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May 2012
Club Officers
President: John Brinkman
email: [email protected]
1st Vice President: Ralph Barbary
email: [email protected]
2nd Vice President: Jason Perlman
email: [email protected]
Treasurer: Andy Soltis
Secretary: Linda Siegfried
email: [email protected]
Presidential Rumblings
As spring is in full swing the NJCC has a full calendar of events planned for 2012. Please refer to the events section of this newsletter or the newly created club website.
www.northjerseycorvetteclub.com
The newsletter this month features photos taken at our April Social Dinner and our April Fun Run (Vettes for Pets). I have also included photos from the Corvette Bash in Bowling Green held in April.
The featured members car for May belongs to Ken Adler and Iris Zaback.
Finally, I have included profiles
on two members of the
Corvette Hall of Fame.
Enjoy
BirthdaysMay
May 1st: Jimmy Moran
May 7th: Patricia O’Keefe
May 14th: Fran Riso
May 14th: Ted Constandelis
May 22nd: Rose Kardashian
May 22nd: Ronnie Sokerka
May 22nd: Jessica Gittleman
Web site -northjerseycorvetteclub.com
Meetings: Business: 2nd Wednesday
of the monthSocial: 4th Wednesday of
the month
2012 Cruise Nights
Monday: Arby's Restaurant Rt 46 West, Rockaway NJ, Corner of 46 & Franklin Rd.
Tuesday: Jim Johnston’s Steakhouse, Eagle Rock Ave, Roseland
Wednesday: Wendy’s on RT 46 in Denville, NJ; Irving's Delicatessen/Restaurant in Livingston
Thursday : Tri-County Cruisers in Riverdell
Friday: Boonton
Saturday: Whiskey Cafe, 1050 Wall Street West Lyndhurst
Event Calendar
May 6th: Class Glass Corvette Show (Garden State Plaza)
May 20th: Fun Run to Chester (club event)
May 20th: Chester’s 12th Annual Main Street Cruise-N-Shop
May 31st – June 3rd: Drag Racing at Englishtown
June 3rd: Waldwick Annual Car Show
June 8th – June 10 th: Cruise to Old Orchard Beach
June 9th: Smithville Corvette Show in Historic Smithville
June 10th: Brunch at Perona Farms (club event)
June 24th: Club Picnic (tentative)
June 27th: Cruise to Bear Mountain
July 8th: Fun Run to Moroso Performance
July 8th: River Edge Car Show in River Edge, NJ
July 22nd: Summer Fun Run (club event)
August 4th: Corvettes at Englishtown
August 24 th – August 26th : Corvettes at Carlisle
September 7th : Ridgewood Car Show
September 8th : Run to Culinary Institute in Poughkeepsie, NY (club event)
September 16th: NJCC Car Show (club event)
September 23rd: Corvettes on the Boardwalk –Ocean City, NJ
October 6th: Fun Run to Peddler’s Village Corvette Show (club event)
October 12th – October 14th: Fun Run Corvette Weekend in Ocean City, MD (club event)
October 14th: Class Glass Corvette Show (Garden State Plaza)
November 11th: Season Ending Fun Run (club event)
Member’s Ride SectionKen Adler and Iris Zaback
2003 Black Convertible
Scenes from Bowling Green
Corvette 427 Convertible in the new Blue color
Corvette 427 Convertible
Social DinnerGourmet Café
April 22nd
Social DinnerGourmet Café
April 22nd
Spring Fun RunApril 29th
Myron E. "Scottie" Scott
(2002 Induction)
Corvette Hall of Fame Inductee, Myron E. "Scottie" Scott, is most recognized as
the man who gave America's Sports Car - the Corvette, its name. For 22 years, he
served as an artist, photographer and art director with the Dayton Daily News. In
June 1933, he photographed six boys racing wooden contraptions down Big Hill
Road in Oakwood, Ohio. Scott got the idea for the soap box derby, attracting 330
participants and a crowd of 40,000. After the 1934 derby at Burkhardt Hill,
Chevrolet decided to sponsor the event nationally with Scott in charge of the
Akron race. Chevrolet sponsored the derby until 1972.
In 1937, Chevrolet hired him as an assistant director for the Public Relations
department, where he was responsible for photography of new cars, designing of
press kits, graphics and special events. In 1953, a special executive meeting was
arranged to find a name for a new Chevrolet sports car then in the developmental stage. The
company wanted a name that began with a "C" and a review of over 300 names began.
No name satisfied the group, until that night at Scott's home when he searched the C section
of the dictionary and stopped at the definition of "corvette" - a speedy pursuit ship in the
British navy. Scott suggested "Corvette" the next day and the group loved it. His contribution
to the image of Chevrolet spanned over three decades, before retiring from Chevrolet in 1971.
Mr. Scott passed away on October 4th, 1998 at the age of 91.
Carl Renner
(2007 Induction)
Corvette Hall of Fame Inductee Carl Renner was part of the “Project Opel”
original Corvette Motorama project design team. In 1945, after leaving Walt
Disney's design studio where he worked as a cartoon animator, Renner took
his portfolio filled with automotive designs and headed for General Motors
Styling where he landed a job as a junior designer in the Orientation Studio.
GM was then beginning to turn its attention back to producing automobiles
for the general public and designers were needed. He was promoted to Senior
Designer in 1946 and transferred to the Chevrolet Studio. From 1950 to 1955
Renner took an active part in the entire design process of the 1952 through
1957 Chevrolet models. Other Renner design contributions include the
Corvette side cove (1956), Corvette ducktail rear end (1961), the Corvette
Nomad roofline and the deluxe steering wheel, grilles, recessed hoods, the “notch belt”
fender line, parking lights, bumper guards and side trim.
In 1954, he was promoted to assistant chief designer in the Body Development Studio. As
part of the “ninth floor” crew at the Body Development Studio that Harley Earl used to work
on special, private projects, the group became responsible for the basic shape of the first Opel
– the future Corvette. The grille of the “Project Opel” Corvette was based on Carl Renner's
1950 and 1951 renderings where he served as part of the project's design team, although the
answer to who is most responsible for the Corvette remains a mystery,
thanks in part to the level of secrecy enforced by Harley Earl. Renner was
also responsible for the Nomad which was essentially a Corvette built with an extended
station wagon roof.
Carl Renner passed away on January 22, 2001.
