Kim West 

Looking forward to a busy June.

Three great opportunities to participate in charities coming up

Don’t Forget to Feed Me is near and dear to my heart. This organization is getting bigger each year and supports pets and people in need. Please see the donation list on the website under Upcoming Events. Bring the food, items, and/or money to the June membership meeting.

Tarrant Area Food Bank, June 25th.

Cooks Children’s Group Visit, July 24th.

Spring Auto Cross is June 6th and 7th. Join in the excitement of auto crossing. If you don’t want to race, working at the event is exciting too.  Please see the flyer, registration, and volunteer links to sign up on the website.

Thanks to Lee Ann for obtaining and coordinating the drawing for the Four Person Pass to TX Whiskey Ranch. Proceeds will go to the Southwest Region Scholarship Fund and CTV’s Charity fund. $1.00 each, 6 for $5.00, or 25 for $20.00. We had a great time at the TX Whiskey Ranch a few months ago. I hope I win!

Reminder to start buying candy for the 4th of July Parade too. Also, decorations for your car. This will be a grand celebration!

Have a Corvette item, part(s), car, etc. to sell. See the new Classified Ads section on the new website. As of now, nothing is listed. Now that it’s warm and getting our cars out more, you may come across an item you want to sell. This is a great opportunity.

Let me know what your favorite food item you have eaten or drank at Sickie’s Garage.

Please be sure to RSVP to the meeting, see email from James. 

Kim West - President
kdcwest@sbcglobal.net

 June 2026 Newsletter

We had a beautiful day for our May social! The sun was out (and tops were down!) convertible tops that is!!! We cruised to Cassero Winery in Ovilla Tx. 

Doug took us on a wonderful tour through the county side. We had 18 Members cars & 5 visitor’s cars on the cruise. We had 2 more cars join us for the car show, for a grand total of 25 cars and 41 people! Everyone had a great time.

June will be here before you know it. Our club will be hosting NCCC Spring Autocross on June 6 & 7th a Burleson ISD Stadium, 100 Elk Dr. Burleson, TX 76028. 

We will be setting up the track on Friday June 5th starting at 5 p.m. Our club puts on the Very Best Autocross in the Southwest Region! We always need our members to help out with various tasks. If you have not ever experienced an autocross, please consider getting involved.  We need all levels of helpers. James Swaringen will have all the details.

This is the schedule:

Friday, June 5th: 5 pm Trailer Arrives, and we will set up the track

Saturday and Sunday, June 6th & 7th:

7:00 am Final setup

7:30 Safety Tech and on-site registration

8:30 Drivers Meeting, Parade Lap, and start Racing (must be here by 8:30 to race that day)

Saturday evening after the last autocross, we will plan to head to a local restaurant for dinner.

Save the date for July 11, 2026, we have a very fun and unique social planned.

We will be cruising to Clifton, TX to a vintage indoor theater with air conditioning!

After a private showing of F-1 the movie, we will be visiting a small car museum in Clifton. On the way home we will stop for dinner in Meridian, TX. 

Larry Schaapveld is organizing the cruise and tour. We will be joined by the Centex Corvette Club from the Waco area for this event. This should be another very fun social. I hope you can join us!

   Lee Ann Parker  VP/Social

Hi Everyone,

Membership stands at 112 members!

At the last meeting, I gave a report about the three items we voted on at the last Governors Meeting. One of those items, SR-2026-004-V3, I told you it failed. Since then, our emails have been inundated with (mostly negative) comments about the vote. It seems that Robert’s Rules, which we are supposed to follow, were NOT followed. At the meeting, the vote was 105 Yes, 52 No, and 42 Abstained. The standing rule change has to pass by two thirds. It was determined that out of 199 votes, there were only 105 Yes votes (not 2/3) and the measure failed. However, Roberts Rules were not followed! Roberts Rules states that when there is a two-thirds vote required, abstentions are not counted. Therefore the measure PASSED, 105 Yes to 52 No. It passed by ONE vote!

This standing rule was the one that offered half price MAL memberships to first-time Corvette buyers from a 2nd tier (used) car dealer that sells at least 10 Corvettes a year. If you have any questions, please contact me.

