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NCRS NORTH CENTRAL CHAPTER Dave Murphy Editor 279 Lily Pond Lane Vadnais Heights, MN 55127

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April to June 2016 EDITION

Summer is here and our cars should now be ready for the road.

The highlight for our chapter over the past quarter was that we hosted a regional judging meet in Rochester, Minn. May 19 – 21. It was the year of the ’66.

We had a caravan from our chapter meet and head down to Rochester together from the Cities – Will Zierhut, Mark Ogren, Dave Murphy, Paul Klemetson in their '66s plus Bob Lund in his ’63 Grand Sport.

The event was chaired by Chris Enstrom who kept the myriad of details organized along with his crack team of chapter volunteers. Thanks to Chris and everyone who helped make the meet a success.

New for this meet was that we had 13 of our chapter members chosen to judge; basically anyone who wanted to judge and rack up some points could do so. That’s a major change in philosophy for the national judging teams.

Four members from our chapter received their Master Judge caps, meaning they have accumulated 100 judging points or more. Congratulations to Bob Lund, Jerome Lardy, Mike Schmoll, and Rick Zierhut.

Several of our chapter members earned Flight awards for their cars. Congratulations to everyone!

Dave Cloutier - PV passed - 1957 Chuck Mosher - Second Flight - 1962 Bob Lund - Special Interest Display - 1963 Mike McDonald - Top Flight - 1965 Roger Carlson - Top Flight - 1965 Will Zierhut - Special Interest Display - 1966 Dave & Arlene Martin - Second Flight - 1966 Dave Murphy - Top Flight - 1966 Paul Klemetson - Special Interest Display - 1966 Doug Jolstad - Top Flight - 1969 Bill Neumiller - Top Flight - 1969 Jim Anderson - Top Flight - 1969 Bob Schroeder - Top Flight - 1971 Jeff Wilhelmi - Third Flight - 1971 Jim Anderson - Top Flight - 1972 Mike Meirovitz - Founders Operations Pass - 1980 Len Kaufer - Top Flight - 1987 Jerome Lardy - PV passed - 1995 Ken Traverse - Sportsman - 2008 Steve Hudak - Sportsman – 2015 Mark Ogren - Special Interest Display - 1966 We received rave reviews from the National attendees for everything from the opening night festivities, catering, awards dinner, trolley ride, etc. The bar is now set for other chapters!

2016 NORTH CENTRAL CHAPTER BOARD Rick Zierhut – President Mike Lyddy – Vice President

Roger Carlson – Treasurer

January 1 1 7 16 20-23

Friday Friday Thursday Saturday Wed.-Sat.

Deadline for Crossed Flags articles to Dave Murphy Deadline for Chapter Dues 2016 to Jerome Lardy 7 p.m. Board Meeting 9 a.m. Tech Session or Judging School 8 a.m. Winter Regional - Lakeland, FL.

February 4 20 27

Thursday Saturday Saturday

7 p.m.

9 a.m.

TBD

Board Meeting Tech Session or Judging School Holiday Social at Mancinis'

March

3 19 10-13

Thursday Saturday Thurs.-Sun.

7 p.m.

9 a.m.

8 a.m.

Board Meeting Tech Session or Judging School NCRS Judging Retreat - Dallas, TX

April

1 Friday 7 Thursday 16 Saturday 23 Saturday 21,22,23 Thurs.-Sat.

Deadline for Crossed Flags articles to Dave Murphy 7 p.m. Board Meeting 9 a.m. Tech Session or Judging School TBD Spring Social at Old Mexico 8 a.m. Indiana Regional - Auburn, IN

May

5 Thursday 19,20,21 Thurs.-Sat.

7 p.m.

8 a.m.

Board Meeting North Central Regional Meet - Rochester

June

2 2,3,4

7 p.m.

8 a.m.

