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Chairman Ramblings- By Rick Smiley

As you can see my ramblings are rather short this month. Reason why? I just returned from Corvettes of Carlisle. And what a trip it was! Everyone should go at least once. If you like Corvettes, this is the place to be. It is miles and miles of Corvettes, corvettes for sale, and all years of Corvette parts. Per my watch, we walked 15 miles, yes 15 miles. That is down-hill and uphill. The downhill part was easy. And still I did not see all that was to be seen. I see a return trip in my future. On the way to Carlisle I had the opportunity to visit the Corvette Museum. I had not been to the museum since it first opened. Let me tell you, it has changed a lot. The door we use to use to

go into the museum back then is now an exit. One cannot fathom the sinkhole until you see the outline on the floor and the map on the wall. The hole was huge. The damage done to the cars is incredible. I can go on and on about this trip but I think I will save it for a future article. I have included a few pictures however.

That is all she wrote.

“The Chairman”

Just a friendly reminder, our meeting on September 8 will include a Judging School and a Judging Meet. Cars to be judged will be a ‘63 FI roadster and an ‘81 with very low miles. So please be early as our meeting will start promptly at 9am. Registration is still open online.

Thank you, Dave for the great school on Corvette Fuel Injection. Thanks also to those that furnished the Fuel Injection examples so that we could actually see and examine the subject matter.

Welcome to our two new members: David Sandefur from Wichita, and Brad Hillhouse from Lincoln, Nebraska. It’s great to have both of you in our local chapter.

September 2018 Volume 10, Issue 9

Midway USA Tune Up

Find us at… www.midwayusancrs.org (Ctrl click on all links)

Inside This Issue: Page Inside this Issue: Page

Chairman Ramblings 1-3 Meeting Minutes 13-14

NCRS Events Calendar 2 Chapter Event Calendar 15

Judging Chairman Notes 4-9

Vice Chairman Notes 10-11

Swap ‘N Shop 12

Did You Know 12 Membership Application 16

Midway USA Chapter Merchandise for Sale

2

Judging Meet & Judging School

September 8

Don’t miss it!

At Davis-Moore Chevrolet

9:00 a.m.

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NCRS Events Calendar (National & Local)

NCRS web site http://www.ncrs.org then click on the Events link. Or click the underline link for registration then enter your NCRS Forum credentials then click the event to register

Sep 8 Chapter Meeting, Judging Event,

Judging School

Sep 20-22 Mid-Atlantic Regional @ Altoona, PA

Oct 13 Chapter Meeting

Oct 25-27 Texas Regional @ Frisco, TX

Nov 10 Chapter Meeting

Dec 8 Chapter Meeting

2019

Jan 9-13 Florida Regional @ Lakeland, FL-

Midway USA Chapter of NCRS, Inc. Established January 28th, 2009 Officers & Committee Chairs

Chairman Rick Smiley (316) 729-8388

Vice-Chairman Dave Houlihan (316) 682-9729

Secretary Jim Coote (316) 789-0005

Treasurer Dallas Keller (316) 200-4125

Judging Dave Houlihan (316) 682-9729

Bev Smiley (316)-729-8388

Chairman Emeritus Kurt Geis

Newsletter Editors Kerri Keller & Jim Coote

Membership Chairman Dale Green

Midway USA Chapter Merchandise Midway USA Chapter Banner

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2’ x 5’ is $45.00 Prices good with $25 min

order. Prices include tax.

X-Press Signs & Graphics

5830 W. Hendryx Ave. Wichita, KS 67209

(316) 613-2360

Midway USA Name Tag

$7.00 + tax for either magnetic or pin type

Can be purchased at Apple Graphix

2429 W Douglas Ave (316) 942-5426

Chairman’s Ramblings—Rick Smiley (Continued)

Sinkhole View at Corvette Museum

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P O Box 75273 Wichita, Kansas 67209

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Judging Chairman Notes—Dave Houlihan and Bev Smiley

August’s Mechanical Fuel Injection Judging School included LOTS of money sitting on our table!

A big Thank You goes to Carl Alter, Joe Elliot, Larry Guhr and Kent Michael for their help.

