JULY 2016 - Connecticut Street Rod Association

CONNECTICUT STREET ROD
ASSOCIATION
JULY 2016
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CONNECTICUT STREET ROD ASSOCIATION
P.O. BOX 1517
WALLINGFORD CT, 06942
203-697-9113
ESTABLISHED 1967
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If you would like to become a CSRA member our regular meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the
month which are held at CSRA Clubhouse on 316 Woodhouse Avenue Wallingford CT. 7pm
BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2016
PRESIDENT:
VICE PRESIDENT:
TREASURER:
SECRETARY:
DIRECTOR:
DIRECTOR:
John Jarush
Anthony Perrone
Dennis Dagliere
Paul Benoit
Greg Piesyna
Steve VanBlarcom
860-284-0090
203-634-4150
203-239-3791
860-568-7404
203-729-8847
203-641-3451
NSRA
NSRA STATE REPRESENTATIVE:
NSRA SAFETY INSPECTOR:
NSRA STATE ADVISER:
Sally Benoit
Armand Couture
860-568-7404
203-634-000
SWAP MEET CHAIRMAN
Bob Kesilewski 203-410-7744
NEWSLETTER STAFF
NUTMEG NEWS EDITOR: Junie Barretta
NUTMEG NEWS STAFF:
Donna Barretta – Dennis - Moe
Dagliere STAND-BY’S:
Laura Falconieri
BIRTHDAY REMINDERS: Junie Barretta
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Gary Spinnato
Jay Petrosky
Rich Sweezy
John Grestini
David Novicelli
Jessica Novicelli
Ray Long
Greg Piesyna
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CLUB EVENTS
DATE TIME EVENT
Prez Sez
June 20th
Aug 21st
John Jarush
Hi members and friends,
New England went from rainy and cold
to sunny and hot with no rain to speak of. My yard
would look like a desert if it wasn`t for my
sprinklers. And my water bill sure shows it.
Lake Compounce held their Fathers
Day car show which featured cars from CSRA,
Unfortunately the only member to bring any cars
was myself, Too bad, because it was a great day. We
had a blast on the rides and the day went by so fast,
they had to call us at 6pm to ask us to drive the cars
out. Many people I spoke to during the day said
they saw on social media that CSRA was having
cars there so they went to see them, but were
disappointed that there was only two. Lake
Compounce was so impressed by the visitors taking
selfies and overall enthusiasm that they may have
another car show during the year. And my stepson
Paul flying over taking pictures that they posted on
their Facebook page was a big hit too. The CT
Dragway reunion was an awesome show as usual.
Well over 700 cars, great weather too. Our newest
show Hot Rods 4 Heroes will on August 21th also at
New Life Church. While the subject of New Life
Church, Pastor Will`s Indy car had a great finish at
the 500. Congrats go out to him and his team. Glen
Reilly show at Silver City Raceway on August 14th .
Don`t forget Cars & Coffee is the third Sunday of
every month and a few Garage Nights too. Check
with Greg or the newsletter for more info.
Klingberg`s show had a full lot, only about three
empty spaces before some started leaving. Many
cars you just don`t see anywhere else. The
Goodguys Rhinebeck was OK for a return to an old
venue, but they did have some rain, good ‘ol
Rainbeck.
The Legislative session ended with
nothing bad this time, but there’s always next year.
More on DMV, or is it moron DMV, anyway they
seem to have sent out tax bills from the wrong
towns and are still having problems with their
computers. Go figure
That’s it for this time,
See you at the meeting,
John
5 pm
2 pm
&
PLACE
Connecticut Dragway Reunion New Life Church
Hot Rods 4 Hero’s
New Life Church
GET WELL Get well to Gerry Wilkos our thoughts
and prayers go out to you and your family!
WE HEAR!!!
We hear!!! Paul Pawlowski was going to a party after
the Quinnipiac Show and wanted his face painted
like one of the Member’s of the Kiss Band!!!
