Cascade Corvette Club

P.O. Box 363 Eugene, OR

97440 www.cascadecorvette

club.com

President

Larry Thomas 541-484-2820

Vice President Gerry Swartz 541-688-2654

Secretary

Nancy Garboden 541-729-8405

Treasurer

Simone Thomas 541-484-2820

Board Members

Stan Stiles

541-683-2706

Suzi Blomquist 541-974-1771

Dick Mart

541-485-8766

Vic Wolfe 541-688-7504

Jim Garboden 541-729-6303

Jim Tatum

541-484-0132

Newsletter Jim & Nancy

Garboden duckvett@comcast.net

February 2018

In my frustration after playing the game for the last time on Veterans’ day I went on line and did some shopping. I purchased a mechanical analog clock face type gauge. The Vepagoo Pro Tire Pressure Gauge with glow-in-the-dark dial from the Amazon website. $11.09 was the price. There must be 100s of gauges that are similar and look alike with various manufactures that are probably all in the same place somewhere in China. The cool thing is that this gauge holds the reading on the dial until you release the pressure with the bleed valve and you can bleed the air off the tire with bleeder valve while the gauge is still connected to the tire valve and then stop the release when you get the pressure you want. So, I set four tires to 30 PSI and went out on the road and within a few minutes the corvette instrument panel said all four tires were at 30 PSI. Call me a Happy Camper.

This works.

Gauges I have tried

Larry’s Line My annoying and reoccurring problem. Just one problem,? What might that be Larry, you might ask. So here is the setup. Just as I am getting ready, in a rush, to make it to a club rendez-vous it occurs to me that I need to check my tire pressure in the Corvette. I know the newer C’s have sensors in the tire rims that read out once you’re out and on the road, but in the garage the readout seems unaware of any pressure added or removed from an individual tire. Latter when you’re out on the road the read outs respond, but by then it is too late to do anything about low, high, or imbalanced pressure. I have a small compressor in the garage. The inexpensive gauge

and control valve on the hose are useless in getting the correct pressure into

the tire. A quick check of the readouts on the instrument panel may not and

most likely will not tell that you added or that you removed any air from a

tire until you are two miles down the road. As I mentioned the gauge on the

compressor hose is worthless.

The cheap or free pencil type gauge never reads the same value twice and is hard to read when it is on the tire valve. The pencil style will not tell you when to stop letting air out when the pressure is too high. Somewhere, in recent years, I acquired a digital gauge that only worked a

short time and had several unexplained buttons and almost always had a

special coin style dead battery. It had a readout that measured to a tenth of

a pound which is a bit of over kill. Again, there is no way to bleed off air

with the digital unit to a specified value other than trial and error.

VETTE GAZETTE

Valentine’s Day Dinner Wednesday February 14, 2018 at

Willie’s Lebanese and Northwest Cuisine Restaurant 400 International Way Springfield, OR 97477

Because last year was so much fun and the food was fantastic--Cascade Corvette Club will again have our Valentine’s Day sit down dinner in the banquet room at Willie’s Restaurant. We will start with a social at 6:00pm and dinner will be served at 6:30pm. There will be a no host beer and wine bar in the banquet room, with mixed drinks available from the front bar for your enjoyment. This is a pre-order and pre-pay event. Please include a 17% gratuity with your dinner pre-payment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Send your dinner selections along with your pre-payment made payable to Cascade Corvette Club by Feb. 6

th to: Gerry Swartz

3327 Knave St. Eugene, OR 97404. Names:______________________________ Menu Choices: (sorry, no substitutions) Quantity Price

Fresh Salmon-served with fresh sautéed vegetables and saffron rice. $24.00 $__________ Filet Mignon-choice cut seasoned and broiled to perfection (Medium). Served with horseradish mashed potatoes and fresh vegetables. $29.00 $__________ Chicken Picatta-free range chicken breast sautéed and served with white wine lemon caper sauce. Served over a bed of saffron rice and fresh sautéed vegetables. $22.00 $__________ Pasta Alfredo-linguini pasta tossed with a parmesan garlic cream sauce. $18.00 $__________

½ house salad---$3.00 $__________

½ slice mud pie--$3.00 ­­­$__________ Food Total $_________ 17% gratuity $__________ Total Payment $__________

Save the Date Valley River Corvette Show 2018

April 14th and 15th This is a display to showcase the all

American Corvette. (It is not a concour or judged car show). Please consider displaying your Corvette

this year.

More information coming soon!