Board Meeting Northwest Regional - Bend, OR

July

1 Friday 7 Thursday 14,15,16 Thurs.-Sat. 17-21 Sun.-Thurs.

Mike Kittle – Secretary Jerome Lardy – Membership Chairman Chris Enstrom – Judging Chairman Bob Lund – Tech Director Don O’Grady – Activities Director

Dave Murphy – Newsletter Editor Nick Kornder – Web site and Facebook Master Will Zierhut – Assistant Judging Chairman

August 4 20

Paul Burski – Member at Large .

Sept

Thursday Thurs.-Sat.

Thursday Saturday

8 Thursday 17 Saturday 22,23,24 Thurs.- Sat. 24 Saturday

October 1 6

Saturday Thursday

Deadline for Crossed Flags articles to Dave Murphy 7 p.m. Board Meeting 8 a.m. Road Tour to National 8 a.m. NCRS National Convention - Warrick, RI 7 p.m.

8 a.m.

Board Meeting Chapter Judging Meet

7 p.m.

9 a.m.

8 a.m.

TBA

Board Meeting Tech Session or Judging School Ontario Regional - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Color Run and Vineyard Visit

15 Saturday 20,21,22 Thurs.-Sat.

Deadline for Crossed Flags articles to Dave Murphy 7 p.m. Board & Chapter Meeting, ELECTION OF BOARD MEMBERS 9 a.m. Tech Session or Judging School 8 a.m. Lone Star Regional - Fisco, TX

Nov

3

Thursday

7 p.m.

Board Meeting

Dec

1

Thursday

7 p.m.

Board Meeting

We have added five new members since the last quarter and our membership now stands at 130.

Jim Anderson resides in East Dundee, IL and joined our chapter at the regional we hosted in Rochester, MN. Jim brought along two C3s for judging, a ’69 and ’72. Jim also attended our previous regional in 2014.

Eric Eade lives in Holmen, WI and helped judge at the regional meet. Eric was a previous member back in the late 90’s to early 00’s. Life took over back then, but now Eric has a little extra free time to come back to his Corvette hobby. Eric has a ’62 that he is restoring. It is Honduras Maroon with the 300HP motor.

Alan Kruse calls Prior Lake, MN home and he has a ’63 roadster with the 340HP engine.

Jeff Wilhelmi lives in Austin, MN and is a friend of Ty Truax. Jeff is new to the NCRS and brought his ’71 out for flight judging at our regional meet. It was an eye opening experience for Jeff and he did pretty well for the first time out.

Pliny Smith resides in Shakopee, MN and is restoring a ’64 roadster with the help of Van Mattson.

We just had our June tech session at Van’s shop and went over the rebuild of the 300HP motor.

Pliny has owned his Corvette since 1968.

Welcome to all of our new members. We hope to see you at an upcoming chapter event in the near future.

On a side note, Dale Anderson recently had a quadruple heart bypass operation. We saw Dale last weekend at the tech session and he looked great. His surgeon had just cleared him for driving, so what better way to do it than with his recently purchased ’08.

Dale, the chapter wishes you a speedy recovery and we look forward to seeing you again real soon.

Jerome Lardy Membership Chairman

2016 North Central Regional Recap Back in May, our Chapter hosted another Regional Judging Meet. I am pleased to report that everything went off very well and I received many positive compliments about the event. So my deep thanks to everyone who helped make this Regional so successful.

As you saw from The President's Corner earlier in the newsletter, Rick reported that 20 of our members received awards at the Regional. That was almost half of the number of cars that attended. So my thanks also to our Chapter Members who participated and had fun with their cars.

Because of how successful our event was, the National organization is already asking our Chapter to consider hosting another event. The Board will consider that for future opportunities.

Shown below are the cars from our Chapter that attended.

