CCR-SCCA Central Carolina Region Sports Car Club of America

Chairman: Ted Theodore
Secretary:
Membership Committee:

Director - Todd Owenby
Autocross Rep - Todd Owenby
Road Racing Rep - Scott Franklin
Rallycross Rep - Seth Stepleton
Tuner Rep - Rob Parker

Autocross Committee:

Member - Katrina Hester

Meeting Minutes

June 6, 2007
July 12, 2007
September 13, 2007

If you have any questions, please contact Ted at (864) 915-5052 or tedagmar@juno.com

CCR and the Southwestern Chapter would like to thank Swagelock for their support!

Ryan’s Steakhouse on Lauren’s Road (Motor Mile) in Greenville.
Eat from 6 to 7. Meeting from 7 to 8:30.

Next Thursday night, we will have our dinner meeting with updates on southeastern motorsports events, sell and swap shop, and other regular features. Todd Owenby will be reporting on upcoming autocross events and Scott Franklin will be updating us on road racing events. A representative from the Clemson Sports Car Club will be on hand to tell us about their autocross in Anderson, SC on November 9th. (It’s not too late to sign up!) We have a great cross section or road racers, autocrossers, time trailers, rallycrossers, tuners and people that just love cars! You will enjoy networking with people with a common passion for all things with 4 wheels. If you know of any car shows or events in the area in the coming months, please bring the information to the meeting. Thanks!

Our speaker for the evening will be Michael Mitchell. Michael is the Curator of the BWM Car Club of America Foundation.  Both the BMW CCA and the BMW CCA Foundation are headquartered in Greenville, SC.   Michael started with the Foundation in 2002 and he has been full-time with the Foundation since 2006.  He is over the Foundation’s Archives, and works directly with Bill Wade, the Foundation’s Tire Rack Street Survival  Director. Michael’s motorsports interests include autocross, rallies and concours, and event photography.

Michael will be speaking on the Tire Rack Street Survival® school program which is sponsored by Tire Rack, BMW, BMW Car Club of America and Sports Car Club of America. TRSS is a safe teen program designed to go beyond today’s required driver’s education and give teens across the U.S. the driving tools and hands-on experience to become safer, smarter drivers. Trained and qualified in-car driving instructors are provided as well as classroom experience for each student. The reports we received from the TRSS training done  in Charleston this year by SC Region showed it was helpful, fun and productive for the students AND the volunteers who helped run the event.

Last year, over 5,000 teenagers died in motor vehicle crashes, the leading killer of American youths aged 16 to 19, accounting for more than 40 percent of fatalities in that age bracket. To reduce this number, Tire Rack Street Survival® has developed a non-profit, national driver education program aimed at teaching teens the skills they need to stay alive behind the wheel.  http://www.streetsurvival.org/index.php

SCCA Central Carolinas is working with SWCCCR to put on a TRSS training school here in the upstate next spring. We will discuss after the meeting how you may be able to help in making this event happen and making a difference right here where we live.  Todd has taken the initiative to begin this project and we appreciate his efforts.

Please bring a friend and introduce them to our SWCCCR group. We look forward to seeing a good turn out. Thanks for your support!. Questions? Ideas for speakers or vendors? Items for Sale? Write me at tedagmar@juno.com

Ted Theodore
tedagmar@juno.com
(864) 915-5052

We had an excellent turn out for the SWCCCR September Thursday night meeting. Five new people attended and we look forward to having them at future meetings.

Gary Ramsey did a great job speaking tour group about SAC and how they started building Cobra Replicas. Make no mistake, this is NOT just another “kit car”. The degree of attention and commitment to excellence is obvious in their work. Gary walked us through some of the history of SAC and his experience racing at dirt and asphalt tracks in the southeast. He said that SCCA has been a wonderful club for him to run with, make friends and share. He answered some questions on Dynos and gave us some information handouts to better understand how they work. We left Ryan’s Steak house after our regular meeting and went down to the SAC shop on Lauren’s Road. Gary, Jack and Joey had Gary’s monster Blue Cobra from the hillclimbs this year on the dyno ready to go. Gary passed out earplugs and fired it up. It took a while for the tires to warm up to get stick on the drum but he took up to 400+HP on his pull. It was really amazing to watch that kind of power on a dyno. One thing Gary said stuck with a lot of us “Running your car on a dyno is one of the most humbling experiences you can have.” Everyone thinks they have more power than they really have. On the other hand, dyno time is still one of the best ways to find all those little places extra HP is hiding. SAC put on quite a show and the tour of their shop was a real pleasure.

Make sure to visit SAC at http://www.southac.com/

Great MEETING! Thanks to Jack, Gary, Joey, their wives and family for hosting us at their shop. We wish you continued success with your shop and with your Cobras in shows and hillclimbs! Thanks to all who came out!
Ted

The SouthWest Chapter of Central Carolina’s Region will hold it’s next meeting on Thursday, September 11th at Ryan’s Steak House on Laurens Road in Greenville, SC. We will meet to eat at 6:00 to 7:00 and start our regular meeting at 7:00.

We will have updates and results on current events in motorsports as well as a schedule on events in the next two months (including the Black Lake 2 day autocross September 26th and 27th at the Michelin Proving Grounds in Laurens, SC.) We’ll also recap the Eagle’s Nest hillclimb with three of the TOP 4 finishers present! Great representation from our SWCCCR group! We will also have a trade and sell time so bring info on the junk that’s in your garage that is soon to be someone else’s treasure!

For our speaker this month, we have something special. We will be joined by Jack Abney, Gary Ramsey and Joey Burton from Southern Auto Classics on Laurens Road. Along with making some excellent AC Cobras from scratch, they also have a dyno , I have asked Jack, Gary and Joey to come speak to us on Dynos. They will cover all aspects of dynos from how they work, what variables they adjust to reach optimum performance, how to read your charts, costs and what you can do to make the most of your dyno time. After our meeting, we will drive down to his shop (just a mile or two from Ryan’s down Lauren’s Road) and they will put one of our member’s cars on a dyno and do a pull for us. This is a great chance to improve your understanding of dynos and get better value when you do take your car to a shop.

Take a look at their website when you have time. www.southac.com By the way, that beautiful blue Cobra that took 2nd place overall at Eagle’s Nest Hillclimb was driven by Gary Ramsey. Gary is an incredible driver and that is one wicked awesome car!

We really appreciate the guys from SAC coming to speak and look forward to a great turn out.

Thanks. If you have any questions or need directions, please give me an email or call.

Thanks for making SWCCCR what it is today! THIS would be a great meeting to bring a friend!

Ted
(864) 915-5052
tedagmar@juno.com