Notice to all members: Annual renewal is due on May 1st.
We have revised our annual membership to have a single anniversary date of
May 1st, every calendar year, for all members. We have updated our renewal form. If you have renewed since January of 2021, you are good for the upcoming year.
To renew, please go to our Join/Renew tab to fill out your renewal information.
We have revised our annual membership to have a single anniversary date of
May 1st, every calendar year, for all members. We have updated our renewal form. If you have renewed since January of 2021, you are good for the upcoming year.
To renew, please go to our Join/Renew tab to fill out your renewal information.
Important Announcement
We are participating in the debut of the 2021 Twin Cities Auto Show
at the State Fair Grounds, May 15-23.
This is a great opportunity for our club!
We need to have a minimum of six cars there each day for the full day (10a-9p).
It would be great to have all six generations represented each day if possible.
We are asking club members to volunteer to bring their Camaro and/or volunteer their time to staff our area at the show. Bringing your car gives you one ticket for free entry plus one extra ticket for a spouse, sibling, friend, or to share with another club member. Cars must remain for the full day of the show. You may also leave your car there for all nine days. Cover and security will be provided for the event. Please use the links below to sign-up and support your club:
Link for Signup Genius Volunteer Time Slots:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080E49AEAE2AA7FB6-twin
Link for Signup Genius to Bring Your Camaro:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080E49AEAE2AA7FB6-twin1
Upcoming Events
April 17– Tech Session – Meet at 10:00 am at TPiS, Total Performance, 590 Citation Dr., Shakopee, MN 55379. We're looking into possibly dynoing cars, we'll discuss more at our next planning meeting. Coffee and donuts may be available.
Please sign up to dyno your car here.
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Our upcoming Opening Spring Cruise on May 8th will include a raffle of this beautiful quilt, handmade by club member, Mary Besser. This raffle will be held to help fund club activities due to loss of revenue from lack of car shows.
$2 per raffle entry. Send checks to the Club Address: Northstar Camaro Club, PO Box 426, Wayzata, MN 55391 before Monday May 3rd. Or pay by check or cash at any club event to any club officer. Each entry will be assigned a random number and during the opening cruise lunch we will draw a random number and announce the winner. You do not have to be present to win.
A link to register for the cruise and pay for your lunch will be coming soon.
Please check back for the link. Thank you!
Custom One of a Kind Camaro Quilt made by Mary Besser. Dimensions are about 90 inches long (7.5 feet) and 60 inches wide (5 feet) and should cover a Twin Bed.
April 17– Tech Session – Meet at 10:00 am at TPiS, Total Performance, 590 Citation Dr., Shakopee, MN 55379. We're looking into possibly dynoing cars, we'll discuss more at our next planning meeting. Coffee and donuts may be available.
Please sign up to dyno your car here.
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Our upcoming Opening Spring Cruise on May 8th will include a raffle of this beautiful quilt, handmade by club member, Mary Besser. This raffle will be held to help fund club activities due to loss of revenue from lack of car shows.
$2 per raffle entry. Send checks to the Club Address: Northstar Camaro Club, PO Box 426, Wayzata, MN 55391 before Monday May 3rd. Or pay by check or cash at any club event to any club officer. Each entry will be assigned a random number and during the opening cruise lunch we will draw a random number and announce the winner. You do not have to be present to win.
A link to register for the cruise and pay for your lunch will be coming soon.
Please check back for the link. Thank you!
Custom One of a Kind Camaro Quilt made by Mary Besser. Dimensions are about 90 inches long (7.5 feet) and 60 inches wide (5 feet) and should cover a Twin Bed.
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Please consider supporting the Father's Day Run on the Crow "Classic Car Run" on Father's Day, June 20, 2021 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.
This is being organized by one of our NCC Club members.
All Club Members will have preferential parking at the site of the event if they RSVP with them. Watch your email for the club member's information.
Please consider supporting the Father's Day Run on the Crow "Classic Car Run" on Father's Day, June 20, 2021 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.
This is being organized by one of our NCC Club members.
All Club Members will have preferential parking at the site of the event if they RSVP with them. Watch your email for the club member's information.
Current Event Photos
On Saturday, March 13th, fifteen club members met at Competition Engine in Eagan for a tour of the shop and a discussion on engine rebuilding. We had a great time--Thanks Randy!
