The January 2021 newsletter - Text Version
Updated 25-Dec-2020 ==== Copyright (c) 2021 Corvairs of New Mexico
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January 2021 / VOLUME 47 / NUMBER 1 / ISSUE 544
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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 2nd at 10:00AM
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 / CORONAVIRUS
THIS MONTH
President: What's Up Dave ...................... David Huntoon
Dues Due Dates .......................... Membership Committee
December Meetings Cancelled ............. Coronavirus/Covid-19
Holiday Donation Opportunity ........................ Kay Sutt
Albuquerque "Route 66" Tri-State # 1 ............. Terry Price
Corvair Neon Sign ................................. Dave Allin
Idle Gossip ....................................... Dave Allin
Corvair Stars in Season 2 of Fargo .............. Movie Review
Treasury Report ................................ Steve Gongora
Birthdays & Anniversaries ...................... Heula Pittman
Our Golden Age ................................... Jim Pittman
Our First Editor: Mark Morgan ......................... Editor
Mark Morgan: Artist Extraordinary ..................... Editor
Mark Morgan: St. Louis Triumph Owners Club ............ Editor
Dennis Pleau ............................. Facebook Group Obit
December Article on Spam .......... Comments by Charlie Biddle
Membership Roster, December 2020 ...................... Editor
Calendar of Coming Events ................. Board of Directors
January Issues, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35 Years Ago ... Club Historian
COVER: A Mark Morgan Race Car Design Fantasy from 2019.
COVER: Two Drawings from the 1996 Albuquerque CORSA Convention
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OFFICERS and VOLUNTEERS
President David Huntoon 505-281-9616 corvair66 @ aol.com
Vice-President Tarmo Sutt 505-690-2046 tarmo @ juno.com
Secretary Kay Sutt 505-471-1153 tarmo @ juno.com
Treasurer Steve Gongora 505-220-7401 stevegongora @ msn.com
Membership Linda Soukup 763-226-0707 feathersandfur.ls @ gmail.com
Car Council Tony Berbig 763-226-0707 studeboytony @ gmail.com
Merchandise Vickie Hall 505-865-5574 patandvickiehall @ q.com
Sunshine Heula Pittman 505-275-2195 heula @ q.com
Newsletter Jim Pittman 505-275-2195 jimp @ unm.edu
Old Route 66 Greg Nelson 505-400-8670 fesedu @ comcast.net
Past President Ray Trujillo 505-814-8373 rtrujilloabq505 @ gmail.com
Past President Pat Hall 505-620-5574 patandvickiehall @ q.com
Past President Dave Allin 505-410-9668 dnjallin @ gmail.com
MEETINGS: Regular Meeting for January
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 / CORONAVIRUS
INTERNET: CORSA's home page www.corvair.org/
CNM's newsletters www.unm.edu/~jimp/
New Mexico Council of Car Clubs www.nmcarcouncil.com/
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DUES DUE DATES JANUARY 2021
DUE LAST MONTH ================= INACTIVE DATE
2020.12 David Huntoon 25-JAN-2021
2020.12 Lee Reider 25-JAN-2021
DUE THIS MONTH ================== INACTIVE DATE
2021.01 Fred & Brenda Edeskuty 25-FEB-2021
2021.01 Connie & Robert McBreen 25-FEB-2021
DUE NEXT MONTH ================= INACTIVE DATE
2021.02 Linda & Anthony Berbig 25-MAR-2021
DUE MARCH 2021 ================== INACTIVE DATE
2021.03 Barbara & Gordon Johnson 25-APR-2021
2021.03 Kelli & Mark Morgan 25-APR-2021
2021.03 Sui-Fong & David Neale 25-APR-2021
2021.03 Emma & LeRoy Rogers 25-APR-2021
2021.03 Kay & Tarmo Sutt 25-APR-2021
INACTIVE ======================== INACTIVE DATE
2020.02 Larry Yoffee 25-MAR-2020
2020.03 Natalie Robison 25-APR-2020
2020.04 Conner Siddell 25-MAY-2020
2020.06 Art Gold 25-JUL-2020
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 16-Dec-2020 we have 44 active family memberships.
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PRESIDENT'S LETTER
What's up Dave?
Writing this 10 days before Christmas and still not really feeling it. Do have
all presents on the way to my family. I doubt any will forget this year although
wish I could.
