Governor’s Meeting February 4, 2012

Phil and I attended the latest Governor’s meeting on Februrary 4, 2012. You may have read in Blue Bars that we have another new Insurance Agent. Same coverage as before and no noticable changes. We use the same release and waiver sign up sheets as before. Bottom line new agent same insurance.

Car Show Rule Changes:

We have a few changes from previous years; the big one is the clear bra. If you have a clear bra on your car and it is dirty or discolored it will count against you in a concourse show. The clear bra is considered part of your car.

National Covention in June:

Topeka, Kansas is the destination for the 2012 NCCC Convention. If you have never attended an NCCC Convention now is your chance. Allen will lead a contingent of Corvettes on a Caravan to the “Heartland” of America. The convention starts on June 23, 2012 and ends on June 23 2012.

Concours and People’s Choies Car Shows

A non Driving Funkhana

Golf Tournament, parties, High Speed and Low Speed Autocrosses, Bracket and Record Drag Races, and the High Speed event will be held at a 2.5 mile track only 5 minutes from the hotel.

Topeka is the capital of Kansas and you are within an hour of Kansas City. Great time and lots to see.

Please check the calendar for upcoming events. We had a great meeting and as always represented Pomona Valley Corvette Association. Please come and join us at the next meeting.

Charlie Lipscomb

2012 New Year’s Eve Party

New Year’s Eve Party was the perfect transition to the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebrations of

Pomona Valley Corvette Association

A big thanks to Doug and Roxanne for hosting the New Year’s Eve party on December 31st in their beautifully decorated home. In addition to about 50 members of PVCA, other guests attending the festivities were Roddy, (Sheena’s brother), Rich and Arlene, (Glenda and Randy’s kids) and Debbie, a long time friend of many of us.

As per usual, the food was delicious, fellowship was endearing, and the weather was more than amazing! There were groups of folks just enjoying the evening and getting to know each other better. And then the competition began! RLC was the game of choice, and guess who won—yep, Glenda, Karen and Debbie. When asked what they were going to do with their loot—no contest—Shop!

Soon the count down began—18, 17, 16—-0 and the new year of 2012 rang out with funny hats, noise makers, poppers, raised champagne glasses, kisses and greetings of “Happy New Year”.

What a wonderful way to spend New Year’s Eve!

Rosemary

PVCA says goodby to one of the Good Guys

By: Randy Goff

January 4Th. 2012, marks a day of sadness and celebration for the membership of the Pomona Valley Corvette Club and the community at hole. We morn the loss of Jerry Coble and his fight with cancer; but we celebrate the fact that he is now home with his Lord and father. He no longer suffers but enjoys a pain free, everlasting existence in Heaven. I, like many of my fellow members of the PVCA were so blessed to know Jerry and to be touched by his mere presents. Such a good husband, father, grandfather and friend. God Bless you my friend and your family and us who have to wait to be with you again.

Welcome to 2012

BY: Randy Goff

As Membership Director I would like to take this opportunity to welcome all of our members to 2012, Starting with the New Years Eve Party at Roxanne and Dougs. Please be safe and enjoy the evening welcoming in the New Year. 2012 is going to be a gigantic year for P.V.C.A. many an opportunity to drive our Corvettes and socialize. I’am Looking forward to seeing you all at our first meeting Jan. 10Th.

New Club Sponsor

Rotolo Chevrolet

Pomona Valley Corvettes is proud to announce Rotolo Chevrolet as our new sponsor. At our December general club meeting we had a unanimous vote for Rotolo Chevrolet.

We are honored to partner with this highly regarded dealership. Rotolo has welcomed us with open arms and we are grateful for their support.

2012 is our clubs 50th anniversary and Rotolo just celebrated their dealerships 40th anniversary. We are looking forward to a long relationship together.