DON’T YOU HATE THIS!
SENT IN BY FRANK BARRETTA III
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July
4, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on
August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
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STUFF FOR SALE
If you have stuff to sell you can e-mail me at [email protected]
and please write in the subject box “Stuff for Sale”
FREE FOR THE TAKING 1 or both 2- 8’- 6” x 8’- 6” x
40’ long Steel Storage containers
Call Vinnie at LABCO WELDING
960-632-2625
7/1/16 FOR SALE – 1955 Ford Fairlane Victoria 292 - V8,
2 speed automatic. six-volt two barrel carb with dual
exhaust, 4000 miles on the rebuilt motor all numbers match.
Great Sunday driver. Drive it away for $17,000 or OBO
Call Mark
203-206-4996
6/1/16 FOR SALE – For Sale...1947 ford convertible steel
body, chevelle chassis, corvette grill, frenched cordova
headlights, caddy taillights, 350 Chevy, B&M blower, twin
webber side draft carbs, VDO gauges, leccarra steering
wheel, 5" chopped top that works, grey interior, louvered
hood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Asking $ 28,500 OBO
Call
207-284-3933
5/1/16 FOR SALE – 1955 Ford Fairlane Victoria 292- V8,
2 speed automatic. six-volt two barrel carb with dual
exhaust, 4000 miles on the rebuilt motor all numbers match.
Great Sunday driver to drive it away. . . . $17,000 or OBO
Call Mark
203-206-4996
4/1/16 FOR SALE – Steel Quonset Hut 30’x30’x14’ brand
new never put up cost $8,000 will sell for . . . . . . . . . $6,000
Call Ron
860-684-4282
3/1/16 – For Sale – Brand new 1935 pair of Commercial
plates still in plastic container . . . . . . . . . . . . .$100 or OBO
Call Barry
203-666-7683
3/1/16 – For Sale - 40 Ford Std. Coupe has no patch panels,
no rust. Options include the following: Black PPG BC/CC,
Red and black leather interior, Classic gauges, Vintage Air,
Walker Rad, 327 sbc 350 TH, 9 inch Curry, P & J front end
with split wishbones, Chevy P/S box, Wheel Vintique
wheels. Powder coated ss caps, and trim rings, Flaming
river column, Ron Francis wiring, Newport wipers,
Drake boards, Juliano's wheel, Power seat. Asking $45,000
Car has less than 5000 miles since built.
Call Joe Troilo from PA.
610-268-2169
2/1/16 - FOR SALE ’61 Full dress FLH. . . . $35,000 OBO
Call Chuck
203-753-7139
1/1/16 FOR SALE - 1953 Chevy sedan del. has nova clip
with new disk brakes and tubular a frames, Chevy sb with
turbo 350 trans and Nova rear, body in very good condition
floor pan has been patched, has rust free 54 front end. Have
new head light buckets and taillights. Drive train is all
hooked up will need exhaust from the headers back. Not
running you can’t drive it home bring a trailer.
Asking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5000.00
I don't need help selling and won’t answer texts
Call
860-982-0319
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NO PASTOR FASTER:
Marotti Racing has aligned with Schmidt Peterson
Motorsports with the No. 77 team car, which will start in
CHURCH LEADER HEADS TEAM AT 100TH INDY 500
the 10th position at Sunday's Indy 500.
Rev. Will Marotti worked with Schmidt Peterson
"When I started, I called the track first at Indianapolis and
Motorsports to put Marotti Racing in the 100th running of
IndyCar and told them what I wanted to do," Marotti said.
the Indy 500.
"They said, 'Listen, that's a great ambition, but understand
Rev. Will Marotti formed Marotti Racing in 2015. His
this. A thousand people a year like you call us saying they
team's first race is the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500
want to do this, and nothing ever takes place.' You're
Marotti is the first active minister leading a race team at the
driving at something here that's extremely difficult to find,
Indy 500
but none of the teams really took us seriously."
