Vol 20 Iss 3 - The Lone Star Performance Buick Club

Quick Times
Lone Star Performance Buick Club
Volume 20 Issue 3
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Notes From the Officers
LSPBC Race Series
LSPBC Car Shows
Ridez of the Timez Show
ROA Event
Upcoming Events
Hot Rod Power Tour
Did You Know?
Fall 2008
LSPBC Represents at the Ridez of
the Timez Show at DCC
LSPBC had a good representation of cars at the Dallas Convention Centers Ridez of the
Timez show on August 16th with 12 cars on display. This show is put on in conjunction
with a Health and Fitness show so the participants and attendees come in wide varieties, just
check out the pics in this edition of the newsletter of the cars and the alternative events held.
Officers :
President:
David Newton
Vice President:
Victor Segovia
Secretary
Morgan Farrington
‘80s Car Class winner, Victor Segovia’s ‘87 Limited
Treasurer:
Morgan Farrington
Show Director:
Victor Segovia
Race Director:
John Martin
‘80s Car Outstanding in Class goes to
David Newton’s ‘86 GN
Webmaster:
Carl Brimer
Newsletter Editor & Design:
All other’s received Class Finalists Awards
Rob Downey and David Newton
Photography:
As Noted
Quick Times is the official publication of the Lone Star
Performance Buick Club (Chapter of the GS Club of America).
No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or
manner without the express consent of the Lone Star Buick
Chapter GSCA, unless this publication is listed as the source.
Club dues are $30 per year and are payable every January 1st.
Dues entitle the member to a one year subscription to Quick
Times along with other benefits accordingly. The “Buick” name
and all other related Buick model names are registered trademarks of the General Motors Corporation. And are used with
permission by the Lone Star Performance Buick Chapter GSCA
through it’s association with the Buick GS Club of America.
The Older Buicks received all Class Finalists Awards
Your Buick Club representatives on
hand Saturday—much thanks to
everyone that participated!
A Word From the President
A Word From the Vice-President
It's been a good year so far let's end it with a big
bang! No no no no blown head gaskets please :) The
cooler air is coming let's get 'em to the track.
More on that later.
Going out on the Power Tour this past summer was a
blast, I'm sure you will enjoy the coverage in this issue that Victor has provided. Fellow member Jack Laswell was
interviewed by Musclecar Review maginzine during the tour and
will have a article in the mag soon on his 1971 GSX.
Myself, Tina and Raph Haber were interviewed in Topeka, KS
and had our cars posted on the Hot Rods website which was pretty
cool.
For those that made the Ridez of the Timez car show at the DCCC
back in August, thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedules to get your cars in the show. A special thanks goes out to Rob
Downey, Jeff Horsman & Victor Segovia for helping with the set
up of the convention center room and to everyone that helped on
the judging. Just check out the muscle cars! :)
We will have a club meeting coming up on Saturday Oct. 25th
3pm at Spring Creek BBQ on Midway rd just south of Beltline in
Addison. We will be discussing a Dyno event, Xmas Party (we
still need a location) and Noble. Please be there to share your .02.
We need everyone to attend please. We will also discuss Officers
for next year and we should have a update from Morgan about our
carshows for 2009. He and I have both been approched about having a new location for our shows next year. Stay tuned for more.
Hey club members,
Hard to believe this is already our third issue
of the year. So far we have had a great time at
our club events and I just want to
thank everyone who has participated and
helped out with the car shows, races, website and newsletters. We would not have this awesome club without our
great and wonderful members and all of their support. All of
you guys and gals go the extra mile to show how much
you appreciate our club by supporting our events. Thanks to
all of your families as well for letting you participate and
sometimes joining you.
A lot of thought goes into planning and making sure that
when it's all said and done it's all about having fun. We have
a great team that spends lots of time helping with the newsletter to help spread the news. I just want to say thanks
to everyone once again and let's finish out the year by enjoying one another's company while showing off what we're
about "Going Fast with Class"...........Go Buicks!!!!
PINKS update The block is still at the machine shop getting done,
nothing really to report at this time. It will probably be late next yr
before this car is up and going. Stay tuned.
Your Pres., David Newton
See ya at the other end!
BIG
BAD
BUICK
T- S H I R T S
These will be available at the LSPBC Events and
Club Meetings. Cost is $15.
Sizes are limited! Be there to get yours and not
miss out!
Thanks
Victor
NEXT LSPBC CLUB
MEETING!!!!!
