Regional & Local Chapter News

Effective immediately, the new Seattle/Portland Chapter Director is Alberto Lopez.

Alberto grew up in Mount Vernon,WA then moved to Puyallup prior to his high school years where he now lives with his wife and 2 young boys. Cars have always been a passion of his, while his family always come first, owning a Vector Blue CTS-V is a way to have the best of both worlds at the same time! According to Alberto, there is not a better feeling driving a Cadillac V with all his family to the many different events around the Pacific Northwest. In his spare time Alberto loves spending it with his family riding bikes, going to car shows and looking for new fun activities on the weekend.

Corey Fontenot has been selected as the new Houston Chapter Director.

Corey Fontenot aka “Corey Ray” is a resident of East Houston Texas. A graduate of North Shore Senior High School and Alvin Community College. He has loved cars all his life and is very partial to Cadillac V-Series vehicles. Corey love's Jesus, America and muscle cars. He has a beautiful wife named Cynthia Fontenot who supports his car enthusiasm and usually tags along to events/races. He has owned his 2011 CTS-V Coupe for 2 years and has modified, raced and thoroughly enjoyed this car since owning it. Corey is a massive advocate for car culture and enjoys other builds and helping people in general. He is a former welder and now work as an estimator for a custom fabrication shop. Corey also owns a pressure washing company with his best friend Eric. Corey loves drag racing, roll racing, auto cross and just enjoying his V!

Cadillac announced in 2022 that all Cadillac V-Series owners of a Blackwing model will receive free of charge one of the new Blackwing badges. For those of us who own either a CT4-V or CT5-V Blackwings this was well received news!

Based on input from Cadillac V-Club member surveys shared with Cadillac headquarters, the Cadillac Marketing team announced last fall that 2023 models and beyond will incorporate a new Blackwing badge on the rear of the car. Cadillac has also announced that those owners with 2022 and early 2023's V-Series Blackwings will be provided the new badges at no charge.

Click here to order your Blackwing badge.  This offer is available only through the end of March, 2023.  Only owners of CT4-V Blackwing and CT5-V Blackwing vehicles are eligible for this offer.  Limit one badge per VIN#.  As Cadillac receives customer order information, the VIN# they provide will be matched to their name and vehicle to ensure eligibility.

We are pleased to announce Bruce Fullerton as the new Chapter Director of the Atlanta Chapter.  Bruce is a semi retired global operations executive, having had offices in Stockholm Sweden, Crawley England, and Hong Kong.  Currently, he is a partner and COO in a global consulting firm.  

He has been married to Lisa for 40 years with 3 grown children, Houston, Savanah, and Jackson, all of them living in the Atlanta area.

His first car was a ‘71 Olds 442.  He has always been a car guy, having worked in a racing engine shop while in college, building oval tracks, drag boat, dragster and other types of racing motors.  A few years after college, while working for GE, Bruce helped his boss build and race cars including a vintage Mini Cooper, Lotus Super 7, Lotus 2+2 and others, racing in SCCA and SVRA.

Bruce enjoys performance cars, specially his 2019 Cadillac CTS-V Sedan Pedestal edition, which he purchased new. He drives it every day and also shows it as often as time permits.  

He is looking forward to devoting more time to the Cadillac V-Club and activities.  Bruce is committed to building the Atlanta chapter into a strong local presence in the local high performance car community.  Check out his Cadillac V!

Have you checked out our V-Series Video Gallery?

The Cadillac V-Club is excited to announce that VSeriesMarketplace.com is now live and ready to become to the place for your Cadillac V-Series needs. The V-Series cars represent a unique brand in the marketplace, and we felt there also needed to be a trading post, if you will, for those performance and luxury minded individuals who have a passion for the V-Series name plate.

The V-Series Marketplace was specially designed with the V-Series in mind but also with easy navigation to make creation of ads simple, easy, and accurate.

