2005_files/SLO VETTES May 05

SLO VETTES
THE CORVETTE CLUB OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY
Front Page
P.O. BOX 14134 SAN LUIS OBISPO CA 93406
MONTHLY NEWSLETTER ©
May 2005
EVENTS
Brian Cyester
Drive your Corvette to work day
Friday June 24, 2005, is “Drive your Corvette to
work day”. This is our opportunity to celebrate
America’s favorite sports car. This event is sponsored by Mid America Motorworks. All Corvette
owners across the United States are encouraged
to drive their Corvettes to work on Friday. It is
also a great opportunity to display our “SLO
VETTES” flags.
Thank you Jill
Jill Schlatter was the lucky winner of the 50/50
drawing at our last meeting at Players Restaurant.
Jill graciously donated her winnings of $67.50 to
the Christmas party fund. Her generosity is appreciated.
Well done
My Thanks to Chris and Glenna Petrush for organizing the Blackhawk Museum trip. It was a
great success and fun was had by all.
Next meeting at the Quarterdeck
Be sure to attend our next meeting on Friday the
13 at the Quarterdeck Restaurant in San Luis
Obispo. Don’t miss the special prize. It’s new,
it’s fun, it’s a gift. Attend, and YOU might win.
The March event was the Gamblers Classic in
Primm Nv. S.L.O. Vettes had five cars in attendance. The rain held off for the most part. I want
to congratulate Gary and Chris McPherson for
taking home best of show from the Primm Hotel.
Our next event is the Blackhawk Museum Run.
Chris was taking last minute entries at the meeting. Becky and I will have to miss this one as we
have a prior commitment.
May 15th is the Circle Bar B event with the Santa
Barbara club. This will be a lot of fun like always.
May 21st. is the Maquire's detailing event at the
Nohr's. Be sure to sign up for this event. You
won't want to miss it.
May 22nd is the Ragged Point lunch run. A flyer
is enclosed.
I was sent a paid flyer for the All Covette &
Classic Chevy Show put on by the Vette Set on
June 12th. If anyone thinks they can go, let me
know. I'll give you this flyer.
I wish all of you safe travels, see you soon.
Other events coming up Apr. 16-17th - Auto cross and car show, at the
Palm Springs Airport.
Al
Apr. 23rd - Antelope Valley Corvette Car Show.
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NEXT MEETING
May 13th 6:00P.M.
QUARTERDECK
SAN LUIS OBISPO
Apr. 23-24th - Santa Barbara Classic & Hot Rod
Show.
May 1st - A Legend on Display Corvette Show,
San Leandro.
May 5-8th - Crusin’ Morro Bay Car Show.
May 22nd - 6th Ann. Strawberry Sunday Classic
Car Show, Orange County.
May 21st Crusin’ Corvettes of Kern County.
May 27-28th Checkerboard Corvettes gathering,
Primm Nv. (Red & Black Covettes only)
If you are interested in any of these events let my
know. I have flyers.
See you at the next event.
Brian.
BLACKHAWK RUN
Chris Petrush
On April 16th, 4 Corvettes met in San Miguel
for a run to Danville to the Blackhawk Museum. Chris & Glenna Petrush, Frank
Bridgeman and Vicki Davenport, Dan and
Vivian Miroballi and Dave Garren and his
friend Steve. Dan and Vivian's daughter and
son-in-law drove their Corvette from Fairfield
and met up with us at the Blackhawk Grill for
a wonderful lunch prior to the tour. Accompanied by a docent, we viewed both floors of
classic and one of a kind automobiles. Upstairs in the museum were pre WW2 vehicles
and downstairs were post WW2 vehicles.
Sorry, no Corvettes were on display, however,
another club from Sonoma was there prior to
our tour so there were a good number of Corvettes in the parking lot. After completing the
tour, Dan and Vivian headed off to Fairfield
and the remainder of us (thanks to Dave for
thinking this up) drove off to Dublin to the
Arlen Ness Showroom and Museum. For
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those of you who have never heard of Arlen
Ness, he and his son Cory Ness, are featured
on such shows as American Chopper, etc. Arlen is one of the pioneers of custom motorcycles (read Harley Davidson). Arlen
has had a lot to do
with Polaris and their
design of the Victory
Motorcycle line and
also carries Victory's
(from stock to custom) in his showroom.
Arlen Ness
also sells custom mot o r c y c l e s
manufactured/built
by him and other
companies. Frank
and Vicki would like
to thank Chuck Giles
for helping them out
and letting them use his Corvette. Its very
fast. Had it up too 130 and it was purring.
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SUNSHINE / HISTORIAN
It was encouraging to see all of you last
meeting at Players. Not much for the VP to
report. Unfortunately, Jill & I had to cancel
the Blackhawk run to our dismay. We hope
to see everyone next SLO County meeting
and at the Circle Bar-B run. Remember,
parking is very dusty; fresh horse road apple
corral. Best bring a ride other than a clean
Vette. I have listed a couple of items stored
in my garage for sale. Hopefully it will be
useful to some lucky member.
Remember Pismo Derelicts each Saturday
at 8 A.M. in Pismo Beach.
