2017 North Central NCRS Newsletter (July-Sept)

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NCRS NORTH CENTRAL CHAPTER Dave Murphy Editor 279 Lily Pond Lane Vadnais Heights, MN 55127

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July to September 2017 EDITION

Farewell!

I’d like to let you all know that I’m leaving my position as President of the North Central Chapter NCRS. I have definitely enjoyed my time with our chapter and have many fond memories of chapter and regional meets, tech sessions, and social events. Also among my favorite memories are the times we had in Kansas City and Denver at Nationals.

It’s been a pleasure working with the board in making our chapter the best it can be. I’m proud of all of the board members who have worked hard at their individual responsibilities. They all made it especially fun for me over the past six years.

Thanks to all chapter members for your support and encouragement that you have given me during my time with the chapter.

Even though I will miss you all, I’m looking forward to seeing you around – driving all of those beautiful Corvettes!

Please keep in touch. Thanks for the memories!

Rick (If you will look at our calendar, you will see our newly elected 2018 Board members)

2017 NORTH CENTRAL CHAPTER BOARD Rick Zierhut – President

Jan.

Thurs. 5 6:30PM Sat. 21 9AM Wed/Sat 11-14

Board meeting Tech Session or Judging School, site TBA Winter Regional-,Lakeland, Florida

Feb.

Thurs. 2 Sat. 18 Sat. 25

6:30PM 9AM 6PM

Board Meeting Chapter Meeting & Tech Session, site TBA Holiday Social at Mancinis’

7PM 11AM

Board Meeting Chapter General Meeting Deadline for Crossed Flags articles – to Dave Murphy

Alden Miles – Vice President Roger Carlson – Treasurer Dave Murphy – Secretary Jerome Lardy – Membership Chairman Chris Enstrom – Judging Chair Bob Lund – Tech Director Don O’Grady – Activities Director Dave Murphy – Newsletter Editor

March Thurs. 2 Sat. 4 Fri. 31 April

Thur/Sat 6-8 Thurs. 6 Sat. 22 Sat. 22

May

Thurs. 4 6:30PM Thurs./Sat. 4-6 Sat. 20 8AM

Board Meeting Heartland Regional, Newton,Iowa Chapter Spring Judging Meet– River Falls, WI

June

Thurs.

Sat. Sat. Fri

Board Meeting Tech Session– Jerome Lardy’s house Judging School Deadline for Crossed Flags articles – to Dave Murphy

Nick Kornder – Web site and Facebook Master Paul Burski – Member at Large 2018 NORTH CENTRAL CHAPTER BOARD Alden Miles – President

July

Dave Murphy – Secretary

No Board Meeting in July Road Tour to National Convention NCRS NATIONAL CONVENTION, San Antonio, Texas

Aug.

Thurs. 3 6:30PM Fri/Sun 4-6 Sun/Tue 10-12 Sat. 12 8AM Sat. 19 Thur/Sun 24-27 Sat. 26

Board Meeting Illinois Chp Meet Galena,IL Pittsburg Tri-State Regional Altoona, PA Chapter Judging Meet – Long Lake,MN Stillwater Motors Corvette Show Corvettes at Carlisle BBQ at Tim DeAtley’s in Menominie

Sept.

Thurs. 7 6:30PM Thurs./Sat. 7-9 Sat. 16 9AM Sat. 30

Board Meeting Northwest Regional Redmond,Oregon Tech Session or Judging School, site TBA Deadline for Crossed Flags articles – to Nick Kornder

Oct.

Thurs. 5 Sat. 21 Sat. 28 Wed/Fri 25-27

Board & Chapter Meeting, ANNUAL ELECTION Fall Color Run Tech Session or Judging School, site TBA Texas Regional – Frisco TX

Jerome Lardy – Membership Chairman Chris Enstrom – Judging Chair Dave Murphy—Asst. Judging Chair Bob Lund – Tech Director Paul Burski - Asst. Tech Director Don O’Grady – Activities Director Nick Kornder – Web site, Facebook Master and Newsletter Editor

6:30PM 9AM 8AM

Western Regional – Laughlin,Nevada Board Meeting, Spring Social Dinner – Old Mexico, Roseville,MN Tech Session or Judging School, site TBA

Thur/Sat 6-8 Sun/Thur 9-13

Paul Burski – Vice President Roger Carlson – Treasurer

1 10 17 30

6:30PM 5PM 9AM

Kevin Sullivan – Member at Large

Nov.

