According to the President …….……….2 ACCC Board…..………….…………….….....2 ACCC Info & Sponsor .…….....…………..3 For the Record/VP Article…………..…..4 VP Article/Events……………..….……...…5 Nat’l Corvette Museum Amb….……….6 Editors Page/1986 Nostalgia …...…….7 Rutledge’s 57 Article ….....….…....…8-9

Nags Head Update ……………...……….10 Capt Billy’s Cruise ………………………...11 Birthdays/Anniv……...…………………...12 Buddy Holly Event…………………………12 Daytona Corvettes …………………….. 13 March Calendar. ..……………….………..14 ACCC Store ....….……………………………15

I N T H I S I S S U E Next Meeting - March 15th Start Time is 7:30 pm

Aquai Harbor Inn 1415 Washington Dr,

Stafford, VA 22554

The ACCCelerator - Aquia Creek Corvette Club Newsletter - March 2016

Pete Rutledge’s 1957 Corvette, See Pages 8-9

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Hello ACCC,

As I write this column, Marie, Joan Yaros and I have just returned from the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. The event was in a word great. The Cor-vette Corral, National Corvette Museum, Daytona Speedway all did a great job. The Corral served both a continental breakfast and lunch, had closed circuit TV of the race, and had the Corvette teams (both prototype and GTLM) in the tent for autographs. Corvette team manager Doug Feh-an also gave a talk and answered questions. If you have never had the opportunity to hear Doug, he is very knowledgeable and is entertaining with a story. One of the highlights of the event for me was the opportunity to drive the race course in our Corvette. Though I have seen this course on TV through an in-car-camera and our top speed was only 70 mph it was a thrill and made the race more relatable. This is a 24 hour race meaning a good portion is run throughout the night. This allows you to see the flaming exhaust, glowing brake disc and flashing headlights which adds to the appeal. Another observation, after watching and listen-ing to these cars for a while you can close your eyes and tell what make of car is passing simply from the sound. A Corvette sounds different from a Ford and a Ford different from a Porsche and a Porsche different from a Ferrari, etc. I could even tell a Corvette engine mounted in a prototype chassis.

Before moving on, I would like to make a couple of observations from our trip. Thursday it rained so much I think I heard a duck say “Ha man what’s’ going on here”. Second there is so much trash/litter along our highways we should be ashamed. Atrocious!

As some of you know we will have a club tent at Carlisle for 2016. We are going to need some help decorating and manning the tent. Please let me or any of the other club officers if you would like to help. The idea is to get greater club attendance/participation at this event. Carlisle is all things Corvette. Having the tent will allow us to promote the Aquia Creek Cor-vette Club, provide a focal point for club members and provide a place to take a load off, get out of the sun and/or rain as the case may be.

Last months’ trivia question was answered by Pete Rutledge. Pete noted that the Molded Fiber Glass Company was the supplier of the fiber glass body parts for the 1953 Corvette. I would like to apologize for calling it the Molded Fiber Class Co. in the question. Pete, don’t forget your free 50/50 ticket at next months’ meeting.

This month’s trivia question: This months’ trivia question comes from one of my favorite Corvette eras, the C4s. In 1992, the revised small block pushrod engine had an unusual feature. Was it?

a) Alloy block; b) Eaton supercharger; c) Throttle body d) Reverse

flow cooling; or e) Fred Flintstone brakes

Remember to send your responses to bugbent@aol.com. As usual the first in with the correct answer will be the winner and will receive a free 50/50 ticket at our next business meeting.

Keep the revs up and the rubber side down!

