The January 2022 newsletter - Text Version Updated 20-Dec-2021 ==== Copyright (c) 2021 Corvairs of New Mexico ======~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~====== January 2022 / VOLUME 48 / NUMBER 1 / ISSUE 556 ======~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~====== First Place, Tony Fiore Memorial Chapter Newsletter Award, 2005 & 2012 Third Place, Tony Fiore Memorial Chapter Newsletter Award, 2010 EDITOR Jim Pittman NEXT MEETING Regular Meeting: January 1st at 10:00 AM Highland Senior Center 131 Monroe St NE, Albuquerque, NM 87108 THIS MONTH List of Officers and Volunteers ................... The Board Dues Due Dates ......................... Membership Committee President's Letter .............................. Greg Nelson Boydston Award 2021: Terry Price ................... Kay Sutt CNM's Charity for 2021: The Storehouse .......... Vickie Hall Take a Hike! ................................ Brenda Stickler Treasury Report ............................... Steve Gongora Christmas Party Photos: ....... Steve, Tarmo, Greg and Others Corvairs at Christmas Parties Past ......... Photos by Editor Unintended Consequences (Leaded Gasoline) ....... Jim Pittman Calendar of Coming Events ................ Board of Directors Birthdays & Anniversaries ............................ Editor Member List as of December 2021 ...................... Editor January Issues, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35 Years Ago .. Club Historian COVER: Steve's 1966 Corsa Coupe, Domingo Baca Senior Center OFFICERS and VOLUNTEERS President Greg Nelson 505-400-8670 fesedu @ comcast.net Vice-President Brenda Stickler 505-856-6993 tounce66 @ msn.com Secretary Lupe Arellanes 505-515-9897 ispeakmedicare505 @ gmail.com Treasurer Steve Gongora 505-220-7401 stevegongora @ msn.com Merchandise Vickie Hall 505-865-5574 patandvickiehall @ q.com Sunshine Vickie Hall 505-865-5574 patandvickiehall @ q.com Newsletter Jim Pittman 505-275-2195 jimp @ unm.edu Past President Pat Hall 505-620-5574 patandvickiehall @ q.com Past President Dave Allin 505-410-9668 dnjallin @ gmail.com Past President David Huntoon 505-281-9616 corvair66 @ aol.com MEETING: Regular Meeting - Saturday January 1st, 2022 at 10:00 AM Highland Senior Center, 131 Monroe St NE, Albuquerque, NM 87108 INTERNET: CORSA's home page ................ www.corvair.org/ CNM's newsletters ................ www.unm.edu/~jimp/ New Mexico Council of Car Clubs .. www.nmcarcouncil.com/ DUES DUE DATES JANUARY 2022 DUE LAST MONTH ====================== INACTIVE DATE 2021.12 Leroy Alderete 25-JAN-2022 2021.12 Guadalupe & Jim Arellanes 25-JAN-2022 2021.12 Darlene Darcy 25-JAN-2022 2021.12 Jenny & Phil Finch 25-JAN-2022 2021.12 David Huntoon 25-JAN-2022 2021.12 Lee Reider 25-JAN-2022 DUE THIS MONTH ====================== INACTIVE DATE 2022.01 Rita & Steve Gongora 25-FEB-2022 DUE NEXT MONTH ====================== INACTIVE DATE 2022.02 Linda Soukup & Tony Berbig 25-MAR-2022 DUE MARCH 2022 ====================== INACTIVE DATE 2022.03 Elizabeth & Mark Domzalski 25-APR-2022 2022.03 Barbara & Gordon Johnson 25-APR-2022 2022.03 Kelli & Mark Morgan 25-APR-2022 2022.03 Sui-Fong Neale 25-APR-2022 2022.03 Valerie Nye & Joel Yelich 25-APR-2022 INACTIVE ============================ INACTIVE DATE 2021.04 Lesha Kitts 25-MAY-2021 2021.10 Sylvia & Ray Trujillo 25-NOV-2021 Send your Dues to: CNM Treasurer -- Steve Gongora 8419 Palo Duro NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Past due memberships become inactive after a one-month grace period. The Club will mail in your National Dues if you send us the renewal form from your Communique. As of 18-Dec-2021 we have 45 active family memberships. SCHEDULE OF DUES: CNM: 12 months = $25.00 or 26 months = $ 50.00 CORSA: 12 months = $45.00 or 26 months = $ 90.00 CNM & CORSA: 12 months = $70.00 or 26 months = $140.00 ======~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====--=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-====== ======-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~====== PRESIDENT'S LETTER GREGORY NELSON Well, I managed to get through the first meeting as President. It is downhill from here. Items of note this month: Annual Christmas Party The club celebrated its annual Christmas Party at Mimi's Cafe. This was my first club holiday party and everyone had a great time. The Francis Boydston Award went to a well-deserving recipient - Terry Price. If you attended the