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PONY Xpress the Official Publication of the Garden State Region Mustang Club PONY XPress The Official Publication of the Garden State Region Mustang Club May 2020 Vol. 28, Number 5 1 the 1st or 2nd weekend in June. We President’s Message will need to practice Social Distancing, hat is this world coming to…I’m writing this wear face masks and on May 8th and it’s going to SNOW stay in our cars, but at Wtonight!!! I guess it’s all part of the new least we can see each normal. First and foremost, I hope you and your families other! We will push are well. Again, Rich and I are out and about almost every details via email, day, so if you need anything or want to chat or Zoom, just website and call. This month I can’t guarantee meat products. Facebook as soon as When I wrote last month’s message every day finalized. brought worse news. It is so encouraging to hear better July is also a news every day. We need to focus on the number of guess. The recoveries although we must grieve those who have lost Maywood 4th of July their lives to this horrible virus. Thank you to everyone parade has been on the front line. Social Distancing is hard emotionally cancelled and Ridgefield Park is likely to follow suit. Our and financially, but keeping healthy is paramount. rescheduled Spring (although technically Summer) April 19th was a perfect day for our Spring Roundup Car Show on the 12th/it better not rain date 19th Roundup Show. It would have been great to bring out all is also pending. We have secured a food vendor. If this is our beautiful cars, but our HEALTH is worth so much able to take place but you do not want to participate, we more than a trophy. Our first Zoom Board Meeting was understand. If you were able to get gifts for Raffle/Door successful and we will do it again for May. We didn’t Prizes, please bring them to the next meeting or arrange have any illicit Zoom Crashers at the meeting for for us to pick them up. entertainment. This month our son, Evan, is graduating from The Governor has extended the Stay at Home NJIT with TWO Engineering degrees. All his hard work order until early June, therefore our May 20th General and our money with no Graduation Ceremony or Meeting is CANCELLED. celebrations. John and I are so proud, especially as he has There is a slim possibility that we will get to landed a job with the Manufacturing Consulting celebrate Mustang Day at our General Meeting on June Company he has been interning with since January. 17th. Rules change every day, so this will be a wait and Thanks Al. see for now. However, we know that June was scheduled In May we celebrate Memorial Day. Going to the to be a busy month for members with Carlisle Ford beach, parades and barbeques are not the point. I would Nationals now postponed to July 30-August 2 and like to thank all of our members who put their lives on the American Muscle cancelled. Hopefully we can persuade line to serve our country. WE SALUTE YOU!!! some of you American Muscle guys/gals to join us at I would also like to wish Happy Mother’s Day! Carlisle. So, we recognize the need to do SOMETHING Wear your masks and stay 6 feet apart. However, in June. The Board will create a “Cruise with a Cause” for you don’t need a mask to hug your Mustang and spend quality time detailing. Welcome New Members Stay well! Frank Galioto Harrington Park ’20 Mustang GT Daniel Nocera Hewitt ‘09 Mustang GT Dale, #733, GSRMC President Francisco Rozo Fairlawn ’66 Mustang Randy Baumann Nutley ’16 Mustang GT 2 GSRMC Contact Information President Dale Favia 201-306-8127 [email protected] Vice President Rich Izenberg 973-769-7920 [email protected] Please note that all dates Treasurer Jim Signorelli 201-845-7014 [email protected] should be considered tentative. Secretary Pete Cullen 973-650-2957 [email protected] May 20 GSRMC Meeting CANCELLED June GSRMC Cruise for a Cause. Date & Board of Directors Details to follow. Past President Bill Chernack 973-214-4060 [email protected] June 13 18th Ann. Car show. Mount Holly. Tom Addeo www.mainstreetmountholly.org/car- 973-229-7735 [email protected] show.html John Gaschler June 14 GSRMC Cruise for a Cause 973-333-8882 [email protected] Ken Najarian June 17 GSRMC Meeting & Mustang Day 201-666-9669 [email protected] Celebration Al Vizzone June 25-27 NMRA Ford Motorsports Nationals. 