President Skip Sizemore bugbent@aol.com

Vice President David Benton avett4me@hotmail.com

Treasurer Dottie Shadbar dvs82760@aol.com

Secretary Lee Morton penn82@aol.com

Newsletter Editor Al McCloud yankeeal@verizon.net

Membership Marie Sizemore bugbent@aol.com

Past President David Shadbar grumpy9865@aol.com

Other Club Duties

NCM Ambassador

Bud Donner

Sunshine Person Bettie Shepherd

ACCCording to the President

Skip Sizemore

2016 OFFICERS

Skip

AQUIA CREEK CORVETTE CLUB The purpose of this organization shall be to provide educational needs for those with Corvettes, and for the preservation, restoration, and enjoyment of all Corvettes. Aquia Creek Corvette Club (ACCC) was formed in September 1987 by a group of die-hard Corvette enthusi-asts from Aquia Harbor in Stafford, VA. The name was selected reflecting the Club's geographic and histori-cal origins in Old Dominion. Through hard work and commitment, ACCC has enjoyed constant growth and now boasts 50 members representing nearly 70 Corvettes, from a 1953 to 2016. ACCC membership consists primarily of Stafford County residents, but has members from Prince William, Fairfax, Fauquier, Spotsylva-nia, Orange, Culpeper, Loudon, Louisa counties, one member in California, and two in Florida. Since Sep-tember 8th, 2014, the ACCC Facebook Group has been limited to ACCC members only, except for a few that were already group members.

https://www.facebook.com/

groups/437699356306459/

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Aquia Creek Corvette Club is sponsored by

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3670 Jefferson Davis Hwy Fredericksburg, VA 22408

Phone: Cars: 888-686-1096

Service: 888-720-6236

Aquia Creek Corvette Club P.O. Box 986 Stafford, VA 22553 Website: www.accclub.org

ACCC MARCH 2016 BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES

President Skip Sizemore called the meeting to order at 7:30PM. Members in attendance were: Skip Sizemore, Dave Benton, Lee Morton, Marie Sizemore, Al McCloud, Dave Greer, Bud Donner, Pete Rutledge, Margaret McCloud, Joan Yaros, and Nan Wehmeyer. Bud made a motion to accept the minutes. Seconded by Dave Greer. The Minutes were accepted. Treasury. Dottie Shadbar was away on vacation. Bud Donner reported that the audit of the treasury went well. Membership. Marie Sizemore reported that we have 50 members. Newsletter. Al McCloud reported the newsletter will be out by the first of the month. He appreciates the articles and photos. Vice President. Dave Benton the March Breakfast will be at Bob Evans on 610 in Stafford. Sunshine. Al McCloud reported that he saw John Horvath last week and he appeared to be doing well. NCM Ambassador. Bud Donner reported that on March 3 the TV program “Americarna” will have a segment dealing with the Museum sinkhole. Bud also brought schedules for the upcoming Bash. More details on the Museum web page. Old Business. Skip received a thank you letter from the Wounded Warrior Foundation. Lee Morton provided an update on the Outer Banks trip. The First Flight Cruisers had to schedule their

events on the weekend following the Kelly’s Parade. They were unable to get the middle school lot until the following weekend, and there was no other site large enough to host the Parade. However, both the Parade and the trip are still on. (See update in this newsletter on Page 10.) Nan Wehmeyer and other members reported on the Buddy Holly event. Many commented that it was the best dinner show they had attended. (See Page 11) Skip Sizemore gave a report on their trip to Daytona. The hotel was great and the event overall was im-pressive. The stadium was remolded and much more comfortable. The best corral they had been too, which included the opportunity to drive their cars on the track, as well as getting to meet the Corvette Team’s drivers. Joan Yaros added that the Museum did a great job of putting together a package of events. New Business. Pete Rutledge suggested we start providing nametags again. As a new member, it makes it easier to recall people’s names. Lee Morton agreed to look into it. Skip announced the birthdays and anniversaries. Margaret McCloud won the 50/50. The Meeting adjourned at 7:55PM.