We will not be going to dinner following the meeting on February 9. Instead we ask that you to eat before the meeting and we will have a Dessert Bar for everyone after the meeting. The next Board Meeting will be held February 6, 2:00 pm at Larry & Simone Thomas’ home. Members are invited to attend to share ideas or questions. The World of Speed Museum in Wilsonville, OR will have Corvettes on display as their feature marque until April 15. While no club outing is planned at this time, we encourage you to visit the museum. PS - Lifetime Members of the NCM receive discounts at over 900 museums in the US. World of Speed Museum is one of them.

Cascade Corvette Club is currently in conversation with Airport Rotary Club in regards to their “food truck event” to be held August 25-26 at the Glory Bee facilities on Hwy 99N. It is expected that at least 50 food trucks will be participating. CCC will be in charge of public parking. For this each CCC member participating will receive one beer voucher and the club will receive a monetary donation. Some (early) suggestions of things to do this year include brunch on the paddle-wheeler in Salem, Indy Car Racing at PIR, IMSA Racing at Laguna Seca.

↓ This is where you come into the picture

☻

The Board needs your input! What do you want to do this year? Crater Lake? Burger run to the Coast? Drag racing at Woodburn? If you have an idea, we want to hear it. If you have not already done so, please mail your club renewal and dues soon. Those who have not renewed by the end of March will be dropped from the club roster.

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Misc. Notes

Model Year 2018 Production Numbers

For the model year, Chevrolet built a total of 9,686 Corvettes. The shortened model

year total is the lowest since 1959 which saw 9,670 Corvettes built. We guessed earlier

that the number would be close to the 9,752 Corvettes built during the last short model

year, 1997 with the introduction of the C5 Coupe and 2018 production nearly equaled

that mark.

The number one selling model was the Corvette Stingray Coupe which accounts for

31.7% of production, followed by the Grand Sport Coupe which saw 25.6% of produc-

tion, and the Z06 Coupe which had 24.3% of 2017 Corvette production. Here are the

numbers and percentages by model:

The Corvette Stingray Coupe is the entry model and so we always like to look at the

trim package penetration to get an idea about the buyer. For the Stingray Coupe, the

top trim package is the 1LT, chosen by over half of buyers with 1,753 (57.1%) vs 782

for 2LT (25.4%), and 543 for 3LT (17.7%). That means that 18.1% of ALL Corvette

sales are the base model coupes with the base trim package. I always think about that

number as those who stretched their car-buying budgets to get to the mid-$50k where

the base Stingray resides. That’s something to think about with the C8 mid-engine on

the horizon.

Grand Sport buyers opted for the 2LT over the 3LT and 1LT packages while most Z06s

were outfitted with 3LZ trim packages followed closely by 2LZ and then 1LZ.

Only 24% of Stingray Coupe/Convertible buyers opted for the Z51 performance pack-

age. For Grand Sport, 7.8% of Coupe/Convertible buyers opted for the Z07 Performance

package while 7.9% went with the J57 Carbon Ceramic Brakes option.

Model Quantity Percentage

Stingray Coupe 3,068 31.7%

Stingray Convertible 735 7.6%

Grand Sport Coupe 2,569 26.5%

Grand Sport Convertible 512 5.3%

Z06 Coupe 2,353 24.3%

Z06 Convertible 449 4.6%

Totals: 9,686 100%

For Z06 buyers, 20.8% selected the Z07 Performance Package while another 2.2% select-

ed the J57 carbon ceramic brakes (without Z07). As far as percentages go, the 2018 mod-

el year saw a huge drop off in Z07/J57 orders for Z06 which is why Chevrolet offered that

awesome $5K rebate on the J57 option earlier in the year. In 2017, 32.5% of Z06 buyers

selected the Z07 Performance Package while another 17.9% selected the J57 ceramic

brakes.

Across the board, the take-rate on the 8-speed automatic transmission was 78%. For Z06,

72.1% of buyers selected the 8-speed automatic.

The top selling color once again across all models was Arctic White by a large margin with

20.3% of production followed by Black (16.3%) and Torch Red (14%). On the low side,

just 85 Corvettes were painted in the new Sebring Orange tintcoat. Talk about rare! Only

11 Sebring Orange convertibles were built across the 2018 model lineup – two Stingray

Convertibles, three Z06 Convertibles, and just six Grand Sport Convertibles wear the new

color.