Carl brought his 1963 F.I. unit and manifold. Joe displayed his collection of various years NOS

Fuel Injection body emblems. Larry brought a vintage manometer used for Ratio Lever Stop

(efficient combustion), Economy Stop, and Power Stop settings on mechanical fuel injection. Kent

brought his 1962 “Flat Top” unit including distributor and cable drive.

Correction: during my presentation I incorrectly stated multi-point fuel injection on 1957-65 units

was “ganged” (all left side fired then all right side fired). This is true of 1985-1993 electronic fuel

injection units. Kent Michael correctly pointed out 1957-65 mechanical units, while multi-point, used

continuous flow injection. (As demonstrated in short video clip.)

Kent also brought along two informative videos. First, was a 1957ish Rochester Products

promotional film showing production and testing of their new mechanical fuel injection units. Sec-

ond, was a current informational clip about mechanical F.I. units. Most telling for 1965’s production

halt to mechanical F.I., was 1965 option L84 - 375hp F.I. priced at $538, vs $129 for L76’s 365hp.

Again, thanks guys!

September’s schedule includes our Fall Judging Meet. We’ll have two cars. Dave Dennis’ recent-

ly restored 1963 - just returned from Bloomington Gold, and Brad Hillhouse’s 8000 mile 1981. Both

should be interesting cars. Please register on-line as a judge (2 judging points). Meet includes a

judging school (1 point).

Later this year I plan to have a C2/C3 frame judging school. And no, I’m not going to ask folks to

bring a frame upstairs to our meeting room! C3s were a rebody of C2s, and although 1963 thru 1982

frames shared many characteristics, there were numerous frame changes over that twenty year

lifespan.

Months ago, I was contemplating a “what-fits-what” frame question. After numerous web

searches I couldn’t find a definitive correct complete listing. There were partial listings. There were

speculative/guess work listings. And some just plain wrong listings. So, what to do? - of course -

start another list.

Gathering up all these lists, I edited together a more definitive set of changes. A NCRS Technical

Discussion Board search of “frame” generated numerous threads providing much additional

information.

I need to do some additional edits, but my plan is to submit a detailed listing (email) of year-to-

year C2/C3 frame changes to you members for your consideration/review. Collectively, I think we

can generate a useful document. So, I’d appreciate you giving some thought, in the next few months,

to frame quirks/changes you may have come across. Thanks. Dave

mailto:[email protected]


Pictures from Judging School on Fuel Injection Units

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Vice Chairman Notes — Dave Houlihan

Some of you have noted your “About Me” profile section on NCRS’ web page now has a separate

listing of “Flight Judging Points” and “Concours Judging Points”. Totals of these two categories are

what counts toward judging awards (Master Judge, 200 Club, etc.).

Speaking about “Concours” judging. This year “Corvettes at Carlisle” events include a

Grandstand Area, NCRS Concours judging demonstration 11AM Saturday. Also at Carlisle. Brad

Hillhouse’s 1968 (Flight judged at Midway USA) is one of twenty 1968 Corvettes selected for their

50th Anniversary Display. On Page 27 of link below.

http://www.carlisleevents.com/carlisle-events-media-center/directories/pdf/2018-Corvettes-

Carlisle.pdf

Should be back from Carlisle when you’re reading this. Thanks. Dave

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Vice Chairman Notes — Dave Houlihan

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Swap ‘N Shop

FOR SALE:

1968 Only Wheels (2) K18 5 13 AG—$300 pair, (4) K17 12 20 AG—$650 set, and (4) AG stamp only—$600 set.

Call Dallas Keller (316) 200-4125

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WANTED: Your unwanted Restorer Magazines. Call Dallas Keller (316) 200-4125 Carburetor Choke Rod Hair Pin Clip Remover (Jesus Clip Remover) Call Dallas Keller (316) 200-4125

Bowtie Breast Cancer awareness pins.

$5.00 each.

Please send Kerri ([email protected]) your FOR SALE and WANTED items so that I can list them in the newsletter. Many National NCRS members read this newsletter beside Midway USA members.

Thanks! Kerri

Did You

Know?

Check out page 14 for the answer

Did You Know?

Windshield washers, courtesy light, sun shades, temperature- controlled radiator fan, and parking brake warning light all became standard equipment in what year model Corvette?

