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“HOOFBEATS”The newsletter of the CSRA Mustang Club

November, 2013

Next Meeting: November 7, 2013Sunrise Grill-West Town Shopping Center

3830 Washington Rd. Martinez, GA 30907Eat @ 6:30Meeting @ 7:00

Club Officers

President: Don BlackstockVice-President: James CartledgeTreasurer: Sandy BrownSecretary/Editor: Mike Anchor

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From the PresidentDon Blackstock

HAPPY THANKSGIVINGWell, throw the diets out, it’s time to eat! The best time of the year is coming soon.

Save the date! November 16th. We will be making our 3rd trip to Dillard GA and having lunch. If you been there, you can hardly wait to go back. First timers make sure you wear pants that will give a little at the waist.Its country style eating, about everything you want will be brought to our table,...over and over.

I hope the date will work for you. On the way up we stop twice; once in Elberton for a rest stop. Then we go see "Goats on the Roof". Yes! Thats right, not going to tell you anymore, got to go to believe it.

Our Christmas Party will be December 5th. we will have a nice dinner at Sunrise Grill. If anyone is interested in preparing a desert, we can discuss needs at the November meeting.

I am proud to announce our own Regional Director Lynda Blackstock was elected for the board of directors of MCA. Lynda will serve 2 years, Congratulations!

Richard Ray will be heading up a group for the North Augusta Christmas parade, please contact Richard if you would like to be in the parade.

Our elections will be held at our November meeting, please attend if all possible. Richard Ray & Matt Hunter will be running for the Vice President position, Zafera Aaron will be unopposed for the Sec/editor position, Sandy Brown will return as our treasurer, and myself as President.

Mike Anchor has accepted the position as our National Show Chairperson for our Memorial Day Show in 2015.

The 50th Birthday Celebration Party will be here before you know it. We need volunteers and you will only be asked to work 4 hours during the event. Please e-mail me if you would like to be a part of this once in a life time event.

Our website should be up very soon, we are making the final adjustments.

Thanks to Ron & Sharon for opening up their home, we had a GREAT Halloween Party! Wow, the food and deserts!

See ya at the "Grill" 

"The Road Goes On Forever and the Mustang Party Never Ends"

Don

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As mentioned in our October meeting, a motion was made to amend a portion of the CSRA Mustang Club By-Laws.  At present, Article 6, paragraph C, states that the term of office for elected officers shall be one year.  We would like to amend this portion of the By-Laws to extend their term of office to two years.  This would also necessitate changing paragraph D to read:  "In the event a member of the executive board cannot complete his/her term of office, a special election may be held to fill the position. The person elected shall serve the remainder of the term".  The remainder of Article 6 would be unchanged.  A copy of the current By-Laws can be found on the club website.

This motion is included in the club's newsletter so that all club members will be aware of the motion and be aware that we will vote on it at our November meeting.

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Ford has launched ‘Mustang Countdown,’ an online video series to showcase our legendary car and the culture that has formed around it all across the globe. This is the first outward beginning of the celebration leading up to the 50th birthday of the car on April 17, 2014.

Kicking off the series – Where It All Started: The Mustang 1 Concept – turns the clock back to the 1962 debut of the first concept car to wear the pony badge. From there, other episodes lift the lid on Ford’s exhaustive Mustang archives, Mustang toys, custom Mustangs and more all featuring unique and often rare footage, exclusive new interviews and expert insight.

“RC Movie Magic: Filming a Chase”, takes a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of filmmaker Zach King’s recent project “The Cliché RC Action Chase.” That short film went viral earlier this year, garnering nearly 3 million views on YouTube. Just like the extensive filmography featuring Ford Mustang over the past 49 years, King’s video puts the Mustang in a prominent role. A pair of radio controlled Ford Mustangs star in an action-packed sequence that features drifting around corners, tight racing and helicopter gunships, all without any computer-generated imagery.

“Fans around the world share a passion for Mustang that embodies the freedom of the open road and the spirit of performance driving,” said Steve Ling, Ford car marketing manager. “The ‘Mustang Countdown’ series is another way in which Ford is honoring that heritage with numerous celebrations over the next year,”

Upcoming episodes will tackle video games, Mustang’s competition heritage custom restomods and more.

