: togcc.org

Oct. 25-26 Corvette Only Show Sulphur Springs, TX Friday: 5pm Jets & Vettes Photo Op, 6pm Welcome Dinner. Saturday: Corvette only show Heritage Square (downtown) 8am-2:30pm Entry $25. Full info: www.ssvetteclub.com Downtown Sulphur Springs, Registration Ends 11 am, Awards 3 pm. CORVETTE SHOW conducted by the Sulphur Springs Corvette Club. It is held on the parking lots of the City National and Alliance Banks - adjacent to the downtown square near the Hopkins County Court House. The CORVETTE SHOW will use “participant judging” in seven Corvette classes: Generation classes – C-1s through C-6s, and a “Perfor-mance Class” for “Z” vettes (Z06, ZR-1, ZR1), Calloways and Lingenfelters. Corvettes bearing these desig-nations must enter “Performance Class” regardless of generation. A “Best of Show” award will be selected from all Corvettes entered and a “Club Participation Award” will be presented to the Corvette Club entering the most Corvettes. More info: www.ssvetteclub.com. Tony Hughes [email protected], Roger El-liott [email protected]. Entry $25

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OFFICERSPresident:............................................ Sam Deneault .................... [email protected] ............................................ (972) 530-8017VP of Operations: ............................... Joel Joseph ....................... [email protected] ................................................. (972) 727-6833VP of Special Events: .......................... Jerry Echols ....................... [email protected] ............................................. (972) 924-2591Secretary: ............................................ Linda Deneault .................. [email protected] ..................... (972) 530-8017Treasurer: ............................................ Roger Berry ....................... ................................................................................... (972) 386-6224

DIRECTORSDirector of Communications: ............... John Zachary ..................... [email protected] ................................................(214) 707-2265Weekend Wrench Coordinator: ........... Jack “Rude Dog” Hays ...... [email protected]....................................................(214) 797-3922Membership Coordinator: ................... Tom Lainson ...................... [email protected] ...........................................(214) 862-3555Newsletter Coordinator: ....................... Diane Preston .................... [email protected] .................................(405) 615-3856

Legends Ledger Newsletter: Published monthly. Send submissions to [email protected] Submission deadline is the 20th of the month.

Membership Information:Coordinated by Tom Lainson (see above)

$25 for an Individual membership or$35 for a Couples membership

Dues are paid annually at a meeting or mailed to:Club Mailing Address:Corvette Legends of Texas

P.O. Box 260316Plano, TX 75026-0316

Club Web Site:Coordinated by John Zachary (see above)

http://www.vettelegends.comSend submissions to John at: [email protected]

Meeting Speakers:Coordinated by Scott Buzzell

If you have a recommendation for a guest speaker to address the club at one of our meetings, please contact Scott at

(214) 641-5590 or [email protected]

BirthdaysforAugust

8-01 Larry Rollow8-02 Rick Throckmorton8-07 George Dupont8-09 Bill McNichols8-12 Vince Dumas8-20 John Wilson8-23 Robert Demmel8-24 Rick Rickards8-27 Michael McCormack8-28 Doug Jezewski

8-29 Hugh Preacher8-12 Sandra Plumley8-14 Melissa Evanczyk8-16 Kathleen Hassan8-16 Maggie Reinhold8-16 Susan Joseph8-17 Angela Schwendemen8-19 Sherry Snider8-26 Denise Spurlock8-30 Lynn Harling

August Meeting 11 am, Saturday, August 10

Ye Shire Tavern/Restaurant 3600 Shire #112, Richardson

at the SW corner of Jupiter and George Bush Tpk.

FOR SALE-’75 CorvetteRoadster with both tops,

White/Tan/White - 350-4 speed, A/C, P/S, PDB, 68K miles, original motor & trans, excellent paint & interior & very clean.

