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Rear View Mirror - August, 1991: Planning
for 2nd annual Day at the Races; Planning
for Tri-Club Picnic; Kaplan's Beach Party;
COCSD's MCRD car show; Mystery
brunch wound up at Marie Callendars on
Miramar Road; Vista Town Center car
show; Brunch run to Peohe's at the Ferry
Landing Center; Happy Hour Jazz Concert
in the Park; Planning for COCSD Sunset
Spoon Scamper; Planning for El Cajon
Speedway Tri-Club event after COCSD car
show; and Chevrolet announces intent to
donate one-millionth Corvette to the
National Corvette Museum.
I managed to make it to this years Vista
Rod Run 7 (August 4th) as a spectator.
There were several Vettes there, ranging
from Ed Daher's '60 (as seen in Vette
Magazine) to a couple of midyears to Ted
from Oceanside's NOS late-model. And
lots of rods! Some strange things, too, like
a '57 Auto Union rustbucket dragged over
from the Steam Engine Museum. The Bel
Air Guys (remember them from our show?)
provided necessary doo-wop. Maybe next
year, eh folks?
The cities of El Cajon and Poway are
setting up cameras to take pictures of cars
that run red lights. The cameras will take
two pictures, one of the car in the
intersection, and another that shows the
front license plate and drivers face. The
city of San Diego will do it in a few months.
I would venture to predict this will cause
more enforcement of the front license plate
law. US Public Technologies, a San
Diego company that makes the cameras,
will process the film, identify the vehicle's
owner through DMV records, and mail that
person a citation on behalf of the city. If
another person was driving the car, the
owner would be obligated to identify that
person to the city. Cities won't pay
anything, but will get about a dollar from
each $104 citation. In El Cajon: along
Fletcher Parkway at Magnolia and Marshall
Avenues and Navajo Road. In Poway:
along Pomerado Road, at Twin Peaks and
Poway roads and the Ted Williams and
Scripps Poway parkways, and at Poway
and Community Roads. Eventually, they
will add more camera boxes, and move the
cameras around so you don't know which is
real. They're bulletproof, if you were getting
any ideas. We all have our front license
plates visible, right? $
Big Bear Bash '96
By Eddie Sheehan
Hats off to Corvettes West for another
memorable Big Bear Bash. Beginning on
Friday morning, the car show at the Elks
Club parking lot was hosted by Anything
Corvette's Ken & Sharon Hartley. North
Coast Vettes members John Curie and
Eddie Sheehan won trophies in their
respective classes. That afternoon and
early evening was followed by a hospitality
party, lip-synch contest, costume contest,
and yes, the famous volleyball tournament.
The membership of North Coast Vettes
are now the Big Bear Bash Volleyball
Champions of 1996, thanks to Michael
Danielle, Mary Linde, John Curie, Helene
& Eddie Sheehan, and non-members
Scott Davis of Apple Valley, and Chuck
Colton of Los Angeles.
Saturday followed with autocross and
matching time trials at the Big Bear Airport.
Afterwards, a caravan in excess of 200
Vettes with police escort cruised around the
lake, ending with dinner and an awards
ceremony at the Big Bear Convention
Center.
Sunday morning, five members from North
Coast Vettes left with nine trophies in all.
Thank you Corvettes West, see you at the
Millard Fillmore on Labor Day Weekend.
Membership News
By Helene Sheehan
Membership Chairman
North Coast Vettes
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