Our new meeting place is  

Pinstripes

5001 Trailhead Bend Way, Fort Worth, TX 76109

Next General Club Meeting is September 3, 2025 @ 7:30 PM

Kim West 

 Corvette, did you know….

Corvette is the longest produced sports car in the world.

Original design was named “Project Opel”. The target price was $2000.00

1953 the retail price was $3,513.... Adjust for inflation, $31,608.

Corvette is the only vehicle to ever offer a wrap-around windshield.

The original 1953 Corvette offered only 2 options—a heater for $91 and an AM radio for $145.

A Corvette with all the trimmings would set you back a total of $3,749.

Vehicles made in 1953 were primarily constructed of steel—this made the Corvette’s innovative use of fiberglass a new and exciting feature.

The 1953 Corvette came in only one-color option: Polo White with a red interior. The last year the Polo White color was used was 1957.

Source: https://www.gmpartscenter.net/blog/corvette-fun-facts 

Thank you... to Cliff and Jackie Holden, Mike Linder, Ken and Sharon Bachelor, and Bob and Kay Snegon for showing their gorgeous cars at the August meeting.

Kim West - President
kdcwest@sbcglobal.net  

Gayle Cherry        

I hope everyone’s summer has started out great.

Thanks to everyone who came out for “drive your corvette to work day.” I hope everyone enjoyed themselves and had a great meal.

I’m also still working on socials for the rest of the summer, so as soon as they are scheduled, I’ll send out an email.

SAVE THE DATE   We finally have a date and place for our annual Christmas Party.

Date: Saturday December 6, 2025

Venue: Chisolm Trail Rustic Venue

Cleburne, TX

More information to follow as the date gets closer.

Gayle
850-517-7346
texascherry@att.net 

Mary Pittman - Historian

I had great fun putting together the Cowtown Vettes 50th Anniversary scrapbook.  I tried to encompass a great deal of what happened during the decade of 2015 to 2024... it was fun looking back through pictures, the website and LowDowns from that period of time. 

This era was dissected by the Covid pandemic of 2020 which brought about a myriad of changes to how we operate on a daily basis in life overall as well as as a club. 

First of all our membership is getting older not only locally, but regionally and nationally, also.  Venues for racing or events are not as readily available or affordable. 

From a historical point of view, going forward I feel we will be relying on our digital LowDown for club info and memories as well as the new website (when it is available) where our current activities as well as past activities, etc will be archived. 

The historian will still be responsible for gathering misc. info, club trophies, etc.

Thanks again to Mack Maxwell for storing our physical archives.

Mary Pittman, Historian
marypittman@hotmail.com   

Vicki Currey - Secretary - Timing Chair

It is time to elect our 2026 CTV Officers! The timeline for these elections is as follows:

September 3rd Membership meeting – take nominations for NCCC Governor

October 1st Membership meeting – take additional nominations for NCCC Governor and elect. Nominations for all other officers will be taken at the meeting.

October – all nominees will be contacted by email from vfrostcurrey@live.com for confirmation of willingness to serve.

November 5th Membership meeting – a preliminary ballot will be presented to all with any additional nominations taken from the floor.

By November 19th, ballots will be mailed to home addresses. All ballots are due by Wednesday, December 3rd Membership meeting by 7:45 pm. Please follow all the instructions at the top of the ballot in correctly returning it.

Ballots will be counted, and the new 2026 officers will be announced. In case of a tie, a runoff will be held prior to end of the membership meeting.

Please consider taking an active role in Cowtown Vettes in 2026.

CTV Secretary

Just a reminder, the Membership and Board minutes are located in the Members Only section.

If you have any questions about the minutes, please feel free to contact me.

Timing Chair

If you are interested in learning timing for CTV’s autocrosses, come spend some time in the trailer and join in the excitement!

Vicki Currey
vfrostcurrey@live.com  

Steve Parker - CTV Treasurer

Just a reminder, the Monthly reports are located in the Members Only section.

If you have any questions about the reports... please feel free to contact me.

 stevenp1954@gmail.com 

Doug McMahan - Social/Digital Media - Sponsorship

If you have not rec’d your 50th Anniversary Cowtown Vettes commemorative Deck of Playing Cards, please attend the next Membership Meeting and see me.  Each primary member / household receives one deck of cards.  I’ll bring a few decks on the next cruise as well.  If you’d like an extra set (or two), see me as well, we did purchase extra decks of cards- these are $5 per deck.

