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Our Christmas Party was attended by 75 enthusiastic performance Buick owners. Trophies were awarded to Jen Pastorelli for the best appetizer , Shari Bonecutter for the favorite side dish and Carol Nunes for our favorite dessert.

Race series trophies were awarded to Tom Slodkowski for first place bracket one, Scott Pitts for best reaction time and second place bracket two, John Soffietti for third place bracket two, Paul Brelie, for second place bracket three and Dennis Butt for the fastest reported ET. This was a great conclusion to our race series.

This party is our way of concluding the years activities by having our members kick off the holiday season. Now to just get rid of this hangover.

	October 24th	Best Air, Finale	Rt. 66 Dragway
	Sunday @ 9:00 am	Seventh Series Race	Joliet, IL

The Fresh Air Finale held at Route 66 on October 24th, was well named. Scott Pitts as race chairman guided us through some really fast times. No breakage, as most of us ran personal best times.

Race Results

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	Oct. 8, 9, & 10 1999	Midwest Buick Challenge	US Rte 41 International Dragway
	Friday, Saturday & Sunday		Morocco, IN

The Midwest Challenge was still a lot of fun for all the area performance Buick fans. Lots of very quick Buicks, great food, and plenty of time to visit the vendors and Shari's crew while waiting for the track to dry. Unfortunately the rain caused a wash out Friday night and Saturday. Sunday started out foggy, it cleared off to 1/8 mile race on street tires at 11:00 am, with the program starting at noon. We had 84 racers and over 100 spectators who enjoyed the great afternoon for the car show and racing.

1999 Midwest Challenge Car Show Results:
Buick GS
1st	Harle Cordill	Warsaw, IN	1968 Red GS
2nd	Jeff Froberg	Bensenville, IL	1971 White GS Stage 1
3rd	Shari Bonecutter	Brookfield, IL	1970 Blue GS 455
Turbo Regal
1st	Lon Lutzow	Rockford, IL	1987 T-Type Silver
2nd	Joe Harrington	Lisle, IL	1987 GNX
3rd	Craig Tornow	Chicago, IL	1986 T-Tyoe Gray
Stock Buick other than Turbo Regal or GS
1st	Tim Duggan	Greencastle, IN	71 Blue Skylark
Modified Buick or Buick Powered
1st	Bill Burton	Kokomo, IN	66 Turquoise Skylark

 

1999 Midwest Challenge Racing Results:
Andressen V8 Powered - Quick 8
1st	Joe Rivecco	Plainfield, IL	70 Yellow GSX
2nd	Jim Wise	Minneapolis, MN	87 GNX / 455
3rd	Tom Rix	Spring Grove, IL	70 GS Stage 2
4th	Lawrence Clark	Chicago, IL	69 GS w/455
PT&E V6 Powered - Quick 16
1st	Ken Seggie	Toronto, Ontario	87 Turbo Regal
2nd	Dan Stezo	Hebron, IN	87 Turbo T
3rd	Odie Cantrell	Pendleton, IN	86 Turbo T
4th	Scott Simpson	Columbus, OH	87 Turbo Regal
Bracket 1
1st	Clarance Harding	Lowell, IN	1969 Chevelle 502
2nd	Ralph Pote	Downers Grove, IL	1987 Turbo T - Gray
3rd	Dan White	Hammond, IN	Regal w/455
4th	Mike Zaffino	Midloithian, IL	1968 GS w/455
Bracket 2
1st	George Wolfindbarger	Kankanee, IN	86 GN
2nd	Chuck Bahor	Indianapolis, IN	86 T-Type - Blue
3rd	Gary Pote	Orland Park, IL	67 GS 400 w/455
4th	Scott Pitts	Hometown, IL	87 White T-Type
Bracket 3
1st	Roger Keller	Arlington Heights, IL	69 Skylark
2nd	Ken Stasiak	Lostant, IL	70 GS 350
3rd	Paul Brilie	River Grove, IL	86 GN
4th	Tom Bracker	Lafayette, IN	87 GN