Price is $24K or best offer. Call Ett @ 214-551-0939

4Our Speaker, Jeff Crilley, a retired FOX News Reporter

CORVETTE LEGENDS OF TEXAS GENERAL MEETING

Sat., July 13, 2013 New New Buffet, Addison, TX Meeting was called to order by Sam Deneault, President at 12:00 PM. Minutes as reported in last month’s newsletter by Linda Deneault, Secretary. Treasurer’s report by Roger Berry, Treasurer. $7,160.00 plus deposits.New Members: Hugh Preacher Lady Legends: Linda Dobbs 50/50: Dan Jacobs Membership Report - Tom Lainson: We are cur-rently at 136 members.Operations - Joel Joseph has currently set up the Ye Shire Restaurant for August 10th in Garland; Blue Mesa in Frisco for September 14th and Outback Steakhouse in Plano for October 12th.Programs – Scott Buzzell introduced Jeff Crilley, a retired Fox News Reporter who has written a book called “Free Publicity”. An excellent speaker. Special Events - Jerry Echols provided updates as followsState Fair: Sunday, September 29th is Legends Day at the State Fair.Chevy Expo - September 28-29 Market Center: Open to all members, who will need to pay their own entry fee, but the club is guaranteed to be all grouped together.Newsletter - Diane Preston is working on the up-dated Club Directory. She still needs articles from members for the newsletter.Dinner Cruises – Ken Weller reported that nothing was scheduled. Out of Town Events - Bill Tichy; nothing to report.Weekend Wrench - Jack Hays was not at the meet-ing.Communications - John Zachary reported a few emails he has sent have been rejected…so, if your email address has changed, please let John know.NCRS - Sam Deneault / Tom Douglas • National Convention, July 21-26, Hampton, VA• Texas Lone Star Regional, Oct. 17-19 Frisco, TXReminder: Brunch is Sunday July 21, 2013 at Mimi’s in Lewisville at 9:30 a.m.Reminder: The Sulphur Springs Car Show is sched-uled for October 25-26, 2013. Meeting Adjourned at 12:55 P.M.

Submitted by Linda Deneault, Secretary

Mark Elliot arriving in his ‘70 Donny Brook Green Coupe

Marty Davis, Buddy Cundeiff, Mark Elliott and Walter Plumley

President Sam Deneault and Ken Weller before the meeting

Where did that white Corvette come from???

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Solid Axle Gang

We have identified 35 Solid Axle Corvettes among those owned by our 134 members/couples. Tom Lainson has

designed a special club shirt to identify these car owners. It features the owner’s car in the appropriate color and body style on the left and the Legends club emblem, “Solid Axle Gang” and member’s name on the right.

Tom will have a sample at the next meeting. Shirt can be ordered in White, Red or Black

with your car embroidered from Corvette Central at 1-800-345-3122 $6718

(including tax & shipping) #101740 thru 101991 (varies with color & car year)

Right side embroidery is done at Embroidery King(972) 317-1686, Address: 1297 FM 407 Suite 302A, Lewisville, TX 75077

$2106 (including tax)For more info:

Tom Lainson, [email protected] or 214-348-8396

LEGENDSClub Shirts & Hatsat Embroidery King!

972-317-1686We carry Corvette Legends merchandise for you to wear

to your next club meeting or just to show your love for the car.

**Orders placed before the 25th of every month will be available for pickup at the following month’s meeting.**Go to www.companycasuals.com/EmbroideryKingLewisville/start.jsp

Pick any shirt. Add $8 to have Corvette Legends embroidered logo on upper left chest.

Add your first name to upper right chest for $5 extra.If there are any questions about an item, call Embroidery King at

(972) 317-1686, Address: 1297 FM 407 Suite 302A, Lewisville, TX 75077

Women’s Shirts-Cotton Short Sleeve Polo-Long Sleeve Oxford-Long Sleeve Twill Dress-Long Sleeve Heavy Denim

Hats -5-panel, mesh back, plastic snap closure-6-panel, self- fabric closure

Club Shirts & Hats

Men’s Shirts -Cotton Short Sleeve Polo-Long or Short Sleeve Oxford-Long or Short Sleeve Twill-Long Sleeve Heavy Denim-Long or Short Sleeve Lightweight Denim

1. Order shirtwith your Corvetteon it from Corvette Central

2. Take shirt toEmbroidery Kingfor Legends Logo& your name

McKinney Red, White & Boomby Sherry Williams

Well, It’s another typical Texas afternoon here in McKinney at the annual car show and everyone with a clean car is here to gather for some 4th of July gearhead chatter. The sheriff is in attendance with his Purple Chevy. Terry Box is a fixture at local car shows all over Collin County and the Red White & Boom Car Show here in McKinney is no different. Babe is very popular with the younger set--her Magnetic Metallic Red is enough to draw them for a closer look. Yep, here comes another one... I won a prize and Tom Lainson was at the show too!

New

Members New

MembersDan & Charlene Cope

Frisco70 Red Convertible

Hugh and Jean PreacherFrisco

72 big block Targa Blue Coupe

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My Father had taken very good care of my 1970 LT1 while I was in Vietnam, but these cars were not built with air conditioning due to their high RPM. When I returned from Vietnam I was assigned to Fort Knox in Kentucky and it seemed every time I went for a drive it would be raining or driz-zling and with no air conditioning sitting just inches above the 2.5 inch exhaust pipes, it was like sitting in a sauna! So, I (foolishly) decided to sell my 1970 LT1 road-ster and ordered the car documented in this article from the factory. I again worked with Chester Kittle

at V.V Cooke Chevrolet in Louisville Kentucky. The full price was $6,943.40 with options and the car was built on May 30, 1972 and delivered June 8, 1972.