My plan was to include the minutes from the July Board of Directors meeting held on July 20, 2018 in Las Vegas after the National Convention had concluded. However, I could not get the document to copy over into this document and keep the same formatting. After several failed attempts, I gave up. So instead of including them in this document, I will just send a copy of the minutes with the email when I send our newsletter. I will work on this and maybe next time I can just include it.

Kerri

NATIONAL CORVETTE RESTORER SOCIETY BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MINUTES

The August 2018 monthly meeting was held on the 11th, and called to order at 9:00 A.M. by our chapter Chairman, Rick Smiley. There were lots in attendance but I forgot to count! Rick has the sign in sheet which I have not seen yet. I’ll try to do better, but you do have other options!

Old Business:

The first bit of “old business” was to welcome new members, which seems to me that this is in the wrong section of the News Letter since how can “new members” be old business? However, Rick opened the meeting with a welcome to Brad Hillhouse of Lin-coln, NE and David Sandefur, a local member who has visited us before. Brad had us judge his ’68 prior to taking it to the Nationals in Vegas in July where it Top Flighted again. Soon he’ll be heading to Carlisle to earn another award. David has a 1981 which he brought to our meeting at the beginning of this year seeking some advice on what he should do or not do to some problem areas. His seeking advice was impres-sive to me because some of us just jump into a project until we are in over our head. I’m not there yet, but I’ve sure been close more than once!

Dallas Keller, our committed treasurer, was asked to share his financial insights into our current standing. First off, we have $2,126.67 in the checking account and our non-interest bearing $100.00 in savings, which gets us free checking. These figures are af-ter our check to the American Cancer Society which will be matched by the National Organization up to their designated limits. The money came from our June All Cor-vette Show which took in $1,307.00. With expenses of $329.62, our net income was $977.38, leaving us $900.00 for our charity.

Our Membership Chairman, Dale Green, sent his apologies for not being able to be at to-day’s meeting. He was in Colorado and once again letting his work/career take prece-dent over all of his activities. Dale always adds a positive spin to everything being said in our meetings and we miss him when he prefers to further his career.

New Business:

Rick congratulated the group in attendance for their contributions to our local chapter of the NCRS organization in achieving another year of meeting the requirements of a “Top Flight Chapter”. This is the 8th year in a row. Not only that, it’s every year since the chapter started after our year of probation. Our current and past Chairmen, Rick and Kurt Geis, deserve kudos for leading and guiding the chapter to achieve this award while still having fun. We are, aren’t we?

Rick informed us that the upcoming judging event in September is now on line and re-quests that we sign up as soon as possible if we plan on helping to judge. Since we are a small group, we need all the help we can get so please volunteer and register soon.

As most of you regulars know, there was no meeting last month because of the Nationals in Las Vegas which drew a number of our active members. Casey Coats, one of the attendees, discussed some of his experiences doing “Operations” in the heat at 5 AM. Dallas and Kerri were there also and involved in judging “Bowtie” mechanical and in-terior on 1970-1972 candidates. There were a lot of nice cars, probably all 118 in at-tendance were in that category, but there was a shortage of ‘68’s, and it was their 50th anniversary. Maybe they didn’t want to compete with last year’s turn out of ‘67’s!

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Meeting Minutes - Midway USA Chapter of NCRS, Inc. Minutes Prepared By Chapter Secretary Jim Coote

Meeting Minutes - Midway USA Chapter of NCRS, Inc. Minutes Prepared By Chapter Secretary Jim Coote

Rick made an urgent appeal for articles for the Newsletter. It sounded awfully familiar to what Kurt used to say, but I fully understand the plea as it gets hard to come up with something to say every month. The minutes are just a compilation of what was said with “some interpretation”, but the Chairman has to dream about what he should say every month. Can’t some of you help him? An article, brief or otherwise, on what you have learned or experienced in your fascination with Vettes would sure help out a lot and give some variety to the Newsletter. We have an excellent Editor in Kerri, so don’t worry about your grammar or spelling. Huh, Rick?