Tri-State meet this year, you saw firsthand why the award went to the right person. Congratulations again Terry. FaceBook Page Did you know the club has a Facebook page? Dave Huntoon has uploaded photos from the Christmas party. In the future, the plan is to use Facebook for recent news and announcements that pop up between the meetings. For example, the page will show Corvairs and parts that are available locally. David has agreed to maintain the site. Membership Drive I would like everyone to brainstorm ideas on how to increase club membership. Car shows are a good example we already incorporate. Some of the members have told stories of meeting fans and former owners while driving their Corvairs around town. If we had a club pamphlet extolling the virtues of membership we can pass them out at car shows and random fan encounters. We can also include Corsa's membership pamphlet. Lecture, Presentation and Advice Series We are looking for volunteers to give a quick lecture or presentation at future meetings. In addition, I would also like to make this an 'Advice' column session. At the December meeting, I mentioned the trials and tribulations of my efforts to add oil to my transaxle. Several club members pointed me in the right direction to help me get back on the road. At future club meetings if one or two club members have a question for the 'Panel of Experts' let a Board member know ahead of time so we can add it to the meeting itinerary. Cheers -- Greg ======~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====--=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-====== ======-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~====== BOYDSTON AWARD 2021 KAY SUTT The 2021 winner of the Francis Boydston award is a valued, long-time member of CNM. His quiet leadership and dry sense of humor, as well as his unflagging energy, sense of responsibility and dedication to CNM have been among the major forces holding CNM together during the last few years, as first CNM changed course with a leadership change, and then the lockdowns and social changes precipitated by Covid affected everyone's life. All clubs suffered during the pandemic, some irreversibly, but CNM has grown during that time, much thanks to the work of this year's recipient. His innovation and dedication to this club are unparalleled over the last few years. This year's winner has attended most General and Board meetings over the last couple years and has chaired other meetings to ensure CNM's obligations are professionally and gracefully met. He innovated using monthly postcards sent to CNM members and at times to other, targeted CORSA chapters to ensure the recent Tri-State Meet was successful. He sought out fun Corvair photos to share his love of the car with members, and he presented each owner of the cars used in the monthly cards with a beautifully clear photograph of their car mounted on a canvas suitable for hanging on the wall. All this was done at his own expense. He led the sometimes seemingly endless route toward the 2021 Albuquerque Tri-State Rally with equanimity, purpose, humor and dedication. He inspired, cajoled and (sometimes) nagged members to remember our responsibility to CORSA and to the ongoing history of the Tri-State. He renegotiated the contract multiple times with the venue in order to save thousands of dollars for CNM. His work with the club members , the venue and the local opportunities/requirements made the Albuquerque 2021 Tri-State Meet among the most successful in CNM history. I personally wish we could clone him! TERRY PRICE, you have been such a valued member and a benefit to CNM and the Corvair hobby in NM. Thank you, Terry, from all CNM! ======~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====--=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-====== ======-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~====== CNM'S CHARITY FOR 2021 -- THE STOREHOUSE VICKIE HALL Items that were left over from Tri-State and donated items that were brought to CNM's Christmas Party for the Storehouse included four medium size boxes of very nice mostly winter clothes, five pairs of almost new shoes, fifty pounds of nonperishable food, one box of personal items and I added several boxes of miscellaneous items that I have collected throughout the year. Monetary donations total $200.00. I want to thank everyone that participated in this great cause of helping those in