Thurs. 2

Dec.

Sat.

31

7PM 9AM 6:30PM

Board Meeting Deadline for Crossed Flags articles – to Nick Kornder

Things have slowed down a little bit during the summer. This is probably due to my increased work load and family functions which have kept me from attending several of the Corvette shows. With that said, we did have two new members join our chapter. I continue to see past NCRS members coming back to the hobby as their lives are now allowing them to have more free time to enjoy their Corvettes. Our new members are part of this group.

Dave Hagen says he was a chapter member from 1990 until around 2008. Dave owns a 1968 convertible with the removable hardtop. It is powered by the 427/390hp motor. Dave lives in St Paul, MN and was encouraged to rejoin by Dave Murphy, our newsletter editor.

Craig Skaaden resides in Fridley, MN and he also owns a ’68 convertible with the L71 motor. Craig purchased his Corvette in 1969.

Craig met one of our chapter members at the Stillwater Motors Corvette Show who persuaded him to rejoin the NCRS. Thanks again to our members who encourage other Corvette owners to join our chapter.

Welcome to our newest members and we hope to see you at an upcoming event.

Jerome Lardy Membership Chairman

Summer BBQ at Tim and Lynda DeAtley

Well the weather was not so great but the cars were. We started off from Hudson, WI and took the back-way Hwy 29 to Menomonie and caught up with Tim outside of town where he guided the group back to his and Lynda’s beautiful home. Some of Tim’s local car friends joined us for the day as well. Tim keeps his newer Corvettes in the upper garage and his C2s and C3s in his man cave outback. After a walk, thru we all enjoyed lunch and time to talk cars and solve the world’s problems. A drawing was held and we gave away two $30 gift certificates. Winners were Lynda DeAtley and Jim Spag. After lunch Chris Enstrom held a judging class down in the man cave, where we all teamed up to look over a few items on different cars. Tim has just added a beautiful 1969 427 Tripower to his collection.

Hope to see more of you at the Fall Color Run Don O’Grady

For the second Judging School of the season, the North Central Chapter was graciously hosted by Tim and Linda DeAtley in Menomonie, WI. The DeAtley's own an impressive collection of Corvettes and opened their home up to club members. Even though the drive out there was wet, everyone had a great time. For the Judging School, we reviewed five different C3 Corvettes that they own. We talked about the judging process and practiced judging a few elements on each car.

If you have a suggested topic for an upcoming Judging School, please contact Chris Enstrom at chris.enstrom@hotmail.com or 651-503-4165. The Chapter is always looking for content.

The North Central Chapter once again hosted our Fall Chapter Judging Meet. We had five cars that participated in the Flight Judging program, and two cars that were on Sportsman display. In addition to that, many members chose to drive their Corvettes to the event since the weather was so nice. Here are the results from the event.

Steve Hendrickson, 1965 silver convertible, Top Flight Brad Hillhouse, 1968 red convertible, Top Flight Larry Lucast, 1970 red coupe, Second Flight Tom Durdahl, 1979 white coupe, Top Flight Len Kaufer, 1987 silver beige coupe, Top Flight Jerome Lardy, 1995 black coupe, Sportsman Alden & Lyn Miles, 2006 red convertible, Sportsman If you are interested in learning more about the judging process and either having your car judged or become a judge, please contact Chris Enstrom at chris.enstrom@hotmail.com or 651-503-4165.

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On July 29th I,Pete Heunisch hosted a tech session for my 69 roadster.

The topic of this session was installing my recently rebuilt 350/350 motor and tranny. There were many doughnuts consumed and lots of knowledge and stories told by master mechanic Bob Lund and others. At the end of the session all of the doughnuts were gone and my motor and tranny were back in my car! I couldn’t have done it without the NCRS boys and their tools. It was a great learning experience and I throughly enjoyed being underneath my car to catch the tranny and slide her into place.

Thanks guys!

Taking care of those pesky oil drips

By Roger Carlson September 2017 It doesn’t matter how well you’ve restored your Corvette, when left un-driven for a while particularly over the winter, they can drip a little fluid. Maybe some engine oil, or transmission fluid, and perhaps a little differential fluid. Whatever the fluid, I want to protect whatever is underneath my car. And in my case that’s another Corvette. For you it might be the same or a nice clean garage floor. I had been using a few smaller pans in appropriate places but I wanted something larger to satisfy my concerns of not damaging my underneath Corvette. While walking through Menards it hit me. I bought a white plastic washing machine pan. The ones that go under a washing machine typically when washers are on the second floor of homes.

