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We have been receiving a lot of thanks
you’ s lately. We have so much to be grateful for.
From
Debbie Sharpe -
Don’t Forget to Feed Me:
Dear fabulous friends of Cowtown Vettes, once again you have made an
amazing impact with your collection of 393 pounds of dog and cat food
and $185.00 in monetary donations!! This will go a long way in our
mission to keep local pets fed and in their loving homes! We can’t do it
without generous community partners like you! Thank you!! Debbie Sharpe
From
Trina Hooker -
4th of July Parade:
I just wanted to thank you for getting the word out to the Cowtown
Vettes about the parade. It really was a wonderful and FUN event! The
Vettes have been a staple in the parade for years and it means a lot to
have yall there!! We will be better at getting the information to you
sooner next year. Thank you again for helping. We appreciate you all!!
Hope you had a wonderful 4th of July!! Trina Hooker
From Robert Geyer - Parade of
Love for the Geyer’s: As I'm sure everyone knows, Cydnie is now
in Home Hospice Care of which I'm her primary care giver. It's
with much humility and pride that I can say I'm a part of Cowtown
Vettes.
This became ever more apparent to me and
Cydnie when so many of you took time from your busy lives to parade your
Vettes in front of my home on a Saturday morning. The love you expressed
along with the cards and gifts was uplifting for both of us and our
family.
For all of your love and support we both
want to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts. I've said this
before, and I'll say it again ' we came for the car but stayed for the
PEOPLE.'
Special thanks to Larry and Vicki for all
your support and efforts organizing the Parade of Love, as I like to
call it. Robert Geyer
Stay tuned for more ways to give
back. Plus, we will be partnering with Pinstripes in upcoming
events. Thank's to all for your participation.
Thank you to: Bob and Kay Snegon, Cliff and Jackie Holden, William
Noland and Mary Pittman, and Robyn Howard for displaying your car at the
July membership meeting.
Kim West
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I hope everyone’s summer has started out
great.
Thanks to everyone who came out for “drive your corvette to work day.” I hope everyone enjoyed
themselves and had a great meal.
I’m also still working on socials for the
rest of the summer, so as soon as they are scheduled, I’ll send out an
email.
SAVE
THE DATE
We finally have a date and place for our
annual Christmas Party.
Date: Saturday December 6, 2025
Venue: Chisolm Trail Rustic Venue
Cleburne, TX
More information to follow as the date
gets closer.
Gayle
850-517-7346
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LowDown Article - Historian
May 2025
I am currently working on the 50th
Anniversary Scrapbook with the hopes of having it finished by the May 7th
membership meeting. It will concentrate on the 50th year of 2024,
but it will also contain tidbits from 2015 - 2023. This decade
included many high points for the club as well as many changes that
affected the way we do things, most notable being the world wide pandemic
of 2020. I see this as being the last “put together, physical”
scrapbook that we will have as everything now days will be archived
digitally.
I would like to say a huge thank you to
Mack Maxwell who has agreed to house our archived collection of historical
memorabilia, including scrapbooks, LowDowns, Blue Bars, club awards, etc.
Mary Pittman, Historian
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CTV Secretary
Just a reminder, the Membership and Board minutes are located in the
Members Only section.
If you have any questions about the minutes, please
feel free to contact me.
Timing Chair
If you are interested in learning timing for CTV’s autocrosses,
come spend
some time in the trailer and join in the excitement!
Vicki Currey
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J ust a reminder, the Monthly reports are located in the
Members Only section.
If you have any questions about the reeports... please
feel free to contact me.
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If you have not rec’d your 50 th Anniversary
Cowtown Vettes commemorative Deck of Playing Cards, please attend the next
Membership Meeting and see me. Each primary member /
household receives one deck of cards. I’ll bring a few
decks on the next cruise as well. If you’d like an extra
set (or two), see me as well, we did purchase extra decks of cards- these
are $5 per deck.
We will have the Events, Socials and such in the
next Slideshow. The slideshow will continue to
include some Corvette Trivia along with various other Corvette
happenings around the country. Brian (our webmaster) does post a
lower-resolution version online, on the CTV Website. Please provide any
submissions for the slideshow to me no later than Sunday evening of
the Membership Meeting week.
