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.
February Club Meeting
Another enthusiastic group along for the Feb Club Meeting.
Approx 30+ members present.
Mike Gocs has arranged a special guest speaker for our March
meeting, an automotive engineer, to speak about compliancing
imported corvettes. Certainly a current topic given the
number of Vettes finding their way to Australia at the moment.
So, if you have a recent import or are thinking of arranging an
import, don't miss out because you will need to hear this
presentation.
Our hard working committee continue to plan the 2012 Corvettes
on the Coast Concourse. If you haven't heard - it's going
to be bigger than ever.
Staged on Sunday 16th September, and occupying the entire
Broadwater Parkland on the beautiful Gold Coast, this is already
shaping up to be a cracker of a day. We plan to have more
trade displays, food and cars, with invitations going out to a
number of other American Car Clubs to take part.
Brad is looking for sponsors and displays, so if you'd like your
business to be associated with this giant American Muscle Car
day, give him a call on 0414 730 833.
The club Family Fun Day
and is planned for Sunday 18th March. The day
will focus on fun activities for members and their families.
Of-course, billy carting will remain an integral part of the day along with team
fun and games.
John Webro displayed a beautiful photo of his red C4 that had
been transferred onto a ceramic tile. The tile is presented in
a timber frame and would make a great display item. Please
catch up with John for details on how to have your pride and joy
immortalised on a tile.
Chris Livermore has a contact willing to make display boards for
members. Displays can contain text as well as pictures and
are available for around $60. Please see Chris for
details.
Members intending to participate in this years National Corvette
Convention in the Gong, are directed to their January edition of
the Vetteletter, for recent up-dates.
Member Information
A timely reminder to members with convertibles to maintain them
in top condition through the use of world renowned soft top care
products from Renovo Australia. Neil McAllister has a full
catalogue available and offers a 10% discount to QCC members.
Products can be ordered on-line and will be shipped straight to
your door. Please email Sally for the on-line promo code.
We've have an exclusive offer from Jimmy Gamble, proprietor of
"bolts nuts screws on-line," for members of the Queensland
Corvette Club to receive a 20% discount across his enormous
range of fasteners.
Your membership details must be provided to redeem your
discount.
Please visit our Special Members Only Deals page
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.
So, please enjoy your Vette..... and say Hi to these lovely
new members when you next meet.
We welcome these great Corvette
fans into our club;
Darren's beautiful side piped C3,
Warren and Wendy with their Blue
C3, (Hey Pete, where are all the Red one's??)
Mike & Jill's beautiful C4,
 
 Ray McShane and his
classic
1968 C3 coupe,
Tamara is living proof that women
love Corvettes too. Pictured with her magic 1973 C3,
 
New members are encouraged 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 or printed in a
Vetteletter issue. Of-course, existing members are always
welcome to email up-dated photos or details at any time.
Photos can be sent to Jaimes for
the website by clicking on the parking sign for a convenient
email link.
Vette Items of Interest
Ernie's forwarded an interesting link for C3 owners, who at some
stage of their ownership, will have to give thought to repairing
the clock in their Vette.
http://www.pcfred.com/Vettetip/FixC3Clock.htm
When you check it out, scroll to the bottom of the page and
click on "tips main page" for more handy C3 & C5 maintenance
tips.
Members looking for hard to find glass for their pride
and joy should contact Ralph with their details.
Ralph Moore Autoglass Pty. Ltd.
All Autoglass parts supplied & Installed, Prestige & Restoration
Model Specialists, Since 1964
6 John St., Mascot, New South Wales Australia 2020
Telephone
(02) 9667 1933 or (02) 9669 1628,
Fax
(02) 9669 6605, ISD code (61-2)
Email:
autoglass@bigpond.com
Website
www.ralphmoore.citysearch.com.au
National Corvette Museum C5 / C6 Build
Sheets
If you own a 02 - 10 Corvette, you'll be pleased to know the
National Corvette Museum recently received an additional 85,000
original build sheets from the Bowling Green Assembly Plant.
Each build sheet went down the line with it's corresponding
Corvette while the car was being assembled. Some still
have masking tape on them while others show pen markings by
assembly line workers, grease, dirt or even footprints from when
they were discarded after vehicle assembly.
In total, NCM has approximately 185,000 original build sheets in
it's possession. Purchase price is $40 each for NCM
members and $50 for non-members.
For more information, contact the Museum's Library and Archives
by email
betty@corvettemuseum.org
or check the NCM website
Ernie has recently organised re-gassing the
gas struts for the rear hatch glass in his ZR1 and is very happy
with the results. For the benefit of fellow members,
details of the gas strut service are included;
"Gas Strut" Sales & Service 3890
4044.
3/1029 Manly Road, Tingalpa Qld 4173
email -
sales@gasstrutsales.com
Salesman is Ronnie
Is your vehicle registered under Qld Transport's
Special Interest Vehicle Scheme (SIVS) ?
Corvette owners
utilising this great scheme are reminded to maintain their
knowledge of changing vehicle usage and club membership
requirements. Details are available from Queensland
Transport Offices or their website .