We have the contract for 2021 Tri-State completed and it should be signed in the
next week. Thanks to Terry for his help on this. Not the kind of thing I feel
comfortable with, thanks Terry. As a reminder, this year the Tri-State was
scheduled for May 2021. Due to recent events we, the board, thought pushing back
that date would be prudent. October 15-17. All agreed it would be safer for our
friends' safety. Of course nobody can predict 10 months out but this seems to be
a good choice.
No board meeting in December. We will resume in January. I would surely like to
resume club membership meetings. Not likely for the next several months. OnLine
is the next option but I haven't any great response to that. I think we would
need 10-15 people to make this work. If you would like to participate let me
know!
RIP to our friend Dennis Pleau. RIP to Warren LeVeque who I met with my brother
and father at the Lexington CORSA convention. Both good men.
Farewell 2020, David
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Holiday Donation Opportunity
Kay Sutt
Every year during the Holidays CNM has chosen a charity to donate new or lightly
used items to help fellow New Mexicans in need, and our members have been
endlessly generous. Well, we can't get together this year, and because of the
pandemic donation of items is discouraged. But the need is great, even more than
in past years.
According to feedingAmerica.org one in four New Mexican children faces hunger
and the Roadrunner Food Bank says that number is one in three. Therefore, this
year, we are asking you to open your wallet and send a check to CNM, in care of
our Treasurer Steve Gongora at 8419 Palo Duro NE, Albuquerque, NM 87111. Make
your check payable to CNM with a notation it will be used for a donation to
Roadrunner Food Bank. Please send your check by January 15, and Steve can then
deposit all the donations and write one check to the Food Bank from CNM.
This charity was chosen because they distribute funds to numerous other food
banks throughout New Mexico where needs are the greatest. The donation will be
delivered in January, but the need is even greater after the first of the year
because food stores at the food banks are nearly depleted by the demand over the
holidays, and supplies are already lower than usual this year due to the job
losses and business closings brought on by the pandemic.
Therefore, step up CNMers and be generous!
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OCTOBER 2021 -- TRI-STATE #1
Terry Price
I guess the last CNM meeting we had in person was at the Sawmill Market in early
October. I enjoyed the venue and the meeting but I do like to have meetings in
our own space and not in public. I did announce, at that time, that we were
going ahead with the Albuquerque "Route 66" Tri-State this coming May. I thought
we would be done with the Corona-19 virus by then and things would settle down
in time for us to have a successful event.
It became obvious, as time went on, that this virus is worse than was expected
and a May 2021 Tri-State scheduled for this spring just was not going to work.
After the board discussed the issue, it was decided to try and postpone the
event to October 15, 16 and 17th of 2021 or to May 20, 21 and 22 of 2022. (A
major issue concerned our contract with the Marriott as there are numerous
financial penalties in the case of an event cancellation.) I think most of us
felt that postponing the event another year was longer than we wanted and that
the October 2021 date would be preferable. It looks like things should settle
down concerning the virus by the middle of this summer. So October 15, 16 and 17
is the date we settled on as our first pick.
We were still under contract with the Marriott for the May 2021 event and didn't
know if the Hotel would work with a change. As it turned out, the Marriott was
very accommodating and allowed us to postpone the event to the October 2021
dates with no financial penalties and gave us the same contract that we had
originally agreed on. So, we will have all the same prices and accommodations
and charges.
One concern that I had, and others had mentioned to me, is the October weather.
After checking the average October weather reports for Albuquerque, here is what
we think we can expect for the weather at the October Tri-State. The daytime
temperature should be around 72 and night time around 60. The chance for rain is
about 12%. Wind should be mild. Sounds to me like this could be a very enjoyable
event, especially if we are able to get a lot of participation. Come one, come
all to the 2021 "Route 66" Tri-State in Albuquerque at the Marriott Pyramid
Hotel on October 15, 16 and 17th!
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CORVAIR NEON SIGN
Dave Allin
A few weeks ago my friend Jud Butterman was here in Oklahoma City visiting, and
we decided to go to the Chickasha Auto Parts Swap Meet. The Chickasha meet used
to be one of the biggest in the Southwest, but not so much anymore. It's held on
the county fairgrounds, and this year it was only slightly larger than the NM
Council of Car Clubs meet held every September. Most of the vendors were set up
in rows in an open field that serves as overflow parking during the county fair.