FOR THE RECORD

Lee Morton

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Lee Morton, Secretary

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1986 CORVETTE CONVERTIBLE

The March breakfast is scheduled for Bob Evans on RT 610 in Stafford. We need a restaurant that has a private or semi-private room for the April breakfast. Please send me suggestions if you know a place we can use. ACCC attended The Riverside Dinner Theater to see The Buddy Holly Story. We had 12 people who all said the food was good and the show was great. We may try this again in the winter, after driving season ends and the cars are put away. March expects to be the start of cruise nights at various venues around the area. I would like to get some interest in attending some of these as a club. With a little communication, we could meet and arrive at the venue as a group. This will give us a better chance of being able to park together. There are sev-eral different cruise nights in the area besides Burger King in Manassas. Last year we had three successful Garage nights. Thanks to Pete and Scott for hosting these events. We need some new folks to volunteer to host garage nights this year. The host makes the rules, sets the date and time, and determines the program and the number of people they can host. NVCC and Battlefield Corvette Club have events planned for later in the year. These are multi-day trips that will require pre-planning if you want to attend. Details are listed below. See info attached. Event: The Indy Speedway Cruise Event Date: August 12 - 17, 2016 Hosted By: Northern Virginia Corvette Club RSVP BY: June 3, 2016 to Shawn Waddell at Dr-wadd@msn.com or Michael Gilliland at gilli-land_michael@yahoo.com Event: Battlefield CC RT 66 Corvette Cruise Event Date: April 22 - 30, 2016 Hosted By: Battlefield Corvette Club RSVP Point-of-Contact: Jack Whitis, BCC POC at jaxc4@verizon.net as soon as possible.

ACCC EVENTS

David Benton

Vice President

ACCCording to the VP

David Benton

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March 2016

12th 9:00 am, Monthly Breakfast, Bob Evans, Rt 610, Stafford/Garrisonville. 11th—13th Trip to Nags Head for the St Patrick’s Day Parade 15th 7:30 pm, ACCC Membership Meeting, Aquai Harbor April 2016

9th 9:00 am, Monthly Breakfast, TBD 19th 7:30 pm, ACCC Membership Meeting, Aquai Harbor

Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick is a cultural and religious celebration held on March 17, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick (c. AD 385–461), the foremost patron saint of Ireland. On St Patrick's Day it is customary to wear sham-rocks and/or green clothing or accessories (the "wearing of the green"). St Patrick is said to have used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pagan Irish. St Patrick's Day, while not a legal holiday in the United States, is nonetheless widely recognized and observed throughout the country as a celebration of Irish and Irish American culture. Celebrations include prominent displays of the color green, eating and drinking, religious observances, and numerous pa-rades. The holiday has been celebrated on the North American continent since the late eighteenth centu-ry. (See ACCC’s annual St Patrick’s Day cruise flyer)

Dave Benton

Vice President

2014 ACCC Christmas Party

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I planned to write about the services offered by the Library and Archives section of the Museum, but

when I started reading about the origins of the Mu-seum itself, I discovered that the Archives were the original reason for building it. The idea began in 1984 at a National Corvette Restorers Society (NCRS) meeting, where a member suggested establishing a facility to archive Corvette related literature. In or-der to raise donations it was suggested to make the new archive a non-profit educational foundation ra-ther than a hobby organization like the NCRS. NCRS pondered the idea and adopted it in 1988, when an NCRS member offered o donate a 1953 Corvette if the proposed foundation obtained tax exemption status.

I n July 1988 the NCRS Foundation was formed with $2,000 start up funding, and in 1990 a small tem-

porary “Annex” opened in Bowling Green. Attempts to raise the millions needed to build a real museum foundered at first but by 1992 funds started trickling

in and a ground breaking ceremony featuring Zora Arkus-Duntov driving a bulldozer, took place at what is now a Wendy’s restaurant near the Museum. A $6.6 million bank loan and a bond guarantee by the city and county followed, construction started, and the museum opened its doors in September 1994.

T he current Library and Archives contains over1500 DVDs, over 4500 magazines, 350

books, and much more. They offer replica build sheets and window stickers for any Corvette built at Bowling Green since 1981 and provide research, ei-ther in-person or by the Museum staff for a modest fee.

B y the way, there’s an extensive library of Cor-vette videos at www.youtube.com/user/

corvettemuseum - check it out!

Bud

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News Events The U.S. officially observes Martin Luther King Day as a nation-al holiday for the first time; The space shuttle Challenger ex-plodes moments after lift-off killing 6 astronauts and Christa McAuliffe, a New Hampshire teacher; A major nuclear disaster occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Un-ion; Japanese video game maker Nintendo introduces its games to America; U.S. warplanes bomb Libyan headquarters in retaliation for terrorist attacks; Cost of a first-class stamp - 22 cents; and George Jones releases “The One I Loved Back Then” aka (The Corvette Song), reaches #3 on the country charts.

