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Inside this Issue

Presidents Message/Birthdays 1

Meeting Minutes 2-3

Tech Corner—Interior Detailing 3

June & July Social Events 4

Corvettes for Sale 5

Members Business Cards 6

VTV Sponsors 7

Calendar of Events 8-10

NCCC Clubs Event Flyers 11-12

Presidents Message

By Gale Haugen We have finally acquired the needed sanction numbers

for our Annual Corvette Blast scheduled for October

6th and 7th. NCCC rules for event flyers state that

sanction numbers must be on the event flyer prior to

submitting to West Coast Region Competition Director

to post on the NCCC calendar. When we borrow sanc-

tion numbers from another club we do not get the

points for that event but it does help by giving other

regional Corvette club points. This year we borrowed

one sanction number from Corvette Super Sports, two

from Pomona Valley Corvettes and one from Inland

Empire Corvettes. These three clubs have consistently

supported our annual event in the past so it seemed

only fitting to show our appreciation. Many of you

may ask why we need to borrow from other clubs so

let me explain.

Each NCCC club is granted 10 sanction numbers per

year. Hosting four autocross events this year took

eight of our numbers. Our annual event is a six sanc-

tioned event. Our past Governor, Charlie Perry, felt

strongly about the more points an attendee can earn

from a day event the more people we will attract. But,

there is another reason...Vapor Trail Vettes enjoys

putting on events and seeing our out of town Corvette

friends from other clubs. So get involved this year

and meet some great people. Note: I posted the WC

Region club standings on page three of this newsletter.

This is only a snapshot of the standings as of this date.

Hector and I are off to the NCCC National Convention

on Friday. We will spend some time before and after

convention in Nashville to check out the Grand Ole

Opry and a few other fun sites. Make sure you mark

your calendar for the 2018 NCCC National Convention

to be held in New Orleans. That one should be a blast.

If that is too far for your taste 2019 will be held in Col-

orado.

Until Next Month...Save the

Wave!

Gale

Board Members

President Gale Haugen 773-4515

Vice President Clay Beck 481-4597

Treasurer Hector Paz 773-4515

Secretary Position Open

Governor: Bill Santmyer 325-3750

Doug Nicoll 266-2266

Newsletter Gale Haugen 773-4515

Sunshine Dude Gerry White 733-1569

Web Master Chuck Robertson 934-0694

The Vapor Trail

August 2017

Vapor Trail Vettes, P.O. Box 5241, Santa Maria, CA 93456

August

03 Nathan Griffin

04 Bruce Potter

19 Bee Jay Jones

28 Cliff Erickson

September

04 Verna Nicoll

08 Joan Perry

13 Andra Sejera

21 Sergio Paz

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August VTV Meeting Minutes By Bev Erickson & Gale Haugen

The August General Meeting started at 6:30pm at the Las

Cazuelas Restaurant in Nipomo. Attendees included Mike

Williamson, Bruce Potter, Gerry White, Larry Wright, Gale

Haugen, Chuck Robertson, Bev & Cliff Erickson, Bill

Santmyer, Hector Paz, Doug Nicoll, Mike & Janet Glenn,

and Jeff & Holly Palmer and guest Ben.

Approval of June Meeting Minutes

A motion was made to approve the June meeting minutes

by Bill Santmyer and seconded by Gerry White. The

minutes were approved as written by all present.

Happy Birthday greetings were extended to Nathan Grif-

fin, Bruce Potter, Bee Jay Jones, and Cliff Erickson.

Old Business – Gale Haugen

Chuck Robertson reported that he has not heard from the

web designer. The question came up if she was already

paid or not. Hector was going to check the VTV account to

verify.

New Business – Gale Haugen

There will be an autocross prep meeting following this meeting. If you are helping out at the autocross we would

appreciate you staying for that meeting. Clay will keep it short.

We have had a problem with the VTV webpage over the

last few days. Gale called Yahoo, our hosting company,

and found that we were using an antiquated system that only had 5 gigs of space, which was filled. We were able to

upgrade to 500 gigs for $2 less per month.

We are short 4 sanction numbers for our annual event. Gale asked Bill to find a couple of clubs to borrow from.

We need these numbers before she can submit the flyer

for the West Coast Region Competition calendar.

