THE ACCELERATOR VOLUME 39- ISSUE 01 January 2013 In this Issue General Meetings The BOSS's Corner ................................... 2 About the Club ........................................... 2 Moving to a New Location MOCSEM Calendar ................................... 4 December General Meeting Minutes.......... 4 Beginning on January 8, 2013, Santa Visits MOCSEM ............................... 5 MOCSEM General Meetings will be held at Rich Kocan's 2006 Mustang GT ................ 6 Ford News .................................................. 7 MOCSEM For Sale / Wanted ..................... 8 Warren Valley Banquet Center MOCSEM Sponsors ................................... 9 26116 W. Warren Ave. Business Card Classified Ads .................... 10 Dearborn Heights, MI (313) 561-1040 Find more information and past issues of The Accelerator at www.mocsem.com. Meeting begins at 7:30 pm - Buffet Dinner at 6:30 pm Mustang Owners Club of Southeastern Michigan • PO Box 39088, Redford, MI 48239 • www.mocsem.com Page 2 The Accelerator The Boss's Corner About the Club By Mike Rey MOCSEM President The Mustang Owners Club of Southeastern Michigan (MOCSEM) was founded in November 1975 by a group of individuals with the desire to protect and preserve the Ford Mustang as one of Happy new year to everyone! the most attractive and fun filled cars ever made. We are enthusiasts of all ages with a love affair Well, another amazing year is in the books for with the many generations of America’s Premiere MOCSEM! 2012 continued to be a very successful Pony Car. Whether it’s a coupe, convertible or year in every way - another record breaking fastback from 1964½ to the 2013 GT or the 2004 Mustang Memories show, our first general meeting Cobra, we love them all. The mission of club at the Ford WHQ (which we are currently working members is to collect, restore, and preserve the history of the Mustang along with the stories of the on now to make it happen again), an amazing pre- people and the roles that they played in making this show meeting at the new Roush facility, and a one of the great cars of the 20th Century. Although fantastic private tour of the Berardi Collection. The ownership is not a requirement for membership, list goes on and on... your enthusiasm, expertise, and / or love of the automobile are most welcome. 2013 promises to be no different, and with some Many of our club members own one or more added changes as well. We have a new Social Mustangs in varying body styles, models and years. Director on the board. Melissa Palmquist has taken Club members are always exchanging information, over for April, so please welcome her when you get providing sources for parts, literature and helpful the chance as she has already got a great start on hints for restoring or maintaining their Mustangs. our club activities in a very short time. I would like Our members are a diverse group of individuals, to say a huge thank you to April for all of her hard located throughout Southeastern Michigan and all share a great appreciation for the Ford Mustang. work and dedication over the years! Our general membership meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month. Our monthly One change you will see starting January 2013 is a newsletter, The Accelerator, provides the members new venue for our general meetings. It is Warren with reports on club activities, technical information, Valley Banquet Center located at 26116 W. Warren advertisements and business service locations and Avenue in Dearborn Heights. We expect to have a more. Some club activities include car shows, few off-site general meetings scheduled for 2013 picnics, sporting events, cruise nights and technical along with a few new very special guest speakers! sessions. General Meetings So stay tuned for another amazing year for MOCSEM in 2013! General membership meetings are held the second Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm at: Everyone have a Happy New Year and please Warren Valley Banquet Center drive safely in 2013! 