August 2013

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE FORDS UNLIMITED CAR CLUB

14 FLAGSTONE LANE, ST. PETERS MO 63376-1528

2013 Board of Directors

Syl Biermann 636-394-5003

Bill Giese-314-849-0368

Jack Greiwe-636-300-1221

Dan Kelly-314-276-2288

Bob Layton 636-397-4487

Secretary-Cindy Ahrens

Editor Bob Layton 636-397-4487

e-mail mickie6t6@hotmail.com

Publisher-Bill & Barb Giese

Web Master-Scott Lewis

www.fordsunlimited.com

GGGG o to Disneyland in California -- or to the Magic Kingdom at Disney World in Flor-ida, or Disney Tokyo, or EuroDisney out-

side Paris -- and you will find that there is only one entrance: under the station of the old-fashioned steam railroad, through a town square, and down the Main Street of a nostalgic, ginger breaded, nineteenth-century American town. The town is lavish in its detailing: the names of the lawyers and accountants in gilt let-tering on the second-story windows, the horse-drawn trolley down the middle of the street, the ice-cream parlor with the ceiling fans turning overhead. The town could be straight out of The Music Man, or Oklahoma -- or it could be Marce-

line, Missouri, the little town by the rail-road where Walt spent his boyhood, finally made perfect. Our club will be visiting this boy-hood home of Walt Disney on August 24th-25th. If you have not make your reservations at the Super 8 Motel, you will need to do it soon. Their phone number is 660-385-5788. Tell them that you are with Fords Unlimited. The rate is $55 if we book 5 rooms and $50 if we reserve 10 or more. This is a club event for points.

Due to the fact that our car show was held past our newsletter

deadline, we will not have coverage until the September issue.

Attraction Web Sites

Walt Disney Hometown Museum: www.waltdisneymuseum.org

Best of Best Demolition Derby: www.maconcountypark.com Hotel: super8macon@yahoo.com 660-385-5788

Restaurants—A.J. Restaurant www.ajseatanddrink.com Star 63 Café

August 24th. Meet at Phillips 66 station at Hwy Z and

I-70 with an 8:00 A.M. departure.

Travel north on Hwy 61 to Monroe City for 1 hour and

45 minutes.

Pit stop/break for 20 minutes in a site to be deter-

mined.

Travel west on Hwy 36 to Marceline for 1 hour and 15

minutes.

Lunch as a group at a restaurant to be determined.

Tour Marceline individually or in small groups. Some

driving will be required. A local car show can also be

viewed.

Return to Macon to check into Super 8 Motel. There

will be a “Happy Hour” at 4:00 P.M. at the hotel patio.

Walk to A.J. Restaurant for dinner at 5:00 P.M.

Attend “Missouri’s Best of the Best Demolition Derby”

at Macon Park. Derby starts at 6:30 P.M.

Sunday morning breakfast will be at the

Star 63 Cafe

Return to home as a group or

individually. Return trip

can be the same route

or traveling south on

Hwy 63 to I-70.

OOOO ne of the yearly stops for our club is the

Southern Illinois Mus-tang Association’s car show held in Alton Illi-nois. This 36th annual event was held again at Roberts Ford where all of the 36 shows have been held.

The weather was great for July and they had 113 entrees. Our turnout was some-what small with nine members cars and trucks in attendance.

We got to see John Sullivan’s recently purchased ‘07 Mustang GT convertible. We also spent time with newer member, Mike Valentine with his SHO. Stan Zoellner who has been a member for years, but without a show car, now shows a 2013 Shelby.

Seven of our members took home a trophy but we were three members short of winning the club partici-pation award. The show usually offers some unique trophies and this year was no exception.

Burt Pennington-1st Place Bob Layton “Best of Best” Winner

Paula Goodrich-3rd Place Jerry Grimmer-2nd Place

John Sullivan-2nd Place Steve Hendricks-2nd Place

Chris Agers Mike Valentine-1st Place

Stan Zoellner-2nd Place

FFFF ord Motor Company’s U.S. June sales grew 13 percent compared with a year ago, marking Ford’s best June sales re-

sults since 2006. Cars are up 12 percent, utilities are up 8 percent, and trucks are up 20 percent.