Jud and I looked at every vendor's wares, and I bought a foam rubber kneeling
pad. As we left the field, I commented to Jud that I hadn't seen a single part
or accessory for Corvairs.
As we went back to Jud's truck, we saw a sign pointing to more vendors inside
one of the show barns, so we went over to take a look. Inside were only five
more vendors, all selling new stuff. One of them was selling reproduction
automotive signs, some just plain signs and some with neon. Thinking of what I
had just said to Jud, I approached the man running the booth and almost
desperately asked him if he had ANYTHING that said Corvair. He gave me a really
strange look and asked if he knew me.
I told him I didn't think so. He then asked me if I was in the club. I told him
I had just joined the local Corvair club, and he said that I must be the new
member from New Mexico. He told me his name is David Main, and he is in the club
as well.
Then he showed me the Corvair neon sign that he had just received. He had
commissioned several of them for club members, and had one extra that he was
selling at the swap meet. I immediately bought it, brought it home, and hung it
over my model display cabinet. It looks great.
David Main asked if I could let the New Mexico club members know about it, and
if anyone is interested in buying one, they can contact him. The price is $200,
which includes shipping.
You can contact him at:
David Main
PO Box 1886
Edmond, OK 73083-1886
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IDLE GOSSIP
Dave Allin
Since I moved to Oklahoma City, I have joined the Central Oklahoma Corvair
Association, which is about the same size as CNM. One of the members, Ken Frye,
is a lot like Pat Hall. He has a small cattle farm on the east edge of the city,
and he also has several barns and garages filled with Corvairs in various stages
of repair. One of the buildings is a garage with two lifts, and members of the
club are invited to meet informally at Ken's every Sunday and Wednesday morning
(until we had to pause due to the pandemic), to talk about cars and use the
lifts if necessary. Our regular meetings are once a month at a different
member's property outside the city where he has a large cabin/RV garage.
The idle on my Monza began acting weird, so I took it to Ken's, and the guys all
took a look to see if they could help. They adjusted the idle mixture and speed
screws, temporarily replaced the electronic ignition with an old points rotor,
synced the carbs, and timed the ignition, all to no avail. The consensus was
that the next step would be to rebuild the carbs. The next day I ordered the
Super Deluxe carb rebuild kits from Clark's, which aren't cheap, but are very
complete.
When they arrived, I took the car back over to Ken's, where we removed the
carbs, disassembled them, and soaked them in carb cleaner for an hour. Then we
rebuilt them using all the new parts from Clark's, and the guys were very
impressed with how complete the kits were, since they usually only replaced a
few of the parts when they rebuilt carbs. Once the carbs were reassembled and
mounted back on the car, the car started right up and ran beautifully. Except
when I tried to drive it home; the engine would not drop to idle when I let off
the gas unless I blipped the throttle. Back to the garage. We tried everything,
and nothing seemed to work, other than blipping the throttle every time I
shifted. The new consensus was that the throttle linkage was binding somewhere.
It was getting late, so I went on home.
Later that week I went out and messed with things, and crawled under the car to
lubricate the bell crank by the transaxle. It didn't help. Then I tried
adjusting the pivot swivel on the throttle rod where it connects to the carb
linkage. When I tried starting the car, it ran for a couple seconds and then
died, refusing to restart. When I went back to look at things, there was gas
puddling around the base of the carb, and it wasn't coming from the fuel line
connection. Thinking we had perhaps not tightened down the carb mounting nuts
correctly, I got my wrench and tightened the top one just a little. The lower,
however, just spun around. The stud had stripped out of the head. Back to the
Clark's catalog.
When I received the new stud and a helicoil insert kit, David Castiaux, the
president of COCA, came over to help me install it. It went smoothly, and soon
we had the carb back on securely. When we started the car, however, it still
refused to run right, and more gas came out the side of the carb. It was
flooding for some reason. We removed the carb, pulled off the top, and adjusted
the float, but when we reinstalled it, the same thing happened. Finally David
removed the carb and took it home with him. Sunday I went over to Ken's and we
took the carb apart again, and David noticed that the float seemed heavy. Ken
had a small scale that confirmed it was much heavier than one of the old floats
from before my carbs had been rebuilt. Then we noticed that the float was
leaking gas, which explained why it was heavier. We put one of the old floats
back in the carb, and I took it home with me. I remounted it on the car, and the
car started up and ran beautifully, better than it ever has. But the idle was
still sticking.
