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THE ACCELERATOR VOLUME 41- ISSUE 3 March 2015

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Mustang Owners Club of Southeastern Michigan • PO Box 39088, Redford, MI 48239 • www.mocsem.com

Figure 1 #001 GT350R Sells For One Million at Barrett Jackson The Accelerator Page 2

The Boss's Corner The Accelerator Content By Mike Rey MOCSEM President The Boss’s Corner ………………...Page 2

About MOSSEM…………………….Page 3 10 years! Can't believe it has been 10 years since I MOCSEM Minutes…………………..Page 4 first joined MOCSEM. What a journey it has been to say the least, life changing to say the least, I can Mustang Member of the Month…..Page 5 honestly say I found a calling in life I didn't know MOCSEM Suggested Event’s.…....Page 6 existed before 2005. Tons and tons of Memories that will last forever. All of the Board of Directors I have Mustang Number One Pass code.Page 7 worked with, sponsors I have met, Mustang Heroes who have become friends, Team Mustang at Ford Ford Donates Shelby GT350R…..Page 8 who have been mentors, and good friends I have met throughout the club! Racer’s Corner……….……….……Page 9

I have to say I am very proud of this club, what we Detroit Auto Show in Review……...Page 10 have grown it in to, the benefits we offer our members, the charities we help and accomplishments we have Interesting Mustang Moment………Page11 achieved! It has taken a ton of work from a lot of people throughout the years to make it all happen. I MOSCESM Summit in Review.…....Page11 am super excited to celebrate our 40 year anniversary as a club this year and very grateful to be a piece of that 40 year history. I am looking very forward to another very successful and fun year of making Mustang Memories! Club season is right around the corner. See everyone soon!

Mike Membership Membership dues for MOCSEM are $35.00 USD per year. To join, download the membership form from Newsletter www.mocsem.com or just pick one up at one of our events and send payment to: The Accelerator is published monthly as the official MOCSEM newsletter of MOCSEM and is available on the club’s web PO Box 39088 site at www.mocsem.com. If you would like to receive or Redford, MI 48239 stop receiving a hard copy of the newsletter in the mail, please contact the Editor with your name and address. Classified ads are available to MOCSEM members free of charge and run online and in The Accelerator for 3 months. Articles and classified ads for The Accelerator All correspondence concerning The Accelerator should be must be submitted to the editor by the 15th of the month to directed to the Editor: be considered for publication the following month. Submissions may be edited for content and grammar. Except as noted, all published articles become the Bridgett Davis property of MOCSEM and may not be reprinted without 863.797.3826 permission of the editor. Views and opinions expressed in [email protected] the newsletter are not those of the club, officers, membership, editor or advertisers. MOCSEM, Inc. does

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About MOCSEM MOCSEM MEMBER OF THE MONTH

The Mustang Owners Club of Southeastern Michigan (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. Whether it’s a coupe, convertible or fastback from 1964½ to the current model or the 2004 Cobra, we love them all. The mission of club members is to collect, restore, and preserve the history of the Mustang along with the stories of the people and the roles that they played in making this one of the great cars of the 20th Century. Although ownership is not a requirement for membership, your enthusiasm, expertise, and / or love of the automobile are most 1964-1/2 Ford Mustang welcome. Owned by Pete and Sarah Vistakos Many of our club members own one or more Mustangs in varying body styles, models and years. Club members are always exchanging information, Growing up in Dearborn Heights on a street where it providing sources for parts, literature and helpful seemed almost every house on my street belonged hints for restoring or maintaining their Mustangs. Our to a Ford employee, it was inevitable I would one day members are a diverse group of individuals, located have a classic Mustang of my own. My father’s job throughout Southeastern Michigan and all share a with Ford Motor Company of England brought us to great appreciation for the Ford Mustang. Our general the United States in 1965, when I was just a baby. membership meetings are held on the second All my life I dreamed of having a 65 Mustang and on Tuesday of each month. Our monthly newsletter, 3/20/07 I purchased a very original 1964½ Mustang The Accelerator, provides the members with reports Coupe. on club activities, technical information, advertisements and business service locations and My husband and I were out and about one afternoon more. Some club activities include car shows, and there she sat on a corner with a “For Sale” sign picnics, sporting events, cruise nights and technical in the window. Before I knew it we were doing sessions. turning around and talking to the owner of the lot. He was selling it for someone and said it had been General Meetings sitting in storage for the past 8 years and he was actually blowing off the dust prepping it to sell.

General membership meetings are held the We haven’t been able to find out too much about her second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm at: history. We were able to track down some previous Warren Valley Banquet Center records and she spent quite a few of her years in 26116 W. Warren Ave. Arizona. My Mustang is a 1964½ 170 6 cylinder 3 Dearborn Heights, MI speed on the floor. This Mustang has an unusual (313) 561-1040 quality in regards to her color, as she is not any of the original Mustang colors. On her VIN tag the color A buffet dinner will be served at 6:30 pm for $13 per- code was intentionally left blank. With much research person which includes beverages. So come early and and a lot of asking around, we have determined her socialize over dinner. The dinner menu will vary every color is a 1964 Ford color called Rose Beige. Her month and will be published on the event calendar at www.mocsem.com. General meetings are open to the unique color draws a lot of attention and is sure to be public and are a great chance to learn more about the a conversation starter. When we are out cruising, we club. frequently have people calling out “cool color” or “what color is that?”