Cowtown’s first autocross event of the year is the 6th Annual Larry Hoaldridge Memorial Event on June 6 and 7. This year it is being held at the Burleson High School parking lot. The flyer can be found here: http://www.ncccswregion.org/2026/SW-055-011.pdf 

James has sign-up sheets going around, if you are willing to help.

June 13 is the ‘Cruzin the Arbuckles’ event at Ardmore. This year, it’s a one-day event, with one car show, five funkhanas and one chance rallye. The event flyer can be found here: http://www.ncccswregion.org/2026/SW-131-011.pdf  .

Flyers for all upcoming events are online in the SW Region calendar.

Save the wave!                                                                                                                 

Norman Walker

CTV NCCC Governor

Vicki Currey - Secretary - Timing Chair

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.  

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 ann.walker@charter.net 

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
macsvettes@gmail.com  

Ann Walker - Membership Chair

NEW MEMBERS 

Mary Anne Kolb

VISITORS

                                       Cowtown Members...Having Fun visiting Cassaro Winery

                                  Car Show  and Wine Tasting

Robert Geyer - Cruiser/Equipment Chair 

Hello Cruisers 

Looks like summer has finally arrived and maybe now the stormy weather will suicide for awhile.  So now it's cruising time. 

My current plans are to do a cruise South and East of Waco. Will have the details by our club meeting at Sickies so plan to attend. 

Because the club racing event is June 6th and 7th and with the 4th of July parade, I probably will cruise on either the 20th or 27th of June. I'll  keep all informed by meeting time and by email. 

As always be on the lookout for a special place for your  ' what I saw along the way ' picture and keep on collecting your Cruiser Points.

Looking farther ahead, Larry Schaapveld will be leading a cruise to Clifton for a special movie event on July 11th. Larry will have all the details for this one.

That's all for now, so lets all ' save the wave ' and I'll see you guys June 3rd.

Your Cruiser Chairperson 

Robert Geyer 

Larry Currey - Low Down Editor

Corvette Racing Muscles Into P2 Finish At Imola 2026

Corvette Racing had its hands full this weekend. Between the IMSA contest at Long Beach on April 18th, 2026 and the FIA World Endurance Championship at Imola on April 19th, The Bow Tie Brand brought its best racers to the grid. 

And that worked out perfectly for the No. 33 Corvette Z06 GT3.R, which finished in second place when the checkers fell.

Nicky Catsburg, Jonny Edgar, and Blake McDonald raced from mid-pack back toward the front, gaining a whopping 12 positions from the drop of the green flag. 

With a little more time, they could have raced all the way to the front, but as it were, the Corvette Racing trio never got the chance to dethrone the GT3 class-winning BMW.

Catsburg took the wheel with one hour, 40 minutes left on the clock. He nudged back into P2 with just over a half hour left and cut the BMW’s three-second lead to just 0.265 seconds at the line, proving that the No. 33 Corvette Racing team had a phenomenal race car under them.

“First WEC race and first WEC podium,” said McDonald. “I think we had the victory and the car to win and we had the pace as well. A couple of little mishaps put us in P2 but I can’t complain too much about that. Starting from P14 and getting up to P2, leading the race for a portion… Jonny did such a good job and Nicky did such a good job. I couldn’t be more proud.”

James Swaringen - CTV Webmaster

webmaster@cowtownvettes.org  - cell:  817-832-9812

June 2026

Hope everyone is enjoying the new website.  Please let me know if you see any updates or corrections needed.

New content on website:

●     I created a document and video describing how to find areas of our new website at  https://www.cowtownvettes.org/about#h.2ko3on5z3v5f

I need your help to keep the site updated and current.  If you lead activities, awards, or competitions, please make sure the rules and guidelines on the site are correct.

Also, remember, after an event, you will find a link to a Google Photo Album on the home page, right after the upcoming activities.  Please go there to see the photos we have uploaded, and if you have any good pictures you want to add, please email them to webmaster@cowtownvettes.org.   Also, from the album, you can download photos to keep in your personal photo collections.

