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I would like to thank everyone for being
patient while we are in another transition. Our October 1st
meeting location is at Spring Creek BBQ in Bedford.
1509 Airport Freeway
Bedford, TX 76021
I have reserved the meeting room from 6:00-9:00
pm. If you need more info, see the email I sent to all on September 11th.
We are going to try this and see if it works. If anyone knows of a good
location, please let me know. I will check out any suggestions.
Thank you to James and the NCCC committee for
putting on 2 auto crosses in September. I hope the second one has less
excitement than the first.
The Brazos River car show in Granbury is on
October 11th. See the Cruiser section for details on a cruise to the
show.
The 23rd Annual Car Show is
approaching fast, October 18th. We have a great location this year at
Jerry’s Chevrolet in Burleson. Please contact The Buhler’s to volunteer
to help, they have the signup sheet. Looking forward to another great
show. The flyer and registration form are on the website.
It’s hard to believe the year is winding down.
We have had lots of excitement and having to be flexible this year.
Gayle is working on a wonderful Christmas party. Fingers crossed we can
continue our plans for a toy drive.
We are all looking forward to the Hangin at the
Hangar Party on November 1st. See details int the Low Down
and on the web site.
Thank you to everyone for showing your cars at
Pinstripes. It was a great opportunity to show off your beautiful cars.
Thank you to Larry Currey for filling in as Web
Master.
Kim West
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SAVE
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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
texascherry@att.net
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LowDown Article - Historian
September 2025
I had great fun putting together the
Cowtown Vettes 50th Anniversary scrapbook. I tried to encompass a
great deal of what happened during the decade of 2015 to 2024... it was
fun looking back through pictures, the website and LowDowns from that
period of time.
This era was dissected by the Covid
pandemic of 2020 which brought about a myriad of changes to how we operate
on a daily basis in life overall as well as as a club.
First of all our membership is getting
older not only locally, but regionally and nationally, also. Venues
for racing or events are not as readily available or affordable.
From a historical point of view, going
forward I feel we will be relying on our digital LowDown for club info and
memories as well as the new website (when it is available) where our
current activities as well as
past activities, etc will be archived.
The historian will still be responsible
for gathering misc. info, club trophies, etc.
Thanks again to Mack Maxwell for storing
our physical archives.
Mary Pittman,
Historian
marypittman@hotmail.com
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It is time to elect our 2026 CTV
Officers! The timeline for these elections is as follows:
October 1st
Membership meeting – Nominations for all other officers will be taken at the meeting.
October – all nominees will be contacted by
email from
vfrostcurrey@live.com
for confirmation of willingness to serve.
November 5th
Membership meeting – a preliminary ballot will be presented to all with
any additional nominations taken from the floor.
By November
19th,
ballots will be mailed to home addresses. All ballots are due by
Wednesday, December 3rd
Membership meeting by 7:45 pm. Please follow all the instructions at the
top of the ballot in correctly returning it.
Ballots will be counted, and the new 2026
officers will be announced. In case of a tie, a runoff will be held prior
to end of the membership meeting.
Please consider taking an active role in
Cowtown Vettes in 2026.
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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.
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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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OCTOBER 2 – JANE BUEHLER
OCTOBER 2 – ALAN REEVES
OCTOBER 3 – MATTHEW SWARINGEN
OCTOBER 14 – DARLENE HORNBACK
OCTOBER 18 – LARRY COMBS
OCTOBER 18 – BILL HORNBACK
OCTOBER 20 – CATHY ANTHONY
OCTOBER 21 – CATHY BAKER
OCTOBER 22 – JIM DAWSON
OCTOBER 22 – STEVE PARKER
OCTOBER 26 – CHARLES GERTH
OCTOBER 31 – RICK
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OCTOBER 1 – J.D. & MOZELL DAVIS
OCTOBER 1 – JAMES & KIM WEST
OCTOBER 8 – BRIAN & ANGELA WISH
OCTOBER 9 – GEORGE & MICHELLE AGGAS
OCTOBER 9 – P.J. & DEBORAH JACKSON
OCTOBER 10 – JAMES & MELANIE SWARINGEN
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Larry helping with Tech and Vicki and Mary
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Ann on Timing Board (below)
Mary has registration finished, cars are
staged...
James has completed the Drivers Meeting...
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Cruisers
I'm baaack... First I want to thank
all of you for your thoughts,
prayers, and compassion for me and
Cydnie. You can only imagine what
that meant to me and my family.
Now on to business. As you should
know by now the Brazos River
Corvette Club will be hosting their
annual car show October 11, 2025 in
Granbury. As before if you are
participating and would like to
caravan with me to Granbury, we will
meet up BEHIND the Cracker Barrel
restaurant in Benbrook and travel
together. Please be at our
designated meeting place by 7:15am
as I will promptly leave at 7:30 am.