This one is 28” X 30”, with a nice 2” lip all the way around.

Being white it’s easy to see if and when drips start to occur and deal with them. The cost was a little over $13.00 after 11% rebate.

A couple of Restoration Tips Roger Carlson September 2017 Over the past few years I’ve spent hundreds of hours working on and restoring two midyear Corvettes. Now I’m relatively new to this hobby of restoring Corvettes, and it seems like each time I working on a project I wind up doing it twice. As I’ve made my mistakes through trial and error I’ve come across a few tricks I thought I’d pass along. These might be old news to some reading this article, but hopefully some of you will find them helpful Tissue boxes Save empty tissue boxes. Turn them upside down and poke holes in them with a punch just large enough to hold screws and bolts when painting them.

Cereal boxes I used lots of newspaper under parts as I was cleaning and scrubbing the dirt, rust and grease off them. The newspaper would disintegrate in short order.

Instead of newspaper I started cutting and saving empty cardboard cereal boxes. Cut them open and lay them flat and use them instead of newspaper when cleaning parts. They seem to last a little longer.

Lamp wire I can’t take credit for this last one. I saw this on YouTube, tried it, and it worked great. Every now and then I’ve run into a screw or bolt hole where the threads were stripped and the hole was just slightly larger than original. I did not want to tap the hole to a larger size as I wanted to maintain the correct size head of the screw or bolt even though the bolt or screw was loose in the hole. I tried using a toothpick or match stick, but they just didn’t seem to hold well enough. Here’s the trick. Buy a foot of lamp wire, strip the outer insulation off and cut off an inch or so of the fine copper wires. Bend 2, 3or 4 strands of the copper wire into “U” shapes and push them into the hole. As you do bend the two ends of each “U” outward at the hole opening. Now screw in the bolt or screw and the threads will bite against the copper wire and it will make a very tight fit. Now this treatment is not for places where you need high torque, but it does work for those spots around the car where a nice tight firm fit is all you need.

Board Meeting Minutes August 3, 2017 Board Members Present: Rick Zierhut, Roger Carlson, Alden Miles, Jerome Lardy, Bob Lund, Don O’Grady, Chris Enstrom, Dave Murphy, Paul Burski, Nick Kornder Board Members Absent: Will Zierhut , Meeting held at Old World Pizza in Inver Grove Heights.

Rick called the meeting to order.

• Meeting Minutes fr om the J une 1, 2017 meeting wer e approved – Motion to approve by Jerome Lardy, seconded by Nick

Kornder.

• Vice President’s Report –All is well.

• Treasurer's Report – Last CD Moved. All is well.

• Judging Report –Chapter meet is Aug 12th and we have 6 cars lined up.

63,65,68,70,79 and an 87. Bill Braun is coming with two others.

We will have our second Judging School on Aug 26 at our BBQ with Tim DeAtley's where we will see a 69,71,78,80 and 81.

The new 70-72 Manual is available and we will see new paint flow charts.

Congratulations to Dave Cloutier and Jerome Lardy for their recent awards an Dave Cloutier and Ken Traverse on their new Red Hats. Chris Enstrom received a Black hat and Jacket.

Chris is looking to step down from Judging Chair and recommended it be divided into two parts, Digital and Analog. The Digital is all the upfront registra tion and preparation and the Analog is the events themselves. Chris recommended Nick Kornder for the Digital and we still need someone for the Analog.

• Website Report – Everything is updated.

• Newsletter Report – All is well.

• Membership Report – Jerome Lardy reported that we have two new members: Mark Dixon (66) and Dave Hagen (68). This brings our membership up to 131.

• Tech Report – Very good Tech Session in July at Pete Heunisch's home and we are looking forward to Tech Sessions in Sept and Oct. • Activities Report – Don O'Grady re-iterated he is preparing the details of th BBQ on Aug 26. It will be a 10 am meeting in Hudson to arrive at Tim DeAtley's for a noon lunch followed by a Judging school. It is anticipated we will meet with Tim’s Corvette Club.

Don is looking for some good touring routes for our Fall Color Run October 7 He’s looking for a Northerly route this year.