Gale is looking for volunteers for the Annual Blast Event. Leads are needed for:

1. Registration/Check-in

2. Goodie Bags

3. Hospitality Room Food/Bar

4. Raffle/Auction

5. Games

6. Rallye Route/Gimmick questions or Funkhana

7. Awards

8. Advertising

August VTV Meeting Minutes By Bev Erickson & Gale Haugen

9. Poker Games—Larry & Clay

10. Car Show—Cliff & Bev Erickson

If you are interested in helping, please send Gale an email or

call.

Treasurer’s Report – Hector Paz

Hector presented the finance report for June and July. De-

tails of the income and expenses were discussed. A motion

to approve the report was made by Bill Santmyer and se-

conded by Mike Williamson. The report was approved as

presented by attending members.

Vice President’s Report – Clay Beck

Clay covered the upcoming events for August and Septem-

ber. He is also trying to plan a social before the end of the month.

Clay also proposed the Lompoc Airport for a Fun Run or

Drivers Ed event. Jeff Palmer is working with Clay, Bill and

Gerry to get something together. The charge would be $200 for the area. A porta pottie is available, with a restaurant on

site. The general public can also come to the event. Clay said we may want to keep this at a club level and/or with a

small club such as the Corvair club. This would not be a sanctioned event. No recorded times...just fun. The attend-

ing members agreed it would be a fun event.

Governor’s Report– Bill Santmyer

Bill also discussed the Lompoc Airport possibilities. A big

thank you to Jeff and Holly for taking the initiative to pre-sent this opportunity to the club. We can submit a non-

sanctioned event to the NCCC Regional Competition Direc-

tor and be covered by NCCC insurance for such an event and charge $10 a car and possibly make a little money.

Bill also suggested we hold our monthly meetings in the

Santa Maria area to balance membership location for all. Attending members agreed.

Round the Table

Bev Erickson—Looking forward to her grandkids return-ing to school.

Jeff Palmer—Changed the oil in his plane today.

Gerry White– Not attending the autocross on the 5th. Will be going to San Fran to his brothers. Car show in Lompoc on

the 19th of August. The cruise will be Friday night. Not sure

what charity they are sponsoring.

The remaining members had nothing to report.

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August VTV Meeting Minutes By Bev Erickson & Gale Haugen

50/50 Drawing – Bill Santmyer won $35.

Door Prize—Mike Williamson

Name Badge Drawing—Member not in attendance .

The meeting was adjourned at 7:30pm. The next meeting will be at the Olive Garden in Santa Maria. Meeting starts

at 6:30pm.

Autocross at Santa Maria Airport On August 5th Vapor Trail Vettes hosted their third auto-

cross of the year. Fifty drivers registered and 48 arrived Saturday morning. All drivers got 10 runs and by the

comments they really enjoyed the layout of the track. An-other successful event by our club.

A big thank you to Clay Beck, Chuck Robertson, Bill Santmyer, Dave Schultz, Hector Paz, and driving mem-

bers and enthusiast Pat Kelley, Doug Nicoll, Jeff & Holly Palmer and Larry Wright for working the event and to

those that set up the track on Friday afternoon. We can-not put on these events without you.

Autocross at Santa Maria Airport

Place Club Number Club Name Total Regional

Points Events Attended

1 WC-518 VAPOR TRAIL

VETTES 300 3

2 WC-325 O.C. VETTES, INC 200 2

3 WC-326 CORVETTE SUPER

SPORTS 162 5

4 WC-434 POMONA VALLEY

CORVETTE ASSOCI-ATION

50 2

5 WC-336 PACIFIC COAST

CORVETTES 42 4

6 WC-999 MEMBER AT LARGE 9 1

7 WC-447 CORVETTES LIM-

ITED 6 1

NCCC West Coast Club Points to Date

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Tech Corner—Mid-Engine Corvette

There are a lot of rumors surrounding the C8 mid-engine Corvette that is scheduled to arrive in 2018 as a 2019 model.

