Club Picnic Sept 16th - Rocky Mountain Nova Club picnic was at Araphoe Park 44th & Indiana in ......
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Transcript of Club Picnic Sept 16th - Rocky Mountain Nova Club picnic was at Araphoe Park 44th & Indiana in ......
The picnic was at Araphoe
Park 44th & Indiana in
Golden. The picnic was
scheduled to start at 11:00
am. We (Tom, Betty Ann,
Makayla and Mckenzy)
arrived at 10:00 am. Dick
Matthies was soon to ar-
rive. Next to arrive was
Kathy then everyone
started to come in pretty
fast. Dan called and said
that him and Mary Ann
would be there about
12:00. A lot of people drove
there Novas and Mary Ann
drove her Mustang. Stuck
got the grill started and
soon Rick got here with the
meat and Stuck started
cooking. Every one started
eating. Kelly drove his ‘73
and Shawnna and Keith
and Rebecca arrived later
after a Picnic with their
church. There was plenty of
food and if you went away
hungry it was your own
fault. The Novas that were
there with their owners was,
Tom & Betty Ann’s ‘65;
Kathy’s ‘63ss ; David Bills ‘70 ;
Rick with his ‘73 ; Kelly ,
Shawnna, Keith & Rebecca
with their ‘73 ; Dick , Julie &
daughter with their ‘63 ; Dan
with his ‘70 ; Jim and Debbie
with their ‘66 ; Ron with his
‘63 ; and Mary Ann with her
‘71 Mustang Mach 1.
The nova people attending
with out their Novas were ,
Dale & Linda & Mandy their
daughter ; Stucky ; Ken &
Lavonne ; Ken & Sue ;
Stephanie, Xavier & Addison ;
JT & Esther and Sheldon.
Club Picnic 2
About The Cover Hot Rod Drag Week
3
What's Hapen’in Birthdays & Anniver-saries
4
Meeting 50-50 draw-ing Car Show Meeting
4
Rosies Last Show Club Oct. Breakfast Clement Park
5
Nova Round Up Rod & Custom
6
Club Information 7
Inside this issue:
Club Picnic Sept 16th
Rocky Mountain N ova Cl ub Volume 27th Iss ue 10
Oct. 2012
Rocky Mountain Nova Club
Volume 27th Issue 10
Thanks to Rich & Sandy McDonald for finding my Nova! They knew the people who had the car. They had bought a new Kia, and you can only put 1 car in a 2 car garage, right? So I was the lucky one who ended up with the 1963 Nova SS. Granted it was a bit on the rough side, but I didn’t care. It ran and I love the car! It had the original 194 engine in it and he had given me all the paperwork on the car of every-thing they had done to it. I did get new interior for it, seat cov-ers, buns, door panels & door & window handles for it. Rich & Sandy & Ron & Christina played Santa and got me bumpers for it for Christmas. And Terry replaced the rubber on the back window since it was leaking pretty bad, he also painted my Nova SS emblems he make the car look very pretty! Since the wheel covers were for a ’66, Rick has a set
of “63 covers so I got them from him. Since driving the car up a hill was like peddling the Flintstone mobile, Kelly & Stucky put a 250 in my Nova. YEA! ! I have a big block! What power, and I don’t have to worry if a semi is going to drive over me trying to pass me up on a hill. Not sure if I can remember the history on the motor, but I think it came from David Bills, Wayne Gill, Shawnna Horton to me? So it’s a club motor! Sorry if I’ve left any-one out who once had that motor in their car. Whenever I have a problem with the car, I know that I have lots of friends in the club that help me with it. Sometimes I can help, sometimes I can be in the way and sometimes, it’s just best if I don’t touch it. Not sure I can ever thank every-
one enough for everything they have done for me. I have managed to take the car to Nebraska, New Mexico, and all points in Colorado. And I love to take it to shows, but not to win any-thing, I just want to show it off and talk to people and have a great time, which I usually do. Around the metro area, I’m known as Kathy with the “unrestored” Nova! Kinda like that title actually. In the past couple of years, I’ve had more peo-ple tell me how much they like the car just the way it is. And don’t forget that I always hear that “my dad, grandfather, or uncle had a Nova just like yours”, and I get to hear their story. That is so much fun for me. I try to do something to the car every year, but for the past couple of years, that just hasn’t been possible, maybe next year? Guess that’s my story and just hope to see you at the next show or cruise. Till next time Kathy
About The Cover
Rocky Mountain Nova Club Page 3 Volume 27th Issue 10