Oscar Winners Best Picture - “PLATOON” Actor - Paul Newman, “THE COLOR OF MONEY” Actress—Marlee Matlin, “CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD” Director - Oliver Stone, “PLATOON” Top 5 Songs 1. THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR - Dionne and Friends 2. WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN - Bangles 3. ON MY OWN - Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald 4. THE WAY IT IS - Bruce Hornsby & the Range 5. YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME - Bon Jovi #1 Country Song - BOP - Dan Seals Record of the Year: "We Are the World," USA for Africa World Series Champion: N.Y. Mets 4, Boston 3 NFL Champ: Chicago Bears def New England 46-10 in SB XX. NBA Champ: 1985-86 Boston Celtics def Houston Rockets NHL Champ: Montreal Canadiens Heavyweight Champion: Mike Tyson def Trevor Berbick President/Vice President: Republican, 1981-1989, Ronald Reagan/George H. W. Bush Quotes from 1986: “We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for the journey and waved goodbye and “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.”” - President Ronald Reagan, thirty years ago speaking about the space shuttle Challenger disaster. PLATOON - [King is writing a letter to his girlfriend] Francis: It ain't D-E-R-E, it's D-E-A-R. And "Sarah" ain't got no two R's, King. Damn, you dumb! King: It don't make no difference. She know what I mean. She don't read too good nohow.

1986 Corvette Convertibles were back after a ten-year absence -- 7,315 of them, in addition to the 27,794 coupes produced that year. To celebrate the ragtop's return, the Corvette was again chosen to set the pace at the Indy 500 and all converti-bles were considered Pace Car replicas with special decal packages, but without special paint schemes or options. Anti-lock brake systems (ABS) became standard on the '86s. Sensors in each wheel sent signals to an electronic central processing unit (computer) and brake pressure was automatically adjusted or distributed to each wheel to prevent the wheels from locking thereby maintaining steering control. Aluminum cylinder heads were introduced on all con-vertibles and eventually to coupes later in the produc-tion cycle. The new head added five more horses to the 350ci displacement block for 235 horsepower. Little exterior style modification took place over the '84 and '85 models except that center, high-mount stop-lights were added to conform to government safety reg-ulations. The new brake lights were located above the rear window in coupes and in the rear fascia in converti-bles. An improved anti-theft system required a special key with an electronic chip (pellet) embedded in it. Cylinder contacts in the lock measured electrical resistance be-fore allowing the vehicle to be started. The system was standard equipment on all models. Inside, the digital instrument display was modified to cut down on glare, thereby improving daytime observation, and "low coolant" and "anti-lock" displays were added. Despite the reintroduction of the popular convertible, total production fell to 35,109 units. Basic coupes sold for $27,027 and the base convertible retailed for $32,032.

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More than just a pretty picture…

By Pete Rutledge

For those of you who were not able to attend a Garage Night at my garage last year, this is the ironic story of my ’57 Corvette, whose known history goes back to the early ‘70s.

About five years ago I had been searching the internet for a new hobby car. At first I was looking for a Shelby Cobra replica, found a number, test drove a few, and almost bought a really nice one. But that didn’t work out and I started to think about getting a really old Corvette—one reminiscent of my teen years when I had passed on a nearby ’57 that was too expensive -- $1,000, and then purchased a ’58 for $750. So the search was on, again. I started scouring the internet for an old Corvette. I found a number, went to see a few, including one in southern New Jersey, but the search went on, looking for just the right one.

In the interest of being a smart buyer, one Friday night I went down to my Corvette library in the basement to retrieve a few books to further my education. One book in particular, I had bought at the local used book store about five years earlier. It was the Complete Book of Corvettes, published in 1987 by the Auto Editors of Consumer Guide. It has a beautiful Venetian Red and Beige fuel injected ’57 on the cover, with more great pictures inside. In fact the cover car looked just like a ’57 I had seen in New Jersey a couple of weeks earlier. I actively won-dered if it could be the same car, but decided it was not.

The next morning, a Saturday, I got up early to do more internet shopping for old Corvettes. I had already seen a lot of them, but that morning I spotted a new one. I pulled up the ad and was surprised to notice that the first photo in the listing was the cov-er of the book I had wondered about the night before. Could it be? Upon reading the description, low and behold, this car, for sale in New Jersey, was the car on the cover of the book!! I wasted no time to call and set up an appointment to go there to see the car on Monday.