The next Sunday I drove the car over to the garage, and we put it up on the
lift. We removed the tunnel cover, but the inside of the tunnel looked like
brand new. We adjusted the bell crank and lubed all the pivots. Ken discovered
that he had 32 NOS Teflon pivot bushings for the bell crank, so we replaced that
as well. The idle still stuck. Then I looked at the rod from the bell crank to
the carb from underneath, and discovered it was hitting the side of the hole in
the firewall. So we removed that rod and tried bending it slightly so it would
be centered in the hole. It took us about two hours and five tries, but we
finally got it bent the right way. Now the engine drops to idle when it should,
the car runs great, and it even seems to have more power than before. But I
can't help thinking I spent a lot of time and money fixing the wrong things,
when the problem was a simple clearance issue with the throttle rod.
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We were watching Season 2 of Fargo (thanks, Netflix) and the man who just
killed three people at a remote Waffle House in a Minnesota winter night
staggers out onto the highway with a knife wound in his back. Here comes a
car! It can't stop and crashes into him. "What! Wait a minute, that's a
Corvair!" I say, and grab the DVD control to back it up. Yes, it was a Corvair,
all right, a 1965 coupe, driven by Peggy the beautician. These images are from
articles on the internet. - Jim
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TREASURY REPORT FOR 10-22-2020 to 12-13-2020
DATE CHECK# AMOUNT PAYEE DESCRIPTION BALANCE = $7,142.93
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2020.11.01 8649 $ 50.00 Dues T.Lawler 26 m CNM $ 50.00 $7,192.93
2020.11.13 8160 $ 25.00 Dues W.Darcy 12 m CNM $ 25.00 $7,217.93
2020.11.23 2394 -$ 100.00 Donation NM Museum Military History -$ 100.00 $7,117.93
2020.11.27 3845 $ 25.00 Dues R.Trujillo 12 m CNM $ 25.00 $7,142.93
2020.11.30 3508 $ 70.00 Dues R.Cochran 12 m CNM & CORSA $ 70.00 $7,212.93
2020.12.02 2395 -$ 45.00 CORSA Dues R.Cochran 12 m CORSA -$ 45.00 $7,167,93
2020.12.17 6089 $ 50.00 Dues J.Pittman 26 m CNM $ 50.00 $7,217.93
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2021.01.01 JAN NEWSLETTER ===================================================== $7,217.93
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Happy Birthday Wishes to January CNM'ers:
Lupe Arellanes
Jenny Finch
Javier Gold
Steve Gongora
LeRoy Rogers
Happy Anniversary Wishes to January CNM'ers:
Vickie & Pat Hall
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Our Golden Age
Jim Pittman
In March of 1974 I was one of a group of Corvair owners who attended an informal
gathering at the home of Carl Johnson on Griegos NW in the Albuquerque north
valley. The meeting was directly organized by Pete Colburn after contacts with
Corvair owners had been initiated by Mark Morgan. We thought it would be a good
idea to have an organized group to support Corvairs and their owners. In April I
was one of eight people who met with the purpose of starting a Corvair club. As
we started out we met every month and the primary activity was admiring each
other's Corvairs. Francis Boydston proposed to the group, and then organized, a
Corvairs-only car show under the Pyramid at the new Winrock Center. By the end
of the year Mark Morgan had started our newsletter and by August 1975 Steve
Gongora and other members had put the club on the map with their presence at a
"mini convention" in Denver.
Over the years the club gained enthusiastic and active new members. We developed
traditions that lasted over the years. LeRoy Rogers started club auctions to
raise money. Bill Reider provided tech talks at meetings and other members
contributed, notably George Morin, Ike Meissner, Robin DeVore, Larry Blair and
Tarmo Sutt. Robert Gold became an enthusiast for getting club members into the
State Fair for free, along with their cars, to form a highly visible component
of the Fair's car show. When the New Mexico Council of Car Clubs formed we
enthusiastically supported it and the annual Albuquerque Museum / Car Council
car show became a major Albuquerque event each May. Bill Reider compiled useful
Corvair lore into a popular booklet which has been updated several times over
the years.