Dave C. - 1957

Chuck M. - 1962

Merlin B. - 1962

Bob L. - 1963

Roger C. - 1965

Mike M. - 1965

Dave M. - 1966

Dave M. - 1966

Will Z. - 1966

Mark O. - 1966

Paul K. - 1966

Doug J. - 1969

Bill N. - 1969

Jim A. - 1969

Bob S. - 1971

Jeff W. - 1971

Jim A. - 1972

Mike M. - 1980

Len K. - 1987

Jerome L. - 1995

Ken T. - 2008

Steve H. - 2015

Since I’ve owned my 78, I have always had a few problems with the column.

Excessive up and down play, the turn signal/cruise control lever not secure in the column and difficulty moving the lever into the left turn signal. I would literally have to slam it into the left turn mode. Over the years I’ve been making many repairs, preventive maintenance and now felt it was time to address the column. The removal was actually quite straight forward and not difficult at all.

I believe it took about 45 minutes from start to finish. As you can see in the picture, I left the steering wheel attached; this will also be replaced. The column is being repaired by “Vanz Auto” in Blaine MN. Van is a member of our chapter and will be hosting a tech session on rebuilding/repair of the column. Since the column is out and will be apart, I’ll also have it painted, this is the perfect time to do this.

We also adjusted the hood as it was rubbing. I really never wanted to tackle this by myself, truth is I found the idea of adjust the hood a bit intimidating.

With the help of chapter members we were able to achieve a gap around the entire hood. And of course this meant I now had to adjust the latches.

Best regards Bill Kohl

On April 30th, we had part 2 of the column removal/rebuild of my column from my 78. There is no doubt in my mind I made the right decision in having it professionally rebuilt. As you can see in the pictures there are a lot of little parts. There are just too many for me to have determined what was bad and what wasn’t. Once the column was taken apart Van found more items which needed replacing. For example, the lower bear assembly, initially we were going to just replace the bearing, but upon inspection the plastic holder was crack. This added to play in the steering system. The turn signal lever assembly is also being replaced.

We also had an impromptu lock smith lesson. Bob Lund have the trunk lock cylinder from him Monti Carlo. Van disassembled it and made the repairs. Amazing what goes into that tiny cylinder.

Bill Kohl

It is a 1964 Corvette convertible with the following options: · · · · · · · · ·

Hardtop and soft top AM/FM 3:08 gears 4 speed Positraction Power windows 327/300hp engine Silver body Black interior

I believe I am the third owner and have owned the car since 1968 and purchased it from a private party in Red Wing, MN. It was my primary transportation through college and my early married life, therefore I drove it year round. I must say it was a great winter car. Just yesterday I sent in the money to the NCRS national to obtain information as to which dealer the car was sold from and depending on if the dealer is still in business or not will take it from there.

Since the car was a year round driver and in storage for a number of years in less than desirable locations the original frame was very badly rusted. Last fall the car was trailered up to Van’s Automotive where a replacement 1964 frame will be installed and the entire drivetrain rebuilt, which includes the engine. The VIN numbers on the block are currently in question so I cannot say if this is the original motor, although the VIN numbers do match.

When completed, the car will have a totally rebuilt chassis and drivetrain and a new interior. I plan to leave the body untouched as it still has the original paint. My goal is to have it back on the road as a recreational driver and be able to enjoy the car again.

The purpose of the Tech Session was for the local NCRS Chapter to go over the block and talk about the rebuild and general Corvette block markings and features.

Regards, Pliny Smith

Paragon Corvette Club Rewards Program – Help your club when buying parts The North Central Chapter NCRS is participating in the Paragon Club Rewards Program. Here’s how the program works.

Each calendar year Paragon adds up the total value of all parts purchased by participating North Central Chapter members (excludes labor, restorations & used parts) during that year.

At the end of each calendar year the North Central Chapter receives 3% of that value in the form of either gift certificates or stocked Paragon items.

The club will use these gift certificates or stocked Paragon items as giveaways at club functions such as Tech and Judging sessions.

This program does not affect any discounts you currently enjoy with Paragon.

