1 March 2019 www.cascadesportscarclub.org ISSUE 03 President’s Corner And just like that, it’s March. Do you remember as a younger child and how the days would linger on and on and feel like they would never end? How being in school felt like forever? And then you reach 40+ and the days seem to go by way too fast. So fast in fact that some days are merely a blur in the rear view mirror. Next thing you know you’re turning 50. Yet I keep being reminded I’m the youngster in the group. So this month is packed with many adventures. From the worker and driving instructor trainings, to the Portland Roadster Show, there are all sorts of places you can help out... and have fun at the same time! I know the roadster show is always a great one to attend as many people like to stop by the booth and tell stories of back in the day at West Delta park. This makes me think we all should reach out to members of the past and remind them that they are missed and that we would love to see them at a meeting again sometime soon. Just because they are not actively racing or flagging does not mean they can’t come and be a part of our racing family. Something that sold me on joining Cascade way back when was the atmosphere and sense of helping each other chase their dream of going fast around a racetrack or getting up close to the action on a turn station or in the pit lane. There was always room for someone to help somewhere and everyone was excited to teach new comers the joys of being at the track. The slang or signals and the secret names for all the turns around each track were like learning a secret handshake to a fraternity that few could ever join. Yet it is open to all that wish to come have fun. Now for the home garage update. To catch many of you up, I have decided to convert my replica Porsche 962 from a Porsche transaxle to one more fitting for the use. A Hewland JFR-200 will be going in its place. Unfortunately, nobody makes a bell housing for this application. So I am tasked to try and source all of the necessary information to make such a thing exist. Lucky for me, Hewland has all of the data I need on their website and thanks to another site called Grabcad (a CAD file sharing site), I have a 3D model of the JFR transmission. Now if only I had a file on the motor I could get this all figured out on the computer before I commit to out-sourcing the machining time. But there is a small snag. My bell housing build is currently on hold as I impatiently wait on Honda to decide whether or not they wish to send me a CAD file on the engine I’m running. I guess I could go out and have my engine scanned and reverse engineered into the CAD file I need, but that takes precious money away from the overall build. I have been trying to prepare myself for a while now on what this undertaking would cost me. I think the under estimation I have made was going to be the amount of time it was going to take to get it all done. Never the less I am still hopeful that things happen in time for the start of the race season. And if not, I guess I’ll just see what happens and maybe get a chance to test at least in hopes to make a run for the BSR championship in 2020. So if anyone in our membership knows of someone that can do 3D scanning at a discounted rate and help a fledgling grassroots racer out, please let me know. CSCC President Vince Vavrosky
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March 2019 www.cascadesportscarclub.org ISSUE 03
President’s Corner And just like that, it’s March. Do you remember as a younger child and how the days would linger on and on and feel like they would never end? How being in school felt like forever? And then you reach 40+ and the days seem to go by way too fast. So fast in fact that some days are merely a blur in the rear view mirror. Next thing you know you’re turning 50. Yet I keep being reminded I’m the youngster in the group. So this month is packed with many adventures. From the worker and driving instructor trainings, to the Portland Roadster Show, there are all sorts of places you can help out... and have fun at the same time! I know the roadster show is always a great one to attend as many people like to stop by the booth and tell stories of back in the day at West Delta park. This makes me think we all should reach out to members of the past and remind them that they are missed and that we would love to see them at a meeting again sometime soon. Just because they are not actively racing or flagging does not mean they can’t come and be a part of our racing family. Something that sold me on joining Cascade way back when was the atmosphere and sense of helping each other chase their dream of going fast around a racetrack or getting up close to the action on a turn station or in the pit lane. There was always room for someone to help somewhere and everyone was excited to teach new comers the joys of being at the track. The slang or signals and the secret names for all the turns around each track were like learning a secret handshake to a fraternity that few could ever join. Yet it is open to all that wish to come have fun. Now for the home garage update. To catch many of you up, I have decided to convert my replica Porsche 962 from a Porsche transaxle to one more fitting for the use. A Hewland JFR-200 will be going in its place. Unfortunately, nobody makes a bell housing for this application. So I am tasked to try and source all of the necessary information to make such a thing exist. Lucky for me, Hewland has all of the data I need on their website and thanks to another site called Grabcad (a CAD file sharing site), I have a 3D model of the JFR transmission. Now if only I had a file on the motor I could get this all figured out on the computer before I commit to out-sourcing the machining time. But there is a small snag. My bell housing build is currently on hold as I impatiently wait on Honda to decide whether or not they wish to send me a CAD file on the engine I’m running. I guess I could go out and have my engine scanned and reverse engineered into the CAD file I need, but that takes precious money away from the overall build. I have been trying to prepare myself for a while now on what this undertaking would cost me. I think the under estimation I have made was going to be the amount of time it was going to take to get it all done. Never the less I am still hopeful that things happen in time for the start of the race season. And if not, I guess I’ll just see what happens and maybe get a chance to test at least in hopes to make a run for the BSR championship in 2020. So if anyone in our membership knows of someone that can do 3D scanning at a discounted rate and help a fledgling grassroots racer out, please let me know. CSCC President
Vince Vavrosky
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CASCADE SPORTS CAR CLUB CALENDAR www.cascadesportscarclub.org https://www.facebook.com/CascadeSportsCarClub/
GENERAL MEETING: Cascade will hold all general membership club meetings on the FIRST SATUR-DAY of the month. The place is STARK STREET PIZZA beginning at 7:30 P.M. If the date falls on a Portland race weekend, the meeting will be at the track and the time may change from 7:30 P.M. So PLEASE check the website and Facebook for confirmation of the time. Everyone is welcome! Remem-ber our Banquet and last meeting of 2019 is December 7 at the Sheraton at the airport.