The mountains around Santa Fe and points north are filled with beautiful scenery
in the fall and we organized what we called "Aspencades" to tour these colorful
landscapes. Often we would end up at exotic restaurants in Chimayo or Tesuque or
Santa Fe.
Our newsletter started off as typewritten pages photocopied, folded, stamped and
mailed, with line drawings for artwork. In 1980 an Apple II allowed me to
computerize editing and printing the newsletter, laying the foundation for the
development of a web site some twenty years later. At about that time, thanks to
Wendell Walker, we were able to get good quality color photos with digital
cameras and it became easier to get color photos in the newsletter. It became
possible to put color photos and color newsletters on my web site for anyone to
look at.
I drove my 1966 Corvair for many years as my primary car and never wanted any of
the new cars offered for sale by the various car companies. American cars, I
thought, were too big while foreign cars were too expensive or too exotic to
maintain. My Corvair was just what I wanted and needed. However I eventually
found myself looking at, and buying, used Corvairs that were a bit different
from my 1966 coupe: a 1965 Corsa convertible, a 1966 Monza Sedan. I even bought
one 1967 Corvair with Powerglide and air conditioning.
Meanwhile we had a wonderful variety of club members with a broad band of
interests and competences. Saturday breakfasts? Car shows? Tours to exotic
places? Tune-up sessions to learn how to maintain or modify your Corvair? It
seemed we had it all. We even had CORSA officers in our club (Thanks, Mark
Domzalski and Dennis Pleau) and we organized and ran a CORSA International
Convention in Albuquerque in 1996. With friends in Colorado we organized
"Tri-State" meets all around southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, and made
new Corvair friends from Arizona, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and California.
Last year's Covid pandemic seems to have demolished our golden age. Other
factors play a part: the loss of several vital members, the collective aging of
our core members and the paucity of young people who would join the club and
become Corvair enthusiasts, who would buy, maintain, modify and, most important,
drive Corvairs and continue the traditions of the club. In short, we were
already running on fumes when the pandemic slowed almost all of our activities
to a stop.
Meetings, Car shows, Driving events, TUNAs, Saturday breakfasts, Awards,
Anniversary parties and Christmas dinners were the true components of our
successful Corvair club. As newsletter editor I have always considered the
newsletter to be a key part of holding the club together. Previewing and
reporting these events is something like a glue to help stick us together.
To try to make the newsletter worthwhile during this year of no activities I
have been pulling articles and pictures from the past. Some have been newsletter
articles from twenty years ago, some have been recently written memories of
events from our golden age. How long can this go on? The pandemic, I believe,
will not go away until there is an effective vaccine AND until enough people
take it. Can we have a new golden age of the Corvair? They seem to be getting
more respect as a collector's car. Maybe we can keep them alive for a few more
golden years.
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Our First Editor:
Mark Morgan
Mark was in some ways the most influential of the founders of Corvairs of New
Mexico. Several of those present at our founding meeting on April 10th, 1974
were eager to get the club up and running and show what our Corvairs had to
offer. The second regular club meeting was held on April 23rd 1974 at Duncan
Puett's shop in the south valley. Duncan owned several Corvair-powered race cars
and I remember admiring them with no real understanding of the role of Corvair
engines in race cars.
Mark became our president and ruled over meetings with great enthusiasm. He and
several of our active members were soon putting on events, recruiting new
members and putting our Corvairs in front of the public.
In December Mark put together a surprise Christmas Newsletter (dated January
1975) and it featured Mark's drawing of Santa and Rudolph delivering presents
in, what else, a Corvair convertible.
Over the years, even after he left New Mexico for active duty with the Navy,
Mark contributed many drawings to the newsletter, some of which were featured on
the cover. In fact Mark started the tradition that the newsletter should have
some kind of "cover art" related to Corvairs or our club.
Here are just a few of the covers Mark provided over several years.
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Mark Morgan:
Artist Extraordinary
Mark contributed a regular feature to our newsletter that he called "Billiken"
and it ran for years. The first one we published was in the January 1990 issue.
In July 1993 Mark contributed an article explaining how the cartoon and the name
"Billiken" came to be.
Mark said he had been drawing as long as he could remember. He started
contributing Corvair-themed drawings to the Denver club newsletter in 1975.
