November & December 2015€¦ · this year’s Dinner Dance Party the best yet!!! See you there!!!!...

DINNER DANCE!!!!!! COMING UP

QUICKLY!!!!

Holiday party season is just around the corner!!! And

the club’s Christmas Dinner Dance is on December 5th

starting at 6pm this year. A change from last year, the

meals will be plated so be sure to choose which dinner

plate you would like when you send in your payment.

We also got an outstanding band this year, the L.P. &

Company Band!! SO, make sure you sign-up and make

this year’s Dinner Dance Party the best yet!!! See you

there!!!!

November & December 2015

President Letter 2

2015 Officers 3

Birthdays 4

2015 Calendar of Events

5

November Meeting 6

Winners! 7

New Members 8

Upcoming Events 13

Corvette in the News 20

NCM 24

Corvette Racing 25

The CCR Store 27

Event Recap 12

Nominating Committee 9

Absentee Ballot 11

Inside this issue:

November & A Message from the President

Kirby

Dear Fellow CCR members, Last month I highlighted all of the remaining events for 2015, so this month I just want to encourage everyone to attend the Christmas Dinner Dance to be held at Meadowbrook Country Club on Saturday, December 5. We have a great band, there will be fabulous food, and most importantly, a fabulous group of CCR members there! Please attend and register now! See article about this event elsewhere in this newsletter, Elections! Election of officers for 2016 will take place during the November 13 General Membership meeting at our West Side meeting location. Currently all positions are unopposed, however nominations are open until elections. If you cannot attend and wish to be sure your vote is counted (in the event of further nominations), you can mail in the ab-sentee ballot contained in this newsletter to the club PO box. Be sure to mail it so it arrives in our PO box by November 13, otherwise your ballot will not be counted. New South side meeting location! Our South side meeting location is changing in 2016. We will begin in January meeting at Grace Lutheran Church in Chester. We thank Rob and Faye Buren for helping us obtain this new meeting location. Our prior meeting location is being expanded and remodeled, necessitating the change in meeting location. Directions to the new meeting loca-tion are on the CCR web site. Can you believe it? This is my last President's newsletter! I am grateful for the opportunity to serve as your President during the last two years. I would like to thank all of my fellow board members and volunteers who have served with me during this period, you helped keep this club as the great-est Corvette club in the world! Thank you also, members, for participating in club events, and through your participation and friendship, helping make this such an awesome club! I would like to thank our sponsors, Heritage Chevrolet and Zip Products, for their support and everything they do for the benefit of our club and our members. We are very fortunate to have Heritage and Zip as sponsors, so please return the favor to them when you can, and thank them! Finally, I would like to thank Paul Murman for encouraging me to run for President, thanks Paul, it has been rewarding, and fun! Save the wave! Your CCR buddy,

PRESIDENT

Kirby Montgomery (804) 784-3173

[email protected]

VICE PRESIDENT

Rick Franklin (804) 874-2111

[email protected]

TREASURER

JR Walker (804) 779-3169

[email protected]

RECORDING SECRETARY

Peggy Maloy (804) 399-5494

[email protected]

NEWSLETTER EDITOR

Brandon Kindall (434) 298-1227

[email protected]

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

Donna Carr (804) 356-3550

[email protected]

SERGEANT-AT-ARMS

Bubba Carr (804) 356-8731

[email protected]

HISTORIAN

David Dolan (804) 346-5266

[email protected]

WEBMASTER

Mike Starr (804) 527-0879

[email protected]

EVENTS COORDINATOR

Bob Brody (804) 405-1568

[email protected]

Officers for 2015

Note from the Editor

It has been my pleasure putting this newsletter together the past year. I hope you all have en-joyed the newsletters this year. It has been a great experience being a part of the board and get-ting to know everyone better.

