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February, 2018 Join us at the next club meeting, February 18, 3:00pm at Landmark Ford in Tualatin. Shop tour to Aldridge Motorsports

Denny and Pam Aldridge threw out the welcome mat for SAAC NW on Feb 3rd and we had a great time. From the awesome line-up of engines on display as we walked in, the historical photos on the walls, and Ludicrous Speed Racing’s AC Cobra still on display, there was a lot to see! Denny intro- duced us to Jim and Hank Bothwell, both members of the Ludicrous team, as he talked about racing the gold Holman & Moody mustang and the Cobra in vintage racing events. Lots of questions kept Denny busy for a good portion of the time. We reluctantly had to leave for lunch, 30 minutes later than planned. Thank you Pam and Denny for hosting our group. It was a FUN event !! 2

3 ’s recent passing brought about a lot of great tributes. This is a quick historical review of the impact he had on . Created back in 2014. This film was shown at the Edison-Ford Medal Tribute presentation to Mr. Gurney. I enjoyed it a lot!. Catch it HERE.

A quick Google search for “Dan Gurney cars” brought back a crazy long list of cars he drove

“Gurney Flap” Original Gumball rally “Champagne spraying.” A Tribute to Dan Gurney and his All American Racers company. Watch an old Speed Channel video about the F1 win at Spa in 1967. ( warning 22 minutes long) Find it HERE. 4 SpaceX made the news Feb 6 with the launch of its new heavy rocket design test flight. SpaceX owner, Elon Musk, lifted his Tesla car name to unprecidented heights too, by send a red Tesla Roadster into an orbit to Mars. The car was used as ‘payload’ weight for the launch test.. Youtube had a couple of cool video clips of two of the main booster rockets returning to the launch area and landing cleanly. Pretty awesome.

...of course the song “Rocket Man” was played while the remote video of Starman calmly driving his car off into space was broadcast.

Telsa now has the fast- est electric car too!

Like the Fer- rari driver in one of the CANNON- BALL mov- ies, Starman won’t really be needing any of his mirrors ei- ther.

Don’t Forget! 5 Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale, always a good show. There were a few Shelby items sold, and folks enjoying the show. Notice who is standing on the stage under Craig Jackson! (Sorry Lisa, you gotta get the guy in front to get down :)

1966 Shelby GT350 prototype sold for $550,000. 6 Dragon Snake hammered at $550 thousand.

Crazy Shelby item—this 1960s Southwest Gas Pump restored in “Shelby Cobra” Sold for $6,700 ???

2007 FORD SHELBY GT Prototype went for $60,000. 7

Roles 24 results: The Ford GTs of Ford Racing claimed a 1-2 finish after lead- ing 774 of the 783 laps in GTLM at the Rolex 24 At Daytona.

In a truly dominating effort, the Ford EcoBoost-powered Ford GTs dominated in a race that set a record for distance covered, to seal their back-to-back victories in the prestigious event.

The win was special, as it marks team owner Chip Ganassi’s 200th victory in major league auto racing, and the Ford GT’s second consecutive Rolex 24 at Daytona triumph.

One or the other Ford GT led for all but nine of the 783 laps completed by the GTLM race cars, with the No. 66 leading the charge for around 21 hours. However, the 66’s final driver change of the race – from Bourdais to Hand – took a bit longer than planned because of a missed gear change, handing the lead to the No. 67. “You always want to be the guy or the car that wins on a two-car team,” said Joey Hand after the race. “But for the program, it just goes to show that we had two flawless cars. I’ve never seen two cars run nose-to-tail for a whole 24 hours like we did. That just goes to show what these Ford guys are capable of. Ford Performance reporting. 8

Ferrari 812 Superfast : The full review from Carfection. The old competitor is still creating awesome cars too. Fun review. HERE

Fun cars at Aldridge Motorsports Good dogs at MadDog, but they were so loaded they were hard to control

Patroitic parking! 9

Austin Martin ‘Vulcan’ becomes a road car? HERE

I’d put this in my garage given the chance. Sounds so sweet!

