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Happy Spring, hope everyone had a great April.
The Larry and Sylvia Hoaldridge Memorial
Event looks to have been a great event. As competitors left, they seemed
appreciative and had a good time. Thank you to James and Larry for
coordinating. Also thank you to all the workers. From my perspective, it
was another professionally run event as Cowtown always puts on. I worked
a corner, section 3, there were a few oh *^%!*$# moments. Joe and I kept
moving our chair over to make sure we were out of the way when the cars
spun out. Luckily no one spun. It was a definite heart stopper corner.
And that means everyone has a great time.
Everyone needs to plan on coming out and
participate in the 13th Annual Spring Scramble, May 17th and 18th. It
will be at Fat Daddy’s in Mansfield.
I’m still looking for a Parliamentarian,
Sponsorship, and Cruise Master.
I’m so grateful everyone seems to like our
new meeting location. Please thank Pinstripes for hosting us (words and
tips). They are loving the cars parked in the circle during out
meetings. I sent Pinstripes a photo from the February meeting. They
loved it so much they sent it to the corporate office.
FYI: speaking
of parking. Only park in the circle driveway if you signed up for that
month and I have confirmed with you.
Kim West
Thanks to
the Rod and Gayle Cherry, Mack Maxwell, Brian Glass, and the Batchelor’s
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April 2025
Happy Spring Cowtown Vettes!
Save the date for Drive your corvette to
workday on Friday June 27th. We’ll be meeting for lunch to
celebrate the first corvette produced. The time and location will
be announced as we get closer to the date.
I hope everyone has been enjoying the nice
spring weather. Our hot summer days will be here before we know it.
Gayle
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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
marypittman@hotmail.com
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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
vfrostcurrey@live.com
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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.
stevenp1954@gmail.com
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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
socialmedia@cowtownvettes.org
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MAY BIRTHDAYS:
MAY 1 – LYNN FLEEGER
MAY 1 – GLENDA MCMAHAN
MAY 4 – GARY HANNA
MAY 5 – JUDY ROLLINGER
MAY 6 – KAY SNEGON
MAY 14 – DEBRA GERTH
MAY 17 – BRENDA JOHNSON
MAY 19 – JAS WHITCOMB
MAY 22 – VIOLA MEYERS
MAY 23 – ROBYN HOWARD
MAY 23 – DIANE WHITCOMB
MAY 24 – KEN CAMPBELL
MAY 24 – ROBERT GEYER
MAY 25 – JOE RATLIFF
MAY 30 – BRIAN WISH
MAY 31 – MARY PITTMAN
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MAY 4 – JIM & KAREN DAWSON
MAY 9 – BILL & DARLENE HORNBACK
MAY 14 – JACK & KARLA GANDY
MAY 15 – KEITH & CAROL HUNTEN
MAY 18 – NICK & GLENDA KUPFERLE
MAY 19 – BILL & JANE BUEHLER
MAY 20 – LARRY & SUE COMBS
MAY 25 – SAM & CATHY CASTORANI
MAY 30 – JAMES & KIM LITTLE
MAY 31 – KEVIN & CATHY ANTHONY
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Hello Fellow Cruisers,
When y'all read this article, I
will have already completed my last cruise to the George
H. W. Bush library in College Station. I hope all had a
good time and enjoyed the trip.
As I informed everyone in attendance at our March club
meeting, this was my last cruise I will be leading for
the foreseeable future. The care and needs of my wife
Cydnie will require my full-time attention as she has
begun her second round of cancer treatment. It's now
time for someone else to step up and continue Cowtown's
cruise program.
I want to thank everyone for your kind thoughts and
prayers during this trying time. The tag line 'I came
for the cars, but stayed for the people' was never
truer. We will get through this together and both of
us will be back better than ever. Cowtown is the best
extended family we could ever have.
Your Chairpersons
Robert & Cydnie Geyer
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Keep taking those 'what I saw along the way pictures'
and keep gathering your cruiser points.
Your Cruiser Chairperson
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Hi everyone,
Thanks to everyone who participated in the
50/50 drawing last month. We collected $275 and the
lucky winner of the drawing was Brian Glass, who took home half.