Ford small cars – including Fiesta, Focus and C-MAX – totaled 35,851, up 39 percent over last year and marking the best June small car performance in 13 years. Escape posted its best

-ever monthly sales, up 1 percent at 28,694 vehi-cles. Escape set record sales for the fifth straight time this year. The small car performance, com-bined with strong demand for Escape and Fu-sion, is driving national share gains, especially in the critical western and southeastern areas of the U.S. The Lincoln MKZ posted its best-ever June sales, with 3,180 vehicles sold. In addition, the second quarter represented MKZ’s best quarterly sales performance ever and its first time to exceed 10,000 cars in a quarter, with 10,682 sold.

TTTT he Fun Ford Weekend was held July 19th through the 21st. Your editor was unable to attend and unable to access

any photo’s other then the ones taken by Dan Kelly on Saturday. We did have two members who entered their trucks that day. The Saturday show had awards the best 25 cars in the show. Bart McNail and Chris Agers did enter the Sat-urday show.

On Sunday, the show was set up with classes and we had six members enter their cars and trucks at this lightly attended show. Entering the show were Bart McNail, Mike Valentine (1st place), Burt Pennington (1st place and Best Interior), Dan Tanner (1st place), Chris Agers (1st place), and Jake Turnipseed.

Our club had reserved an extra parking spot at the show to set up our tent to promote our car show. From what I have heard, we drew a lot of interest for our show.

To the best of my knowledge, we did not have any members who participated on the race side. Hopefully, I have not missed anyone and will apologize to any of our members who were in attendance and not covered.

WWWW e have another busy month planned for August. Our board of directors meeting will be held on August 7th at

Sybergs on Dorsett Road. Our membership meeting will be held on August 14th at the Sports Café in Bridgeton. Both meetings start at 7 pm.

August 17th. A new event for our club this year will be a trip to Gray Summit Missouri to attend the Purina Farms car show. The proceeds benefit Veterans organizations. We will meet at the Burger King that is located at Highways 44 and 141. We will gather at 9 am and be leaving by 9:15 am or you can meet us at the farms.

August 24th-25th. Marceline trip. De-tails are on page one of this newsletter.

August 31st. The Troy First Baptist Church Car Show. Will meet at the QT located just off Highway 61 at Wentzville Parkway. Af-ter exiting on to Wentzville Parkway and go left. The QT is on the right. We will meet at 8:15 am and leave at 8:30 pm.

These are all club events for points.

Reprinted from Street Scene

Info provided by Bill Bufka

AAAA bill to provide for single license plate has been

introduced in the Mis-souri Senate to require the issuance of only a single license plate for motor vehicles. The bill, favored by state hobbyists, also applies to per-sonalized plates. If enacted into law, the meas-ure would still accommodate registered owners eligible to receive a second plate. Certain prop-erty-carrying commercial motor vehicle appli-cants can request two plates.

TTTT he antenna flags are now available and go-ing fast. If interested, contact Dan Kelly or Cindy Ahrens. The flags are lightweight

and are blue with our club logo in white. The cost is $15 per flag. We also have a few sets of club door magnets for sale. See Bill Giese on these. Congratulations (I think) to the Ford F-250 pickup truck. It has de-throned the Cadillac Esca-lade as the most stolen vehicle in the United States. I guess that’s the price that you have to pay for being such a great truck. Congratulations go out to Trenton Kreder on his marriage last month. He will also be head-ing off to serve our country sometime this month.

Probably of more interest to some of our graybeards, Google Martha Reeves & the Van-dellas-Nowhere to Run, made during the produc-tion at a Mustang assembly plant in 1965. This was contributed by Mike McDougal. Really cool! The 50-50 winner at our July membership meeting was board of directors member, Bill Giese, who donated his $34 winnings to our toy drive. Thanks Bill

SLK-6T6

IIII f it wasn’t for bad luck, Jack Greiwe would-n’t have any luck at

all. Last year, Jack’s Mercury Grand Marquis was rear ended. It had major damage but was repairable and was fixed. At the Veterans car show in May, Jack had a control arm come apart on his ‘69 Ford XL on the way to the show. Suf-fering no body damage, the car has been re-paired and is now back on the road again. Now, on the way to our July board of directors meeting, Jack’s luck failed him again as his Grand Marquis was rear-ended again. Bum-mer!!!

WWWW hile on a recent trip to Chicago, board of di-rectors member, Dan Kelly, spotted this truck on the parking lot of his hotel. There was no

one around so ask questions but we did find some in-formation on the internet. The truck had Indiana plates and had MFG DLR on the bottom of the plate.