Hi everyone, just got back from Hot Rod Drag Week 9/8/12---9/15/12. The racing started in Tulsa, OK. There were many classes registered. From unlimited to street classes were present (limited to 200 cars to race). Day 1 was great, Larry Larson (66 Nova) blasted a 6.948 at 208 mph. All cars must be street legal and drive to each track totaling 1400 miles with no support, cannot be trailer and must follow prescribed route with check points- rain or shine. After racing in Tulsa, we all drove to Texas Motor Plex south of Dallas, TX. In the morning, racing began with everyone trying to get there fastest ET. There were many nitrous cars, twin turbo cars , blower cars and naturally aspirated street machines There were a few crashes and blown motors. One third of the 200 cars did not finish the week. From Texas, we all drove to Gilliam , Louisiana. On the way, Don McMichael and I stopped to see my friend Ken Herring (Pass Time) Texas Chassis Works in Tyler, TX. He's building some cool cars for customers. At Gilliam, there were more fast times, Jeff Lutz (57 Chevy) did a 7.009 at 212mph and pulled the front wheels off the ground at 1000 feet going 200mph and did not lift. WOW!!! Rainy day drives caused problems with electronics for many. Next we headed for Memphis, TN. Most of the elevation was almost at sea level. After Memphis, eastbound across Arkansas to finish the last racing in Tulsa again, 1400 miles... In the end, Larry Larson won unlimited class with consistent 6.940's at 208 mph. His 66 Nova had a twin turbo 565 cubic inch BBC, 5 speed lenco, 9 inch 3.90 gear and 32x18 inch ET streets. My 66 Nova we drove 3000 miles , averaged 16.30 miles per gallon from 50mph to 100mph + and Larry and I were chased down by Texas Highway Patrol once and got out of a ticket. We had to jet the 850 double pumper fatter along the highway only once in Kan-sas on my 385 cubic inch. I ran 11.2 compression, t350, 3.00 gears in my Mark Williams 9 inch and not a speck of trouble, just terror on the highway. It's like a Power Tour with the fastest street cars next to you. It will be on Hotrod TV - Speed channel soon. Wayne
Hot Rod Drag Week
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2012
Cruises Every Week
Every Tuesday
Lakewood Co Cruise Night at
Pifler’s Sport Tavern, 11353 W Col-
fax Ave. 303/232-0609
Lakewood Co Cruise Night at Bor-
riello Brothers Real Pizza 120
Wadsworth Blvd. 719/205-2354
Every Wednesday
Aurora Co Cruise Night atRosie’s-
Diner 14061 IIiff Ave.303/371-8462
( May—Oct)
Lakewood Co Cruise Night at Del
Taco 43 union Blvd 303/929-6661
Every Thursday
Arvada Co. Cruise Night at KFC/
A&W7785 Wadsworth Blvd. 303/425
-0975 (May—Oct)
Every Friday
Loveland Co. Cruise Night at
Fatso’s Diner 1606 Eisenhower
Blvd. 970/776-9660
Lakewood Co. Cruise Night at Bur-
ger King Jewell & Kipling 303/989-
2665 (April—Oct)
Aurora Co. Cruise Night at Sonic
Drive-In Seven Hills Shopping Cen-
ter Hampden & Tower Rd. 303/680-
0139 (April—Nov)
Federal Heights Co. Car Show at
Sonic Drive-in9500 N Federal Blvd.
303/426-9722
Every Saturday
Aurora Co Car & Bike Cruise at
Noona’s Tarvin 13521 E lliff Ave
720/246-0309 ( April– Oct)
Englewood Co Cars & Coffee at
Burger King Arapahoe Rd & Poto-
mac 303/771-3399
Shows
Oct 6th Johnstown Co The Show before the Snow 970/534-0776 Erie Co Harvest Fest Car Show 303/859-3213 Oct 28th Loveland Co Race car Show at Trackside Collectiblies at the Orchards Shopping Center 29th St & Hwy287 for circle Track and Drag cars only 970/461-1190
Races At Bandimere Oct 3 CSP “Take it to the Track” Night Oct 5 Club Clash presented by Corvette Connection Oct 6 Grand Prix Motorsports Fall Racing Series / Nitro Knockouts Oct 7 Purifoy Chevrolet Fast 16 / Madcap Racing Engines Quick 16 / Fineline 16 / MagnaFuel Su-per Series / Sunoco King Street Series /Doug's Balancing Sled Challenge/Titan 16 Shootout/ Flathead-Inline Oct 12 Club Clash presented by Corvette Connection Oct 13 Grand Prix Motorsports Fall Racing Series / Sunoco Chal-lenge / Doug's Balancing Sled Challenge Oct 14 Bracket Bash - Grand Prix Motorsports Fall Racing Series
Be sure and call and Confirm before Traveling
What’s Happen’in Page
A lot of the information on this page comes from the Latest Scoop. For a Subscription and the cost call 970/686-6155 or Visit wwwscoopautoevents.com
Birthdays For Oct. Tom Koehler – Oct 7 Rebecca Horton—Oct 6 Tyler Morrison – Oct 12 Kelly Horton– Oct 27 Kathy Burton–Oct 29
Anniversaries For Oct. None
50/50 Winners for Sept Meeting
Bobbie Kozlowski $13.00
Linda choose the mystery
box.