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service extend their hours. Registration for the show will be $30.00 pre-registration and the 1st 1000 pre-registered cars will get a goodie bag. Day of the show registration General Meeting will be $40.00. This will be a non-judged show, instead Minutes we will have “Hero’s Awards”. By Dawn Davis . MOCSEM Secretary Special Guests –Greg Arceri-Clay Modeler at Ford Motor Co. – He became interested in cars as a teenage and when he got out of the service he wanted to work with MOCSEM Membership designing cars. The Unemployment Office sent him to Meeting Minutes Chrysler for a job as a clay modeler. He had no experience 2/10/15 or tools, but was given a test and hired the following day. He learned quickly and his boss at Chrysler told him Board Members Present: Mike Rey, Lonnie Brammer, he would go further if he went to Ford Motor Rich Kocan, Dawn Davis, Craig Zygmunt, Jennifer Smith, Company. He went to the Special Development Studio at Sarah Cassette, Bill Davis, Mike Sove and Tracey Rey Fords. He work for 38 years at Fords with some of the Board Members Absent: Bridgett Davis best modelers in the world. He worked on 4 generations of Mustangs and was in charge of the last two generations he Mike Rey brought the meeting to order and introduced the worked on. He was honored to be recognized by board. He let everyone know that Mike Sove’s new title MOCSEM and thanked Mike Rey for recognizing the clay on the board is Club Ambassador. We will have someone modelers. They had as much to do with the design of the at the March meeting to discuss doing an event at Milan car as the designers did. He told the club he has never Dragway this year. The board overnight was very owned a Mustang, but plans to lease a 2016 Mustang. successful again this year. It was a long day and lots of events for have been planned for 2015. We had two other Member’s Spotlight-Mark Storm – He has been a clubs join us and we talked about joint events with these member of MOCSEM since 1996. He purchased his 1st clubs. Our April meeting will not be at Watson Racing. It Mustang, a 1967 coupe with his paper route money. He will be rescheduled at a later date. He has the two Ford now owns a 1970 Boss 302 and a 1988 GT Convertible. Racing Driving School passes that Jamie Allison gave the His son has a 7-up Mustang Convertible. He went to high club. They will be raffled off. He will have more school with Mike Birardi, who came over to Mark’s house information at the March meeting. Please remember that to work on cars. you will have to provide your own transportation. The Swap Meet is March 14, 2015 at Village Ford. Downriver Board Reports Cruise is June 27, 2015. We will be parking at Memorial Lonnie Brammer, Vice-President-We did a lot at the Park in Lincoln Park. We have also been offered the CVS Board Overnight. There is a long list of activities for the parking lot. Mike would like to use that for a small car club’s 40th Anniversary. Please sign up to work at Mustang show. He will need 5-6 volunteers for that Memories. event. MOCSEM made their 1st charitable donation for Craig Zygmunt, Web Administrator-He will go live the year. We are sponsoring a little league team in with Mustang Memories registration the end of March or Dearborn called the Dearborn Mustangs. The club logo beginning of April. will be on their uniforms and team banner. They will be Rich Kocan, Treasurer-Went over the account balances. volunteering at Mustang Memories. Mike show everyone Dawn Davis, Secretary- Reminded everyone that the the MOCSEM 40th Anniversary logo. Tracey will be Swap Meet is March 14, 2015. Please volunteer to work a ordering merchandise with this logo on it. John Clor’s few hours. next book is due out April 17, 2015. We are working on a Sarah Cassette, Membership-We have 735 members. book signing and Mustang Night at Village for April 30, Please give Sarah any updated information you have. 2015. If you normally receive the Accelerator in the mail, Bill Davis, Trustee-Swap Meet is March 14, 2015 at you will be getting them again starting next month. 2019 Village Ford. There is a workers sign up here or you can will be the 55th anniversary of the Mustang. We are sign up online. Contact Bill if you want flyers to hand working with the other Michigan clubs and the Toledo out. club to celebrate this event. John Clor suggested we call it Mike Sove, Club Ambassador-He need volunteers to “Michigan Mustang Drive 55”. spread the work about the club and great people at the Mustang Memories News-The club tent will be moved toward the midway. The club has requested that the food The Accelerator Page 5

monthly meetings. He want to get a group together to Spring Swap promote the club and is working on getting more people involved in the club. Quickly approaching we invite you to come out for Jennifer Smith, Social Director-Engines Exposed at The this annual MOCSEM event. In need of volunteer Henry Ford is February 22, 2015. She has scheduled a workers to help make it a success we ask you Ford Factory Tour for March 28, 2015. consider taking your MOCSEM experience to the Tracey Rey, Merchandise-Nothing to report. next level and join us for the day in one of the Bridgett Davis, Editor-Absent following positions during the open time frames below. 50/50 Winners 1st $61.00-Dave Mengel Gateway Classic Cars Sweet Sixteen Spring nd 2 $40.00-Bob Koch Fling

Dinner-David Kramer Bucket-Jerry Ostalecki

Respectfully Submitted Dawn Davis, Secretary

Take the Rouge Factory Tour with MOCSEM Saturday, March 28 at 1:00 pm Join MOCSEM for a tour of the the Ford Rouge Factory. You must pay in advance for this event due to the prepayment requirements by The Henry Ford two weeks in advance of event.