BOARD MEETINGS: Cascade Board will hold the Board meeting at STARK STREET PIZZA at 5:00 P.M. There is always the chance this meeting may change. PLEASE check the website and Facebook for any changes in the time or location. Anyone is welcome to come. If you have something you want on the agenda please contact the President before the meeting day.
2019 CASCADE RACE SCHEDULE
May 4-5 Rose City Opener XXVIII June 15-16 Chicane Challenge XXVII August 17-18 Dash For Kids XXXV October 19 44th Cascade Enduro
GEARGRINDERS RALLY SCHEDULE
April 13th May 11th July 13th September 14th
SPECIAL EVENTS:
August 10th Mountains To The Sea October 26th Ghouls Gambol
Start Location: Lowe’s, 13631 SE Johnson Rd, Milwaukie, OR 97222
RALLY SCHOOL: March 9th / Classroom North Plains Senior Center, 31450 NE Commercial Street, North Plains OR 97133 Class starts 9 am, ends by noon. $10 per person for club members, $15 for non-members
COME DRIVE WITH US!
Drive you own car on the track
HPDE / Track Days with classroom
May 3rd May 5th June 14th
August 16th August 17th
October 18th
COMING UP!!
March 9 Rally School / RATS meeting, Dupont, WA March 10 Road Race Marshall Training, PIR March 15-17 Roadster Show, See Web for more March 16 Instructor School, PIR Rose Cup Room April 3—6 PIR Swap Meet
SPECIAL EVENTS
April 12-14 Pirelli Trophy West USA—Porsche Series July 12-14 59th Rose Cup Races Featuring Pirelli GT4 America with TC America July 26-28 Portland Vintage Racing Festival August 30—September 1 Grand Prix of Portland
CASCADE SPORTS CAR CLUB, INC AUSPUFF PUBLICATION The AUSPUFF is published monthly for CSCC, Inc. The contents are the sole responsibility of CSCC, Inc. The AUSPUFF and its contents are
send items for publication to the Editor at the above e-mail address, to: PO Box 4304, Portland, OR 97208, or bring them to the monthly meeting. Articles are greatly appreciated. The AUSPUFF is provided at no charge to all members of Cascade Sports Car Club, Inc. Send all address changes
and advertising, both classified and display, to the above address. Submittal deadline is the 7th of each month.
Started 7:55 P.M. and ended 8:40 P.M. BoD Present: Vince Vavrosky, Steven Powell, Linda Blackburn, Signa Vernholm, Charles Freeborn, Mark Ling. Ab-sent: Bob Peters, Brett McKown Charles Matschek. Approval of Minutes from February General Meeting: unanimously accepted. Guests: Brian Lee and his wife came back for a visit. The Smalley family visited with us. Their son will race a Miata in the coming year. Committee reports:
• Treasurer Report: We have money. Audit report will be at the March meeting.
• Activities and Calendar: See page 2 for dates. The Board decided to maintain the CSCC Banquet for 2019. Date selected and held at the Sheraton Portland Airport is Saturday, December 7.
• Charity: Signa Vernholm: Making progress on charity but still looking for sponsor for raffle tickets.
• Drivers Training: Brett McKown: All HPDE track days are on MSR. Instructors seminar is set of March 16 at PIR.
• Race Chairman: Gary Bockman: Gary put on FOPIR hat and thanked CSCC for supporting the purchase of the Holmatro tool
• Enduro: Chris Heinrich: We will have a 2, 4, 8 Hour Enduro this year.
• E Board: Bob Hillison/Chris Heinrich: Report on Spring meeting with some discussion
• Contest Board: Chris Heinrich: No Report.
• MEMBERSHIP: Steve and Julie Powell:
• DOORPRIZES: Introduction of Brett and Samara Stevens and Brandon Payne.
• Marketing: Linda Blackburn: Will have date cards to hand out at the March meeting. Setting up for the Roadster show. Sign up will be coming your way.