“The Corvette assembly facility in Bowling Green, Ken-tucky began its summer shutdown on July 28 to prepare for 2018 model year production. Rumor has it the lengthy shutdown is to make the necessary changes to prepare for production on the mid-engine Corvette. The facility won’t open again until October. “ (Siu, July 31, 2017)

Sean Szymkowski (2017, GM Forum) wrote a report enti-tled “Mid-Engine C8 Corvette to boast near six-figure price. Arrive in 2019” for GM Authority. “The report states the price tag will climb higher than $120,000 AUD (roughly $89,000 USD) and debut as a 2019 model year vehicle. The price is highly debatable, but sources claim the C8 Corvette will offer Ferrari-beating performance at one-third of the cost. “

“The re-port di-vulges details on the power-trains as well. Spe-cifically, a “base” C8 Corvette is rumored to arrive with a 502 horsepow-er small-block V8 engine with the latest lightweight and aerodynamic technology. Shaving weight from the car is said to be a high priority to help make the C8 Corvette the quickest, fastest iteration of the nameplate ever. Interest-ingly, the report states the small-block V8 will retain an OHV configuration. We’d beg to differ, but suppose any-thing is possible.”

“In regards to additional variants, an even hotter ZR1 model is said to arrive early next decade with a DOHC V8 engine producing around 670 hp, while a C8 Corvette E-Ray employs hybrid systems to push power even further. General Motors has already moved to trademark the “E-Ray” name and a Corvette mule has been spotted at GM’s battery facility, too.”

Siu, J. (2017, July 31). 2019 Mid-Engine Corvette Resurf-

aces as Plant Shuts Down for Upgrades. Autoguide.com.

Retrieved August 14th, 2017, from http://Autoguide.com

Szymkowski, S. (2017, May 17). Mid-Engine C8 Corvette to

Boast Near Six-Figure Price. Arrive in 2019. GM Forum.

Retrieved August 14th, 2017, from http://

gmauthority.com

Corvette Shopping Trip By Jeff & Holly Palmer

So now we have 4 cars for the two of us. We don’t need to be spending the money it takes to maintain 4 cars. But she wanted to keep her Dodge Charger, I wanted to keep my Dodge Charger and we didn’t want to sell the Corvette or the truck. Decisions, decisions. So on one lazy Saturday we decided to go out and look for a new white Corvette convertible. We agreed that if we can afford it we’ll trade the blue convertible and my Dodge for it. Of course we didn’t expect to find one, let alone be able to afford it. So we felt safe. After spending the day shopping around Buellton and Santa Maria and looking on line, we didn’t find anything. But, for chuckles, we decided to stop into Sunset Chevrolet in Lompoc. They certainly wouldn’t have

one. Oops! There it was, sitting right in the showroom. It wasn’t a convertible, but it was white. So we asked them to run the numbers so we can see it’s too expensive. But with the trade ins, factory incentives, discount, rebate and loyalty incentive it turned out we can afford it. It actually came out to where the insurance and license savings pretty much makes the payments. We weren’t actually looking for anything more than a basic model, but we had to settle with the Stingray with the Z51 package. Oh well. So that wasn’t all. GM sent us an invitation and discount to attend the basic driver training course at Spring Mountain Race Track in Pahrump Nevada. So we both went to that and I’ll tell you what, I had no idea that this car was such a beast! Anyone who buys a series 7 Corvette should take this course.

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Club Members Business Cards

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Vapor Trail Vettes Sponsors

“Where we Meet our Customers by Accident!”

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2017 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

NCCC, VTV & LOCAL EVENTS

Day Date Event Location Sponsor Comments

Monthly 2017

Every Satur-

day

N/A Pismo Derelicts Car Meet OSH Parking Lot—Oak

Park Blvd.

8am-10am

1st Thursday

of the Month

N/A VTV General Meeting Santa Maria & 5-Cities VTV 6:30pm

Every Day of

Each Month

N/A VTV Social Events Location TBD VTV

June 2017

Thursday 1 VTV Monthly Meeting Giovanni’s, Orcutt VTV Mtg starts at 6:30

Thur-Sunday 1-4 Santa Maria Elks Rodeo &

Parade

Unocal Event Center,

Santa Maria

Sunday 4 People’s choice Car Show Huntington Beach OC Vettes

Saturday 10 VTV Autocross - 2 Sanc-

tioned Events

Santa Maria Airport VTV Register at Motor-

sportreg.com

Fri-Sat 16-18 31st Classic Car Show Pismo Beach

Saturday 17 Porsche Autocross Santa Maria Airport Porsche Club

Saturday 24 22nd Annual Elks Car

Show

Elk’s Lodge in Santa

Maria

Elk’s

Thursday-

Sunday

22-25 Corvettes at Lake Tahoe Montbleu Hotel & Casi-

no, Lake Tahoe

Tahoe Cor-

vette Club

July 2017

Saturday 1 4th of July BBQ Shell Beach Gale & Hector

Tuesday 4 4th of July Parade Solvang Club will be partici-

pating.