After he started the CNM newsletter he contributed many drawings, and continued
after he left New Mexico for duty with the Navy.
As for Billiken, Mark says he was assigned to the USS Nashville which deployed
to the Mediterranean in 1980. The ship's newspaper needed a cartoon feature and
Billiken was born. The strips started featuring Corvair themes when Mark, back
stateside, was a member of the San Diego Corvair Club. The Billikens published
in Enchanted Corvairs Newsletter typically showed fictionalized members of CNM,
sometimes calling them by name. They tended to reflect actual current events,
but many were a reflection of Mark's imagination, such as his Corvair powered by
a special Hatch green chile - based high-octane fuel. In one sequence, master
mechanic Sylvan Zuercher tunes up a P-51 Mustang, and when Bill Reider almost
catches him, finds a surplus F-84F jet fighter, tweaks it a bit, and beats Bill
in supersonic air races.
After attending the 1996 CORSA Convention held in Albuquerque, Mark outdid
himself by sending in a two-page spread of cartoons based on the convention.
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Mark Morgan:
Editor, St. Louis Triumph
Owners Association Newsletter
Since at least 2012 (and probably earlier than that) Mark has been editing the
newsletter of the St. Louis Triumph Association and has been an active member,
driving a 1980 Triumph TR-8 in autocrosses and tours. I see their newsletter
nearly every month and it is an impressive publication. Articles by their
officers and members as well as outstanding photos of sports cars fill every
issue. Here's one of Mark's articles from a few years back.
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EXHAUST NOTES
NEWSLETTER OF THE ST LOUIS TRIUMPH OWNERS ASSOCIATION
WWW.SLTOA.ORG VOL 14, ISSUE 3 MARCH 2012
NEGATIVE CAMBER
By the Editor
Just a short one, to back-up Prez Creig's comments. Clubs survive and thrive
when they have regular changes in leadership. I've been in a fair number of car
clubs over the past 40 years (11 at last count) and have seen several clubs grow
when they have an annual or biannual turnover in the "front office." Conversely,
I've seen at least two clubs collapse because not enough people wanted to get
involved in helping the organization move forward and grow.
From what I've seen in SLTOA, we tend to put together strong leadership which
works well together: president, vice-president, treasurer and secretary. When
you add in the regular willingness of members to propose, set-up and coordinate
special events like our periodic drives/tours, it only gets better.
Our meetings see good turnout, are always fun (even raucous, which we wear as a
badge of pride in the St Louis LBC community), but March's meeting is
particularly important. Please make an effort to turn out, pick some candidates
for the offices and VOTE!
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Dennis Eugene Pleau -- April 09, 1955 - November 29, 2020
Just received news that Dennis Pleau died unexpectedly on 28-29 November 2020.
Survived by sons Michael and Steven.
Dennis and Debbie joined CNM in October 1990 and left for Colorado Springs in
the year 2000. Debbie died in 2007. Dennis ran Virtual Vairs from its beginning.
We have a few photos of Dennis and family from their days as active CNM members.
This is from a Facebook group:
Matt Campbell - You know you're from Davis when...
November 30 at 6:34 AM
To This FB community group, it's with great sadness to inform you all that a
valued member of this group, Dennis Pleau, passed away unexpectedly Saturday
night. To say the least, his siblings, sons and extended family are in deep
shock of his sudden passing so soon after just losing their father/grandfather,
Larry Pleau, last month. Who was also a great contributor to this group.
Dennis was an integral part of this community with his many photography posts of
the great variety of bird species we have in this area. He was an amazing
photographer who shared consistently the beautiful birds From the causeway,
bypasses and the places he loved to travel to on his day trips. He volunteered
and contributed to many interest groups in the area. He was very knowledgeable
in the history of Davis, especially the 50's and 60'S with the neighborhood of
Oeste Manor and the closeness of the Sunset Court families. Besides his passion
for photography he was also very knowledgeable in genealogy and loved finding
new and interesting facts about his family history. He, as well as his
contributions are going to be immensely missed. Rest in Peace Dennis in His
presence.
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Subject: December Article on Spam
From: Charley Biddle < clbiddle comcast.net >
Date: 2020=Dec=01 14:47:56 MST
To: James Pittman < jimp unm.edu >
Jim,
Excellent article about spam. Organizations like our car clubs can be targets
because of their occasional lengthy e-mail recipient lists.