How you can participate Paragon needs to identify customers as being a member of the North Central Chapter in order to include their purchases in the annual calculation. The club needs to provide Paragon a list of participating club members. Participating members can either be existing Paragon customers or new Paragon customers.

The North Central Chapter currently has 21 club members participating. If you would like to participate, and have not already signed up, please email Roger Carlson at Rogerpcarlson@gmail.com ASAP to get your Paragon purchases included.

• Treasurer's Report – Roger Carlson - Updated that the overall financial position of the Chapter is in good shape.

Roger reported that at present we have 80 registrations paid for the upcoming Regional in Rochester.

April 7, 2016

Board Members Present: Rick Zierhut, Paul Burski, Roger Carlson, Chris Enstrom, Mike Kittle, Nick Kornder, Jerome Lardy, Bob Lund, Will Zierhut Board Members Absent: Mike Lyddy, Dave Murphy, Don O’Grady Other Members Present: Dale Anderson, Steve & Juli Hudak, Mark Ogren Meeting held at Old World Pizza in Inver Grove Heights.

Rick called the meeting to order.

• Meeting Minutes fr om the Mar ch 3r d, 2016 meeting wer e approved. -- Mike Kittle • Open Discussion from Floor – It was proposed and approved to move the start time of Board Meetings from 7pm to 6:30pm beginning in May.

• Judging Report -- Chris Enstrom / Will Zierhut – Chris reported that we have 31 cars registered for the upcoming Regional: 20 Flight Cars, 6 PV Cars 4 Sportsman Cars and 1 Founders Car. Chris has arranged another regional planning meeting for the coming week to finalize any last minute details.

• Website Report -- Nick Kornder – The April member of the Month which features Russ Westfall has been posted to our web site and to Facebook. Nick is working with Dave Murphy to gather photo’s for upcoming Throwback Friday postings.

• Newsletter Report -- Dave Murphy – Dave is finalizing the 1st quarter news letter and will send to all members within the coming weeks.

• Membership Report -- Jerome Lardy – Jerome reported that we have four new members who have joined the chapter. We are very proud to welcome Chris Eldredge, Pete Heunisch, Craig Olson and Andy Piazza. We look forward to meeting and working with each of you.

Chapter membership now stands at 124 active members.

Jerome is currently updating the chapter membership list and will send the completed list to all via email in the coming weeks.

• Tech Report -- Bob Lund – Bob will be conducting another Dyno session at Competition Engine within the next few weeks. Bob will send out date and time information to all via email.

Bob reported that we will be having a Tech Session in April at Bill Kohl’s house. We will be pulling the steering column out of Bill’s car for rehabilitation. Bob will send out a notice by email to all members on date, time and directions to Bill’s house in the next week.

• Activities Report -- Don O'Grady – Unfortunately Don was absent.

• Member at Large – Paul Burski – Paul reported that the April M.O.M. which features Russ Westfall has been sent to members. Paul is currently working with several members on upcoming M.O.M.’s for May, June and July

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• Old Business – None • New Business – Mike Kittle proposed implementation of a new monthly program known as “Happy Birthday Wish”. Purpose of the program is to further build membership enthusiasm by sending a “Happy Birthday Wish” at the beginning of the month to members whose birthday falls within that month. Motion was made and seconded to begin.

May 5, 2016

Board Members Present: Rick Zierhut, Paul Burski, Roger Carlson, Chris Enstrom, Mike Kittle, Nick Kornder, Jerome Lardy, Bob Lund, Mike Lyddy, Dave Murphy, Don O’Grady Board Members Absent: Will Zierhut Other Members Present: Alden Miles Meeting held at Old World Pizza in Inver Grove Heights.

Rick called the meeting to order.

• Open Discussion from Floor – None • Meeting Minutes fr om the Apr il 7th, 2016 meeting wer e approved.

• Treasurer's Report – Roger Carlson - Updated that the overall financial position of the Chapter is in good shape.

