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Updated 23-Apr-2007 =-= Copyright (c) 2007 Corvairs of New Mexico EDITOR: Jim Pittman NEXT MEETING: Wednesday 2 May 2007 at 7:00 PM Highland Senior Center at 131 Monroe NE THIS MONTH: Dues Due Sylvan Zuercher April Meeting Minutes Charles Vertrees April Board Meeting Charles Vertrees Birthdays and Anniversaries Sunshine Committee Mechanically Un-inclined Ray Trujillo For Sale, Wanted or For Trade Members and Friends Calendar of Coming Events CNM Board of Directors Call for Photos for 2008 Calendar Brenda Stickler Tri-State 2007 Preview Steve Goodman Car Council Report Robert Gold Albuquerque Museum Preview Robert Gold Isotopes Baseball Game Robert Gold Air Conditioned Early Model Coupe Cary Hubbard Seven, 14, 21, 28 Years Ago Club Historian A Saturday Breakfast and an April Tuna Heula & Jim COVER: The Air Conditioned Early Model Coupe at Cary Hubbard's Shop PRESIDENT: Ray Trujillo 839-7436 ray @ bpsabq.com VICE-PRES: John Wiker 899-3076 wiker @ aps.edu SECRETARY: Charles Vertrees 299-0744 vertrees @ swcp.com TREASURER: Wendell Walker 892-8471 defarge505 @ aol.com MEMBERSHIP: David Huntoon 281-9616 corvair66 @ aol.com NEWSLETTER: Jim Pittman 275-2195 jimp @ unm.edu PROPERTIES: Ruth Boydston 821-1506 CAR COUNCIL: Robert Gold 268-6878 beisbol30 @ msn.com DUES: CNM: 12 months $15.00 or 26 months $ 30.00 CORSA: 12 months $38.00 or 26 months $ 76.00 BOTH: 12 months $53.00 or 26 months $106.00 CORSA's home page: http://www.corvair.org CNM's newsletters: http://www.unm.edu/~jimp CNM's home page: http://www.corvair.org/chapters/chapter871 MEMBERSHIP DUES: EXPIRED, WILL BECOME INACTIVE ON 25-APR-2007: Clint Collins 2007-Mar Geoffrey Johnson 2007-Mar EXPIRED, WILL BECOME INACTIVE ON 25-MAY-2007: Jerry Chapman 2007-Apr Bill Hector 2007-Apr DUE THIS MONTH: Mike Hacker 2007-May DUES, DUE NEXT MONTH: Ruth Boydston 2007-Jun Terry Price 2007-Jun DUES, COMING DUE SOON: Robert Gold 2007-Jul DUES, EXPIRED, NOW INACTIVE: Fred Edeskuty 2006-Feb Robert Moore 2006-Jun Lee Olsen 2006-Sep Dwight Simmons 2006-Sep Sally Williams 2006-Sep Joe Ashton 2006-Nov Carl Johnson 2007-Feb Clay Keen 2007-Feb If your membership is due or has expired, please send your Dues to: Wendell Walker, CNM Treasurer, 301 Utah Meadow, Rio Rancho, NM 87124 Past due memberships will become inactive after a one-month grace period. Note that the Club will mail in your National Dues when you renew, provided that you send us the renewal form from your CORSA Communique! Photo Captions: Photos by Cary Hubbard of his "new" early model coupe with A/C. See the story on page 10. Enchanted Corvairs Newsletter is published monthly by Corvairs of New Mexico, a chartered chapter of CORSA, the Corvair Society of America. Contents are copyrighted in the names of the Authors and CNM. Articles may be reprinted in any CORSA publication as a service to CORSA members provided credit to the Author and this Newsletter are clearly stated. All opinions are those of the Author or the Editor and do not necessarily reflect endorsement by CNM or CORSA. Material to be published should reach the Editor by the 15th of each month. Submit material as ASCII TEXT via e-mail to ( jimp @ unm.edu ) or in ASCII TEXT format on Apple II, Macintosh or MS-DOS disk, or submit a readable manuscript. I don't like MS Word documents (they are ten times as big as the text they contain) but no problem, I can read them, thanks to icWord 3.0. The same goes for RTF files. So, send what you have, I'll read it! Photographs including digital JPGs are welcome too! This newsletter was produced in a Microsoft-free environment using a 1989 Apple IIgs with GS/OS 6.0.1, a 1998 Macintosh G3 with OS 9.2, a 2003 Macintosh G4 PowerBook with OS-X and a 2003 iMac with OS-X. Software includes Bernie To The Rescue 2.6, Addressed For Success, ShadowWrite 1.3.4, Platinum Paint 2.0, Pointless and Harmonie for the Apple IIgs and AppleWorks 6, Photoshop CS, GraphicConverter 5.8, BBEdit 8 and InDesign CS 3 on the Macs. Printing is via HP LaserJet IIp and Apple LaserWriter Pro 630. Ask for more technical details if you are interested. Transportation requirements provided by Albuquerque SunTran, 1965 Corvair Monza, 1990 Honda Civic, 1996 Mazda Miata and 2003 Honda Civic. And when I'm 64, I'll get by with a little help from my friends. =CNM= APRIL MEETING NOTES Chuck Vertrees The meeting was called to order at 19:07 at Highland Senior Center on 4/4/07. There were 25 members present. The minutes from the last meeting were approved as printed in the newsletter. Treasurer Wendell Walker reported that CNM had $638.87 in the checking account and $2,558.78 in the GMAC account for a total worth of $3,197.65. There were no new members or guests to report. Robert Gold reported that the Car Council wants those who are going to be in the Museum show to pre-pay for their spots. Along with this they want to pre-register clubs. This is still somewhat up in the air. The web site is up and running. You can reach it at www.nmcarcouncil.org and there is also a phone number 890-4477 which will be updated to reflect current events. Also New Mexico has a state law from 1978 (66-11-1 NMSA 1978) which covers collector cars. I have a copy and it can be gotten on line. It is quite comprehensive and we should be aware of it in case someone starts to complain. I also have a page from the Car Council about Red Light Cameras. Bill Reider passed out the new Clarks' Catalogues. The nominations for the Boydston award were turned over to Wendell. Upcoming events include the next Old Route 66 cleanup on May 5th followed by a lunch at the Golden Corral on Central and Eubank. May 18th to 20th is the Tri-State meeting in Monte Vista, Colorado. May 20th is also the museum show in Albuquerque for those that do not go to the Tri-State. Joel Nash said that the Rumblers club have a show on May 26th from 18:00 on Gold at 3rd. They are nor Corvairs but are an interesting bunch of cars. August 5th is