-Prices for MOCSEM members who are not Henry Ford members: Adult: $14.50 Senior (62+): $13.00 Youth (5-12): $10.75 Mustang From Around The World -Prices for MOCSEM members who are members of The Henry Ford: Adult: $13.50 Senior (62+): $12.25 Youth (5-12): $10.25

Please pay at the February or March general meetings. Contact Jennifer Smith with any questions at [email protected]. The group will meet inside the Clocktower entrance at the Group Sales station in The Henry Ford museum at 1:00 pm

France Berstrand and her 1966 Mustang From Grenoble, France

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2015 Board of Directors MOCSEM Calendar

By Jennifer Smith, MOCSEM Social Director President Mike Rey Spring is right around the corner! By [email protected] 313.304.5244 now, you’ve noticed that the days are getting longer too. That means it

Vice President won’t be long until we get to hear Lonnie Brammer those horses sing! In the meantime, [email protected] we have planned an outing to the new and improved m Ford Rouge Factory Tour on Saturday, March 28th. 734.546.1405 Ford has invested $4.7 million recently to upgrade the experience, and the word is that it certainly does Treasurer not disappoint! Since this is a special event, we will Rich Kocan need to close out registration and the payment [email protected] deadline on March 10th. Please reach out to me 248.349.2114 directly if you have any questions about this event.

Secretary I am also excited to announce that Mike Rey and I Dawn Davis [email protected] have just secured the permits from the City of 313.937.3808 Lincoln Park to host our own exclusive club spot at Memorial Park and a car show contest in the Membership adjacent lot next to CVS Pharmacy both directly on Sarah Cassette Fort Street for the Downriver Cruise on Saturday, [email protected] June 27th. Now, the actually planning can begin! m 734.770.0085 We have already dubbed it as the “1st Annual Ponies in the Park” and hope this will become a new Social Director tradition for the club and the City of Lincoln Park. Jennifer Smith We will certainly share more details as they become [email protected] available in coming months. 734.604.9665 The dinner menu for the March 10th general meeting Web Administrator at Warren Valley will be: salad, pork loin, roasted red Craig Zygmunt [email protected] skin potatoes, corn and desser et 734.765.8066 Mustang Moment In History

Accelerator Editor Bridgett Davis The 1994 [email protected] Ford Mustang, 863-797-3826 which introduced the Merchandise 4th generation Tracey Rey Mustangs, was [email protected] dramatically 313.304.0701 restyled to MCA Regional awaken its Director pony car Mike Sové heritage. The hatchback variant was dropped, leaving only [email protected] a two door coupe and convertible. The SVT Cobra was 248.355.1477 carried over from the previous year and launched with a Trustee 240 horsepower 5.0 liter V8 Bill Davis [email protected] 313.937.3808

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pages of that book and touched my young mind in a MUSTANG MANIA’ INVADES DEARBORN: way that pushed me to where I am today – trying to MY EXCLUSIVE ‘FORD IMMERSION’ TOUR share my own Mustang passion with as many people as I can not only in Italy and Europe, but all around FABRIZIO the world. SCHENARDI / MUSTANG John explained to me that before we could use the MANAI.IT Ford name and the Ford Mustang logo on our site, we had to be approved by Ford’s Global Brand DEARBORN, MI – Licensing. We filled out all the online forms, waited If two or three three weeks and then we received the best e-mail years ago ever: You are approved! You can use the Ford name someone would and the Ford Mustang logo on your website! have told me that Ford will help me to see Mustangs being built in Flat Rock, attend NAIAS, tour the original Model T and current F-150 factories and three of the most special vehicle collections ever, watch race cars being built, walk through the front door at Ford Racing, get a ride in three amazing prototypes, speak in front of almost 200 Mustang club members, and even meet the guy who wrote one of my favorite books ever – the only answer could have been, “Are you joking me?”.

Today, after the amazing Ford experience we had in Detroit recently, I will say: “Yes man, done!”