need. Vickie Hall, Merchandise Chair ======~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====--=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-====== ======-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~====== GO TAKE A HIKE BY BRENDA STICKLER Oh, this is not a derogatory article, or my resignation.... Just a healthy suggestion for a "fill in" activity for our appropriate New Mexico weather months. There are so many wonderful natural trails in our city and in some outskirt areas of our Albuquerque borders. My idea was for the members who have their favorite trails, send me their list and give the exact location to park. Please state, whether it is a simple trail or closer to maybe "2" or "3" trail with a little uphill and some "off trail" areas. We do not want the "Expert climbers only" trails. We will let members who do not hike, know if a trail that has been selected, has a picnic area. If so, members who don't want to hike but would like to visit with us, as we come down the trail... you could show up an hour later and we would visit with you when we get to our parking area. Now some of you have done some shopping mall walks, during our bitter cold or extreme heat weather months. If there is an interest in group walking inside, we could park at a general area and walk the mall.Those who have a little more free time can stay and have coffee or light breakfast at the completion of our healthy treks. (Those who don't hike could come and meet us at our completion.) Please, update me with your suggestions as to which shopping centers are the best for that kind of healthy venture. Please, include which side of the mall we should park on to enter. So, as I start the 2022 year as your Vice President, I want to say that I wish a "Healthy, Prosperous and Rewarding 2022 year, for you and yours." I look forward to our "Treks" together. You feel like "special extended family" to me! I am so blessed to have you in my life! ======~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====--=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-====== ======-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~====== TREASURY REPORT FOR 11-29-2021 to 12-18-2021 =============================================== DATE CHECK# AMOUNT PAYEE DESCRIPTION BALANCE = $ 5,469.53 ========== ==== ========== =========== ========================================== ========== 2021.11.29 2541 -$ 103.84 J.Pittman Newsletter Printing DEC 2021 -$ 72.84 $ 5,396.69 2021.11.29 2541 -$ J.Pittman 36 Stamps @ .70 each -$ 25.20 $ 5,371.49 2021.11.29 2541 -$ J.Pittman 36 Envelopes @ .161 each -$ 5.80 $ 5,365.69 2021.12.06 2922 +$ 50.00 Dues P.Hall V.Hall 26 m CNM +$ 50.00 $ 5,415.69 2021.12.09 893 +$ 50.00 Dues J.McMahan 26 m CNM +$ 50.00 $ 5,465.69 2021.12.09 2070 +$ 50.00 Dues C.Shimp 26 m CNM +$ 50.00 $ 5,515.69 2021.12.10 3628 +$ 70.00 Dues R.Cochran 12 m CNM, CORSA +$ 70.00 $ 5,585.69 2021.12.10 2542 -$ 45.00 CORSA R.Cochran 12 m CORSA -$ 45.00 $ 5,540.69 ========== ==== ========== =========== ========================================== ========== 2022.01.01 JAN NEWSLETTER ============================================ BALANCE = $ 5,540.69 ========== ==== ========== =========== ========================================== ========== ======~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====--=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-====== ======-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~====== UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES JIM PITTMAN Many years ago at the UNM School of Medicine our department chairman, Dr Day, had a standing invitation to our researchers to come to our break room and tell the techs about their research. Our techs spent their days taking care of a variety of laboratory animals including dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, mice and other more exotic species such as bush babies. The idea was, if the techs understood the significance of the research, they would take better care of the animals. Several of the researchers were happy to tell us about their work. I remember one lecture by a researcher who studied the effects of heavy metals on the developing mammalian embryo. His studies explored the effects of lead in the environment on the nervous system. Researchers were finding that lead caused a multitude of problems with mental development. This research has led to efforts to remove from the environment