Brandon


Nov. Linda Stewart 11/01 Jeanette Glass 11/03 Donald Strauser Jr 11/03 Susie Rhodes 11/05 Norma Chambers 11/08 John Epperly 11/09 Linda Walker 11/11 Mike Starr 11/14 Bob Brody 11/15 Steve Dubosky 11/15 Ginger Viers 11/15 Susan Robinson 11/16 Marienne Warren 11/19 Genie Lucyk 11/20 Ron Niedermayer 11/20 Roy Binger 11/22 Richard Orrock 11/22 Pat Marshall 11/24 Robert Marchese 11/26 Robin Foster 11/28 Phyllis Hall 11/28 David Viers 11/29 Deb Evans 11/30

Dec. Gary Butler 12/01 Penny Johnson 12/03 BJ Sprouse 12/03 Vicky Johnson 12/05 Heidi Hrobuchak 12/06 Darlene Grady 12/07 Joe Morris 12/10 Warren Farrar 12/14 Rick Franklin 12/19 Judith Love 12/20 Bubba Carr 12/21 Vincent Charity Sr. 12/24 Alisanne Clifton 12/24 Lorna King 12/24 Coleen Anderson 12/25 Erin Glenn 12/25 Callie Redford 12/25 Shirley Bridgewater 12/26 Cindy Goodwin 12/26 Suzan Morris 12/26 Dan Baker 12/27 Connie Pollard 12/27 Donna Line 12/29 Alice Rice 12/29 Linda Stevens 12/29

A Very Happy Birthday to those members celebrating birthdays this month. May there be a shiny, new surprise in your driveway!


Saturday, Nov. 7 Monticello Cruise Rick Franklin

Friday, Nov. 13 Membership Meeting (West End) - 7:30pm

After Meeting Party: Padow’s Deli

Saturday, Dec. 5 Dinner Dance Montgomery’s

Sunday, Dec. 6 Mechanicsville Christmas Parade Kirby

Montgomery

Saturday, Dec. 12 Va Beach Lights Danny Terry /Dolan’s

Friday, Jan. 8, 2016 Membership Meeting (Location Grace Lutheran Church)- ***NEW LOCATION*** 7:30pm

After Meeting Party: TBD

Friday, Feb. 12, Membership Meeting (Location Grace Lutheran Church)- ***NEW LOCATION*** 7:30pm


Friday, March 11 Membership Meeting (West End) 7:30pm


Saturday, March 19 Bunny Run Cecile Custer

Saturday, April 16 Captain Billy’s Dolan’s

Friday, April 8 Membership Meeting (West End) 7:30pm


Apr. 26-30 NCM Bash Montgomery’s


November General Membership Meeting

Friday, November 13th at our Westend Location

Our next General Membership Meeting will take place on Friday, November 13th, at 7:30 p.m. Many members arrive as early as 7:00 p.m. to visit in the parking lot. Feel free to come early if you aren’t in the habit of doing so. This month’s meeting will be held at the Markel Corporation Building in Inns-brook. The address is 4521 Highwoods Parkway, Glen Allen, Virginia 23060. There is plenty of park-ing available. DIRECTIONS: 1.From I-295, take exit 51B for Nuckols Road South. 2.From Nuckols Road, turn right at the first traffic light onto Sadler Road. 3.Take the next left turn onto Sadler Place. 4.Take an immediate right onto Highwoods Parkway. 5.Take the first left into the parking lot (you will see the "Markel" sign). The Markel Building will be directly in front of you. Enter under the carport on the right side of the building as you face it

After Meeting Party, Friday, November 13th

Padow’s Deli

4120 Cox Road (Beside Hondo’s)


New Location for January & February Meetings:

Grace Lutheran Church 13028 Harrowgate Road Chester, VA 23831

OCTOBER MEETING’S BIG WINNERS CONGRATUALATIONS!!!!!

$5 Handshake— Danny Terry

50/50 Winner— Peter Dunn

Dinner Ticket— Mike Todd



Leslie Culver & Mike Lowry Harry Gregori & Linda Stewart

Ken & Carol Crowder Doc Kiesel

Elections and Report of The Nominating Committee

The Corvette Club of Richmond By-Laws call for nominations for office to be made at the October and November General Membership meetings. Elections are to be held at the November member-ship meeting.

Currently, this is the slate of candidate running for office for the 2016 year:

Rick Franklin-President

Bob Brody-Vice President

JR Walker-Treasurer

Mary Belcher-Recording Secretary

Donna Carr-Corresponding Secretary

Bubba Carr-Sergeant at Arms

Mike Starr-Webmaster

James Wilson-Newsletter Editor

Dave Dolan-Historian

While we have a candidate for each officer position, nominations remain open and can either be sent to all three nominating committee members, or nominations can be made at the October or Novem-ber General Membership meetings. It is expected that anyone being nominated has had their nomi-nation discussed with those placing them in nominations, and the candidate has agreed to being nominated. It is also expected that the candidate has taken the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the duties of the position that they may be nominated for.