Our unbelievable trip started in the simplest way you But we wanted to Go Further. So we again contacted could imagine: We asked for permission to use the John and asked him if there could be any chance Ford Mustang logo for our new website, that he could help us visit Ford and Ford Racing if www.mustangmania.it. we came to the USA. After a month of chasing each

other and discussing what could possibly be What’s really hard to believe is that the man who arranged, I received the plan for my best trip ever: answered my e-mail to Ford Motor Company was John set up a special itinerary for me and extended one of the heroes of my young Mustang love: John an official invite from Ford Performance. Clor. Unbelievable! We shared our story with magazines

and newspapers in Europe. People were amazed by our weeklong “immersion” in the Ford brand. John had only asked that I would also share my story with you, the readers of FordPerformance.com. So here it is: When we got word that we would begin our week with Ford by getting special Media access to the Ford Performance I felt I knew him after I bought his book, Mustang vehicle press Dynasty, back in late 2009. His way of writing, his launches at the North American International Auto passion for the Mustang, literally came out from the Show in Detroit, I teamed up with one of the guys The Accelerator Page 8

who are helping me with the MustangMania website, Saturday, Jan. 10 Matteo Passera, then booked two seats on a plane, filled our luggage and drove like crazy to Milan We stopped in a gas station for a couple of coffees, Malpensa Airport. and a gentleman saw our jackets and came up to show up pictures of his 2004 Saleen Mustang convertible. We felt like rock stars! After taking a couple of pictures with him, we drove to a nearby cemetery to say “hello” to an old friend I knew from the U.S. Navy, who is now resting in peace. He was a huge Mustang fan, the lucky owner of three fine Mustangs. God bless you, William Walter Cappella, wherever you are. Our Chevy guy was a fantastic tour guide for the whole day in and around Philadelphia (or “Philly,” as they call it). We saw where America was born, and also the Bill of Rights! We tried the “Rocky Run” on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, too.

We finished our night with food and watching American football – a really typical American night! We left Italy on the 8th of January, on a sunny Wednesday afternoon. Here’s what happened:

Wednesday, Jan. 8

After 10 hours of flight, we landed at JFK Airport. People started asking us questions about our MustangMania jackets and “Burnout Crew” T-shirts from the moment we landed. A guy at the security gates saw that we were Mustang fans, and showed us a picture of his 1966 Mustang convertible. We gave him a MustangMania sticker, with the promise that we would receive a picture of his car with our sticker on it. We got a car from the Dollar Car Rental (a terrible 5-door Kia Rio) and we drove – really tired Sunday, Jan. 11 and in the middle of the night – until we reached our hotel, where we felt asleep like babies. We had to We drove in the early morning toward New York recover quickly, as the best was still yet to come. heading for La Guardia Airport. We saw the sun coming up near the Statue of Liberty, and the view Friday, Jan. 9 from the highway was absolutely stunning. During the flight to Detroit, we chatted with a gentleman who We spent almost the whole day around Mt. Laurel, said he owned a 1964½ Mustang coupe. Mustang New Jersey. The crazy thing was everyone with a people are everywhere! Mustang had stopped us to ask why we had “MustangMania.it” on our jackets. So many people Our landing in Detroit was not so good … the openly shared their feelings, their emotions and the weather was even colder than in Philadelphia. We stories of their Mustangs with us – all with two defrosted our 5-door Ford Fiesta at the car rental foreigners who they met for the first time! It was place and we jumped in and headed directly to Cobo unbelievable: From their first kiss to their graduation Center in downtown Detroit to get our NAIAS media from school, everyone had a Mustang-related story. credentials for use the next morning. We finished our day trying to “convert” a Chevy Camaro guy into being a Mustang lover. (We are still Collecting our NAIAS press passes was an trying to do it, by the way.) emotional experience. We’d put so much time and effort into MustangMania.it. (I’ve had not only Matteo Passera help me, but also Matteo Preti, Carlotta The Accelerator Page 9

Guatteri, and Andreas Zarini – all have helped week was gonna be for us! Maybe the snow that we launch MustangMania!) But now to be recognized saw falling from the sky as we left the restaurant was among other “online influencers” and to be a kind of sign of the heavenly things that were in credentialed for one of the most iconic car shows in store for us? the world – it was a defining moment! We had a quick look around Cobo and headed back toward Monday, Jan. 12 Dearborn to check into our hotel. We drove in the snow (and in the crazy Detroit rush- hour traffic, of course) in the early morning to get Downtown for the big auto show. We found a parking lot and hustled inside the exhibition hall at Cobo Center. Cobo Hall was crowded with a mass of journalists and cars. More than 6,000 auto journalists from all over the world were there, and we were the only two people in the entire place with a T-shirt on … most had sports coats! If you are thinking we were embarrassed, well -- no! Everyone stopped us to ask us about our cool MustangMania “Burnout Crew” t-shirts! There were many special new vehicle

previews from almost every manufacturer, but After a quick pit stop at the hotel we headed off for a honestly we were only interested in Ford’s press “Ford Performance Welcome Dinner” with John Clor, reveals. We expected them to be the stars of the who would be going over the week’s tour schedule show. And we were right. that he had set up for us. We met at a steakhouse near the Ford SVT building, and I was quite excited to meet my hero, the man that wrote the book that helped me decide to follow my dreams and get involved in the Mustang hobby.