sources of lead such as lead paint and lead water pipes. These projects have been going on for many years and are far from complete at the present time. I recall how he told us about how children are exposed to lead. In addition to paint and water pipes, an important way was air pollution from the burning of leaded gasoline in automobile engines! In fact, he said, due to some fifty years of automobiles using leaded gas, the dirt in the median of Central Avenue right next to UNM was almost rich enough in lead to qualify as lead ore! The lead came from car exhaust. I don't know if that statement was in fact true, but it illustrated a case of unintended and unforeseen consequences in the development of automotive technology. Back in the 1920s the discovery that lead could be used as a fuel additive was seen as a great advance in the development of smaller, more fuel efficient and more powerful engines. Researchers at General Motors discovered that adding a compound called tetraethyl lead to gasoline made possible higher compression designs that could greatly improve engine performance. In no time petroleum companies were selling "ethyl" gasoline and manufacturers were building more powerful engines designed to use it. Everyone was happy including the teenagers who were spending their Saturdays building faster hot rods. Plenty of chemists and medical researchers knew tetraethyl lead was a poison. Some hot-rodders who used gasoline to clean greasy parts knew to use only "white gas" that had no lead. Others just used plain old gasoline. Over the years awareness of the dangers of leaded gas increased and finally governments enacted regulations to ban it. I can remember how car magazines forecast the death of performance engines when lead was outlawed. Vehicles sold during the 1980s had to have labels saying "Unleaded Fuel Only" on fuel fillers and instrument panels. Old car enthusiasts (including Corvair owners) wondered if their engines could continue to run on unleaded gas. We found that they would, even after ethanol was added to further reduce pollution. More recently it was found that rebuilt engines could have cam failure because the lubricating properties of leaded gas were no longer present. Exotic special lubricants had to be applied to cam bearings to prevent break-in failure. In the "developed" world we learned how to survive without leaded gasoline. And now the newspaper tells us leaded gas production has finally ended world-wide. It took a hundred years for a technological wonder to be invented, developed, perfected, and then be outlawed. Unintended consequences! ======~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====--=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-====== ======-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~====== ============================================================================ | January 2022 | February 2022 | March 2022 | | Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | | 1 | 1 2 3 4 5 | 1 2 3 4 5 | | 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | | 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 | 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | | 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 | 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 | | 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 | 27 28 | 27 28 | | 30 31 | | | ============================================================================ SAT 01 JAN 10:00 AM Meeting: Highland Senior Center 131 Monroe St NE, Albuquerque, NM 87108 Phone: (505) 767-5210 WED 19 JAN 5:00 PM Board Meeting: >>>>>>>> TO BE DETERMINED WED 26 JAN 7:00 PM NEW MEXICO CAR COUNCIL MEETING 1717 6th St NW Location is the Military Vehicle Association's Collection *** FRI 28 JAN 9:00 PM Deadline for items for the February 2022 newsletter *** MON 31 JAN >> TARGET FOR PRINTING AND MAILING FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER << *** Note: may need to adjust these dates depending on the holiday schedule ============================================================================ SAT 05 FEB 10:00 AM Meeting: Highland Senior Center 131 Monroe St NE, Albuquerque, NM 87108 Phone: (505) 767-5210 WED 16 FEB 7:00 PM Board Meeting: >>>>>>>> TO BE DETERMINED WED 23 FEB 7:00 PM NEW MEXICO CAR COUNCIL MEETING 1717 6th St NW Location is the Military Vehicle Association's Collection *** FRI 25 FEB 9:00 PM Deadline for items for the March 2022 newsletter *** MON 28 FEB >> TARGET FOR PRINTING AND MAILING MARCH NEWSLETTER << ============================================================================ SAT 05 MAR 10:00 AM Meeting: Highland Senior Center 131 Monroe St NE, Albuquerque, NM 87108 Phone: (505) 767-5210 XXX xx MAR .... .. 