It was good to see a lot of familiar faces and some new club members - welcome to Erik and Carol.
(Please see Past Events tab above for previous event photos.)
On Saturday, March 13th, fifteen club members met at Competition Engine in Eagan for a tour of the shop and a discussion on engine rebuilding. We had a great time--Thanks Randy!
It was good to see a lot of familiar faces and some new club members - welcome to Erik and Carol.
(Please see Past Events tab above for previous event photos.)
Motor News
Chevy Says New Camaro Will Have 3-Cylinder Engine
By Michael Butler | Posted on 1 Apr 2021
Goodbye, four-cylinder.
The Chevrolet Camaro is one of the most beloved muscle cars in America, and despite a recent recall due to axle shafts possibly missing a retaining ring, and Chevrolet halting production at its Lansing Grand River Assembly plant in Michigan due to a shortage of semiconductor chips, this high-performance sports car continues to sell well. In an effort to stay relevant in a world that is moving towards hybrid and electric cars at a rapid pace, Chevrolet has now made a stunning announcement: as of 2022, some Camaro cars will be powered by high-performance turbocharged three-cylinder engines. Yes, that's correct. Only three cylinders.
Find the rest of the article and pictures here: https://carbuzz.com/news/chevy-says-new-camaro-will-have-3-cylinder-engine
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By Michael Butler | Posted on 1 Apr 2021
Goodbye, four-cylinder.
The Chevrolet Camaro is one of the most beloved muscle cars in America, and despite a recent recall due to axle shafts possibly missing a retaining ring, and Chevrolet halting production at its Lansing Grand River Assembly plant in Michigan due to a shortage of semiconductor chips, this high-performance sports car continues to sell well. In an effort to stay relevant in a world that is moving towards hybrid and electric cars at a rapid pace, Chevrolet has now made a stunning announcement: as of 2022, some Camaro cars will be powered by high-performance turbocharged three-cylinder engines. Yes, that's correct. Only three cylinders.
Find the rest of the article and pictures here: https://carbuzz.com/news/chevy-says-new-camaro-will-have-3-cylinder-engine
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World's Quickest Chevy Camaro Runs Five-Second Quarter-Mile
BY Ciprian Florea MAR 20, 2021
Chevrolet has built a bunch of impressive Camaros over the years, starting with the 1969 ZL-1. But the world's quickest Camaro is the work of Bailey Racing. It goes by the name "Sick Seconds" and runs the quarter-mile in just five seconds.
Well of course I'm not talking about a road-legal, plain looking Camaro. Tom Bailey's slingshot is a full-fledged dragster fitted with all the bells and whistles that come with such vehicles.
Find the rest of the article and more photos here: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/world-s-quickest-chevy-camaro-runs-five-second-quarter-mile-157920.html
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BY Ciprian Florea MAR 20, 2021
Chevrolet has built a bunch of impressive Camaros over the years, starting with the 1969 ZL-1. But the world's quickest Camaro is the work of Bailey Racing. It goes by the name "Sick Seconds" and runs the quarter-mile in just five seconds.
Well of course I'm not talking about a road-legal, plain looking Camaro. Tom Bailey's slingshot is a full-fledged dragster fitted with all the bells and whistles that come with such vehicles.
Find the rest of the article and more photos here: https://www.autoevolution.com/news/world-s-quickest-chevy-camaro-runs-five-second-quarter-mile-157920.html
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Chevy Camaro Production Halted Until Further Notice
All because one key component is lacking...
By Jay Traugott in Muscle Cars on March 14, 2021
This was bound to happen eventually to another major General Motors production facility and now it has. GM has confirmed to Automotive News its Lansing Grand River Assembly plant in Michigan will be idled beginning this Monday through the end of this month, if not longer. The reason? A lack of semiconductor chips, a crisis that continues to plague the auto industry at large, with the exception of Toyota.
Like other affected automakers, GM is using its existing semiconductor chip supply for highly profitable and extremely popular vehicles, mainly trucks and SUVs. Slow sellers and some newer models are being sacrificed instead, including the Chevy Camaro, Malibu, Cadillac CT4 and CT5, all of which are built at Lansing Grand River.
Go to the following website for the complete article: https://carbuzz.com/news/chevy-camaro-production-halted-until-further-notice
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All because one key component is lacking...
