October 2011 - Corvette Legends of Texas

Don Clark’s Customized
2008 “63 Split-window Coupe”
(story page 6)
October 2011
Blue Mesa Grill,
8200 Dallas Pkwy, Plano
(214) 387-4407
11 am, Saturday, October 8
October Meeting
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Events
Oct. 6-8
Mecum Car Auction
*Oct. 8
Legends Club Meeting
Dallas Convention Center
Admission $15, Gates open daily at 8 am, Auction: Thurs. 2 pm, Fri. & Sat. 10 am,
LIVE on HD Theater: Thurs 3-7 pm, Fri 4-8 pm, Sat 1-5 pm. Info: www.mecum.com
11:00 AM
Blue Mesa Grill, 8200 Dallas Pkwy, Plano, TX 75024 (214) 387-4407(Southeast
corner of North Dallas Tollway at Highway 121 North Plano)
*******Directions: Construction in the area may change access.********
Southbound Tollway: Exit toward TX-121/Headquarters Dr./Legacy Dr. Stay on southbound frontage
road. Make a U-Turn at Headquarters Dr. Stay on northbound frontage road past Granite Pkwy. to
Blue Mesa. Northbound Tollway: Exit toward TX-121/IKEA Dr. Stay on northbound frontage road past
Granite Pkwy to Blue Mesa parking lot. Southbound TX-121: Exit toward Parkwood Blvd./Dallas North
Tollway. Turn left on Parkwood Blvd. Turn right on Parkshore Dr. Turn Left on Granite Pkwy. Turn right
on northbound Tollway frontage road. Turn right into Blue Mesa parking lot. Northbound TX-121: Exit
toward Parkwood Blvd. Turn right on Parkwood Blvd. Turn right on Parkshore Dr. Turn Left on Granite
Pkwy. Turn right on northbound Tollway frontage road. Turn right into Blue Mesa parking lot.
*Oct. 9
Legends Display-State Fair of TX
Dallas, TX
Get your name on the list by Sept 10. We have room for 35 cars. Caravans leaving at 7:15 am: Plano-Collin Creek Shopping Center NE side below TGIFriday. Lewisville-I-35 at Fox
Ave. shopping center on the NW quadrant (old Black-Eyed Pea). 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.
*CLoT Club Participation Event
*Oct. 16
*Oct. 22
Legends Brunch
9:30 AM
Mimi’s Cafe, 2486 S. Stemmons (I-35E), Lewisville, TX
“Rude Dog’s” Car Show
The Colony, TX
Sat. 11 am-3 pm at Christ Community Church, 6404 Page Rd., The Colony
I am hosting a car show at my church. To make it better for the Corvette fans I have requested my
promoter, Mustang Sally, to split the C1 and C2 Corvettes into separate classes! The proceeds will be
used for our youth group “the Light”. We will have a low cost spaghetti lunch and hot dogs for sale. Info:
Jack “Rude Dog” Hayes, 214-797-3922, [email protected]
Oct. 22-23 DFW Collector Car Swap Meet
Ft. Worth
Oct. 27-29 NCRS Lone Star Regional Meet
Frisco, TX
Sat. 8 am-5 pm & Sun. 8 am-2 pm. at LaGrave Field, 301 NE 6th St., Fort Worth
(1 block east of N. Main St.) Free admission. Info: Dean Earhart at 254-751-7958, deanearhart@aol.
At the Frisco, TX Convention Center. For info: www.ncrstexas.org
Flight Judging is held inside the convention center, so come enjoy looking over all the Corvettes and
learn about the NCRS judging system. All other events require registration.