He was waiting for us when Matteo and I arrived, and the crazy thing was that John seemed more excited to meet me than I was to meet him! We gave John our official MustangMania jacket and a couple of MustangMania T-shirts that he said he would put to good use. Then I showed him a copy of his book that I brought with me on the plane for him to sign. Ford unveiled two amazing new performance He was shocked: vehicles – the Shelby GT350R Mustang, and the F- 150 Raptor pickup truck, plus celebrated the return “Where did you buy that book, Fabrizio?” he asked of a true supercar: The Ford GT. Nobody was me. “Where would you find it in Europe?” expecting that car! And with it, Ford “smashed” all of the competitors’ new car introductions. We were “Um – well, I saw it on Ebay, John!” We both seated in the dark on a side of Joe Louis Arena next laughed. door to Cobo, and the emotions, the background videos, the sound literally submerged our senses We had an during the Ford presentations. Our favorite entrance amazing so far was the one for the Shelby GT350R, which dinner, spun the tires to turn toward the stage with a drift- speaking style move. When we finally left the arena and about headed to the huge Ford display inside Cobo get a Mustangs close look at the new cars, we were able to get some and interviews with Ford executives and managers. They discussing included Joe Hinrichs (Ford Executive Vice President the plans that and President, the Americas); Raj Nair (Ford Group John had Vice President, Global Product Development and made for us. We could not imagine how special that Chief Technical Officer); to William “Bill” Mangan The Accelerator Page 10

(Design Manager, Interior); Francesca Montini After a nice lunch in a classic sports bar, we reached (Global Design Communications Manager); and a very special museum: The Roush Collection in many, many others. Ford sponsored a nice dinner nearby Livonia, MI and drinks for the journalists and after mingling for a (https://www.roushcollection.com/). More than 50 while longer, we finally reached our hotel tired, but cars, a lot of them special Mustangs, were waiting for really happy. us to examine, from SCAA Mustangs to NASCAR- style racers to a 1969 Boss 429, with a 0429 VIN number, to Roush’s 3D clay model of the all-new 2015 Roush Mustang. A lot of very special, unique and one-of-a-kind cars were there to see. We were given a secret tour in the “forbidden area,” thanks to Susan Roush McClenaghan, daughter of Jack Roush Sr., and also a pretty good drag racer in a butane dragster (in Europe, we call that gas L.P.G., or Liquid Compressed Gas) Unbelievable …a “green” dragster! We had a really quick chat with Susan and gave her a couple of MustangMania gifts for the entire Roush family. (We would like to see the

pictures of the Roush family with our gifts, Susan -- Tuesday, Jan. 13 you promised!). She had also shown us the first Mustang drag car that Jack owned; it was a barn find On a really cold morning we had the opportunity to in Louisiana (if I remember her story correctly). This have a special tour of original Ford Piquette Model T gentleman had phoned Roush and said, “I think I factory in Detroit. have the first Jack Roush Mustang that he used for (http://fordpiquetteavenueplant.org/). We luckily drag racing.” Susan told him, “O.K., how much?” found an amazing guide for our visit, with an Italian Sometimes you chase a car for your whole life and surname (Genova. We discovered that a lot of Italian can’t find it, but you will find them when they want to immigrants in the beginning of the 19th century, had find you! We also got to chat with the mechanic that changed their surnames to match the city where they we met in the back – a really nice gentleman with a came from, due to the fact that others had problems lot of nice tales. We did some shopping inside the spelling their original surnames). He walked us Roush Museum’s store. So what could you buy through the old factory, which now contains a huge inside that shop? We bought three pieces of a collection of extremely rare classic cars, plus the crashed Roush race car! office and the secret testing area were Henry Ford was creating the future of the automotive industry with his engineers – the Model T. We felt we witnessed a piece of automotive history in a place that was so rich in its significance and so full of wonderful tales about Ford – all with a nice really old-fashioned steam-punk look. We got to sit inside an original Model T, and I also tried to buy the Ford GT that was on display there – but my $5 offer was rejected! Ford sold the GT to the Piquette Foundation for $1 – but please, any gentlemen from Ford who are reading this, please feel free to sell any of your cars to me for $1! I have enough space at We reached the last stop of our day’s schedule a home to store another car! There were other great little bit late. We had never attended a big American cars on display there. We were so lucky to see the car club membership meeting for a true muscle car – 1964½ Ford Mustang HFII Prototype, a tiffany the Mustang. We were invited to a monthly colored convertible with a white interior; the rumor membership meeting of the Mustang Owners Club of was that the owner is a member of the Ford family. South Eastern Michigan (MOCSEM) (http://www.mocsem.com/), held at a big golf & banquet center in Dearborn Heights, MI The Accelerator Page 11

Wednesday, Jan. 14:

We drove west from Detroit for a while in the morning, and we reached one of the most beautiful