July 5th—

August 3rd

7/5-8/3 August 5th Autocross Reg-

istration Open

Santa Maria VTV Motorsportreg.com

Saturday 8 6th Annual Car Show Lompoc Fundraiser for Mo-

torsports Park

Sunday 9-10 8th Annual Mad Bomberz

Car Show

Nipomo Regional Park

Wed—

Sunday

12-16 Santa Barbara County Fair Santa Maria Fairpark

Friday -

Sunday

14-16 Bent Axles Car Show &

BBQ

Broadway Street, Old

Orcutt

Bent Axles

Saturday 15 6th Annual Poker Run Tustin OC Vettes WC-325-002

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2017 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

NCCC, VTV & LOCAL EVENTS

Day Date Event Location Sponsor Comments

August 2017

Thursday 3 VTV Monthly Meeting Las Cazuelas Mexican

Restaurant, Nipomo VTV Mtg starts at 6:30

Saturday 5 VTV Autocross - 2 Sanc-

tioned Events

Santa Maria Airport VTV Register at Motor-

sportreg.com

Saturday 19 15th Annual Lompoc Police

Car Show

Ryon Park, Lompoc 805-714-1140

Sunday 20 Pebble Beach Concours’

De Elegance

The Lodge at Pebble

Beach

Sunday-

Friday

21-25 58th annual NCCC Nation-

al Convention

Bowling Green, KY NCCC 2017 NCCC Con-

vention Website

Saturday 26 Wheels N Windmills Car

Show

Solvang

September 2017

Sept 4th-Oct

11th

October 14th Autocross

Registration Open

Santa Maria VTV Register at Motor-

sportreg.com

Thursday 7 VTV Monthly Meeting Olive Garden, S Maria VTV Mtg starts at 6:30

Saturday-

Sunday

8-9 National Governors’ Mtg Sheraton Westport, St.

Louis, MO NCCC

Saturday 16 West Coast Regional Gov-

ernors Meeting

Marie Calender’s, 12180

Mariposa Rd. Victorville

(929)367-

9000.

Meeting starts at

1pm.

Saturday 16 Porsche Autocross Santa Maria Airport Porsche Club

Saturday 16 3rd Annual Fiesta Car

Show

SM Foursquare Church www.sm4.org/

carshow

Saturday 23 18th Annual Cruisin’ for a

Cure

Orange County Fair-

grounds, Costa mesa

Saturday-

Sunday

23-24 Dinner/Dance ~ Automo-

tive Concours at Monarch

Dunes

Monarch Dunes Golf

Course

Saturday-

Sunday

23-24 Annual Los Alamos Old

Days

Downtown, Los Alamos

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2017 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

NCCC, VTV & LOCAL EVENTS

Day Date Event Location Sponsor Comments

October 2017

Thursday 5 VTV Monthly Meeting IHOP, Santa Maria VTV Mtg starts at 6:30

Fri-Sat. 6-7 13th Annual Corvette Blast Santa Maria VTV

Saturday 14 VTV Autocross - 2 Sanc-

tioned Events

Santa Maria Airport VTV Register at Motor-

sportreg.com

Saturday 21 All American Car Show Hooter’s Restaurant,

Anaheim

Corvette Super

Sports

Saturday 21 Clam Festival Pismo Beach

Saturday-

Sunday

21-22 Porsche Autocross Santa Maria Airport Porsche Club 21st—1 Way

22nd—Other Way

November 2017

Thursday 2 VTV Monthly Meeting Giovanni’s, Orcutt VTV Mtg starts at 6:30

Saturday-

Sunday

10-11 National Governors’ Meet-

ing

Sheraton Westport, St.

Louis, MO NCCC

December 2017

TBD TBD VTV Christmas Dinner/Gift

Exchange

TBD VTV

Saturday 2 Santa Maria Christmas

Parade of Lights

Santa Maria Rotary Clubs

2018

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