Bright and early Monday morning, I excitedly set out on I-95 North for New Jersey. That was a fun trip! It turned out that the car was actually across the Delaware River in Pennsylvania. Upon arriving at the garage where the car was, I was greeted by two people—the owner and his selling agent. They had some bad news for me. They had been taking more pictures of the car for the internet listing and when they closed the hood, the right rear corner of the hood pushed down too low and now the hood was stuck shut. That was disappointing, but I had seen pictures of the engine compartment in the listing, so it was not a deal breaker.

The owner didn’t actually live at the car’s location anymore. He had moved to Delaware, but continued to rent the large garage there for his small, but significant Corvette collection. The ’57

looked great in person. A copy of the book was on the passen-ger seat, along with three other books, including another that had this car on its cover. To my surprise, the car was on or in all four books! I asked about taking a test drive. The owner was agreeable, but he would drive. That was fine with me.

He started the car and, with me in the passenger seat, we drove out to the street and proceeded to drive around the block. Well, when he went to shift from first gear to second, the stick moved but the transmission didn’t shift! So around the block we went—in first gear the whole time. It sounded great, as you might imagine, with the 1957 straight-through mufflers. After circuiting the block, we pulled back to his garage, raised the car up on his lift and could not fix either the hood or the transmis-sion shift mechanism. So I said to the owner, “The hood is stuck shut, the transmission is stuck in first gear, but I still like the car. If you’ll accept $XX,XXX, I’ll buy the car.” Well, we had a deal.

A few days later, the car was delivered to my house. That weekend, it took about five minutes to get the hood opened—no surprises. In the next week or so, I removed the shift mecha-nism and rebuilt it using a short piece of the hardened steel shank of a Craftsman Phillips screwdriver. All was good; it shift-ed like new again.

Along with the car and the books, the seller gave me the name and phone number of the fellow he had bought the car from. I called the earlier owner, Pete Bogard, to ask about the car. I told him about the four books I got with the car; he said “Oh, it’s been in a lot of books.” My search of the internet was on again and to date I have collected 41 books, all by the Auto Editors of Consumer Guide, that have pictures of this car in them; nine of those have the car on the cover.

Pete had purchased it in the early ‘70s near Chicago; it was me-tallic blue at the time and had its fuel injection unit in the trunk (it didn’t work very well from the trunk). In the ‘80s, he re-stored the car twice, the first time as a base four-barrel car, and the second time in its original fuel injected form. While at a car show around 1983 or 1984, he was approached by a fellow who said, “I’d like to take pictures of your car for an upcoming book.” Pete was thrilled and photographs of the car were taken in a remote corner of the car show parking lot. The fellow who asked for the opportunity to photograph the car was from the Auto Editors of Consumer Guide. Those first pictures appeared in a number of their Corvette books in the 1984 time frame.

Later, after the car was restored again to its fuel injected form, more photos were taken at a local country club. Those photos were used in Corvette books by the Auto Editors of Consumer Guide beginning with the 1987 book that started it all for me. The Auto Editors continued to use pictures of the car (both the earlier four-barrel, as well as the later fuel-injected version) in their numerous Corvette books from 1987 until as recently as 2010.

Continued on Page 9

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Shortly after I got the car, I was shopping the internet for ’57 Corvette memorabilia. On eBay I saw a nice mug with a ’57 on it. I thought it would be a nice way to drink my morning coffee, so I bought the mug. Subsequently, I found some collector plates that had the same Corvette image on them. I put one of those plates on my mantle in the family room. Early one morn-ing, looking at the plate on the mantle, it occurred to me that the image on it looked a lot like the photos of my car in the vari-ous books. I took the plate down, found a similar photo in one of the books and proceeded to analyze the two. I noticed that the car was seen from the exact same vantage point in both images, the reflections of light off the body were the same in both images, but the clincher was when I noticed that the spin-ners on the right front and rear wheel covers were in the exact same positions in both images! I was convinced that the artist-painted image on the plate was of my car. I looked up the artist’s name, Mark Lacourciere, on the internet and was able to contact him by email and confirmed that he had indeed made a painting of my car from a photo of it. That image was used by the Hamilton Mint in 1994 on the 8” collector plate that I had on my mantle. Mark also slightly changed the image (for copyright reasons) by putting a “Fuel Injection” emblem on the nose (which was considered but not implemented by Chevrolet) and sold it to Enesco who used it on my coffee mug (!!), as well as on 8” and 4” collector plates, a music box (that plays “Runaway”), and a wall plaque. The artist also sells the image as a 32” x 32” artist print on canvas (one is hanging on the wall of my den now) and he also included a smaller version of the image on another painting that has a number of Corvettes illustrating the Cor-vette’s evolution (but I can’t afford another artist print).