*Oct. 29
Corvette Show
Sulphur Springs, TX
Sat. 9 am-4 pm Downtown Sulphur Springs at Heritage Square
See flyer and registration for this event on page 8 for full details
*Nov. 12
Legends Club Meeting
11:00 AM
Hard 8 BBQ, 688 Freeport Parkway, Coppell, TX 7501, (972) 471-5462 Southeast
*Nov. 20
*Dec. 3
Mimi’s Cafe, 2486 S. Stemmons (I-35E), Lewisville, TX
corner of Freeport Pkwy. & Bethel Rd., Coppell, TX
Legends Brunch
9:30 AM
Lewisville Christmas Parade
2:00 PM
You need to arrive at the staging area at Cowan & Purnell by 12:30 pm. Cars and/or
occupants should be decorated. Parade begins at 2 pm at Main & Cowan. After the parade, (about 3:30)
club members will go to Dat’s Good BBQ, 1168 W Main St., Lewisville, (972) 219-2244 (East of Valley
Pkwy, behind Firestone store). Meet us there after the parade! Call Tom Atchison 214-215-1948 for more
details.
*Dec. 10
*Dec. 18
*Dec. 20
Legends Club Meeting
Bring an unwraped toy for TOYS FOR TOTS.
Legends Brunch
Mimi’s Cafe, 2486 S. Stemmons (I-35E), Lewisville, TX
11:00 AM
9:30 AM
After-Holiday Party-reservations & payment due
You can mail your check & reservation to: Tom Atchison, 1734 Fern Ct., Lewisville, TX 75067. Contact Tom for more information: 214-215-1948.
*Jan. 7
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After-Holiday Party
6 PM Happy Hour, 7 PM Dinner
Tribute Golf Club, 1000 Lebanon Rd., The Colony, TX 75056-6520, (972) 370-5465
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Blue Mesa Grill
8200 Dallas Pkwy, Plano (214) 387-4407
Batteries Plus+ Discount
Get 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
Huffines Chevrolet in Lewisville.
(S.E. corner of N. Dallas Tollway at Hwy 121 North Plano)
*******Directions: Construction in the area may change access.********
Southbound Tollway: Exit toward TX-121/Headquarters Dr./
Legacy Dr. Stay on southbound frontage road. Make a U-Turn
at Headquarters Dr. Stay on northbound frontage road past
Granite Pkwy. to Blue Mesa. Northbound Tollway: Exit toward TX-121/IKEA Dr. Stay on northbound frontage road past
Granite Pkwy to Blue Mesa parking lot. Southbound TX-121:
Exit toward Parkwood Blvd./Dallas North Tollway. Turn left
on Parkwood Blvd. Turn right on Parkshore Dr. Turn Left on
Granite Pkwy. Turn right on northbound Tollway frontage road.
Turn right into Blue Mesa parking lot. Northbound TX-121:
Exit toward Parkwood Blvd. Turn right on Parkwood Blvd. Turn
right on Parkshore Dr. Turn Left on Granite Pkwy. Turn right on
northbound Tollway frontage road. Turn right into Blue Mesa
parking lot.
OFFICERS
President:............................................Tom Atchison......................... [email protected]................................................... (214) 215-1948
VP of Operations.................................Sam Deneault........................ [email protected] .......................................... (972) 530-8017
VP of Special Events:...........................Jerry Echols........................... [email protected].............................................. (972) 924-2591
Secretary:.............................................Linda Deneault...................... [email protected]..................... (972) 530-8017
Treasurer:.............................................Roger Berry............................................................................................................... (972)386-6224
DIRECTORS
Director of Communications:................John Zachary......................... [email protected]................................................(214) 707-2265
Weekend Wrench Coordinator:............Sam Deneault........................ [email protected].............................................(972) 530-8017
Membership Coordinator:....................Tom Lainson.......................... [email protected]...........................................(214) 862-3555
Newsletter Coordinator.........................Diane Preston........................ [email protected]..................................(972) 691-4968
Legends Ledger Newsletter: Published monthly. Send submissions to [email protected]
Submission deadline is the 20th of the month.
Club Web Site:
Coordinated by John Zachary (see above)
http://www.vettelegends.com
Send 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]
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 260316
Plano, TX 75026-0316
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John McCown, Randy Henry and Tom Mullins
CORVETTE LEGENDS OF TEXAS
GENERAL MEETING
Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 11:00 A.M.
BJ’s Restaurant & Brewery, Addison, Texas
The meeting was called to order by Tom Atchison,
President at 11:40 a.m.
Our Guest Speaker was Alan Lowe, Director of the
George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. He
presented a slide show and spoke of the plans for the
library due to open soon.
50/50 to Ken Weller.