48th Anniversary Party -- more information later WED 16 MAR 7:00 PM Board Meeting: >>>>>>>> TO BE DETERMINED WED 23 MAR 7:00 PM NEW MEXICO CAR COUNCIL MEETING 1717 6th St NW Location is the Military Vehicle Association's Collection *** FRI 25 MAR 9:00 PM Deadline for items for the April 2022 newsletter *** MON 28 MAR >> TARGET FOR PRINTING AND MAILING APRIL NEWSLETTER << ============================================================================ SAT 02 APR 10:00 AM Meeting: Highland Senior Center WED 20 APR 7:00 PM Board Meeting: >>>>>>>> TO BE DETERMINED WED 27 APR 7:00 PM NEW MEXICO CAR COUNCIL MEETING 1717 6th St NW *** FRI 29 APR 9:00 PM Deadline for items for the May 2022 newsletter *** MON 02 MAY >> TARGET FOR PRINTING AND MAILING MAY NEWSLETTER << ============================================================================ FRI-SAT-SUN 20-21-22 MAY - Tri-State Meet - Glenwood Springs, Colorado - Sponsored by Rocky Mountain CORSA ============================================================================ See the New Mexico Council of Car Clubs Web Site for more "NMCCC" activities ======================== http://www.nmcarcouncil.com/ ====================== SUGGESTION: A visit to the Telephone Museum on Fourth Street SUGGESTION: A visit to the new WEATHER LAB at the Balloon Museum SUGGESTION: A visit to the Soaring Museum in Moriarty SUGGESTION: Activities with other clubs such as VMCCA. ======~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====--=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-====== ======-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~====== Happy Birthday Wishes to January CNM'ers: Lupe Arellanes Jenny Finch Javier Gold Steve Gongora Mike Hughes LeRoy Rogers Lilian Shortle Troy Ward Happy Anniversary Wishes to January CNM'ers: Vickie & Pat Hall ======~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====--=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-====== ======-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~====== =============== CNM MEMBER LIST === 2021-Dec-16 =============== 2021.12 Josie & Leroy ALDERETE leroyalderete gmail.com 505-898-1195 000-000-0000 Albuquerque NM 2023.08 Janice & David ALLIN dnjallin comcast.net 505-410-9668 000-000-0000 Oklahoma City OK 2022.10 Debra & Jon ANDERSON jbanderson65 hotmail.com 719-572-6747 000-000-0000 Colorado Springs CO 2021.12 Guadalupe & Jim ARELLANES ispeakmedicare505 gmail.com 505-515-9897 000-000-0000 Tijeras NM 2022.02 Linda SOUKUP Anthony BERBIG studeboytony gmail.com 763-226-0707 000-000-0000 Edgewood NM 2023.12 Kathy & Larry BLAIR blairylar hotmail.com 505-821-1386 505-249-1035 Albuquerque NM 2022.08 Katherine & Irv BROCK ivrbr yahoo.com 405-531-7470 000-000-0000 Rio Rancho NM 2022.11 Linda & Dick COCHRAN barkingdog1604 gmail.com 505-287-8403 000-000-0000 Grants NM 2022.04 Deborah & John DINSDALE john_dinsdale adp.com 303-341-2327 000-000-0000 Aurora CO 2022.03 Elizabeth & Mark DOMZALSKI mdomzalski aol.com 505-867-0030 505-665-1529 Placitas NM 2023.03 Fred & Brenda EDESKUTY fred totavimotors.com 575-829-3889 000-000-0000 Jemez Springs NM 2021.12 Jenny & Phil FINCH finchbook gmail.com 971-207-2308 541-662-0987 Tularosa NM 2022.07 Robert GOLD beisbol30 msn.com 505-268-6878 505-450-3098 Albuquerque NM 2022.01 Rita & Steve GONGORA stevegongora msn.com 505-292-5570 505-220-7401 505-220-7402 Albuquerque NM 2024.02 Vickie & Pat HALL patandvickiehall q.com 505-865-5574 505-620-5574 505-917-3745 Los Lunas NM 2022.04 Terry HALL thlrh44.47 gmail.com 574-831-4819 000-000-0000 Goshen IN 2022.10 Sharon & William HEIL wmhsch gmail.com 505-280-7832 000-000-0000 Rio Rancho NM 2022.07 Michael R HUGHES mike.r.hughes30 gmail.com 505-205-8288 000-000-0000 Dothan AL 2021.12 David HUNTOON corvair66 aol.com 505-281-9616 000-000-0000 Cedar Crest NM 2023.12 Anne & Geoffrey JOHNSON gejohnson salud.unm.edu 505-730-6601 000-000-0000 Albuquerque NM 2022.03 Barbara & Gordon JOHNSON gjohnson unm.edu 505-898-7688 000-000-0000 Corrales NM 2022.04 Janet & Steve JOHNSON steven.johnson flybode.com 505-864-6278 000-000-0000 Belen NM 2022.09 Maggie & Bob KITTS bkittszia gmail.com 505-507-2001 000-000-0000 Los Ranchos NM 2022.12 Diane & Tony LAWLER hvac1515 aol.com 760-902-0019 000-000-0000 Aurora CO 2023.07 H. 