From the internet “One of the most intriguing of concept cars ever is the Ford Tonka truck. So life-like is the reproduction of the Tonka trucks many of us played with as children, that it's easy to mistake a pic-ture of the vehicle for an enlarged photo of a scale model, but this is a real truck and a concept upon which a real production machine could to be built, but the current status of the Ford Tonka Truck is that it is a concept vehicle and not destined for production. An open, B-pillar-less design with rear-hinged rear doors extends an uninhibited welcome into the Mighty F-350's extended cabin. Dual rear wheels with 22-inch rims and custom Goodyear tires and a short-ened, six-foot open bed give the Mighty F-350 a re-fined ruggedness designed with the truck enthusiast in mind. Chrome is featured generously, creating a strik-ing profile on this concept derived from the popular F-350 Super Duty Crew Cab.

The truck's vehicle's air suspension - with air springs replacing the conventional rear leaf and front coil springs - enables a "kneeling" function to ease en-try and exit and assists in loading the truck bed. As the doors are opened, the Mighty F-350 lowers five inches and the running boards deploy. The truck reverts to its raised position once the doors are closed.” Wouldn’t it be cool if Ford actually build some of these.

Photo’s by Dan Kelly

AAAA lthough not a club event for points, many of our members attended the Patriots in the Park car show that was held in Gran-

ite City Illinois on July 7th. The show had about 80 entrees and our club supplied nine of these. They did not have a club participation but most of our members took home a plaque. Those attending included Dan Tanner, Mark Carey, Jerry Grimmer, Dan Kelly, Willie Cole, Jake Turnipseed, John Sullivan, Burt Pen-nington, Kenny Simms, and Bob Layton.

Other than a spot rain shower on the way

home, the show had great weather for July.

Photo’s by Dan Kelly

OOOO f course, depending on

your preferred style of

driving, the ultimate

automotive technology might

take the form of some heavy-

duty shocks, a lot of wheel travel

and a set of monster-truck tires.

Enter the SVT Raptor, without a

doubt, the baddest four-wheeler

out there.

In fact, the Raptor is one

of the few gas guzzling beasts

that actually makes a trip to the

gas station exciting, says one

Autoweek editor.

“In a vehicle like the

Toyota Prius, buying more gas

allows you to travel more miles.

In the Raptor, buying more gas is

like buying more fun.”

The sheer size of the

Raptor the track is a hefty 6.6

inches wider than the regular F-

150’s, it sits on a set of long-

travel Fox Racing Shox and 35-

inch BF Goodrich tires and its

face is dominated by a brick wall

of grille-means any car you come

upon would be absolutely stupid

not to dive immediately out of

your path.

Despite spending our

time behind the wheel in a con-

stant search of things to run

over or jump, the Raptor’s real

surprise is how well it behaves on

the road. The fact that the tires

are all-terrain instead of full-

fledged mudders certainly helps,

but that beastly off-road-

focused suspension does a super

job keeping the body controlled

while damping out the rough

stuff. Grand.

A loaded version will run

you around 50 grand.

Reprinted from Autoweek

Info supplied Bill Bufka

TTTT his month we welcome four new members to our club. John Patterson has joined our club. John

is a St. Louis resident and is the proud owner of a ‘95 Mustang G.T. convertible. John came to us via our website.

We also welcome Tyler Laurent. Tyler drives a F-150 and resides in Arnold. He also came to us through our website. Last but not least, we welcome Denny and Susan LaBantschnig. The LaBantschnig’s reside in St. Louis and Denny notes that he owns a 2005 Ford GT and other Fords. Our club had really been in a growth spurt recently and our membership is the largest that it has even been. We encourage these new mem-bers and others who have not been active to come join us at a meeting, car show or other event and enjoy the company. We usually have a club tent set up at club event car shows so come join us.

IIII normally try to stay away from editorializing but I will make an exception this time. While sitting at a recent board of directors meeting, I realized that

we had 15 members in attendance. This is truly amazing when long timers can remember when we couldn’t get that many members to a regular mem-bership meeting. We have been blessed over the years with so many people who do so much for our club with little fanfare. We recently had an important opening for our car show and it was reassuring to have so many people step up with suggestions and volunteering. What is really encouraging is seeing new and newer members who are now contributing. Our board of directors has the difficult job of trying to please everyone, which is always impossi-ble. We add new events to try to keep things from getting stale. Some work out well, others, not so much. To paraphrase an old saying, “You can please some of the people all of the time and all of the peo-

ple some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.

