Vol 17 Iss 1 - The Lone Star Performance Buick Club

Lone Star Performance Buick Club
Volume 17 Issue 1
Winter 2005
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Show Director’s Report
What’s New for 2005?
Upcoming Events
Club News
Officers :
President:
Rick Kinworthy
Vice President:
David Newton
Secretary
Morgan Farrington
Treasurer:
Morgan Farrington
LSPBC President Rick Kinworthy and Vice-President David Newton present the awards to
2004 show points winner Jack Laswell during the Christmas party.
Show Director:
Robert Davison
Race Director:
Patrick Smith
Newsletter:
Carl Brimer
MCCC Representative:
Morgan Farrington
Webmaster:
Daniel Oviedo
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LSPBC Treasurer Morgan Farrington graciously hosted our end of year Christmas party.
The sunny weather was nice enough to hold the elections and general meeting outdoors,
and; every attending family contributed something to eat for the whole group. If you missed
this event, you unfortunately missed out on some quality food and fun. The meeting after
lunch provided the new officers a great way to listen to the members about what they would
or would not change for 2005. The limitations of the 2005 budget and it’s implications was
also discussed. These issues will be reviewed in more detail at the club’s next meeting.
See inside this issue of “Quick Times” to view the schedule of upcoming events.
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A Word From the Show Director
Well, another show season is over. All of the forms and show paraphernalia have been put on the shelf
until next season. I can’t say, in all honesty, that it was a great year. It was OK, but not great. All total,
we had about 430 cars pass through Chuck’s lot in our seven shows plus another 40 in the Ewing show.
That’s an average of about 59 cars per show. That’s down from last year when we averaged about 75 cars
per show. So you can see why I say it was only an OK year. But this much I do know, everyone who
came out each month to show their cars had a good time. So we did OK. If everyone works as hard this
year as they did last year, we’ll do better.
Our club member participation was strong, as usual. At several shows we had 20 – 25 Buicks in the lot. That was an impressive view. Also, there was a big increase in the number of GS’s on the lot. We need to work on developing an even
larger contingent of pre-80’s cars. Remember, they put the “P” in Buick performance.
I think there are several reasons our attendance was down last year. First, there is the slumping economy. Many people
just didn’t seem to have as much expendable income this year as they did last year. We saw that each month in the 50/50
pots. David got very creative with some of his special offers to help increase the size of the pot. For everyone’s sake, I
hope that will change this year. Second, we were surrounded by new shows popping up monthly, some nearly in our back
yard. I think this year we’ll have to do a better job of advertising our shows just to combat the increasing number of shows
each month. We’ll have to work harder to get our flyers out in the public’s eye. I have some ideas we can kick around at
the upcoming meetings. Give it some thought over the next few weeks and let’s try to come up with a plan of attack.
The show “points race” was a huge success. Congratulations to Jack Laswell who won the top honors and to Tina Newton
who finished second, a few points behind. All you guys and girls remember that if we want to continue our show and our
race incentives (PRIZE MONEY) next year we’ll have to find ways to increase our income to finance them.
As your Show Director, I had a lot of help at each event last year. I want to personally thank all of the members for their
support and help each month in organizing and running each of the shows, and a special thanks to David Newton (Vice
President) for being the “booming voice of LSPBC” for each show. He did a great job, as usual. And thanks to Rick Kinworthy, (President) and Morgan Farrington (Secretary/Treasurer) and all the other great guys and girls who worked hard each
month. Without their assistance, my job would have been much harder. I personally had a lot of fun.
I’ll see you at the next meeting, and remember that we have the joy and pleasure of driving some of the fastest cars on the
road today. Just knowing you can dust off a Mustang or Corvette at the light is enough for me.
— Robert Davison
General Rules for the LSPBC Car Shows in 2005
1. You must be a member of LSPBC to earn points.
2. The points will only be awarded to Buick or Buick powered vehicles entered in the LSPBC classes.
3. Ten points will be awarded for each entry. One point will be earned for each vote received.
4. We have split up the LSPBC class in to two classes: LSPBC ‘79 & older and LSPBC ‘80’s and newer.
5. At the end of the year we will award $250.00 and a plaque to each of the two LSPBC class points leaders.
6. We will award a 1st place trophy or plaque for each show. No 2nd place trophies will be awarded in these classes.
7. If we do not have a car in both classes, we will award only one 1st place trophy. We will hold the other trophy to be used
at the next show.
8. Members can only win the 1st place award once (per car) per season, but; the full amount of points earned will be
awarded at each event.
This means we need your participation!
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2005 Car Show Classes
Club Meeting
All of the classes have been changed a little this year.
There are now 16 classes total.