On another occasion when searching for more ’57 Corvette memorabilia, I noticed on eBay (yes, I’m an eBay addict) a 1991 issues of Collectible Automobile magazine that had a feature article on 1957 Corvettes. It was cheap and I bought it. Upon receiving the magazine in the mail, I was overjoyed to find a photo of my car on the Table of Contents page of the magazine, with more pictures of it in the feature article. Sometime later, I was reviewing a listing of back issues of Collectible Automobile and noticed that in 1996, the magazine had devoted a whole issue to Corvettes. Again, I found that issue on eBay and bought it. Again, more pictures of my car were in it.

Former owner Pete Bogard also sent me a 1995 copy of the Chi-cago edition of the Wall Street Journal. On the cover page is a picture of him with the car as part of article entitled “Flash from

the Past: Car Guys Hang Out at the Frosted Mug,” a popular Chi-cago-area root beer joint.

I also enjoy watching car shows on the Velocity Channel on ca-ble. One day I was watching an episode of “Overhaulin’” called “Roadies Stole My Vette,” about the resurrection of a ’57 Cor-vette. About 12 minutes into the episode, the show’s star, Chip Foose, is sitting at his drafting board consulting with the wife of the owner of the ’57 Corvette they are working on; he’s getting ideas on what her husband would like to be done on the car. Open on his drafting board is a book showing photos of a Vene-tian Red and Beige ’57 Corvette. I paused the show and closely inspected the photos in Chip’s book. I compared the photo to photos of my car in the books I had. The photo Chip was looking at was one of my car, but I didn’t have the book. I later found the same book at Carlisle – “Chevrolet Chronicle-A Pictorial His-tory from 1904” by, you guessed it, the Auto Editors of Consum-er Guide.

Also at a recent Carlisle meet, while perusing Corvette collecta-bles, I noticed one vendor had a wooden crate of spec sheets on various years of Corvette. One was for the ’57. It had pictures of my car on both sides of the sheet. I bought the sheet, pointing to one of the pictures and telling the vender, “That’s actually my car.” I later found that the sheet was one entry in a collection of 30 such commemorative spec sheets sold by sub-scription by Willabee & Ward to be inserted in a special 3-ring binder. Each of the sheets also bears a lengthy narrative about the car and an appropriate embroidered patch in a clear plastic envelope. Waiting for almost 2-1/2 years after writing it, in late 2014 an article about the car was published in the Corvette Re-storer, the magazine of the NCRS.

Oh, and because this ’57 is more than just a pretty picture, here are some notable facts: • Manufactured Monday, Nov. 5, 1956—likely to be one of the first 6 to 9 Regular Production fuel-injected 1957 Cor-vettes (Regular Production of fuel-injected Corvettes began on Thursday, Nov. 1, 1956).

• Original numbers-matching 250 hp fuel-injected 283 cubic inch engine and close-ratio 3-speed manual transmission (1 of 182 built with this combination in 1957).

• Still has its original, working, early “4360” Rochester mechani-cal fuel injection unit.

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Aquia Creek Corvette Club Annual Road Trip to the Outer Banks, March 11-14, 2016

Updated Basic Information

Lodging: The Baymont Inn & Suites in Kitty Hawk (formerly the Holiday Inn Express), 3919 N Croatan

Hwy, Kitty Hawk, NC 27949 - The ACCC has a block of 10 rooms set aside from 11-14, leaving on the 14th. - The rate is $79.99 per night plus tax during those dates. - For reservations call (252) 261-4888. Please tell them you’re with the Aquia Creek Corvette Club. - Note: the Baymont has changed the off-season breakfast menu to more of a light continental

breakfast. (Coffee, Juice, fruit, cereal, and muffins.)