Lady Legends to Debra McCormack.
Upcoming Meetings
October 8th meeting is at Blue Mesa in Dallas.
Nov. 12th meeting-Hard Eight BBQ in Coppell.
Meeting adjourned at 1:00 p.m.
Minutes submitted by Linda Deneault, Secretary.
Scott Buzzell, our speaker Alan Lowe, Erika and J.C. Cherry
Pete Snider, new members Sandy & Lynn Thompson,
rare member sighting... Kent Bass, Jim Jenkins and Larry Dyer
Dennis Calander with his 1960 Blue Roadster
Larry Dyer, John & Reyna Plumley
Denise & Jay Thompson
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Tom Atchison, our speaker Alan Lowe and Scott Buzzell
Jeff Kuznier & Ken Weller
Birthdays for
10-04 Clair Schwendemen
October
10-18 Mack Rogers
10-05 Carole Arakelian
10-20 Mary Davis
10-07 Ted Boyer
10-22 Rita Skobbeko
10-08 Cheryl Deleranko
10-26 Fred Hager
10-09 Don Pinson
10-27 - Jan Pautler
10-10 Tanna Gotses
10-27 Lisa Boyer
10-11 Mary Jeanne Entrekin 10-27 Rick Dietel
10-14 Daniel Muzquiz
10-28 Susan Elliott
10-15 Bill George
10-30 Sam Deneault
10-17 Lynda Mullins
10-31 Michael Nelson
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If your passion has taken
over your garage, call
fellow Corvette Legend
Member, Erika WoodCherry!
She can help you find a
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Don’t leave your “baby”
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CALL TODAY!!
Corvette Legends’ Cookbook
Charity Drive to benefit Patriot Paws
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!!
Your fellow Corvette owners contributed their favorite recipes to produce the first-ever Corvette Legend’s
Cookbook. We plan to sell
them to our friends and
family and to visitors at the
State Fair in October. If we
sell 200 cookbooks, we can
net almost $1,000 for Patriot
Paws.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
I am planning a price of $10
each. So start taking orders from your family, your
friends, your friends family, the neighbors, whoever.
Tell me how many you want, bring me a check, and I’ll
set them aside for you.
See you at the State Fair – I’ll need some help
selling at the fair.
Contact Jan Dyer to get copies to sell:
[email protected]
For Real Estate
results, call Erika!
Office: 972/987-3800
VM: 972/733-7105
[email protected]
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Wow! Look at that 63 S
Wait something’s different abo
This is Don and Paulette Clark’s “63 Z06”. We all know
how Don feels about silver mid-year Corvette coupes.
He’s got a bunch of them. Now he has a “63”.
This car was built by Karl’s Kustom Corvettes
in Des Moines, Iowa. They fabricate C-2 style bodies
to fit meticulously onto any C-6, whether it’s a coupe or
a convertible. If you send them a coupe, you get a 63
coupe-style body. If you send a convertible, you get a 67
convertible-style body. The Z06 and Gran Sport require
a kit with wider body panels, but they can convert them
too. Don’s car is the fourth Z06 they’ve produced. They
built the first Z06 for NASCAR’s Rick Hendrick.
Karl’s plans to build about 20 of these conversions
per year. All of the body panels are designed to replace
the C-6 panels exactly. The C-2 style panels, doors,
hood and rear hatch are all designed to fit the factory
openings of the C-6, using all of the stock hinges and
latches. This gives a much tighter car than if these were
altered in any way. The only outside body panels that
remain unchanged are the roof and the B-pillar on the
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Split Window Coupe...
out it! It’s wider and lower.
coupe version. The C-6 convertible top remains unchanged also.
Karl’s produces their own front and rear bumpers to
simulate the C-2 bumpers but styled to fit the sleeker,
wider bodies they put on the C-6. These bumpers are
bolted directly to the sub-structure to make them functional. The front headlights are square after-market lights
which are relocated to the lower outside corners beneath
the bumpers, with a door that looks like a section of the
grill. Readily available C-2 reproduction parking and tail
lights are used.