Roger reported that at present we have 102 registrations paid for the upcoming Regional in Rochester.

• Judging Report – Chris reported that we have 38 cars registered for flight judging at the upcoming Regional. Chris has provided a list of Chapter Members who signed up to be considered for judging positions to the National Team Leaders. Based on the list provided, 10 members have been assigned judging positions.

Preparations for the Regional are finalized and tasks such as welcome packets, daily lunches and judging assignments are completed.

A new general session for all attendees has been added for Friday night. The National HQ representatives will conduct a “Town Hall” meeting to discuss the current changes and progress at the National level.

• Website Report -- Nick Kornder – The May member of the month has been posted to our web site and to Facebook. Nick is working with Dave Murphy to gather photo’s for upcoming Throwback Friday postings.

• Newsletter Report -- Dave Murphy updated all that he and Nick Kornder are working to post more pictures to the 2 nd quarter newsletter.

• Membership Report -- Jerome Lardy – Jerome reported that Van Mattson has reinstated his membership in the Chapter. Welcome back Van!!!! We all look forward to more “Tech Sessions” on Steering Column and Lock repair at your shop in Blaine.

With the addition of Van, Chapter membership now stands at 125 active members.

Jerome updated all that we are well underway of meeting all the requirements for Chapter Top Flight status again.

• Tech Report -- Bob Lund – Bob reported that we had a good turnout at the tech session conducted at Bill Kohl’s where the group removed Bill’s steering column. The following week, a second tech session was held at Vanz Auto in Blaine, where Van Mattson conducted a tech session on the rehab and repair of Bill’s

steering column. As an added bonus, Van was kind enough to also demonstrate the repair of a door lock and the proper cutting of a key for vintage cars.

Bob updated all that due to the Regional we will not be holding a tech session in May. • Activities Report -- Don O'Grady – As always, Don put together an outstand Spring Dinner which was held this year at Cowboy Jacks. Don reported that we had 21 members and guests attend and pictures taken at the event posted on the Chapter web and Facebook site. Don is working on a date for the summer picnic and will update all with details.

• Member at Large – Paul Burski – Paul reported that the May M.O.M. which features Gerry Gartner in his 1966 Ermine White Coupe has been sent to members. Paul is currently working with several members on upcoming M.O.M.’s for June and July.

• Old Business – Roger Carlson update the group that we have gone live with the Paragon Rebate Program. At present we have 21 members who signed up to participate. Roger can add additional members at any time.  New Business – None

June 2, 2016

Board Members Present: Rick Zierhut, Paul Burski, Roger Carlson, Chris Enstrom, Mike Kittle, Nick Kornder, Jerome Lardy, Bob Lund, Dave Murphy, Don O’Grady Board Members Absent: Mike Lyddy, Will Zierhut Others Members Present: Steve Hudak, Alden Miles, Mike McDonald Meeting held at Old World Pizza in Inver Grove.

Rick called the meeting to order.

• Open Discussion from Floor – Alden Miles requested that a process and procedure be implemented for members wishing to obtain North Central Chapter apparel. At present there is not a formal process available and several members are interested in purchasing North Central Chapter shirts. Paul Burski and Nick Kornder will work together and create an order form with picture of the current shirt and send to all members.

The chapter has four XL light blue polo shirts from the regional meet that can be purchased for $40.00. If interested, please contact Jerome Lardy at jeromemn@msn.com.

• Minutes from the May 5th, 2016 meeting were approved as written by Mike Kittle.

•Treasurer's Report – Roger Carlson – Roger updated all that he is in the process of collecting all bills for the recent Regional in Rochester and will report the final results when completed.

Roger proposed sending out a year end financial report to all members similar to that done by NCRS HQ. A Motion was made, seconded and passed to hold a “General Business Meeting” for all members to attend on February 18th, 2017, where the Roger will present financial results as well the board will present upcoming 2017 plans and events. Location, date and time will be sent to all members via email later in the year.