October 25th @ 3pm
Spring Creek BBQ
Midway Rd just south of Beltline
in Addison
Get Published in Our Newsletter!
We are always looking for folks to help out and
write articles about events they attended or “How
To” and “Did you know” articles about Buicks. If
you would like to volunteer an article for an upcoming issue, please submit the article text in any
format and pics to Rob Downey at
[email protected]. Articles can be submitted
at any time for future newsletters.
So come on...GET TO WRITING!!
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LSPBC Monthly Car Show in Partnership with Cars Road Show on the
3rd Saturday of Each Month!!!
Norma’s Café—Carrollton
WHERE: Norma's Cafe 3330 Beltline Rd, Dallas, TX 75234.
WHEN: Show time is 5:00pm-9:00pm Registration from 5:00pm-6:30 Awards at 8:30-9:00
DETAILS: Norma's Cafe is now the 3rd Saturday night of every month. Classes are as follows: LSPBC 79
& Older, LSPBC 80 & Newer, Muscle Car, Street Rod, Pre 60’s Car, 60’s Car, 70’s Car, 80’s Car, 90’s Car, 00’s
Car, Sports Car, Import Car, Trucks 79 & Older, Trucks 80 & Newer, Custom Truck, and Low Rider. Motorcycles Welcome! 16 Classes! Best of Show Awards and Manager's Pick.**Door Prizes and 50/50 pot. Come early
for best parking we fill up quickly! Only 10.00 entry fee.
HOSTED BY: Lonestar Performance Buick Club
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Mail payment payable to LSPBC and a copy of
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Thank You for Your Support!
June LSPBC Race Winner—Carl B rimer
Please
Welcome all the NEW
LSPBC Members this year!!!!
Matt Proffitt
Chase Tucker
Anthony Garrett
Alec Hereford
Ken Bonzon
Dean Davis
Have a Battery Drain Problem? By David Ellis
Battery Drain? … If your radio clock stays on with the key off, then read on.
If the Radio Clock stays on with the key off, then if your car sits for around 3 days or more, it will not start. So what
you end up doing is you jump start your car and then go driving around for fun and to charge your battery. To fix
this problem you can just disconnect the battery each time you put the car up, but that is a pain. This battery drain
drove me nuts and so I put lots of time into tracking this problem down. I knew that the drain was around 350 milliamps and it have to be something that happened due to age to the car to cause the problem OR when the car was
new everyone would have just taken them back to the dealer to fix the problem. In other words the car did not
come with this problem. I did pull fuses until I found the problem circuit and it was on the CLK fuse. The CLK has
lots of circuits on it and is one of the two power sources to the Radio. This circuit remembers the radio stations,
time and the radio will not work with out it. I remembered that GM car radios that have a clock go off, if you turn the
key off, and you can push in the volume knob to get the time with the key off. So I went back to the Internet to
search for problems with the GM radio clock. I found the there are tons of Turbo cars out there with this same problem and lots of guy with the wrong ideas as to what is wrong. I found that there is a circuit that controls the clock
that some guys had this fixed by a radio shop but they really didn’t know what was fixed. I have had this problem
for years and I wanted to know all about it. I searched more on the internet and found one small email talking about
a transistor in the radio causing the problem. I traced the guy down and called him in Kansas and he told me which
transistor it was. I then pulled my radio and replaced the shorted transistor and clock goes off when the key is off. I
can let my car sit for weeks and it will still start, and it’s a healthy start. There is now no battery drain period. So I
found the problem and here is how to fix it. Look at the rear of the radio in the first picture and you will see what
looks like two Pac-Man and above the lower Pac-Man is a cut out or cave and just inside the cave you will see the
little problem transistor in the second picture. Go to a Fry’s or any electronics supply store and buy one NTE232
transistor, should cost $.49 or so. You will need to take the metal covers off the radio and remove the old transistor
(NOTE the flat side of the transistor) using a pencil type solder iron by touching the ends of the soldered wires
while lightly pulling on the transistor from the other side. If you do this right and are lucky there will probably three
little holes that you can put the leads from the new transistor in. Leave the leads on the new transistor a little
longer that the old one you just pulled out and replace with flat side facing the same way as the old one. Touch the
ends from the other side with the soldering pencil and add a small amount of solder on each of the three leads. Do
not leave soldering iron on any lead very long as heat will travel down the wire and destroy the transistor.
David Ellis
[email protected]
www.davidellisrealestate.com
972-849-8880
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More of the DCC RideZ of the TimeZ Show
Photos taken by Robert Downey, Carl Brimer, and Matt Proffitt.
