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Welcome to Surrey Mustang Owners Club Member’s Newsletter. November 2019. WELCOME TOP TRUMPS CARD – THIRD EDITION Welcome to our latest SMOC Members Newsletter. This We have a few sets of the third edition available to edition includes IMPORTANT INFORMATION about our purchase at a discounted price of £7.50 per pack. Christmas Party and our stand at Brooklands on New Year’s Day. Please take the time to read it as it provides TOP TRUMPS CARD – FOURTH EDITION details on how to book for both events. The fourth edition of our Top Trumps cards has now been printed and is available for collection. We do have SMOC MEMBERSHIP a few spare sets so if you need extras let us know. See As the show season draws to a close, our subscribing Andy T at any meet. membership is at 145. Membership for 2020 will open on 1st January. We hope that all our current members 2019 CHRISTMAS PARTY will be able to subscribe for a further year to once again As advised last month we plan to once again use The th support our second All-American Day on Saturday 4 Fairmile for our 2019 Christmas Party. We have a limit of July 2020. We are pleased to confirm that we plan to 60 places together in the main restaurant area which will leave the annual subscription at £5.00. Any member be allocated to full members on a first come first served wishing to contribute a little more can certainly do so basis, so please book asap. In view of the expected but we hope that by keeping the cost down we’ll retain larger numbers this year we do need to provide a £5.00 the support we have from our existing members who per person deposit and make our menu selections in have made the club what it is. advance. The details of how to book are now on our ‘Christmas Party’ page on the website. CLUB BANK ACCOUNT For reference our bank account details for future S.M.O.C. CAR OF THE MONTH – OCTOBER membership, merchandise and event payments are: The latest award goes to Simon Everidge and his 2015 S.M.O.C. Sort Code 09-01-29 - Account No. 40077220. S550 GT Fastback. Congratulations Simon. If you have our old account details set up on your banking app please delete them as the old account is now closed. Just a reminder that any subscribing member is invited at any time to ask to review the records and the bank statements in order to satisfy them self those subscriptions are being handled as members would expect and are fully re-invested to the benefit of the members. SMOC MERCHANDISE The dates for our meetings at The Fairmile and The Black Swan together with a few other significant dates are as The order deadline for our next merchandise order is follows:. mid-day on Monday 11th November. Please use the website to place your order before that date or you can Sunday 10th November @ 10:00 to 12:30 - Show & use this link. www.surreymustangownersclub.co.uk/our- Shine & Breakfast @ The Fairmile, Cobham, Surrey, KT11 merchandise . SMOC Mugs, Pens and Window Stickers 1BW are available to buy at our meetings. Sunday 24th November @ 09:30 to 12:00 - Show & S.M.O.C. MEMBER BENEFITS Shine & Breakfast @ The Black Swan, Old Lane, Ockham, Surrey. KT11 1NG Full details of all these businesses and the discounts they offer are on the ‘Members Area’ page of our website. A Sunday 8th December @ 10:00 to 12:30 - Show & Shine number of members have already made use of the & Breakfast @ The Fairmile, Cobham, Surrey, KT11 1BW discounts listed on the ‘Members Area’ page. We encourage you to take a look at these. If you have Tuesday 10th December @ 19:30 to 22:30 - Christmas forgotten the password just let us know and we’ll re- Party @ The Fairmile, Cobham, Surrey, KT11 1BW. (Booking via the SMOC website now). send it to you. Wednesday 1st January @ 08:00 to 14:00 - New Year's NEW S.M.O.C. MEMBER BENEFIT - BRENTACRE Day Classic Car Show @ Brooklands. (Booking via the New to our member’s benefits this month is Brentacre SMOC website now). Insurance Services Limited. Brentacre are a family owned and run vehicle insurer established in 1987. They Sunday 12th January @ 10:00 to 12:30 - Show & Shine & moved into the modified car market in 1992 and have Breakfast @ The Fairmile, Cobham, Surrey, KT11 1BW since gained a reputation as for being the go-to broker Sunday 26th January @ 09:30 to 12:00 - Show & Shine & for modified vehicles. Details and links to Brentacre Breakfast @ The Black Swan, Old Lane, Ockham, Surrey. appear on the ‘Our Supporters’ page and also on the KT11 1NG ‘Members Area’ page. BROOKLANDS MUSEUM - NEW YEAR’S DAY CLASSIC Brentacre are offering a 10% discount to Surrey Mustang CARS SHOW. Owners Club full members when they quote the club name and their SMOC membership number. The team at On Wednesday 1st January 2020, Brooklands Museum Brentacre are all ‘petrol heads’ themselves so it’s worth are again hosting their New Year's Day Classic Car Show. having a chat with them. Visit their website at This is a cracking show which last year filled the entire https://www.brentacre.co.uk/ or email them on site. In order to secure a display area we need to pre- [email protected] register our cars and make a single block booking and payment from the club. Thank you to Rod Walsh who introduced us to Brentacre and made this club members benefit possible. As we did for American Day in September, we have created a pre-entry form on our website asking you to MONTHLY MEETINGS book adult and child tickets and pay in advance to SMOC Just a reminder that we have dropped the Tuesday or to provide your Brooklands membership number to evening meeting at The Fairmile until April 2020. We will secure free entry. We’ll then book tickets and spaces for you and your car. Booking closes at mid-day on Friday continue to hold our second Sunday meet at The 29th November so please book asap. The details of how Fairmile throughout the year as whilst we’ll likely not use the field, we can park in the main car park area and to book are now on our ‘Brooklands NYD’ page on the we can meet in the bar area from 10.00 for coffee and website. bacon rolls. We also plan to continue with the fourth MEMBERS CARS WEBSITE PAGE Sunday meetings at The Black Swan (except December) as again the parking is on hard standing and we can Our website includes a page devoted to ‘Members Cars’. meet in the BBQ area for refreshments as normal. We have a number of full members who do not yet have their car included on out Members Cars page. To get your car on this page and included in a future Top KEEP IN TOUCH Trumps edition please email a couple of recent photos of To let us know about anything you want in this your car with details of year, model, engine, newsletter, feedback about the club or any questions transmission, colour and any mods or options. please contact us on our club email – If your car is already on the website, please tell us about [email protected] or call one of the Admin any recent mods or upgrades. You are welcome to send team on the phone numbers listed on the website. a new photograph or car details to us at any time. DRIVE SAFE …. THE ADMIN TEAM CAPTION COMPETITION – LAST MONTH’S WINNER The winner of last month’s caption competition is Iain Wells who suggested: “Now where’s that loud pedal?” CAPTION COMPETITION – THIS MONTH’S CHALLENGE This month’s victim is Richard Ledsom snapped at Brooklands American Day. Let’s have your ideas….. Send your caption suggestions to [email protected] please. Don’t hold back! The winner to be announced in next month’s newsletter. WHAT ELSE? Our website is now the main source of information for our full members. Our diary, events, news, merchandise orders and members benefits are updated two or three times a week so please check the website regularly. .