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Who We Are?
We are a diverse car club made up of members who own America’s only true sports car and most importantly enjoy driving the cars. Our members like casual driving experiences accomplished through monthly “fun runs” through the back-country roads of Southern California. We also take longer overnight excursions throughout the west and as far as
Bowling Green, Kentucky and the Corvette Factory and Museum to visit or to pick up our newly manufactured vehicle. Our members like to test their driving skills on the various racetracks and improve their skills by attending driving schools that specialize in racing cars. We also enjoy showing off our vehicles at local car shows and have been repeatedly invited to exhibit them at the San Diego International Auto show.
Getting together frequently is a constant happening with members. Social functions include our yearly summer Anniversary Party, parties at members’ homes, picnics & beach parties, and our annual Holiday Party. Our monthly meetings begin with a social hour prior to the opening of club business.
Community involvement is another aspect of COCSD. We participate in local parades, car shows, homecomings and each year hold our major charity event, the Main Street America Car Show. It helps support The San Diego Center for The Blind. The event provides significant funds for this most important charity that depends solely on private contributions for its operations.
We are a diversified club that offers much to its members, but if there is only one aspect of this club that interests a member, that is totally ok with us! Enjoyment in the ownership of a Corvette is the most important element in being a member of COCSD.
What We Do:
The club is made up of four areas of activities: runs, tracking, social, and community/charity events.
CLUB RUNS
We very much enjoy driving our cars and Southern California offers the best roads in the country to test our cars on scenic, but twisty roads. The ocean, foothills, mountains, and the desert provide a diversity of topography to travel thru. We try to schedule one run per month and ask members to step up and be Run Leaders. It is up to the leader to pick the date, time, route, and food if desired. The club will provide the support needed to make the event successful including financial when needed.
Runs vary in:
DESTINATIONS: TYPES :
PALOMAR MOUNTAIN POKER RUN
BORREGO SPRINGS BEACH CRUISE
BARRETT JUNCTION CASINO RUNS
PALM DESERT HAWK WATCH
This video depicts a typical run filmed by one of our members from their car.
Members enjoy taking overnight and weekend trips that include destinations like Grand Canyon, Los Vegas, Hurst Castle and Monterey. Every five years the Corvette Museum holds a mass caravan of Corvette owners from everywhere to celebrate the museum’s anniversary. COCSD members attend this event with twenty or more cars taking the journey to Bowling Green, Kentucky. It is a blast to see thousands of Corvettes in one place.
ROAD TRACK TEAM:
Chevrolet employs’ professional race drivers to drive their cars in major race events throughout the world. Over the years Corvettes have held their own in competing against the world’s fastest cars. COCSD members track their cars. Maybe not at the level just described, but very competitively at
the tracks. Our members attend training classes held at tracks and we have members who are qualified to instruct others at these facilities. The tracks most often travel to are Spring Mountain in Nevada and Laguna Seca in Monterey.
At the local level, we have several members who are constantly improving their driving skills at a local K1 Speed facility in downtown San Diego. These members go monthly to compete on who has the fastest lap time, but also to just improve their overall driving skills used in tracking and ordinary street driving. We meet the second Saturday of each month at 10:00 AM.
Our members are big on watching racing events on television as well as going to various events including the Grand Prix of Long Beach. Each year the club has several of its members attending the entire three days of racing, including getting acceptance into the Corvette Corral at the event where meeting the Corvette racing team members if possible.
This video is taken by our former club president and very skilled track driver himself at a track recently.
SOCIAL EVENTS:
The founders of COCSD were into parties from the beginning. Coming together socially happened frequently at house parties, picnics, beach parties and more formally the annual Inaugural Dinner celebrating the installation of new club officials each June. That culture has carried over thru the seven decades COCSD has been in existence. We now celebrate our Anniversary each year with a summer party in June or July and any holiday or whatever is a good reason to have a party. Our yearend Holiday Party is also a big event.
Although the monthly Members Meeting is mainly a business meeting, members show up more than an hour before for refreshment, food and to talk about prior months experiences.
Community/Charity Events:
Being a responsible member of our community, COCSD has always tried to support community events. Attending many car shows as a group demonstrates our commitment as a club to support of these activities who in turn support charities or community organizations. Parades are a great way to show off our cars and provide entertainment to families (especially the kids) who attend these events. We annually attend the St Patrick’s Day, Fourth of July, and Christmas Parades in Ja Jolla, North Park, and Ocean Beach. Decorating the cars before these events is part of the fun. Many of the local high schools’ request to have our cars at their homecomings for half time to drive their Queen and her court around the field.
Our major charity event each year is our “Main Street America” car show. We have over three hundred cars in attendance and their entrance fees combined with sponsor donations and an extensive raffle drawing provide for substantial funding for The San Diego Center for the Blind. The show takes place at the Embarcadero with individual assigned parking on grass, food, music, and DJ. Awards are given to multiple classes of cars in attendance.
In summary, we are a group of individuals who come together to celebrate the ownership of our Corvette and enjoy showing, driving, and racing these vehicles.
MEETINGS:
We hold our monthly Members Meetings on the second Friday at Elijah’s Restraint in Kearney Mesa. The restaurant has a private meeting room adjutant to the regular dining area that provides for plenty of space for our meetings that see about ninety members in attendance each month. Prior to the business meeting, which begins at 6:30 PM, members gather to have dinner, drink and just chat. Guests and visitors are welcome.
Our Board of Directors meets two weeks prior to the general Member’s Meeting at Marie Callender’s Restaurant & Bakery, 6950 Alvarado Road, San Diego, CA 92120.