Be it on the radio, on television or in person, Rev. Will
A pastor leading an Indy Car team does seem incredibly farMarotti hasn't missed an Indianapolis 500 since 1969. But
fetched, but Marotti pressed on, calling every Indy Car team
this year is very different.
that was out there.
In the 100th running of the race, he incredibly has the
Finally, Sam Schmidt listened. Schmidt, a former driver
chance to win it.
who is now a quadriplegic, owns Schmidt Peterson
In one of the unlikeliest stories of this year's Indy 500, there
Motorsports. With Schmidt's mentoring and the help of
will be "no pastor faster" than Marotti, who is the owner of
sponsors to finance the investment, Marotti Racing was in
Marotti Racing, founded in 2015.
business. The Indy 500 will be Marotti Racing's debut.
His nickname has stuck for obvious reasons, as Indianapolis
"Our goal was pretty simple," Marotti said. "We wanted to
Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson has verified
introduce the brand, which is Marotti Racing. We wanted to
that there has never been an active minister leading a team
establish a footprint at Indianapolis and really start looking
to race at the Indy 500.
to build for the future. Those goals have been met, and
"It's curious, it's unique, but people have been very, very
we're already looking at the future. We're excited to be here.
accepting and very gracious," Marotti told CNN in a phone
It's just a phenomenal opportunity."
interview. "And yeah, there's a few jokes along the way,
like 'Jesus take the wheel' and the 'faster pastor' thing, but
it's been a great experience."
Instead of buying a ticket and sitting with other fans,
Marotti will be watching the race at the timing stand with
the engineers and the strategists who are in radio
communication with the team, soaking it all in.
"I'm just here to learn," Marotti said. "I've been a fan my
entire life. I know a lot about it because I've been a fan and
I've been a very enthusiastic fan, but at this level, this is
something I'm stepping into for the first time, so I am 100%
a student."
Lifelong love of racing
Marotti, a senior pastor at the non-denominational New Life
Church in Wallingford, Connecticut, said he fell in love
with racing when he was a little boy, watching quarter
midget racing at a local track with his father. A little more
than a year ago, he started thinking about starting his own
racing team.
He knew it wouldn't be easy, and he knew it would be
expensive, revealing that having one car for one month for
the Indy 500 costs around $1 million.
Oriol Servia at the wheel
Marotti Racing has aligned with SPM to enter a car in this
year's race. The No. 77 Honda will be manned by veteran
driver Oriol Servia, who has been driving Indy cars since
2000 on mostly a part-time or substitute basis.
This will be Servia's eighth Indy 500. He has finished as
high as fourth, which came back in 2012 for Dreyer &
Reinbold Racing.
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"He's a phenomenal driver," Marotti said of the 41-year-old.
"I don't know why this is, but he just never landed with a
long-term, good situation. This arguably will be the best
situation he has ever been in, best team, best equipment."
Servia, who qualified in the 10th position for Sunday, also
will have some help from his teammates. SPM driver James
Hinchcliffe -- in a nearly fatal crash last year at Indianapolis
Motor Speedway -- earned the coveted pole position,
meaning he starts first. Mikhail Aleshin will start in
seventh.
"To have all three cars in the top ten, no other team can say
that," Hinchcliffe said after winning the pole.
All of a sudden, Marotti's Indy 500 dream is turning out not
to be a Hail Mary. He has a legitimate chance of winning on
Sunday.
And the thought alone of fulfilling a childhood dream
makes the pastor emotional.
"You're out on the basketball court," Marotti said, his voice
quavering, "And in your mind, you're shooting for the last
shot, and the buzzer goes off, and you let the ball go, and
you swish it, and you win the championship, and you did it.
Well, it's that same kind of feeling for me here in
Indianapolis, having in my mind, visualized a thousand
times, driving here and coming under the checkered flag
first.
"If we win on Sunday, the hardest thing for me is going to
be trying to keep it together and act like a professional."