I have been getting occasional e-mails from one of our former club members who
passed from brain cancer about ten years ago. Obviously, some hacker harvested
either one of his e-mails or a club e-mail from one of us who had included him
in the recipient list. They usually include a link to some server that is not in
the United States.
Under Linux there is a command called "whois" that can be used to look up web
sites. There is a comparable Windows accessible site, "whois.domain.com" that
can be used to do the same thing. The thing to look for is the city and country
of the registrant of the URL. Often these are in China or St. Petersburg or
eastern Europe. As far as I know, none of our club members have servers in these
locations.
I have also been getting a spate of hangup phone calls from phone numbers in my
area code, with legitimate looking names. The numbers look like random
selections. I kinda know of the telephone exchanges in my area, and none of
these are near me or are from club members. They never leave messages on my
answering machine.
There is a web site that can be used to verify phone numbers. It is:
https://www.phonevalidator.com
This is not one of those sites that charges $39.99 for reverse lookups. The
information it provides is the type of phone service (landline, cellular, Voip),
the service provider (AT&T, Verizon, etc.) and the general area where the
service is provided. Of course, they will link you to one of these high dollar
reverse lookup sites, but the basic information I mentioned above are sufficient
to get an idea of what is calling you.
Landline calls are most likely simply wrong numbers from people who misdial.
These are hard for hackers to spoof. The caller's name is set by the phone
company when the landline owner signs up for caller Id services. The caller
can't change this on their own.
Cell calls may be spam. Some spammers get burner phones and go nuts calling
people.
The ones that are interesting are those from Voip services. Voip is Voice Over
Internet Protocol. These can be legitimate calls. Many businesses contract for
Voip service connections, install their own computerized Private Branch Exchange
(PBX) equipment.
These can also be used by spammers to send out unlimited numbers of phone calls.
Because the PBX is a computer, like an average PC with a Voip interface card, it
can be programmed to send caller Id information of whatever they want. This
makes it easy to spoof the phone numbers and names that will appear on your
phone if it has a caller Id display. I have used this software on a project to
build a killer answering machine (I never finished this project, but I may get
into it again, someday).
Therefor, you cannot really trust the information you see on your phone's Caller
ID display. Because spammers can use any phone numbers and names, you cannot
block them. You can block one of them, but they will simply call again using one
of the hundreds of numbers they spoof with.
On the good side, if you see a Caller ID number from someone you know, with a
name that goes with that number, it is most likely legit. Spammers will not know
the details of your family members or club members.
Fun and games.
BTW, while I have been typing this, I received two random numbered hang-up
calls.
--- Charley
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== CNM MEMBER LIST == 2020-Dec-16 ==
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SEVEN YEARS AGO [ JANUARY 2021 VOL 47 Nr 1 ISSUE 544 ]
Jim Pittman
2014 Vol 40 Nr 1 #460
COVER: Larry Blair's NO-AGUA convertible on a 2010 Garage Tour. The Highway
Department replaced our Old Route 66 Signs. Steve Goodman described the damage
his 1966 Corvair sustained after being hit from behind. David Huntoon praised
the on-line Corvair Center for having helpful and entertaining content. Larry
Yoffee said planning for the 2014 Tri-State in Chama was underway. We published
many photos from our Christmas party at Roper's. A detailed tech article from
Bob Helt outlined parts and preparationd for an engine rebuild. The annual
member list had 48 families including seven from out-of-state.
2007 V.33 N.1 #376
COVER: A Galles balloon and an early convertible. At the Owl Cafe, Del Patten
was a moose. Art Gold was a new member who owned a 1965 Monza sedan. Jim worked
on a newsletter CD. Sylvan demonstrated the internal parts of a turn signal
switch and showed the things that tended to go wrong and how to fix them.
Certificates were given to those who participated in our April economy run.
Richard Finch told us about his daily driver, a 1965 Corvair sedan with over
425,000 miles, veteran of many trips, often towing race cars. Robert Gold
reported the club's first "TUNA" at Wendell's garage featuring an examination of
Lupe Arellanes' 1964 Monza convertible. Members were asked to propose Corvair
work at future TUNAs. At our next garage tour we'd see cars collected by Jay
Hertz and by Cary Hubbard. An article by Steve Goodman told about how easy it is
to keep adding chores to a Corvair project. Jim told about another trip to Baton
Rouge featuring a drive in a BMW Z-4. There was a member list with 46 NM and 6
out-of-state families.
