2025 SACC CONVENTION      By Lucy Badenhoop

 

2025 Convention

 

 

SACC’s 2025 convention will be in Sacramento California on 2-3-4 August just before Hot August Nights in Reno Nevada, only 100 miles away.  Check their website for separate arrangements.  Details and contracts for the SACC convention are still being worked out, so a registration form will not be available until the February issue.  However, you can plan on T-shirts with a 1955 Corvette theme, but I need pictures of your 1955 Corvette for the artist to design it.  Please send them by the end of November 2024 to Badenhoop@comcast.net and make them a separate file attachment, not imbedded inside the email.

The venue is a jewel of the former Officer’s Club and visiting officer’s quarters (VOQ) refurbished by the new owner after McClellan Air Force Base was closed around 2000.  It has easy highway access but is secluded and very private for our cars (including a security RV for nights).  Room rates include a breakfast buffet (one queen $109 or two queen beds $129, plus tax & fees). That contract has been signed and reservations can be made now if you send me an email, I’ll provide the online link.

The schedule may be modified as more contracts are signed, but count on the following activities.

2 Aug Sat        9 AM National Board Meeting in the O’Club

                        1 PM Chapter Meeting

                        5 PM Welcome Reception

3 Aug Sun       Tech Sessions AND/OR site seeing

9 AM-10:45 AM Tech Session

                                    11AM-12:45 PM Tech Session

                        Site Seeing in/near Old Sacramento


                                    Tour of Underground Sac

Sutter’s Fort

California State Capitol

Crocker Art Museum

California Auto Museum

River front, board walks & cobble streets

Rail Road Museum Train Ride         

 

 

          

               

 

6 PM supper at special venue (Delta King paddle boat, steam train or 1950s diner)

4 Aug Mon      9 AM road tour of Gold Country  (Sierra Nevada foothills)

                      12 noon lunch at an original Pony Express Station

                        1-4 PM more road tour & site seeing

                        6 PM Social Hour (no host bar) in the O’Club

7 PM Banquet & Annual Member Meeting in the O’Club

Bring the family for some living history lessons.   The Sacramento region is a historical treasure for the “old west” migration about 200 years ago.  The city was a major railroad center and a shipping port for the river traffic from San Francisco.  The air base venue has an aeronautical museum.

Sacramento was also the Western end of the Pony Express Trail that started in St. Joseph Missouri.  The distance of 1960 miles was covered in ten days and is re-enacted every June by volunteers carrying real mail with a special stamp.  SACC members who register for the SACC convention by 30 April 2025 will receive a letter carried on horseback in the June 2025 re-ride.

The road tour on the last day of the convention will explore the Sierra Nevada foothills that sparked the gold rush and the mountain pass that was a portion of the Pony Express Trail.  So, plan the trip now and register early so you can get the best selection on the hotel rooms, the T-shirts and the Pony Express letter.