In the event we have more than one candidate for any officer position, a ballot will be taken at the November General Membership meeting. For CCR members unable to attend that meeting, an ab-sentee ballot will be published in the November newsletter and also posted on the CCR web site. Absentee ballots must be delivered to the CCR PO Box by election day, Friday, November 13 in or-der to be counted.

Your Nominating Committee,

Steve Dubosky

Dean Maddern

Duane Maloy

Nominating Committee Report November & December 2015

Nomination of officer candidates is open until and including the November General Membership meeting on Friday, October 13 beginning at 7:30 PM. The meeting will be held at our West End meeting location @ Markel Corporation; 4521 Highwoods Parkway, Glen Allen, VA. At this time there is an unopposed slate of nominees for each officer position. This absentee ballot is available in the event there are any further nominations, and you wish to submit an absentee ballot. You must mail this ballot to: Corvette Club of Richmond Nominating Committee PO Box 11661 Richmond, VA 23230 To be counted your ballot must arrive in the CCR PO Box no later than Friday, November 13. Your name must be clearly printed on the ballot and you must be a current member for 2015.


Annual Election Notification

We had spectacular weather for our weekend at scenic Smith Mountain. Even though Friday was cloudy at our starting point in Midlothian, the sky cleared and we had sunshine for the last leg of our drive to Mariners Landing. Friday evening we got together for a Pot-Luck Dinner which was masterfully organized by Karen DuBosky. The Octoberfest Theme was a big hit featuring bratwurst, sauerkraut, German Potato Sal-ad and too many other delicacies for me to list. And the desserts were just WOW!

Saturday morning was brisk but sunny for our excursion into the mountains. 16 Corvettes and one OTC set forth west on scenic country roads across the Lake to Rocky Mount for a rest stop. From there we made our way on twisty hilly roads to the top of the Blue Ridge, then, followed the Parkway to Chateau Morrisette.

The Chateau Morrisette buildings were charming on their mountain-top setting and the crisp clear sunny day allowed viewing of the enchanting hills and dales to the west. 33 CCR Enthusiasts were seated in a private room of the restaurant for a pleasant lunch where we toasted to “the best damn Corvette Club…IN THE WORLD”. Folks tasted wines and browsed the gift shop, then set off in smaller groups for the return trip. After our return cruise to Mariners Landing, we enjoyed a group dinner at Heath’s Waterfront Grill. After dinner some folks went to the Lounge where Karaoke night was in full swing, while others ad-journed to socialize upstairs. The weekend provided for much wonderful food, fun and fellowship. Special thanks to Karen for organizing the Pot-Luck, and many thanks to Karen and her Condo-Mates for hosting the Friday Dinner and Saturday after dinner gathering. And thanks to all who participate to make our trip to SML a wonderful memorable experience. Bob Brody

Smith Mtn. Lake OD’s: Karen DuBosky & Bob Brody October 16 & 17, 2015

Event Recap November & December 2015

Fall Foliage Cruise to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Saturday, November 7, 2015

OD’s: Rick and Kathy Franklin

Upcoming Event On Saturday, November 7, CCR will cruise to Charlottesville and visit Thomas Jefferson’s home – Monticel-lo. Here are the particulars for this event. This is a pre-paid event for the tour. Sign up at one of the 2 meetings prior to the event, or send your $$ to our home address. Cut-off date for registration is October 9, 2015. We can add late registrations, but you may be on a separate house tour, due to limitations on group size.

Meet: 12800 Patterson Ave. McDonalds Restaurant in the parking lot to the rear. This is the Tuckahoe Vil-lage Shopping Center. There is a BP station nearby for those needing to fuel up. 10:00 AM departure time with a short drivers meeting immediately preceding (be there by 9:45am).

Driving Directions: Route 6 West (Patterson Ave) to Route 15 North to Route 53 West to Monticello and Michie Tavern. Approximate drive time 1:30 to arrive at Michie Tavern for Lunch @ 11:30 AM. This is a nice leisurely drive at lower speeds versus using I-64.