Departure: Rain or shine, Friday, March 11, members will meet at the Cracker Barrel in Central Park

in Fredericksburg for breakfast at 8:30 AM and depart at approximately 0945. - The group will head South on I-95 with the following scheduled rest stops. - Approx 60 minutes, New Kent Welcome Center on I-64 East. Mile marker 213. - Approx 90 minutes. Southland Restaurant in Moyock, NC (commence the Poker Run) - Various Poker Run stops along the route between Southland and the Baymont Inn. Those wish- ing to participate in the Poker run can proceed on their own to the hotel.

Scheduled Events: Members are free to tour the Outer Banks, shop, play golf, enjoy the beach and

dine as they choose. However, the following scheduled events are planned for those who wish to partici-pate. - Sat, Mar 12, Members are on their own most of the day to shop, golf, or tour the Outer Banks. - Sat, March 12 @ 1:00 pm. Running of the Leprechauns 5K and 10K race. - Sun, March 13 @ 1:00 pm. Annual Outer Banks St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

Return Home: Members are on their own to return home to Virginia. Some members may choose to

leave after the parade on Sunday afternoon, while others may choose to stay an extra day and depart on Monday the 14th. The hotel will work to accommodate your wishes. *ACCC Point of Contact is Lee Morton at 540-287-6686 or penn82@aol.com.

Come join your fellow club members on April 24, 2016 for a Corvette cruise to Captain Billy's Crab

House located in Popes Creek, Maryland on the Potomac River. Back in the days of mail boats and loco

-motives, when electricity was new to Popes Creek and work was just beginning on the Potomac River

Bridge, nine-year-old Billy Robertson sold his first crabs on this very shore. He spent his entire life

here, working on the water he loved, and opening two successful seafood restaurants, Robertson's

Crab House and later, Captain Billy's, where his greatest joy was to mingle with and talk to his custom-

ers. He would greet his friends, colleagues and customers in the same fashion all the time, and to carry

on his legacy, we say to you . . .”And How Are You Today?”

Cruise Info:

The Northern staging area for this cruise is the commuter lot on Route 630, Stafford, just west of the

exit, at 11:45 am. We will leave at noon. Mike Shepherd will lead us to the restaurant and maps will be

provided, “just in case”.

Mike Shepherd is the POC for this event: Phone: 540-840-2099; email: vettemike1959@verizon.net.

The southern staging area is the Walmart on Route 3 east. The caravan will do a “drive by” but will not

stop, so please be ready to join us at approximately 12:30 pm.

The final staging area is at the Tech Center in Dahlgren, just before the 301 bridge, at approximately

1:10 pm. We leave when the police arrive. They will escort us over the bridge into Maryland.

ETA at Captain Billy’s is 2 pm. Generous parking is available.

If interested in the menu, you can check it out at: https://captbillys.com/Menu.html .

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MAR BIRTHDAYS MAR ANNIVERSARIES

8th - Terry Hunter 17th - James Turlington 19th - Gail Hunter 23rd - Jan Rutledge

None

CONGRATS TO ALL!!!

On February 13th, members of the ACCC attended a dinner show with a live stage production of The Buddy Holly Story at the Riverside Center in Fredericksburg. Members in attendance were Mike and Bettie Shepherd, Dave and Gloria Greer, Dave and Ginnelle Benton, Al & Margaret McCloud, Nan Wehmeyer, and three guests.

The production told the true story of Holly’s life, his rise to fame from the moment of his 1957 hit “That’ll Be the Day” until his tragic death on “The day the music died.” Buddy died with fellow rock-n-rollers The Big Bopper and Richie Valens. The show has become “The World’s Most Successful Rock-n-Roll Musical.

The show was enjoyed by all and if you did not attend, you missed an electrifying tribute to the man, his music, and his life. Looking forward to returning to this venue.

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Jimmie Johnson’s restored 71 LT1 Stingray, C7 Engine C7 Display

C7 Underside Display

2006 Daytona 500 Corvette Pace 2007 Daytona 500 Corvette

C7 Daytona Rising Corvette

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