Committee Members Contacts

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.

hotel hq map

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..

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.

Please click on the link to view our newest member's beautiful Vette.

March Club Meeting

Held on Wednesday 3rd, with 26 members in attendance. Between illness, travel and the rain this was always going to be a quiet night.

Great to see Allen & Sue along after a touch of illness - we've missed you guys.....

A big thank you to Ernie for bringing along a disk of photos from the Warwick weekend - we played these on the big screen before and after the meeting, to the enjoyment of all.

Ernie also reports a successful club trailer working bee in February. We now have functioning brakes, taillights and are ready for painting. Well done team.

During February, I did some homework as a follow-up to a member request that we consider adding a member forum to the website. Unfortunately, such an undertaking is beyond our club at this time and as an alternative, I would recommend that members wishing to keep in-touch between meetings look at joining the Australian Corvette Association forum. The Australian Corvette Association is based right here in Brisbane and serves as an on-line point of communication for local and international Corvette enthusiasts.

Please click on the link to view the forum or use the link from our Australian Chevrolet and Corvette links page. You are welcome to browse but, will need to join to post replies to threads.

Members may be interested to know that a new Australian Car Magazine "Retro Autos," has commenced publication and should be in shops as you read this. Please click on the link for more info.

Our Gympie Performax Tour and Skip Pan Day on 29 & 30 May is looking very popular. This is a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes at Performax then enjoy an informative yet exciting day sideways.

Ken advises that the Christmas in July weekend planned for 24 & 25 July, is coming along well. Please check our events page for more info.

Chris Livermore is leading the Corvettes on a Car Rally to raise money for the family of a teenage boy who drowned recently while swimming in Tallebudgera Estuary, on the Gold Coast. The Rally is to be held on Saturday 20 March, commencing from the Logan Hyperdome and proceeding to Emerald Lakes. Donations of $5 per car are being sought and there will be a car show at the destination. Please see our coming events page for run info.

Members of the Queensland Corvette Club have been invited to provide ten examples of the Corvette marque to participate in the Gold Coast Muscle Car Show, being held on 27 & 28 March at the Gold Coast Bulletin headquarters on Southport - Nerang Road. This special show will raise money for local charities. Please contact Mossy if you're available to participate.

Reg & Sandy Vine invite all members to their regular Friday night sausage sizzle at "Route 66," 211 Brisbane Road, Labrador. This venue is becoming popular with the Gold Coast car scene and is a great excuse to enjoy some Vette Time at the end of your busy week. No need to book, this is a regular event, please call in and say G'day.

Down Under are leading a convoy to this year's Bellavista Car Show in NSW, 12 to 14 March. QCC members wishing to attend have been invited to join-in and are welcome to contact Bill on 0405 631 287.

Members are still laughing about the antics at Warwick. Seems to me, some folk are just a little too comfortable in ladies clothes for this to be a one-off.... Check out this crazy event by clicking on the chequered flags.

Ernie recently purchased a roll of thermal insulation for his exhaust pipes and is so impressed, he asked me to post the details so others with heat issues could follow suit. Please call in and speak with the crew at
Merlyn Products Pty Ltd
16 Lapis Street
Underwood

ph: 3808 2224

w: www.merlynproducts.com.au

Member News

Pete and Dave are in South Australia at present, contesting the 500cc motorcycle land speed record on the salt flats of Lake Gairdner. This is "Worlds Fastest Indian" stuff and we wish the team well in their endeavour.

Good on ya Pete, you make us proud!!

Click on the DLRA link for some background on this crazy group. Select speed trials - 2010 for more info. Go driver 853!

Guess who was finally able to bring his beautiful Atomic Orange C6 Corvette home???? I will post a whole set of photos of the transformation during the month. Please click on the photo for more.

If you have news that you'd like to share with fellow members, please email Jaimes with the details. Holidays, births, marriages, business ventures and of-course Vettes..... really, anything of interest.

Info for C3 & C4 Owners

Brian Hughes from Professional Right Hand Drive Conversions has approached our Club to advise that he is licensed to perform conversions on C3 & C4 Corvettes to 1990. Brian has a long association with Performax International (formerly Corvette Queensland) and is authorised to use parts and methods pioneered by Corvette Queensland. This helps to ensure high quality conversions to satisfy the fussiest customer.

Co-incidentally, Brian is located in Gympie and may be contacted on 0419 779 366

Please see Brian's advertisement on our Classifieds Parts page for more info.

Info for C5 Owners

President Pete has kindly offered information about the C5 Dashboard Diagnostic system for reference by owners and potential owners. You can find this very useful info on the Tech Talk page of our Website and in your December Vetteletter. Please click on the dashboard image for a link to our tech talk page.

Link of the Month

Thanks to Brad for our link this month.   http://rebelcorvettes.com/vettemods

If you've found an interesting website that you'd like to share, please email your link to the website co-ordinator.