The VSeriesMarketplace.com was designed to allow its users to:

• Quickly and easily create ads to sell new and used V-Series vehicles
• Buy and Sell the used parts that have been collecting dust around your garage
• List and search for companies that offer additional services specifically for your V-Series vehicle
• Are you looking for a V-Series vehicle? Create an alert so when one comes available you will receive proactive notification

AUTHOR: Danial Stalcup
EVENT: https://cadillacvclub.com/event-4880092

The NorCal Chapter of the Cadillac V-Club rally was a great success!  We had a fabulous time of relaxed driving, intense driving, good food, and socializing!

The rally began with great doughnuts and coffee from Johnny's Doughnuts.  We drove together to Point Reyes,  Marin French Cheese Company, Bodega Bay for lunch, Healdsburg for gas (and a car wash for Nick), then dinner in St. Helena.  

For the most part it all went smooth except for my broken splitter and curb rashed wheel, a quart of oil that had to be added to a member's car, and an ATS-V that started to overheat while idling!  It's part of the adventures!

The rally ended at Brasswood Bar and Kitchen where results of the poker run and raffle were revealed!  Rich Rose was one lucky member!  He not only won a raffle from last weeks event at Walnut Creek Cadillac, but at the rally he also won the poker pot of $140 as well as the raffle from our generous sponsors of the event P&S Detail Supply East Bay.  P&S gave the V-Club a detailing kit worth over $90 to go to a lucky winner. In this case VERY lucky winner - Rich Rose.  In addition, P&S gave every participant a bottle of their Dream Maker Gloss Amplifier spray.  Be sure to visit P&S on the web at https://psdetailproducts.com/ or at their Hayward retail location 20943 Cabot Blvd Hayward, CA 9454.

Thanks to our member Phillip Adams for putting this rally together.  He spent a lot of time on it, including testing the whole route!  His efforts are a perfect example of now individual members can have great contributions to the club.  

Be on the look out for another rally down towards Monterey in the future, we hope more of you can join.

Pictures from the event can be found at the dropbox link below:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/01868n6s26j4pqkz23tcy/h?dl=0&rlkey=mcvsszh6whnx3o6ry8b19vsk9

SOCAL Los Angeles Chapter - Richard (Rich) Cuellar and his 2 sons own and have operated a motorcycle rim manufacturing company in Southern California for the last 30 years. 

Rich currently resides in Pomona, California and drives a 2014 CTS-V Coupe.  After college Rich held the position of sales Engineer with a company that manufactures aerospace parts.  Previously he was a member of the 163rd fighter squadron, Ontario airport California for 7 years where they flew 106 delta daggers and F4C Phantoms from 1966-1973.

Rich had the opportunity to race motorcycles, cars and drag boats and he currently owns and races his CTS-V Coupe which he has owned for the past 8 years.  Even with a lot of performance improvements and chasis updates, it remain a very dependable daily driver. His passiion is to drive the canyons, compete in straight line racing events in addition to closed circuit road racing venues.

With the recent decision of the V-Club board to split the SOCAL membership into two Chapters: San Diego and Los Angeles, Rich is excited about the opportunity to plan and schedule events that will look forward to attending. 

Watch the Cadillac V-Club official event calendar for an upcoming activity to be published soon for each of these chapters.  

We are beyond excited to inform the V Series community that Cadillac and Michelin have two 2022 V Series Blackwing entries into this years One Lap of America!!

Each vehicle will be driven by one driver from Michelin and one from Cadillac, in stock form (minus rear seats in order to carry all our gear through the USA).  Mirza Grebovic is one of the GM Engineers that helped develop these amazing vehicles and they are going to do their best to do our teams and the vehicles justice!

The event kicks off today, Friday, April 29 with registration and Tech and the first driving events are starting Saturday.  Mirza will update the Blackwing Journal page in the members only section of CadillacVClub.com as well as on social media.

For further details on what the One Lap of America is, click on the link below, but in summary Mirza and his teammate will drive across numerous venues and hit various on-track events, skid pads, autocross and ovals all on the stock tires that can not be changed between events, including all the on road mileage, equaling to more than 3500 miles combined in 8 days! 

https://www.onelapofamerica.com/

CadillacVClub.com/LiveStream