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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the first edition of the Christine Car Club newsletter. The officers would like to say thank you for showing your interest in making this club a reality, and we’re sure we all share the same sentiment when we say that we look forward to talking and working with all of you to make this club a success. Without your input, the club will not thrive. With that being said, we would like to draw our focus now onto our newsletter.
Each edition will have a feature section on one of our members. This will give us all a great opportunity to “meet” our members – not physically, but to be able to put a face to a name and simply learn more about one another. This section will also allow you to feature your car (if applicable) and share your story about your car as well, or any other information you would like the other members to know about you.
Another section of the newsletter that can be incorporated later would be the tips & techniques section – useful tidbits of information that could range anywhere from restoration information to basic car maintenance. Pretty much any technical vehicular maintenance issues can be addressed in this section along with “Christinizing” your car! A possible question and answer section could follow.
Other possibilities for our newsletter could include but not be limited to:
- “Regional” news and announcements about car shows, swap meets, cruises, etc – we have members all over the world, so it would be a nice way to find out what’s going on in that part of the world
- Classified advertisements – for sale ads, want ads, etc
- Feedback Forum – a place for members to air opinions about the newsletter and ways to make it better, anything Plymouth or Christine related, etc.
- Christine Trivia – we’ve all seen the movie - we could test our “Christine IQ” about scenes from the move, the actors/actresses, film locations, dates, etc, etc.
If you have any suggestions, ideas or comments to incorporate into our next newsletter, please contact one of the club officers:
Wayne DeGeorge (Bloodhound1941) - President
Ed Rees (I hath no Fury) – Vice President
Gwen Cairns (ggcairns) – Secretary/Treasurer
Douglas Hengstebeck (CQB_241) – I/T Researcher/Club Historian
Jeff Pozniak (Furyous J) - ChristineCarClub.com Webmaster
Until next time, “Let’s Motorvate!”
It is indeed an honor to Introduce you to the Club’s first featured founding member and true to the core Christine fan Derek Garvie……Here is his story as told by his Father Jim ….
Derek was adopted at age 12 in 1987. I took him to see a special showing of CHRISTINE on Halloween night in Oklahoma City the first week he was with me. As we were walking out of the theater he said "We have to have one of those cars Dad!" (first time he called me Dad)... when Derek was diagnosed with Huntington’s in 2002, the neurological disease that is not curable, I posted emails around the world the next few months desiring an actual Christine movie car... in July 2003 I got a call at home from John in Simi Valley, Ca. saying he had one and would sell it to me 'for Derek' as he had read the story. 'She' arrived 8 days later by open truck to Oklahoma... what a look on Derek's face as it came into town all red, white, mostly shiny, and menacing. Since we had to go back to England for me to teach & coach at Lakenheath Air Base 03/04 school year some folks in town got together, took Christine and for the next 10 months brought her exterior and interior back to movie-spec life (even found the 5 Mexican American signatures under the front and back seat upholstery) and also added options including the motion detector for speakers, lights, etc. for playing the movie soundtrack... what a sight for Derek to see as we returned to Oklahoma for good June 04. They opened the garage, started her engine with rumbling dual exhausts and drove her over a cat out into the sunshine... as the cat squealed and then writhed back & forth on the driveway, smushed head - spurting blood - and all, Christine's speakers began to blare "Bad to the Bone"... even though we felt heartbroken for the cat, we all knew the moment belonged to Derek as his 18 year dream had taken place. It continues today... and everyday... with Christine being a very big part of our family. Every show we enter is special as folks just love to see and hear those pipes, those sleek lines, & hear that MUSIC blaring from her grill... we have won something almost every one of the 23 shows entered, except for two (including our hometown)---- those judges will pay when they least expect it... says Christine and Derek! God gave a special boy to our family in 1987... Even though I have personally experienced great success as a coach on the HS and collegiate level and have met or worked with many great people including Barry Switzer, Jimmy Johnson, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Osborn, Joe Carter, Mack Brown, Bobby Bowden and more... Derek is and always will be my hero.
OK...we are ready to accept orders for shirts....When we receive 12 orders we will place the club order and the first production run will take
place......It's up to you guys…the faster you order your shirts the faster we all get them. The shirts are $33.89USea....this includes shipping. Sizes are Small, Medium, Large, XL, and XXL Please specify quantity and size and send Certified Check or money order (absolutely no personal checks) in US funds to:
Gwendolyn Cairns
6975 County Road V V
Cassville, WI 53806
Yes please...make payable to Gwen. The shirt has the CCC Club logo on the left front chest with the large logo, car pic and website address on the rear. For Paypal send to gmcairns@tds.net
OCTOBER 12, 2005 ISSUE 1
ISSUE 1
