President's Report
Please click on Pete for his latest report.
Meeting Venue!!
Our monthly club meetings are held on the first Wednesday of
each month at the Hotel HQ, 21 Kingston Road, Underwood.
(Except January, when the meeting is deferred one week to allow
for public holidays)
The bistro serves delicious meals and our private room is
spacious and well appointed. There are jugs of iced water and
refreshing mints on every table plus hot tea, coffee and
biscuits on the supper table. We also have large screen
televisions displaying club / event photos and other relevant
Corvette / motoring presentations for you to enjoy.
Why not plan to arrive a little early and enjoy a great meal
with your friends. The lovely staff at Hotel HQ will happily
serve your order in the function room if you wish. This option
is becoming popular, with quite a few members taking advantage
of the peace and quiet afforded by our comfortable private room
to relax and enjoy their dinner and drinks with friends before
the meeting.
We are a socially orientated group of people with the Corvette
Marque our common focus. If you are like minded and interested
in joining, please feel welcome to come along to our monthly
club meeting and introduce yourself. We'd love to get to know
you.
Members, guests and visitors are reminded that Hotel HQ is
located at the intersection of Kingston & Logan Roads,
Underwood.
September Club Meeting
Thirty members attended the club meeting and welcomed our new
committee into their positions.
Big wraps for our recent concourse on the beautiful Gold
Coast - everyone agrees this was the best yet!! Good
feedback from the Gold Coast City Council and an invitation for
next year already, thank you GCC. Good feedback from our
neighbours at the Science Fair who appreciated a break from
test tubes for a while.
Great feedback from members, guests and visitors with only
praise for our organisers, volunteers and of-course, entrants.
Thank you to everyone who played a part in making this day so
special, especially our friends from Corvettes Down Under who we
love catching with and would like to see more often.
Everyone knows that the Queensland Corvette Club and it's
members proudly support the wonderful people at Camp Quality,
and following the success of our 2010 Concourse, we are pleased
to donate the sum of $800 to this terrific charity. Thanks
again to everyone who helped make this possible.
 Special Guest Speaker at the September Club Meeting
was Mr Neil McAllister who provided plenty of information about
the range of high quality soft top cleaning and care products
distributed by Renovo Australia.
Neil was kind enough to donate a product voucher for one
lucky club member to win a selection of Renovo products and we
look forward to offering this as a raffle prize at one of our
next club meetings.
Neil advises that he is about to receive a new shipment of
products from the manufacturer in England so please get in touch
before they're sold. You'll also be pleased to know that
Neil is happy for local customers to call in to his warehouse on
the Gold Coast to collect their orders, there-by saving the cost
of couriers. Please phone first to ensure he is available.
Renovo Australia have also been kind enough to extend a discount
offer to QCC members - check out our club deals page for all the
info.
 Chris
Livermore has organised a great Friday Night Dinner for
September. Aqua Restaurant at Labrador will be the venue,
with a beautiful view out over the Broadwater and a superb menu,
this looks like a NOT TO BE MISSED evening. Chris has
organised special seating for our party and with all main meals
priced at $15.90, it's bound to be popular. Please check
out our coming events page and view the link to Aqua for further
info.
Stanthorpe Winery Run
Mike Reptik has
organised a tantalising weekend at beautiful Stanthorpe
for the 18th & 19th of September. Our club previously made
this pilgrimage in 2005, and everyone had an absolute ball with
lots of wine tasting, delicious meals and comfortable country
accommodation. We will be staying at the Happy Valley
Retreat and have booked their remaining rooms.
Bookings are now closed and we look forward to hearing all about
this weekend when the team returns.
 Phil Murray has just returned from a trip to the US and
Canada, and brings (among other things), an interesting
newspaper clipping about Corvettes - what else?? The
clipping form "The Calgary Times," details a new option being
offered when ordering a new Corvette - the $5,800CA PBC or
Performance Build Centre option that allows buyers to
participate in the assembly of their Corvette's engine.
Purchasers selecting this option will be contacted by a
special concierge to schedule their engine build and co-ordinate
their visit to the GM facility. "Upon arrival, the
customer doesn't just watch the engine being built - he or she
builds it under the supervision and support of skilled GM
technicians. Upon completion, the owner-built engine gets
a personalised nameplate before it's sent to the assembly line
for insertion into the car. And, like all engines
assembled at the PBC, Engine Build Experience engines are
covered by Chevrolet's five-year / 100,000 mile transferable power train warranty."
