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The 2025 Car Show is now in the history
book. It was the first time in 23 years that it rained and shut the show
down early. Ducks we are not! Thank you to all who participated.
There were 72 cars registered.
Preregistration numbers were the highest we had ever seen. Therefore, I
was thinking we would have 100+ cars, no problem. The weather really
played a huge part in the turnout.
I would personally like to thank the Car
Show Committee for their hard work. The car show preparation is a year
of big decisions and long hours.
Thank you to the Best of Judges; Mike
Kaiser, Mike Musgrove, and David Tomerlin. They worked hard to pick the
Best Paint, Best Interior, and Best Engine.
The participants picked 2 wonderful Best
of Show. I look forward to seeing them on the shirts and trophies next
year.
I hope everyone enjoyed the Car Show.
Kim West
We are all looking forward to the Hangin at the
Hangar Party on November 1st. See details in the Low Down
and on the web site.
Thank you to Larry Currey for filling in as Web
Master.
Kim West
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November 2025
Happy Fall Everyone,
Our November social will be the “Hangin at the Hanger Party”
set for Saturday November 1st. We will have lunch at 1:30
at the Wing it Café and then head to the Currey’s hanger for a fun
afternoon of socializing and games
Robert Geyer will head up
the Cruise to the Currey Hangar at Hicks Field.
Plans are underway for our annual
Christmas party. Saturday Dec. 6, 2025 @ Chisholm Trail Rustic Venue in
Cleburne TX. Time-TBD, but it will be late afternoon early evening.
Our theme will be a Country Christmas,
so dust off those boots and hats. (We’ll have a small prize for the best
men’s and ladies’ outfit). I’ll begin taking sign-ups and money at the
October membership meeting. The menu will be a traditional holiday meal
with tickets at $40 per person. The venue is a BYOB establishment, so
feel free to bring a 6-pack, bottle of wine, or a flask and mixer. (Tea
and Coffee will be available) Parking is free. If you have any
questions, please just call, text, or email me. RSVP no later than
Friday November 21st.
I hope everyone can get out soon and
hopefully enjoy some cooler weather.
Have a great month!
Gayle
850-517-7346
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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
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It is time to elect our 2026 CTV
Officers! The timeline for these elections is as follows:
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.
On Wednesday December 3rd. 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
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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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NOVEMBER 1 – DEBORAH JACKSON
NOVEMBER 2 – GLENDA KUPFERLE
NOVEMBER 3 – JERRY LINDSEY
NOVEMBER 6 – PAULA WINTER
NOVEMBER 8 – CAROL HUNTEN
NOVEMBER 11 – KEN BACHELOR
NOVEMBER 11 – GAYLE CHERRY
NOVEMBER 12 – JIM FORSYTHE
NOVEMBER 14 – KEVIN ANTHONY
NOVEMBER 17 – JOHN DICK
NOVEMBER 18 – MICHAEL BUCHANAN
NOVEMBER 20 – NICK KUPFERLE
NOVEMBER 20 – KAY SCHAAPVELD
NOVEMBER 25 – KIM LITTLE
NOVEMBER 26 – LEE ANN PARKER
NOVEMBER 27 – NANCY WELLS
NOVEMBER 30 – JAMES
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NOVEMBER ANNIVERSARIES:
NOVEMBER 5 – DAVID & BECKY CLARK
NOVEMBER 8 – RICK & DIANE WHITCOMB
NOVEMBER 8 – MATT & MARCA NORTH
NOVEMBER 8 – JACOB & SARA KOLB
NOVEMBER 17 – JIM & DONNA FORSYTHE
NOVEMBER 25 – ROYCE & LINDA LUMMUS
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cruisers
Because you are reading this article
later in the month of November, I
will have already led a cruise to
Larry's hanger at Hicks airfield.
I'm sure as always everyone will
have enjoyed the cruise and
especially the hospitality provided
by Larry and Vicki.
Remember to bring your ' what I saw
along the way' photos for club
members voting during the November
meeting. And for the first and the
only time, I will alow pictures from
2023 and 2024 and of course 2025.
The photos from '23 and '24 cannot
have previously received a 1st, 2nd,
or 3rd place award. I am doing this
because I was not around to remind
and encourage everyone to
participate.
For those participating in the
Cruiser points program, you need to
turn in to me your Cruiser log sheet
and corresponding photos.
Now for the good news. I will be
leading a cruise in November. The
date will be November 15th. We will
be heading West. As is customary
with me, we will meet up behind the
Cracker Barrel restaurant in
Benbrook. Please be there by
10:30am. The drivers meeting will be
at 10:45 and we will depart by
11:00am. This trip will be familiar
to many as we will travel to
Granbury and then pick up FM51 south
to US 67 and finally to Glen Rose
where we will have lunch. I have
found an eclectic place to eat a
simple lunch and visit with your
fellow cruisers. So join with me
and let's make this last cruise of
'25 one to remember.