Lunch: Michie Tavern www.michietavern.com is located 1 mile from Monticello. Lunch consists of a buffet for $18 per person. This will be paid directly to the Tavern for all travelers enjoying the hearty Midday Fare in a rustic tavern setting. We are allowing 1:15 for lunch, touring the tavern and gift shopping.

Monticello: Thomas Jefferson’s home in Charlottesville. Tour the grounds and the house. Price is $25 per person to be paid in advance by cash or check made out to Rick Franklin. The tour takes at least 2 hours to view the house and grounds. Since this will be in November, I am counting on great fall colors. If we have at least 25 pre-paid, I can schedule group tours and the price per person drops to $18. www.Monticello.org . There is plenty of parking on site, with gift shops and much to see of our Virginia and US history. The site is open until 6 PM on this particular day.

Please join Kathy and I as we visit another one of Virginia’s landmark sites, where the ideals of the Declara-tion – that “all men are created equal” and have a right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” were formulated 225+ years ago. Questions: cell # 804.874.2111.


Christmas Dinner Dance Montgomery’s—OD December 5, 2015

Upcoming Event Get your dancing shoes out and shine ‘em up! Once again we are returning to the fabulous Mead-owbrook Country Club (3700 Cogbill Road, Richmond, Virginia 23234) for an evening of great food, fellowship and dancing to the swing of a truly marvelous band known as L.P. & Company (more on the band later). Happy hour will begin at 6:00 PM with a cash bar and light hors d'oeu-vres.

This Christmas party is a “dress up” event, with many leaning toward the formal side (not tuxedo formal however, but you can wear one if you wish!), so please dress accordingly. No coat and tie is required for men, but customarily we wear them (for a while anyway!). Ladies you know what to do! The cost for this year’s party is unchanged from last year; just $35 for members and $70 for non-member guests. For the purpose of definition, a non-member guest is anyone who has not paid either the $25 annual membership dues or paid the $10 membership fee for their spouse or signifi-cant other.

Dinner will be served by the marvelous staff at Meadowbrook beginning at 7 PM. You must identify your entrée selection with your payment. If you do not identify your selection, one will be made for you (we would prefer for you to make the selection, so please be sure to do so!).

This year you have lots of ways to sign up for the Christmas Dinner dance. You should have re-ceived an email dues renewal notice along with a Christmas Dinner Dance registration form. You can mail in the renewal form and dinner dance registration form along with your total payment. You can also register for the Christmas Dinner Dance and pay on line using the CorvetteClubOfRich-mond.com web-site. Go to the “events” tab and find the Christmas Dinner Dance and follow the instructions. Please note there is a $5 per person surcharge to pay for the Dinner Dance on line to cover the fees associated with on line payment. You will see the opportunity to make your entrée choice selections whether you use the Christmas Dinner Dance paper registration form, or you elect to register for the Dinner Dance on line. Finally, you can sign up to attend the dinner dance in the event books at the General Membership meetings in October and November, but you will still have to make your entrée selections on the mail in paper form or on line, and make your payment.

Don’t miss this event! Last year we had just over 90 people attend and we all had a great time! This year let’s see if we can get at least 100 attending! Come on out and enjoy! Did I mention that the $35 member registration fee is only half of the actual cost of the event? (NO, I didn’t!). The club pays half for you! This is one of your benefits of membership, so please take advantage of that benefit and attend this year if you have not in the past. All of you new members who have joined since we had the Christmas Dinner Dance last year, this is a great event to meet more members and have a marvelous evening while you do so.

Finally, just be there or be SQUARE!

Your CCR buddy, Kirby



Upcoming Event

Playing this Year at the Christmas Dinner Dance:

L.P. & Company!