• Member-at-Large Report – Larry Stauffacher is our member of the Month • Old Business –As a requirement for the Chapter Top Flight Award we need

Official Sponsor of NCRS North Central Chapter Judging Meet

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to hold an event to raise money for a charity. Roger reported he had first researched St Paul College and it appeared they had lots of money and equipment for their automotive program so that's when he started researching the St Paul Public School systems Automotive program. The St. Paul Public Schools were burglarized and lost many of their tools. It was felt that the High School Automotive Center would be a good cause. Roger made a motion and Dave Murphy seconded. All were in favor. These are the details: Kathy Kittel, Program Manager St Paul Public Schools Career & Technical Education - High School Automotive Center 1780 West 7th Street, Suite 2302 St Paul, MN 55116 When we make our donation it is specifically designated for the High School Automotive Center.

Alden asked about the club videos. After discussion, Nick made a motion and Paul seconded it to convert the VHS videos to digital.

Jerome will provide the list of the videos. List follows.

1963 & 1964 Corvette Seat Installation by Al Knoch Videos 1967 Corvette Convertible Top Installation by Al Knoch Videos 1968-75 Corvette Convertible Top Installation by Al Knoch Videos

Eckler's Step-By-Step Guide to Fiberglass Repair: Vol.1 Stress Cracks, Gelcoating and Prepping for Paint Vol.2 Repair Breaks and Panel Replacement Eckler's Step-By-Step Guide to Interior Trim.

Installations: Door Panels, Convertible Tops, Seat Covers and Carpeting How to Buy a Corvette with Noland Adams (53 minutes) • New Business –Nick offered to host the September Board meeting at his house in Lakeville. This was accepted and Nick will send a reminder along with his address. September Board Meeting at Nick’s House in Lakeville .

Reminder to all that we ar e looking for new Boar d Member s.

As of this moment, our Judging Chair, Chris Enstrom will be stepping down at the end of this year and we are looking for someone to work with him now so that we can make a seamless transition.

We also need a Newsletter Editor and a New President. If we do not fill these positions, we may need to merge with another club.

A motion was made by Jerome Lardy and seconded by Nick Kornder to adjourn the meeting.

Board Meeting Minutes Sept 7, 2017 Board Members Present: Alden Miles, Jerome Lardy, Bob Lund, Chris Enstrom, Dave Murphy, Paul Burski, Nick Kornder Board Members Absent: Rick Zierhut, Roger Carlson, Don O’Grady Meeting held at Nick Kornder’s House Alden called the meeting to order.

• Meeting Minutes fr om the Aug 3, 2017 meeting wer e approved – Motion to approve by Jerome Lardy, seconded by Nick Kornder.

• Vice President’s Report –Last year we did World of Wheels Show and Bruce Cheetah invite us back. Do we want to do it again? After discussion Nick made a motion and Bob seconded to attend the show again. All approved.

Dave Murphy made a motion to have the club pay the $50 entry fee per car for seven cars. Jerome seconded. All approved.

• Treasurer's Report. All is well.

• Judging Report –It was a great judging school at Tim DeAtley’s for early and late C3’s. The Fun Run ran into rain, but those that attended had a good time interacting and meeting Tim DeAtleys’ club members.

Now to get keyed up for next year’s judging. Chris will stay on for next year. This was a delight to all present.

• Website Report – The member list was updated and Member of the Month was added.

• Newsletter Report – Newsletter will be delayed until Oct 7.

• Membership Report – Been quiet.

• Tech Report – Soliciting Tech Session for Sept. Email to be sent. October Tech Session will be at Dave Murphy’s.

• Activities Report – It was suggested to have the Fall Color Run in the Twin Cities around the Lakes in Mpls starting at 10 am and ending with a lunch. A map will be submitted to the committee.

Member-at-Large Report – This has been difficult lately. It was suggested that we might want a Member of the Quarter.

• Old Business –It was suggested to cross reference the membership list with the birthday list to make sure we have not missed anyone and to clean up the list. It was also suggested it would be a good idea to get a current membership list to everyone.

• New Business –It was suggested that we hold the October meeting as part of the Fun Run. This was reviewed with the President and it was decided to have these two events stay separate.

As Board elections are in Oct. A Ballot was prepared and will be

two weeks of input, Nick will send the ballot to the club members to submit their votes to be tabulated and election completed at Oct 5th Board Meeting and new officers for 2018 announced.

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