Helen got the magazine.
Car Show Committee Meeting Sept. 30, 2012
This meeting was at Great Scott Eatery. At this meeting we picked a T-Shirt Vendor for 2013. Stuck took pictures of the winners for 2012. Ken’s Nova is the T-shirt Nova for 2013. It’s not to early to start on Major sponsors. We need the Major sponsors to survive. Only 3 people showed up for this meeting. We still accomplished what had to get done. We picked a T-Shirt vendor. The shirts this year will be a Digitals Print shirt. The bottom cost is about the same, but we can add to the order as close as 48hrs before the show. We hope this will help on the shirts that are left over. All of the sponsors will be in color. I will check to see if grey shirts are the same price as white. The T-Shirt Comp. will give us Staff shirts for a spot on the back. The art work can be changed with out any problems. Club members who want event T-Shirts will be charged a small amount to help off set the cost of T-Shirts. This amount will be decided on at a later meeting. Some other cuts were talked about to help offset the cost of the show. We will discuss these at a later meeting also. This year Esther and JT will be in charge of Reg. The Door Prize tent was turned over to Dale & Linda. They will collect the door prizes from all the members and give them away at the show. It is eve-ryone's responsibility to get out and get some door prizes. When it comes time to sign up the workers, these people will decide how many people they need to help them.
The Nova Round Up took place
on Sunday the 23rd of Sept.
We arrived at 6:15 to get set up
and start letting in the Club No-
vas then the Round Up Novas.
We had to wait for the mainte-
nance man to let us in . He was
late but at least he did show up.
We had 13 club cars and 8 other
Novas. Not the turn out I had
hoped for. But we did gain some
new members and let others
know we are still active.
We gave away 3 plaques. One
was club pick, one was work in
progress and one for long dis-
tance.
The Nova Round Up will take place
again in 2013.
The plaques for 2013 will have the
same Nova that will be the Nova for
The Great Machine Car Show. For 2013
this Nova is Ken Frazier
Al Gutierrez with a 63’ SS
out of Idaho Springs
Gabriel Moreno with a 63’ SS
from Commerce City
Trudy Fralick with a 63’ Chevy II
people who were not on the old list. I
have asked for a current list and hope
to get one this month. If I don’t have the
information I can’t put it in the news
letter.
From time to time, well almost all the
time, I miss spell a bunch of words.
Spell check has no idea what I’m trying
to spell. Betty Ann spell checks for me
and Dan spell checks also, and check
If people who attend shows
could just take a little time and
give me a little article about the
show they attend and the people
that attended it, the news letter
would be much more enjoyable
to read, and people might decide
to go to that show next year. I
have been working off of an old
list for birthdays and Anniversa-
ries so I have missed some new
for other mistakes. Sometimes a
misspelled word slips by ( sorry
about that) but we try and do
everything we can to catch them.
A mistake is never planned but
does slip by from time to time.
Nova Round Up
News letter
and answer questions. We had the same
Novas for the last few years, it would be
nice to see some new Novas. We have
time to think about putting your Nova in
this Show. The Club will pay for your entry
fee. If you want Judged you will have to
pay the extra cost
yourself.
This show is Thanksgiving week
end. In the past years Dan Pace
has gotten us a good spot at this
show. It would be nice to have 4
Novas at this show. If possible a
‘62-63’-’64-65’ a ‘66 or ’67 and a
late model. We always wait till
Nov. to decide on the Novas for
the show. It’s a rough weekend.
Friday & Sat 9:00am to 9:00 Pm.