26116 W. Warren Ave. Dearborn Heights, MI (313) 561-1040 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 2012 Board of Directors The Accelerator is published monthly as the official newsletter of MOCSEM and is available on the club’s web site at www.mocsem.com. If you would President like to receive a hard copy of the newsletter in the Mike Rey [email protected] mail, please contact the Editor with your name and 313.304.5244 address. All correspondence concerning The Accelerator Vice President should be directed to the Editor: Ken Janus [email protected] 248.921.0801 Gary Brewer P.O. Box 773 Treasurer Lakeland, MI 48143 Rich Kocan [email protected] [email protected] 248.349.2114 Membership Secretary Membership dues for MOCSEM are $35.00 USD Dawn Davis per year. To join, download the membership form [email protected] 313.937.3808 from www.mocsem.com or just pick one up at one of our events and send payment to: Membership MOCSEM Kathy Janus PO Box 39088 [email protected] 734.751.6265 Redford, MI 48239 Classified ads are available to MOCSEM members Social Director free of charge and run online and in The Melissa Palmquist Accelerator for 3 months. Articles and classified [email protected] 734.604.9665 ads for The Accelerator must be submitted to the editor by the 15th of the month to be considered for publication the following month. Submissions may Web Administrator Craig Zygmunt be edited for content and grammar. Except as [email protected] noted, all published articles become the property of 734.765.8066 MOCSEM and may not be reprinted without permission of the editor. Views and opinions Editor expressed in the newsletter are not those of the Gary Brewer club, officers, membership, editor or advertisers. [email protected] 810.623.1654 MOCSEM, Inc. does not necessarily endorse the businesses and/or services which advertise in The Accelerator. Merchandise Tracey Rey [email protected] 313.304.0701 MCA Regional Director Mike Sové [email protected] 248.355.1477 Trustee Dave Kalinowski www.MOCSEM.com [email protected] 734.464.1682 Mustang Owners Club of Southeastern Michigan • PO Box 39088, Redford, MI 48239 • www.mocsem.com Page 4 The Accelerator MOCSEM Calendar November General Meeting Minutes By Melissa Palmquist MOCSEM Social Director By Dawn Davis MOCSEM Secretary MOCSEM General Meeting Board Members Present: Mike & Tracey Rey, Ken & Kathy Janus, Craig & April Zygmunt, Gary location is changing January 8, 2013. Brewer, Mike Sove and Dawn Davis The new location is Warren Valley Banquet Center. Located at Absent: Dave Kalinowski 26116 W. Warren Ave. Dearborn Heights. Meetings times are unchanged. Each month will have a different menu starting Santa arrived at 7:00 pm with presents for all of the children. with Mexican Fiesta in January. Price is $13/person and includes Coffee, soda, and water. If you have special dietary Mike Rey: Brought the meeting to order at 7:35 and introduced needs, contact Melissa Palmquist at [[email protected]] no less the board. He apologized for missing last month’s meeting and than 2 weeks before the meeting. thanked Craig Zygmunt for taking over in his absence. Mike said the club has made just under $10,000 in donations to local January 2013 charities throughout the year. This year donations were MOCSEM General Meeting presented to American Cancer Society, JDRF, Humane Society January 8, 2013 • 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm of Monroe County, Angela Hospice, Leukemia & Lymphoma, Warren Valley Banquet Center Snail Mail for Seniors and VA Hospital of Ann Arbor. Mike let 26116 W. Warren Ave., Dearborn Heights, MI everyone know that starting next month we will be meeting at Warren Valley Banquet Center. Mike and Ken are working on MOCSEM at the Movies lots of new things for the club next year. Our next swap meet January 12, 2013 • 9:30 am – 12:00 pm will be 3/23/13 at Village Ford in Dearborn. Dave will be looking Phoenix Theater - Laurel Park Place Mall for workers for the swap meet. Mike already has 3 new 6 Mile and Newburgh Roads in Livonia sponsors for Mustang Memories, Magic Windows (30% You must sign up for this event discount for club members), Nationwide Transport (10% discount for club members), and UPR Products (working on February 2013 club discount). Mike is working on the problem of distributing MOCSEM General Meeting trophies from Mustang Memories that are not picked up the February 12, 2013 • 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm day of the show. We have a new member from St Louis. There Warren Valley Banquet Center are approximately 35 other members of the St. Louis Mustang 26116 W. Warren Ave., Dearborn Heights, MI club that are looking to join a new club and after searching Mustang club websites, decided MOCSEM is the place to be. MOCSEM Laser Tag Outing Mike let us know about the MCA Summit in Dallas. February 16, 2013 • 2:15 pm – 4:15 pm Zap Zone • 41953 Ford Road, Canton, MI Board Reports You must sign up for this event Craig Zygmunt, Web Administrator: He wrote a comment on the MCA forum that caught the attention of the new member Guys Hockey Night from St.Louis. February 23, 2013 • 6:00 pm – 11:00 pm Rich Kocan, Treasurer: Balance $42,762.10 Compuware Arena - 14900 Beck Road Plymouth, MI Ken Janus, Vice President: Thanks for a great year.