• Points Keeper: Grace Skinner: No report
• Gear Grinders: Monte and Victoria Saager: Website and Facebook set up now. Rally School March 9.
• Historian: OPEN: Need inventory of what is at MJ’s store.
• ROD: Kim McFarland: New Road Race Marshals Training has been confirmed for Sunday, March 10 at Portland International Raceway. Times are TBD, but should learn more on that soon. A "Save The Date" has been posted on social media channels. More details coming soon from F&C Chief Patrik Lundin & Safety Chief Adam Jacobsen. Website: Charles Freeborn: Site is current as of tonight.
• Auspuff: Tucker Sheppy: No Report.
OLD BUSINESS: Gary is looking for a weight master. Meeting adjourned 8:40 p.m.
ICSCC EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING HIGHLIGHTS
NEW FOR 2019
• Two year competition licenses available for those who qualify • Expansion of the “observation license” which recognizes prior racing experience and allows those racers a
fast track to Senior (International Road Race) competition license. • 2019 ICSCC schedule includes thirteen championship races over eight weekends plus a year end enduro.
There will be one triple race weekend, three double race weekends, and four single race weekends. • ICSCC memo will no longer be mailed out. It will be available online only. • Exploring the idea of offering time trials and time attack events
BoD present: Vince Vavrosky, Steven Powell, Linda Blackburn, Signa Vernholm, Charles Freeborn, Mark Ling. Ab-sent Board members: Bob Peters, Brett McKown and Charles Matschek Guest: Gail Fetterman, Bob Hillison, Julie Powell and Chris Heinrich. Approve minutes for last meeting and email vote on membership: Because the Auspuff did not come out on time, the minutes for approval were tabled to March BoD meeting. Committee Reports to Board for February 2, 2019:
• Treasurer report: Bob Peters: Mark Ling gave a summary on what the audit committee accomplished. Thank you goes to the committee from the Board.
• Charity: Dash For Kids: Signa Vernholm: no report
• E-Board : Bob Hillison: Bob gave a summary of what would affect us from the Spring meeting. Race schedule firm, RATs meeting, geographic areas to 5 from 9, make sure information is right from drivers to T&S, waivers signed so can be read, Observation license approved, combination of Group 3 and 6 to allow time for “special type” race/HPDE groups, committee to study reducing barriers to entry of races, Cascade asked to help NWMS, if we can, monetarily for their race since they had to move their date for us in June and also the E Board asked Cascade to start earlier looking at dates for 2020 so we don’t has as many back to back races.
• Contest Board: Chris Heinrich: No report.
• Enduro Chairman: Chris Heinrich: Board approved with one opposed for the Enduro to be a 2, 4, 8 Hour race. Also we recommended no chicane. This requires less workers. The Board also voted not to have the Grand Slam again this year. It cost us around $2000 with the trophies and such.
• Race Chairman: Gary Bockman: The race fees will remain the same as last years.
• Drivers Training: Brett McKown: Instructors training is set for March 16 at PIR. The MSR events are all set up. The Facebook events for track days on the CSCC page are set. Potential instructors have been emailed a direct link to MSR . Working on training sessions. Contacted webmaster for some changes on the web site.
• Membership: Steve and Julie Powell: Introduced new memberships. Brett and Samara Stevens and Brandon Payne. They will be presented at the general meeting and voted on after that by email.
• Marketing: Linda Blackburn:
• ROD: Kim McFarland: No report
• Website: Charles Freeborn: Upgraded theme – other plugins. Streamline/consolidate pages. Consolidate track records and results
OLD BUSINESS: There was minor discussion of the following items: Visa card, updates to Facebook and website, mission statement and the SVRA contract. Vince is working on that. We ran late. Adjourned at 7:45 p.m. Submitted by Linda Blackburn CSCC Secretary
Email vote February 4, 2019 Board voted unanimous to accept Brett and Samara Stevens and Brendon Payne as active members of Cascade. Sub-mitted by electronic voting to Linda Blackburn, Secretary of CSCC
CSCC BoD Meeting Minutes—February 2nd, 2019
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1956 Ferrari 500TR Spyder by Scaglletti Chassis #0634 MDTR 56; Driven and owned
by Don Shervey
(Information taken from Weekends of Glory Volume Two: 1962 through 1970 by Martin Rudow)
During the period covered in this book, many Ferraris were just old racecars and could often be had for a little more than a song. Chief among the unwanted cars of the era were the 750 and 860 Mondials and the 500 TR and TRC. These 4-cylinder cars were built primarily to keep pace with the 2-liter Maseratis of the day a d only occasionally challenged for overall wins. They had around 180 hp and weighted about 1500 pounds, so their performance was good but not great. There were 2-, 2.5-, and some 3-liter cars, but they all remained 4-cylinder engines. Ferrari mechanics were rare and costly and one look at the engine bay of 500TR and more than one driver probably said, “Damn, I think we could put a 283 in the thing.” That’s exactly what happened to many cars of the era. Don Shervey was a good production car driver in his red TR3 with the number 84 showing up at many of the races. He also drove and continues to drive sprint cars around the Portland area. He got hold of this attractive car and its not clear if he or the previous owner put the Chevy V-8 engine in it. He drove the car for a number of years with fair success. Between 1976 and 1989 the correct mechanicals for the car were restored and the car was re-bodied. It most recently was sold for $760,000. Don would never reveal to me how much he sold the car for restoration. He did some but not all.