the Car Council Annual Picnic. There will be a flyer at the meeting which gives a lot of information. The turnout at the Anniversary dinner was really nice. There were lots of donated door prizes, so thanks to those who donated them. Dave Huntoon was named the Ike Meissner Award recipient for 2007. Congratulations to Dave. Also certificates of appreciation were given to Wendell Walker for his 10 plus years as Treasurer and to Jim Pittman on his 30 years (YES 30) as editor of our newsletter. (Actually, the editor celebrated the START of his 30th year with the February 2007 issue -- Ed.) Also thanks to the eleven members who turned out for the last Old Route 66 cleanup. Dave Huntoon knows of someone who has a 1964 Convertible for sale in Clovis. Dave has his phone number. At this time there are several cars for sale listed on your editor's web site in the For Sale section in case you want to take a look. The photo above was taken at our April meeting. The late convertible is full of rust, but it runs, and it's a genuine 1969 convertible -- there were few of these made and even fewer are still running today. You may want to ask Geoff about this rare Corvair and how and where he acquired it. The meeting was adjourned at 19:56. -- Chuck =CNM= APRIL CNM BOARD MEETING MINUTES Chuck Vertrees The April board meeting was held at Business Printing Services on 4/18/07 and was called to order at 17:00. Present were Chuck and Julia Vertrees, Wendell Walker, Jim Pittman, Dave Huntoon, Cary Hubbard and Ray Trujillo. The minutes of the last meeting were approved as published in the newsletter. Ray said that the new printing of the "Care and Feeding" books have been proofread by Bill Reider and will be printed any time now. As soon as they are ready we will send 30 copies to Clark's. Ray also said that he has called Mike Kaminski of Galles Chevrolet several times about our sponsorship check and he said he is still working on it. Ray stopped in to see him and they rewrote the letter to accounting, so it should be pretty soon. John Wiker was unable to attend the board meeting but he sent a reminder about the breakfast this coming Saturday at Jimmy's on Jefferson at 08:30. There was no report from the secretary. Wendell Walker reported that the CNM treasury had $669.87 in the checking account and $2,558.78 in the GMAC account for a total of $3,228.65. The GMAC account is paying just a little over 5% right now so that is pretty good. Jim said that Heula had nothing new to report on the Sunshine Committee. However, Jim told us that he and Heula just got back from Louisiana where there was a funeral for her brother. Heula is not getting around too well right now because according to the doctor she has been walking too much with her crutches and her shoulders are bothering her. She will need to rest. Dave said that he has not had any nibbles for new members. Cary reported on the Car Council meeting. The main topic was the upcoming car show and the pre-registration request, a new feature this year. Clubs that want to park together must pre-register by May 1st. The pre-registration scheme was a way to address complaints from last year about club members not being able to park with their club. Some are skeptical that this will work, but we will see. It was decided that CNM will pre-register for 10 cars and this will reserve 10 spots for CNM to be together. We will also request what parking area we want. Upcoming events that will happen after the newsletter will be printed include the Tri-State Meeting in Monte Vista, Colorado on the weekend of May 18-20th. Also on Sunday May 20th is the Albuquerque Museum car show for those who are not going to the Tri-State. Robert Gold sent a message that the Isotopes game that CNM members are planning to attend in June had to be changed to Thursday June 7th. We need at least 20 people to go to get the best price. Dave has all of the CNM Library out of the van and now in good protected storage. Dave has also straightened out everything so he knows what is there. He has many issues of the CORSA Communiques including the early ones when it was a quarterly. Some issues apparently were not saved. He is missing all of the 2003 issues and some of the issues for 2004, 2005 and 2006. He asked if anyone could supply the missing issues and Wendell said he was going to check his collection of CORSA Communiques and donate it to the library. In June Bill Reider will have a video from Clark's to show after the meeting. The decision an the Boydston Award for 2007 has been made and committee member Wendell has the plaques. He will get them ready to take to the Tri-State. The meeting was adjourned at 17:36. -- Chuck =CNM= MECHANICALLY UN-INCLINED Ray Trujillo Hello Everyone! I hope everybody had a wonderful Easter holiday. Personally, Easter Sunday was celebrated with a traditional baked ham feast after attending mass and the usual Easter egg hunt with family. I got so many treats this year that it reminded me of an Easter season that happened to me some twenty five years ago. Before I tell you that story let me take care of CNM business first by informing you about our upcoming activities. First, on Saturday May 5th we are scheduled for clean up at our designated section of Old Route 66 beginning at 8:00 am and followed by a CNM brunch at the Golden Corral Restaurant located at the corner of Central and Eubank NE. If you can't make it to the clean-up remember you still are welcome to come to the brunch that should start around 10:30 am. Next on the schedule is the annual Tri-State Meet which is being held this year in Monte Vista, Colorado on May 18th - 20th. If you're planning on going to the Tri-State and you'd like to know all the details then please read Steve Goodman's article in this newsletter. Now if you're unable to make the Tri-State Meet then the ever popular Museum Car Show is being held on the same weekend, Sunday May 20th. For those of you who don't know, the Museum is located