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*CLoT Club Participation Event
2011Upcoming
Events
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Oct. 6-8 Mecum Car Auction Dallas Convention Center Admission $15, Gates open daily at 8 am, Auction: Thurs. 2 pm, Fri. & Sat. 10 am, LIVE on HD Theater: Thurs 3-7 pm, Fri 4-8 pm, Sat 1-5 pm. Info: www.mecum.com
*Oct. 8 Legends Club Meeting 11:00 AM Blue Mesa Grill, 8200 Dallas Pkwy, Plano, TX 75024 (214) 387-4407(Southeast corner of North Dallas Tollway at Highway 121 North Plano)
*******Directions: Construction in the area may change access.********Southbound Tollway: Exit toward TX-121/Headquarters Dr./Legacy Dr. Stay on southbound frontage road. Make a U-Turn at Headquarters Dr. Stay on northbound frontage road past Granite Pkwy. to Blue Mesa. Northbound Tollway: Exit toward TX-121/IKEA Dr. Stay on northbound frontage road past Granite Pkwy to Blue Mesa parking lot. Southbound TX-121: Exit toward Parkwood Blvd./Dallas North Tollway. Turn left on Parkwood Blvd. Turn right on Parkshore Dr. Turn Left on Granite Pkwy. Turn right on northbound Tollway frontage road. Turn right into Blue Mesa parking lot. Northbound TX-121: Exit toward Parkwood Blvd. Turn right on Parkwood Blvd. Turn right on Parkshore Dr. Turn Left on Granite Pkwy. Turn right on northbound Tollway frontage road. Turn right into Blue Mesa parking lot.
*Oct. 9 Legends Display-State Fair of TX Dallas, TX Get your name on the list by Sept 10. We have room for 35 cars. Caravans leav-ing at 7:15 am: Plano-Collin Creek Shopping Center NE side below TGIFriday. Lewisville-I-35 at Fox Ave. shopping center on the NW quadrant (old Black-Eyed Pea). We will regroup at 8:30 am at the McDonald’s near Gate 6 at the Texas State Fair to enter together (get passes from Jerry Echols). Club furnishes bagels & coffee in the Corvette Corral. If you have any questions before you sign up, do not hesitate to contact Jerry Echols 214-435-3753 or [email protected]. Your car must stay until 6 pm.
*Oct. 16 Legends Brunch 9:30 AM Mimi’s Cafe, 2486 S. Stemmons (I-35E), Lewisville, TX
*Oct. 22 “Rude Dog’s” Car Show The Colony, TX Sat. 11 am-3 pm at Christ Community Church, 6404 Page Rd., The ColonyI am hosting a car show at my church. To make it better for the Corvette fans I have requested my promoter, Mustang Sally, to split the C1 and C2 Corvettes into separate classes! The proceeds will be used for our youth group “the Light”. We will have a low cost spaghetti lunch and hot dogs for sale. Info: Jack “Rude Dog” Hayes, 214-797-3922, [email protected]
Oct. 22-23 DFW Collector Car Swap Meet Ft. Worth Sat. 8 am-5 pm & Sun. 8 am-2 pm. at LaGrave Field, 301 NE 6th St., Fort Worth (1 block east of N. Main St.) Free admission. Info: Dean Earhart at 254-751-7958, deanearhart@aol.
Oct. 27-29 NCRS Lone Star Regional Meet Frisco, TX At the Frisco, TX Convention Center. For info: www.ncrstexas.orgFlight Judging is held inside the convention center, so come enjoy looking over all the Corvettes and learn about the NCRS judging system. All other events require registration.
*Oct. 29 Corvette Show Sulphur Springs, TX Sat. 9 am-4 pm Downtown Sulphur Springs at Heritage SquareSee flyer and registration for this event on page 8 for full details
*Nov. 12 Legends Club Meeting 11:00 AM Hard 8 BBQ, 688 Freeport Parkway, Coppell, TX 7501, (972) 471-5462 Southeast corner of Freeport Pkwy. & Bethel Rd., Coppell, TX
*Nov. 20 Legends Brunch 9:30 AM Mimi’s Cafe, 2486 S. Stemmons (I-35E), Lewisville, TX
*Dec. 3 Lewisville Christmas Parade 2:00 PM You need to arrive at the staging area at Cowan & Purnell by 12:30 pm. Cars and/or occupants should be decorated. Parade begins at 2 pm at Main & Cowan. After the parade, (about 3:30) club members will go to Dat’s Good BBQ, 1168 W Main St., Lewisville, (972) 219-2244 (East of Valley Pkwy, behind Firestone store). Meet us there after the parade! Call Tom Atchison 214-215-1948 for more details.