201-826-6071 [email protected] Drag Racing & Car show. Maple Grove Maureen Yowe Raceway, Mohnton, PA. 973-398-4325 [email protected] www.nmradigital.com th MCA Nat. Dir. Helaina Semmler June 28 27 Ann. Tri-County Cruisers’ Car 856-642-0764 [email protected] Show. Town Hall, Valley Rd,Wayne. www.tricountycruisersnj.com Membership Joe DeLeo July 18 NJ Fireman’s Home Cruise-In. 201-790-4372 [email protected] https://njregionaaca.com/activities/ July 30-Aug 2 Team Shelby East Coast Grand Nats. Newsletter Mike DeLiberto Pocono Raceway, PA & Carlisle, PA. 201-933-6915 [email protected] [email protected] Website Bill Chernack July 31-Aug 2 Carlisle Ford Nationals. Car show, 973-214-4060 [email protected] swap meet, cruise & racing. Carlisle PA. www.carlisleevents.com Facebook Bob Acker Aug. 8 Car Show. Keansburg Amusement 201-694-1325 [email protected] Park. Meredith Peltz 347-528-5372 Sunshine Joanne Leser Sept. 20 GSRMC End of Summer Car Show. 973-865-7134 [email protected] Nielsen Ford, Rt. 23, Wantage Hospitality Norm Leser 3 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS t this month’s Board meeting it was A decided to cancel Spring and Fall Car Shows due to COVID-19. Things are too uncertain regarding large groups for July and many experts are predicting another spike in the fall. This was a very difficult decision, but was required for everyone’s safety. We hope to donate some of the monies received from Nielsen Dodge to the Boonton Fireman’s Home. On a positive note, we’ve chosen June 14 (rain date 28) for “Cruise for a Cause”. We will meet at Boonton Walmart at 11AM, take a cruise thru Morris and surrounding counties and end at a facility to donate food. More specific details PONY PLACES will be finalized in the next week and will be sent via Working Space email, Facebook and website. All appropriate social distancing rules will be observed! Hope to see you and his month’s featured Pony Place shows that not all your Mustangs. Tgarages are for displaying ponies & memorabilia, We will also be making some type of donations some are for building and maintaining them. After all, to those on the front line. More details in next month’s who wouldn’t want a lift in their garage. newsletter. Norm Leser’s dad built this garage in 1976 so he Stay well! would have a place to work on his dump truck. Since Dale F. most dump trucks tend to be larger than Mustangs, the building and overhead doors were little oversized compared to a normal garage. He laid it out so that one side would be for working on vehicles and the other would be for parking. They did everything in that building, from pulling engines to painting cars. Norm’s Dad passed away 2 years ago but fittingly a legendary car like the Mustang keeps his legend alive in this garage. Norm & his Stang would like to thank his Dad for that. Do you have a Pony Place (Garage, basement, he/she shed, underground lair, etc.) you’d like to share? Send pictures & a brief write-up to Mike D. at [email protected] 4 MUSTANG DESIGNER GALE HALDERMAN PASSES AWAY Designer of the original Ford Mustang, and member of the Mustang Hall of Fame, dies at the age of 87. Halderman worked 40 years at Ford Motor Company. his is probably the hardest story I’ve ever written. It’s one I didn’t want to write. This one is T personal. But Gale Halderman, one of the last remaining original Mustang legends, passed away After retirement, Gale turned his family barn and suddenly from a short battle with liver cancer. property into a museum dedicated to car design. Gale, Gale was a personal friend of mine. He, and his being the humble human being he was, didn’t center the entire family, are like my family. So I’m typing this with museum around his career and his accomplishments, even tears in my eyes. I’m sure many of you reading this also though that’s certainly worthy of a museum. Rather, the have tears in your eyes reading this. Halderman Barn Museum was turned into a homage to all Gale was one of the most interesting people I had things car design. the privilege of knowing. I chronicled his entire life’s With a few Mustangs and other Ford vehicles story in my book, Mustang by Design. I’m not going to inside the museum the primary focus is on the walls which exploit this situation to sell a few more copies of this have sketches, designs and concepts that Gale collected book. But I just wanted to be transparent as well. throughout his illustrious career. Many were from He was the main designer of the original Ford designers that Gale helped hire or that Gale found to be Mustang. It was his sketch that was chosen by Lee Iacocca very talented.
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