The 1st Club Meeting of 2005 will be at Pappa’s
BBQ on Northwest Hwy at IH 35E, 4:00pm, February 19th. Don’t forget to bring your Buick!
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LSPBC ’79 & Older
LSPBC ’80’s & Newer
Muscle Car Pre ‘80’s
Street Rod
Pre 60’s Car
60’s Car
70’s Car
80’s Car
90’s Car
00’s Car
Sports Car (2 Seat)
Import Car
Pre 70’s Truck
70’s & 80’s Truck
90’s & Newer Truck
Custom Truck
Tentative Car Show Schedule
Chuck's Cruise Night Hosted by LSPBC
The shows are held at the Chuck’s located on the SE corner of Hwy. 121 and Preston Rd. (Minyard’s parking lot) in
North Plano. Morgan & Robert will finalize all of the details
with Steve Barnett. Here are the tentative dates:
March 19th*
April 16th
May 21st
June 18th
July 16th
August 20th
September 17th
October 15th
November 19th*
Registration:
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Participant Voting:
7:00pm to 7:30pm
Trophy Presentations: 8:30pm
Pappas BBQ is located at 2231 W. Northwest Hwy
First and Second Place Trophies will be awarded
for each class with the exception of the LSPBC
classes. See general rules for details.
*New shows added this year.
Join LSPBC for 2005!
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LSPBC Drag Racing Series
We are glad to say that we will be back at Redline again this year!
Here are the tentative dates:
April 9th
May 14th
June 11th
July 9th
August 13th
September 10th
October 8th
Payouts per race are:
1st....................... $125.00
2nd ...................... $75.00
3rd ....................... $50.00
4th ....................... $50.00
General Rules
1. You must be a paid member to participate.
2. In the event of an odd number of cars, 4th place will be
decided by best reaction time.
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3. The money paid out by the track will go back in to the
club’s budget for 2005.
4. Points will only be awarded to the driver when racing a
Buick or Buick powered vehicle.
5. Ten points will be awarded for each round competed.
Five bonus points will be awarded to the event winner.
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Payouts at the end of the year for the points leaders has
been expanded to four places. They are as follows:
1st .......................$ 800.00
2nd ......................$ 500.00
3rd .......................$ 250.00
4th .......................$ 200.00
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The 2005 officers met at LSPBC Treasurer Morgan Farrington’s top floor corner office to discuss the budget, scheduling and
other club topics. Pictured clockwise from left in the first picture is Webmaster Danny Oviedo, Race Director Patrick Smith,
Vice-President David Newton, News Editor Carl Brimer, President Rick Kinworthy and Show Director Robert Davison.
LSPBC Denso Discount
LSPBC Group Purchase for Denso Oxygen Sensors
Club member Mitch Smith has arranged a group purchase
price for these sensors through Monarch products. For
those not familiar with the Denso O2 sensor, it has a great
advantage over the GM one wire version because:
1. It has a lead filter which allows use of leaded race fuel .
2. It has been reported to last up to 5 times longer.
3. It is a direct replacement for the GM P/N AFS-20 sensor.
4. It is $10.00 cheaper with shipping.
Member Bill Duke’s Stage II Grand National at the 2004
Buick v. Ford event at Thunder Valley Raceway Park in
Noble, OK.
Where To Get Wholesale GM Parts
I trade with Lance Dirksen (Parts Department) at Don Snell
Buick on Central Expressway and Royal Lane in Dallas
(214-363-7251). Lance, and his co-worker Jesse Calame,
have known a number of the club members for many years.
In fact, Jesse used to do heavy duty wrench work on the
GS’s many years ago. Jesse has since left about a year
ago due to his wife’s illness, but; Lance continues on. I
recently spoke with Lance and he will give wholesale pricing to any LSPBC club member. Additionally, he is able to
look up and get parts for any GM car or truck product. He
is knowledgeable and always helpful.
The current price is $16.39 + $6.00 S&H to the Arlington
area. Multiple people could coordinate a simultaneous purchase to effectively reduce the S&H cost to each person!
To order, call 1-888-800-9629 and give the sales staff the
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P/N 234-1001 (1-wire sensor)
Group purchase Acct# 12876 (LSPBC)
Credit Card#
Shipping Address
Thanks Mitch!
Morgan Farrington
LSPBC Treasurer / Secretary
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Statewide Buick Bash March 5th!
Temple Academy Dragway is located nine miles south of
Temple, Texas on Hwy 95 near Little River.
There was a large turnout for
the 2004 event.
LSPBC
member and Webmaster
Daniel Oviedo took the top
spot among the Buicks last
year. It is expected that there
will be even more Buicks in
attendance this year. Don’t
forget that there will be a lot
of cookin’ on and off the track
if you get hungry!
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