*Dec. 10 Legends Club Meeting 11:00 AM Bring an unwraped toy for TOYS FOR TOTS.
*Dec. 18 Legends Brunch 9:30 AM Mimi’s Cafe, 2486 S. Stemmons (I-35E), Lewisville, TX
*Dec. 20 After-Holiday Party-reservations & payment due You can mail your check & reservation to: Tom Atchison, 1734 Fern Ct., Lewis-ville, TX 75067. Contact Tom for more information: 214-215-1948.
========2012========*Jan. 7 After-Holiday Party 6 PM Happy Hour, 7 PM Dinner
Tribute Golf Club, 1000 Lebanon Rd., The Colony, TX 75056-6520, (972) 370-5465
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OFFICERSPresident:............................................Tom Atchison ........................ [email protected] .................................................. (214) 215-1948VP of Operations ................................Sam Deneault ....................... [email protected] ......................................... (972) 530-8017VP of Special Events: ..........................Jerry Echols .......................... [email protected] ............................................. (972) 924-2591Secretary: ............................................Linda Deneault ..................... [email protected] .................... (972) 530-8017Treasurer: ............................................Roger Berry .............................................................................................................. (972)386-6224
DIRECTORSDirector of Communications: ...............John Zachary ........................ [email protected] ...............................................(214) 707-2265Weekend Wrench Coordinator: ...........Sam Deneault ....................... [email protected] ............................................(972) 530-8017Membership Coordinator: ...................Tom Lainson ......................... [email protected] ..........................................(214) 862-3555Newsletter Coordinator ........................Diane Preston ....................... [email protected] .................................(972) 691-4968
Legends Ledger Newsletter: Published monthly. Send submissions to [email protected] Submission deadline is the 20th of the month.
Membership Information:Coordinated by Tom Lainson (see above)
$25 for an Individual membership or$35 for a Couples membership
Dues are paid annually at a meeting or mailed to:Club Mailing Address:Corvette Legends of Texas
P.O. Box 260316Plano, TX 75026-0316
Club Web Site:Coordinated by John Zachary (see above)
http://www.vettelegends.comSend submissions to John at: [email protected]
Meeting Speakers:Coordinated by Scott Buzzell
If you have a recommendation for a guest speaker to address the club at one of our meetings, please contact Scott at
(214) 641-5590 or [email protected]
Dedicated to Preserving the History and Traditions of the Corvette
Member Directory 2011Legends CoLor PiCtoriaL
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Batteries Plus+ DiscountGet the commercial price on any batteries and home, commercial or auto light bulbs
at the Lewisville or Denton locations by asking for the “Corvette Legends” discount.
If your business needs batteries, contact Tom Atchison 214-215-1948 for a personal quote.
Members can also get a club discount at Huffines Chevrolet in Lewisville.
October Meeting 11 am, Sat., October 8
Blue Mesa Grill8200 Dallas Pkwy, Plano (214) 387-4407
(S.E. corner of N. Dallas Tollway at Hwy 121 North Plano)*******Directions: Construction in the area may change access.********Southbound Tollway: Exit toward TX-121/Headquarters Dr./Legacy Dr. Stay on southbound frontage road. Make a U-Turn at Headquarters Dr. Stay on northbound frontage road past Granite Pkwy. to Blue Mesa. Northbound Tollway: Exit to-ward TX-121/IKEA Dr. Stay on northbound frontage road past Granite Pkwy to Blue Mesa parking lot. Southbound TX-121: Exit toward Parkwood Blvd./Dallas North Tollway. Turn left on Parkwood Blvd. Turn right on Parkshore Dr. Turn Left on Granite Pkwy. Turn right on northbound Tollway frontage road. Turn right into Blue Mesa parking lot. Northbound TX-121: Exit toward Parkwood Blvd. Turn right on Parkwood Blvd. Turn right on Parkshore Dr. Turn Left on Granite Pkwy. Turn right on northbound Tollway frontage road. Turn right into Blue Mesa parking lot.