Roger requested if we could return to posting pictures of events to the chapter's web site in addition to posting them on FaceBook.

Nick Kornder will look into this due to space issues on web site.

•Judging Report -- Chris Enstrom – Chris was very happy to report that the North Central Regional went exceptionally well.

Since the meet Chris has received complimentary emails from event attendees from all over the country as well as from NCRS HQ attendees.

Overall, the Regional covered 28 judged cars, 5 Sportsman, and 4 display cars for a total of 37. Of these, 19 were cars belonging to North Central Chapter members. Our members took home 7 Top Flight Awards, 2 Second Flight Awards, and 1 Third Flight Award. Additionally, two members passed their PV test, and one member completed the Regional requirement for Founders Operations. Two members brought cars for Sportsman, and four members brought cars for Special Interest Display. The individual results will be published in an upcoming issue of the NCRS Corvette Restorer Magazine. Congrats to all of the owners!

Chris did update all that NCRS HQ attendees as well as event participating NCRS members are begging North Central Chapter to hold a Regional event in 2017. It is very obvious that when North Central puts on an event, IT IS THE GOLD STANDARD for Regionals.

Chris was pleased to report that with the help from his dad, Ken, that all judging points for judges, judging paperwork for car owners, certificate and award information has been submitted to NCRS HQ and assigned.

Chris is working with Bob Lund to combine a Judging School and Tech Session event for August, just prior to the Chapter Judging event. Chris will provide date, time and location as all is finalized.

•Website Report -- Nick Kornder - Nick updated the group that we now have over 100 Likes on our Chapter Facebook page.

Nick has posted the June Member of the Month which features Doug Brekke to our web site and to Facebook. Nick is working with Dave Murphy to gather photo’s for upcoming Throwback Friday postings.

Nick requested that we consider emailing all MOM, Meeting Minutes and Happy Birthday information around the 15 th of the month in an effort not to overload members with once a week mailings. Motion was made, seconded and passed to proceed with once a month mailing.

•Newsletter Report -- Dave Murphy – Dave reported that he is currently collecting information for the second quarter newsletter and is asking all for any added material. Dave is planning to publish the next edition around the first week in July.

•Membership Report -- Jerome Lardy – Jerome was very pleased to report that we have four new chapter members: Jim Anderson, Eric Eade, Alan Kruse and Jeff Wilhelmi. Welcome gentlemen, we look forward to meeting and getting to know each of you.

Jerome reported that with our four new members, Chapter membership now stands at 129 strong.

Jerome updated all that the silent auction held at the recent Regional raised $1346 for the NCRS Foundation. Our chapter also donated $100 to the Foundation, so the chapter is well on its way to completing all requirements needed to achieve “TOP FLIGHT” status for 2016.

•Tech Report -- Bob Lund – Bob reminded all that this weekend is the All GM car show and swap meet at the fairgrounds.

Bob reported that there will not be a Tech Session in June due to our recent Regional and the Back to the Fifties car show. Bob is working on a combined Tech Session and Judging School for July.

Bob suggested to all that the board map out the already committed dates for 2017 and 2018 for Regional events (Iowa Regional, Illinois Regional, Wisconsin Regional, etc.) before making a decision on doing a future North Central Regional. This exercise would help us better plan for a future event to maximize participation from NCRS members outside the North Central Chapter. All agreed. Bob will contact our Regional Rep to access committed dates.

•Activities Report -- Don O'Grady – Don is in the process of formalizing the Summer BBQ which is scheduled for September.

As further information becomes available Don will send out info to all members.

• Member at Large – Paul Burski – Paul reported that the June M.O.M. which features Doug Brekke has been sent to members.

Paul is currently working with several members on upcoming M.O.M.’s for July, August and September.

•Old Business - NONE •New Business - NONE Meeting was adjourned.

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