The Accelerator THE ACCELERATOR VOLUME 46- ISSUE 08- August 2014 Jack Telnak Former Ford Design VP Visits MOCSEM Monthly Meeting In this Issue 18 Days The BOSS's Corner……………………….....2 About the Club………………………………...2 till Mustang Memories 2014 July General Meeting Minutes .………..…...4 Ponies from Down Under……………..……..5 North McComb County Fair………….……...7 If you just can't wait, take a look at Detailing Tips………………….……………...8 MOCSEM at Telegraph Cruise………….….9 all the fun from 2011, 2012, and MOCSEM Looking for Board Members…...9 MOCSEM Calendar…………………………10 2013 Mustang Memories Shows. For Sale / Wanted………………..………...11 Support or Sponsors……………………….12 Photos are available at: Business Card Classified Ads……………13 mocsem.smugmug.com Find more information: www.mocsem.com. Mustang Owners Club of Southeastern Michigan • PO Box 39088, Redford, MI 48239 • www.mocsem.com The Accelerator Page 2 The Boss's Corner About the Club By Mike Rey The Mustang Owners Club of Southeastern Michigan MOCSEM President (MOCSEM) was founded in November 1975 by a group of individuals with the desire to protect and Showtime is here! preserve the Ford Mustang as one of the most attractive and fun filled cars ever made. We are I seriously cannot believe the month of our show has enthusiasts of all ages with a love affair with the finally arrived, wish I had another 6 months at least many generations of America’s Premiere Pony Car. to finish planning, to say this year’s show was by far Whether it’s a coupe, convertible or fastback from the most challenging, most stressful, most 1964½ to the current model or the 2004 Cobra, we expensive, most wearing is all an understatement! love them all. The mission of club members is to Have received more criticism, more hurdles and collect, restore, and preserve the history of the longest show checklist than ever before! With having Mustang along with the stories of the people and the literally less than 5 months from the word go until the roles that they played in making this one of the great show itself is a HUGE challenge to pull off a 50th cars of the 20th Century. Although ownership is not a Anniversary Event! This show will cost us well into requirement for membership, your enthusiasm, the high 5 figures alone this year! We have ran into expertise, and / or love of the automobile are most obstacle after obstacle daily. But in the end it will all welcome. be worth the pride we have in pulling off a 50th event Many of our club members own one or more here in Dearborn with only a 5 month planning Mustangs in varying body styles, models and years. window and only our club budget! You will see things Club members are always exchanging information, at our show this year as you do every single year providing sources for parts, literature and helpful that you have never seen before, one of a kind cars hints for restoring or maintaining their Mustangs. Our and attractions. And for the first time in my tenure we members are a diverse group of individuals, located will be hosting a banquet to kick things off! This year throughout Southeastern Michigan and all share a we are hosting what I am personally dubbing the great appreciation for the Ford Mustang. Our general greatest single event in MOCSEM history and that is membership meetings are held on the second the Mustang Heroes Banquet, where we will fill a Tuesday of each month. Our monthly newsletter, room with more people from Mustang's 50 year rich The Accelerator, provides the members with reports history than EVER assembled before and more than on club activities, technical information, EVER will be assembled again! This is the one event advertisements and business service locations and you do not want to miss, I promise you that! If you more. Some club activities include car shows, don't attend you will kick yourself after hearing and picnics, sporting events, cruise nights and technical seeing what you missed! This will be a night no one sessions. will ever forget! Our goal as a club is to be able to provide greater benefits than any other Mustang club General Meetings can offer, I think we have by far accomplished that General membership meetings are held the and will continue to hold that title for many years to come! So please come out and support your club on second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm at: its biggest weekend in our 39 year history! Sign up Warren Valley Banquet Center for the banquet & Mustang Memories and make a 26116 W. Warren Ave. ton of memories that will last a lifetime and I promise Dearborn Heights, MI