S&S SPEEDWAY
Jeff Barnes found that Tony Steward and Harvick were at
the S&S Speedway in Pennsylvania the same time we were
going to York, Dennis, Armand and I were thinking on
stopping when we went to York, but for some reason we
didn’t stop. Now that would have been fun to race with
those guys.
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THANK YOU NOTES
Hi Members, I just wanted to thank you all for the
delicious fruit basket. Billy Coleman
Thank you, Johm Kozak
Dear Connecticut Street Rod Association, I have ground up
around cars and working on cars with my dad, but I was
surprised when Mr. Zorzy told me I won an award. In my
years in high school I learned and gained a lot of experience
in the automotive field, thanks to Mr. Zorzy. This has
driven me to have a love for cars. I plan to use this
scholarship towards a technical training school, Universal
Technical Institution. I plan to take automotive technology
which includes in depth automotive training. I will be taking
a Ford Fact Program to be a certified Ford Technician.
Thank you very much for this honor. I appreciate you
helping me to reach my gold.
Sincerely John Kozak Haddam Killingworth High School
MHRA
Michigan Hot Rod Association
Gentalmen, Just a note to say thanks. Thank you for your
generous donation of $1,000 at the NSRA Nationals in
York this weekend. Yopur continued support helps us offset
our expebsives and keep the MHRA Rod Repair Shop on
the road. We look forward to seeing you again along that
road.
Max W. Lunsford
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STUFF YOU DIDN'T KNOW! SENT IN BY RAY LONG
Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Forgive them for
everything.
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CNN NIGHT
It was a beautiful night the weather was perfect we had over
700 vehicles and a lot of spectators. The crackle fest started
at 7pm as one by one they started those big and small block
engines up and the 50/50 had a good pot. The New Life
Church took care of the food and drinks.
Pastor Will who is a big hot rod fan wanted just one car to
spin the tires, but because we don’t want that to get carried
away believe it or not he was turned down by a few
people, maybe because of the cops we had on stand-by, but
later on we did hear two cars spin tires.
FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE CLUBHOUSE
Friday night went better than expected, we had over twenty
people and after we ate hotdogs, hamburgers and we even
had dessert most went out to either play bocce or instead
watch them play. The red team had the better players, but
the green team won all the games.
Now what happen that morning to me should be in the “We
Hears” part of the newsletter, but it was too long so I put it
back here. I went to the clubhouse that morning at 8:30 to
clean the bocce court that was loaded with weeds and didn’t
finish until 12:30 so I then decided to cut the grass.
After I finish cutting the lawn in back I noticed I lost my
cell phone, after a lot of looking around I finally heard it
beeping in the shed, after I had locked the shed and found
my keys were in my truck and I had no phone to call for
help because all the gates were locked and my only way out
was to climb the fence.
Well being a onetime ironwork and able to climb buildings,
a somewhat high fence shouldn’t be a problem so I thought.
I grab a chair and made my way to a table near the fence got
up on the table put the chair over the fence, but it bounced
away to where I couldn’t reach it. Now the fun begins I put
my right leg over the fence and sat on the bar which I
bowed just a little and when I tried putting my left leg over
the dam fence that bowed way the hell over, which left
me holding on with my arms and left ankle hook to the bar.
If you were driving by on I-91 north bound you would
have seen a 72 year old man hanging on to a bent fence for
dear life. I tried reaching the ground with my right leg,
but I couldn’t reach so I just unhooked my left leg and
slam the ground. The good thing about this episode is
nobody saw me, I hope!!!
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GARAGE NIGHT
Garage Night at Steve Borelli’s had a good turnout. Steve
made sure everyone had plenty to eat and drink. He also so
had plenty of room in his spacious garage and let’s not
forget the donuts.
Vicky Long recouping with her dog
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JOHN JARUSH RACE CARS
The girls doing their thing
GUESS WHO BOUGHT STEVE’S RACE CAR
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