President's Corner 2019 Moon Meet June 6-9, 2019
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Quarterly Newsletter of the Moon Car Club, Saint Louis Missouri Dedicated to the appreciation, enjoyment and preservation of the cars made by The Moon Motor Car Company—Moon, Hol-Tan, Diana, Windsor & Ruxton Volume 8, Issue 4 Dec 2018 President’s Corner I had some more Windsor radiator caps re- By Ron Moon produced and more Diana hood ornaments made for Jeff and me. If anyone needs ei- ther of these done, I do have the molds for them. This was the year to get some work done on the cars. I am excited that we’ll be having a Moon As you know, Jeff Meet in Forest City, Iowa in 2019! It should and I had some of be a full weekend of activities! Jeff is in- our brake drums cluding more details in this newsletter. redone. These pictures are the end result of my I hope everyone is enjoying their holidays cars. I was anx- and wish you all good health for 2019. ious to get them on the cars and find out how they ##### work. Series A Wheel Member Profiles Needed for the news- letter We are looking for club members’ profiles As I was put- where you can share stories about your ting the Diana Moon, Diana, Windsor and / or Ruxton and wheels on, I share a little about yourself. It’s a fun way found a bad for our membership to get to know the histo- kingpin in the ry of your car and a little about you since we driver’s side don’t get together as a group very often. For and had to fix some this is the only link to each other. that problem! Please consider it and contact Jeff Buckley @ [email protected] to discuss further. ##### Diana Wheel 2019 Moon Meet June 6-9, 2019 - Forest City, Iowa Secretary’s Corner Treasurer’s Report By Linda Moon, Club Secretary By Melba Nolan, Club Treasurer We have three new members to round out Well, it’s that time of year again to RENEW 2018: your membership for the upcoming year. If you are getting this newsletter in print then Merrick Auto Museum you will find an insert for the 2019 renewal. PO Box 188 If you are getting this newsletter in an email Alda, NE 68810 then look for another attached file that has (W) 308-384-1780 (358) the renewal information. Please take time to Email: [email protected] renew your membership now so you won’t 1924 Moon 6-40 Series U Sedan forget. It also helps our membership records if you take care of it now. Make the Check/Money Order (US Funds only) to; MOON CAR CLUB and mail it to: Melba Nolan – Moon Car Club 12 Nolan Hill Drive Fenton, MO 63026 Domestic U.S. - $25.00/year Rick & Jackie Quirin 1822 West Blvd. International via check - We still prefer to Belleville, IL 62221 have international payments via PayPal but if (C) 618-381-4706 you don’t have a PayPal account please con- Email: [email protected] tact me and we can work something else out. Master Antique/Classic car restorer Our bank charges very high fees for non-US (Rick has worked on 4 Moons & a Windsor) bank checks. International via PayPal - $27.00US/year Andrew Small includes the PayPal fee we are charged. Con- 13/83-91 Parr Pde tact Melba Nolan via email if you are paying Narraweena, NSW Australia 2099 by this method. (C) +61438524009 [email protected] Email: [email protected] 1927 Moon 6-60 Jubilee Sedan Also, please indicate if you wish to switch over to receive the PDF version of our quar- terly newsletter via email instead of getting the newsletter by mail. About a third of our membership do this already. This saves our club postage which keeps our costs down and allows you to get your newsletter sooner. ##### (Editors note: Thank you for being members of our club this past year. Your membership support helps us with the research about the Moon Car That brings our membership to 90 member Company of St. Louis and to find the surviving families! automobiles. Having our website on the Internet has led to some fantastic finds as you have seen Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in some of our newsletters. In fact, the article to everyone!! about one of the officers, F.H. Rengers, in this newsletter, was from his grandson, who saw our website and emailed us his story.) ##### 2 Upcoming Events — 2019 Garner Inn & Suites by Jeff Buckley, Club Media Editor 785 US-18, Garner, IA 50438 (855) 925-1001 or (641) 925-1000 Comprehensive listing of “events of interest” is on our website— www.mooncarclub.com, There are two other hotels in Forest City but they