The dealer inventory number was 5394 as noted on much of the original docu-mentation discussed herein. It was first registered in Jefferson County, Kentucky where I was living at the Iroquois Garden Apartments in Louisville where the earli-est found photograph at the top of the page was taken.

On May 17 ,1974 I had the car repainted a 1953 Cadillac Burgundy Maroon in Radcliff, Kentucky after a Colonel’s wife bumped into the car parked in front of

1 Owner ‘721972 Corvette VIN Number 1Z37W2S522561

History of this Corvette purchased upon my return from Vietnam Owned by Hugh and Jean Preacher of Frisco Texas

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my barber’s shop. I also switched the hood to a 1973 hood, but retained the original hood and wiper door mechanism. The cost to change the color was $50.00 yes, fiftydollars. It was a daily driver until stored long before I began restoration at 146,000 miles. Fortunately, even with all my moves since 1972, I retained virtually all original components and documentation for the car and during the careful disassembly, I captured im-ages of many markings regardless of how obscure. By way of many Google searches and emails in 2012, I made contact with V. V. Cooke, Jr. who graciously autographed several items for me and I obtained new V. V. Cooke license plate frames. Mr. Cooke also sent me a vintage dealer plate that is always on when the car is shown. Very cool! On February 22, 2012 the “rat” motor came to life again after a long rest and on May 19, 2012, the car was “revealed” at its first show just shy of forty years after it was built. She was awarded “Judges Pick” and Best of Class in a show with hundreds of entries. NCRS judging also awarded a “Top Flight”.

RESTORATION CREDIT Disassembly and reassembly was largely com-pleted by owner. Automobile Performance Unlimited of Fort Worth Texas completed the car and tuned it to absolute perfection. Motor was rebuilt, blue printed and balanced by Wayne Calvert Precision Engines of Denton, Texas Body and paint was completed by Winged Graph-ics of Roanoke, Texas

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John Zachary, [email protected]

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August 25-30, 2014 FAQ from the Caravan Blog

Corvette Legends doesn’t have an organized group participating in the 2014 Caravan yet, but we want to make sure you all know who is planning to participate.

Perhaps you can get together to coordinate your lodging, etc. during the trip. Let us know if you’re going.Members signed up: Roger & Marty Davis-817-239-0807

Ron Spurlock & Leslie Mello 214-704-6902 Only 1 year, 1 month, and 1 week left. Some of you may recall that about four years ago I com-mented that we would soon wake up and it would be 2014. Well, not much further to go! So if you haven’t registered for the caravan at this point, you might want to just do that. Although the Anniversary Cel-ebration events haven’t been posted yet, rest as-sured they will sell out quickly when they are. Those who register early for the caravan will get priority for the events. So, don’t let the opportunity pass you by. And many thanks to the over 2000 of you who have already registered. Get your motor running.

Paul Mariano, National Chair

5th National Corvette

Caravan-2014

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Best of Pat GossQuestions and Answers

about your Corvettefrom the Leading Expert in America

(Reprinted from NOCA 2001*)

Dear Pat: My ‘82 Vette Collector Edition, Bowling Green, 700 R-4 trans, 80,000 mi.; is shifting too early after it’s warmed up. Normally it would drop to around 1500 RPM after each shift under easy acceleration, but recently it shifts earlier after warm-up and lugs the engine down to around 1000 RPM. It will rev higher under harder acceleration and will downshift under harder throttle. Its shop manual does not seem to address this particular problem directly. I’d like to know why it shifts properly and more smoothly for the first three or four miles, and whether a trottle valve cable adjustment for normal operating temps would likely cause overrevving before shifting when cold? I would prefer knowing your suggestions before any adjustments are made. Also I’d appreciate your advice before having the trans. oil changed... I don’t know it’s history, and am considering the BG or Tri-botech additive. A: Sound’s like a very minor problem: Early or late shifts on most GM ‘80’s vintage transmissions, includ-ing your 700, can almost always be traced to your throttle valve cable. Typically, adjusting the TV cable will eliminate the problem. In your case the retaining latch would be released and the cable body moved toward the rear of the car 1/8th inch, then the latch would be reset, and the car road tested. All adjust-ments, all road testing, must be done at normal oper-ating temperature. Should you be wondering, the reason the shift is normal when the transmission is cold is, your trannie fluid is thicker or more viscous. With thicker fluid, line pressures will be higher and the shift will occur later. As the fluid warms, it becomes thinner or less viscous and line pressures drop slightly. For the most part, throttle valve cables have been replaced by electronic circuitry for more precise shift control under all conditions.