"Failure to comply
with the conditions of the SIVS
is an offence and serious consequences may apply."
All QCC members driving SIVS Vettes are urged to familiarise
themselves with the regulations by clicking on this link.
Members are encouraged to have a look at our QCC
Knowledge Base - click on link, top right menu bar.
The idea of this initiative is to help share our understanding
of the beast that is Corvette, by providing contacts that
members can turn to for reliable local information.
Please email the website co-ordinator to volunteer your
assistance with this program. The more the better - then we can
become more specific with our knowledge descriptions and reduce
the likelihood of misdirected enquiries.As an addition to the
Knowledge Base, we would like to know who has OEM service
manuals. Please let Jaimes know if you'd be happy to
volunteer reference to your manuals. You are certainly not
expected to hand over these important reference books but help
out by phone or maybe with a photo copy or scan of a needed
page.
 Please
take the time to visit our QCC Sites of Interest
page. This can be found by clicking on Links and then
choosing Other, or by clicking on the chequered flags.
If you are a QCC member, have a permanent
commercial website and would like it added to this page, please
send our website co-ordinator a brief spiel and your web
address.
There's no charge for including sites of
interest - this is a service to our members.
2012 Australian
Corvette Convention
Our friends from NSW Corvettes Unlimited Car Club are hosting the
2012 Australian Corvette Convention on the beautiful NSW South
Coast city of Wollongong.
These guys are super organised and have
produced an excellent flyer for attendees with all the
information you'll need to plan your trip.
Please click on the image to download a copy in pdf format.
Spectacular Photoshop
Images
Ever dreamt of having your favourite Corvette photo artistically
altered into a work of Vette-art?
Anthony Grima
is a retired photographer with an artistic and very creative
flair ( and a mastery of Photoshop ) who can work wonders with
your favourite Vette-pic. QCC members are welcome to email
Anthony to start the ball rolling at
grimatm@optusnet.com.au
The only stipulation for putting members in-touch with Anthony,
is that you share your completed Vette-art with the world by
sending Jaimes a copy for our Wallpaper page.
Alternate Motoring Events
Members and visitors are reminded to
regularly check our Auto Happenings Page and use the link to
Pinky's for information on all things Automotive in Queensland
and Australia for that matter. I'm constantly astounded by
the number and quality of events happening in Queensland.
Members are welcome to volunteer as leader for any of these
events, in conjunction with our Events Co-ordinator to plan an
official QCC run. Who knows, it's quite likely other
members will share your passion, so step up and plan a run in
2011.
QCC Website Statistics
January
We welcomed 71,414 visitors during the month of
January.
Thank you to everyone who visits, please feel welcome to attend
our monthly Club meetings or join us for a run when you next
visit Brisbane.
Our highest number of daily visits occurred on Tuesday
17th with
3,608
Best use of Advertising for the month;
1. Nuts and bolts on line with 7,686
links to their website (consistently amazing)
2. 519 Links to Ernie's photos (congratulations Ern,
going strong)
3. 491 Links to Performax News
4. 484 Links to Member Discounts - advertisers
note, make the club an offer and be noticed
5. 457 Links to Camp Quality
6. 446 Links to the Bandits photos
7. 445 Links to the Vetteletter Archive
8. 442 Links to Club News
9. 432 Links to Australia Day run info.
10. 293 Links to 2012 Convention info.
482 various editions of the Vetteletter
were downloaded for the month
24,352 visitors have the Queensland Corvette Club website saved
as a favourite. That's 34% of visits for the month -
thank you to everyone who saves us as a favourite. It's
the greatest complement a website and associated club can receive.
Top 20 pages visited;
1. Home page
2. Classifieds Cars
3. Club News
4. Coming Events
5. How to buy a Corvette
6. Brisbane Bandits run photos
7. Lakeside run photos
8. Australia Day coming events
9. 2010 Events
10. 2011 Events
11. Christmas Party 2012 photos
12. Members C3's
13. Vetteletter Archive
14. Members C5's
15. Classifieds Parts
16. Club Questions page
17. Club Members Deals page
18. Lakeside 03/07/11 photos
19. Members C2's
20. Members C4's
Total number of visits to the Top 20 pages: 57,597
Top 30 visits by Country
1. Australia 25,110
2. USA 15,857
3. US Commercial 15,050
4. Ukraine 1,332
5. Netherlands 1,034
6. India 687
7. New Zealand 582
8. United Kingdom 568
9. Switzerland 273
10. Canada 239
11. Singapore 218
12. Italy 207
13. South Africa 178
14. Sweden 162
15. Germany 158
16. Thailand 150
17. Indonesia 143
18. Russian Federation 140
19. United Arab Emirates 110
20. Hungary 103
21. Turkey 101
22. Belgium 84
23. US Military 69
24. Finland 69
25. Poland 61
26. France 58
27. Norway 58
28. Cyprus 56
29. Mexico 56
30. Viet Nam 45
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.
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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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.
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