If you have been working on or updating your
Corvette with new items …or if you have taken a trip in your Corvette and
have some photos to share with membership, please send those to me and
I’ll include them in the monthly slideshow. Cowtown’s
Microsoft O365 account allows us to use OneDrive, which makes
it much easier for you to provide high-resolution photos from events for the
web and/or monthly slideshow. If you would like to share photos, please
take them in high-resolution; if not, they can’t be used on
the big screen since they would show grainy / blurry. These are needed
by noon, the Monday before the Membership Meeting. If you have questions,
please contact me and I’ll provide you with more information and the
OneDrive link to share your photos – basically use the highest
resolution option you can set on your camera or smartphone .
When you receive a CTV-ALL eMail blast, we would
request that you please only reply to the
originator when you are replying to a CTV-ALL email. When you opt
to reply, simply select Reply on the email, then remove
the CTV-All entry and replace it with the email address of the
originator. If you are sending CTV-ALL emails, please include your email
address in the body of the email so you have that address handy.
If you change your email or home address, Corvette, or
other info – please drop an email to
CTV-Membership@groups.io.
If you are not receiving CTV-ALL emails, please get
with me so we can either add you or figure out why you aren’t receiving
them.
More information on email distribution lists and the
acceptable use of them
can be found on our
website .
Facebook – if you are on Facebook and not a “friend” of
Cowtown Vettes, members cannot include you in tags at events; these tags
show your non-club member friends all the fun we are having. Who knows,
maybe some of you are in the witness protection program and
don’t want to be tagged J If you are
posting, be sure to tag Cowtown Vettes so it appears on our Facebook
news feed.
Doug McMahan
Digital / Social Media Chairperson
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AUGUST 1 – STEVEN STEAGALL
AUGUST 4 – BILLIE ROGERS
AUGUST 6 – LARRY CURREY
AUGUST 14 – MICHAEL BIGGERS
AUGUST 17 – GWYNNE HORTON-HANNA
AUGUST 18 – JAMES WEST
AUGUST 24 – RANDY BAKER
AUGUST 24 – DEBORAH STEAGALL
AUGUST 29 – MIKE LINDNER
AUGUST 31 –
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AUGUST 4 – RANDY & CATHY BAKER
AUGUST 8 – RICHARD & CAROL DOWNING
AUGUST 14 – JAMES & BRENDA JOHNSON
AUGUST 18 – JACK & BILLIE ROGERS
AUGUST 23 – ROD & GAYLE CHERRY
AUGUST 23 – KRIS & CRYSTAL ZSCHIRNT
AUGUST 28 – TOM & LYNN FLEEGER
AUGUST 30 – FRED & MARGRET PROCTOR
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Hello Fellow Cruisers,
An open letter to all of my special
Cowtown Vettes friends,
As
I'm sure everyone knows, Cydnie is now in Home Hospice Care
of which I'm her primary care giver. It's with much
humility and pride that I can say I'm a part of Cowtown
Vettes.
This
became ever more apparent to me and Cydnie when so many of
you took time from your busy lives to parade your Vettes in
front of my home on a Saturday morning. The love you
expressed along with the cards and gifts was uplifting for
both of us and our family.
For
all of your love and support we both want say thank you from
the bottom of our hearts. I've said this before and I'll say
it again ' we came for the car but stayed for the PEOPLE.'
Special thanks to Larry and Vicki
for all your support and efforts organizing the Parade of
Love, as I like to call it.
Vicki also compiled a video and
posted it to YouTube.
https://youtu.be/eoSQQuoL4fU?si=hTYdOTADi4rR8abI
Because of the video Cydnie and I
have received countless calls, text, and emails expressing
what a wonderful and moving gesture the car club did.
A heart felt THANKS to all
the wonderful and caring people of Cowtown Vettes.
With love
Robert and Cydnie Geyer
Your Cruiser Chairperson
Robert Geyer
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Hi everyone,
Many
thanks to those who took a chance on our 50/50 drawing last month.