And Sunday 9:00am to 6:00 Pm
then tear down. We will need
people to man the Nova Spot
and pass out Nova information
Rod & Custom Show
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Rosies last show for the year
was on Sat. Oct the 28th . It was
a good show with over a 135
cars attending. The Nova people
were Dale & Linda, Wayne Gill,
Ron Van Nattan, Tom& Betty
Ann ,Makayla, Mckenzy. A old
member was also there, Chris &
Paula .
The Wed. night group was there
in full force with Kathy missing because of
illness.
Tom & Sheila came in the Pt Cruiser be-
cause the Street Rod had starter prob-
lems.
At Rosies on Wed. night they put your
name in a pot for a drawing at this last
show for $300.00
Our member Ron was the lucky
winner!!!!
I would like to thank JT for the arti-cle he done for the Sept. News let-
ter about the Gunnison Car Show
& Crested Butte Breakfast Cruise
I would like to thank Kathy for the article she wrote for the Sept. news
letter on the Cussler Mu-
seum .
It would be nice to see more Articles in the news letter about different
Rosies Last Show for the year
Articles last Month
attending were, Dale and Linda Brazee, Jim and Debbie Van Coevern, JT and Esther, Dave Bills and Ken Frazier. Dale brought a huge canopy that protected us all from the sun. Thanks Dale and Linda for the canopy and the goodies. The weather was perfect, it started out cool, but by 10 am it was great. Not too hot with a slight breeze. The music was typical car show of 60's and 70's and an occasional dip back into the 50's. The event was very well organized as in prior years and there was lots to do with the whole Clement Park filled with activities; Music, hot air balloons, car show, pancake breakfast, arts & crafts, ex-hibits, kids' activities and a food court. There was a large number of Mus-tangs of all years (big surprise) with many GM, Ford and Mopar beauties
along with unique cars that were worth seeing. There were at least 600 cars, trucks and motorcycles there for everyone to inspect and en-joy. The judging ended and the awards ceremony began about 2pm. The RMNC took a sweep of the Nova class with 3 of us getting trophies. Ken Frazier, JT and Dave Bills. Nice aluminum colored drag race light tree style with an "Award of Excellence" plaque on it. We were all very happy. Leaving was easy and the traffic was light for the cruise home. We all look forward to next year.
We met at the Park and Ride by Hampton and Wadsworth about 7am to find Dale unable to start his Nova. We saw little fuel in the filter and we took off the air cleaner and there was no accelerator pump working either. So it was a bad fuel pump. Dale got a ride and came back with a new pump and changed it out in record time. He made the show on time but wasn't able to park with us. He was only about 50 yards away. The entry route was the same as last year but some-how much more efficient. I only had to stop once, follow-ing the guides all over the park. We were set up in Sec-tion AA. The club members
Clement Park Sept. the 15th
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Oct’s Breakfast Outing is Oct. 14th 2012
October Club Breakfast will be at Rosies on Oct.14th 2012 in Aurora at 9:00am rsvp to Sheldon
@ [email protected] please respond by Oct 12.2012
Rosies is at Hwy225 and Iliff go east on Iliff to first light then left Rosies is on the left
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Web Master Dan Pace
Sunshine Person Esther Taylor
Historian Kathy Burton
Newsletter Editor
Tom Koehler
Car Show Chairperson
Tom Koehler
Coffee People
Our Meetings
The 4th Wed. of each month at Go Chevrolet I 25 and the Boulder Turnpike in the
Chevrolet building on the 2nd. Floor starting at 7:00 sharp.
We are dedicated to the preservation, restoration, rodding, and history of the
62-79 Chevy II and Nova
We are an association of owners and enthusiasts of ‘62 - ‘79 Chevy II’s and Novas. .
The Rocky Mountain Nova Club has established a fellowship of Nova enthusiasts in the Rocky Mountain area. Our club is made up of Original ,Restored, Customs, Modified, Daily Drivers, Race , and Novas in process. Ownership of a Chevy II or Nova is not a requirement to belong in
the club.
WE have our own Rocky Chapter Newsletter which we distribute monthly to our members. Our newsletter informs our members of up coming local area and major car shows and cruises that are scheduled, also nova parts that our members wish to buy or sale, as well as upcoming ac-
tivities that we have scheduled for our club.
Our club does several fun outings during the year, we try to take mini Nova Cruises, as well as
one 4-5 day trip per year, and when possible, we take our Novas.
The RMNC holds a one day car show, for everyone, not just novas, every year, usually the first
Sunday in May, and has put this show on for more than 17 years.
President Ken Frazier
Vice President Stuck
Treasurer Rick Ellinger
Secretary Sheldon Brunn