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CORVETTE LEGENDS OF TEXASGENERAL MEETING
Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 11:00 A.M.BJ’s Restaurant & Brewery, Addison, Texas
The meeting was called to order by Tom Atchison, President at 11:40 a.m. Our Guest Speaker was Alan Lowe, Director of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. He presented a slide show and spoke of the plans for the library due to open soon. 50/50 to Ken Weller. Lady Legends to Debra McCormack.Upcoming Meetings October 8th meeting is at Blue Mesa in Dallas. Nov. 12th meeting-Hard Eight BBQ in Coppell.Meeting adjourned at 1:00 p.m.
Minutes submitted by Linda Deneault, Secretary.
John McCown, Randy Henry and Tom Mullins
Scott Buzzell, our speaker Alan Lowe, Erika and J.C. Cherry
Pete Snider, new members Sandy & Lynn Thompson, rare member sighting... Kent Bass, Jim Jenkins and Larry Dyer
Dennis Calander with his 1960 Blue Roadster
Larry Dyer, John & Reyna Plumley
Denise & Jay Thompson Tom Atchison, our speaker Alan Lowe and Scott Buzzell Jeff Kuznier & Ken Weller
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10-04 Clair Schwendemen
10-05 Carole Arakelian
10-07 Ted Boyer
10-08 Cheryl Deleranko
10-09 Don Pinson
10-10 Tanna Gotses
10-11 Mary Jeanne Entrekin
10-14 Daniel Muzquiz
10-15 Bill George
10-17 Lynda Mullins
10-18 Mack Rogers
10-20 Mary Davis
10-22 Rita Skobbeko
10-26 Fred Hager
10-27 - Jan Pautler
10-27 Lisa Boyer
10-27 Rick Dietel
10-28 Susan Elliott
10-30 Sam Deneault
10-31 Michael Nelson
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Corvette Legends’ Cookbook Charity Drive to benefit Patriot Paws
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!! Your fellow Corvette owners contributed their favor-ite recipes to produce the first-ever Corvette Legend’s Cookbook. We plan to sell them to our friends and family and to visitors at the State Fair in October. If we sell 200 cookbooks, we can net almost $1,000 for Patriot Paws.HOW TO PARTICIPATE:I am planning a price of $10 each. So start taking orders from your family, your friends, your friends family, the neighbors, whoever. Tell me how many you want, bring me a check, and I’ll set them aside for you. See you at the State Fair – I’ll need some help selling at the fair. Contact Jan Dyer to get copies to sell:
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This is Don and Paulette Clark’s “63 Z06”. We all know how Don feels about silver mid-year Corvette coupes. He’s got a bunch of them. Now he has a “63”. This car was built by Karl’s Kustom Corvettes in Des Moines, Iowa. They fabricate C-2 style bodies to fit meticulously onto any C-6, whether it’s a coupe or a convertible. If you send them a coupe, you get a 63 coupe-style body. If you send a convertible, you get a 67 convertible-style body. The Z06 and Gran Sport require a kit with wider body panels, but they can convert them too. Don’s car is the fourth Z06 they’ve produced. They built the first Z06 for NASCAR’s Rick Hendrick. Karl’s plans to build about 20 of these conversions per year. All of the body panels are designed to replace the C-6 panels exactly. The C-2 style panels, doors, hood and rear hatch are all designed to fit the factory openings of the C-6, using all of the stock hinges and latches. This gives a much tighter car than if these were altered in any way. The only outside body panels that remain unchanged are the roof and the B-pillar on the
Wow! Look at that 63 Split Window Coupe... Wait something’s different about it! It’s wider and lower.