Remember they strongly support our
car show and we should in turn help
support theirs.
I am working on a new cruise for
Fall. Details will be forthcoming
soon. Hint, Mystery Dinner Cruise,
Poker Run.😎
And for those participating in our
Cruiser program keep collecting
those points. And for everyone else
remember to take your 'what I saw
along way' photos as Fall is a great
time to showcase your car.
Your Cruiser Chairperson
Robert Geyer
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Hi everyone,
Thanks to
everyone who participated in the 50/50 drawing last month.
Larry Currey won half of the $220 pot and generously donated his
share back to Charity! Thanks to Larry and everyone
who contributed! Thanks also to Steve and Lee Ann
Parker, who donated a couple of items: a corvette book, won by Nick
Kupferle and a ‘53 corvette model, won by Keith Hunten.
Your Charity
Co-Chairs are working to get in-kind donations from businesses for our
car show on October 18. If you know of a business who
might be willing to donate items for our goody bags (we need 110), our
raffle (less than $50 value) and/or our 50/50 drawings (over $50 value),
please let Paula or Debbie know.
Charity events coming up:
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Tarrant Area Food Bank: Wednesday, November 19,
6:00 - 8:00 pm
A sign-up sheet
will be available at the October and November meetings.
Cook Children’s
Group Visit:
Monday, December 22, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
A sign-up sheet
will be available at the November and December meetings.
If you will not be at those meetings and would
like to sign up for either event, please contact Debbie (debglind@aol.com)
or Paula (jpwinter80@gmail.com).
We look forward to seeing you all
soon!
Debbie and Paula
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Garcia and Sims hold a narrow 53-point lead over DragonSpeed driver
Albert Costa and a 191-point gap over AO Racing’s Laurin Heinrich and
Klaus Bachler in GTD Pro heading into this weekend’s six-hour Battle on
the Bricks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The drivers of the No. 3 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R are coming off a
long-awaited first class win in more than a year in last month’s
Michelin GT Challenge at Virginia International Raceway, which slightly
extended the gap on second-place finisher Costa.
“It felt really nice to really break through with how the last year or
year-and-a-half has been going,” said Garcia.
As Garcia mentioned, the 45-year-old Spaniard
also has one eye on becoming a winner at the Brickyard this weekend,
a race that has alluded him from his resume.
“Ever since my first time I raced there in Grand-Am, I really loved
it and loved to be there, even if we were going the other way
around!” he said.
“But I really, really liked it. So it’s a shame I’ve never been able
to win there, but I had a lot of fun.
“Even last year was a fun race between all of us with all the
changing weather conditions we had.
“It’s a six-hour race, so there’s also a ton of strategy playing
out. In order to be in a really good place at the end of the race
instead of a regular two-and-a-half hour race, you need to work it
out a little bit differently.
Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports (GTD PRO)
· No. 3 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Antonio Garcia/Alexander Sims
· No. 4 Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Tommy Milner/Nicky Catsburg
The long-awaited first win of the season for Antonio Garcia and
Alexander Sims at VIR couldn’t have come at a much better time for
the GTD PRO championship picture.
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Please visit our Home Page on our website (Cowtown
Vettes of Ft Worth, Texas ) to catch up on the past months of
activities and events and...see the remaing schedule of events for 2025.
We are open to elect a new webmaster if you have an interest and love
corvettes...please contact Larry Currey or Kim West for info.
This is an Officer Level position with the club and you will be a voting
member at the monthly Board Meetings. The job is a lot of fun and you
learn so much about the club and our history.
You will need a basic
computer Level skill set and be able to handle HTML code. Doug and I
will be glad to help you learn the platform for our MSEW-4 website.
Keep the rubber side down.
Larry Currey
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The new Corvette CX and CX.R Vision Gran Turismo concepts
envision a futuristic Corvette hypercar.
When Chevrolet isn’t busy setting records at the Nürburgring with
the Corvette ZR1X, its designers are back in the lab, cooking up
concepts that imagine the far-off future of America’s favorite
sports car.
In April, GM’s advanced design studio in the UK unveiled this
futuristic beauty. In July, designers in Pasadena revealed this
stunning concept. Now, Chevy is introducing yet another Corvette
concept at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, in California—and it
might be the best one yet.
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Sept 2025
“The mission of the National Corvette
Museum is to educate worldwide
audiences on the evolution of the
Corvette --America’s Sports Car-- through collections, preservation, and
celebration of its legacy.”
