Newsletter - Pittsburgh Chapter NCRS

PITTSBURGH TRI-STATE CHAPTER NCRS
Our25th Anniversary
RPM NEWSLETTER
Restoration, Preservation, Motoring Fun
FOURTH Quarter
Pittsburgh Tri-State Chapter NCRS
2016 EVENT SCHEDULE
March 13 Judging Seminar at John Kuhns Garage
in Latrobe, Pa. Coordinator: Bill Bryan and John
Kuhns
April 16 Chapter Mini-Judged Meet at Dave
Kitch’s Garage Slickville, Pa Coordinator: Bill Bryan,
Dave Kitch
June 11 Chapter Judged Meet at B&D Activity
Center, Latrobe, PA. Coordinator: Judging: Bill
Bryan, Registration: Don Geary, Overall Chairman:
John DeGregory
Aug 25-28 Corvettes at Carlisle
September 18 Annual Picnic at Ken Amrick’s in
Belle Vernon, PA Coordinator: Paul DiSanto, Frank
Gavron
October ?
Fall Gateway Clipper Tour, Pittsburgh, PaCoordinator: Paul DiSanto
October ?
Fall Road Tour – Car Gallery
visit, Greensburg, Pa
Coordinator: Mike Bucheit
December 4
Christmas Banquet. Route 66
Grill, Greensburg, PA 2:00 PM
 Coordinators: Paul DiSanto and John DeGregory
PARTICIPATE
2015 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Pittsburgh Tri-State Chapter NCRS
2016 Officers and Chairpersons
Chairman
John DeGregory
724-832-3786
Vice Chairman
Treasurer
Secretary
Judging Chairman
Membership
Inside Coordinator
Outside Coordinator
Youth Coordinator
Newsletter Editor
Historian
Don Geary
Norm Neffield
Jim Wainwright
Bill Bryan
Judy Geary
John Jeffries
Paul DiSanto
Ron Horak
John Maher
Barry Holmes
724-834-5586
724-832-1935
814-942-2758
814-931-9101
724-834-5586
724-443-6982
412-751-5579
412-554-2732
724-845-1133
724-468-6609
Board Members
at Large
Bob Cirilli
Mike Bucheit
724-449-3323
724-423-3080
WINTER 2015
Wishing all of you a healthy and Happy New Year.
Most of you have your
Corvettes all nice
an cozy with one or two car
Chairman’s
Message
covers to get thru the coldBy
winter
months.
John DeGregory
In Greensburg I still see a fair amount of late model Corvettes being
driven as of this date. We haven’t had any snow!
Our chapter had a large turnout for our annual banquet and membership
meeting at The Willow Room a month ago.
The food was absolutely outstanding as was the service and elegant
banquet room. We thank Paul DiSanto for his hard work in arranging
this affair
Your chairman selected two members that received an award for outstanding service to the Pittsburgh Tri-State Chapter of NCRS for 2015.
Bill Bryan and Paul DiSanto received that award. Not to say that a lot
of you didn’t pour your heart into help as achieve another successful
year and on our wall to A Top Flight chapter award.
See your 2016 Membership Booklet for most of the upcoming events
for this year. Don and Judy Geary did a fine job on this booklet. Those
of you that did not attend the banquet were mailed one. It’s hard to
keep up with all the Corvettes you buy and sell and email changes. So
let us know if that is the case.
First event of the year is March 13that John Kuhns Garage in Latrobe,
PA.
John is a gracious host and has us back often to his old gas station type
garage and showroom, and restaurant. I.
This is a combination Judging seminar and also a Technical seminar
coordinated by Bill Bryan and John.
It is with great sadness to report that long time NCRS member and
CCWP member Ed Shablik passed away early January after a long illness. Ed was a board membe, a friend, and outstanding member of our
chapter. Also one of the nicest guys you would want to meet. He had an
auto repair business for an eon and will be missed by all. Ed had a passion for Corvettes and most any other car. We will miss our friend.
May he rest in peace with our Lord and watch over us.
Our chapter has a board meeting the 2nd Tuesday of the month at the
Lamplighter in Delmont. Meeting is open to all members. We invite
you to attend those meetings to see what goes into entertaining our
membership and keep the chapter running. We most certainly would
love to have you get involved and help us.