More than 9.2 million Ford Mustangs have been sold since the car’s 1964 debut. Mustang has made more than 3,000 appearances on film and TV – including “Bullitt” (1968), “Gone in 60 Seconds” (1974 and 2000), “I Am Legend” (2007) and Drive (2011). In 2014, a modified Mustang will be the hero car in “Need for Speed,” based on the long-running video game series from Electronic Arts.

The Ford Mustang is about to become the newest member of a very exclusive club – vehicles in continuous production for 50 years. In its first 49 years of production, Mustang has gained a worldwide base of avid fans, including more than 5 million on Facebook, the most of any vehicle nameplate. Mustang’s unique combination of style, performance and affordability established an entirely new class of sporty cars, and it has led the segment ever since.

Over the past 49 years, of the more than 9.2 million Mustangs produced and sold, most of them have originated close to Ford’s home base in Dearborn, Mich. From the racetrack to the silver screen to the airwaves to the toy box, Mustang has become an enduring part of pop culture.

http://www.themustangnews.com/content/2013/08/ford-launches-mustang-countdown-video-series/#.Um2_HSSfJ_k

http://www.youtube.com/fordmustang

Ford launches Mustang Countdown video series

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Ford News & NotesReally? Variety magazine is reporting that actor Tom Cruise has been cast for an upcoming adaptation of the book about Carroll Shelby’s role as well as others from Ford and Ferarri in the 1960ʹ′s Le Mans racing series, Go Like Hell.

The movie set to start shooting next year casts Cruise as Carroll Shelby, presumably in his earlier years during the historical racing era in which the book covers much of. The movie is to be directed by Joseph Kosinski who is known for Oblivion.

The Book itself written by A.J. Baime is less a biography of Carroll Shelby but tells the story of the battle of Le Mans between Ford and Ferrari. It tracks the development and drama of the era with the background and personalities, the racing, and the cars.

According to Variety, the film is in early stages of writing and development. But I cannot help but to scratch my head at the gratuitous play of casting Cruise as Carroll Shelby. Was there no better choice?

His pick for this role makes about as much sense to me as having Jane Fonda play Laura Bush. I have covered Carroll Shelby during much of my journalistic career and considered him an acquaintance.

Tom Cruise is no Carroll Shelby.

I understand their choice in the arena of business however. Despite his questionable acting qualities and poseur persona in just about every role he has been in, he still manages to be a box office draw.

He does have racing background or cred we might say and has had his feet in the Ford and Mustang world, owning a number of Saleens himself. Thus, from their standpoint I see the merits of their choice.

Fore me however it just doesn’t feel right to have the man we all respect and revere played by Cruise. It will be hard to watch this film and take it seriously with visions of Top Gun’s self absorbed Maverick dancing in my head.

http://www.themustangnews.com/content/2013/10/tom-cruise-cast-as-carroll-shelby-in-go-like-hell-movie/#.Um29JSSfJ_k

Tom Cruise cast as Carroll Shelby in Go Like Hell movie?

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In the early 1960s, Lee Iacocca—then director of the Ford division at Ford Motor Company—convinced Henry Ford II to produce a sporty four-seat car aimed at the emerging youth market. That car, essentially a reconfigured and re-skinned Falcon economy car, became the Ford Mustang, and it changed the automotive world like no other car before or since. In Mustang: Fifty Years, acclaimed Mustang writer Donald Farr celebrates this unbroken lineage of muscle: its phenomenal first-year sales, the new “pony car” genre it pioneered, and subsequent models that include the Mustang GT, Shelby GT350, Shelby GT500, Super Cobra Jet, Boss 302 and Boss 429—all part of a line of American performance cars that continues on to this day. With 400 photos of the USA’s iconic sports car and released in tandem with the Mustang’s 50th anniversary, Mustang: Fifty Years is a must on the bookshelf of any gearhead or Ford aficionado.