We will have the Events, Socials and such in the next Slideshow.   The slideshow will continue to include some Corvette Trivia along with various other Corvette happenings around the country. Brian (our webmaster) does post a lower-resolution version online, on the CTV Website. Please provide any submissions for the slideshow to me no later than Sunday evening of the Membership Meeting week.

If you have been working on or updating your Corvette with new items …or if you have taken a trip in your Corvette and have some photos to share with membership, please send those to me and I’ll include them in the monthly slideshow.  Cowtown’s Microsoft O365 account allows us to use OneDrive, which makes it much easier for you to provide high-resolution photos from events for the web and/or monthly slideshow. If you would like to share photos, please take them in high-resolution; if not, they can’t be used on the big screen since they would show grainy / blurry.  These are needed by noon, the Monday before the Membership Meeting. If you have questions, please contact me and I’ll provide you with more information and the OneDrive link to share your photos – basically use the highest resolution option you can set on your camera or smartphone.

When you receive a CTV-ALL eMail blast, we would request that you please only reply to the originator when you are replying to a CTV-ALL email. When you opt to reply, simply select Reply on the email, then remove the CTV-All entry and replace it with the email address of the originator. If you are sending CTV-ALL emails, please include your email address in the body of the email so you have that address handy.

If you change your email or home address, Corvette, or other info – please drop an email to CTV-Membership@groups.io. 

If you are not receiving CTV-ALL emails, please get with me so we can either add you or figure out why you aren’t receiving them.

More information on email distribution lists and the acceptable use of them can be found on our website.

Facebook – if you are on Facebook and not a “friend” of Cowtown Vettes, members cannot include you in tags at events; these tags show your non-club member friends all the fun we are having. Who knows, maybe some of you are in the witness protection program and don’t want to be tagged J If you are posting, be sure to tag Cowtown Vettes so it appears on our Facebook news feed.

Doug McMahan
Digital / Social Media Chairperson
socialmedia@cowtownvettes.org 

Ann Walker - Membership Chair

 NEW MEMBERS - 

J.D. & MOZELL DAVIS

VISITORS - none

Robert Geyer - Cruiser/Equipment Chair - 2025

Hello Fellow Cruisers, 

A Thank You to all of my special Cowtown Vettes friends, 

For all of your love and support I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. I've said this before and I'll say it again ' we came for the cars but stayed for the PEOPLE.' 

Special thanks to Larry and Vicki for all your support and efforts organizing the Parade of Love, as I like to call it.

Vicki also compiled a video and posted it to YouTube.    https://youtu.be/eoSQQuoL4fU?si=hTYdOTADi4rR8abI 

Because of the video Cydnie and I received countless calls, text, and emails expressing what a wonderful and moving gesture the car club did.  

A heart felt THANKS to all the wonderful and caring people of Cowtown Vettes. 

With love

Robert Geyer 

Hi everyone,

Our 50/50 drawing last month resulted in a win of $100 by our President, Kim West, and $100 increase in our funds for our chosen charities.  Thank you all for your contributions to our charity fund so we can realize our shared goals! 

At the July meeting, we voted to send $500 from our charity fund to the The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country, to be spent on relief and rebuilding efforts in the multiple counties affected by the flood in Central Texas on the 4th of July.  Thank you all for your generosity!

On Friday, July 25th, ten members of our club participated in the Christmas in July event at Cook Children’s.  We dressed in Christmas colors and attire and helped the children pick out their favorite Christmas gifts!  In addition to Cowtown Vettes members, Santa and Mrs. Claus and the Grinch showed up, along with a wacky doctor and his assistant.  A fun time was had by all and, to top it off, our group had Mexican food afterward!  There will be another event in December, so if you missed this one, there is still an opportunity to take part in the future.

There are no events currently scheduled for charity.  We will be in touch with the Tarrant Area Food Bank and Cook Children’s for events in November and December, respectively.  Until then your Charity Co-Chairs will be hard at work requesting gifts, donations and door prizes for our October car show.  If you know of a business that you think might like to contribute an item for our car show, please contact either one of us. 

Thanks!

We look forward to seeing you all soon!

Debbie and Paula

Larry Currey - Low Down Editor

Chevy's Mightiest Corvettes Snatch American Nürburgring Lap Record from Ford

The Mustang GTD's lap record among American automakers falls to the new Chevrolet Corvette ZR1.

