A Hint of Spring

Last Saturday's meeting at Ron Tumolo's house felt more like an early spring meeting what with the weather, not the first one of the year. Although Ron has a very nice garage/workshop, it's always nice when we can wander about the cars, we being Mike Puglisi, Darrin Hartzler, Daniel Goldberg, Greg Walthour, Ron, and me. Our host's project of swapping out the single speed wiper motor for the optional two speed unit went well, we also did a little coat hanger work on Daniel's extractor setup that was a bit low on entry to the driveway. Our other attending Corvair was Greg's '60, the rest of us showed up in water pumpers, the Corvair-frugal-guy award was won by Darrin with his $500 LeBaron Convert.

The start of a year is usually a time for looking ahead, with maybe a look in the rearview mirror to see how the road behind looks. From my driver's spot, things in the mirror look good - we got several projects done and member's cars on the road, our members attended quite a few events, and our meetings were a lot of fun. Seems like it was a good year for our Corvair club. I think we can make 2006 a good year too, we came up with several ideas for this year:

- Attend some more local events. With the way schedules often work, I hope we can also hit a few cruise type events that don't require a whole day to attend.
- Update our web site. We have several members with good ideas on a new club site, with several folks contributing it should make for a really nice site.
- From talking with folks in other clubs, many of them have activities for the non-gearheads in the family. One thing that came to my mind is a scrapbooking session (Ellie does scrapbooking). Drop me a note or give a call if you have another suggestion.

--Bryan