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George Haun Honored for Service & Membership Don Gettinger, COM Governor, presented George Haun with a Plaque of Appreciate for being club treasurer for 50+ Years! Geo also mentioned that this coming Fall (of 2023) will be his 60th year of membership. We thank and...

MINNESOTA STATE FAIR SPEEDWAY The first motor race took place at the fairgrounds in 1902. As motor racing was taking off the fair board decided it would be a good idea to start motor racing on the pre-existing 1 mile horse track.A few years later and the track would...

ComMangSac History ComMangSac I was held on June 3rd, 1973. The letters stood for "Corvettes Of Minnesota, Minnesota Air National Guard, Super Auto Cross", and was always held on the Minnesota Air National Guard Apron on the north-east corner of the Twin Cities...

River Road Rample Max and Karin Allers and Don Gettinger took part in the River Road Ramble on Saturday, September 26. The River Road was originally built in 1830, and is a beautifully scenic drive from St. Croix Falls to Grantsburg, Wisconsin, running largely through...

COM Hare & Hound RallyeThe COM "Hare and Hound" rally essentially consisted of trying to follow a route set by the event chairperson, without the benefit of instruction. At each intersection, if the driver made the correct...

COM Gold Cup RallyThe COM Gold Cup was a TSD (Time/Speed/Distance) rally put on by the club for many years (early 1960's to mid-1990's, I think). A driver/navigator team would attempt to stay on a course following Route Instructions and things called "Main Road...

COTA & CADDIES General Motors has produced some significant performance vehicles, from the muscle cars such as the GTOs and SS396 Chevelles of sixties and early seventies and, of course, the Corvette for over 60 years. Currently, the Corvette remains top dog in...

Trip of a LifetimeWith my career at Northwest Airlines coming to an end this summer (2005), I knew this would be my last chance to have a guaranteed free ride in the flight deck (we can’t call them cockpits anymore—some sort of PC stuff) of an A330 to and from Paris....

NCCC National ConventionJuly 2018 - New Orleans, LA Sunday July 15th, 2018Our trip to New Orleans for the 2018 NCCC Convention started out early Sunday morning with a 3:00 am wake up alarm, we got ready packed the car and were off to Terminal 2 for our 6:50 departure...