I will have a sign up sheet at the
November meeting and send reminders
out by CTVALL.
Your Cruiser Chairperson
Robert Geyer
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Hi everyone,
Thanks to all who participated in the 50/50
drawing last month. Gayle Cherry won half of the $196 pot and Cowtown
Vettes increased the balance of our charity fund by the same amount
($98). Thanks to everyone who contributed!
Our 50/50 drawing at the car show this year
raised $705, half of which was won by Tony Sokoloski (congratulations,
Tony!) and half of which went into our charity fund.
Thanks to everyone who contributed and waited patiently in the rain to
find out the results!
Many businesses donated space, money, time
and/or prizes to our 23rd annual Corvette Show. The
next page contains a list of all those businesses.
Please support the businesses you can on this list and thank them for
contributing to the activities and chosen charities of Cowtown Vettes!
Special thanks to Streetside Classics for
their $500 donation to the club, as well as items for our goodie bags
and door prizes. They would like you all to know
that:
Streetside Classics offers free consignment.
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
Please Support and Thank These Businesses Who
Have Generously Made Donations to Cowtown Vettes’ 2025 Corvette Show
Jerry’s Chevrolet
Streetside Classics
Novistretch
Detail Garage Arlington
Soapy Jeff’s Car Wash
Lost Oak Winery
Hoffbrau Steak and Grill House
Griot’s Garage
In N Out Burger
Zoom Apparel
Corvette Central
Critzas Industries, Inc.
Hoffbrau Steak and Grill House
Jegs
Rosa’s Cafe
Summit Racing
Cityview Car Wash
Outback Steak House
Nothing Bundt Cakes
Kincaid’s Hamburgers
Mexican Inn
Cracker Barrel
Harbor Freight
Texas Rangers
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Teams championships for Garcia,
Sims, Pratt Miller
BRASELTON, Ga. (October 11, 2025) – Chevrolet and Corvette Racing swept
all three GTD PRO titles in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship
on Saturday with the conclusion of the 10-hour Petit Le Mans at Michelin
Raceway Road Atlanta.
Chevrolet claimed the Manufacturers
Championship,
Antonio Garcia and
Alexander Sims claimed the Drivers
Championship in their No. 3 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R,
and Corvette Racing by Pratt Miller Motorsports’ No. 3 squad capped the
hat trick with the Teams Championship.
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recorded a combined nine podiums on the season, including a
victory at Virginia International Raceway for Garcia and Sims, who
finished the year with six top-three results. In addition, Milner
and Catsburg finished second in class not only in Petit Le Mans but
also at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. The No. 4 also was the
quickest Corvette in Friday’s GTD PRO qualifying, earning valuable
points for Chevrolet.
Saturday’s results also capped the
clean sweep of the GTD PRO championships as Garcia and Sims won
their first Drivers title together. Garcia is now a six-time IMSA
champion – all with Corvette Racing.
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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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So...all
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Corvettes.
Here is your
reference chart:
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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
To visit the NCM
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Cowtown Vette’s 23rd
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Cowtown Vette’s 23rd Annual
Car Show is behind us and although Mother Nature didn’t exactly
cooperate, it was still a great show. We had 58 pre-registered
cars, and we’re told that was the most pre-registered cars we’ve ever
had. A total of 72 cars joined the show.
Congratulations to our Best of Show
winners:
Early model: Paul and Mary Wolter, C1
1962 Satin Silver Convertible
Late model: Eudale Bell, C8 2023
Black Coupe
Our own Tony Sokoloski won the 50/50
raffle!
We learned a lot about putting on a show
at our new location, and the good news is that Jerry’s Chevrolet has
invited us back again. That’s a great start for planning the 24th
annual show!
Thanks to everyone who volunteered on the
committee and the day of the show! We couldn’t have done it
without you!
Your 23rd Annual Car Show
Committee
Bill Buehler and Cliff Holden
Car Show Committee Co-Chairs
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Hello Cowtown Vettes Members,
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.
The dates for 2026 are now set for
next year:
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Watch how fun Autocrossing
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Now up to
144 members
strong
Cowtown Vettes membership sits at 144
members!
Renewals are coming in VERY slowly.
Please get them in to me ASAP!
Competition is winding down. There is ONE
event left. With all numbers current, in the ladies division, Lee Ann
Parker is first, Mary Pittman is eighth, Cathy Anthony is in ninth, and
Lauren Whitcomb/ is tenth. In the men’s division, Larry Schaapveld is
second. Cowtown Vettes is currently second. Lee Ann Parker is on the
bubble at 15th, nationally.
On November 1/2 there are 7 autocrosses
at Killeen, and 3 drags at Little River. That will be the last
competition event of the year is SW Region!
RENEW, RENEW, RENEW! Let’s get the
renewals coming!
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
NEXT
SESSION
TBD...Stay
Tuned
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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