and hidden Shelby collections ever assembled: William Deary’s “The Carroll Collection” Museum in Jackson, MI (http://www.thecarrollcollection.com/). William is REALLY a Shelby lover; I put that in capital letters because he is really the most avid collector of everything associated with the Carroll Shelby legend you will ever meet. He showed us amazing hospitality and a really deep passion for cars; he let us touch, sit in, and take pictures of everything everywhere inside his collection. The first sentence We were shocked to see how many people were that came out of my mouth once I stepped inside his seated in that upstairs banquet room! Nearly personal Shelby museum was: “William, I am more everyone there, members and guests alike, was than jealous of your man cave!” We did a short wearing a Mustang-related item, from jackets to hats interview with him, just before he had to go back to to T-shirts. We felt like we were members of that work. Thanks again, William! HUGE Mustang family. The MOCSEM president, Mike Rey, introduced John Clor (who is also a member of this club), and John asked me to come up to the podium and speak in front of the nearly 200 people who were in attendance at the meeting. I was asked to simply share my Mustang story and the story of how I had created MustangMania. Talking to all of those Mustang people gave me a beautiful, strange feeling under my skin; it was the kind of feeling that makes you feel special. After me, a fantastic woman took the microphone: She was Ellen Collins, the Chief Engineer and Program Manager of the 2006 SVT Mustang Cobra project, which we learned later became the 2007 Shelby GT500). She explained to the club the work that she and her SVT colleagues had done behind the scenes to engineer that first SVT GT500. How amazing it was to Coming back across southeast Michigan toward discover that there was a woman’s touch behind the Detroit, John had us stop at the Ypsilanti Automotive modern-day Shelby GT500. At the end of the Heritage Museum in Ypsilanti, MI, meeting we gave away our cool MustangMania (http://www.ypsiautoheritage.org/comevisit.html) stickers (that we hope to see on MOCSEM club because of Ford’s role in building the nearby Willow members’ cars soon), and we hung around afterward Run Bomber Plant as part of America’s “Arsenal of to speak with many of the guys and ladies in the Democracy” in WWII. We had a really nice lunch in club. Before we left there was a huge surprise for us: the cool Sidetrack Bar & Grill across the street, and The club president’s wife, Tracey Rey, gave us the then walked over the railroad tracks to go inside the two coolest “Mustang 50 Years” tote bags ever made museum. Ypsilanti is a city that is really proud about (from MOCSEM’s 1,200-car “Mustang Memories” its place in automotive history. After the war, 2014 show). Thanks again to MOCSEM and all their Chevrolet built the Corvair in part of the huge Willow wonderful club members! We hope to see you soon! Run facility (until Ralph Nader’s book, “Unsafe at Any Speed” came out, that is!); it was also the city where Preston Tucker lived; and where the Kaiser-Frazier cars were built until till 1953. This Museum also has the biggest Hudson Motor Car collection we have ever seen (part of it was an old Hudson dealership). The Accelerator Page 12

A small museum with a lot of history!

We drove back toward Dearborn for a while to get a tour of Watson Racing in nearby Brownstown, MI (http://www.watsoneng.com/locations), where all Ford Racing Mustang Cobra Jet race cars have been built since 2008. Our guide, John Phillips, showed us all the cars they have worked on (such as the Boss 302S road racing cars), and all the race cars they have in their collection. We also got to see the new car they are working on now (did someone say a 2015 Cobra Jet? Not sure.). The only thing was, we were not allowed to take pictures . . . I can understand why!

Later that afternoon, I finally made it: I opened the front door of Ford Racing headquarters in Dearborn, Thursday, Jan. 14: MI. We had a quick tour of the office, met with some of the Ford Racing team to talk about buying This was our big day that John had arranged for us! performance parts and modifying Mustangs in We reached the Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Flat Europe, and even got a look inside the Ford Racing Rock, MI, before 9 a.m. it is the biggest auto factory garage. we have seen so far: 270,000 square meters of MUSTANG (yeah! … also of Ford Fusion, of course). I couldn’t even have imagined that one day I would be able to see the place where my Mustang was born – but I did! We were really lucky, and we had a really special guide who John had said made the whole tour possible: Ralph Arning. Ralph is a second-generation Ford employee; his father was a suspension engineer on the original Ford Mustang and later for the Ford GT40 race car. The crazy-but- true story we heard was that Ralph’s father designed an independent rear suspension for the 1965 Mustang. Ford decided that it would be too expensive to use in the first Mustang, but later used a modified version of that design on the Ford GT40! Then we asked the lovely test vehicle coordinator, We put on safety gear and got a personal walking Kirsten Mueller, if she might get us a test drive in tour of every step needed to build a new Mustang, some of the Ford Racing vehicles parked outside in from the sheet metal stamping to welding to painting the “corral.” She smiled and got a few keys so that and assembly to a driving, ready-to-deliver new Ford some Ford Racing staffers could give us rides in a Mustang pony car. This was absolutely a most few of the vehicles! We have been in the F-150 special experience that we will never forget! Raptor, a huge truck full of power, but this time we got a ride and went drifting in the snow in the Ford Racing parking lot -- really cool! We also got rides in two different new Mustangs, a Ford Racing tweaked EcoBoost prototype, and a supercharged Shelby GT prototype (we discovered what it was after we got home; the engine bay we saw on the prototype was the same as the new Shelby GT, except the one we saw at Ford Racing did not have a Shelby badge on the supercharger! We weren’t allowed any pictures to prove that, but just trust us!)

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where the new F-150 is built. The Museum had a We finished our evening by having dinner with John huge collection of cars, trains, airplanes, presidential Clor and his FordPerformance.com web site limos – you name it! We took billions of pictures. associate, Trenton Zeisler, at place not far from Ford Unfortunately we hadn’t time to see all that the World Headquarters that John said is frequented by museum has to offer – it is a superb history of many Ford employees. It’s a really cool, small bar on Americana! The Rouge Factory Tour was really nice Michigan Avenue that every Ford guy knows about and set up to handle tourists see the inside workings called Miller’s Bar (http://www.millersbar.com/) in of a modern American automotive plant. We saw all Dearborn. Their specialty? Cheeseburgers and cold the steps to build a new F-150, and also the full story beer. behind the development of the latest version of this amazing truck.