As always, we appreciate your generosity! Over
the next few months, we will have some extra items in the drawings that
have recently been donated to us by members. More
chances to win!
Our next Charity event will be at the June
membership meeting, where Debbie Sharpe from Don’t Forget to Feed Me Pet
Food Bank will be collecting our pet food donations.
Please bring cat and dog food to the June meeting according to the
guidelines below. If you are unable to bring pet food
to the meetings or would rather make a monetary donation, please contact
Debbie Lindsey or Paula Winter.
The mission of Don’t Forget to Feed Me (DF2FM)
is to supply pet food to local agencies in support of pet owners while
educating the public about pet food insecurity. By
providing pet food for those in need during challenging financial times
and increasing awareness, they offer an alternative to surrendering - or
worse, abandoning - a family pet. Don’t Forget to
Feed Me helps to ensure that no pet owner must choose between stay or
go. DF2FM is a 501(c)3 nonprofit based in Fort Worth.
The following is a list of the items
they can accept:
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dog and cat food
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any brand, any variety (including recently expired
and damaged product)
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Dry dog and cat food food
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any brand, any variety (including recently expired
and damaged product)
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They cannot accept:
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Toys
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Medications (prescription and over-the-counter)
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Bird houses
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Fish tanks/supplies
Other Charity events coming up:
Tarrant Area Food Bank:
Thursday, June 26th, 1 - 4 pm
Cook Children’s Group Visit:
Friday, July 25th, 10:15 am - 12:15 pm
Debbie Linsey and Paula Winter will have a
sign-up sheet available for the Tarrant Area Food Bank at the May and
June meetings. If you will not be at those meetings
and would like to help out at the food bank, please contact Debbie (debglind@aol.com)
or Paula (jpwinter80@gmail.com).
We look forward to seeing you all at the next
meeting!
Debbie and Paula
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For Only $750,000 you can buy a C8 Z06 GT3.R |
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The Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R is a GT3-spec race car built by Pratt
Miller Engineering and Chevrolet to compete in GT3 racing series like
LMGT3 and GTD/GTD Pro. It's
a successor to the Corvette C8.R, which was retired after the GTE class
was discontinued. The
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The LT6 engine for the GT3.R originates from the Performance Build
Center in Bowling Green, the same line on which all production
Corvette Z06 engines are built.
The 5.5L powerplant shares more than 70 percent of its parts with
the production Z06 engine, including the crankshaft, connecting
rods, cylinder heads, fuel injectors, coils, gaskets and a variety
of other sensors.
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Howdy fellow Corvette enthusiasts!
I am working on our new Club Website and look forward to my role as
Webmaster.
webmaster@cowtownvettes.org
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The images show a Corvette that seems to be a fanboy of hypercars like
the Aston Martin Valkyrie (which was designed 11 miles / 18 km away),
while also paying homage to the Vette’s past. So while the dramatic
cutaway section in the nose, huge intakes on either side, and another
set of intakes ahead of each rear wheel, means the lower half of the
concept taps into the latest aero knowhow, the upper portion feels much
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historic DNA, but each studio brought their own unique creative
interpretation to the project. That is exactly what our advanced design
studio network is intended to do – push the envelope,
challenge us to imagine what could be.” senior VP of global design
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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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with Experienced Bill Buehler and Hard
Working Cliff Holden...
...will make this a great Car Show!
October 2025 Car Show Info Coming!!
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THANK YOU TO
EVERYONE THAT CAME OUT TO THE 5th Annual Larry & Sylvia Hoaldridge
Memorial Autocross Event
Special
thanks to:
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Vicki,
Norman and Mary running the timing
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Mike B and
William and all the corner workers
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James L
and Doug running staging and everything else
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Larry and
Randy at the starting line
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Kim for
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Larry S
all his help training and co-chair for the event.
Everyone
was great in helping set up and clean up.
And thank
you all who came out and raced. From what can tell, we all had a great
time.