We reported the final 2018 Carbon 65 production numbers last week. Chevrolet will build out all 650 Carbon 65s with 297 Grand Sports and 353 Z06s. Here are those stats again:

Color Quantity Percentage

Arctic White 1,966 20.3%

Black 1,575 16.3%

Torch Red 1,355 14.0%

Watkins Glen Gray 1,115 11.5%

Ceramic Matrix Gray 1,099 11.3%

Admiral Blue 703 7.3%

Long Beach Red 599 6.2%

Blade Silver 571 5.9%

Corvette Racing Yellow 399 4.1%

Black Rose 219 2.3%

Sebring Orange 85 0.9%

MODEL TOTAL Z07 J57 Brakes 7-Speed Manual 8-Speed Automatic

GS Coupe 262 47 30 50 212

GS Convertible 35 5 2 8 27

Z06 Coupe 281 93 6 55 196

Z06 Convertible 72 17 5 15 57

TOTALS 650 162 43 158 492

VETTE GAZETTE

VETTE GAZETTE

February 2 - Vic Wolfe February 7 - Tee Muntz February 8 - Dennis Hough February 8 - Roger Braswell February 9 - Janet Minter February 16 - Jim Tatum February 16 - Mike Donnelly February 18 - Andrea Herling February 20 - Pam Reed February 21 - Julie Perry

NCM News

It’s Hot Wheels Challenge Time

Ambassadors and their clubs all over the country have been collecting Hot Wheel size Corvette diecast toys to donate to the NCM Educational Outreach Program. These toys are then given to children’s groups when they visit the Museum. Each child goes home with a Corvette souvenir. I have 45 Corvette Hot Wheel toys that I will be donating - I challenge Cascade Corvette Club to match or exceed that number. I would love to donate 100 cars to the Museum. Toy cars that we donate do not need to be new or still in their original packaging, but they should be in good to very good condition. Please bring your Hot Wheel Corvettes to the February & March meetings. I will be donating these in person when we attend The Bash in April.

Happy Birthday!

Club Clothing

We have two sources for

embroidered club clothing:

A Stitchin’ Time

Tangent, OR

Order form available on their

website:

www.a-stitchin.com

and

Fiddler’s Green

Eugene, OR

In stock and

catalog items available

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Up Coming Events

Very incomplete list for 2018 - more events and more info as it becomes

available.

February 11 Corvette & High Performance

Swap Meet Puyallup, WA

February 14 Valentines Day Dinner

6:00 pm at Willie’s on International Way

April 26 - 28 Michelin NCM Bash Bowling Green, KY

May 23 - 25 Pre-Big Sky tour

May 25 - 28

Big Sky Meet Helena, MT

http://bigskycorvettemeet.com/

May 28 - 30 After-Big Sky tour

June 1 - 2 Monterey Coast Corvette Cruise

Seaside, CA www.montereycorvettes.com

June ? Corvettes on the Columbia

Tri-Cities, WA

June 16 WVCA and Capitol Chevrolet

1st Annual Corvettes by the Carousel Show ‘n Shine

July 7

Corvette City Graffiti Weekend

Roseburg, OR

July 20 - 21 Corvettes on the High Desert

Eagle Crest

September 10 - 15 Museum in Motion

Pacific Coast Highway Tour (registration not yet open)

August 11 7th Annual

Salute to Veterans Car & Motorcycle Show

Hillsboro, OR

Aug. 25 & 26 Airport Rotary

“Food Truck Event” Eugene, OR

August 23, 2019 6th National Corvette Caravan Departs for Bowling Green, KY

Now available at Kendall Chevrolet / Cadillac

New 2017 Coupe 2LT, Arctic White, Jet Black, auto

$60,437

New 2017 Coupe 3LT, Blade Silver, Adrenaline Red, auto

$76,752

New 2017 Grand Sport Coupe 1LT, Black, Black, auto

$65,477

New 2017 Grand Sport Coupe

2LT, Black, Black, auto $65,915

New 2017 Grand Sport Coupe 3LT, Watkins Glen Gray, Tension Blue, auto

$76,927

New 2017 ZO6 Coupe 3LZ, Watkins Glen Gray, Black, auto

$93,900

New 2017 ZO6 Coupe

3LZ, Torch Red, Kalahari, auto $99,562

New 2018 Coupe 1LT, Arctic White, Black, auto

$62,005

Cascade Corvette Club Is Sponsored By

Kendall Chevrolet 846 Goodpasture Island Rd.

Eugene, Oregon

Cascade Corvette Club

Membership Registration

2018

Annual Dues: Individual $40 - Couple / Family $45

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Board

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Thomas’

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EPUD

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Corvette &

Hi-Perf

Swap Meet

Puyallup

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Day

Dinner

Willie’s

6:00 pm

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February 2018