2020 Board of Directors Paula Goodrich 636-625-1064 Jerry Grimmer 314-739-7491 Dennis McBee 636-230-0804 Dan Kelly 314-276-2288 John Walling 314-791-0667 Editor-Bob Layton Publishers-Bill & Barb Giese Treasurer-Paula Goodrich Points Chair-Dennis McBee Membership Chair-Rich Sutorius Web Master-Scott Lewis & Keirsten McDaniel OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE FORDS UNLIMITED CAR CLUB [email protected] December 2020 P.O. Box 240201 Ballwin, MO 63024 www.fordsunlimited.com December 2020 Page 2 ith Covid-19 virus spiking again, we re- commence once again. Of course, this is for gret to in- everyone's safety and W form you is not something that that our annual Fords the Board wanted Unlimited Banquet to do. held in January is be- If you have any ing cancelled. It is for questions or con- our members safety cerns, please feel free that we are cancelling to contact any Board the Banquet. It is very Member. Our phone disappointing for eve- numbers are listed at ryone I know but your the top right corner of safety is our main the newsletter or you concern. can go on our web- Finally, I would site. We are also like to inform you that listed there for your the Board convenience. is suspending all We appreciate other club meetings until further notice. We an- your patience during these tough times and hope ticipate starting up our meetings, perhaps in everyone stays safe and does your social dis- March, if the situation warrants based solely on tancing to help contain this virus. pandemic numbers. If the numbers fall within safe limits, we will consider having club meetings Your Board of Directors continues to be a very bers to come and others. Taking out ads in forgettable year Club their Club’s publications. A fantastic idea of add- 2020 wise. As you are all ing a 1st Responders Class and inviting our Pan- probably aware the continued growth of Corona demic Hero’s to join us and possibly a Race Car Virus infection numbers have curtailed Class. Just to mention a few things be- all FUCC activities, including the Car ing discussed. Show Meetings, until at least 2021. My monthly plea will continues The Car Show Committee will con- as we are still looking for help! The tinue to be active and develop Public Address/Publicity” Chair plans for the 2021 Show via email and Co -Chairs (Mike Lechwar and phone calls until we can meet and Scott Lewis respectively) are in person again. filled; as well as Kenny Simms This hasn’t stopped our volunteering for the “Main Pavil- FORDS calibration and that continues to UNLIMITED ion/Club Sales” slot and coordi- grow. nate those activities. Thank you Things that are already being discussed guys for stepping up! WE NEED YOUR HELP! include: Please look over the lists that were published in Boarding our reach area with publications and the Car Show article back in the October 2020 posters. Contacting other Ford Car clubs; i.e. Newsletter. Drop me and email or give me a call The National Lincoln Continental Club, National to get more information and to get involved. Let’s T-Bird Club, reaching out further to the Fairlane all make the 2021 Show the biggest success Club all in hopes of attracting more of their mem- ever! December 2020 Page 3 By Syl Biermann placed in the pickup truck. While the I turned in to The BackStop- number of toys we have is respect- pers on November 19th, all able, it's not great. So, I was able to “ the personal checks I had get a relatively large copy made of from our club members and the club's $900 check to put in the cash that was accumu- the truck with the toys to show lated at the November that we did make an effort to meeting plus money do- do even more, but ended our nated from non-club mem- campaign by giving the bers. The total donated to money to the Marines in- the BackStoppers was FORDS stead of buying all the toys UNLIMITED $1,500, and it also included a as usual. If any more do- small amount of money from the club's nations come I will deliver treasury to round it up to that that money to the Marines before amount. Christmas. I know this isn't the Needless to say, they level we wanted to achieve or were very pleased with this do- have reached in previous years nation, and I explained to them for either Charity, but given the how the Covid 19 Virus ad- situation with this virus being so versely effected our club and bad this year and then spiking our fundraising activity on their again to such a high number, I behalf. As a token of their ap- believe we did very well under preciation, they gave me a the circumstances. "Challenge Coin" for each Board Of note is the fact that Member. If we receive any ad- Kerry has started a food drive for ditional money in the future for the “Feed My People” food pan- the BackStoppers, I will deliver it try. If you get a chance, please to them before the end of the drop off some items at the Sin- year. clair Ford dealership. Our "Toys for Tots" cam- My thanks goes out to all paign actually ended up better the members of our club and than I thought it was going to. thee non-members, too, who Our ending total was $900, plus donated money to support The the large amount of toys do- BackStoppers organization and nated by Kerry Childers, plus the the Marines Toys for Tots Foun- estimated $750 of toys donated dation”. by our members, that were Syl Biermann Fords Unlimited members, Christmas tree. You purchased $250 of Northern Tool items and donated another $1500 dollars for We would like to thank everyone for your gen- The BackStoppers to support the families of police erous support for our two charities, Toys for Tots and and fire department personnel in their time of need. The BackStoppers. In a very troubling year these or- Our car show sponsors, in what has to be considered ganizations were affected by a greater need which a sign respect for this club, donated another $750 to was compounded by the loss of economic support. us for The BackStoppers fund. Our inability to have our annual car show meant we For some organizations this might be consid- were not able to contribute to these worthy organiza- ered a major accomplishment but for Fords Unlimited tions as we have done in the past. However Fords it is just another example of the true nature of this Unlimited club members were not going to allow our club and quality of the people who are members. loss of car show revenue end our supporting these You make us proud to represent and work for this groups. You generously donated a trunk and back- club so once again a sincere THANK YOU!!! seat full of toys and $750 to purchase additional toys to help some children have something under the Your Board of Directors December 2020 Page 4 s you ast month, we posted some by-law know, changes that were suggested by one of A c l u b L our members. The board of directors re- member Dave viewed those suggestions and had counter pro- Smith passed posals. There were also a couple of updates that away in late also needed to be voted on. Members voted and August. Our passed the suggestions from our board of direc- club pur- tors. Hopefully, we can put the by-laws to rest for chased Me- a while. morial Flag in his honor. The flag has now been deliv- s our November mem- ered and we bership meeting fell received this A on Veteran's Day, thank you Dan Kelly acknowl- note from his edged our veterans who spouse, had attended the meet- Louise. ing. Adding to the honor, Lynette Lewis, a veteran herself, handed out pins to honor those vet- erans. Thanks Lynette. t our No- vember A member- ne of the challenges for ship meeting, the upcoming months is we held the O to keep contact with election for our our membership. Since our RDS FO D 2021 board of newsletter will be our only MITE UNLI directors. That point of contact, we must evening, we had carry on with the newsletter. four members Since we won’t have any running for the passed events to cover and no three open new events to promote, we are ba- seats on the sically hoping to have our members help with board. The members running included Bill this. We had run the “First Car” pages earlier Bauer, and current board of directors members, and had some success although most of our Jerry Grimmer, Dan Kelly, and John Walling. members did not contribute. The results had the current board of directors We are now hoping to run features on being re-elected. The newly elected members members cars. If you could send a few photos will serve a two year term. We thank Bill Bauer and some history and technical information, we for stepping up to run for the board and to our could turn that into a half page story and would elected members willing to guide our club for the run at least a couple of these a month. If you are next two years. interested, send that information to the club’s We also thank members Lynette Lewis email address, [email protected] and Gwen Simms for monitoring the election.