Gathering 2022

[dandt67]

Made it home okay. Thanks to Bob, Mark, and Dennis for all their work in making BG possible this year, but most of all thanks to the team led by Jim (WAZOO) that turned a nightmare into an amazing experience.
After a smooth 10 hour ride to get to BG on Wed, the car developed a serious engine problem the next morning which turned out to be two dead primary fuel injectors. On Saturday under the leadership and technical knowledge of Jim (Maryland), with team members Paul (Missouri), Steve (New Hampshire) , Charlie (Maryland), Matt (Germany), Ernie (Georgia) and myself. We were able to finally get two new fuel injectors installed under less-than-ideal working conditions. The car made the 10 hour trip back to Maryland easily. Also Thanks to all who provided support. This is what makes the ZR-1 group the best in the Corvette world !!!THANKS!!!

[dredgeguy]

Had a blast and great seeing old friends and meeting new ones. Special thanks to our events director Bob for organizing this with so many moving parts....not easy. Many, many thanks to Marc Haibeck for taking the time to figure out my AC issue........had a good cool ride home with our group. Drag racing was so much fun, happy nothing broke! Now let's start thinking of Carlisle!

[Matt B]

Originally Posted by dandt67

Made it home okay. Thanks to Bob, Mark, and Dennis for all their work in making BG possible this year, but most of all thanks to the team led by Jim (WAZOO) that turned a nightmare into an amazing experience.
After a smooth 10 hour ride to get to BG on Wed, the car developed a serious engine problem the next morning which turned out to be two dead primary fuel injectors. On Saturday under the leadership and technical knowledge of Jim (Maryland), with team members Paul (Missouri), Steve (New Hampshire) , Charlie (Maryland), Matt (Germany), Ernie (Georgia) and myself. We were able to finally get two new fuel injectors installed under less-than-ideal working conditions. The car made the 10 hour trip back to Maryland easily. Also Thanks to all who provided support. This is what makes the ZR-1 group the best in the Corvette world !!!THANKS!!!

Great your ZR made it back home safely! Only 14 more to go now [emoji3]

[G-Sting]

This was also the first Gathering I'd been able to make and wow. Was great meeting so many in our ZR-1 group and many spouses, swapping stories, receiving driving tips on the track, and plenty of laughs. Thanks to all (Mark, Bob, Dennis, others) who organized and led this!

dandt67 - what a classic story and photo of the kind of folks we have!

A few pics...

[Vette Guy]

One of the best Gatherings we?ve had! What a great group of people! Had the opportunity to spend time with so many neat folks and get to have fun with them. The bar was packed each night?. Quite a few late nights there. Super big thanks to Bob and Linda - they raised the bar on putting on events! Super couple I?m lucky to be on the board with (Bob). Also huge kudos to Mikey and Ray for sharing not only their driving experience with us during performance driving training, but best of all their passion. They made the track day a total experience for our first-timers and helped develop skills for those who returned to do it again. Exhilarating time on track for everyone. Another huge kudo to both Marc and Jim, who spent part of the Gathering helping others get their ZR-1s sorted out. I know Jim too long to know that he lives for this! His traveling tool kit might not be big, but has always had the right tools for every job! I had breakfast with Marc, who was excited about the opportunity to hunt down Charlie?s electrical A/C gremlin - he was really eager to solve the mystery! Made so many more friends this trip, from Dan Noble and his wife who documented the entire time for their YouTube channel, to Frank Ellis and his son Frank who I could have spent hours more talking with. Frank (dad) was a big influence in the C4 racing community, among other racing endeavors that Chevrolet supported - including testing the KOTH at all the tracks across the United States and Canada?. via the series called Corvette Challenge. The tours were a lot of fun, and Ted and Dennis turned me on to some awesome bourbons? not sure if that?s good or bad, but we had a lot of fun. Food was incredible at each stop - no disappointments?. Even the hot dog at Beech Bend taste great as a large group of us were cheering on all who drag raced that evening. Awesome to see Steve, Charlie, Marc, Mike and the FL Steve run. It was the perfect night as the track was sticky and temps were cool. All around great time - I really missed you guys!!!!


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[WARP TEN]

Sounds like it was great fun and I am very sorry I missed it this year. Hope we will be able to do it again next year. --Bob

[randy ransome]

Yeah I hate I missed it too. I was at Ron Fellows Spring Mountain Resort trying to learn how to Road Race and Auto-Cross my new C8.
Hopefully make it next year to The Gathering because it's Always a Large Time.

[Paul Workman]

Originally Posted by efnfast

Many thanks to those that organized it all. I missed some of the scheduled events unfortunately because I was hanging with friends and fixing cars.

Yeah, whata bummer: Hangin' out with friends, fixin' cars, having some laughs and memories, fine eatin' and brewski's n BS for 3 whole days n nights! Oh! Did I miss something???

It was one of the best gatherings - far as reacquainted w/ old friends and meeting new ones. We even saw ppl from Oregon and Canada and Germany!

My personal favorite activity was the track day. I learned a lot (more) far as what my Z and the tires (especially) could tolerate! One thing 4 sure...dem drag radials ain't no fun when it is raining (on the track especially!) After going maybe half of full-out on the curves and 'hair-pins' and breaking hard enough to trigger the ABS, one can really appreciate the engineering of our cars a LOT MORE than (I'd guess) 90%(?) of most Corvette owners ever appreciate. And, watching the C7 and C8s (lead cars, pro driven) run the route like they were immune to drifting - "like they were on rails" is the popular term.

Anywayz...it was a blast. Wish some of the rest of yaz coulda made it too!

[efnfast]

Didn't miss a thing Paul, it was a great time. Boy was it good to see everybody!

[Jetjock]

Originally Posted by dandt67

Made it home okay. Thanks to Bob, Mark, and Dennis for all their work in making BG possible this year, but most of all thanks to the team led by Jim (WAZOO) that turned a nightmare into an amazing experience.
After a smooth 10 hour ride to get to BG on Wed, the car developed a serious engine problem the next morning which turned out to be two dead primary fuel injectors. On Saturday under the leadership and technical knowledge of Jim (Maryland), with team members Paul (Missouri), Steve (New Hampshire) , Charlie (Maryland), Matt (Germany), Ernie (Georgia) and myself. We were able to finally get two new fuel injectors installed under less-than-ideal working conditions. The car made the 10 hour trip back to Maryland easily. Also Thanks to all who provided support. This is what makes the ZR-1 group the best in the Corvette world !!!THANKS!!!

I've seen Gordon do this out in the parking lot during one of the Gatherings. The guy had 6 of the fuel injectors go bad on him and a guy that I knew had a complete set of injectors with him as he had attended the ZR-1 school that Gordon ran before the Gathering and he3 changed them out because he could. The injectors were perfectly ok. You had ther A Team there that day.



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