Marcie and I were blessed to have L.P. & Company perform at our home to celebrate Marcie’s birthday a few years ago! Many CCR members were in attendance and can attest to the fabulous performance of this band! L.P Butler is the band leader, and

L.P. and Company is one of Virginia's premiere party bands. This seven-member group performs a variety of the best music from yesterday and today including Big Band & Swing. Top 40, Beach Music, Disco, Motown and other classic hits. L. P. and Company combines the perfect ingredients for a successful event: outstanding showmanship, non-stop excitement, the best dance music, great vocals, a brass horn section, and audience interaction. Their versatility enables the group to adapt to any occasion. L. P. and Company is just the right combination of talent, energy, and experience to provide a very entertaining and exciting performance. Members of the group are: L. P. Butler - Trumpet, Fluglehorn, and Vocals Julianne Smith Kiedinger - Vocals Bill Davis - Guitar and Vocals Brian MacDonald - Saxophones, Flute, Key-boards and Vocals Nancy Payne - Keyboards and Vocals Mosley Wellington - Bass and Vocals Glen Barnes - Drums and Vocals L. P. and Company has performed at locations throughout the Southeast including: Kingsmill Resort, Cavalier Hotel, Marriot Hotel, Hyatt Hotel, Moody's at Kingsmill, Evelynton Plantation, Ramada Inn, Omni Hotel, Boar's Head Inn, Two Rivers Coun-try Club, Farmington Country Club, and the Radisson Hotel.

Go to this web site to see a 6 minute video introducing you to the band’s perfor-mances!

http://www.eastcoastentertainment.com/artist/lp-company

We hope you enjoy this great band!

Kirby



Upcoming Event

CHRISTMAS DINNER DANCE MENU AND SCHEDULE

6:00 pm Cash Bar

House Drinks $5.00 Premium Drinks $7.00 Wine $6.00

Domestic Beer $4.00 Premium Beer $5.00 Sodas $3.00

7:00 pm Dinner

Entrée Selections

Each entrée served with a house salad, warm rolls, and coffee or tea

Prime Rib Chicken Cordon Bleu

Slow roasted with au Jus Chicken breast stuffed with ham Gentleman’s cut, 11oz and Swiss cheese Baked potato Baked potato Broccoli with lemon butter Broccoli with lemon butter

Dessert: Meadowbrook Pie

8:00 pm Band Music and Dancing


Holiday Lights at the Beach Danny Terry & Dolan’s—OD

Dec. 12,2015 Upcoming Event

Danny and Norma’s 15th Annual Holiday Lights at the Beach event in Virginia Beach is Saturday, December 12th. This is a popular event because it definitely covers CCR’s 3-Fs (Food, Fun & Fel-lowship) with: a great Corvette caravan, dinner at a beach restaurant, a chance to drive the board-walk decked out for Christmas, a party with music, dancing, fun games of chance, and for the cra-zies among us, a polar bear plunge into the Atlantic! And because this is an overnight event, we have plenty of time for mingling and socializing with fellow Corvette Enthusiasts during the dinner, the party and at the complimentary breakfast the next morning.

Details: We will meet at 11:30 a.m. at the Dairy Queen at Route 5 & 295 and depart at noon. We will caravan by way of scenic back roads and again this year Susan Jaworski and Bill Hardy have invited us to their Suffolk home for a pitstop. From there, we’ll travel to the hotel, check in and get situated before heading out around 5 pm for a great dinner at Ru-dees on the Inlet (227 Mediterranean Ave).

After dinner, feel free to take the Holiday Lights at the Beach tour on the boardwalk or head back to the hotel to prepare for our evening party. Holiday Lights at the Beach stretches from 2nd Street to 34th Street along the boardwalk with over 250 animated nautical and holiday-themed light dis-plays! It is the largest grand illumination display to grace the Atlantic seaboard AND each year the order of light displays is changed to help create a new and fresh experience for visitors. The cost per car is nominal (about $15) and includes a CD of holiday music.


Please make your own hotel reservations 1-757-437-9100 (Country Inn & Suites at 1801 At-lantic Avenue) and ask for our special CCR $75 rate. The hotel has good, covered parking and if you’ve put your Vette away for the winter, come in your OTC (other than Corvette). We have an indoor pool, so bring your suits! Please pack a cooler with your beverage of choice for after din-ner partying and bring along some munchies to share. If you’re feeling lucky, join Dave Dolan in a little game of Texas Hold’em OR a game of LCR $1 dice game (Left-Center-Right). Around 9:30 pm CCR’s Polar Bear Club will take a dip in the ocean. Join them if you dare!

Holiday Lights at the Beach Danny Terry & Dolan’s—OD Upcoming Event


Upcoming Event The National Corvette Museum Bash will be held over three days, April 28 through 30, 2016. As it draws nearer we will post more information regarding activities during the event.