in Old Town and if you would like to be in the car show then please read Robert Gold's article to get all the details on this fun event. Also on the schedule is an Isotopes baseball game on Thursday June 7th at 7:00 pm. The cost per ticket is $7.50 each and sign-ups will be held at the next membership meeting. Since the newsletter deadline was prior to our April Tuna session and two scheduled car shows, I'm unable to update you on how things turned out at those activities. Anyway, I'll give you a recap on those events in next month's article. In the meantime, I really enjoy having various types of activities scheduled because everyone has different interests. I hope you've been able to enjoy and take advantage of the many events our club puts on. Please remember if you have any other activities that you'd like to see added to the schedule then inform me or one of the board members. We'll do our best to add the proposed activity to the schedule. Speaking of that, Bill Reider has purchased a video that demonstrates the process of fuel injecting your Corvair and we'll show it at the June membership meeting. I appreciate these type of "how to" lessons as they make for great presentations or tech sessions at our meetings. Well, I believe that's all the information I have to pass on at this time. Now if I've forgotten to mention something just bring it up at the next meeting during the "Anything else?" section listed on the meeting agenda. Okay, now let me get back to telling you about my Easter experience from twenty-five years ago. I don't know if these stories interest you but here goes anyway. I was a junior in college and I had a part time job as a stock boy at the T G & Y variety store on Isleta Boulevard. I'm sure many of you remember those types of neat general stores but that's another story altogether. Anyway, as the Easter holiday approached I was instructed by my boss to stack the chocolate bunnies as high as possible on the candy shelves Well as you know, during this time of the year you can use both the heater and the air conditioner on the same day. That year the weather had been extremely warm for the season so the heater had not been used in weeks and the air conditioner was being used daily to cool the store during the warm afternoons. Now just about a week before Easter the weather changed dramatically from very pleasant to downright winter like. The temperature inside the store dropped enough for the heaters to automatically come on and as luck would have it the candy aisle was positioned in the direct line of fire... oops I mean heater vents. I think you can see where this story is going but let me finish telling you what happened. As the heater kicks on I'm busy in the back of the store unloading a semi-truck of merchandise when I hear my boss frantically screaming over the intercom, "Stock boy needed immediately on candy aisle!!" So I rushed to the scene as I had no idea what the emergency could be. When I got there my boss' face was filled with a look of horror that could only be brought on by the melting of approximately two dozen chocolate bunnies. After seeing the gooey mess myself I couldn't help but laugh, much to the displeasure of my supervisor. I couldn't help but laugh, it was funny to me back then and after all these years it's still funny to me now. These poor bunnies were no match for the heat they were subjected to. Many were deformed to the point where the shape was unrecognizable, some just oozed like flowing lava and took on the shape of the square box that held them, while others wilted like thirsty flowers on a hot summer day. More to the point, my not so amused boss told me to clean up the mess, remove the damaged goods and to get rid of them as they were no longer saleable. Since my boss said "get rid of them" I pressed my luck and asked if I could take home some of the fatalities myself. When my boss reluctantly agreed I was beyond thrilled because I couldn't stand the thought of perfectly good chocolate not making someone happy. Needless to say I was the person it would be making very happy, but I still had a slight problem. You see, I had given up chocolate and sweets for lent and couldn't eat them just yet. That's right, I'm a chocoholic catholic, say that fast three times, with a modest refrigerator full of heaven sent sweetness and a Holy Week's worth of penance still needing to be fulfilled. Finally, Easter came a week later and did you know that a clump of deformed chocolate and a perfectly shaped chocolate bunny taste exactly the same. Delicious! Well I guess that's enough said for now so I hope to see you at the next club meeting. See you soon! -- Ray =CNM= = = = = = = = = = = = = FOR SALE, TO TRADE, OR WANTED = = = = = = = = = = = = = NOTE: Please tell me if any of these are obsolete and should be removed! - Jim = = = = = = = CNM ADS ARE FREE TO MEMBERS, $5.00 TO NON-MEMBERS = = = = = = = NOTE: Without your $5.00 payment, your ad won't be in the published newsletter. = = = = = = = = = = = = FOR SALE, TO TRADE, OR WANTED = = = = = = = = = = = = = FOR SALE - everything must go! On Sunday May 6th all my Corvair parts will be for sale at my house in the north valley. I will have a map at the May 2nd meeting. The sale will start at 10:00 am - no earlier. There will be early & late sheet metal, doors, engine parts, dash parts, carburetors, distributors, NOS chrome parts, suspension parts, many new rubber parts. (No the Loadside is NOT for sale now that it has working brakes again.) Call my cell: 385-3333 -- Jerry Goffe FOR SALE: Just got a call from George Haile (505-302-6668 ghaile2b@yahoo.com) He's got two parts cars located about 30 minutes from Tularosa, NM for sale. One is a 1965 Monza, the other a 1966 Corsa. Both cars have been sitting for years but have all their parts. The 140 from the Corsa is in a basement and will need to be carried out. He's asking $100 per car, or what you would think is fair. He lives in Carlsbad. Call or email him if you are interested. -- Robert Gold Greetings, as per our conversation I have two very aged 'vairs wishing to maintain the living. The elder is a 65 Monza coupe, 110hp, 4sp, chrome wheels, ran when parked. (likely story) #2 is a 66 Corsa, 140hp, 4sp, a/c, may have never installed 1 to 4 intake and Holley carb. Both are depressingly grim in condition, but complete in that they have never been parted. 