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"Lube" LUBERT dirtlube gmail.com 505-256-9331 505-400-3680 Albuquerque NM 2023.03 Connie & Robert McBREEN email unknown 505-265-2808 505-229-5880=pager Albuquerque NM 2024.01 Tracey & John McMAHAN jmcmahan49 gmail.com 828-606-1101 000-000-0000 Hendersonville NC 2022.03 Kelli & Mark MORGAN rangermk sbcglobal.net 636-227-2662 000-000-0000 Manchester MO 2021.03 Sui-Fong NEALE chevroletflatsix gmail.com 44_1455_635932 Burbage, Hinckley, Leicestershire, England UK 2023.10 Gregory NELSON fesedu comcast.net 505-400-8670 000-000-0000 Albuquerque NM 2022.07 Lloyd L PIATT lloydlpiatt outlook.com 505-238-3443 000-000-0000 Albuquerque NM 2023.04 Heula & Jim PITTMAN jimp unm.edu 505-275-2195 505-206-9039 Albuquerque NM 2023.09 Sarah & Terry PRICE nmfloorinspections yahoo.com 505-328-8827 000-000-0000 Albuquerque NM 2021.12 Lee REIDER br236425 gmail.com 505-299-4597 000-000-0000 Albuquerque NM 2022.11 James RICHARDSON gymare icloud.com 703-608-2669 000-000-0000 Santa Fe NM 2022.04 Fred RIGGS II email unknown 505-425-3126 000-000-0000 Las Vegas NM 2023.05 Emma & LeRoy ROGERS 004873 q.com 505-294-0623 505-238-7302 Albuquerque NM 2024.02 Curtis L SHIMP clshimp q.com 575-534-9576 000-000-0000 Silver City NM 2025.01 Lilian & Timothy SHORTLE shortle556 earthlink.net 970-247-9675 970-903-2127 Durango CO 2022.08 Brenda STICKLER tounce66 msn.com 505-856-6993 000-000-0000 Corrales NM 2023.05 Kay & Tarmo SUTT tarmo juno.com 505-471-1153 505-690-2046 505-690-2056 Santa Fe NM 2022.11 Anne WIKER wikerj63 yahoo.com 505-239-3311 000-000-0000 Edgewood NM 2023.09 Troy WARD troy.ward yahoo.com 505-218-1088 000-000-0000 Albuquerque NM 2022.03 Val NYE & Joel YELICH joelyelich gmail.com 505-474-6680 000-000-0000 Santa Fe NM RECENTLY INACTIVE: 2021.04 Lesha KITTS leshakitts gmail.com 505-453-5387 000-000-0000 Albuquerque NM 2021.10 Sylvia & Ray TRUJILLO rtrujilloabq505 gmail.com 505-814-8373 000-000-0000 Albuquerque NM ======~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====--=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-====== ======-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~~=====-=====~=====-=====~=====-=====~====== SEVEN YEARS AGO [ JANUARY 2022 VOL 48 Nr 1 ISSUE 556 ] Jim Pittman 2015 V.41 Nr01 #472 An Ultra Van and Rampsides at a car show in 2005. Brenda, Ray and Heula at the 2014 Christmas Party. Why Are These People Laughing? Because of Low Gas Prices! Larry Blair showed us a frayed clutch cable. New replacements are not of good quality. John Wiker reported on our excellent Christmas party. What to do about our declining membership? A graph showed our numbers from April 1974 to date. CORSA membership declined similarly. Corvanantics said, "Get it Out of my Kitchen!" A page of photos was emailed to participants during 2014 and a roster of club members (we had 39 members) was included. 2008 V.34 Nr01 #388 A beaver dam in Alaska with a 1966 turbo Corsa. The board approved the Newsletter CD at $10 by mail order. We discussed TUNAs. Wendell showed his new Honda S-2000 race car. Mike Stickler reported on his new garage. Sherry Gray forwarded a birthday photo of her mother Ruth Boydston, courtesy of Joel Nash. Dennis Pleau told about his new business in Woodland, California. We had an article by new PPCC president Steve Goodman. Closer to home, CNMers and Corvairs congregated at Milly's for breakfast. Bob Dunahugh of the Iowa Corvair Association told us about zinc dithiophosphate or ZDDP as an oil additive. Older "flat tappet" engines may be damaged by the use of new oil! We had 45 family memberships in-state and nine out, totaling 54. 2001 V.27 Nr01 #304 Late and early coupes attended the Christmas dinner at KAFB. Steve Gongora announced that our CORSA-sponsored web site was up. A new member was John Wiker. We had new license plates and new business cards. President Hurley thanked all who made possible another great Christmas party. Billiken told us that modern high-tech cars need low-tech chains to go up to the crest in the snowy winter. Robert told us about joining in the upcoming 75th anniversary of Old Route 66. Debbie wrote a thank-you note expressing gratitude for all the great memories the Pleaus would be taking with them to their new home in Colorado. We had a history of our Meissner and Boydston awards. Bill contributed a complete price guide to Corvairs, 1960-1969, Grades 1 to 6. Top prices were $13,000 for a 1966 Corsa convertible, a 1968 Monza convertible or a 1969 Monza convertible. Yes, they beat out the $12,500 1962-1964 Spyder convertibles. Our member list showed 25 from Albuquerque, 15 from elsewhere in New Mexico, and 13 from out-of-state. 