E-Ford Lines Volume 18 Number 3 Fall 2009 AAA SSSUMMER GGGONE TTTOO FFFAST !!! Newsletter of the European Ford Owners North America 1 EUROPEAN FORD OWNERS SEND US YOUR ARTICLES NORTH AMERICA AND PICTURES Memberships and Club Business E-Ford Lines welcomes your articles. Due to space EFONA [Michael MacSems] limitations, they should be less than 800 words. Articles may be P.O. Box 11415 Olympia, Washington, 98508 edited for content and to meet space requirements. E-mail E-Mail: [email protected] transmittals are preferred. Please send your suggestions and http://clubs.hemmings.com/NAEFR articles to [email protected]. We are just as happy to get 360-754-9585 (8:00 AM - 9:00 PM PT) your articles, comments, pictures, and suggestions through the Newsletter Submittals or Comments E-Mail: traditional USPS, mail them to P.O. Box 11415, Olympia, WA [email protected] 98508. As you can see, we love to put car photos in the newsletter. Your pictures (digital via email are preferred) of cars Associate Membership: Free or events are very welcome. Your cars do not have to be “picture Full Membership: US $15.00 per year perfect” in order find a place in our publication, but we would like Checks Payable to IFHP to know details like year, model, owner, photographer, and The International Ford History Project is a interesting history. Pictures with high contrast will look the best. Washington State non-profit corporation If you want your pictures returned, please let us know. It may take Club Director: Michael MacSems several issues for your submittal to be published. Please be Club Founder: Bob Pare patient. FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK By Judy Berrian Welcome to the first issue to be electronically distributed! For this issue, we are preserving the old “print-ready” format. But for future issues, the electronic version will be re-formatted for easier on-screen viewing. Pages will be wider rather than taller; you’ll be able to read entire pages without scrolling up and down. Print- ready files will still be available for readers who prefer to print their newsletters on traditional 8-1/2 x 11 paper. Hopefully, this will provide the best of choices – saving association funds on printing costs, but still providing our readers with formats they enjoy. Those subscribers who don’t have email addresses on record, will receive a black and white printed version. IS IT TIME TO RENEW? Associate EFONA membership is free; your $15 full membership benefits include this newsletter and the Members Guide. Your renewal date is in the bottom line of the label on this newsletter. Please use the Registration Form inside the back cover to update your membership information. WELCOME NEW MEMBERS Sadly, we have no new members to recognize this quarter. Please recommend us to someone you know! Front Cover: Celebrating a half-century of burgundy Euro NOW ON FACEBOOK Fords at the Pacific Northwest Import Ford Meet, Hillsboro Oregon. European Ford Owners North America now has a Facebook Fan Page – please join!! Editor: Judy Berrian http://www.facebook.com/pages/European-Ford-Owners-North- Proofreader: Gary Kiernan America/157747007802#/pages/European-Ford-Owners-North- America/157747007802?v=wall DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE needed or was otherwise not quite right. I posted the chronology of these travails as a discussion thread in the Technical Discussion By Michael MacSems section of EnFoStuff.com. It's titled "The Brake Job That Keeps Thank you to the 48 members who responded to the On Giving." EFONA Member's Survey. This number represents about one With that, please enjoy the rest of the newsletter, whether it is third of the mailing list. The information you provided was in the post office lobby, a color print out in the armchair, or a helpful. I especially appreciated the personal notes that many quite moment with your laptop and a cuppa at your local wi-fi included; both those expressing appreciation for the effort of enhanced cafe keeping this enterprise alive, as well as frustration with potential loss of a paper newsletter (which I share). I have taken the liberty of reprinting some of the notes here as I think LETTERS TO THE EDITOR they may be speaking the mind of many of us. From the Owner of Last Issue’s Cover Car: From the surveys, I learned that, preferences aside, a paper What a surprise to get your magazine on the mail!! newsletter is essential for a sizable minority of the I hope this email finds you and your family doing really well. membership. These include members who don't use computers as well as those who live in areas with dial-up service and Yes, I still have the 15m and I've decided to keep it. can't download large files. I just finished... Thanks to a flood of renewals and donations, we had a - refinishing the interior healthy bank deposit this quarter, which (if you over look the - relocating the battery to the rear debt from last issue) is a good start at rebuilding the clubs - refinishing the trunk finances. We are in kind of an experimental phase right now, - boiling and re-seaming the gas tank and the radiator feeling our way into the future. My vision is to develop a two- - New brakes tiered dues structure that would encourage members to take - New hoses and ignition parts the newsletter electronically (color and lower dues), but would - Etc, etc also make a B&W paper copy available to those that really I will be working on the exhaust next week. A new muffler need and or want it. The trick is to get the price right so that shop just opened very close to where you visited me at and the the dues differential really does cover the cost of printing and folks are super interested in older cars so I'll be taking it there. postage. After that, it goes to the paint shop and for new wide 7" wheels At the time of this writing, there is still a lot of preparation and tires. Then ... I'll send you pictures. required to distribute this issue. If you are reading this (in All the best ... let's keep in touch. whichever format) then we must have made it through. My two cents: turn the magazine into a PDF to be emailed A new development this Fall was the launch of the every 3 months. Settle on a format like a two column MS Word European Ford Owners North America fan page on Facebook. table that everyone understands and anyone can submit an article If you a now, or are planning to become, a Facebook member, or story with lots of pictures. Then you'll have practically no please join in. editing and we will all share our pictures. Onwards!! On a personal note, I have been doing my bit to stimulate Jose Franco, Architect AIA the economy both at home and abroad. This summer I bought FRANCO ASSOCIATES ARCHITECTS a 1963 Taunus 17M station wagon from Kentucky. This new Burlingame CA 94010 addition to the collection looks nice, but turned out not to be 650-766-3346 drivable. Its arrival has also exacerbated my limited parking situation, but it is all part-and-parcel of the hobby of collecting old cars. Excerpts from Survey Comments I find the "on-line" proposition to be rather perplexing. As I have commented on other occasions, I delight in being able to receive the E-Ford Lines newsletter by post -- it just keeps getting better and I'm one of those described by Editor Judy who "...still enjoy taking a paper copy over to the easy chair or outside deck." For me, checking through the PC In-box can become, at times, more of a chore than a pleasure…Also, computer technology is advancing at such a rate that material filed as recently as five years ago is now verging on inaccessible. Go back a little further and, for example, my ten-year-old floppy-disc files are now just bits of plastic stored in a dusty container. …Your valiant efforts have contributed to the automotive I am happy to say that this summer concluded a 14th archives and deserve to be accessible, long term. Where will month (not so) simple brake job on my Mk III Cortina. computer science have led us -- or left us -- in fifty years time, Member Kevin Strilcov was a great help, but every time we never mind five? installed another difficult to find part procured in some far off Bob Oloman, Oakville, ON land (usually Germany or New Zealand), some other part was I just don't enjoy reading anything "pleasurable" on a TV Due to circumstances beyond your control (lack of member screen. Even if it might have photos of my very own car. As input, articles and classified advertisements, the magazine no far as how important EFONA is to me, I don't know how I longer holds the same appeal it once had. feel. I am just ambivalent. I guess that I do like to have access Robert Moss, Great Falls, VA to this community (even electronically I suppose). For me it is more about face-to-face (as in car shows) and only occasional communication via the net or telephone (to buy/sell something I always find it [E-Ford Lines] a great publication and look that a fellow member is offering, etc). Your energy and time to forward to each issue. I like reading about the various cars from keep the newsletter has been amazing to me.