GR-RRR8 R Wichita Pontiac Club s Monthly Publication April 2016 www.wichitagto.com GR-RRR 8'R Wichita PONTIAC DON T FORGET!!! April Club Meeting is: April16th @ 2PM 1525 N. Woodrow Hosted by Robb Nutt
We still need to get more pictures of the tags that we have on our "Pride and Joy". Only a few have sent in pictures. And if any one would like to write an article about their car or maybe an adventure that you have been on in your car, please share. Who knows we could have a section in the newsletter of "My Great Adventure in my Pontiac". I am sure there have been a few. We all need to keep working on sponsors and getting items for the Uprising. The club members are what makes this club a great club and our Uprising is an extension of our club. Sure hope to see a lot of you guys and gals at Norwich on the 30th. Should be a fun day. And super close for us to attend. Need to keep September 17 and 18 on our schedules, Pontiac, IL is a great town and an awesome event. Just ask Adam Womack!
MARCH MINUTES Our March 19,2016 meeting/tech session was held at Blagg Body Shop. Eleven members were present for the presentation by Derrick Blagg. He gave us a very informative session on what his family body shop does, "body work" and has for 3 generations. (Now I know why we have someone else do our body work). Thank You Derrick for all your information. If you have question on your car projects, give him a call, he will be happy to give you advise. Mike C gave update on Uprising Sponsors are key and have gotten some new ones. Thanks members for your work on this. Les to get second speaker of Friday nite Tech Session. Race Payout will be same as last year. Need to get caterer lined up for Tech Session. Need Gate help. Need items for raffle/door prizes Friday nite and items for the Silent Auction. Show Car awards will be as usual. Other business discussed as having breakfasts quarterly between October and April. Local area car shows coming up Norwich April 30, Mulvane June 18. These are listed on the website. Next meeting host is Rob Nutt for April 16. May Meeting will be hosted by Deanna Schottler. June meeting will be hosted by Russ Stuhr. Mike Cooper will host the October meeting. All members are welcome to host a meeting.
The Art of Restoration Gr8-8-8-r Wichita Pontiac Club Tech Session in March was held at the Blagg Body Shop in Derby. It was great that they took time out of their busy schedule to share some basic auto-body repair. Derrick Blagg showed us a restoration project (on a pick-up) that required some cab corners, front door boards and various structural repairs. He wanted us to know the procedure that they go through on various components in the restoration process. The second part of the session dealt with painting, sanding, polishing and buffing a fender on a current project that they are doing. It was a real "eyeopening" experience and very informative. " I had forgotten all the steps to a successful "show finish" procedure", said Mike Cooper. Another item that really stood out was the cost of all the required supplies. "It's been a long time since I tackled a job like that", said Dan Jones. Dan refers the heavy wrenching stuff and farms out the body/paint work. It's understandable, a paint job and related finished procedures cost so much. Times have changed in the body shop business! Derrick was very thorough in his presentation and explanation during the demonstration. We want to thank Derrick and Leon Blagg (his father) for their time and effort showing us a very interesting afternoon. Article by Mike Cooper
OUR FIRST CAR SHOW OF THE SEASON!! Our first car show was in Oxford, Kansas. We won a trophy for top ten at the show, which had over 80 cars! It was a nice surprise as we didn t expect to win anything, and we did get a ton of compliments on it!!! Everyone seemed to love the car! (I know I do!) We will be showing it again this weekend, April 9th at the Belle Plain car show! Hope to see you there!! DON T FORGET!!! The club show event for April is The Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce April 30th, 2016 in Norwich, KS (Drag City, USA)
PLATINUM SPONSORS Butler Performance Bear Tire Company FMI Inc. O Reilly Auto Parts Chance Transmissions Wilhite Auto Service Ben s Machine, Hays, KS GOLD SPONSORS Blagg Body Shop Halls Motor Co. (Ray & Jim) Sterling Body & Restoration Brightline Inc. BG Products Morgan Bulleigh SILVER SPONSORS Knipp s Halls Speed Shop Saum Engineering Smith Auto Machine Kansas Dry Stripping Patterson Racing Big Tool Store O Reilly Auto Parts-Goddard O Reilly Auto Parts-Pawnee/Hillside Kansas Fire Equipment BCA Powder Coating & Hydrographics BRONZE SPONSORS Holzman Racecars Cortez Restaurant Autozone-Ark City Redline Auto Repair Ron Stalbaum: (Berkshire Hathway Home Services)