Friday, Jan. 16:

The final morning of our tour week started with a visit So, what can I possibly say to sum up this trip? Just to a very special Mustang collection, owned and this: It was best trip I ever had so far in my whole life! cared for by Mike Berardi, a Ford executive who also I only hope that with this report you were able to happens to be passionate about every kind of sense some of the deep emotions we experienced Mustang. He stores his collection of some 40 and the feelings we had after getting this deep-dive Mustangs in a private building just outside of into the Ford brand. Our sincere thanks again to Dearborn, and agreed to open it up for us to get a John Clor and his managers at Ford Performance personal tour. Mike is the Director of the Ford who understand how opening enthusiast eyes and Service Engineering Ops; despite being a high-level hearts inspire us to tell the rest of the world about manager, Mike’s a regular guy with a real passion for our Ford passion! And to Ford Motor Company for every Mustang ever produced, and a special love for its support -- Grazie! And many thanks to everyone the 1971-1973 Mustangs. We spent a couple of who contacts MustangMania for sharing a little piece hours with Mike and his collection, and we of your life with us: Our fierce passion for Ford and discovered a curious fact: The name “Gotta Have It the Mustang will live on forever! Green” for the vibrant green color of the 2013 Boss 302 was due Mike exclaiming those very words to the Boss Mustang program manager the first time he laid eyes on that color. Yes guys, they changed the name of the color because they like that Mike Berardi said – Gotta Have It! We got a nice interview from Mike in his building’s office so that we can share his passion with a MustangMania.it video to be seen around the world!

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With our 2015 Mustang in hand, we plan on test and tuning all of the latest and greatest parts offered for the S550. Our triple yellow Mustang GT was outfitted with the performance pack which gave us a perfect starting point for the mods we were about to throw at it. Some of the factory features included a 6 speed transmission, naturally aspirated V8 pushing our 435 horsepower and •Ford dealerships to offer 143 limited-edition Petty’s 400 ft/lbs of torque, 15 inch rotors with six piston Brembo Garage-tuned Mustang GTs; a Stage 1 version and an even calipers, a thicker rear sway bar, and plenty more! more exclusive Stage 2 version will be available •All Petty’s Garage Mustang GTs feature Ford Racing/Roush supercharger boosting output to 627 horsepower*, as well as unique exterior and interior treatments including Richard Petty’s signature on the dashboard •AC/DC’s Brian Johnson ordered the first Petty’s Garage Although the 5.0 Coyote motor put down some similar Stage 2 Mustang GT – the rock ’n’ roll legend’s first-ever numbers to the previous years, a quick test drive will let domestic vehicle purchase you know that it is capable of so much more. With a huge market of parts trickling in daily, we are busy testing and DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 19, 2015 – Ford Motor tuning many of these parts to give you accurate dyno Company and Petty’s Garage are teaming up to build a number and great installation videos. new 627-horsepower* Mustang GT – a limited-edition 2015 Mustang GT Triple Yellow Project Car - 2015 fastback inspired by the popular Petty’s Garage Mustang Mustang GT Triple Yellow Project Car GT on display at last year’s SEMA show in Las Vegas. The factory exhaust on this Stang was way too quiet for us! We installed and tested various exhaust kits and “We received a tremendous amount of positive feedback midpipes to get the perfect sound we were wanting from about our Petty’s Garage Mustang GT displayed at the this 400+ hp beast. Lucky for you, we have the videos of SEMA show,” said Jeff Whaley, Petty’s Garage COO. each exhaust to make choosing your 2015 Mustang “With so much interest, we began to explore the Exhaust much easier. Check out our installation and possibility of building a limited run of the Petty’s Garage exhaust sound clips to find out which kit you like the best. Mustang GT.” 2015 Mustang GT Triple Yellow Project Car - 2015 Mustang GT Triple Yellow Project Car Two versions of the Petty’s Garage Mustang GT will be While the factory ride height of the 2015 Mustang was built this year; the Stage 1 version will be limited to 100 lower than previous year models, we knew we had to drop units, while the even more exclusive Stage 2 version will it a little more to get the stance we wanted. We installed total 43 units. the 2015 Eibach Pro-Kit Lowering Springs to drop it 1.1" in the front and 1.0" in the rear. Our installation video Stage 1 Petty’s Garage Mustang GT will feature a host of shows you step by step how to install these springs to give custom modifications – both visual tweaks and under the your S550 an aggressive new look. hood. A Petty’s Garage fascia at the front imparts a unique The Accelerator Page 15

look, while a reworked rear fascia features a center-exit kind color for the lower half of the car. A custom tri-coat exhaust and prominently showcased race-inspired spoiler. pearlescent blend of Ford Tuxedo Black complements Inside, custom embroidered head restraints, floor mats and Petty Blue for the upper half. “The King’s” legendary No. 43 is expertly ghosted into the paint on the fastback Mustang GT’s hood and C-pillar.