you will be glad you did! See everyone out there! (313) 561-1040 Let's do this MOCSEM! A buffet dinner will be served at 6:30 pm for $13 per person which includes beverages. So come early and socialize over dinner. The dinner menu will vary every month and will be published on the event calendar at www.mocsem.com. General meetings are open to the public and are a great chance to learn more about the club. Mustang Owners Club of Southeastern Michigan • PO Box 39088, Redford, MI 48239 • www.mocsem.com The Accelerator Page 3 Newsletter 2014 Board of Directors The Accelerator is published monthly as the official newsletter of MOCSEM and is available on the club’s web President site at www.mocsem.com. If you would like to receive or Mike Rey stop receiving a hard copy of the newsletter in the mail, [email protected] please contact the Editor with your name and address. 313.304.5244 All correspondence concerning The Accelerator should be Vice President directed to the Editor: Ken Janus [email protected] Ken Kirchoff 248.921.0801 517-673-8536 [email protected] Treasurer Rich Kocan Membership [email protected] 248.349.2114 Membership dues for MOCSEM are $35.00 USD per year. To join, download the membership form from Secretary www.mocsem.com or just pick one up at one of our events Dawn Davis and send payment to: [email protected] 313.937.3808 MOCSEM PO Box 39088 Redford, MI 48239 Membership Kathy Janus Classified ads are available to MOCSEM members free of [email protected] charge and run online and in The Accelerator for 3 734.751.6265 months. Articles and classified ads for The Accelerator must be submitted to the editor by the 15th of the month to Social Director be considered for publication the following month. Melissa Palmquist Submissions may be edited for content and grammar. [email protected] Except as noted, all published articles become the 734.604.9665 property of MOCSEM and may not be reprinted without permission of the editor. Views and opinions expressed in Web Administrator the newsletter are not those of the club, officers, Craig Zygmunt membership, editor or advertisers. MOCSEM, Inc. does [email protected] not necessarily endorse the businesses and/or services 734.765.8066 which advertise in The Accelerator. Accelerator Editor Ken Kirchoff The Mustang Club of America [email protected] 517.673.8536 (MCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation, care, history and enjoyment of all model Merchandise years of Mustang, Shelby, Boss, Tracey Rey Saleen, Roush, SVT Cobra, Steeda [email protected] 313.304.0701 and McLaren. You'll find members throughout the United States, Canada and World Wide and more than 170 local MCA Regional Director chapters. Mike Sové [email protected] 248.355.1477 MOCSEM is one of, if not the largest local chapter of the MCA, and we encourage all MOCSEM members to consider joining the MCA. Trustee Dave Kalinowski [email protected] For more information about The Mustang Club of America, 734.464.1982 go to www.mustang.org. Mustang Owners Club of Southeastern Michigan • PO Box 39088, Redford, MI 48239 • www.mocsem.com The Accelerator Page 4 requested he return to the US to work on the design for the MOCSEM Calendar 1979 Mustang. Jack said he did not design the 1979 Mustang, but picked the team that designed that car. Some of the features that had to be in the 1979 Mustang By Melissa Palmquist were the 2+2 Notch Back Design, the long hood and short deck (referred to as Ford DNA), strong down the road MOCSEM Social Director graphics, great stance. It was based on the Fox Platform Can you believe it is already August? Where has the and had to be a total design departure from the 1974-1978 summer gone? Many of us had an exciting July….MIS, Mustang II. The 1979 Mustang was one of the bestselling Mackinaw City, Telegraph Cruise and other things Mustangs. He said this was the most exciting car he sprinkled in between. August is promising to be just as designed at Ford Motor Co. He told us the 2015 Mustang busy. Of course the two most important events are the is being sold worldwide in both right and left hand drive. Mustang Heroes Banquet on the 15th and Mustang Memories on the 17th. If you have not yet bought your Mike Rey-The Grosse Ile Cruise was phenomenal. There tickets for the banquet or registered your car for the show were 103 cars and we are confirmed for next year. Onsted do so now. These events promise to be ones to remember! show will be July 11 & 12, 2014. There will be close to If some of our club opportunities so far this year are any 200 Mustangs on Friday.