1966 engine is not in car, so bring strong friend as well as trailer(s). My main objective is to (re)move cars by early May, so price is very negotiable - anything better than the crusher. Cars are located in the Alamogordo area. Reach me at 505-302-6668 or 505-885-5641. thanks, george haile FOR SALE: 1964 Corvair Monza Spyder - garaged since 1989 - turbo is out. More information below. Contact Pat Mewhinney -- pmewhi @ unm.edu 1964 Monza Spyder Coupe --Originally cordovan brown, still a brownish color but not original --Nice brown interior, repro front seat covers installed by Mr. Gongora --Rear seat is original and was in good shape when I last looked at it. --I installed an aftermarket stereo and cut some holes in the door panels and rear cardboard for speakers (I was in highschool). Still have the original radio and Spyder faceplate --I was told it had been wrecked and the front clip replaced at some point in the 80s. Little bit of rust in the drivers side floor panel, none in body panels. --It is a real straight solid body and I replaced a lot of worn or rotten bits and pieces of the suspension, brakes, etc. --nice wire hubcaps with spinner (not exactly correct if I remember right, but nice) --The engine was running when I parked it, but may need to be torn down. The problem that took the car off the road was a loosscrew from the choke butterfly and sucked into the turbo impeller breaking a piece of it off. Car ran OK but vibrated pretty good when that thing spooled up. --Transaxle is in good shape, you rebuilt the transmission. --I'll throw in the genuine GM shop manuals and any parts I may have. I purchased the car around 1985 from a widow, her last name was Dike, I believe her husband was a doctor of some sort. I also know the car belonged to a club member who ran a body shop in the San Mateo/Montgomery area called the Car and Truck factory back in the eighties. If you know anyone who might be interested I would really appreciate it if you could pass this information on. Price is negotiable, probably leaning toward the bargain side especially for a club member that wants to put it back on the road. Thank you, Greg Mewhinney - 512-918-8912 (h) 512-838-1894 (w) email: grm @ io.com FOR SALE: 1962 Corvair Monza 900 Coupe. 66,500 miles. Bronze color original paint with surface rust. All original body/trim and glass. Only damage is cracked front windsheild. All original parts intact. Has been in storage in Las Vegas NV and not run for over eight years. New tires for towing purposes. Interior is all original but vinyl seats are cracked. Great restoration potential. We can deliver to Albuquerque. For sale, fair market value. Please make offer. Please contact: Rockinmr@juno.com for pictures or more info. 702-723-1206 Charles Marshall HCR 31 Box 884 Sandy Valley, NV 89019-8972 FOR SALE: Hello Vair heads, I have a nice yellow '65 coup body that is free for the taking. It does not have the drive train although I have all the rear suspension parts from another '65 parts car. This car was a project that will not come to fruition and I would like to see it go to a good home. The body is intact and straight. All glass is good. There is a little rust in the usual spots, on some spots along the windshield, and some spots on the lower part of the driver's door. Interior is shot and will need some work. Yours for the taking. The car is definately worth saving but you have to be willing to tackle a project. It will be cut up if there are no takers. Call or email for more information. 805-460-9651 or bob0017 @ earthlink.net. I could take some pictures if you so request... Thanks, Robert O'Brien bob0017 @ earthlink.net WANTED: a good hood for a 1963. Dick Cochran - Grants, NM - 505-287-8403 FOR SALE: 1961 Monza coupe, '66 110-HP engine, Powerglide. New interior, needs paint, minor body work. Make offer Hurley Wilvert 281-1732 hurbrenwil @ peoplepc.com FOR SALE: 1968 Monza coupe, 110-HP rebuilt engine with 4 carbs, Powerglide. New paint, good interior. Make offer Hurley Wilvert 281-1732 hurbrenwil @ peoplepc.com = = = = = = = = = = FOR SALE, TO TRADE, OR WANTED = = = = = = = = = = = Please tell me if any of these are obsolete and should be removed! - Jim = = = = = CNM ADS ARE FREE TO MEMBERS, $5.00 TO NON-MEMBERS = = = = = Without your $5.00 payment, your ad won't be in the published newsletter. = = = = = = = = = = FOR SALE, TO TRADE, OR WANTED = = = = = = = = = = = =CNM= ============================================================================ C O R V A I R S o f N E W M E X I C O C O M I N G E V E N T S ============================================================================ | | | | | May | June | July | | | | | | : : 1 2 3 4 5 | : : : : : 1 2 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | | 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | | 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 | 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 | | 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 | 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 | 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | | 27 28 29 30 31 : : | 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 | 29 30 31 : : : : | | : : : : : : : | : : : : : : : | : : : : : : : | ============================================================================ Wed 2 May 7:00 PM Meeting: Highland Senior Center, 131 Monroe NE Sat 5 May 8:00 AM Old Route 66 Clean-up - Ollie Scheflow Sat 5 May 11:00 AM Club Brunch at Golden Corral at Central & Eubank NE Wed 16 May 5:00 PM Board Meeting: Business Printing Service - 4316 Silver SE Fri-Sun May 18-20 Tri-State Meet - Monte Vista, Colorado - Pikes Peak club Sun 20 May ....... Albuquerque Museum / Car Council Car Show Fri 25 May 9:00 PM Newsletter Deadline - Jim Pittman Sat 2 Jun 10:00 AM Placitas Days - Car Show - Parade - Llama Rides - more Wed 6 Jun 7:00 PM Meeting: Highland Senior Center, 131 Monroe NE Thu 7 Jun 7:00 PM Baseball at Isotopes Park - Robert Gold Wed 20 Jun 5:00 PM Board Meeting: Business Printing Service - 4316 Silver SE Fri 22 Jun 9:00 PM Newsletter Deadline - Jim Pittman Wed 4 Jul ....... Fourth of July - Santa Fe - will there be a car show? Wed 4 Jul 7:00 PM Meeting: Highland Senior Center, 131 Monroe NE Wed 18 Jul 5:00 PM Board Meeting: Business Printing Service - 4316 Silver SE Fri 20 Jul 9:00 PM Newsletter Deadline - Jim Pittman Sat 4 Aug .... AM Old Route 66 Clean-up - Ollie Scheflow Sun 5 Aug .... NMCCC All Clubs' Picnic - Villanueva State Park Sat-Sun Sep 8-9 Moriarty EAA Fly-in and Old Car Display Fri-Sun Sep 28-30 NMCCC Swap Meet in Los Lunas oldcarnut1932 @ earthlink.net Sat 6 Oct .... AM Old Route 66 Clean-up - Ollie Scheflow Sun 7 Oct ....... Balloon Fiesta Car Display madmike @ swcp.com 505-323-6022 =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= From: MA STICKLER To: Ray @ bpsabq.com Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:52 AM Subject: Calendar Update Also, Do you want to put the Fourth of July pot luck at 7:30 pm with fireworks at the Stickler's on the Calendar??? May Update for Calendars We have a very slow start with pictures for calendars, so now we will give you directions to E-mail Corvair pictures to our committee. It is REAL important that the subject line on your E-mail reads CORVAIR PICTURES so it will immediately get moved to a file we can assess easily. Our E-mail address for receiving pictures is going to be: Ray @ bpsabq.com So Start E-mailing your best for the 2008 calendar. If anyone is interested in looking at layouts with us we would love the help in August and September. If this campaign is successful then we will discuss "Biting the Bullet" and try a full 12 page calendar for 2009. Well, we are looking forward to seeing your favorite pictures and know the competition will be tough. Thanks for your support and input. -- Brenda Stickler TRI-STATE 2007 PREVIEW Steve Goodman Pikes Peak Corvair Club cordially invites all CNM members to Monte Vista, Colorado on the weekend of May 18-20, 2007 for the annual Tri-State Corvair meet. The main attraction to the area is the GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL MONUMENT, a few miles east and north of Monte Vista. Also there is an alligator farm nearby. The city park for the Show'n'Shine has been reserved, we can park on the grass, it is on the west side of town. Also the motel is on the west side of Monte Vista, named MOVIE MANOR. It is a Best Western and it well renowned for the ability to be able to watch the drive-in movie next door from your motel room. The schedule will be the same as always, Friday is registration day, starting after lunch and continuing until supper time. The motel has given us an area for the registration away from the desk and check-in area. The motel also has its own restaurant and will be hosting the Saturday night banquet. Motel prices are: SINGLE QUEEN -- $64 plus tax (per night) SINGLE KING -- $69 plus tax (per night) DOUBLE QUEEN -- $74 plus tax (per night). There are 25 rooms blocked and ready for reservation, the suggestion is to get your room early. Please identify yourself by using the word 'CORVAIR' in your opening conversation. The phone is: 719.852.5921 There is also an RV park next door if you are bringing a motor home. The Saturday night banquet will be a buffet with roast beef and baked chicken plus potato, vegetable, salad, bread, small dessert and beverage of coffee/tea/soda. The price of the meal is $20 per person and includes tax and tip. PPCC is designing a T-shirt for the occasion and the usual goodie bag and dash plaque will be present. Judging for the Show'n'Shine will be a combination of attendees voting for class wins and the local townsfolk voting for PEOPLES' CHOICE. Any questions should be directed to Steve Goodman 303.278.4889 (w) or 303.934.5027 (h) or send email to rearengine.steve @ worldnet.att.net Hope to see all of the CNM members attend. -- Steve =CNM= REPORT OF THE CAR COUNCIL MEETING March 28, 2007 Robert Gold As the weather warms up so does goings on at the New Mexico Council of Car Clubs. This is the month when plans start to come together for the council's "big three" events for the year: 1. The Museum Car Show, 2. The Swap Meet, and 3. The All-Clubs Picnic. Since Corvairs of New Mexico in recent years has done a great job of supporting these events I guess I should describe these plans in some detail. Before that, I want to talk about what is really important to me, cars. I suffer from the affliction known in the popular media as "car crazy". My goal has always been to own each and every cool car in existence. That's quite a number of cars. My long suffering wife, Anne Mae, has always done a great job in limiting that urge to nine cars. However, I broke the rules and I now have car number 10, a 1964 500 "Plane Jane" that is in the process of being transformed in to a "sleeper" equipped with a 140 engine. With this in mind, I usually take this time to describe what great car is being displayed at the Old Car Garage. However, this time there wasn't much to talk about.... except for a 50's Jaguar that had a rather unique paint job. The story is that its turquoise color was inspired by the color of the owner's boots. That may inspire me to paint all my cars gold to reflect my surname. I already have a 1965 Corsa convertible that is gold in color. Well, enough about my afflictions, back to the council meeting. We first talked about a major change that will take place at the Albuquerque Museum Car Show. In the past the only