Preliminary Talks with Rotolo

Recently Ernie C., Phil, Charlie, Kim and I met with Bill Waddingham of Rotolo Chevrolet. Bill also introduced us to couple of the managers in service and parts. We had a complete tour of the facility, which is very clean and modern. Bill and his managers were very personable and several times said they would really like to be our sponsor. They have offered to have an open house at the dealership sometime after Thanksgiving (since the place will be decorated for the holidays) for the club.

The dealership territory is Fontana and Rancho north of Foothill, so if we want to include them in an event in Victoria Gardens they could in fact participant. If you recall Richard Hibbard was not suppose to go to Upland back when we were having our car show.

One item we discussed was the idea of service being so far east for some people. They said that they now have 2 vans and they would not have a problem giving anyone a ride home. Phil had pointed out that La Verne was a little outside their shuttle circle – they said not for the club they would go anyplace. It might not be in 10 minutes but they would get you home. We asked could they supply a loaner car for those way out of the area if the car was going to be in for an extended period. He said they would consider it, there is an Enterprise very close, he will get back to us on that issue.

They said standard discount for the club members would 15% on parts and service.

They can work on any and all GM vehicles. They do install some aftermarket parts. For any club members who are interested in buying a car the member would deal directly with Michael Caposio the general manager, and possible their internet sales person.

We also spoke of extra things for example: new car flags for each member with the 50th logo and now the Rotolo logo, would they help fund that and he thought that was a good idea. We spoke about the “50th” jacket idea that I was working on with Richard Hibbard and Rosemary. Again he thought that was a good idea. The key was he said they did not want some large sponsorship to be cast in stone as a annual thing, rather a base with special projects was good. He said their goal would be to exceed our expectation. I believe him on this point.

One example of his openness was he mention that if the club was doing a hay ride or toy drive and needed a couple of Silverado trucks to carry the toys or pull the hay wagons – that they could loan them to us. I thought immediately of the Morro Bay where we might want to have a van for the wine tour or to carry wine home. What he said was they would help us out at no cost.

They do currently sponsor the Inland Valley Corvette Club – I believe this is the club that broke off from Corvettes West.

Final point, we asked about items for our monthly raffle and he said no problem. An oil change (Mobile 1 – they showed us their stack of cases of the stuff) and some other stuff (hats, clocks, etc.) would be no problem.

Holiday Couples Photos

The high resolution couples photos have been up loaded to the club website. All the club photos are hosted on Google’s Picasa photo sharing site. If you click on the slideshow it will link you to the Picase photo sharing website with all the photos. From the Picasa website you can order prints from several vendors (Snapfish, fotoflōt, LifePics Network of Local Photofinishers, Walgreens, Ritzpix, Printed Art, and Shutterfly). Just use the print button on top of the photos when you’re in the Picasa website.

Your Front Alignment Specs

Driving A Road Course: Consider “Toe Out” In Your Front Alignment Specs?

by James Prunty

As most C6 owners know, our cars come with a lot of negative camber. The front wheels try to turn inward when using negative camber due to camber thrust. I’m not sure why, but I don’t want to second guess the guys in the white lab coats in Detroit. However, if you’ve been to a road course with your car, you know that the inside treads take a real beating.

First, you need to know a little about Ackerman.

In this drawing you can see the RED lines. This shows both tires parallel to each other, and perpendicular to the OUTSIDE tires radius. Since the outside tire is doing 70% of the work, we will consider it the baseline.

As you can see in the drawing, the INSIDE tire is AHEAD of the outside tire, relative to the apex of the corner.Because of this, the inside tire is NOT perpendicular to its’ radius. Therefore, the inside tire is actually FIGHTING the outside tire. In other words. The inside tire isn’t turning as tightly as the outside tire.

ACKERMAN is a term that describes the line that I’ve colored BLUE. This is the true perpendicular to the inside tires’ radius, and the THEORETICAL direction the inside tire should be turning. In a perfect world, the inside tire would turn more than the outside tire, BUT be parallel to each other when going straight. Except for some of the new active steering, products coming on the market, this just isn’t possible.