 A
big club thank you to Brad and Tom who spent a whole weekend
sorting, pricing and displaying a variety of Corvette parts
kindly donated to our club by Performax International. The
entire catalogue of parts has now been sold - well done team.
However, there is a comprehensive list of gear still available
from Performax, see the list on our Classifieds Parts page.
Performax International 20th Birthday Celebration 1st Sept 2010
Brad represented our club
at the 20th Birthday Celebrations for Performax, held at their
facility in Gympie on Wednesday 1st, September.
We would like to thank Greg
Waters & Brian Learoyd, the Directors of Performax, for their
support and sponsorship of our club over the past 20 years and
look forward to a continued long, happy and mutually beneficial
relationship for many more.
Please feel welcome to
contact the helpful staff at Performax for any of your Corvette
needs.
Best wishes to our
good friends at Performax International. Twenty years as
Australia's leading importer and converter of iconic American
motor vehicles. We thank you for your on-going support of
the Queensland Corvette Club and the marque we all love. 1st
September 2010
          
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over-due?
All memberships fall due at the end of each financial year and
outstanding memberships for the 2010/11 year are currently over-due. It's
club practice to cease provision of the Vetteletter to
non-renewing members after a period of two months, so if you
haven't seen your club magazine lately, perhaps you've
overlooked this important payment.
Please remember that if you are the driver of a concessionally
registered vehicle, you must maintain membership of an
approved car club in-order to continue receiving the concessions
offered under this scheme.
Queensland Corvette Club Concourse
Sunday 22 August
Results of the day's judging are as follows;
C2 61-67 Winner, Alan Darmanin.....Runner
up, Rick Werner
C3 68-74 Standard Winner, Keith Hosking.....Runner up,
Allen Wood
Personal
Winner, Barbara Kelly..... Runner up, Doug Stewart
Modified Winner, Don Campbell.... Runner up, Eskandri
Babak
C3 75-82 Standard Winner, Brian Wharton....Runner up,
Brett Greenwood
Personal Winner, Chris Green
Modified Winner, David Glanville....Runner up, Frank Tenney
C4 84-88 Personal Winner, Brian Cox
Modified Winner, Chris Livermore...Runner up, Rob Maxworthy
C4 89-96 Standard Winner, Brad Stumer........Runner
up, Steve Poole
Personal Winner, Ernie Whittle........Runner up, Ian Pleffer
Modified Winner, Ray Doyle
...........Runner up, Mike Reptik
C5 97-04 Standard Winner, John Tait
............Runner up, Geoff Roberts
Personal Winner, Andrew Kleinhans....
Modified Winner, Alison Turner.......Runner up,
George Gilby
C6 05-09
Winner, Kevin Thoroughgood..Runner up,Tom Hayward
The Top Standard Car sponsored by Surf City Garage
went to Kevin Silk
The Top Personalised Car sponsored by CES Racing went to
Dave Kelly
The Top Modified Car
sponsored by Shannon's Insurance went to Ray Doyle
The Judges Award this year
went to Alan Darmanin
The Performax International Major Sponsors Award went
to Barbara Kelly
Club Trailer
Our 2010 Concourse was the perfect opportunity to present our
recently purchased and freshly renovated Club Trailer. This
great initiative is already proving itself a safe and convenient means
of housing and transporting the equipment needed for large Club
events and will be put to good use for many years to come.
A big thank you to the members who contributed many hours
of work to have the trailer ready for use. Thank you to
everyone who 'stuck their head in for a look,' and said how happy
they were with the end result. Top job team!
  
New Members
The Queensland Corvette Club continues to attract new members,
and we encourage all Corvette owners and enthusiasts reading
this article to consider joining our club as a means of
expanding your social circle while learning more about the
marque we all love.
A big welcome to Steve & Kathy Forsythe - our newest members
and C3 lovers.
New members are requested to email a recent photo of their Vette
and membership details along with any other facts they would
like to see posted on the members page. Of-course, existing
members are always welcome to email up-dated photos or details
at any time.