Hardcover 256 pages10 x 12.25 in.Illustrations:200 color and 200 B&W imagesMotorbooks Item #200364ISBN-13: 9780760343968MSRP $50Available now

http://www.motorbooks.com/books/Mustang-Fifty-Years/9780760343968

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The Ford Mustang has been an essential part of the automotive world for forty-eight years. Not every one of those ponycars was exactly a classic, though. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten worst Mustang special editions or trims.

10.) 1979 Ford Mustang Pace Car

Why it's a poor excuse for a pony: Great news: In 1979 Ford laid the miserable Mustang II to rest and introduced the now-classic Fox-platform Mustang. Not-so-great news: The event was marked with a truly silly-looking Indy 500 pace car edition. Even as far as stripes-and-stickers sets go, this one is painful. The car underneath would take some time to get back on the path of righteousness, as well.

9.) Ford Mustang California Special

Why it's a poor excuse for a pony: California is still the center of American car culture, but this misguided homage does the Golden State no favors. The focus group for this one apparently was done at an American Eagle store in a mall somewhere; a bit of flash but nothing that makes it faster or edgier. It's different (and more expensive) than the base model, but different is not always better.

8.) Ford Mustang Ski Country Edition

Why it's a poor excuse for a pony: The Mustang has always been a perfect complement to the sporty active lifestyle. Unfortunately, it's a fairly heavy and fairly powerful front-engined rear-driver, traits that are not perfect complements to driving in snow. This Rocky Mountain-area special (stripes and a ski rack, basically) was an interesting, if not exactly logical, exercise in early crossover marketing.

7.) 1969 Mustang E

Why it's a poor excuse for a pony: The Mustang has never been simply about raciness and big power, although Ford sometimes tries to stretch the envelope a bit too far. Even before the 1973 gas crisis they tried to sell E (for economy) models, with an inline-6 and a galactically high 2.33:1 axle ratio. The success of the idea speaks for itself: About fifty were sold.

6.) Ford Mustang 20th Anniversary GT350

Why it's a poor excuse for a pony: Two things: First, although a 20th anniversary is certainly worth celebrating, this is the first taste of the navel-gazing retro obsession that would become such a contentious issue down the line. Second, there's no reason the hardcore-racer GT350 tag belongs on this car. Carroll Shelby wasn't the only seriously annoyed party at the time.

The Ten Worst Special Edition Ford Mustangs

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5.) Ford Mustang Sprint

Why it's a poor excuse for a pony: Done to commemorate the 1972 Munich Olympics, the Sprints were nothing more than a few trim items. These are as indicative of the increasingly stringent regulatory environment of the time as anything: no hotter motor, no tighter suspension, nothing to make the Mustang sprint-ier. Your call on whether extending this idea to other models mitigates the effect or just rubs it in further.

4.) Ford Mustang Heat Edition

Why it's a poor excuse for a pony: The folks that work for Jack Roush are the last people you'd accuse of being lazy or operating in half measures, so this stripes-and-spoilers makeup job that they inflicted on an otherwise stock base Mustang is doubly disappointing. Justice does prevail, however: Only about a quarter of the planned 1000-unit production run ever saw daylight.

3.) Ford Mustang King Cobra

Why it's a poor excuse for a pony: Given the truly sucky state of performance driving in the Seventies, manufacturers tripped over themselves to try and at least make their wares look exciting. The King Cobra heaped on the cliches by the cubic yard: plastic body panel extensions, then-daring alloy wheels, and the most obnoxious stickers that designers could create without barfing. Also: Handled okay, but a truly gutless engine.

2.) Ford Mustang Ghia

Why it's a poor excuse for a pony: Winner, Car That Most Totally Lost The Plot. One would think that combining the ideas of "Mustang" (powerful all-American GT car) and "Ghia" (renowned Italian design house) would produce something special, a broad-chested hero in perfectly-tailored sportswear. Instead, we have this absurd luxe-lite cruiser that betrays every bit of its Pinto heritage and forsakes every known strand of Mustang identity.