may fill up quickly because of the festival, so 2019 St. Louis Auto Show don’t delay in securing your room if you are January 24-27, 2019 (Thursday-Sunday) thinking of coming to the meet. St. Louis, Missouri ##### The largest new automobile event in the St. Louis area, the show will have Pictures of Events Around the more than 500 new cars, trucks, SUVs World with Moon Motor Cars and luxury vehicles. Each year the Horseless Carriage Club of Missouri also AACA Hershey Swap Meet has a special display of antique automobiles and October 10 - 13, 2018 (Wed -Sat) this year the featured vehicles will be cars made in St. Louis. Moon will be a part of that display so Hershey, PA if you are in the area plan on stopping by to see By Jeff Buckley the special display. Since we didn't have a Moon Meet in 2018 the America's Center Convention Complex Hershey Swap Meet was our biggest gathering of 701 Convention Plaza Moon Car Club members this year. St. Louis, MO 63101 As in past Hershey meets, I hold a gathering for Visit saintlouisautoshow.com for more details. the Moon Club members on Thursday afternoon. We had a couple of tables full of Moon items for sale and also talked about what everyone found 2019 Moon Meet on the swap tables. June 6-9, 2019 (Thursday-Sunday) Forest City, Iowa The club members in attendance at Hershey were Joe Churchman, Keith Connell, Sean Guy, We are excited to announce that we have a loca- Jean & Linda Magre, Terry & Donna Johnson, tion for the 2019 Moon Meet. Fellow club mem- Gerry Perschbacher, Howard Thompson, ber, Ron Holland, has invited us to come to Io- Gene Boomer and Jim Gemmill. wa during the 36th Steam Threshing Festival at Heritage Park in Forest City. http://www.heritageparkofnorthiowa.com/ From Friday through Sunday Heritage Park of North Iowa will be hosting this annual Steam Threshing Festival as well as a classic car showing which will be held in conjunction with this event. Ron Holland and your club leadership are work- ing out the schedule of events that include other interesting sights to see for our meet as well as our annual club meeting. So stay tuned. We will be sending out a special email to everyone with the rest of the details soon. However, for now we want to give you the hotel information so you can The weather was up and down the entire week secure your hotel reservations before all the but that didn’t stop anyone from walking the 20+ rooms are booked up for the festival. There are miles of vendor spots and to see the hundreds of only 3 motels/inns within 10 miles of Forest City. cars in the car corral. Our host hotel is 10 miles from Forest City and What a great time at Hershey and hope to see we have a block of 10 rooms reserved for us. Just you there in 2019! call them and say you are booking your room for the Moon Car Club. ##### 3 Pictures of Events Around the World my father Reed Anderson Thursby who grew up with Moon Motor Cars (cont.) thru high school in St. Louis before enlisting in the Army in 1940. Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance My grandparents knew Fred and Viva Rengers - November 3-4, 2018, (Saturday-Sunday) in the same social circles. My grandparents di- By Gary Moon vorced around 1950. My grandfather passed around 1952 I think when I was 2. After Viva Pat and I passed away Fred "courted" my grandmother; were pleased they married and moved to St. Pete, FL in 1953. to be invited to the Hilton My dad left the Army in 1953, worked for Chrys- Head Island ler in Detroit for 2 years, then we moved to St. Concours d'El- Pete about 2 miles from them in 1955. We were egance for the all very close to Fred and he loved us as true third time to grandchildren. show our 1922 Moon 6-40 Touring. The Con- He took me golfing with him and I watched many cours was held Sunday, November 4th. baseball games with him. He gave me a baseball when I was 10 that is signed by Babe Ruth and As usual, there were many beautiful vehicles Lou Gehrig. He won it from Buick in 1931. It there of all shapes and sizes. We also saw a was a prized possession of his - and mine. I re- few friends we had met at previous events cently gave it to my grandson (Reed C. Thursby) there and other Concours we have attended. with the story. It looked like the weekend was going to be a Fred Rengers passed away at home from throat washout, but fortunately, it cancer and was in pain the last couple years of cleared up and we had a great his life.