Many of our events are family oriented, but lets be honest, a car club by its very nature is an adult organization. Do you really want to bring a young child to a car show in the heat for six or seven hours? We have members who think that we have too many events, other think too few. Some think that we don’t do enough charity work, others think that we do to much. Some complain because we don’t go to shows in their area. I can go on but the point is that any decision will not please everyone. Since our club was founded almost 27 years ago, many other car clubs have come and gone. It is a very fine line that keeps a club from closing up shop. Things can change in a hurry. We are at that time of year when we will be looking for new board members who will replace the two who will be leaving. I encourage those sitting in the background that maybe it’s time to stand up and be counted. It is your club.

Bob

CCCC ongratulations go out to club member, Terry Koch. On May 23rd, Terry and Sue attended the 45th Year Bullitt Movie An-

niversary Car Show that was held in San Fran-cisco, California. Terry was able to make the long drive back home with a with a “Best of Show” award. Way to go Luther!

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1970 Thunderbird. All original, good restorable condition. Was running and driving when I set it up 7-8 years ago. Straight body, little to no rust. Lots of extra parts. $8,500 OBO. danp1279@gmail.com or 956-564-1849.

For Sale. 4 tires, P225/60 R16 97T M+S. President LE Peerless. Asking $300 a set. John 636-248-8057.

For Sale. Factory replacement fit '86--'93 5.0 Mustang MAC "Shorty " ceramic coated headers complete with high flow catalytic converters X pipe. Very effective upgrade for stock or mildly modified engine. Excellent condition. Jerry @ 314 739 7491

For Sale. 03 Marauder Aluminum Driveshaft, $150. 03 Marauder stainless Megs tailpipe tips, $40. Fox taillight housings, $25 each. Fox 86 GT steering wheel w/collar, $40. 67 NOS Mustang standard outside mirror, $40. 67 stock 289 heads, $100. Smallblock bell housing (small starter pattern), $75. Smallblock bell housing & flywheel (large starter pattern), $125. FE oil pan, $50. FE timing cover, $45. 8 inch pumpkin, 2.79 open differential, $50. Gary @ 636-575-3376.

For Sale. P235 50 ZR 18 Pirelli P ZERO NERO's Off 2010 Mustang GT Priem. 17,140 miles, Good tread wear $200 for set. Steve Hendricks @ 636-248-8204

Parts Wanted. 1970 Mustang 14x7 styled steel wheels. 1969 Mercury Marauder wheels. Gary @ 636-575-3376.

Parts Wanted. We are trying to restore a 1964 Mercury

Monterey convertible 25th anniversary edition and was wondering if anyone could give us any insight as to where to find parts for this car. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance from two Ford guys in Louisville, Kentucky. Please contact us at dmowen502@gmail.com

Parts Wanted. 1957 Ford NOS small baby hub caps, B7A-1130-C. White painted center. 1957 Ford Factory VR-57 Paxton Supercharger setup or parts. EDB-D hears, EDB intake, EDB Holly carb, air cleaner. Also 14”x5” and 14”x5 1/2” Ford SOLID faced steel rims. Any quantity ok. Jack @ 314-703-7053.

Cars & Coffee. Bring your car and gather with other like-minded people to talk cars and enjoy a morning brew. The events will be held August 17th, September 21st and Oc-tober 19th and held at the Starbucks located at 9616 Manchester in the Rock Hill Plaza.

Memories Car Club Cruises. To be held August 2nd, September 6th, October 4th. Cruises held at the Life Christian School located at 13001 Gravois Road in Sunset Hills. 1979 and older only.

Culver’s Car Cruise. 2nd Saturday of each month, April 13th-October 12th. Music by Paul Arca. Attendance prizes, 50-50 drawing. Located at 4140 Rusty Road in South County by Costco. Presented by the Stang Gang. Info 314-845-0964.

Culver’s Car Cruise. 4th Saturday of each month, April 27th-October 26th. Music by Paul Arca. Attendance prizes,

AUGUST 2013

A FREE SERVICE FOR ALL FOR ENTHUSIASTS. CALL 636-397-4487 OR E-MAIL MICKIE6T6@NETZERO.COM

PLEASE CHECK YOUR AD FOR ERRORS. SOME ITEMS ARE TAKEN FROM OTHER CLUB NEWSLETTERS.

Fords Unlimited Car Show Sponsor

Fords Unlimited Car Show Sponsor

SERVICE HOURS

Monday through Friday

7 am to 8 pm

Saturday

8 am to Noon for Parts

Always check with the sponsors of the show/cruise/swap meet

to assure that the event has not be cancelled or rescheduled.