On-line Vetteletter
Sally advised members attending the September Club Meeting that
it is likely our Australia Post charges will soon double under
changes to their bulk mail policy and it is with this in mind
that I'd like to trial an on-line version of our monthly club
magazine, the Vetteletter. It is not my intention to
replace the printed copy but, simply offer a supplementary
version of this excellent publication.
This is also a great opportunity for visitors to gain further
insight into the Queensland Corvette Club and for potential
members to appreciate some of the inner workings of this great
group.
On-line availability of the Vetteletter will also fill a gap for
travelling members by providing access to club news, events and
issues while away from home.
The on-line version will differ slightly from the paper copy in
two ways, and this is because of privacy and printing
considerations.
Firstly, I will remove the contents of the monthly Treasurers
Report - as these details are intended for perusal by members
and are not for general publication and, secondly, I am unable
to include the pages with sponsors business card details as
these are added by the printer and not the magazine editor and
therefore, do not come in the pdf copy of the magazine that I
receive.
I will continue to add on-line copies of the Vetteletter each
month and regularly monitor visits in an effort to gauge use of
this new option.
If the on-line magazine proves popular, an annual page will be
created for Vetteletter editions to improve access and storage.
Please feel welcome to feedback your views at our club meetings.
Jaimes
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the Vetteletter - free download available by clicking here
Member News
Ron Johnstone has
sent these shots of his beautiful new Z06 Corvette Coupe,
finished in Cyber Gray Metallic with a contrasting ebony leather
interior boasting red accents. These special coupe is
fitted with a 7.0 litre (that's 427ci) V8 engine, six
speed manual transmission and produces 505 horse power.
We hope our American visitors get a buzz seeing this beautiful
car so well converted to right hand drive. We thank our
good friends at Performax for continuing their incredible work
in this specialised field.
Great ride, cheers Ron.
   
WANTED
CORVETTE CONVENTION PORT BOTTLES
If somebody has any of the listed National
Corvette Convention bottles of Port and wishes to sell them I
would love to buy them from you.
1980 Melbourne, 1984 Adelaide, 1988 Canberra,
1990 Perth, 1992 Sydney, 1995 Lismore, 1996 Adelaide, 2001
Brisbane, 2006 Sydney.
Please Contact: Cheryl / Ph: 07 3829 9111 or
email: quadtransport@optusnet.com.au
Club Run Regulars
This is a list of local car runs that are held on a regular
basis. There is no RSVP, simply turn up and enjoy.
1. Every Friday night from 6:30pm to 8:30 - Munch Inn, cnr
Elizabeth Street and Beaudesert Road, Acacia Ridge. Mostly
American and Aussie muscle cars. (can have up to 300 cars)
2. Every Friday and Saturday night 7pm to 9, Ferry Road Dinner,
Southport. Good food, great atmosphere. All American.
3. Every 2nd Friday night of each month from 7pm - Southside -
Pontiac Cruise, meeting Beenleigh Tavern. Check Pontiac club
website.
4. Every 3rd Friday night of each month from 5pm - 9 -
Northside - Pontiac Cruise, meeting The Emporium Rock 'n' Roll
Milk Bar, Old Petrie Complex, 200 Dayboro Road, Kurwongbah.
5. Every Sunday morning - Bryan Wharton's Sunday morning
cruise. Ring Bryan or leave a message and Bryan will text you
the details on Saturday. 0413
980 420 There may be a short postponement of Bryan's Sunday
Run while the C6 is receiving some extra detailing.
If you know of other regular car activities, please email Jaimes
with the details for inclusion here.
Run Etiquette
We encourage
members go to organise runs, dinners, weekends etc. and have a
certain decorum that must be followed to ensure safety, maintain
a schedule and encourage light hearted fun.
Now is as good-a-time
as ever, to remind everyone of these basic points.
1 - If
you put your hand up to attend an event and your situation
changes, be respectful and let the organisers know.
2 - Make
sure you allow time to fuel up before you arrive at the meeting
point.
3 - If you
are unexpectedly running late, let the organisers know.
4 - If
you are the trip leader make sure you have your mobile phone on
and charged, and the number available to all participants on the
day. Equally, participants should have the run leaders
mobile number and some idea of the route and destination.
5 -
Listen to instructions at the briefing, ask any questions then.
6 -
After departing, all Corvettes remain together, civilian
vehicles last.