 

Points Results

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	September 26, 1999	Midwest Warm-up	Byron Dragway
	Sunday @ 8:00	Fifth Series Race	Byron, IL

What a wonderful fall day for racing. It really warmed up and was bright and sunny. We had 24 racers and 40 spectators cheering them on. Great racing. Some broken parts, but all made it home

	September 4, 1999	Fourth in racing series	Rt. 66 Dragway
			Joliet, IL

We had 16 racers participate. Amanda Egan did a great job keeping track of all the racers. Morning for test and tune and racing at 1:00 pm

Results

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	August 25, 1999	Cruise at Strats	Mannheim Road
	Wed. Evening		Franklin Park, IL

As many event earlier this year, it rained so many left there hard earned hardware in the garage. I've been told two hard core Buick fans made it.

	August 8, 1999	Summer in Morocco	U.S. 41
	Sunday	Third Series Race	Morocco, IN

Tom Sladkowski our race Chairman ran a great event where we all had a ton of fun. Results will be posted later this week. Now if we could only get the half that went to the Grove to tell us how there day went.

	July 31, 1999	Glen & Shirley Dempsey's Picnic	Ft. Atkinson, WI
	Saturday	Also their 40th Anniversary

This continues to be the Midwest Buick Picnic of the summer.  The Dempey's for their combined 8th annual picnic and 40th wedding anniversary offered helicopter rides, door prizes, great trophy's for best sedan, hardtop, convertible, overall best, best dessert and main dishes. We kept our cool under a huge tent, while getting to show off our Buicks in an adjacent lot..   I really can not say enough about the great time our hosts gave us and the party thrown.

	July 25, 1999	Chicagoland GSCA Summer Picnic	Brookfield Woods
	Sunday @ 11AM		Brookfield, IL

Well all I can say is that 40 brave souls withstood the heat, and had a great time. There was more than enough food and drinks for all who came. Great testing the GS and Turbo Regal in the heat to make sure they keep their cool. Thanks to all who came.
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	July 16, 1999	Third try for Friday Night Race	Rt. 66 Dragway
		Second in Series Race	Joliet, IL

We finally got to the track without being rained out. Perry Carlini had a little trouble with his car having a minor fire, but like a trooper he was racing moments later.

	July 11, 1999	Hollywood Connections	2500 Sycamore Rd
	Sunday 1:00 to 6:00 pm		DeKalb, IL

First annual cruise brought out an interesting collection of automobiles from North Central Illinois. Very warm day with little shade, but a great time was had by all who participated.

	July 4, 1999	Annual CCGSCA Car Show	Wilton Industries
	Wednesday at Noon	AKA Woodridge Gorilla Days	Woodridge, IL

Cosponsored with the Woodridge Police this continues to be our greatest summer event.  Frank Jackowiak packed a mean goodie bag full of great stuff.  We had people comming two hours early to get into this show. The lot was full with 160 cars registering, and we had four full rows of Buicks. A good time was had by all.

	June 22-26, 1999	Buick GSCA Nationals	National Trail Dragway
	Tues. thru Sat.		Columbus, OH

The 1999 Buick GS Nationals were from Tuesday June 22nd through Saturday June 26th @ National Trail Dragway Hebron, Ohio east of Columbus off interstate 70. Their was ony one little rain delay, in an otherwise perfect week of having fun with our fellow performance Buick enthusiasts.

	June 13, 1999	Meeting and Technical Session	Villa Park Masonic Lodge
	Sunday @ 10 am		Villa Park, IL

Tony DeQuick hosted our Technical session with the latest in radiator, and intercooler technology for GS as well at Turbo Regal fans. He has a lot of exciting new products comming out that was introduced at this meeting. Some will be available at the Nationals. He has a three pass aluminum radiator for those hard to cool Turbo Regals, and a single pass aluminum radiator for 455 GS's. The new stock location streach intercooler is close to a front mount in performance, without the potential for overheating. Very interesting and he answered many questions to help individuals with their particular problems.