Victor Segovia’s ‘87 Limited D84 and ‘86 WH1
Rob Downey’s ‘87 GN and ‘89 TTA
Chase Tucker’s ‘87 GN and Matt Proffitt’s ‘87 Limited D84
David Newton’s ‘86 GN and the club booth and display
Larry Johnson’s ‘87 GN and Stan Bradford’s ‘72 Skylark
Ralph Haber’s ‘70 GS Stage 1 and Jack Laswell’s ‘71 GSX
More of the DCC RideZ of the TimeZ Show (con’t)
Photos taken by Robert Downey, Carl Brimer, and Matt Proffitt.
And there were body building competitions...
A picture of everyone’s better side...especially with those shirts!
Wrestling and rock climbing activities….
Tammy and Fallon get asked to pose with the Vettes...
Arm wrestling….
A new Dodge Challenger SRT was also on display
And hot mom contests ...
More of the DCC RideZ of the TimeZ Show (con’t)
And the “Me tuff man can carry big balls” contest!!
The June LSPBC Car Show Heated Up!
Photo by Carl Brimer
Photo by Carl Brimer
Ralph Haber’s ‘70 GS Stage 1
Photo by Carl Brimer
One long bike!!!
Photo by Carl Brimer
Victor Segovia’s ‘86 WH1
The LSPBC Gang on site
Photo by Carl Brimer
Chase Tucker’s ‘87 GN and David Newton’s ‘86 GN
Photo by Carl Brimer
Photo by Carl Brimer
The July LSPBC Car Show Gets Even HOTTER!
Photo by Rob Downey
Hmmm...what’s that car in the middle doing there??
Photo by Rob Downey
Look at them all hard at work :)
Photo by Rob Downey
Nice turnout and variety.
Photo by Rob Downey
The lot was filled
Photo by Rob Downey
Some of the LSPBC Amigos gather around Danny’s ‘87 T
Photo by Rob Downey
What’s so popular in Victor’s trunk?
Photo by Rob Downey
Tammy Downey demonstrates the 50/50 sales technique
Photo by Rob Downey
August LSPBC Race Event at Redline
Photo by Carl Brimer
The Buicks turnout to battle in the August heat
Photo by Carl Brimer
Victor getting the tires swapped out
2008 LSPBC Race Series Point Standings
After the August Race: (Sept. rained out)
Photo by Carl Brimer
Patrick’s car makes it’s debut with the new paint and TA motor
with John Martin doing a few tweaks to it.
Photo by Carl Brimer
Patrick’s new TA motor looking nice
Carl Brimer
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Tony Rossi
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Chase Tucker
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Duke McCain
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Tim Winn
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Victor Segovia
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David Ellis
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Rob Downey
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Mitch Smith
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Danny Oviedo
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David Newton
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Ron Britton
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Jack Laswell
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Anthony Garrett
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Ken Bonzon
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Kyle Faulkner
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August Race at Redline (con’t)
OKC Ford vs. Buick EVENT
Saturday November 1st!!!
We need as much Buick
participation as POSSIBLE!
Go to www.okbuicks.com
for details
Photo by Carl Brimer
Deanna and David watch as John Martin makes David’s car
a little faster! ….Did it work David?
LSPBC members will meet at the Loves on
I35 in Denton on Friday at 12 noon to caravan up and the usual cookout for LSPBC
members will be provided!
2008 LSPBC Car Show Series Point
Standings
LSPBC ‘79 & Older Buick
1. Stan Bradford
2. Ralph Haber
3. Jack Laswell
4. Morgan Farrington
72 Skylark
70 Stage 1
71 GSX
77 Electra
36 points
33 points
27 points
12 points
LSPBC ‘80 & Newer Buick
Photo by Carl Brimer
Tim Winn’s beautiful window
Photo by Carl Brimer
Duke McClain unloads his T-Type
1. David Newton
2. Victor Segovia
3. Rob Pinkston
4. Danny Oviedo
5. Jean Laswell
6. Larry Johnson
7. Tammy Downey
8. Morgan Farr
9. Ron Rupert
10. Jayson Pruitt
Rob Downey
Victor Segovia
11. Bryan Alberti
12. Tony Rossi
Chase Tucker
Morgan Farrington
86 GN
86 WH1
87 GN
87 T
86 GN
87 GN
89 TTA
83 Rivi
87 GN
84 Rivi
87 GN
87 T white
87 T
87 GN
87 GN
87 T
84 points
24 points
22 points
21 points
20 points
17 points
16 points
15 points
14 points
12 points
12 points
12 points
11 points
10 points
10 points
10 points
Did You Know? (Fall Edition)
This is the 2nd installment of “Did You Know”. I’ve been studying the T cars since 1985 and
have seen a lot of different types of in my hay day. I’ve been going to car shows since I was
a kid and the GS Nationals since 1993 and have seen almost every type and color ever
made. I’m still learning about these cars and really enjoy knowing more. Unfortunately it’s all
Turbo car trivia because that’s all I know, some of you non-turbo folks can submit items for
those cars. I hope you like it!