Rick decided it was time for the group to talk about our car show. What’s to talk about? The attendance mainly. For the last two years, participants have dropped way off. Our registered count this year was 50, 13 of which were member cars, meaning only 37 cars were competing for prizes. There were 12 vehicles not associated with any of the 3 local Corvette Clubs. In the past, we have been way over 50, even approaching 100, so it’s no surprise we are wondering what we have to change in order to increase participation. As discussed, Wichita Riverfest, which included the Black Top car show and is no longer sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, may be affecting our attend-ance as does the June rainy and/or windy and hot weather. So do we move the date to the fall to escape these possible influences and try to mix it in with all the other car show events? We seemed to be somewhat speechless as Rick tried to get a discus-sion going by painting a bleak picture. Thank goodness for our new member, Brad, who shared his experiences with a car club in Nebraska. He apologized for speaking up being a new member, but I’m sure we all appreciated his ideas. We need more “new” members like that! Mike Rowley, not a new member but recently a more ac-tive one as he retired and spends more time in Wichita, added his two cents by sug-gesting that we use Social Media to create interest as the clubs in Arizona do. I hope Mike did realize that we might need someone to take on the role of “Social Media Chairman” if we pursue his contribution. We will need someone without much grey hair cause technological advancements have somewhat been ignored by us oldies. You know, the same ones that drive old Vettes!

At 10:15, Kerri Keller made a motion for the group to adjourn and Joe Elliott seconded. We then got set to listen and learn from our Co-Chairman, Dave Houlihan, as he con-ducted a Judging School on Fuel Injection.

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Did You Know Answer (from page 12):

Windshield washers, courtesy light, sun shades, temperature-controlled radiator fan, and parking brake warning light all became standard equipment in 1961 models.

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2018 - Midway USA Calendar of Events - 2018

2018

Sep 8 Monthly Meeting, Judging Event, Judging School

Sep 20-22 Mid-Atlantic Regional in Altoona, Pennsylvania

Sep 27 Attitude adjustment night at Side Pockets (6:15 pm)

Oct 13 Monthly Meeting

Oct 25-27 Texas Regional in Frisco, Texas

Nov 10 Monthly Meeting

Dec 8 Monthly Meeting

2019

Jan 9-13 Florida Regional in Lakeland, Florida

Apr 11-13 Queen City Regional in Sharonville, Ohio

May 16-18 New England Regional in Boston, Massachusetts

Jul 14-19 National Convention in Greenville, South Carolina

Sep 19-21 Northern California Regional in Lake Tahoe, California

Oct 24-26 Texas Regional in Frisco, Texas

2018

Chapter

Event

Schedule

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Member ______________________________________________________________________

Address _________________________________ City: _______________________________

State ___________ Zip: __________ - ______ Email: _________________________________

Home Phone ________________ Mobile _______________

List of Corvettes:

Year Color Style Additional Comments for Corvette

_____ _______________ _______ _________________________________________

_____ _______________ _______ _________________________________________

Restoration Experience (if any) _____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

Date ___________ NCRS Member # _______

National Corvette Restorers Society

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Membership Application

Chapter Membership Dues:

Midway USA Chapter of NCRS ($20.00) __ Check # ____ Cash ______

Nat’l NCRS Membership is Required. Register by Internet http://www.ncrs.org/services/membership

Nat’l NCRS Membership is $45.00 Register by Phone (513) 760-6277

Mail this application and check written to Midway USA Chapter NCRS:

Dale Green - Midway USA Membership Admin

2105 N. Glen Wood Ct.

Wichita, KS 67230-1771

(316) 636-2410

Midway USA Chapter of NCRS in Wichita, KS promotes the enjoyment, preservation and restoration of Chevrolet Corvettes.

We meet the 2nd Saturday of each month, 9:00 a.m. at Davis-Moore Chevrolet 8200 West Kellogg.

The National Corvette Restorers Society is a non-profit hobby group of thousands of families dedicated

to the restoration, preservation, history and enjoyment of Corvettes. Membership in the National

Organization is required in order to join local chapters. Below is the website for the National Organization.

The NCRS has organized Local Chapters around the world. Local Chapters provide the opportunity to

meet NCRS Members in your region who share your love of Corvettes and the restoration and enjoyment

of these fantastic cars. Chapters hold local events such as Judging Meets, Judging Schools, Road Tours

and occasional social events.

If you wish to get the total NCRS experience you need to belong to one or more Local Chapters. The

NCRS membership is made up of people who join for the cars and continue for the wonderful friends they

have made. The easiest way to be part of that experience is through membership in Local Chapters.


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