2000 V.26 N.1 #292
COVER: Four Corvairs at our new sponsor, Galles Chevrolet. At our last meeting
at Casa Chevrolet, president Wilvert ran the meeting while secretary Vertrees
took notes. Debbie Pleau planned the Tri-State. Dennis Pleau reported that CNM
almost had a web site ready to view. Wendell reported on the Wheels Museum which
needed "only" twenty million dollars to take its next step. Proposed activities
for the new year were listed. Since Casa Chevrolet would no longer be doing our
newsletter mailing, we asked for some help for Sylvan in getting the newsletter
printed, folded, stamped and mailed. We published twenty-three e-mail addresses.
Billiken's characters commented on what looked like the first day of a new
century. In a Letter to the Editor (I get so few of these I treasure each one)
comments were raised about the qualifications of various members (Larry, Del,
Sylvan) to be full-fledged members of the Dummy of the Month Club. Anne Mae Gold
(definitely not a dummy of the month) called for all CNM ladies to meet to
organize projects they wanted to do this year. Possibly these projects would not
include brake jobs or carburetor overhauls, but one never knows. Four pages of
photos and the December 1999 Member list (we had 47 members in New Mexico and 11
out of state) wrapped up our January 2000 newsletter.
1993 V.19 N.1 #208
COVER: A sad, neglected coupe. Del Patten ran the meeting. Will Davis reported
$1468 in our account. New members were Lawrence & Geraldine Jiron and Greg
Gundgik. LeRoy reported that he found the museum at Truth or Consequences.
Francis reported on the GWFBT&SM; not as nice in Ontario as it was in Palm
Springs. Bill reported plans for a golf shirt purchase. Sylvan told about
helping an Illinois couple whose 1963 Rampside developed a severe oil leak near
Grants. Jerry planned to show photos from a trip to Canada. Del thanked Mark &
Mary Lou for organizing the T or C trip. Mark discovered Yankees in
Pennsylvania. Really? Jim reported on the Christmas party at the Pueblo Indian
Cultural Center. Storyteller Teresa Pijoan told about "John Laughing Eyes" who
owned Corvairs. Her story about the bear and the corn kernels was included for
those who could not be there. Brian Dierks told how a carb flooded when the
float dropped, the needle tipped sideways, then wouldn't close. On our member
list for 1993: fifty-seven CNM addresses in state, and eight out.
1986 V.12 N.1 #124
COVER: A Mark Morgan Rampside graced the cover. Clayborne was president. Guests
were Eileen Stone and Kay Bishop of the NMMVD; they told us about new seat belt
laws and about how to get a title. We had $628 in the bank. We planned a flea
market sale and a garage tour: Phil Maloof and Doug Maleki. Karl Benz was
credited with building the first true automobile, one hundred years ago. Bill's
column said the oldest Corvairs were now 26 years old, eligible for the Veterans
Motors Car Club. Bill told all you'd need to know about rebuilding your steering
box. A review of the new seat belt law came from Ridepool. Billiken had
his-and-hers matching oil pans for Christmas. The annual member list showed 61
CNM addresses, 3 out-of-state. One was far out: Wayne Christgau was in England
with the USAF.
1979 V.5 N.1 #40
COVER: Another Mark Morgan fantasy. Still no name for the newsletter. We
reviewed Mark's career as Club founder and Newsletter starter. Last month our
meeting was called off due to bad weather and Jim pondered what that could mean.
He decided we were keeping our precious Corvairs off the streets and out of
range of the mass of Albuquerque drivers who didn't know how to handle snow. Are
drivers any better today? Probably not. Tech tips: Ike Meissner told how to
avoid blowing cylinder head gaskets (use annealed copper gaskets) while Ted
Scheftner said to get your cylinder head nuts (part number 1488994) at your
Cadillac dealer. Dick Hartje reported an easy way to break wheel lug nuts free.
Sylvan suggested New Year's Resolutions and the editor listed 24 suggested
names for the Newsletter. For some reason we did not publish a member list in
this January issue.
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chartered Chapter #871 of CORSA, the Corvair Society of America. Copyright by
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