It is about 600 miles to Bowling Green. Marcie and I are departing Richmond the afternoon of April 26, en-route to Bowling Green. It may be a bit impractical for a large caravan. Neverthe-less if a few members want to meet up with us and depart together I will be happy to organize it. Our tentative plan is to drive to Charleston, WV on April 26 and stop for the night, and then on to Bowling Green on April 27.

If you are interested we have hotel reservations here:

Hilton Garden Inn Bowling Green

1020 Wilkinson Trace, Bowling Green, KY 42103

1-270-781-6778

We check in April 27 and check out May 1. This location is very near the museum. Call early for reservations!

We have also registered for a plant tour on April 28 at 8:30 AM. Plant tours may fill up so if you are interested you can register on line:

http://www.corvettemuseum.org/visit/plant-tours/

Plant tour registration is $7.00 per person.

I will add more info regarding Bash activities when received. Registration on the CCR web site for this event is only an indication of your intent to attend the NCM bash. Based on interest shown, I will see who may want to participate in an overnight drive to Bowling Green on April 26 and April 27. The main thing now if for those interested to reserve a hotel in Bowling Green and to register for a plant tour if interested.

Kirby and Marcie Montgomery; OD's

NCM Bash 4/28-30, 2016 OD’s: Montgomery’s


A 1974 Corvette, a terminal cancer diagnosis but then what unfolded was remarkable

Shari Rudavsky, [email protected]:06 p.m. EDT October 27, 2015 .

For 22 years the 1974 brown Corvette had sat in a garage, not moving. The speedometer read 19,800, but the car

was in rough shape. The bumpers had fallen off. The owner was ready to sell.

In the summer of 2013, Jennifer Barnett, who had owned a string of muscle cars, was looking to replace her Nis-

san 300Z. She went to check out the Corvette.

“When he opened the garage door, it was my car,” she said.

Forty-five hundred dollars sealed the deal, even though Barnett

recognized that it would require thousands of dollars to restore the

car to working order.

Two weeks later, though, she had more pressing problems on her

mind. Doctors found a lump, the size of a large egg. A biopsy de-

termined the cancer was aggressive, and scans revealed a tumor

on her liver. Her doctors told her she was terminal.

One thing could take her mind off her diagnosis — that loud, mean

brown Corvette. If she had a bad day, she and her husband would hop into the car and go for a drive on the roads

around their Kirklin farm.

“My husband would put me in the Corvette, and we would lay rubber all around here. We would laugh like teenag-

ers,” Barnett said. “I actually threw myself into the car, anything I could do to keep my mind off the diagnosis.”

Nicknamed Root Beer Baby for its color, the car served as automotive therapy of a sort for Barnett. But she would

not be the only woman whose life that 'Vette would touch.

That Christmas Barnett bought special gifts for every one in her family. She then penned letters to all her loved

ones to let them know how much they meant to her.

“It’s really hard to hear that your time is limited,” she said. “You start to live differently. The things that were im-

portant to you no longer are important to you.”

Shortly before the holiday, Eric Austin, who had been her teenage son Collin’s best friend for years, died in a car

crash.

in the news November & December 2015

A few days before the accident, Austin had entered Barnett’s living room as she tossed and turned uncomfortably

on the coach. He went to get her a pillow and blanket, and when he returned, he said, “Mama, you’re going to be

OK. You’re going to get through this.”

Barnett did not know if she would get through it. Faced with rising medical bills, she tried to sell the Corvette on several

occasions.

Each time a sale neared, her family would hide the title, and the sale fell through. The last time, she had the car all

cleaned up and stood to clear a nice sum of money. But, still, no title.

“That was her car, her safe place,” said Collin Barnett, 22, the oldest of her three children and one of the title-hiding cul-

prits.

Six months after Barnett started on chemotherapy, her doctors rescanned her.

The tumor in her breast was gone, but the one in her liver remained. Barnett

was confused; her doctors had told her she had terminal disease, but she didn’t

feel all that bad.

She opted for a second opinion.

Her new doctors performed a surgical biopsy on the tumor in her liver. When

she woke, the surgeon reported that the tumor in her liver was neither malig-

nant nor related to her breast cancer.