Dear Pat: My 1990 Corvette L-98 has the following modifications: Forced Air/K&N filter, ADS computer chip, Borla exhaust, and a free flow catalytic converter, I’m trying to get the most “bang for the buck” I can. It runs well but seems to always run in the 220 degree and above range on a hot day. My question: Will a 160-degree thermostat and a lighter type of pulley system give this Corvette any more power?A: Yes and No. I’m not talking out of both sides of my mouth but you’ve fallen victim to the erroneous notion that afflicts 99.999% of all the people who work on and around cars. Thermostats have little or no effect on maximum temperature. They only control minimum temperature. It works like this. If you’re currently using a 195-degree thermostat and the car is running 220 degrees on a hot day, it will still run 220 degrees on a hot day with a 160-degree thermostat. It will only run colder when the outside temperature is lower. So--what’s the answer? A 160-degree thermostat and a constant running electric cooling fan might do the trick. Moving more air through the radiator will exchange more heat and push the tem-perature down to the minimum allowed by your 160-de-gree thermostat. Next is your under-driven pulley system. These add to power output by turning accessories more slowly. Now here’s the rub. Your Vette is an L98 and therefore has a belt driven water pump. OOPS! Under-driven pulleys turn the water pump more slowly, thereby in-creasing coolant temperature. HEY, the coolant doesn’t circulate as fast and can’t exchange as much heat as quickly. All right. Now let’s get serious abut this. Your 195-degree thermostat and your 220-degree operating temperature are great. Leave it alone. Higher operating temperatures mean better fuel economy and a much longer engine life. The reason you get better perfor-mance if the engine runs cooler is, colder tempera-tures command a richer fuel mixture and the computer receives its temperature information from the coolant temperature sensor. So splicing an appropriate variable resistor into the coolant temperature sensor circuit will give you the ability to fool the computer into thinking the engine is cold. With the variable resistor installed you’ll be able to dial in the amount of fuel and performance you want when you want it. On the other hand, for normal driving you can return the variable resistor to the normal setting and achieve normal performance and fuel economy. Finally. THIS IS ILLEGAL. I am only telling you about it because I am sure, as with most Corvette own-ers, that yours is used in off-road situations only.

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Corvette Legends of Texas NewsletterNow available in color

Download it every month from the web site: http://www.vettelegends.com/index.html

When should you pay your dues? Just look at the mailing label on this club newsletter.

Please give your dues to Tom Lainson at the next meeting or mail to:

Corvette Legends of TexasP.O. Box 260316, Plano, TX 75026-0316

If you feel we are in error on your current dues, please contact Tom Lainson 214-348-8396, 214-862-3555 cell,

[email protected]

Batteries Plus+ DiscountGet the commercial price on any batteries and home, commercial or auto light bulbs

at the Lewisville or Denton locations by asking for the “Corvette Legends” discount.

If your business needs batteries, contact Tom Atchison 214-215-1948 for a personal quote.

Members can also get a club discount at HuffinesChevroletinLewisville.

Seen on Corvette Forum... I just got back from the SVRA vintage rac-es at Watkins Glen. While there, we learned that the Duntov Motors transporter, burned on the way to The Glen! For those not familiar with Duntov Motors, they build vintage Corvette race cars and are a GM licensed builder of Grand Sport replicas.www.duntovmotors.com I don’t know all the details, but somewhere between their shop in Texas, and Watkins Glen, NY, Duntov Motors’ trailer caught fire. The fire started in either a brake or wheel bearing, in one of the trailer’s wheels. There were four Corvettes in the trailer, three Corvette race cars, and a brand new Duntov build replica Grand Sport. I’m not exactly sure, which cars were in the trailer, but I do know that one of them belonged to Tony Parella, the CEO of the SVRA. We had the opportunity to talk to Tony on Saturday night, and it sounded like his ‘71 AP racer, was one of the cars lost. He told us that the Grand Sport was a car that Duntov

had just completed for a customer, and was to be displayed at Watkins Glen, before being delivered to the customer. I believe the third car was a ‘68 AP racer that Duntov built and maintained for it’s owner, and the final car was the black ‘69 AP racer, that belonged to the Duntov Motors owners, Alan and Ed Sevadjian. All four cars, along with the trailer, tractor and the team’s spare parts and tools; were completely destroyed. Luckily though, no one was hurt.

This is all that’s left.

Garage Racer

Claire Schwendeman’s ‘68

Tony Parella’s ‘71

Duntov Motors’ ‘69

Duntov Racing Fire at Watkins Glen

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