Mike Biggers was the lucky winner of $75.00 and the money we donated to
charities increased by the same amount. We appreciate everyone who
contributes so that our club can have an impact in our community!
Ten Cowtown Vettes members came to the
Tarrant Area Food Bank on July 26th and, along with another group, spent
2 1/2 hours sorting about 9,000 pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables!
Afterwards we treated ourselves to a great meal at Chuy’s. Thanks
to everyone who came and gave up their afternoon:
Mary
Pittman and William Nolan
Mike
Messerli
Debbie
and Jerry Lindsey
Keith
Hunter
Cliff and
Jackie Holden
Jack and
Paula Winter
While we were there, we were told that if any of
us wanted to work extra, to let them know. They needed some extra
help to get caught up. If you have any extra time and want to
help, our contact is Tommy McGee, and you can give him a call at
817-857-7106.
We
will work another shift in November and are asking for an evening shift,
so people who are still employed can
We look forward to seeing you all
soon!
Debbie and Paula
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Corvette Racing leveraged
late-race pit strategy to land itself a second-place result at Canadian
Tire Motorsport Park on July 13th,
2025, compliments of the No. 4 Corvette
Z06 GT3.R fielded by Pratt Miller Motorsports.
With 80 minutes left on the timer, engineers made the call to pull the
No. 4 Vette of Tommy Milner and Nicky Catsburg into the pits for a fuel
top-off. The duo had previously lost time in the pits, dropping them to
ninth in-class, but a series of late-race caution periods gave Catsburg
the opportunity he needed to put the No. 4 Corvette Racing team back
toward the front of the field.
The pit lane strategy granted Catsburg and Milner their first
IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar podium of the 2025 racing season. Because of
their efforts, Chevy maintains
its lead in the GTD Pro Manufacturers Championship.
“That’s the name of the game sometimes. We for sure didn’t have the car
we hoped for or wanted today,” Milner said. “It was hard to drive. We
took a risk and made a stretch call there that worked out in our favor.
In talking to the guys on the pit stand, this is a place where you don’t
have little moments; you have big ones.”
Meanwhile, the No. 3 Corvette Racing GTD Pro duo of Antonio
Garcia and Alexander Sims held onto the Drivers Championship lead thanks
to a fourth-place effort by the team. Alex Udell and Robert
Wickens guided the No. 36 Vette to their best GTD class finish of the
season in Wickens’ second time out in Corvette Racing machinery.
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Howdy fellow Corvette enthusiasts!
I am working on our new Club Website and look forward to my role as
Webmaster.
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Success came in pairs for Corvette
Racing this weekend. Pratt Miller Motorsports notched
a second-place class finish at Canadian Tire Motorsport
Park in IMSA action, while TF Sport’s No. 81 Corvette
Z06 GT3.R mirrored that performance with an LMGT3
runner-up spot in Sāo Paulo on July 13th,
2025.
Charlie Eastwood, Rui Andrade, and Tom Van Rompuy shared the seat of
that blisteringly fast Corvette Racing machine. The second-place finish
was the best so far for the trio in the FIA World Endurance Championship
(WEC) this year. It also marked the team’s second consecutive podium
result, hot on the heels of their
third-place showing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. They
also leapfrogged from sixth place to fifth in the LMGT3 Drivers and
Teams standings after five races with three left to decide champions in
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Another great result today with P2,” Eastwood said. “As we’ve seen many
times this year, TF Sport executed a really solid race – great strategy,
no mistakes, no penalties, which I feel today there were more penalties
than most WEC races, and we just were able to capitalize on that to get
a great P2. I definitely feel like some momentum is behind me now.
I had a tough sort of 18-month start to this journey but with now three
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May 2025
In addition to being the Cowtown Vettes
Historian, I have also assumed the position of National Corvette Museum
Ambassador.
The NCM is located at 350 Corvette Dr in
Bowling Green, Kentucky.
In addition to the Nostalgia Gallery
“which takes visitors on a journey through the iconic eras of Corvette
history, showcasing classic models and memorabilia that celebrates the
timeless appeal and cultural impact of America’s Sports Car”, there are
special exhibits, educational opportunities, special activities, museum
car delivery and also, the NCM Motorsports Park.