Until then or there-a-bouts-“Save the Wave”
icki Davenport
Birthdays for May;
Suzanne Bradford 8th
June Giles 15th
Jason Vinson 18th
Vicki Davenport 25th
appy Birday and Anniversary a
of you om e club.
FOR SALE
MACHINE SILVER / BLACK 2005 C6
Corvette Jer
CONVERTIBLE
FULLY LOADED EXCEPT NAV.
6 SPEED, HEADS UP DISPLAY, ON STAR
All merchandise was brought to the April
Meeting at Players. $220+ worth of items
were sold. We still have plenty of items
left. New items were shown and introduced. For those of you who requested
sizes that weren't available, I will order
them after selling additional merchandise, as I've exceeded my merchandise
budget for this year. The more you buy,
the more I can order!
Please feel free to contact me
sierradog84@msn.com or 227-4264
IN DASH 6 CD STACKER
MSRP 57,515
CHUCK GILES 2387800
at
Chris
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FOR SALE
C-5 VETTE TIRES
Meeting called to order by Al at 6:00 p.m.
32 people were in attendance.
Al reported that Ron RIce is in the hospital after
transplant surgery and is doing fine.
1,500 MILES
TOYO TIS HIGH PERFORMANCE FRONT245/45ZRI7 REAR-275/40ZRI8
$600 FIRM CALL JER 805-473-2918
Drive Your Corvette to Work Day, June 24th.
Vice President- Jerry said he went to L.A. over the
weekend to a Deralete Donut event and they had
over 250 cars. In Pismo Beach last Saturday, he saw
over 100 cars.
FOR SALE
There will be a name tag drawing next month, by
Jerry.
GMC-TRUCK TIRES & WHEELS
1,000 MILES
Tresurer- Jan read the report, motion was made to
accept and passed.
BOYDS 17 X10 ALUM 8 LUGS 6 CENTERS
BF GOODRICH 35/12.5 R 17 MUD TERRAIN
$1,200 FIRM-CALL JER 805-473-2918
Secretary- Becky read the minutes from last meeting.
A motion was made to accept and passed.
Events- Brian talked about the Gamblers Classic and
that we had five cars in attendance. He talked about
our next event, the Black Hawk Museum. Chris had to
know by tonight who was going. He also talked about
the Morro Bay Car Show, the Circle Bar B, the
Maquire's detailing event, and he handed out flyers
for the Ragged Point Lunch Run. He talked about
other events coming up also.
Newsletter- Jon said he was going to try sending the
newsletter via e-mail one day, and event flyers the
next day because of the size of the file.
Merchandise- (JUNK IN THE TRUNK MAN) Chris had
new shirts and new colors. He also has tote bags on
order.
Membership- Chris said we have 43 memberships
and 83 members.
SHERWIN WILLIAMS
SAVES THE DAY!!
The Paso Robles Sherwin Williams store
came to the rescue and donated the paint that
was used at Ron and Anne’s house. With the
store managers permission, I would like to run
their ad below for the remainder of the year.
Thanks again Lesley.
A picture of Lesley and help is on the next
page immediately following the Member of the
Month article.
Club Historian- Vicki had a phone number and address for Ron Rice.
50/50 was won by Jill. She donated it back to the
club for the Christmas party.
Member of the month- Frank and Vicki.
Becky.
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MEMBER OF THE MONTH
Frank Bridgeman & Vicki Davenport
Frank and I met in 1995 in Atascadero.
Frank has three children, one granddaughter and a grandson due on May 5th.
Frank’s two teenagers live with us now. I
have two boys, one living in Korea
teaching English at the University of
Seoul and the other living in Santa Cruz
who will graduate this year with a degree
in criminology.
Frank was born and
raised in Castro Valley, Calif and move to
this area in 1984. I was born in Pomona,
California. While growing up in L.A., I
was a regular on the Mickey Mouse Club
and the youngest of the original cast members. I went on to the T.V. show Wagon Train,
modeled for Breck Shampoo, magazines and Morton Salt labels. I got out of the business after a short career and got married. Frank has been a painter for 28 years and
has his own business for four years now, Van Go Painting. I have been retired from Cal
Poly after 17 years there. We bought our first
Corvette in 1998 and love it. We hope to one
day buy a new one. We both love to travel in
the motor home and fish. We’ve been thru-out
the U.S. and Canada, cruised the Carribean,
Hawaii and Mexico and hope to go to Alaska
soon to visit Frank’s Mom who recently moved
there. Frank is a past president and Vicki is
now serving as Sunshine/Historian. We are
honored to be this month’s members of the
month.
Frank and Vicki
Leslie Jessie Nancy
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COME JOIN US FOR THE RAGGED POINT LUNCH RUN
SUNDAY, MAY 22nd
$19.25 PER PERSON WHICH INCLUDES YOUR
CHOICE OF LUNCH, COFFEE, TEA OR SODA
(sprits also available)
PLEASE SEND CHECKS PAYABLE TO S.L.O. VETTES BY MAY 18th TO;
BRIAN CYESTER
8450 DEL RIO RD.
ATASCADERO, CA. 93422
NAME _______________________
HOW MANY PEOPLE___________
TOTAL AMOUNT $_____________
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