Serving the

St. Louis &

St. Charles

Area Since

1925

50-50 drawing. Located at 123 Richardson Crossing in Arnold Missouri. Presented by the Stang Gang. Info 636-467-9955

Murphysboro Cruise Nights. 1st Saturday, April-September. Info 618-528-1043.

Chick-fil-A Car Cruises. Every 4th Friday through Octo-ber. All years welcome. DJ, managers choice trophy. Lo-cated at 141 and Jeffco Blv. 5-9pm. Info 636-287-9814.

August 3rd. Memories Car Show to be held on Main Street in Troy, Missouri. 35 classes, live music, ven-dors.$15 entry fee. Visit troyonthemove.com or 636-462-8769.

August 10th. Route 66 Car Cruise-Classic Car Show. Registration 10am-noon. Free concert in the evening. Both cruise and show held at Sunset Ford in Sunset Hills, Mis-souri. Info 314-843-8545.

August 11th. 3rd Annual Show off Auto Show to be held at 12365 St. Charles Rock Road. Info 314-368-6902.

August 17th. Veterans Charity Car Show to be held at Purina Farms in Gray Summit, Missouri. Info www.v1541carshow.org or314-406-2260. Club event. August 17th. Arnold Historical Society Summer Fund-raiser Car Show. Arnold City Park in Arnold, Missouri.

August 18th. Hooters Car & Bike Show supporting the Military to be held at the Hooters at 7517 South Lindberg. Info 314—287-1367.

August 24th-25th. Fords Unlimited’s cruise to Marceline, Missouri. Club event. See page 1. August 31st. Troy First Baptist Church Car Show to be held in Troy Missouri. Free entry and concessions. Details to follow. Club event.

September 8th. Wheels in Motion Day at Westport Plaza to benefit The National Children’s Cancer Society. Details to follow. Club Event.

September 11th. (Wednesday) Hot Rod Magazine Drag Week Tour to be held at Gateway Motorsports Park. Rac-ing from 8am until 1pm.

September 14th. Sam Scism Ford’s 3rd annual car and truck show. Charity event to benefit the Walker Johns Childhood Cancer Foundation. This is an all car show. Dealership located 5019 Flat River Road in Farmington,

MO. Info 573-431-3177,

September 14th. Elks Lodge #2587 Car Cruise held 9am to 4 pm located at 1163 Tom Ginnever Blvd. in O’Fallon, MO. Registration is free. A portion of the proceedss go to the Wounded Warriors. Info 314-267-8583.

September 14th. New Melle Car Show at VFW Post 5651 to benefit veterans. Info 636-828-5951.

Gravois Auto Radiator is St. Louis only radiator repair and

distribution center all under one roof. We can restore your origi-nal radiator so you can keep the OEM stamping & logos. We also restore gas tanks, heater cores & a/c condensers. We have been in business for over three gen-

erations and are currently located at 4040 Gravois.

Phone 314-776-6677—gravoisautoradiator@gmail.com

Our hours of operations are Monday thru Friday 7:30 to 5:00 and Saturday 8:00 to 12:00.

Joe Vander Pluym-Club Member

Fords Unlimited Car Show Sponsor

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Our monthly membership meetings are held

on the 2nd Wednesday of each month except Janu-

ary at Sports Cafe, 3579 Pennridge Drive, Bridge-

ton, MO 63044. Their phone numbers is (314) 298

-1631. Please call Sports Cafe to check on weather related

meeting cancellations.

Our board of directors meetings are held

the first Wednesday of each month at Sybergs

which is located at the NE corner of Highway 270

and Dorsett Road. Check with any board member

on weather related cancellations. All meetings start at 7 pm.

1st. Jim Biermann

400

2nd. Bart McNail

395

3rd. Mark Carey

330

4th. Ken Farrar

260

5th. Cindy Ahrens

250

6th. Kenny Simms

240

7th. Bill Bufka

235

8th. Burt

Pennington 225

9th. Ron

Schodroski 215

10th. Jake

Turnipseed 190

LLLL isted below are the points totals as of the Southern Illinois Mustang Association car show. These totals now reflect the car show sponsorship points. After

September, we will not post the totals so we can keep the results secret until the awards banquet.

7466 Dave Sinclair 7466 Dave Sinclair 7466 Dave Sinclair 7466 Dave Sinclair

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