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The Accelerator THE ACCELERATOR VOLUME 42- ISSUE 04- April 2014 Gale Halderman Visits MOCSEM’s March Monthly Meeting! In this Issue The BOSS's Corner .......................................2 About the Club ...............................................2 March General Meeting Minutes …………..4 Women Engineers key to New Mustang…...5 MOCSEM visits Carroll Collection..…………7 Carroll Collection…..…………………………8 Meet Gale Halderrman……………………….9 MOCSEM Calendar………………………….10 Member Anniversary………………….……..11 Mustang on Empire State Building…………11 For Sale / Wanted…………………………. ..12 Support or Sponsors………………………. .13 Business Card Classified Ads………………14 Mustang on Empire State Building 1964 and 2014! Pg 11 Find more information: www.mocsem.com. Mustang Owners Club of Southeastern Michigan • PO Box 39088, Redford, MI 48239 • www.mocsem.com The Accelerator Page 2 The Boss's Corner About the Club By Mike Rey The Mustang Owners Club of Southeastern Michigan MOCSEM President (MOCSEM) was founded in November 1975 by a group of individuals with the desire to protect and preserve the Ford Mustang as one of the most attractive and fun filled cars ever made. We are enthusiasts of all ages with a love affair with the many generations of America’s Premiere Pony Car. Celebrating 50 Years! Whether it’s a coupe, convertible or fastback from 1964½ to the current model or the 2004 Cobra, we Wow has this year started out as a bang just like we love them all. The mission of club members is to promised! We first had our Cover Boy, Mr. Gale collect, restore, and preserve the history of the Halderman grace us with his presence at our Mustang along with the stories of the people and the General meeting, Shared stories of how the Mustang roles that they played in making this one of the great was born, his relationship with William Clay Ford Sr., cars of the 20th Century. Although ownership is not a etc, He then signed autographs for everyone on a requirement for membership, your enthusiasm, special souvenir picture provided by the club for expertise, and / or love of the automobile are most everyone in attendance. To have such a Mustang welcome. Icon at our meeting is really a testament to the Many of our club members own one or more benefits of being a member of MOCSEM. Mustangs in varying body styles, models and years. Club members are always exchanging information, We were then invited out and attended the "Carroll providing sources for parts, literature and helpful Collection" owned by Mr. William Deary, we had hints for restoring or maintaining their Mustangs. Our roughly 75 people in Attendance to witness one members are a diverse group of individuals, located beautiful and one of a kind collection! Mr. Deary throughout Southeastern Michigan and all share a gave us a very nice tour and the stories behind the great appreciation for the Ford Mustang. Our general cars themselves and his plans for expansion! To say membership meetings are held on the second everyone was in awe is just a huge understatement. Tuesday of each month. Our monthly newsletter, Once again another benefit of being a member of The Accelerator, provides the members with reports MOCSEM, on club activities, technical information, advertisements and business service locations and So stay tuned everyone this will be one exciting and more. Some club activities include car shows, event filled year for sure, with plenty of "MOCSEM picnics, sporting events, cruise nights and technical Members Only" events, including a very private tour sessions. to spend the afternoon with the man who we General Meetings consider a true "Mustang Hero" Gale Halderman coming up in May, you need to sign up asap and yes General membership meetings are held the you MUST be a MOCSEM member to attend this second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm at: spring cruise event. Warren Valley Banquet Center 26116 W. Warren Ave. See everyone soon! Dearborn Heights, MI (313) 561-1040 Mike A buffet dinner will be served at 6:30 pm for $13 per person which includes beverages. So come early and socialize over dinner. The dinner menu will vary every month and will be published on the event calendar at www.mocsem.com. General meetings are open to the public and are a great chance to learn more about the club. Mustang Owners Club of Southeastern Michigan • PO Box 39088, Redford, MI 48239 • www.mocsem.com The Accelerator Page 3 Newsletter 2013 Board of Directors The Accelerator is published monthly as the official newsletter of MOCSEM and is available on the club’s web President site at www.mocsem.com. If you would like to receive or Mike Rey stop receiving a hard copy of the newsletter in the mail, [email protected] please contact the Editor with your name and address. 