ways to make sure your car club could park together was to either have a member sneak in real early, or line up as a club and take your chances. In order to make things more fair, the council will be instituting a pre-pay system. Each club will be asked to pay for a block of spaces at $10.00 per space, in a single payment prior to May 1st. The council will then issue pre-paid entrance tickets for those cars and a block of spaces will be reserved for that club. At the last CNM meeting in April I asked for CNM members to indicate who would be attending the car show. Based on that signup list I'll be asking the CNM Board to authorize a payment to be made for the spaces. I'll then be distributing the entrance tickets and collecting money for the council. I hope those folks who said they would be attending the show will come through with payment when I give them their ticket. One last thing about the car show, if you decide to go and you haven't prepaid there is still a good chance you'll get to park with the group. Though they cannot guarantee everyone will park together, the goal is to keep clubs in the same place. So please make plans to attend the show. It's always been a lot of fun. Also, at the next CNM meeting I'll be asking for volunteers to count ballots at the show. It's a really tough job, you get to sit in comfortable chairs in an air conditioned conference room and talk with a lot of fun people from the other clubs as you count the ballots. All that is required is that you can read and count. Maybe, this isn't such a tough thing to do? You know I've been saying so many things about myself that I neglected to mention that Cary Hubbard also attended the meeting with me. I'm a bit jealous of Cary since he seems to know everyone in the car hobby and has such a good time at these events. Really, it's a pleasure having Cary attend and he does a great job of representing CNM, even though it is tough to predict which of his cars he'll be driving. It may be a VW bug convertible, a camo Chevy Blazer, or maybe some sorta French type car. Cary may have one of the most eclectic car collections of any CNM'er. His goal is to actually show up to an event in a Corvair. I thing the museum car show will be he best chance. Why don't you stop by and see if he succeeds? Another topic that was covered at the March meeting had to do with the council's web page. John Doran, the council web guy, has arranged for a web page training session to be held a the Monzano Mesa Center on April 10 and possibly April 12 at 6:30 pm. The City of Albuquerque is sponsoring the training. You can learn how to design and navigate a web page and get fed for free at the same time. The center is equipped with computers for your use during the training. This is good, since it would be really hard to link to the internet without a computer. If you're interested in attending you can contact John at 298-0111. In the past I've talked about the Spring Thaw event that Bob Agnew puts on to raise money for the children of the homeless. Alas, all the spots for the April 14 event at World Wide Automotive have been sold out. However, if you haven't signed up, come by anyway and eat some food. Many people attend without cars just to eat food and see what cars show up. Lastly, flyers for the August 5 All Clubs Picnic were handed out. The picnic takes place in the afternoon at Villanueva State Park. There will be an entry fee of $5.00 per car. The council will be supplying food, but I would suggest you also bring something to eat and drink. There will be a caravan to the site starting at the Smith's on Tramway and Central. The caravan will leave at 10:00 sharp because it is a long drive to the picnic. (If you have never been to Villanueva State Park, it is on the Pecos river south of Las Vegas. One way to get there is to take I-40 east to Clines Corners, go about 12 more miles to exit 230 then drive north about 20 miles on NM 3.) We didn't talk much about the September swap meet. Be assured that it is still going to happen in Los Lunas. I'll have more specifics in future columns. This wraps up my ramblings about this month's meeting. I hope to see you at the May CNM meeting. -- Robert Gold =CNM= MORE ON THE ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM CAR SHOW Robert Gold On Sunday, May 20 the New Mexico Council of Car Clubs will be hosting its 23rd Annual Automobile Show. The show will be held at the Albuquerque Museum in Old Town, 2000 Mountain Road NW, in the parking lot directly in front of the Museum and the enclosed parking lot between the Museum and Old Town. The registration fee for this year's show is $10.00 (a bargain for a first-rate car show!). A change has been made in assigning parking spots this year. Each car club has been encouraged to prepay for their area. For a payment of $10.00 per spot made to the council by May 1 the club will be guaranteed to have their club members parking together. At the April CNM meeting I asked our members to indicate how many cars they would be entering. We intend to have our club pay the fee for the parking spots and I will collect the entrance fee from those members. I will then distribute special tickets that allow the members to enter the show without payment of the $10.00 fee. If you did not let me know at the April meeting you can still park with the club if open spaces are available. I hope this makes sense. We'll see how well this works. The goal is to be fair to all the clubs. So dust off your Corvair, in whatever condition it is in, and drive it over to the Museum Car Show on May 20. Please note: we'll be gathering in the north parking lot of the Sheraton Old Town at 800 Rio Grande Blvd NW by 6:45 am and enter the show around 7:00. I urge you to plan to be there. Remember, this club isn't about perfect cars, it is about participation. Also, we'll be asking our members to volunteer to count ballots at the show. I hope to see a whole bunch of you there! -- Robert =CNM= MORE ON THE 2ND ANNUAL CNM OUTING TO ISOTOPES PARK Robert Gold Do you remember last year's World Series? If you're a Cardinals fan like me you'll never forget it. The underrated Cardinals were able to dominate the heavily favored Detroit Tigers to be crowned the 2006 world champions of baseball. Contributing to this victory was the rookie pitcher Anthony Reyes, who won the first game of the series for the Cardinals on the road in Detroit. This is the same Anthony Reyes that CNM'ers saw at last year's Isotopes outing. He beat the hometown nine, while pitching a complete game. Well, now is your chance to see if we can see a future major league star in action again at Isotopes Park. The club is planning another trip to the ball park to watch our Isotopes battle the Memphis Redbirds. The game will take place on Thursday, June 7 at 7:05. We'll be getting reserved seat tickets for $7.50 if we're able to get 20 or more people to attend. Like they say in those TV ads, that's a savings of $1.50 per ticket. In addition if we come as a group we'll have our club name displayed on the Isotopes' scoreboard. Alas, I missed seeing the display last year, but I'll make sure I'm paying attention this year. In addition, the first 3,000 fans at the ball park will be given free baseball cards. If you want to attend the game you'll need to give me the $7.50 per seat at the May CNM meeting. That will get you a discount ticket in the reserve section. Remember, we'll need to have at least twenty people to get that discount and to have our club name displayed on the 'Topes scoreboard. So please plan to attend this year's game. If you do, I'll guarantee that at the very least, you'll have a fun time talking with fellow club members and sharing the wonderful experience of baseball at Isotopes Park. -- Robert =CNM= AIR CONDITIONED EARLY MODEL Cary Hubbard At the beginning of the year I was antique shopping with my mother and a friend. Something in a cabinet caught my eye. It was a Geiger counter, turned out to be a 1954 Lucky Strike Geiger with an A.E.C. Tube approval number on the box in perfect condition. And of coarse I had to have it for the Atomic Energy Car. So I came back a couple of days later and talked to the older gentlemen who had it there. I mentioned the Atomic Energy Corvair and he was very interested. He mentioned that he had a Greenbrier and a two-door Monza he was wanting to sell. Well, I really wasn't all that interested because I already had enough Corvairs for now. But he mentioned that he had two rather rare, strange cars. That got me very interested to go look at them, but I shrugged it off because he didn't want to sell the little ones. So, a little over a month later he calls me and tells me he is getting out of the antique business and wants to sell everything off, including the four cars. So I went up there the Saturday after the phone call to look at the cars. The Greenbrier looked pretty good and ran. The Monza two-door had been sitting since the early nineties and needed to be cleaned up. And the two little cars just amazed me. Well, he told me a price that was around two thousand less then I thought he was going to say. I said I would think about it and I would get back with him. About three days later I called and said SOLD!! I went up that Saturday and paid the money and brought them all home. Well, I started to get to work on the Greenbrier, but I really wanted a car to drive. So it looked like the Monza's turn was here. I pulled it into my shop and worked on it every night for two and half weeks and finally, the weekend of April 14-15 it was ready to drive to Robert's house for our little Corvair fun day. This is the first Corvair I have really done this much work on so far. I rebuilt the brakes, pulled all the tins to clean the top of the motor and painted the tins, pulled the interior and cleaned it, and also pulled the gas tank and replaced it. Which was NOT the most exciting thing I have ever done!! As you see from the photos, the car looks very worn but it runs great! The A/C works well but needs a little original genuine Freon added to work perfectly. It's a Powerglide and the transmission is okay but my preference is to drive cars with manual transmissions, so a transmission swap is on the to-do list. The only real problem is the way the A/C design was done on this model -- the condenser is mounted right over the engine, so tweaking the carbs requires unbolting the condenser and moving it out of the way! I'm told that 1966 and later Corvairs have the condenser mounted over the cooling vents instead of over the engine, but it may not be practical to find a different location on this car. As it is, the car runs so well that it's a real pleasure to drive. And now the little Monza with A/C is my daily driver. I show up to work with a smile on my face every morning! -- Cary A. Hubbard Oh yeah, here are photos of the two "little cars" and I wonder if anyone can tell me what they are? =CNM= SEVEN YEARS AGO Jim Pittman Seven Years Ago - May 2000 - Volume 26 - Number 5 - Issue 296 The four-part cover showed an RF-84F Thunderjet, a P-40 Tigershark, a collection of old Corvairs, and a Corsa coupe under the shade of pecan trees in an orchard near Las Cruces. Steve Gongora made the photos in this issue on the club's trip to El Paso to see the War Eagles Museum. Our meeting was held at Galles Chevrolet. Meeting minutes were full of plans for the April trip down south, the Museum car show, the Tri-State, a camping trip and other summer activities. Elizabeth Domzalski reported on the trip to Las Cruces and El Paso and a fine trip it was. Thanks, Steve, for the great photos. Finally, a tech tip entitled "Tail Light Ghost" by Dale & Marilynn Dewald Hancock was reprinted from Virtual Vairs. The "ghost" part referred, no doubt, to the awesome complexity of the electrical circuits controlling brake and turn signals. There are plenty of mechanical parts to go awry without having to worry