March Club Runs

Plenty of events to keep members occupied this month.

A delicious Italian dinner at Sanctuary Cove on Friday evening 12th March.

Chris leads the Corvettes to Emerald Lakes on a fund raising run for the SES, on behalf of the family of Heath Whalan, Saturday 20th.

Ernie & Sally's Observation run with a twist on Sunday 21st March. Ya gotta be happy with that!!!!

Thanks to Mossy, Keith & Jan, Reg & Sandy, Ernie & Sally and Chris for planning events for March. If you have an idea for a club run, please mention it to Mossy and he'll help organise it with you. (A top bloke that Mossy)

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.

February was another 'normal' month for our website and the highest five months in the previous twelve remain unchanged;

1 August 74,796
2 October 70,789
3 June 63,154
4 March 63,054
5 September 63,034

The total number of website visits for the past twelve months continues to grow with a new record of 711,599.

February

Average visits per hour: 91
Average visits per day: 2,195
Total visits for month: 61,497

Valentine's Day, 14th of February recorded the highest number of daily visits for the month with 3,116.

We welcome visitors from a number of 'new' countries to our February top 30. A big hello to fellow Corvette Nutz from Turkey, South Africa, the Cayman Islands, Brunei and China. Great to see you visit in numbers that show on our statistics, thank you.

Also 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 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 March........

Top 30 'Countries' by number of visits for the month.

1 Australia 30,075
2 USA 12,683
3 US Commercial 7,139
4 Unknown 6,183
5 Non Profit Organisations 2,239
6 Czech Republic 361 (you guys are huge)
7 Canada 282 (almost doubled your visits, well done)
8 United Kingdom 265 (another great effort, cheers)
9 Russian Federation 243 (what happened there? Massive for 2 months now back to 9th)
10 India 229
11 New Zealand 198 (almost tripled your visits, top effort bro)
12 Ireland 134
13 Denmark 92 (almost tripled your visits too, excellent)
14 US Educational 70 (well done students)
15 Indonesia 70
16 Turkey 68 (jumped into the top 30, thanks for visiting)
17 Thailand 61 (doubled your visits, thanks)
18 US Government 58
19 Cayman Islands 54 (new to the top 30, thanks for dropping in)
20 South Africa 49 (welcome back into the top 30)
21 Netherlands 48
22 Germany 46
23 US Military 44
24 Japan 44
25 Singapore 43
26 United States Other? 40
27 Norway 38
28 Brunei Darusslam 37 (welcome to the top 30)
29 Brazil 36
30 China 32 (first time we've seen visitors from China in our top 30, welcome)

By comparison - top 30 'Countries' for the previous month.

1 Australia 26,519
2 USA 10,333
3 Unknown 8,761
4 US Commercial 7,476
5 Non Profit Organisations 2,895
6 Russian Federation 2,895
7 Czech Republic 257
8 India 189
9 Ireland 174
10 United Kingdom 162
11 Canada 152
12 Netherlands 94
13 Brazil 85
14 Malaysia 79
15 New Zealand 76
16 Germany 74
17 Japan 74
18 United States other 60
19 Mexico 52
20 Indonesia 51
21 Norway 51
22 US Military 49
23 Switzerland 46
24 US Educational 44
25 Denmark 35
26 France 35
27 Belgium 32
28 Thailand 29
29 News Groups 27
30 Singapore 27

Averaged Hourly Visits for the month (Brisbane Eastern Standard Time GMT +10)

Most visits:   7pm ~ 8pm 158 daily average for hour   4,449 total for month
Least visits: 2am ~ 3am    41 daily average for hour   1,149 total for month

Top seven QCC Entry pages (the first page entered as the result of a search, eg Google)

1 Home page
2 How to Buy
3 Members C1
4 Coming Events
5 Club Deals
6 Classifieds Parts
7 Australian Corvette Club Links

Top seven QCC Exit pages (visitors have looked around and this was their final page before exiting, probably found the information / photos they were looking for)

1 Home page
2 How to Buy
3 Coming Events
4 Classifieds Cars for Sale
5 Australian Corvette Club Links
6 Classifieds Part for Sale
7 Members C1

Top seven QCC website "image / link" visited.

1 Fox 'n' Hounds Pub - link to recent event report - Fox n Hounds FND
2 West Australian Vettes - link to 2010 Convention info from coming events page
3 Vehicle Restorers - link to recent event report - Australia Day run
4 Members C1 image - link from members C1 page to member 544 photo & details
5 ZR-1 Performax - link from triple drag event details
6 Spagetti Image - link to coming events - FND at Sanctuary Cove
7 Slippery Image - link to coming events - Performax tour & Gympie Skid Pan weekend

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 red arrow image

or by clicking on the dollar sign short cut on our home page.