Look forwarding to seeing you soon.
John E. DeGregory , Chairman
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YEAR END ENJOYED BY ALL - CHRISTMAS 2016
Photo’s
By
Don Geary
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Photo’s of Mini Meet
By Don Geary
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We have been campaigning our Sportsman Red 1954 Corvette since January. We have done unexpectedly
well with a Local (Tri-State) Top Flight, 2 Regional Top Flights, Bloomington Gold Certification and Corvette Carlisle NCRS Gallery in August. We had a good 3 days at Carlisle with a great NCRS Gallery indoor
display outside of the main gate. Our plan was to haul our '54 to Wisconsin the second week of September for
the difficult
NCRS Performance Verification
Judging. Even
on the best of days, passing that
test is difficult
with these older cars and also mandatory for qualification for Dontov Award consideration. The
Sunday before departing for
Wiconsin the
vacuum wiper motor died and in
road tests, had a
gasket oil leak we couldn't find so
we cancelled the
trip knowing that would be an immediate failure
of the PV.
Over the summer we looked into qualifying for
some of the
various Concours d'elegance shows
on the east coast
just for the fun of it. We were surprise to get accepted into the prestigious Hilton
Head Concours
d'elegace show for Oct. 2016 and
the Edison Concours show in October of this year
in New Jersey. Knowing the concours shows are pretty top notch in terms of car quality and difficulty to get
accepted we also knew we didn't know what we were doing!! So off we went to have some fun. We got our
period '50 clothes out, hard to believe I had most of it in my closet!! Owners tend to dress for their car's year.
Wow, were we blown away with the cars there!! Ninety five cars, three Pebble Beach Concours Best of Show
Cars, 5 Pebble Beach Class Winner's or participants, and several Hershey Concours Class Winners in attendance.
Our class had two 1 of 1 ever produced cars
1953 Cadillac.We were the only Vette in
dance. To our shock surprise we were
one of the two Award of Excellence
our class following the Best of Class,
Chrysler Imperial,1 of 1 car. That put us
awards parade that proceeded through
Edison's estate portico to receive our
bon. What a neat experience and
check off!! We had a great time playing
day!
and a 1 of 7
attenawarded
Ribbons in
1958
in the
Thomas
award ribbucket list
cars all
Picture is on the show field and on
Carpet under Edison Estate Portico.
Award
Gene and Linda
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Hi All,
It seems I learn something new everyday and I am used to it but
this surprised me. Many of you probably know this but I found it
interesting. The C-5 and C-6 Corvettes have two fuel tanks. Attached is a picture, now I understand why it is so expensive if you
have to do tank or sending unit repair or replacement. The driver’s
side functions as a typical tank and the passenger side operates
by pressure feeding the driver’s side.
Robert D Cirilli
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Sunday Oct. 18 Fall Road Tour
On Sunday the 18th of October 26 members of our Pittsburgh chapter met at
the Lamplighter restaurant on Route 22 in Delmont and traveled to Cranberry, PA where they connected up with other chapter members and guests
from the local Buick club. They then caravanned 12 miles north to see the
car collection of Dave & Karen Berg. The collection is on a secluded property and includes a wide variety of cars and memorabilia.
The collection features cars from a common 1932 Chevy sedan to 1900’s electric vehicles, three wheelers and his own taxi cab. There are several Rolls
Royce’s and Mercedes. There was a wood sided school bus and an antique
tow truck. Certainly there was something for every palette, except Corvette’s.
Dave’s collection doesn’t include any corvettes.
Also along every wall was memorabilia from signs to promotional items to
parts. In one corner even a Tucker section with an NOS radio. There were
three Texaco 1920’s fully restored gas pumps and plenty of vintage oil and
automotive fluid containers. Lots of antique license plates decorated the
walls.
After touring the three building collection we stopped at The North Park
Lounge for some nutrition, refreshments and plenty of camaraderie.
The day showed us clear skies, rain and even a little snow but from Ohio to
Altoona, the Corvettes rolled in. It was a fun filled but chilly day with a little
different slant on the car hobby.
Bob Cirilli
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WE THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL TOUR!!
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John W Maher
RPM Editor
1179 School Road
Leechburg, PA 15656
2016 NCRS Ocean State National Convention
Providence, Rhode Island
Coming July 17-22, 2016