about ghosts. Fourteen Years Ago - May 1993 - Volume 19 - Number 5 - Issue 212 The cover was another Morgan fantasy. Secretary Chuck ran the meeting because Del and Bob were both absent. Treasurer Will reported a bank balance of $1,381. LeRoy previewed the May Museum car show. We were ordering Club jackets. Seth Emerson sent the Club a letter asking for a bid to host a CORSA convention and we agreed to consider it. Bill Reider told us about the Milestone Car Society. Tarmo told us about a man in Santa Fe whose cars were confiscated and crushed because he violated city zoning laws; the owner considered his cars to be a collection but apparently the city did not. Bill McClellan reminded us that Casa Chevrolet was paying for our newsletter printing and mailing. Answers to last month's crossword were given.Larry Blair told us how to repair the loose rivets on your early glove box door. How to test an alternator? Hook it to your car's wiring then spin with an electric drill. We borrowed a tip by Mike Dawson on chemical helpers and how they work. (The last page of this newsletter was a copy of the page from last month that was lost by the printer.) Twenty-one Years Ago - May 1986 - Volume 12 - Number 5 - Issue 128 The cover showed several of us at a football field waiting for a hot air balloon to show up. We had arranged a large number of our Corvairs to spell out "Corsa" and planned to make an aerial photo. The balloon couldn't fly because of the wind, but we said we'd try again later. The treasury stood at $756. We planned car shows, a Tri-State meet, a flea market outing, a comet watch at Bill Hector's and a trip to Los Alamos to see a stock of Corvair parts that had to go. Carl Johnson's tech tips were how to keep those pesky leaves out of your air ducts and how parts cleaning solvents were toxic and could lead to joint problems. Karen Jackson reported on a Corvair event in Phoenix attended by a few New Mexico members. Twenty-eight Years Ago - May 1979 - Volume 5 - Number 5 - Issue 44 The cover showed two Rochester HV carbs. Secretary Les Campbell was about to move to Connecticut. Ike Meissner's tech tip was how to clean grungy parts with a tub of hot water and laundry detergent. Some technical details from George Brazil's talk on his super Spyder were included. Frank McKenna warned about using too much silicone sealer. Francis described a spring attached to the right-hand carb linkage to help compensate for linkage slop and thus keep a steady idle. Some of us used that idea. The editor asked if anyone had driven any of the new crop of small front-wheel-drive cars and if so would they write an article comparing their handling with that of our Corvairs. The editor now has many miles of experience driving front-wheel-drive Hondas, so perhaps he should consider writing the article. Maybe next month. =CNM= AN APRIL BREAKFAST AND TUNA Heula & Jim The day started out sunny and just the slightest bit windy this morning. We thought it was the Miata's turn to take a spin and left the Corvair at home for the time being. We arrived at Jimmy's Cafe on Jefferson just as Pat Hall was fastening the boot cover on his silver blue early convertible. Ruth Boydston drove her red Toyota pickup and soon her daughter Sherry and her husband arrived. Julie & Chuck Vertrees, Dave Huntoon, Wendell Walker and Kim Patten drove in at various times to join the group. Soon eleven of us were enjoying a delicious breakfast and enjoying our visiting time. It's always nice to get together with fellow CNMers and catch up on the latest gossip ... oops, I mean news! As usual, our food was delicious. Actually, I vote to have our gatherings at Jimmy's Cafe more often. I don't remember ever having anything there that wasn't tasty. I urge everyone to join us for our monthly breakfasts whenever possible. After our meal, Jim & I enjoyed driving our sports car back home, admiring the colorful springtime trees and flowers as we went. Jim loaded his toolbox, washed the dust off the Corvair and drove over to Ray's place for the Tuna. I stayed at home to finish putting stamps and mailing labels on envelopes to mail the newsletter next week. Our 1965 Monza started right up despite having been neglected since the last Route 66 clean-up. At Ray's place I saw no one in front, but in back I found a crowd of Corvairs, most with their engine lids up and the Tuna getting underway. There were way more cars than cooks and it was all too easy to wander back and forth from one group to another, trying to catch those technical pearls of wisdom being dispensed by the several mechanics present. It is interesting to see how we all seem to have slightly different ideas about how to do something and why we do it that way. Differences abounded but at least we didn't get into serious arguments about who had the better technique. Our club has always been amazingly lucky to have such a collection of members with diverse talents, and if you have any interest whatsoever in how to keep your car healthy and you haven't attended a Tuna, you are missing out on one of the great benefits of being a member of our club. Think about it -- we have cars that are between 38 and 47 years old, yet many of them run as well as they did when their odometers indicated merely hundreds of miles and we could buy any part for them at any Chevrolet dealer. And many of us enjoy driving our Corvairs and take pride in keeping them in great shape. Our Tuna sessions are invaluable for picking up on-the-job training for tuning up our Corvairs to make them as good as new. You just can't do that with a modern Honda or Toyota or Chevrolet -- you have to accept a complex modern car pretty much as it comes from the factory, and the only way most of us can "tune them up" is by buying a better set of tires. Many thanks to Ray for providing a great place to work and to the many mechanical minds who gathered today to help us make our cars work just that much better than before. =CNM= =END=