2009 Events in Review

OCC Summer BBQ

Saturday, August 15 was a great warm summer day and Glenn Oldfield and Delena Hamilton hosted the OCC's Summer BBQ at their spacious place in Orillia. All of the Camaros easily fit into their backyard, how nice is that? Along with the great weather, there were many nice Camaros and a wonderful dinner as well.

Norm and Linda Freund surprised us when they arrived with their new Aqua Blue Metallic 2010 LT2 RS. This car is the perfect compliment to their all original 69 LeMans Blue Z/28. Congratulations to them both.

A million thanks to Glenn and Delena for hosting a wonderful BBQ at the perfect place.

Camaro Superfest 2009

The 18th Camaro Superfest was held over the weekend of July 3 to 5 in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The show itself was on Saturday and Sunday at Riverside Park which was a couple of kilometres from the host hotel, the Marriott at Eagle Crest. On Friday, we had the opportunity to circle Michigan International Speedway. This is a 2 mile speedway with 18 degree banking through its turns. This was fun. The OCC stuck fairly tightly together over the weekend. On Saturday evening 21 of us (this includes Isabelle) invaded the local Lone Star for dinner. We sat together at a long table and had a great time! Congratualtions to Barry Hensel and his staff of the Eastern Michigan Camaro Club who organized this successful show.

21th Annual Ontario Camaro Nationals

Another success for our 21st Annual show. Excellent Camaro weather and 221 Camaros registered makes a great 1 - 2 punch for a good show. Scott Settlemire was in attendance, bringing us up-to-date with all of the goings on with the 5th Gen and signing a whole bunch of inner fenders. Hylton Jorssen brought in a convoy of six new 5th Gens. What an amazing site to see. In addition, Brian Henderson and Fran Roberts came all the way from near Pittsburgh with the 1st Yenko ever built and an awesome 69 Cortez Silver COPO. These are huge money cars. Our banquet was truly a banquet of great food and dessert. Thanks to all who came and all who volunteered to make this a memorable event. See you next year! Have a look at the 2009 Show page for more photos and more news about the show.

3rd Annual President's Cruise

After our last general meeting of the season on May 30th, we left Wilson Niblett Chevrolet, our headquarters dealership, for our 3rd Annual President's Cruise. This year our destination was Midland, Ontario and Scully's Restaurant on the shores of Georgian Bay. The weather was awesome and there were a few "tops down" taking advantage of the beautiful sunshine. This was a great cruise and there were a total of 19 Camaros making the run up some picturesque territory along Hwy 90 and County Roads 26, 28 and 29. Scully's served us on their patio and we enjoyed a great meal basking in the rays that we waited all winter for. Many thanks go to Heinz and Katie Mueller for putting the maps together, Ron Poplawski for running the route beforehand not once but twice to make sure all was in order. In addition, thanks to Norm Freund for helping Ron set things up at Scully's for the parking and the invasion of their patio. We combined this cruise to show support for our long-time sponsor SUNOCO. Ron and Heinz made arrangements with the owner of a large Sunoco station in Thornton, where we made a pit stop to get our fix by re-fueling with Sunoco Ultra 94 which is the only fuel for our Camaros, isn't it? I think it can easily be said that we are all looking forward to next year's 4th Annual President's Cruise already.

OCC at Performance World 2009

For the weekend of March 13 to 15, a number of OCC members manned the club's 5-car display. We drew much attention with the brand new Inferno Orange SS2 Camaro which General Motors of Canada so kindly loaned to us for the weekend. As per usual our cars won awards. Cindy Hunter took 1st and all of the Camaros in our display got runner-up even our new 2010 Camaro! Job well done! Hey, Ron, who is that in our new Camaro?

OCC Winter Gathering

Saturday, January 17th was the date of the 2009 OCC Winter Gathering and what a day it was. A terrible snow began in late afternoon and continued until the next day. Nonetheless, this did not deter the dedicated and hardy folks who make up the OCC. Over 20 attended and came from places as far away as Milton, Beamsville and Mississauga. It was a nice group who got to catch up and share their Camaro plans for the upcoming summer season. There were a number of wonderful dishes which made up a great feast. And all the while we had on the Barrett Jackson Auction which we all had constantly in focus. Our next upcoming event is Performance World in March...so get ready for this.