One of the special exhibits available
now through 12/31/2025 is Speed Captured: The Photographic Works of
Richard Prince. Prince spend 30 years documenting “the evolution of the
Corvette and its historical role in racing”.
Also, coming up in the latter part of
April is the Museum Bash and in August they will celebrate the 31st
anniversary of the museum.
If you haven’t been to the museum, I
would highly encourage you to make the trip to see it and if you are not
a member I would encourage that also, as a way to keep up with what is
going on in the Corvette world and as a way to connect with other
Corvette enthusiasts.
Information regarding memberships,
tickets, etc are available on the NCM website.
Mary Pittman, NCM
Ambassador
To visit the NCM
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racing and competing in NCCC events! We're now heading into a short
break before our next events kick off.
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Fall Round Up Auto Cross
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September 6-7, 2025
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LOCATION:
Tarrant County College TCC - South Campus (5301
Campus Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76119)
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Flyer
https://www.corvettesnccc.org/NCCCCompetitionDatabase/2025/Flyers/SW-074-001_-_Flyer_-_2025_Spring_Scramble.pdf
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Online registration
https://forms.gle/F2m5x2PM1oZ6yqVK8
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Tarrant County College TCC - South Campus (5301
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Online
Registration:
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Volunteer Sign-Up
Sheet (https://forms.gle/XvUnY8ehvVVz2moC9)
Other events around the region can
be found at
http://ncccswregion.org/schedule.html
Want to be part of the action?
Our events rely on volunteers to ensure everything runs smoothly
and everyone has a blast! Whether you're a seasoned
pro or new to the scene, we welcome your help with timing, staging,
corner work, setup/teardown, and more. It's a rewarding experience and a
great way to meet new people. Contact me to join the
volunteer team!
Check out the club website (http://www.cowtownvettes.org)
for more details, flyers, and registration.
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Now up to
142 members
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Cowtown Vettes membership still sits at
142
members!
There are NO events scheduled in the SW
Region for the months of July and August. The National Convention is
August 17 to 22 in Wisconsin Dells, WI.
Again, as I mentioned at the last
Membership Meeting, and in my last article, if you wish to only receive
Blue Bars digitally, please let me know.
More information can be found on the SW
Region Calendar, located here:
http://www.ncccswregion.org/schedule_2025.html More flyers
will be uploaded as we get closer to the events.
Save the wave!
Norman Walker
CTV NCCC Governor
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Hello and welcome to the Logo Merchandise store.
There are lots of
great things for sale with the Cowtown logo on them:
Caps.Visors,
Sweatshirts, Long Sleeve T-shirts, Short Sleeve T-shirts, Men’s &
Women’s Long Sleeve Denim Shirts, Polo shirts Name Tags
(Please note
that on all shirt orders, 2XL and up sizes are slightly higher)
If
you want your name added to your shirt, Or a Cowtown logo or a certain
year Corvette added to your shirt.
We also have stickers, patches
and koozies
So stop by the Logo table before and after the meeting to
place your order.
You’ll get your order by the next meeting.
Donna
Forsythe CTV Logo Mechandise
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Welcome to Cowtown
This year eight new and
newer members have attended
Cowtown 101. It was a
pleasure to get to know each
of them better. Cowtown 101
is informational and
includes discussion time to
ask questions and learn more
about each members'
interests.
The next
Cowtown 101 will be held on,
Wednesday, Oct 1 at
6:15, just prior to
that month's Club Meeting.
We have new members who want
to do socials, cruises and
autocross. When you see a
new face, take a few minutes
to welcome them and find out
how much you have in common
besides loving your Vettes!
If you hit it off, please
consider helping them as a
Mentor.
It would be
great to hear from an
experienced member between
meetings who likes to talk
about activities that are
planned and to fill in the
gaps for those who are ready
to try something new. Show
them the ways to have fun
and get involved!
Thanks, Barb Greenfeder
Barbsc6@sbcglobal.net
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