Some of the T cars, GN’s, and GNX’s were used for FBI purposes. In 1986 and 1987 the FBI purchased
an inconsiderable
amount of vehicles
for their agents……
I’ve heard 80 or so.
I n 1986 they made no Limited turbo cars, they were all T
Types that were low or high optioned out. The reason I
say that is because the Limiteds had even more options
available on them in 1987 such as opera lights and cornering lamps as shown in the blue car.
The T Type name came into affect in 1983 and went away after 1986. 1978 models through1982 were
called Sport Coupes and in 1987 they were T Packages or Turbo T’s. T Type was actually for the
“touring” suspension and not “turbo”. Buick did make T Packages with out the V6 3.8 litre turbo engine in
1987
Did You Know? (con’t)
In 1987 all Limited Cars
were not Chrome Packages, some came with
the black trim….column
shift in all of them.
In 1986 the Grand National's grill was different from the T Type's grill. Most people think they are the
same but they are not. The T Type grill has every 9th upright bar wider than the ones in between, where
on the GN they are all the same going across.
In 1986 they made no chrome
package turbo cars….they
were all black trim.
On the Limited Turbo cars, the passenger dash area illuminates.
The dash plaque that reads “Buick” and the “Regal Limited” along
with the thin border line that surrounds it has a glow to it.
The same man who designed the turbo 6 logo also
designed the Lexus logo….Rollin Sanders….A.K.A Molly.
Riviera Owners Association Gathering
May 18th, 2008, Riviera Day 2008 – The ROA members in North Texas celebrated Riviera Day
with a gathering at Martha Pointer Park in Carrollton, TX. The weather turned out great as did
the members who attended and brought their Rivieras.
We had a wide variety of Rivieras represented including: a beautiful 1999 Silver Arrow #169
owned by Larry Carter, 1982 convertible owned by Kenneth Higginbotham, who’s about to begin
an interior restoration, a blue 1963 owned by Pete Lempert who’s just starting his restoration, a
stunning all black custom 1965 GS owned by Bobby and Ann Kennedy, Don Rundgren’s white
1963 and my 1984 T-type.
Others who stopped by were Morgan Farrington, who owns an 83 convertible and Jake Christmas with his custom black 1963. Jake also brought along his friend and fellow Riviera owner Jacob Jacquez. Hopefully Jake & Jacob will consider joining ROA. There were even a few curious BCA members, who also
stopped by to view our cars.
ROA member Larry Allen from the San Antonio area stopped in with pictures of his garage that’s been converted to
look like the outside of an old Sinclair station and is decorated inside like an old timey diner that houses his cars
along with real diner soda fountains! ROA member Kelly Fuller showed up to talk to us about his leather & plastics
restoration business that we could all use and local members Fred Ingerson and his wife stopped by to visit and
view the cars.
We all had a great time, getting to know each other and checking out the cars. Bobby and Ann Kennedy have offered to host a cook out at their house in the next few months. We missed those of you who couldn’t attend but
hope you will attend our next gathering. If anyone has any ideas on future events or can host one please let me
know. And as always if anyone needs anything let me know. If I don’t have the answer I can point you in the right
direction to get it.
Jayson Pruitt
Riviera Owners Association Gathering (con’t)
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Morgan Farrington & Company Inc. - 12/08
Automotive:
Mac’ Performance
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Computer / IT Services:
eSI2, Inc.
-12/08
Livestock:
MaresOnline
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Investment / Banking:
Jayson Pruitt—Oil & Gas Minerals
-12/08
Rentals:
Budget Rental
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Hot Rod Power Tour 2008
The Hot Rod Power Tour in June was one
of the best times I have experienced in a
long time. I highly recommend taking the
tour if you have the opportunity. The
LSPBC had a few members take part in the
tour this year which made it that much more
enjoyable. We saw hundreds of Hot Rods
and almost every make and model anywhere and everywhere. Hot Rods, Hot Rods and more Hot Rods combined
with driving and touring equaled fun, fun, fun for everyone!