In Memory of Donald Shervey
Cascade Sports Car Club has lost a long-time member and supporter of Cascade. Don passed on January 28 of this year. His stories and memorabilia will be missed by all. He was born in in North Dakota in 1921. After being in the ser-vice for our country he came to Portland and worked for Multnomah County until his retirement. Don joined Cascade in 1959 and became a Lifetime member. He was part of the “RED” group that organized the first of Team Continental. I remember stories of the parties Cascade held in the basement of Don’s home on Killingsworth. They had New Years, Christmas and other events staged there with lots of “Sock Hops” because the one thing Don did till the very last year of his life was DANCE! His basement was decorated with much racing memorabilia and lots of Cascade items from his racing career. With some luck we may see lots of it in the World of Speed Museum. Some of his cars have already made an appearance there. Don was 97 when he passed. Don always had a story to tell. When Don first joining Cascade, we had to basically build the track which required tons of orange pylons. At this time Cascade was also staging autocrosses so more pylons were required. Up stepped Don Shervey. He “borrowed” them from the county so we could stage our races and autocrosses. It was a long chore to pick all of them up when the event was done but Don always made sure we got the pylons back where they belonged. He worked at getting us sponsorship for race back then. He got Mr. Plywood to help us with some racing sponsorship. Don was the reason Cascade implemented Turn station 9 on the back stretch. At one early race he came storming up to the communication trailer at the east end of the drag strip screaming at us as to why we didn ’t come pick him and his car up from the track. He had taken a spin off drivers left on the back stretch and put the nose of his car in the drink. (For those of you newbies, the berm was not on the north side of the track and it went to the slough you see when exit-ing Turn 8 gate). Well, no one driver or worker had seen it happen so the driver, Don, walked all the way back to the pits. Boy was he angry. That was the bright red Ferrari he was driving at that time. Don later went to Corvettes and raced his Corvettes in many of the Rose Cup races. At the age of 90, Don “traveled to Indianapolis to drive the Indy car track. His car would not start at the beginning of the race. It finally started when the others were about ¾ around the track. He caught up to the back of the pack going 180 mph and was the oldest driver to top that speed in history!” WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU DON.
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Help earn matching funds for CSCC Charity Fund from Fred Meyer by registering your rewards card. This will not affect the rewards you will receive. It is simple, use your rewards card each time you shop at Fred Meyer and we re-ceive a donation.
YOU CAN HELP CSCC Charity Fund EARN DONATIONS JUST BY SHOPPING WITH YOUR FRED MEYER REWARDS CARD! Fred Meyer donates over $2 million per year to non-profits in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, based on where their customers tell them to give. Here’s how the program works: • Sign up for the Community Rewards program by linking your Fred Meyer Rewards Card to CSCC Charity Fund at www.fredmeyer.com/communityrewards . You can search for us by our name or by our non-profit number SD228 • Then, every time you shop and use your Rewards Card, you are helping earn CSCC Charity Fund a donation! • You still earn your Rewards Points, Fuel Points, and Rebates, just as you do today. • If you do not have a Rewards Card, they are available at the Customer Service desk of any Fred Meyer store. • For more information, please visit www.fredmeyer.com/communityrewards .
Dash for Kids Please consider becoming a sponsor for Dash for Kids. This year Dash needs support for raffle tickets, lunches, dinner and t-shirts. Please contact me for details. We also are looking for auction donations. Maybe your business could donate merchandise or a gift certificate. When you are out to dinner or shopping at your favorite store just ask if they would donate an auction item. It doesn’t hurt. I can provide you with our donation request letter which really helps. How many of our members shop at Fred Meyer or QFC? How many of you have a rewards card? In the last quarter of 2018 Cascade received $50.85 by 10 of our members shopping at Fred Meyer or QFC and us-ing their rewards card that is linked to our CSCC Charity Fund account. Instructions for linking your rewards card in this newsletter This will not affect your rewards and will add money to our Charity Fund. We also are registered with Benevity as an eligible charity. Many employers in our area donate on behalf of their employees that volunteer their time for charities. Some employers also match donations to charities made by their employees. Please check with your HR to see if your employer does this. Thank you for your help and support, Signa Vernholm [email protected] 503-720-7971
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