313.304.5244 All correspondence concerning The Accelerator should be directed to the Editor: Vice President Ken Janus [email protected] Ken Kirchoff 248.921.0801 517-673-8536 [email protected] Treasurer Membership Rich Kocan [email protected] 248.349.2114 Membership dues for MOCSEM are $35.00 USD per year. To join, download the membership form from Secretary www.mocsem.com or just pick one up at one of our events Dawn Davis and send payment to: [email protected] 313.937.3808 MOCSEM PO Box 39088 Redford, MI 48239 Membership Kathy Janus Classified ads are available to MOCSEM members free of [email protected] charge and run online and in The Accelerator for 3 734.751.6265 months. Articles and classified ads for The Accelerator th must be submitted to the editor by the 15 of the month to Social Director be considered for publication the following month. Melissa Palmquist Submissions may be edited for content and grammar. [email protected] Except as noted, all published articles become the 734.604.9665 property of MOCSEM and may not be reprinted without permission of the editor. Views and opinions expressed in Web Administrator the newsletter are not those of the club, officers, Craig Zygmunt membership, editor or advertisers. MOCSEM, Inc. does [email protected] not necessarily endorse the businesses and/or services 734.765.8066 which advertise in The Accelerator. Accelerator Editor Ken Kirchoff The Mustang Club of America [email protected] (MCA) is a non-profit organization 517.673.8536 dedicated to the preservation, care, history and enjoyment of all model Merchandise years of Mustang, Shelby, Boss, Tracey Rey Saleen, Roush, SVT Cobra, Steeda [email protected] and McLaren. You'll find members 313.304.0701 throughout the United States, Canada and World Wide and more than 170 local MCA Regional Director chapters. Mike Sové [email protected] 248.355.1477 MOCSEM is one of, if not the largest local chapter of the MCA, and we encourage all MOCSEM members to consider joining the MCA. Trustee Dave Kalinowski For more information about The Mustang Club of America, [email protected] go to www.mustang.org. 734.464.1982 Mustang Owners Club of Southeastern Michigan • PO Box 39088, Redford, MI 48239 • www.mocsem.com The Accelerator Page 4 MOCSEM Calendar December General Meeting Minutes By Melissa Palmquist By Dawn Davis MOCSEM Social Director MOCSEM Secretary Board Members Present: April is here and so is Spring Mike & Tracey Rey, Ken & which means car season is getting closer. You will notice Kathy Janus, Rich Kocan, Craig Zygmunt, Ken that the calendar will be getting fuller. Hopefully you will Kirchoff, Mike Sove, Dave Kalinowski, Melissa find something on there that will be of interest to you. Palmquist and Dawn Davis When looking at the calendar and the individual events please be mindful of any deadlines that are associated with Mike Rey, President- On March 15, 2014 there is a tour that event. Thank you to Julie Long for running 50/50 for of the Carroll Collection in Jackson. On May 17, 2014 me at the Spring Swap. Your help is much appreciated. I there will be a Spring Cruise to Gale Halderman’s Barn. If look forward to seeing everyone at the general meeting. anyone is going to the Charlotte 50th Anniversary show the deadline to sign up for MORE Parking is March 15, 2014. March 29, 2014 is the Swap Meet at Village Ford. Because the dealership is open this year and our parking will be limited, we need workers for visitor parking. Mike congratulated all MOCSEM members who went to Autorama. Everyone from MOCSEM who had a car at Autorama won a trophy. Ken Janus, Vice President-Thanked Gale Halderman for speaking at the meeting. Stay tuned for more information on Mustang Memories. Rich Kocan, Treasurer-Went over the account balances. Craig Zygmunt, Web Administrator-He is working on getting the Mustang Memories Registration on the website. Hopefully it will be up and running by 4/17/14. Dawn Davis, Secretary-Nothing to report Kathy Janus, Membership-We have 617 active member households. Ken Kirchoff, Editor– Nothing to report. Dave Kalinowski, Trustee-The Swap Meet is March 29, 2014. We still need workers for the Swap Meet. He has sign-up sheets for workers. Please volunteer to work for a couple of hours. Melissa Palmquist, Social Director- For those going to the Mackinaw Mustang Show it is cheaper for you to make your own hotel reservations then to have the club book a block of rooms. There is a list of hotels on the website. Melissa needs someone to run the 50/50 at the swap meet since she will be unable to attend. She also need workers to sell tickets. She will look into hotels for the Carlisle Car Show if there are enough club members Gale Halderman Vists with MOCSEM members at going.