As Happy Gilmore would say, "somebody's closer." Rather than talking about a tee shot, though, we're referring to Chevrolet's latest Nürburgring lap time, which is closer to zero than Ford's most recent Nürburgring lap time set by the Mustang GTD. This, of course, is impressive stuff for both performance vehicles. The Mustang GTD, Ford's $350,000-plus super-’Stang that's basically a race car clothed in Mustang bodywork, became the first American production car to break the seven-minute mark on its record-setting lap. Now, just a short while later, Chevrolet has run its new 1,064-hp ZR1 and hybridized, 1,250-hp ZR1X models around the ’Ring and, well, beaten Ford's achievement.

The beefiest ’Vettes are separated by, essentially, their aero packages and the X's extra horsepower thanks to a pair of electric motors on its front axle. In other words, the X is simply more track-focused of the two ZR1s, and, predictably, it set the fastest lap time of the two, a bilstering 6:49.275 effort with development engineer Drew Cattell at the wheel. He now becomes the fastest non-pro-driver ever at the ’Ring, while the ZR1X is the quickest vehicle from an American manufacturer to circle the Green Hell.

larrycurrey@yahoo.com 

Brian Glass

Howdy fellow Corvette enthusiasts!

I am working on our new Club Website and look forward to my role as Webmaster.

webmaster@cowtownvettes.org

The new Corvette CX and CX.R Vision Gran Turismo concepts envision a futuristic Corvette hypercar.

When Chevrolet isn’t busy setting records at the Nürburgring with the Corvette ZR1X, its designers are back in the lab, cooking up concepts that imagine the far-off future of America’s favorite sports car.

In April, GM’s advanced design studio in the UK unveiled this futuristic beauty. In July, designers in Pasadena revealed this stunning concept. Now, Chevy is introducing yet another Corvette concept at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, in California—and it might be the best one yet.

Larry Currey / On-Line LOW DOWN Editor
larrycurrey@yahoo.com 

Mary Pittman - NCM Ambassador - 2025

LowDown Article - NCM Ambassador

Sept 2025

“The mission of the National Corvette Museum is to educate worldwide audiences on the evolution of the Corvette --America’s Sports Car-- through collections, preservation, and celebration of its legacy.”

 At the museum’s 31st anniversary celebration that was just held on August 28 - 30, 2025, Zora Arkus - Duntov’s, only Corvette, fully restored was debuted.  Who, you ask, is Zora Arkus - Duntov?  Depending on where you read he is referred to as either the “Father of the Corvette” or the “Godfather of the Corvette” although Harley Earl was the original designer of the Corvette.  After seeing the 1953 Corvette on display in New York City, Arkus - Duntov wrote General Motors that he found the car “visually superb, but was disappointed with what was underneath”.  He went to work at GM in May of 1953 as a staff engineer with the idea of changing that perception and was “pivotal in elevating the Corvette into a world class performance vehicle”.  The only Corvette Arkus - Duntov owned was a retirement gift from Chevrolet. You can read more about his life and work on the museum’s website or other online sources.

For the latest on museum happenings you can go to the website for info. Museum members can log onto the website for more news and info. As always the museum offers car raffles, NCM insurance, shopping and event info as well as article about exhibits.

Mary Pittman, NCM Ambassador

To visit the NCM website... Click  National Corvette Museum

Cowtown Vette’s 23rd Annual Car Show Coming Soon

The Car Show Committee is excited about our 23rd annual corvette show scheduled for October 18, 2025 at Jerry’s Chevrolet in Burleson, Texas.  This is a new location for the show and it has been great to work with Jerry’s as we plan this year’s show.   It will be great to have a covered location.  It’s rain or shine!

This is a club show and we need help from all members to make it successful.  What can you do to help us?

• Do you know anyone who might like to be a vendor at our show? 

• Do you know any business that would donate 110 items for our goody bags?

• We would appreciate any new gift items for the Door Prizes or the 50/50 prizes.

• We need workers for the day of the show.  Signup sheets will be at the    September meeting.  We need people to help with parking, registration and selling 50/50 tickets. 

AND….

• Grab a registration form at the meeting and complete your own registration for the show.

We are looking forward to another great show!  Please contact us if you can help with any of the above and we will get you to the right person on the committee.

Bill Buehler and Cliff Holden
Car Show Committee Co-Chairs

James Swaringen - NCCC Events
james@swaringen.us   - cell:  817-832-9812
ncccevents@cowtownvettes.org 

Hello everyone,

We hope you've all enjoyed your summer. Now, it's time to get back on the track!  Hope to see you all out there.

Our next Autocross weekend is scheduled for Saturday, September 6th and Sunday, September 7th.

To help us prepare for a smooth event, we are asking all drivers to pre-register. Getting an early headcount allows us to have all the driver packets and the timing software set up and ready to go. Please take a moment to sign up using one of the links below.

