Free State Corvette Club in Maryland USA Our new sister club

[Miss Independent]

  At our last meeting in was voted that we enter into a sister club relationship with the Free State Corvette Club in MAryland USA. When some of our members recently travelled to US on our club trip,they met up with several members of the Free State Corvette Club at Carlisle. Club caps and stories were exchanged and when Jerry from the Free State club came back to Carlisle our members had already left. He had brought with him some badges to exchange with us. So from this gesture the idea was born within the Free State Corvette club to approach us and see if we could become a sister club. The idea is to exchange corvette news ,event apparel and other happenings in our same but different clubs. If ever we travel to Maryland the Free State Corvette club will help us with finding our way around and letting us know what to see while we are there and in turn we will extend the same hospitality to them if they are ever here and welcome their members to attend our 2017 Nationals if they wish. Look for regular news and updates in our magazine as it is sent to us and we will be sending some of our event and happenings to them for their newsletter.
Here is a link to there website and we will soon have a link from our website to theirs and vice versa.
http://www.freestatecorvette.com/

[Miss Independent]

A few of the guys and gals from the club on a run. Jerry is the guy in the purple shirt who is their publicity guy and our contact . His wife Carol is holding the club mascot Jerome.

[Miss Independent]

Jerry has let me know that our care package is on its way to us. He sends his good corvette wishes to all members .We are going to do the same as soon as our  keyrings are back in stock.'
Here is a link to there newsletter in which we have a mention and also our logo. I have also Let them know we are hosting the nationals and they are going to let members know that they are more then welcome to come
http://www.freestatecorvette.com/Portals/0/Documents/gazette/Current-Gazette.pdf?ver=2016-02-05-052240-883

Here is a couple of picture of the great snowfall that had recently occurred at Jerrys place.

[Miss Independent]

Today we received a care package from Free State Corvettes. They have sent 3 caps a shirt lapel pins ,cloth patches and a coffee cup from previous events they have held. We will hang on to these until the committee decides weather we hold them over for our Nationals next year or put them through our club raffles. Many thanks to our sister club. We will be returning the favour once our coffee cups and keyring orders have been filled.

[Jethro]

How cool is that :)

[Miss Independent]

I've emailed our sister club and sent them a link to the Nationals.We have also extended and invitation to attend our Nationals next year.
We,ve received his reply with a video link to the event that they are organising. Amazing that they are expecting to host 1500 corvettes!! Enjoy the video. Who knows our next OS trip might be to have a look at this!!!I know Jerry and the crew would make us more then welcome.

Oh Tracy, these are great pictures! and a trip tp OZ would be fantastic!
Our April newsletter is up on our website
You can find it here on our website www.freestatecorvette.com
 
Driving season is just starting here with many car shows and weekend day trips on the schedule. We are knee deep into planning our 30th Corvette Weekend in Ocean City here in Maryland. We typically have about 800 cars registered and attract close to 1500 cars combined between participants and other Corvettes to take in the fun.
Here's a good video part of the parade just past the crowds many other videos of the car show at the inlet.
 

[Miss Independent]

  Our sister club has just hosted Corvette weekend 2016
There are some great photos and plenty of them here What a massive event. Click on the photo magic icon and add your email address to take a look
http://www.freestatecorvette.com/CorvetteWeekend16/tabid/65/Default.aspx

[Miss Independent]

This was a record smashing year for our 30th 'Corvette Weekend' in October and our charities will be quite happy when the checks are presented this month.
The weather was picture perfect which drew many more last minute entries.
We had 815 cars registered, 1417 people including navigators registered. Of those, 203 were first time participants.
696 cars road the parade route down the Ocean City boardwalk. 62 model years were represented and 85 clubs participated.
284 attended the fun show and we had 114 participate in the rallye.
 
This event started modestly in 1986 with about 20 members planning to cavaran to the beach for a weekend. The news spread and 60 cars showed up. It has since become the second largest Corvette gathering on the east coast, second only to Carlisle and has attracted cars from Canada to Florida and occasionally west coast cars as well. All net proceeds go to charities which is really the motivation that keeps us going year after year. 
This event pretty much consumes an entire year of planning so we'll be rolling up our sleeves again in February for our 2017 event.
We would be honored to have some of our NSW friends enjoy this event as well, and bet we could find some cars available to drive down the boardwalk!
 
Best to you and the club,
 
 

  Jerry



 

[bfit]

that's what you would call a good turn out
Bfit

[Vettech]

No Bob! That is not "a good turn out" - that is total kaos at the local eating houses, bars and resturants.