The C-6 seats retain all of the adjustment features
they came with. The backs of the seats are shortened
somewhat to look more like the original design of the
C-2 seats. The upholstery on the seats and door panels
is also done in a style reminiscent of the C-2. Don’s car
has red leather interior and red carpet. No changes were
made on the dash or console.
The conversion is advertised to take 90 days. They
did this one in 87 days. Don says that it’s the only car
he’s ever had done that came in on time and
within the quoted budget. The fit and finish on
the car are excellent and Don elected to have it
painted his favorite... silver.
In partnership with Karl Chevrolet, Iowa’s
#1-Selling Corvette dealer, Karl’s Kustom Corvettes delivers unsurpassed attention to quality.
This set up gives drivers the comfort, power
and engineering of today’s C6… all shelled in
the breathtaking body style of a Mid-year.
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Corvette Show at Sulphur Springs
Sulphur Springs Corvette Club member, Roger Elliott, who brought his red/white 61 Corvette over for our
Cooper show, has made arrangements at Hampton Inn, rate $79. Phone 903-439-4646 to make reservations if you’re
going over Friday night. Parking is lit and the hotel will request extra police patrols that night. He said he will also have
something planned for us to do that night. There will be lots of Corvettes in town. For Saturday morning departure with
CLoT members, I suggest we stage the southern group in Rockwall at 8am, and Greenville for the northern bunch at
8:30 am. It’s about a 90 min. trip. We need to arrive together to park together.
Contact Tom Lainson at 214-862-3555 for plans to caravan on Friday for those going early.
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Legends to work with a new oil product called Z-ALT muscle car oil
A few of our members are now running this oil in their pre-1975 vintage blocks and are experiencing good results. The three members all
experienced an immediate drop of 10 degrees in running temps and, so
far, are showing no ill effects.
The difference is attributed to a new process which keeps the
infused moly in solution and it also contains detergents, not often
available in racing oils, and ZDDP. It does not have Teflon, chlorine or
solvents.
I have heard that Rotella has dropped the ZDDP. Does anyone
know of this?
This oil is not for engines
with catalytic converters.
Legends will be keeping several six-can cases available for anyone wishing to try it out. Z-ALT is selling to our club at their distributor
prices. The member cost will be the same as ordering it from the manufacturer, with all ensuing profits to be donated to Patriot Paws.
There is currently no Dallas outlet for this product. The Z-Alt website
is http://z-alt.com/index.html for more information
Contact Tom Lainson (214) 348-8296 or Bill Preston (405) 615-3856 for further details.
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Legends Members Out and About
Tom & Mary Jeanne Entrekin
Tom and I went on a car cruise out west in our
2006 Corvette the first two weeks of August. In Pueblo, CO just south of Colorado Springs we came up on
a thunder storm and the outside temperature gauge
in the Corvette said 102--it dropped to 71 in a matter
of seconds. Don’t think we ever saw that before.
First, we went to visit friends in Colorado Springs.
We visited a small little German town at the base of
Pikes Peak and the Garden of the Gods, which was
absolutely breathtaking. In 2006 we did the train ride
that went up Pikes Peak, so not this trip.
Then we headed across Colorado into Nevada.
We saw some of the most awesome mountain ranges. Tom said this highway we took across Nevada
was the Loneliest Highway in America and I totally
believe it. Cars were far and few between and we
could see 40 miles ahead on this two lane road. We
went up the mountains and down the mountains and I
know Tom got tired of hearing me say, “Could you go
a little slower than 85, as there are no guard rails?“
It was like being on a curvy roller coaster, and very
high. Some of the summits were 10,000 ft. or more. It
was a good thing we were getting great gas mileage
(about 34 MPG in some places that had no ethanol),
Tom bragged. We spent one night at Ely, NV, at a casino that only had about 25 slots and not much else,
but clean.
After traveling another day and a half, we made it
to our niece’s wedding in Lake Tahoe, CA, which was
the reason we decided to go on this trip. We stayed
at the Embassy Suites, which even gave us a great
free breakfast every morning. We were just across
the street from Harrah’s, so I did a little gambling
while there and won some of their money. Tom and I
also did a side trip to Virginia City, an old Silver Mining Town for a few hours. Remember the name from
Bonanza, the TV Show? They have pictures of the
Cartwrights all over the place. Tom and my brother-inlaw Larry also took one afternoon and went to Reno,
to the Harrah’s Auto Museum and saw lots of old
cars. Hot August Nights was the next weekend, they
already had car shows in South Lake Tahoe, which
we all enjoyed.