We met in Little Rock the first day and took part in our own
personal parade which consisted of about 200 - 300
cars. We started at the fair grounds, then traveled to downtown Little Rock, then on to the river walk. We lined up
our cars together to represent Buick in style, representing
"Fast with Class".
The next day we participated in a massive car show which
consisted of so many Hot Rods that it would be almost impossible to count them all. I have never seen so may Hot
Rods together as a whole for an event in my life. It was truly
fantastic. To pump us up even more Hot Rod Magazine had
all the big time vendors there. Vendors like Edelbrock,
Flowmaster, Napa, Mother’s, Nitto, Sunpro, Royal Purple
and many, many more that gave away free goodies at their
camps. I usually don’t get too excited by the freebie bags
given out but these were not the regular run of the mill freebies. They actually gave out good stuff…The vendors really
gave us something to smile about.
Between all the venders, cars, and events going on, there is
no way that one could do it all in one day but we sure tried.
We enjoyed ourselves the rest of the day and prepared for
the following day as that is what we went for. We were all
pumped up about rolling out to Springfield, Mo. The drivers
meeting took place around 8:00 am and then we proceeded
to roll to our journey. The convoy of Hot Rods was so long
that it took about 2 to 4 hours to get everyone out of the fair
grounds. We proceeded to head north on highway 65
through the Ozarks of Arkansas. I have never seen such
pretty back roads. I am still impressed by how breathtaking
the scenery was that we were admiring. When you have
awesome, beautiful scenery multiplied with hundreds of Hot
Rods going down the same path you are heading, it just
makes it seem like you’re in car heaven.
There were hundreds of restaurants and gas stations along
our 3 hour drive and it seemed like every one had their parking lot filled with muscle head freaks like ourselves.
We would stop purposely just so we could see some of the
cars and to soak in the awesome display of vehicles passing
by. We then finally rolled in to Springfield where we had a
massive car show waiting on us at their fair grounds. We had
more cars from that area that were going to join the leg
which made it that much more fascinating. The people in
Springfield and throughout the whole experience were just
too cool. Nobody looked down on you for what you drove, if
anything, they were enthused to see you out in what you
brought. We enjoyed ourselves at the car show and saw almost every American Muscle car available to see.
We then went to our hotels to rest for the next leg which
took us to Topeka, KS. We woke up to a drizzly day and
proceeded to go on the next leg. The drizzle turned into
rain but the tour went on regardless of the weather. People in
the T buckets were just getting drenched but still loving the
awesome environment. Rain or no rain nobody cared, we
were all having fun and the wetness was not going to slow
us down or keep us from having our fun. We did travel at a
slower pace to make sure we all made it to Topeka safely
where once again we went to a designated area that would
hold all of us. By now the tour had multiplied and grown
with more Hot Rod Power Tour Enthusiast's. We enjoyed
the car show and we just happened to be at a race track
where they were letting you run your vehicle down the track
for free. We had a blast and by now we outran the rain so we
were enjoying life. We met some cool people on the way and
really enjoyed ourselves and made the best of the 3 days we
went out of the 7-day tour. Once again, I just want to say
that if you have a Hot Rod of some type this is one journey
you must make because it was truly a high for me and my
wife. We really had fun and really recommend it to anyone
who drives a muscle car. I was just disappointed that we
could not go on to Lincoln , NE and end up in Madison,WI
by day eight.
On the way to the Riverwalk parade in Littlerock, AR in style.
Hot Rod Power Tour 2008 (con’t)
Beautiful downtown Little Rock.
Relaxing after an exhausting day of car showing while waiting to be
seated at Outback
The car show in Little Rock
Little Rock, AR
Cool cars!
Hot Rod Power Tour 2008 (con’t)
Traveling down the road...
Cool cars!
Beautiful scenery
Drivers meeting in Little Rock before we began the tour
Fueling up at one of many stops!
Grand Nationals in the rain...the show must go on
Hot Rod Power Tour 2008 (con’t)
Topeka, KS bound
Hot Rod Magazine just happened to be at this gas station when a
soaked man in his roadster drove up, camera's went up quick!
Ralph loving life!
Here are our South African friends we met who had a 36 hr plane
flight just to be part of the Power Tour. Great bunch of guys
David lovin’ every minute of it!
Our South African friends vehicle who we graffitied
The Hot Rod Old School bus