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coupe version. The C-6 convertible top remains un-changed also. Karl’s produces their own front and rear bumpers to simulate the C-2 bumpers but styled to fit the sleeker, wider bodies they put on the C-6. These bumpers are bolted directly to the sub-structure to make them func-tional. The front headlights are square after-market lights which are relocated to the lower outside corners beneath the bumpers, with a door that looks like a section of the grill. Readily available C-2 reproduction parking and tail lights are used. The C-6 seats retain all of the adjustment features they came with. The backs of the seats are shortened somewhat to look more like the original design of the C-2 seats. The upholstery on the seats and door panels is also done in a style reminiscent of the C-2. Don’s car has red leather interior and red carpet. No changes were made on the dash or console. The conversion is advertised to take 90 days. They did this one in 87 days. Don says that it’s the only car
he’s ever had done that came in on time and within the quoted budget. The fit and finish on the car are excellent and Don elected to have it painted his favorite... silver. In partnership with Karl Chevrolet, Iowa’s #1-Selling Corvette dealer, Karl’s Kustom Cor-vettes delivers unsurpassed attention to quality. This set up gives drivers the comfort, power and engineering of today’s C6… all shelled in the breathtaking body style of a Mid-year.
Wow! Look at that 63 Split Window Coupe... Wait something’s different about it! It’s wider and lower.
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Corvette Show at Sulphur Springs
Sulphur Springs Corvette Club member, Roger Elliott, who brought his red/white 61 Corvette over for our Cooper show, has made arrangements at Hampton Inn, rate $79. Phone 903-439-4646 to make reservations if you’re going over Friday night. Parking is lit and the hotel will request extra police patrols that night. He said he will also have something planned for us to do that night. There will be lots of Corvettes in town. For Saturday morning departure with CLoT members, I suggest we stage the southern group in Rockwall at 8am, and Greenville for the northern bunch at 8:30 am. It’s about a 90 min. trip. We need to arrive together to park together.
Contact Tom Lainson at 214-862-3555 for plans to caravan on Friday for those going early.
Legends to work with a new oil product called Z-ALT muscle car oil A few of our members are now running this oil in their pre-1975 vin-tage blocks and are experiencing good results. The three members all experienced an immediate drop of 10 degrees in running temps and, so far, are showing no ill effects. The difference is attributed to a new process which keeps the infused moly in solution and it also contains detergents, not often available in racing oils, and ZDDP. It does not have Teflon, chlorine or solvents. I have heard that Rotella has dropped the ZDDP. Does anyone know of this?
This oil is not for engineswith catalytic converters.
Legends will be keeping several six-can cases available for any-one wishing to try it out. Z-ALT is selling to our club at their distributor prices. The member cost will be the same as ordering it from the manu-facturer, with all ensuing profits to be donated to Patriot Paws. There is currently no Dallas outlet for this product. The Z-Alt website is http://z-alt.com/index.html for more information
Contact Tom Lainson (214) 348-8296 or Bill Preston (405) 615-3856 for further details.
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Tom and I went on a car cruise out west in our 2006 Corvette the first two weeks of August. In Pueb-lo, CO just south of Colorado Springs we came up on a thunder storm and the outside temperature gauge in the Corvette said 102--it dropped to 71 in a matter of seconds. Don’t think we ever saw that before. First, we went to visit friends in Colorado Springs. We visited a small little German town at the base of Pikes Peak and the Garden of the Gods, which was absolutely breathtaking. In 2006 we did the train ride that went up Pikes Peak, so not this trip. Then we headed across Colorado into Nevada. We saw some of the most awesome mountain rang-es. Tom said this highway we took across Nevada was the Loneliest Highway in America and I totally believe it. Cars were far and few between and we could see 40 miles ahead on this two lane road. We went up the mountains and down the mountains and I know Tom got tired of hearing me say, “Could you go a little slower than 85, as there are no guard rails?“ It was like being on a curvy roller coaster, and very high. Some of the summits were 10,000 ft. or more. It was a good thing we were getting great gas mileage (about 34 MPG in some places that had no ethanol), Tom bragged. We spent one night at Ely, NV, at a ca-sino that only had about 25 slots and not much else, but clean. After traveling another day and a half, we made it to our niece’s wedding in Lake Tahoe, CA, which was the reason we decided to go on this trip. We stayed at the Embassy Suites, which even gave us a great free breakfast every morning. We were just across the street from Harrah’s, so I did a little gambling while there and won some of their money. Tom and I also did a side trip to Virginia City, an old Silver Min-ing Town for a few hours. Remember the name from Bonanza, the TV Show? They have pictures of the Cartwrights all over the place. Tom and my brother-in-law Larry also took one afternoon and went to Reno, to the Harrah’s Auto Museum and saw lots of old cars. Hot August Nights was the next weekend, they already had car shows in South Lake Tahoe, which we all enjoyed. We did the cruise around the Lake for the Re-hearsal Dinner on a big Paddle Wheel boat, with great scenery. The wedding was the next afternoon