7 - Don't
commit the cardinal sin of overtaking the trip leader.
It's their run, please allow them the dignity of leading.
8 - If
you are not the last car and you make a turn or go through
lights that change, wait for the next vehicle behind to catch
up.
9 -
You may safely overtake other Corvettes behind the leader.
10 - Most
importantly, at the end of the run please show your appreciation
by thanking the organisers.
We encourage
all members to suggest club events and thank those who go to the
effort of organising runs for the enjoyment of fellow members.
Mossy and our Committee members openly offer to assist with the
planning of runs so please don't ever think your great idea will
be "too hard."
Thank you, on behalf of Peter Turner and
fellow committee members.
Corvettes Rev'n Easter 2011
23rd National Corvette Convention, Melbourne, Australia
Members of the Queensland Corvette Club are
invited to Melbourne, Victoria to attend the 23rd National
Corvette Convention over Easter 2011. The convention provides a
unique opportunity to attend either a 4 or 5 day event, as Anzac
Day falls on the Tuesday directly following Easter. Events will
span from Friday 22nd to Tuesday 26th April, to give you the
biggest ever Corvette Convention fix!
Itinerary;
Friday; Arrive and check into the Sebel Hotel Albert Park.
Receive your event show bag and feel free to clean your car or
catch up with old friends, before heading to the Welcome party
and dinner.
Saturday; Head to the show 'n' shine venue and put your toy on
display for all to admire. Judging will occur throughout the
day and you can check out the trade fair or use this opportunity
to shop in the city or do some sight seeing around Melbourne.
After the show 'n' Shine, head back to the Sebel and park your
car ready for a night filled with fun and entertainment.
Sunday; Rise early to take part in one of the biggest ever
Australian Corvette convoys!! Break off to participate in our
track day and driving events planned to be held at the rarely
accessible Holden Proving Grounds at Lang Lang. This provides
you the chance to put yourself and your car to the test in
various driving events. Alternately, you may choose to continue
to the scenic tourist destination of Port Philip Island. The
island will be a hive of activity with plenty to see and do!
Sunday night come along to the gala presentation dinner and
bring your dancing shoes.
Monday; You can choose to have the event end or continue for
another optional day. With a leisurely departure, you will be
sure to have a great day cruising and enjoying some of
Victoria's best wineries and sights.
Tuesday; Join us for breakfast in the park, depart at your
leisure and farewell your new friends.
Link of the Month
This one sounds a little sus, and I've checked to make sure it's
legit. Pinky's is a very comprehensive list of car &
bike shows and related activities Australia wide.
This is such a great source of information, it's been added as a
reciprocal link on our Associated Links page. Thank you
Pinky.
If you've found an interesting website that you'd like to share,
please email your link to the website co-ordinator.
QCC Website Statistics
The Queensland Corvette Club website continues to receive a
significant number of visits each month. I have included a few
current statistics to help provide an insight into the
popularity of our Club on-line.
August visits have set a new monthly record for our website with
almost 80,000 visits!!!!
Thank you to everyone who calls in, please fell welcome to visit
as often as you can, you're helping make history.
1 August 79,539
2. July 74,796
3 March 72,464
4 October 70,789
5 June 66,177
These visitor numbers show that of recent months, August, July,
March & October have all seen
70,000+ visits to the Club website. This is new
ground for our Club and this year alone we've seen total visitor
numbers for the previous twelve months to date, burst through
750,000 and continue up-wards towards 800,000.
The total number of visits for the previous twelve months to date, is
currently 797,486.
August
Average visits per hour: 106
Average visits per day: 2,565
Total visits for month: 79,539
A big welcome back to all of our regular visitors from
around the world. Please feel welcome to join us for a club
meeting or a run when you next visit Australia.
If you happen to be a regular visitor please drop in with your
friends a few extra times - we will be able to "see you" in our
statistics for September........
Top 30 'Countries' by number of visits for the month of
August.