We Still Need Your Help!

As always, our events are powered by volunteers. We are still in need of more help to make the Autcross weekend a success. If you are available to lend a hand, please consider signing up.  You do not have to have previous experience.   It's a fantastic way to get involved and support the club.

●     Volunteer Sign-up:  https://forms.gle/XvUnY8ehvVVz2moC9 

Thank you for your cooperation. Let's go racing!

See you at the track.

****UPCOMING NCCC EVENTS****

Fall Low-Speed Autocross: 

Sept 6th and 7th

Tarrant County College TCC - South Campus (5301 Campus Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76119)

Flyer: https://www.corvettesnccc.org/NCCCCompetitionDatabase/2025/Flyers/SW-540-001_-_Flyer_-_2025_Fall_Autocross.pdf   

Online registration https://forms.gle/9veR4cizCAMYyvjP7    

Volunteer Sign-Up Sheet https://forms.gle/9veR4cizCAMYyvjP7 

Regional Fundraiser Low-Speed Autocross

Sept 27th and 28th

Location: Tarrant County College TCC - South Campus (5301 Campus Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76119)

Flyer: https://www.corvettesnccc.org/NCCCCompetitionDatabase/2025/Flyers/SW-198.pdf   

Online registration https://forms.gle/Cyff7c1Rup1SUw8Z6  

Volunteer Sign-Up Sheet (https://forms.gle/XvUnY8ehvVVz2moC9 )

 Other events around the region can be found at http://ncccswregion.org/schedule.html 

Check out the club website (http://www.cowtownvettes.org ) for more details, flyers, and registration.

Norman Walker - NCCC Govenor

NCCC EVENTS

Now up to 142 members strong 

Cowtown Vettes membership sits at 141 members!

IMPORTANT NOTICE!!! NATIONAL DUES INCREASE!!!

At the September Governor’s Meeting, the dues increased was voted on, and passed. Primary Member dues increased $15.00 and spouse/companion dues increased $5.00. Lifetime Memberships increased from $300.00 to $500.00.

RENEWALS ARE NOW OPEN.

An updated Renewal form has been uploaded to the website.

Competition is ongoing. In the ladies division, Lee Ann Parker is first, Mary Pittman is sixth, Lauren Whitcomb is in ninth, and Cathy Anthony is tenth. In the men’s division, Larry Schaapveld is second. Cowtown Vettes is currently second. Lee Ann Parker is twelfth nationally.

On October 11/12 there are 14 autocrosses at McLane Stadium in Waco. In addition, on the 11th, Brazos River is hosting their (non-sanctioned) car show in Granbury. Cowtown Vettes’ car show will be on October 18, at Jerry’s Chevrolet in Burleson, under the awnings!

More information can be found on the SW Region Calendar, located here: http://www.ncccswregion.org/schedule_2025.html  .  There are events in October and November. More flyers will be uploaded as we get closer to the events.

Save the wave!

Norman Walker
CTV NCCC Governor

Donna Forsythe - CTV Logo Merchandise

Hello and welcome to the Logo Merchandise store.

There are lots of great things for sale with the Cowtown logo on them:

 Caps, Visors, Sweatshirts, Long Sleeve T-shirts, Short Sleeve T-shirts, Men’s & Women’s Long Sleeve Denim Shirts, Polo shirts Name Tags

(Please note that on all shirt orders, 2XL and up sizes are slightly higher)

If you want your name added to your shirt, Or a Cowtown logo or a certain year Corvette added to your shirt.

We also have stickers, patches and koozies

So stop by the Logo table before and after the meeting to place your order.

You’ll get your order by the next meeting.

Donna Forsythe CTV Logo Merchandise

dforsythe817@gmail.com

Welcome to Cowtown

This year eight new and newer members have attended Cowtown 101.  It was a pleasure to get to know each of them better.  Cowtown 101 is informational and includes discussion time to ask questions and learn more about each members' interests. 

The next Cowtown 101 will be held on, Wednesday, Oct 1 at 6:15, just prior to that month's Club Meeting.

We have new members who want to do socials, cruises and autocross.  When you see a new face, take a few minutes to welcome them and find out how much you have in common besides loving your Vettes!  If you hit it off, please consider helping them as a Mentor. 

It would be great to hear from an experienced member between meetings who likes to talk about activities that are planned and to fill in the gaps for those who are ready to try something new. Show them the ways to have fun and get involved!

Thanks,

Barb Greenfeder 

Barbsc6@sbcglobal.net

817-017-0975