on top of the mountain. We had to take a gondola up and back. In the winter it takes the skiers up the mountain, covered with snow. It was a fabulous wedding and great food and a great time with our family. We did not miss the hot weather as it was in the 80’s during the day there and 40’s at night. We even needed a jacket some of the time. We heard Dallas had 110 the day we headed to California. The scenery was so beautiful and we took a lot of pictures. We spent about five days there and the last day most everyone left except my son, his wife, grandson and nephew, so we visited the beach about six blocks away. The water was freezing, so we just sat in chairs nearby. Then we decided to take a raft down the Truckee River, on the other side of the Lake. We thought it would take about an hour and we thought someone would be paddling for us. When we arrived, we did
Legends Members Out and AboutTom & Mary Jeanne Entrekin at Alcatraz
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the paddling and it was very shallow, but it was a fun trip. The boys, ages 4 and 11, loved it, when we came to the rapids and the rocks. The people said it would take three hours to get down the river, but we made record time and made it in two hours. There was a band along the shore and an ice cream truck, so we got ice cream, not quite like the rivers around here. Tom and I headed out the next day for Yosemite Park. I failed to mention that on our road trip, every city had road construction. Some of the two lane roads we’d come to would stop traffic, both directions and everyone would turn their cars off, get out and visit for about 30 minutes. Food was scarce in the park, as we found out everyone stopped at the same hamburger hole in the wall. We found a picnic table and ate, then headed to all the other sites, then left the park. After another day on the road, we made it to San Francisco for the day. San Francisco was very crowded. We rode the cable car downtown, and boy was it packed. We expected to return to the wharf on it for lunch, but when they made us get off, we ended up finding another trolly to get us back to Fisherman’s Wharf. The line to get on the cable car return was very long. Fisherman’s Wharf was nice and we even needed coats, as it was in the 60’s there. We ate at the Seal Cafe, which was where all the seals sleep and stay outside on the wharf. We had the best specialty of Clam Chowder in a bowl of sour dough bread and a caesar salad. We also saw Alcatraz, across the water, from the Wharf. Tom had seen San Francisco a few times years ago, but I hadn’t seen much of the country, hence the trip by car. People who fly never get to experi-ence the country side as we did. After having a long discussion about where we left the car, we finally found it, right where we left it. Next, we headed up to Yellowstone Park and back across Nevada to Wyoming. We learned to buy food before we got to the park this time and have a picnic, which we did. Yellowstone is big and we saw most of
it with a lot of stops to see special sites. The crowds were big. We never saw a bear in Yosemite or Yellowstone, but we saw bison, deer and antelopes. People are crazy there. When any wildlife appeared, they would stop in the middle of the road and run take pictures. We missed seeing Old Faithful by five minutes, as we saved it for last. They said it would be at least another two ½ hours, maybe, as it was never on time anymore. It was getting late so we headed out and, of course, there was road construction, again. We were a little nervous about still being in the park at dark, because of all the deer and bear signs. We spent the night at the first motel we saw about 8:30 at night, which was Jackson Hole, Wyoming. That was the most expensive hotel yet, even in Tahoe. We headed back to Dallas, about another two day trip, but the Corvette ran beautifully. We only saw rain briefly a few times. On the long trip we saw so many beautiful sights and met so many interesting people. Truly, a once in a lifetime trip we will never forget. We were exhausted, but glad to be home. We could not believe the 100 degree days were still in Dallas!
Have you gone on a trip in your Corvette? Tell us about where you went and what you did.
Send your story to Diane: [email protected]
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