We did the cruise around the Lake for the Rehearsal Dinner on a big Paddle Wheel boat, with
great scenery. The wedding was the next afternoon
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at Alcatraz
on top of the mountain. We had to take a gondola
up and back. In the winter it takes the skiers up the
mountain, covered with snow. It was a fabulous
wedding and great food and a great time with our
family. We did not miss the hot weather as it was in
the 80’s during the day there and 40’s at night. We
even needed a jacket some of the time. We heard
Dallas had 110 the day we headed to California. The scenery was so beautiful and we took a lot
of pictures. We spent about five days there and the
last day most everyone left except my son, his wife,
grandson and nephew, so we visited the beach
about six blocks away. The water was freezing, so
we just sat in chairs nearby.
Then we decided to take a raft down the Truckee
River, on the other side of the Lake. We thought it
would take about an hour and we thought someone
would be paddling for us. When we arrived, we did
the paddling and it was very shallow, but it was a fun
trip. The boys, ages 4 and 11, loved it, when we came
to the rapids and the rocks. The people said it would
take three hours to get down the river, but we made
record time and made it in two hours. There was a
band along the shore and an ice cream truck, so we
got ice cream, not quite like the rivers around here.
Tom and I headed out the next day for Yosemite
Park. I failed to mention that on our road trip, every
city had road construction. Some of the two lane
roads we’d come to would stop traffic, both directions
and everyone would turn their cars off, get out and
visit for about 30 minutes. Food was scarce in the
park, as we found out everyone stopped at the same
hamburger hole in the wall. We found a picnic table
and ate, then headed to all the other sites, then left
the park.
After another day on the road, we made it to
San Francisco for the day. San Francisco was very
crowded. We rode the cable car downtown, and boy
was it packed. We expected to return to the wharf on
it for lunch, but when they made us get off, we ended
up finding another trolly to get us back to Fisherman’s
Wharf. The line to get on the cable car return was
very long.
Fisherman’s Wharf was nice and we even needed
coats, as it was in the 60’s there. We ate at the Seal
Cafe, which was where all the seals sleep and stay
outside on the wharf. We had the best specialty of
Clam Chowder in a bowl of sour dough bread and a
caesar salad. We also saw Alcatraz, across the water,
from the Wharf. Tom had
seen San Francisco a few
times years ago, but I hadn’t
seen much of the country,
hence the trip by car. People
who fly never get to experience the country side as
we did. After having a long
discussion about where we
left the car, we finally found
it, right where we left it.
Next, we headed up to
Yellowstone Park and back
across Nevada to Wyoming.
We learned to buy food
before we got to the park
this time and have a picnic,
which we did. Yellowstone
is big and we saw most of
it with a lot of stops to see special sites. The crowds
were big.
We never saw a bear in Yosemite or Yellowstone,
but we saw bison, deer and antelopes. People are
crazy there. When any wildlife appeared, they would
stop in the middle of the road and run take pictures.
We missed seeing Old Faithful by five minutes, as
we saved it for last. They said it would be at least
another two ½ hours, maybe, as it was never on time
anymore. It was getting late so we headed out and, of
course, there was road construction, again. We were
a little nervous about still being in the park at dark,
because of all the deer and bear signs. We spent the
night at the first motel we saw about 8:30 at night,
which was Jackson Hole, Wyoming. That was the
most expensive hotel yet, even in Tahoe.
We headed back to Dallas, about another two
day trip, but the Corvette ran beautifully. We only saw
rain briefly a few times. On the long trip we saw so
many beautiful sights and met so many interesting
people. Truly, a once in a lifetime trip we will never
forget. We were exhausted, but glad to be home. We
could not believe the 100 degree days were still in
Dallas!
Legends Members Out and About
Have you gone on a trip in your Corvette?
Tell us about where you went and what you did.
Send your story to Diane: [email protected]
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