1. Australia 40,708 ( I believe this is a new
record for the home team, well done everyone )
2. USA 12,821
3. Unknown 11,039
4. US Commercial 8,537
5. Non Profit Organisations 1,903
6. Russian Federation 633
7. Vietnam 371 ( Welcome to our top 30, great
to have you call in )
8. Ukraine 305
9. India 261
10. Brazil 261
11. New Zealand 223
12. United Kingdom 203
13. Canada 154
14. Singapore 143
15. Thailand 128
16. Mexico 123
17. Indonesia 122
18. Japan 114
19. US Government 100
20. South Africa 100
21. Sweden 90
22. US Educational 89
23. Italy 80
24. Netherlands 72
25. Germany 71
26. Old Style Arpanet 70
27. Malaysia 67
28. Hong Kong 65 ( Welcome to our top 30 for
the first time, please swing by again )
29. Switzerland 57
30. Ireland 53
Top 30 'Countries' for the month of July.
1. Australia 34,502 (Huge jump for the
Aussies, go the home team!)
2. US Commercial 11,442 (remains just in front
of US public visits)
3. USA 11,346
4. Unknown 10,068
5. Non Profit Organisations 2,962 (big jump in
visits here)
6. Latvia 496 (Welcome to our friends in
Latvia, big numbers from you guys)
7. India 307
8. United Kingdom 199
9. Canada 196
10. New Zealand 193
11. Japan 184
12. Netherlands 153
13. Ireland 151
14. Russian Federation 107 (large swings
continue?)
15. Singapore 107
16. US Government 87
17. Indonesia 85
18. US Educational 70
19. South Africa 69
20. Malaysia 68
21. France 65
22. Switzerland 49
23. Thailand 49
24. Norway 44
25. Cayman Islands 39
26. Italy 37
27. Saudi Arabia 37
28. US Military 36
29. Greece 36
30. Old Style Arpanet 35
Averaged Hourly Visits for the month (Brisbane Eastern Standard
Time GMT +10)
Most visits: 8pm ~ 9pm 188 daily average for hour
5,843
total for month
Fewest visits: 2am ~ 3am 49 daily average for hour 1,536
total for month
Top five Entry Pages (first page visited as the result of
a search or favourite)
1. QCC Home page
2. Recent Events 2010
3. Classifieds Parts
4. Club News
5. Coming Events
Top five referrers (how visitors found this website)
1. Direct request as a favourite 20,891 (a big
thank you to everyone who has this site listed as one of their
favourites!!)
2. webwombat.com.au
3. google.com.au
4. google.com
5. google.com/images (someone who has performed
an image search for Corvette)
Top five Pages Visited
1. Home page
2. Recent Events - QCC Concourse
3. News page
4. Mayfield - Christmas in July report
5. Coming Events - Stanthorpe Weekend
Top three Days by Visits
1. Monday 23rd Aug 5,612 ( the day following
our concourse and a new daily visits record!! )
2. Sunday 22nd Aug 4,027 ( we had concourse photos
on-line by 12:30 - two and a half hours before the event
finished )
3. Tuesday 24th Aug 3,691
Corvette Photos
Club stalwart, Ernie Whittle has very kindly offered viewing
access to his collection of Corvette photos on a photo hosting
site. You are welcome to view these pictures and to submit your
own for Ernie to add.
Please click on this link to view Ernie's photo's.
Please click on this link to open an email to Ernie.
Jaimes' photo tip. To add photo/s to an email, simply follow
these steps;
1. Click on the Start button of Windows and select My Computer
2. Navigate to the folder containing the photos you wish to
send
3. Select all of the photos to be sent. Hold the Ctrl key
while clicking your left mouse button to select more than one
photo
4. Now, click the RIGHT mouse button and position your cursor
over Send To, and left click on Mail Recipient
5. You will be prompted to make your pictures smaller - click
OK
Your selected pictures will now be automatically attached to
your email
6. Simply add the recipient's address and click send.
(this is a great way to resize photos for use on a website, for
instance)
Business offering special deals to members of the Queensland
Corvette Club has proven so popular, it's been decided to
dedicate a new page on the website for this purpose.
Members can navigate there by selecting the
Special Offers link from the
Club page
 or
by clicking on the dollar sign short cut on our home page.
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The items on this page are included for the purpose of maintaining
and encouraging club communication and fostering friendships.
Any unintentional insults or errors are regretted and will
be addressed upon contacting the web site co-ordinator.
Intended insults and errors shall remain for the enjoyment
of all.
Contributions to the News section of the website are always
welcome. Please email the web site co-ordinator with your info &
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