After finishing chemotherapy, followed by a double mastectomy and reconstruction, Barnett was declared cancer-free,

one year after she was diagnosed. Despite her relief, she remembered how hard she had struggled to find women who

were Stage 4 patients. Mentors for those with early stage breast cancer were easy to find, but finding advisers who were

terminal was a greater challenge.

“My heart is with the later stages woman no one pays any attention to because she has hair, these women who try to

raise their families, knowing the cancer will get them,” said Barnett, now 43.

Shortly after her surgery, she had a dream that she had transformed the Corvette into a rolling tribute to breast

cancer awareness.

She shook her husband awake and said, “If you guys are going to make me keep this car, she’s going to have a

job.”

The next step: Outfitting the car for the job.

Barnett approached Jim French, owner of French’s Automotive in Thorntown. French had worked on other cars for

Barnett and knew he faced a challenge.


“I could double up both of my fists and put them inside the gas tank," he said. "The gas tank was rotted pretty far

out.”

French replaced the hoses, the brakes, the fuel pump, and he helped out with the cost.

Not only did he want to support Barnett’s cause, he also enjoyed the challenge.

“It makes a mechanic proud that he can do something like that,” he said, “proud to be able to look back and watch

it run and drive down the road.”

Soon the Corvette would stand out even more.

Barnett had a vision for a vehicle wrap featuring the names of women who have had breast cancer from all over

the world. A large set of angel wings also would grace the hood in memory of Austin, whose tombstone bears a

similar design.

Through Facebook, Barnett reached out for names. The list includes a woman from Brazil and a woman diagnosed

while in the service in Afghanistan. Her name appears on both sides of the car.

A mutual friend connected Barnett to Stan Charles, owner of Stan’s Sign Design, a vinyl car-wrapping company in

Indianapolis. When Charles heard her plans, he agreed to help immediately, donating everything but the wrap it-

self.

His sister-in-law, Jennifer Thompson, who works with him at the shop, had battled breast cancer 15 years ago at

the age of 28.

“Any time the word breast cancer comes up here we kind of perk up and say what can we do to help out,” he said.

When he finished the wrap for the car, he asked Thompson to deliver it to Barnett as a tribute.

Garbed in a snazzy wrap bearing the names of 100 breast cancer survivors on its hood and the names of 100

women who succumbed to the disease on the doors, the car has become a moving testament to those who go

through breast cancer.

Redubbed the Rolling for a Cause Corvette, the car now appears at community events such as sorority gatherings

and parades. Rather than driving the car, Barnett finds a local woman in the community who is fighting breast can-

cer to ride in it.

She and her crew of 20 volunteers walk behind the car, handing out pink roses to one in eight women in the crowd,

the same number who will develop breast cancer. They also bestow bouquets on women fighting the disease.

“The car itself isn’t about getting attention to the car; it’s about getting attention to those names,” Barnett said.

“When I thought this out, I thought, 'What better way than a car you don’t see on the road every day?'”


Every time Barnett drives the car off the family farm, it draws attention. A stop in a grocery store parking lot inevi-

tably draws onlookers, often to share a story about their own loved one who has or has had breast cancer.

Because she wants to keep mileage on the car low, Barnett will only accept invitations to appear at events within

the state of Indiana. She does not take the car out in winter, lest road salt damage it. To address both these con-

cerns, Barnett dreams of buying an enclosed car hauler.

Meanwhile, she fields daily requests to add more names to the car, but no more space remains.

Those names will have to wait, perhaps for another car.

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/10/26/corvette-fan-finds-new-passion-driving-breast-cancer-awareness/73023748/



REVS & RUMBLES @ THE NCM Since the immediate outcome of regula on affec ng ongoing opera ons of the NCM Motorsports Park is s ll pending, this will be our final newsle er update for 2015. As presented in the Sep and Oct NCM Ambassa‐dor reports, the issues evolved from noise generated by vehicle use of the MSP during its first year of opera on and ongoing complaints garnered from several residents residing in the vicinity of the track.