Tour Ford Europe’s Candyland with Vaugh Gittin JR. See the video HERE

Special thanks to the many folks who shared photos of the Aldridge tour ! Brent S. , Brian B., Gary B., Ann C., Brent P. and others. 10

Wanted: Brian Littlefield has a wish list, can you help? - 289 COBRA Powered by Ford open letter valve covers - 289 Hipo dual point distributor - 289 Hipo fan - 289 Hipo harmonic balancer - Small block 6 bolt COBRA bellhousing - 1965/66 Mustang aluminum door panels - 1965 Shelby R Model gauges and tach - 1965 Shelby R Model door window frames with Plexiglas windows. - 1965 Shelby R Model competition seats - Shelby R model Gas Tank - 1965/66 Mustang heater delete - 1965/66 Mustang 9" rearend housing - 1965/66 Mustang disc brakes - 1965/66 Shelby fiberglass hood (reproduction works just fine on this project) - Raydyot Mirrors - 1965/66 Ray Brown Seat Belts - 1965 Galaxie big block radiator - 15" x 6" steel wheels - Ford passenger car bolt pattern Please contact Brian Littlefield 503-302-3471 or [email protected]

Ford GT at VIR for Car & Driver “Lightning Lap” event follow-up drive. See it set a new event record HERE.

Update: not to be outdone, a few weeks later, a new Corvette just lowered the lap time at VIR! 11 Bullitt Mustangs. Making the news again. So, a year and a half ago the original Bullitt stunt car was found in Mexico, and is being restored.. ( With or with- out dents? I’m just wondering.:) Anyway, the Kiernan family that owned the other Bullitt mustang movie car was keeping quiet, until it become pretty well rumored that Ford was planning another build of bullitt mustangs in celebration of the 50th anni- versary of the movie. (50 years !!! Holy cow. How can it possibly be?) The Kiernan family and Ford got to- gether so the ‘hero’ Bullitt would be present with the new Bullitt at the new cars’ introduction at the Detroit Auto Show back on Jan 12th. Sean Kiernan shared the story with Jay Leno during one of the recent “Leno’s Garage” segments. See that segment HERE. See a fun new take on the Bullitt mustang/ black charger competition starring granddaughter Molly McQueen HERE

..and a follow-up video of Molly meeting the original Bullitt car her granddad drove in the movie HERE

You can also find video of the full Ford reveal in Detroit. It was pretty good. too! ******************************************************************************************************************

Now the question many mustang followers are asking. “What will be the next big mustang to be discovered?” another prototype like “Little Red” or ??? 12 It’s a new year. Remember your 2018 membership fees are due. Send your $36 to Dan Jones if you haven’t already done so. Be sure and in- clude any address changes, phone # updates and cars that have been added to or deleted from your garage.

Maybe one of us will be adding this next year ! :) :) :)

The biggest seller during the Barrett-Jackson auction last month in Scottsdale was this 2017 Ford GT. The car was donated by Ron Pratte to benefit a charity. The $2.5 million dollar winning bid was from the Larry Miller Family. They then sent the car to Boulder to join the display at the Shelby Museum. How cool is that! So if you make your way to Boulder, Co. stop by the museum for a look...and also take a peak at the GT350 one of us is going to win :) 13 2018 SAAC-NW club and car stuff to plan for: Mar 8-11 Shelby Bash in Las Vegas. Get registered soon. Mar 16-18 Portland Roadster Show Mar 18-19 Skip Day Track Days ORP May 19 Team Shelby PNWR Back Country Bash near Centralia

July 13-14 Rose Cup Races w/Pirelli World Challenge

July 27 –29 Portland Vintage Racing Festival w/ Historic Racing F1 cars, West Coast Trans Am series. Aug 3-5 SAAC 43, Sonoma Raceway, California. Start planning now!!

Aug 31—Sept 2 Grand Prix of Portland Indy cars return to Portland.

Have you checked out the new Calendar feature built into our upgraded website? Prez Gary gave a very good demonstration of this new tool at the January club meeting. It can help us plan events to- gether. When you see an event you want to do, you can add yourself as an attendee. Then other folks will have an idea who is attending, and we can go together. Try it. The officer team is still learning to work with it too, so not all events may be listed yet. If you have an event you want added to the calendar, contact Gary for now. Gary has already added some track day events, and other special things we want to do as a group. Keep an eye on this new tool to stay involved.