By running a little TOE OUT, you cheat. In other words, you may increase a little bit of drag on the straight, but when you start your turn, the inside tire is able to do more of the work. Especially at initial turn in (before all of the load shifts to the outside tire), this gives both tires more initial bite. TOE OUT is a way to give yourself a bit of quasi-Ackerman in the corners, although it does cause a bit of straight line drag. Since most of you reading this like big HP V8’s, that drag is small compared to the increase in grip.

You can do about 1/8” of Toe Out MAX. I like 1/16” in most cases.

Merry Christmas !

Reprinted From Bill Overton:

‘Twas the night before Christmas and out in the garage,

There wasn’t a trace of a Honda, a Toyota or even a Dodge.

The presents were wrapped and the lights were all lit,

So I figured I’d mess with my Corvette for a bit.

I popped the release and I lifted the hood,

When a deep voice behind me said “looks pretty good.”

Well, as you can imagine, I turned mighty quick,

And there, by the workbench, stood good ol Saint Nick!

We stood there a bit, not too sure what to say,

Then he said “don’t suppose that you’d trade for my sleigh?

I said “no way, Santa” and started to grin,

“But if you’ve got the time we could go for a spin!”

His round little mouth, all tied up like a bow,

Turned into a smile and he said “hey! Let’s go!!”

We opened the doors to claim our seat,

I could not wait to hear the Big Block’s beat.

I turned the key to bring the Vette to life,

The engine noise pierced the air like a knife.

The sound that erupted took him by surprise,

But he liked it a lot, by the look in his eyes.

With Goodyear’s a’ screaming and side pipes aglow,

We headed on out where the hot rodders go.

And Santa’s grin widened, approaching his ears,

With every shift as I banged through the gears.

Then he yelled “can’t recall when I’ve felt so alive!”

So I backed off the gas and asked Santa if he wanted to drive.

Ol Santa was stunned when I gave him the keys,

When he walked past the headlights he shook at the knees!

The Big Block exploded with side pipe sound!

And Santa let out the clutch and the tires shook the ground!

Power shift into second, again into third!

I sat there just watching, at loss for a word,

Then I heard him exclaim as we blasted from sight,

“Merry Christmas to all, it’s one awesome night!!!”

CHIPS For Kids toy drive

Hello everyone,

Today, a small group of us, attended the CHIPS For Kids toy drive at CBS Studio City Broadcast Center in Studio City. Barbara Potter was invited by CHP Officer Donnell L. Holmes to bring only four Corvettes to CBS to delivery our check for $882 to CHIPS For Kids. The PVCA members in attendance were Barbara Potter, Randy & Glenda Goff, Steve & Karen Stevens, David & Kimberly Bratt, and myself. We finally got our 15 seconds of fame in the morning news. My words were, “I’m Ernie Caraza, President of the Pomona Valley Corvette Association, we are here to present this check for $882 to the CHIPS For Kids fundraiser”.

It was our pleasure to meet Steve Mauldin, President and GM of CBS, Kent Shocknek, Anchor of CBS Morning News, and CHP Officer Donnell L. Holmes, whom we met before. Donnell gave us a complete tour of the CBS/KCAL Studio. Kent gave us a complete tour of his news room and explained how everything works. He put us on camera and took group pictures with him. Wow, what a wonderful experience.

We also met Ernie Salazar, Special Product Manager for Lexani. They make custom Lexani Motorcars and Wheels for various vehicles. He offered PVCA a tour of his facility, so maybe David and Steve can set up a run in the near future to Lexani in Corona.

David and Kimberly then took us to Canter’s Bakery & Deli in Studio City for lunch, very nice, good food and bakery. FYI, this is Kimberly’s stomping grounds and yes, she is a real “Valley Girl”.

Lastly, Charlie and Carol will try to arrange for someone from SHOES THAT FIT to attend our next general meeting on Dec 13th, so that we can present them with their check for $882. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thank you,

Ernie Caraza
PVCA President