	May 16, 1999	Meeting and Technical Session	Resource Center
	Sunday @ 9 am		Woodridge, IL

Our a session on Appraisals and Valued Insurance for Buicks, went very well.  The representative from Rally Insurance was very knowledgible and gave excellent advise on how to protect our investment. Insurance like andy tool, must be chosen with care and our expectations in event of loss. They are definately specialty car insurance experts. Mike Grippo a qualified appraiser appraised cars all day and we will have the numbers in a couple of weeks. About 60 folks enjoyed themselves at the session. We had food since the event went on so long.

	May 2, 1999	Samantha Rix Memorial Race	Byron Dragway
		4th Annual Event	Byron, IL

Since the Nationals are moved back to May our traditional dust off tune and test session for our members, was moved back a few weeks. We had 34 racers and about 50 other members enjoy the great sunny day at the track.

	April 11, 1999	Meeting & Tech Session	Resource Center
	Sunday @ 10 am	How to race and not hurt your car	Woodridge, IL

Our April 11, 1999 Technical Session got back to basics on how to bracket race without breaking our cars. We will feature folks who can help the beginner to experts who can help you reduce that 60 ft. time or cut the ET. This was fun, and help our members in the 1999 Drag Race Series. We featured Marilyn & Wayne Bachar, Monte Yackle, and Sandy Rapacz who gave very informative presentations.

	March 14, 1999	Meeting & Tech Session	Resource Center
	Sunday @ 10 am	B.F. Goodrich Tire Company	Woodridge, IL

Jack Commings the Competition Director with B.F. Goodrich described the technology behind our tires and new products available to about 50 members. He described how some tires are made for straight line traction and others for curves. He explained the Radial T/A and how it is built for competition appearance, the Comp T/A VR4 and how it is an all weather tire with better traction, the G Force and the Drag Radial. Very interesting technical session

	February 21, 1999	Meeting & Tech Session	Andresen Automotive
	Sunday at 11:00 am		Woodstock, IL.

This continues to be the Technical Session for Buick V-8 fans. This year Tom Rix scaled Katy Fisher's GS and gave us the fundamentals of weight distribution and drag racing heavy cars with lots of torque. Tom Andresen's staff gave us fundamentals on flowing cylinder heads, checking for cracks in components and using the engine dyno. We had 55 Buick enthusiast participate in these demonstrations. There was a great spread of food and plenty of time to bench race and remember our Buicks, that are safely put away for the season.

The volunteer page contains the lineup for 1999
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	January 29, thru 31	37th Annual World of Wheels	McCormick Place West
	Fri., Sat., & Sun	John Langston @ 708-354-4014	Chicago, IL

A great time was had by all who participated, and the members that dropped by to see the exhibit. Performance Buicks cleaned up again. We renewed quite a few members and signed up nine new members. The Chapter took third place for the exhibit. Members participating this year include:

	January 10, 1999	Meeting and Tech Session	Resource Center
	Sunday at 11:00 am		Woodridge, IL

The recollections of Steve Ledger and Dave Hartman who answered the call of Richard Lassiter to the first meeting at Bowling Green, KY, were very interesting. Since the interstates were not completed in 1981, it was quite a fun drive in a performance Buick in Southern Indiana and Kentucky. A couple of years later a dedicated group in Central Illinois formed an early Chapter. The principal members were Ken and Lisa Stasiak, Scott Liable, Mike Cunningham and Bob Bakenwell from Central Ilinois. Active Chicago area members included Gary Annicks, Greg Stilp, Tom Mogler and Johnny Gribble. This group formed the chapter to promote Buick events, which were rare at that time.

The nomination committee announced candidates for the 1999 volunteers.   We will have a vote on these nominations at the February meeting.