Just log into our saacnw.org website and click on the ‘EVENTS CALENDAR’ and you’re there! 14 Minutes of the SAAC NW meeting 21 January 2018 that O’Reilly Auto Parts has entered into a 3 year contract with us and will be our title sponsor. We

have a contract with Chinook Winds. Mecum Auc- President’s Report tions will be back. The Hannah Auto Group is also returning. Les Schwab will be a sponsor. Industrial The club meeting was held at Landmark Ford in Ti- Finishes indicated that they won’t be at our show gard Oregon. President Gary Bartman brought the this year, a big disappointment. Jerry Logan will be meeting to order at 3:00 P.M. Gary asked for each a sponsor this year. of the members in attendance at tonight’s meeting to give a brief description on what we are working President David Jothen announced the following on and what we have done with the hobby over the officer nominations for the MHRC for 2018 and are past month. Gary talked about the presentation as follows: given by Vince Granatelli at the World of Speed on President: David Jothen; Mike Eitel Saturday the day before tonight’s meeting. Vince gave a good talk on STP products and his family’s Vice President: Bryan Fakler; Jodi Ross automotive history in racing from the 60’s and 70’s. The presentation was very Interesting and informa- Secretary: Alesia Halvorson tive. Gary gave a presentation on website software Treasurer: Crystal Allen Teamup that can be accessed by all members as a calendar of events for the year. Sgt. At arms: Bil Mitchell; Chad Olin Gary acknowledged the new officers that were Gary Parham would like to become a member at voted to serve for 2018 at the Christmas Banquet. large through his company as a rep for Adams Pol- They are as follows: ishes. Gary was voted in at tonight’s meeting. President Gary Bartman SAAC NW New Business: Vice President Brian Nakata Paul Blanchard read a Thank you letter from Gail Parker in response to our club having sent her a Secretary Paul Blanchard nice floral bouquet and card. Treasurer Dan Jones At last month’s meeting Brian Bogdon motioned and SAAC National Rep Dan Jones seconded by Frank McKinnon that we purchase 1 wagon and 1 pedal car for the benefit of Randall Webmaster (Team) Ann & Ray Clack Children’s Hospital to be auctioned at the Portland Paul Blanchard, Roadster Show. The amounts for the purchases are $50.00 for the wagon and $150.00 for the pedal car. Brian Nakata Vote taken motion passed. MHRC club rep Paul Newsletter Editor Ray Clack Blanchard turned in the paperwork and the check for the purchase of the wagon and pedal car. MHRC Rep Paul Blanchard All members are encouraged to continue to find new MHRC Alt. Rep Richard Copsey prospects for membership to help our club grow. Secretary’s Report Current members are invited to participate in club events Paul mentioned that the meeting minutes for the 19 November SAAC NW meeting are posted online as they are announced, let’s get our cars out and asked for approval and acceptance for the minutes drive them! as posted. Newsletter Editor Report MHRC Report Ray is looking for input from club members if you Our club rep Paul Blanchard is presenting the have an article that you would like to have published MHRC meeting minutes for the meeting held on the along with pictures forward them to Ray. The pic- 16th of January 2018. tures should be JPEG format 350 dpi or higher. Roll call was taken with 17 clubs that were present Webmasters Report with no clubs absent. Work is continuing on our website for web hosting. Treasurers Report Crystal Allen gave the Treasur- Ann Clack has established a new website that we ers report said that we have a good treasury in our can update using Word Press. general fund and in our scholarship fund. Respectfully submitted: Paul R. Blanchard, Secre- PRS Report: PRS Chairman Duane Caseday said tary SAAC NW 15 2018 Officers: President: Gary Bartman 559-285-9233 Vice Pres Secretary: Paul Blanchard 503-888-5534 Treasurer: Dan Jones 503-659-6214 SAAC National Rep: Dan Jones 503-659-6214 Webmaster: Team (Ann Clack, Brian Nakata, Paul Blanchard, Ray Clack) MHRC Reps: Paul Blanchard 503-888-5534 Richard Copsey 503-691-1588

Newsletter: Ray Clack 503-656-3892 [email protected]

Remember! SAAC NW meeting Feb 18! Landmark Ford at 3pm. Shelby Bash in Vegas Mar 8-11 SAAC convention on the west coast !! Sonoma Raceway. Aug 3-5, 2018