By Jay Traugott in Muscle Cars on March 14, 2021
This was bound to happen eventually to another major General Motors production facility and now it has. GM has confirmed to Automotive News its Lansing Grand River Assembly plant in Michigan will be idled beginning this Monday through the end of this month, if not longer. The reason? A lack of semiconductor chips, a crisis that continues to plague the auto industry at large, with the exception of Toyota.
Like other affected automakers, GM is using its existing semiconductor chip supply for highly profitable and extremely popular vehicles, mainly trucks and SUVs. Slow sellers and some newer models are being sacrificed instead, including the Chevy Camaro, Malibu, Cadillac CT4 and CT5, all of which are built at Lansing Grand River.
Go to the following website for the complete article: https://carbuzz.com/news/chevy-camaro-production-halted-until-further-notice
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The Man Who Invented Pro Touring Is Still Perfecting the First-Gen Camaro
A Camaro hot-rodder and a senior GM engineer walk into a bar. They’re both Mark Stielow.
BY LAWRENCE ULRICH
MAR 11, 2021
Muscle-car loyalty runs bone deep. Throughout the industrial Midwest, it’s forged early, in families whose livelihoods depend on a healthy domestic car industry. Before the squalling infant knows it, his umbilical cord is in a neat Chevy bowtie. Or Pops may hover over the crib, repeating, “Say Mopar. MO-paar.” The factory die has been cast. Matchboxes and Revell models follow. Dinner-table discussions leave little room for dissent: Brand X will win the race and rescue the planet. Brand Y is shit, best left to perverts or junkies. Now take out the garbage, and grab me a beer.
Mark Stielow knows this. The Missouri product and engineer—now director of GM Motorsports Competition Engineering—built his reputation by creating some of the world’s fastest, most fantastical muscle cars. But there’s a skeleton in his Chevy-wardrobed closet: The GM lifer, the Obi-Wan of the fabled ’69 Camaro and the Pro Touring movement, was once a Ford man.
This story originally appeared in Volume 3 of Road & Track.
Find the rest of the article here: https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a35797891/the-man-who-invented-pro-touring-is-still-perfecting-the-first-gen-camaro/
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A Camaro hot-rodder and a senior GM engineer walk into a bar. They’re both Mark Stielow.
BY LAWRENCE ULRICH
MAR 11, 2021
Muscle-car loyalty runs bone deep. Throughout the industrial Midwest, it’s forged early, in families whose livelihoods depend on a healthy domestic car industry. Before the squalling infant knows it, his umbilical cord is in a neat Chevy bowtie. Or Pops may hover over the crib, repeating, “Say Mopar. MO-paar.” The factory die has been cast. Matchboxes and Revell models follow. Dinner-table discussions leave little room for dissent: Brand X will win the race and rescue the planet. Brand Y is shit, best left to perverts or junkies. Now take out the garbage, and grab me a beer.
Mark Stielow knows this. The Missouri product and engineer—now director of GM Motorsports Competition Engineering—built his reputation by creating some of the world’s fastest, most fantastical muscle cars. But there’s a skeleton in his Chevy-wardrobed closet: The GM lifer, the Obi-Wan of the fabled ’69 Camaro and the Pro Touring movement, was once a Ford man.
This story originally appeared in Volume 3 of Road & Track.
Find the rest of the article here: https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a35797891/the-man-who-invented-pro-touring-is-still-perfecting-the-first-gen-camaro/
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Member and Planning Meetings
The Northstar Camaro Club meets the second and fourth Tuesday of every month.
Due to the pandemic, meetings are currently held on ZOOM. All members
will receive an email invitation from our Vice President with a link to attend the meetings. Meetings begin at 7:30 pm.
(We will post here when meetings will return to our usual location at:
Davanni's Roseville, 1905 W Perimeter Dr., Roseville, MN)
The second Tuesday is a Member Meeting and the fourth Tuesday is a Planning Meeting. Members are welcome to attend both meetings. Topics include both old and new business, and there is usually a presentation or lively discussion relating
to our favorite subject - Camaro's! This is the place to exchange ideas and get to know fellow club members.
Looking for a car event?
Check out the following links:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/164755116936294/ - Hot Rods and Classics Twin Cities and surrounding shows
https://eventswithcars.com/
https://carshownationals.com/
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