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July 2015 Club Founded in 1997 Newsletter published monthly for MUSTANGS & FORDS OF THE DAKOTAS Car Club. MFD Car Show Time! Meetings are held 4th Sunday of the month, 7 p.m. Unless noted How can this be? It seems like just yesterday we were waiting for the in the newsletter or otherwise. weather to warm up and now here it is almost August and time for our President: annual car show. Between going to the lake and car events I still haven’t Mike Conmy 224-0169 started many of the projects I had planned to complete last spring. 503 Birchwood Dr Bismarck, ND 58504 In June Patty and I joined up with others from the Pioneer Auto Club and did Vice President: the Motor to Medora in the Model A. The weather was perfect and the Amy Jose people great. The Model A’s all made it to Medora under their own power 2997 123 Ave NE and 4 won awards including ours. The show was a first rate affair. Mike Bismarck, ND 58503 [email protected] drove up the morning of the show in his Falcon. Steve & Ginny brought their st Treasurer: Cobra, took 1 place in their class and received the trophy on the stage at the musical. After the show we joined in on a parade through town with Patty Patty Owens 391-9158 3042 Deer Lodge Drive manning the “ahooga” horn. Finishing off the day we drove the A to the Bismarck, ND 58504 musical then to a few local saloons. [email protected] Editor: Last weekend I joined up with members of the Roughrider Chevy club and Dave Owens 701-527-2063 took in the Street Machine Nationals in St. Paul, MN. I planned on driving [email protected] the rat rod as I did in 2013 but unfortunately the car stalled just outside of Bismarck. Not knowing what was wrong I swapped it for the Mustang. Turned out to be a good decision as it rained for 200 miles of the trip and the Club Sponsor rat rod has no roof or side windows. We met up with others from Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and North Dakota as in past years. The cars bring us together but it is the people that keep us coming back year after year. I’ve included a story I wrote in 2013 about the show and maybe will do another next month. One thing was clear from the show, what was respectable horsepower for a muscle car is now considered tame. A few years ago magazines commonly running stories of 400 hp small blocks., and if they still are, not for long. Ford has changed the entire scene with the twin turbo Ecoboost. Now street driven cars with 1,000-2,000 hp via V8 engines & twin Club Website turbo setup is common place. http://clubs.hemmings.com/mfd Club business - The calendar shoot went well at the Capital in June. We have some new member’s cars to showcase. Thanks Amy for taking pictures and Bryan, Ginny, Steve, Kelly and Eileen for putting the calendar together. It is MFD on Facebook! Search for at the printers. Thanks Bryan for getting the dash plaques and trophies Mustangs & Fords of the Dakotas. ordered for next week’s show. This month’s meeting will be Sunday July 26th @ 7pm, Mandan’s Burger King. Upcoming Events Steve signed them up as a new sponsor. Good work Steve! Agenda is to finalize plans for the coming car show. We will be giving away door prizes at nd August 2 the show so bring some stuff if you can to the meeting or the show. MFD Car Show – Bismarck, ND President Mike will host us after the show at his place same as years past. Tentative plan (need to vote) is for the club to provide pizza with members August 16th bringing salads, chips, deserts & refreshments. Northwest Tire Classic Car Show – Bismarck, ND See you Sunday. th September 4 – 7th Call or email Dave Owens for any information on the upcoming events. Motor Magic- Minot, ND 701-527-2063 or [email protected] September 12 Hazen Car Show Tuesdays 1st Tuesday each month - Cruise Night Bismarck Main St – MFD members usually gather at Scotty’s 2nd Tuesday - Rides Auto Show & Shine 5pm 2nd & 4th Tuesdays each month Bismarck Eagles 4:30pm – 9pm Wednesdays Scotty’s Cruise In - Bismarck Patty & I dressed in 30’s style up for “Motor to Medora” Thursdays Burger King Cruise In - Mandan A few of our cars are parked in front as we get our groups huge tailgating Get Us You Car canopy setup. A short time later coolers of beer were opened & bugers were cooking on the grills. Try that at Buggies and Blues. This year Stories about 7,000 cars and 100,000 people attended. We need stories for the newsletter. Get us information on your rides. How did you got it, driving impressions, stories, restoration pictures, places you have been, shows you have been to, etc. Editor: Dave Owens 3042 Deer Lodge Dr, Bismarck, ND 58504 or email to [email protected] Car Craft Summer Nationals 2013 ( reprinted ) For the past few years my neighbor Donovan had been telling me about Car Craft and saying I need to come along with them next year. Last year I had plans to attend but work got in the way. At the time though I assured Donavan I would make it to the next one. The next one was last weekend and was it fun! The Car Craft Summer Nationals is a Hot Rod show held annually at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds in St. Paul Minnesota. It is a huge car show with thousands of cars, acres of vendors, displays, food, bands, etc. There was even a bunch of stuff I never had time to see such as racing events, burn out contests, dyno’s, bikini contests, autograph sessions and more. It is just too big to see and or do everything. Car Craft is nothing like the car shows around here. Where shows like Buggies and Blues are very structured with vehicles parked in lines and roped off, Car Craft is the exact opposite. At Car Craft you park where ever, whenever and however you want to. Cars are parked on the streets, parking lots, lawns, etc. Any place a car could be parked, cars were parked. Nothing is roped off, not even the million dollar builds. There is a constant line of cars being driven down the fairgrounds streets with people coming, going or simply looking around. Basically a 3 day never ending car parade. Donovan and his son Shane have been going to this show for the past few years. They learned that even though the show does not start till Friday many show up Thursday evening and “reserve” prime spots by roping off areas to park and tailgate. We planned to do the same. We loaded up Wednesday evening to be ready to leave early Thursday. Unfortunately I had a meeting I needed to attend so I did not get out of Bismarck till noon and missed caravanning with the group. Against all rational judgment my plan was to drive the ABird. The ABird is a Frankenstein car made of parts from a Ford Model A, 87 Thunderbird, parts from the Agnew ranch and hardware from Mac’s. It was built with the purpose to allow Dennis’s grandparents to have something in the Braddock Centennial Parade. With very questionable build quality and no spare tire, I plugged in the Ipod, turned onto I94 and set the cruise at 77. There were plenty of strangle looks and a few thumbs up as I passed others. Thursday was very hot with temps in the 90’s. The ABird has no roof, bare metal floors and catalytic converters right under your feet. I was so hot I dumped a bottle of water over my head and tee shirt to stay cool. I really was worried to ABird would over heat but the gauge never made it past half way. Mechanically things could not have gone better and I made it to the hotel in Roseville, MN by 7pm. With our group still at the fairgrounds setting up I quickly checked into my room and returned to the parking lot. I unloaded my cooler, setup a lawn chair and enjoyed a cool one while visiting with those who stopped by to check out the car. At 9pm the group pulled in and as Donovan was parking the high pressure power steering hose ruptured on his 58 Chevy. As a trained car guy the first order of any hot rod repair is to have a beer. While we were looking at the car a group from Minot came over and looked at the ruptured hose (had a few beers) with us and discuss probable causes. After a few more discussions we were convinced of the cause and determined a new hose was needed. We decided to go for dinner and discuss where or how to get a hose. At around 11pm a game plan was finalized and it was time to go grocery shopping for tomorrows tailgating. After getting lost trying to find the big store that was “right here” last year we resorted to technology and asked the Iphone directions. Yep we were way off. After shopping, a stop for more beer was made to refill and it was time for bed. I met Okie (from Oklahoma) in the lot at 7am and we jumped into the ABird an off to O’Reilly we went to find a hose.