The Petty’s Garage Stage 1 car carries an MSRP of $62,210, while the Stage 2 car comes in at $92,210. Orders for this limited-edition Mustang GT can be placed at any Ford dealership on a first-come, first-served basis.

*Powertrain modifications are covered by a Ford Racing/Roush Performance parts limited warranty; Petty’s Garage components and installation carry a 36-month, 36,000-mile warranty from Petty’s Garage.

Richard Petty’s own signature on the dashboard set this Mustang GT apart from the rest.

A Ford Racing/Roush supercharger, cold air intake, custom engine calibration and MagnaFlow exhaust system are fitted to Mustang GT’s 5.0-liter engine, boosting output to 627 horsepower. Power is delivered to the road by custom 20-inch Petty’s Garage HRE FlowForm wheels shod with Continental tires.

Stage 1 Mustang GT can be ordered in any color, with all unique bodywork painted to match in-house at Petty’s 2015 Mustang Earns Highest Vehicle Safety Garage. Rating From National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Along with the features found on the Stage 1 car, the Stage 2 version includes a Petty’s Garage Wilwood big •National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awards brake upgrade and a complete Petty’s Garage custom two- the all-new 2015 Mustang a five-star Overall Vehicle tone paint job. Stage 2 Mustang GT will ride on Petty’s Score in its New Car Assessment Program Garage HRE three-piece forged-aluminum wheels. •All-new Mustang has twice as many airbags, twice as Of the 43 Petty’s Garage Stage 2 Mustang GTs planned, many peripheral crash sensors and additional only 42 remain, as rock ’n’ roll legend Brian Johnson has pretensioning safety belt technology compared to the an order in for the first car. “This Mustang has just taken outgoing model my breath away,” said Johnson, lead singer for AC/DC. “It really is one of the best cars I’ve ever driven. I didn’t have •The new Mustang is the first car to offer four-, six- and an American car, but I do now!” eight-cylinder engines that each produce at least 300 horsepower – a 300-horsepower 3.7-liter V6, a more Paint fit for ‘The King’ powerful 435-horsepower 5.0-liter V8, and an all-new 310-horsepower 2.3-liter EcoBoost® engine The Petty’s Garage Stage 2 Mustang GT’s custom two- tone paint job is identical to the 2014 SEMA show car. Using crushed-and-tumbled glass combined with iconic DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 11, 2015 – The 2015 Ford Petty Blue paint, Petty’s Garage has created a one-of-a- Mustang received a top safety rating from the National The Accelerator Page 16

Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The Ford U.S. Sales Up 15 Percent in January; 2015 Mustang earned a five-star Overall Vehicle Score in Company Sees Best U.S. January Retail NHTSA’s New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) testing. Sales Results Since 2004

The New Car Assessment Program is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s evaluation program for new vehicle designs established to test for performance against safety threats. Now on sale at Ford dealers, the all-new 2015 Mustang received five stars in the frontal crash test, five stars in the side crash test and five stars in the rollover crash test.

“The new Mustang was built from the ground up,” said Carl Widmann, Mustang chief engineer. “It is more refined, more powerful and it has everything people have come to love about Mustang for the past 50 years.”

Safety, semi-autonomous and driver assist features • Ford Motor Company U.S. sales for January increase 15 The 2015 Mustang has a myriad of standard safety percent, for a total of 178,351 vehicles sold; retail sales features aimed at protecting drivers and occupants, as well performance for January is best since 2004 as semi-autonomous and driver assist features that are new to the vehicle.

Features on the 2015 Mustang include an all-new inflatable airbag restraint design, double the number of airbags in the vehicle, a robust package of peripheral crash sensors and enhanced exterior lighting.

The 2015 Ford Mustang also offers innovative semi- autonomous technologies including Adaptive Cruise Control. Driver assist features include BLIS® Cross- Traffic Alert and SYNC 911 Assist, which enables a mobile phone connected to SYNC to call 911 directly when needed. The system can also provide more detail about a crash to aid in the dispatch of the appropriate resources. Mustang sales more than doubled last month with sales of 8,694 vehicles. This represents a 124 percent increase versus last year and marks Mustang’s best January sales since 2007.

Safety Testing of 2015 Mustang

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What better way to end the Year of the Horse Not only celebrating 50 years of the Mustang but than to welcome the next generation of the Ford celebrating the Ford Mustang’s entrance into one of Mustang the 120 countries it will be available in Vaughn Gittin Jr. exhibits in traditional Gittin style the performance capabilities of the 6th generation horse.

In some pretty impressive maneuvering piloting the new all-new Mustang, Gittin Jr. traveling the desolate and abandoned streets of Ordos, Inner Mongolian streets bids a farewell to the year of the horse paying homage to 50 years of the Mustang via some smoky sideways action.

Vaughn Gittin Jr. helping to commence the Mustang’s official entrance into China recently teaming up with Ford Motor Company traveled to Inner Mongolia for the filming of Ford Performance’s latest video release.

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