Also, make sure to follow our Facebook page and like the posts and events.  https://www.facebook.com/cowtownvettes

Thanks,

James Swaringen - CTV Webmaster 

james@swaringen.us  - cell:  817-832-9812

Special Feature: 69 Years, One Owner — Bill Hatch's 1957 Corvette Is Going for a Guinness World Record

May 22, 2026 • Hannah Shepherd 

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

James Swaringen - NCCC Events Coordinator

ncccevents@cowtownvettes.org   - cell:  817-832-9812

June 2026

The Spring Scramble was a great success.  Thank you to everyone who helped and participated. Photos of the Event

It's now officially time to gear up for the Spring Autocross event, as it is coming up quickly.  June 6 and 7th.  I am excited about our new venue at the Burleson Stadium parking lot—it promises an excellent course layout to maximize the fun.

If you've never participated in an Autocross before, I sincerely hope this is the year you come out and give it a try.

Autocross does not have to be about top speed; it's about precision, car control, and the thrill of cornering. You don't have to push your Corvette to its absolute limit to have a lot of fun. In fact, many of the most enjoyable aspects of Autocross come from learning the limits of your vehicle—and your own driving skills—at moderate, accessible speeds. It's the perfect driving sport for any Corvette owner, regardless of their experience level, and a fantastic way to meet fellow enthusiasts who share a passion for driving their cars as they were intended.

We could also use your help if you do not want to race.  Please reach out so we can discuss how you can help. Thank you for your support.  Volunteer to Help

Upcoming 2026 NCCC Events:

Spring AX - June 6-7 (14 sanctions)   (new date and location)

At Burleson ISD Stadium, 100 Elk Dr, Burleson, TX 76028

Flyer    Online Registration  (it's not too late to sign up.)

Schedule

Friday, June 5th: 5 pm Trailer Arrives, and we will set up the track

Saturday and Sunday, June 6 th & 7 th:

7:00 am Final setup

7:30 Safety Tech and on-site registration

8:30 Drivers Meeting, Parade Lap, and start Racing (must be here by 8:30 to race that day)

Fall AX - Sept 26-27 *May change  (14 sanctions) At TBD

Fall Scramble - October 17 (7 sanctions) At TBD

  (Another chance to build and race your valve covers.)

Watch how fun Autocrossing can be. 

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 Mechandise
dforsythe817@gmail.com 

Mary Pittman - Historian

 LowDown Article - Historian

  April 2026 At our membership meeting on April 8th Cowtown Vettes will celebrate 52 years of existence! 

In April of 1974 a group of people met together to enjoy their shared passion for America’s sports car. The only one of that original group that is still active today with CTV is Jerry Lindsey. 

The group which started with about 20 members grew to sometimes over 200 members… as with all things that changed after 2020 and the Covid Pandemic, our numbers are not as large as they once were, but we are still going strong. We have a variety of activities hoping to provide the proverbial “something for everyone”. 

In addition to our monthly business meeting we have NCCC events…ie autocross and drag racing and scrambles, car shows, cruising..ie seeing the countryside in our Corvette, charity events, and socials. 

Come out and enjoy our history and our future. “We came for the cars, but we stay for the people” 

Mary Pittman, Historian

“WELCOME TO COWTOWN” PRESENTS

COWTOWN 101

May 6th, from 6:15 to 7:00

Sickies Garage Burgers & Brews 

6770 Fossil Bluff Dr, Fort Worth, TX 76137

https://sickiesburgers.com/locations/fwtx/ 

We welcome newer and future members to attend 101, before the Club Meeting starts at 7:30. You’ll have time to order food and refreshments before you are seated at the Cowtown 101 table or order later.  It’s all great food and drinks!

This discussion group will share how Cowtown works, the activities offered to members and what the acronyms and abbreviations mean.  Plus, we want to talk about what you are looking forward to doing with your Vette and your new Cowtown friends!

Please contact me by email:  barbsc6@sbcglobal.net if you plan to attend so I can prepare the handouts for you.  I’d appreciate getting your phone number and any specific questions you may have so my husband, Red, and I can be ready to help you.

We’ve been members of Cowtown for close to 25 years.  The club has grown and changed to become an even better way to meet the needs of our membership.  We look forward to meeting with you and sharing some of the great events and places you may visit with Cowtown Vettes!

Barb Greenfeder, Welcome to Cowtown Chair

817-917-0975

         Barbsc6@sbcglobal.net

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