Informa on gathered for the November issue is primarily from a status report released to the NCM Ambassadors' Facebook page by the museum director Wendell Strode on October 20th. Paraphrasing, a Detailed Development Plan was approved by the Planning Commission in Feb 2014 enumera ng six condi ons requiring NCM compliance going forward. Five of the six were sa sfied in a mely manner. Condi on #5 addressed crea on of an earthen berm with sufficient noise abatement poten al to allow no substan al increase AND it required a Cer ficate of Occupancy. Although Cer ficates had been obtained for the garages, the start stand, and the fueling sta on, for the first me in Warren County history a Cer ficate of Oc‐cupancy was required for the LAND.

Since the berm had not a enuated the noise level to acceptable standards, an Accous fence was erected alongside the track and one hundred trees were planted at the western end of the property which should allow full compliance and lead to acquisi on of the Cer ficate. Other noise abatement measures are also being employed including adop on of the SCCA standard of a 103 decibel maximum limit from a single car as measured fi y feet from the track. Special equipment will be purchased to strictly enforce that limit.

On 10/19/15, the Building Inspector sent a copy of the Applica on for Cer ficate of Occu‐pancy to the Planning Commission Staff for their review. NCM officials are hopeful that the Commission staffers will complete the review in a mely manner and with agreement that full compliance has now been reached with all condi ons described in the DDP delineated in Feb 2014. If such is the case, the Building Inspector would then be in a posi on to issue the elusive final Cer ficate of Occupancy. The saga con nues . . .

By Barry Roper, NCM Ambassador/Lifetime Member


FAMILIAR FOUR: CORVETTE RACING RE-SIGNS FULL-SEASON DRIVERS FOR 2016 Garcia, Magnussen, Gavin, Milner to form core group of Corvette Racing driving roster

Quartet has been together full-time at Corvette Racing since 2012 Team captured endurance racing's Triple Crown in 2015 Each driver a past GT class Driver Champion BRASELTON, Ga. - With its 2015 racing season coming to an end this weekend at Road Atlanta, Corvette Racing

already is casting an eye toward the future. The team and Chevrolet announced today that its group of full-season

drivers - Antonio Garcia, Jan Magnussen, Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner - will return to drive two Chevrolet Corvette

C7.Rs in 2016.

The Corvette Racing program for next season is expected to include the full WeatherTech SportsCar Championship

plus a return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans - a race Corvette Racing has won eight times including a stirring victory this

year.

The 2016 season will see Corvette Racing campaign an evolution of

the Corvette C7.R based on new GTE regulations that govern Le

Mans-style GT racing around the world. It will make its racing debut

for the 54th Rolex 24 At Daytona on Jan. 30-31.

"We are pleased to have the Corvette Racing driver lineup set for

2016," said Mark Kent, Director of Chevrolet Racing. "Antonio, Jan,

Oliver and Tommy have been behind the wheel of the familiar yellow

Corvettes for several seasons now. Their ability to work cohesively

has resulted in numerous key race wins and championships. We are

proud of the accomplishments these drivers and Corvette Racing have delivered, and we look forward to more suc-

cess.

"Having our drivers in place provides Corvette Racing the opportunity to maintain its focus on preparing for the 2016

season," Kent added. "With the addition of new cars and competitors to our class, preparation will be key. Our goal is

to ready ourselves for the 2016 Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona and start the season off with a repeat victory."

The core four Corvette Racing drivers will contest their fifth season together, a testament to the importance of continu-

ity within the team and Chevrolet. In that span, each member of the quartet has claimed GT-class Driver's champion-

ships. Gavin and Milner won the American Le Mans Series GT title in 2012 with Garcia and Magnussen taking honors

the following year.


Since the start of the 2012 season, the group has combined to win 16 races in the ALMS, TUDOR United SportsCar

Championship and Le Mans.

The team's recent highlights include victories at this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans and Rolex 24, the Mobil 1 Twelve

Hours of Sebring in 2013 and 2015, and the 2014 Sahlen's Six Hours of The Glen.

Corvette Racing's two Corvette C7.Rs will contest this weekend's Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta in the final race of

the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship. Petit Le Mans is a 10-hour endurance race that Corvette Racing has

won nine times.

The event is set for 11:15 a.m. ET for Road Atlanta in Braselton, Ga. It will air live on FOX Sports 2, FOX Sports Go

and IMSA.com throughout the day beginning at 11 a.m. Flag-to-flag radio coverage also will be available via IMSA

Radio.


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