1994 V.20 Nr01 #220 Ten Commandments for the Car Collector. President Del ran the meeting. New members were Mark Domzalski and Greg Corazzi. Treasurer Will Davis reported $1,175. LeRoy presented a $50 check from the Car Council for our work at the swap meet. We planned a trip to Bosque del Apache, a garage tour and the Tri-State in Pagosa Springs. We had a talk by Stanley Degree about the history of the Pikes Peak Race and the Unser family. Our Christmas party was excellent. Steve Gongora won the Ike Meissner Award. At the party there was entertainment by a well-known and much-appreciated quartet. Debbie Pleau reported on serious planning by committee members for the 1996 CORSA Convention. Tech tips included how to paint a carburetor (talcum powder) and how to install top shroud and carbs not once but twice (forgotten fan belt) and how to nearly cut your finger off when rotating tires (Honda disc brake caliper). A list of members wrapped up the issue. 1987 V.13 Nr01 #136 Another "Corvairs will take over the World" map. We had $921 in the bank. Clayborne described our Christmas dinner as a quiet success. Journal columnist Jim Arnholz was to speak but tall chair backs got in the way. We invited him to come back later. He did come back, but with the name Jim Belshaw. LeRoy was setting up a March auction and we had sixty-two names on our member list. Jim complained about vibrations in his 1966 Corsa clutch. A newspaper article noted that the book Unsafe At Any Speed was 20 years old. "Our society knows a good deal more about building safer machines than it does about getting people to behave safely in an almost infinite variety of driving situations," Nader wrote. "And whether motorists are momentarily careless or intoxicated or are driving normally when they are struck by another vehicle is entirely irrelevant to the responsibility of the automobile makers to build safer cars." 1980 V.6 Nr01 #52 A Corvair 95 van. A slide show featured CNM events and the CORSA national convention. Our December dinner at Bella Vista in Cedar Crest was a great success. An article by Ike Meissner claimed "highest mileage" for his one-owner 1961 Greenbrier. Ike said he had done some 260,000 in this vehicle and he told how he managed to rack up so many miles in only nineteen years: he used to think nothing of driving 80 miles to a movie or restaurant, and he drove 102 miles each way to work for a year. Lifetime gas mileage for this Greenbrier was 18.6 MPG and on a trip it would easily get 22 MPG. Ike said he planned to completely restore it one of these days. Unfortunately, by the time the article was published Ike had been in an automobile accident and we had lost a unique CNM member, Corvair mechanic and friend. Tech tip from Francis: how to keep those pesky squirrels out of your engine compartment. George Morin provided a list of Corvair parts and where to get them. ======~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~====== ======~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~====== Enchanted Corvairs Newsletter is published monthly by Corvairs of New Mexico, chartered Chapter #871 of CORSA, the Corvair Society of America. Copyright by the Authors and by Corvairs of New Mexico. Articles may be reprinted in any CORSA publication as a service to CORSA members, provided credit to the Author and this Newsletter is clearly stated. All opinions are those of the Author or Editor and are not necessarily endorsed by Corvairs of New Mexico or CORSA. Material for publication should reach the Editor by the 15th of the month. Send material via e-mail ( jimp @ unm.edu ) or submit a readable manuscript. I prefer ASCII TEXT, but MS Word or RTF are fine. Photographs are welcome. The newsletter is composed using Apple computers. Software includes Mac OS-X, AppleWorks, Photoshop CS, GraphicConverter, BBEdit and InDesign CS. If you care, ask for more details. When I'm 64, I'll get by with a little help from my friends. ======~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~====== ======~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~=====~====== =END=