At the museum’s 31st anniversary
celebration that was just held on August 28 - 30, 2025, Zora Arkus -
Duntov’s, only Corvette, fully restored was debuted. Who, you ask,
is Zora Arkus - Duntov? Depending on where you read he is referred
to as either the “Father of the Corvette” or the “Godfather of the
Corvette” although Harley Earl was the original designer of the
Corvette. After seeing the 1953 Corvette on display in New York
City, Arkus - Duntov wrote General Motors that he found the car
“visually superb, but was disappointed with what was underneath”.
He went to work at GM in May of 1953 as a staff engineer with the idea
of changing that perception and was “pivotal in elevating the Corvette
into a world class performance vehicle”. The only Corvette Arkus -
Duntov owned was a retirement gift from Chevrolet. You can read more
about his life and work on the museum’s website or other online sources.
For the latest on museum happenings you
can go to the website for info. Museum members can log onto the website
for more news and info. As always the museum offers car raffles, NCM
insurance, shopping and event info as well as article about exhibits.
Mary Pittman, NCM
Ambassador
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Annual Car Show Coming Soon
The Car Show Committee is excited about our
23rd annual corvette show scheduled for October 18,
2025 at Jerry’s Chevrolet in Burleson, Texas. This is a
new location for the show and it has been great to work with Jerry’s as
we plan this year’s show. It will be great to have a covered
location. It’s rain or shine!
This is a club show and we need help from all
members to make it successful. What can you do to help us?
-Do you know anyone who might like to
be a vendor at our show?
-Do you know any business that would
donate 110 items for our goody bags?
-We would appreciate any new gift
items for the Door Prizes or the 50/50 prizes.
-We need workers for the day of the
show. Signup sheets will be at the September
meeting. We need people to help with parking, registration and
selling 50/50 tickets.
AND….
-Grab a registration form at the
meeting and complete your own registration for the show.
We are looking forward to another great show!
Please contact us if you can help with any of the above and we will get
you to the right person on the committee.
Bill Buehler and Cliff Holden
Car Show Committee Co-Chairs
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Hello everyone,
We had a great turnout for our
Fall Autocross and had a great 2 days of Autocrossing. And by the time
you are reading this, we will have completed hosting the SW Region
Fundraiser Autocrorss. We had over 34 racers
participate in the event, along with a number of volunteers and
spectators. I hope you were one of them; if not, you
missed out on a great time, and I hope to see you next time.
Thank you very much to everyone
who came out to race or volunteered to help with the events.
We could not do this without your support.
Other events around the region
can be found at
http://ncccswregion.org/schedule.html
This is the end of NCCC events
for the club for 2025, and thank you for your support this year.
Looking forward to a great 2026. Palemanary
dates of 2026 are:
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Watch how fun Autocrossing
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Now up to
142 members
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Cowtown Vettes membership sits at 142
members!
IMPORTANT NOTICE!!! NATIONAL DUES
INCREASE!!!
At the September Governor’s Meeting, the dues
increased was voted on, and passed. Primary Member dues increased $15.00
and spouse/companion dues increased $5.00. Lifetime Memberships
increased from $300.00 to $500.00.
RENEWALS ARE NOW OPEN.
An updated Renewal form has been uploaded to
the website.
Competition is ongoing. In the ladies
division, Lee Ann Parker is first, Mary Pittman is sixth, Lauren
Whitcomb is in ninth, and Cathy Anthony is tenth. In the men’s division,
Larry Schaapveld is second. Cowtown Vettes is currently second. Lee Ann
Parker is twelfth nationally.
On October 11/12 there are 14 autocrosses at
McLane Stadium in Waco. In addition, on the 11th, Brazos
River is hosting their (non-sanctioned) car show in Granbury. Cowtown
Vettes’ car show will be on October 18, at Jerry’s Chevrolet in
Burleson, under the awnings!
More information can be found on the SW
Region Calendar, located here:
http://www.ncccswregion.org/schedule_2025.html
. There are events in October and November.
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
The
“WELCOME TO
COWTOWN”
Committee
PRESENTS
COWTOWN 101
October 1
from 6:15 to
7:00
Spring Creek
Barbeque,
1509 Airport
FWY, Bedford
We
welcome
newer and
future
members to
attend 101, before
the Club
Meeting
starts at
7:30. You’ll
have time to
order food
and
refreshments
from the
serving line
before you
are seated
at the
Cowtown 101
table, or
between 101
and the Club
Meeting.
This discussion
group will
share how
Cowtown
works, the
activities
offered to
members and
what all the
acronyms and
abbreviations
mean. Plus
we want to
talk about
what you are
looking
forward to
doing with
your Vette
and your new
Cowtown
friends!
Thanks, Barb Greenfeder
Barbsc6@sbcglobal.net
817-017-0975
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