Saturday’s FTDs
1S -
David McMahan
1 - Tim
Talley
2 - Mason
Boyette
3 -
Michael Rose
Ladies 1S
- Lee Ann Parker
Ladies 2
- Lauren Whitcomb
Rookie -
Danila Frolkin
Points have been posted
https://www.corvettesnccc.org/NCCCCompetitionDatabase/2025/Programs/PointsCalculations.php
Suggestions? Please fill out the following survey or contact James
Swaringen.
https://forms.gle/vycQuCy95Z6L6Ws78
Now
it’s time to get ready for the Spring Scramble in just a few weeks.
(May 17th and 18th, 2025)
If you are
not registered yet, please do so online or at the next meeting or mail
in your check registration form.
Don't miss
out in the great times and memories with your Corvette and Corvette
friends.
Saturday and
Sunday each will have a Participant’s Choice Car Show, 3 funkhanas, and
3 Rallies.
There will be
trophies/plaques for the car show on Saturday only (top 10 votes, Best
of Show Early, and Best of Show Late)
But Lots of
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May 17th and 18th, 2025
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Fat
Daddy’s Sports & Spirits Cafe, (781 West Debbie Lane, Mansfield, TX
76063)
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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/GExdFZCWnJzuzRvo7
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Volunteer Sign-Up Sheet
(https://forms.gle/XvUnY8ehvVVz2moC9)
Fall Low-Speed Autocross:
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Sept 6th
and 7th
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Tarrant County College TCC - South Campus (5301 Campus Drive, Fort
Worth, TX 76119)
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Registration form Coming soon
Regional
Fundraiser Low-Speed Autocross
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and 28th
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Location
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Registration form Coming soon
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!
Volunteer Sign-Up Sheet
(https://forms.gle/XvUnY8ehvVVz2moC9)
Cowtown Vettes, let's make this NCCC season the best yet! Join us
for exciting events and unforgettable moments with fellow Corvette
enthusiasts. See you out there! Whether you're behind the
wheel, lending a hand, or cheering from the sidelines, we encourage
everyone to join the Cowtown Corvettes NCCC Events for some fun and
fellowship. (Because, let's face it, hanging out with your
Corvette buddies beats chores any day!)
Check out the club website (http://www.cowtownvettes.org)
for more details, flyers, and registration.
A Few Videos from the Event.
I am sure there will be others.
Cowtown
Vettes - Autocross @ Tarrant County College - 04/12/25 - 12th Run
2025-04-12 Cowtown Vettes -
Autocross
If you have photos you want to
share, please add them to this Google Photo Album or send them to
James@Swaringen.us,
and I will add them.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Jsta5AyyeJ3PJBDc7
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Now up to
134 members
strong
Cowtown Vettes membership still sits at 134
members!
My second national Governors’ Meeting of the
year in St. Louis will be the May meeting. We will probably be back by
the time you read this.
I will let you know what is discussed in the
meeting, concerning both the budget and membership retention. I will be
sitting in on the RE meeting this time (for the first time). It should
be interesting. 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.
Thanks to James Swaringen for putting on our
5th Annual Larry & Sylvia Hoaldridge Memorial Event. It was a
very successful event, and a good time was had by all!
Next up for the SW Region is May 10-11, Texas
A&M Central, Killeen, Longhorn, 14 low-speed autocrosses.
Next up for Cowtown Vettes is our Spring
Scramble on May 17-18, at Fat Daddy’s, Mansfield,
Then, next for the SW Region is May 24-26 at
Drumright, OK, 21 low-speed autocross events. Finishing out the month,
May 31-June 1, McLane Stadium at Waco,
Cen-Tex, 14 low-speed autocrosses.
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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Want to help new members feel welcome? It’s really pretty easy. A smile
and a handshake can go a long way to say we’re glad you came! Let me
know if you’d like to be part of the Welcome to Cowtown team by making a
reminder phone call/text or greeting new members at the next few club
meetings. Maybe they have a question for you or want to know who to
talk to about a Corvette interest they have.
Be part of
making sure our new members are feeling welcome to our great club!
Thanks, Barb Greenfeder
Barbsc6@sbcglobal.net
817-917-097
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