1.) 1974 Ford Mustang Mach 1

Why it's a dark horse: The nadir. The ultimate letdown. The abdication. The top engine on the 1974 Mustang II was a 2.8-liter Cologne V-6, which was evil portent enough, but Ford's product planners still stuck with the Mach 1 tag. Thankfully they quickly realized the error of their ways and shoehorned a (strangled, but still real) V-8 in there. But it was done, and of such things are horrible reputations made. May they never again be so lost.

http://jalopnik.com/5903015/the-ten-worst-special-edition-ford-mustangs/

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The Ford Mustang turns 50 years old this year, and this is the logo that will announce the milestone occasion on a special line of merchandise. The graphic is the result of an internal design competition, and Ford will give 50 different companies the license to use it on traditional logo merchandise like shirts and watches, along with some untraditional items like pinball machines.

Ford is going to begin the celebrations at the New York Auto Show and continue them throughout the year, but April 17 is the official birthday of the the pony car that just won't quit. You can expect to start seeing anniversary merchandise in the next couple of weeks.

Join the MCA today!

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YUK, YUK!!!!A policeman pulled a female driver over and asked to see her license. After looking it over, he said to her, “Lady, it stipulates here on your license that you should be wearing glasses.” “Well, I have contacts,” the woman replied. “Look lady, I don’t care who you know,” snapped the officer. “You’re getting a ticket.”

There was a nice lady, a minister's widow, who was a little old fashioned. She was planning a week's vacation in California at Skylake Yosemite campground (Bass Lake, to the uninitiated), but she wanted to make sure of the accommodations first. Uppermost in her mind were bathroom facilities, but she couldn't bring herself to write "toilet" in a letter. After considerable deliberation, she settled on "bathroom commode," but when she wrote that down, it still sounded too forward, so, after the first page of her letter, she referred to the bathroom commode as "BC." "Does the cabin where I will be staying have its own 'BC'? If not, where is the 'BC' located?" is what she actually wrote.

The campground owner took the first page of the letter and the lady's check and gave it to his secretary. He put the remainder of the letter on the desk of the senior member of his staff without noticing that the staffer would have no way of knowing what "BC" meant. Then the owner went off to town to run some errands.

The staff member came in after lunch, found the letter, and was baffled by the euphemism, so he showed the letter around to several counselors, but they couldn't decipher it either. The staff member's wife, who knew that the lady was the widow of a famous Baptist preacher, was sure that it must be a question about the local Baptist Church. "Of course," the first staffer exclaimed, "'BC' stands for 'Baptist Church.' " And he sat down and wrote:Dear Madam,I regret very much the delay in answering your letter, but I now take the pleasure in informing you that the BC is located nine miles north of the campground and is capable of seating 250 people at one time. I admit it is quite a distance away if you are in the habit of going regularly, but no doubt you will be pleased to know that a great number of people take their lunches along and make a day of it. They usually arrive early and stay late.

The last time my wife and I went was six years ago, and it was so crowded we had to stand up the whole time we were there. It may interest you to know that right now there is a supper planned to raise money to buy more seats. They are going to hold it in the basement of the 'BC.'

I would like to say that it pains me very much not to be able to go more regularly, but it is surely no lack of desire on my part. As we grow older, it seems to be more of an effort, particularly in cold weather. If you decide to come down to our campground, perhaps I could go with you the first time, sit with you, and introduce you to all the folks. Remember, this is a friendly community."

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From the “There Ought to be a Law” Dept.:

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UPCOMING EVENTSNovember 9, 2013, Trinity Baptist Church 8th Annual Car Show, 4594 Columbia Rd. Martinez, GA Contact Bobby Jewett @ 706-863-5585

November 16, 2013 Kiokee Kruisers Store Cruise-In and Power Cruise, Appling, GA. 9-2. Power Cruise starts at 9:30 from the store (corner of White Oak and Ra Owens Rd.). If you wish to participate in the cruise call Paul Morgan at 706-541-9358 or James Anderson at 706-799-9474.

November 16, 2013, CSRAMC cruise to the Dillard House, Dillard, GA.

December 5, 2013, CSRAMC Christmas party, Sunrise Grill. More details soon.