FROM THE EDITOR Wow, April is here already! Daylight Savings Time is starting and it is my favorite time of year! Nice weather, long days and lots going on! Starting April 3 rd , I am starting a new career. I am going into new car sales at Tyler Ford. For the past month I have been closing out at my old job and studying the Ford Source Books learning about new Fords. I have always wanted to work in something automotive and I love new cars, so here I go!! Needless to say, I am extremely excited. I spent a day off last week out there looking at cars and taking them for a ride to get familiar with all the different models and options. Need a new Mustang??? This coming Saturday, April 8 th is the Downtown Hoedown Car Show in Lufkin, Texas. It starts with a parade at 10:00 and they are expecting around 300 cars. I know of a few Mustangers planning to attend, it should be a nice day to go check out some cars down the road a little bit! The Pate Swap Meet is the end of this month, April 27-30 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. If you are looking for Mustang Parts or just love swap meets, this is the one for you!! Pate is the largest swap meet in Texas, and is known for being the 3 rd largest in the whole country. The Mid America Shelby and Ford Powered Meet is coming up June 8-11 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A lot of our members caravan up there every year. If you have not gone before, you really should check it out this year! Last year Eddy Franks and John Pritchard made Mustangs of East Texas proud by taking the top places in the drag racing action. Thursday is some racetrack action at Hallett Motor Speedway, followed by a huge Cruise Night with 4 whole blocks barricaded off on each end and Mustangs lined up both sides of the street. On Friday there is more track time, Saturday is for drag racing and the Car Show is on Sunday. Mitch has a set of tires reserved for this year’s event already, and has been counting days ever since last year! Make your plans now to join the group for some Mustang fun like you have never seen! Coming up this July is the 2 nd Annual Phil Clark Stampede and Car Show. Holly Clark, the daughter of Phil Clark organized the first show last year on the weekend of July 4 th , and even with the flash flood rainstorm that happened it was a great show. This year a bunch of Mustangers from United Stangs from all over the state are planning to come, so it should be a really big show! Plan to attend and join in the fun! Once again, if you need to send me something, please use my new email address [email protected]. I check it every day. My old hotmail address is no longer active I just found out because I forget to check it. If you have an idea or an event please contact me or David Hartsell and let us know about it. This is YOUR club, we are 1 “THE PONY EXPRESS” April 2006 -Published by Mustangs of East Texas P.O. Box 8970 Tyler, Texas 75711 www.mustangsofeasttexas.org
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FROM THE EDITOR
Wow, April is here already! Daylight Savings Time is starting and it is my favorite time of year! Nice weather, long days and lots going on!
Starting April 3rd, I am starting a new career. I am going into new car sales at Tyler Ford. For the past month I have been closing out at my old job and studying the Ford Source Books learning about new Fords. I have always wanted to work in something automotive and I love new cars, so here I go!! Needless to say, I am extremely excited. I spent a day off last week out there looking at cars and taking them for a ride to get familiar with all the different models and options. Need a new Mustang???
This coming Saturday, April 8th is the Downtown Hoedown Car Show in Lufkin, Texas. It starts with a parade at 10:00 and they are expecting around 300 cars. I know of a few Mustangers planning to attend, it should be a nice day to go check out some cars down the road a little bit!
The Pate Swap Meet is the end of this month, April 27-30 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. If you are looking for Mustang Parts or just love swap meets, this is the one for you!! Pate is the largest swap meet in Texas, and is known for being the 3rd largest in the whole country.
The Mid America Shelby and Ford Powered Meet is coming up June 8-11 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A lot of our members caravan up there every year. If you have not gone before, you really should check it out this year! Last year Eddy Franks and John Pritchard made Mustangs of East Texas proud by taking the top places in the drag racing action. Thursday is some racetrack action at Hallett Motor Speedway, followed by a huge Cruise Night with 4 whole blocks barricaded off on each end and Mustangs lined up both sides of the street. On Friday there is more track time, Saturday is for drag racing and the Car Show is on Sunday. Mitch has a set of tires reserved for this year’s event already, and has been counting days ever since last year! Make your
plans now to join the group for some Mustang fun like you have never seen!
Coming up this July is the 2nd Annual Phil Clark Stampede and Car Show. Holly Clark, the daughter of Phil Clark organized the first show last year on the weekend of July 4th, and even with the flash flood rainstorm that happened it was a great show. This year a bunch of Mustangers from United Stangs from all over the state are planning to come, so it should be a really big show! Plan to attend and join in the fun!
Once again, if you need to send me something, please use my new email address [email protected]. I check it every day. My old hotmail address is no longer active I just found out because I forget to check it.
If you have an idea or an event please contact me or David Hartsell and let us know about it. This is YOUR club, we are open to suggestions. Also if you would like to help out with the website, please speak up, we need to get that going again, it has been down for months now.
Hope to see each of you at the meeting this Tuesday night at Traditions Restaurant. Come at 6:30 to eat, and the meeting starts at 7:00. Now that Daylight Savings Time is here, it is for sure we will cruise afterwards so be sure and bring your Mustang!! Our record last year was 22 Mustangs all cruising Broadway, lets see if we can break that record!-Harold Phillips, Editor
RACING AT RUSK
A few of our members who are also in United Stangs have been going out to the Cherokee County Motorsports Park in Rusk lately with our late models. They have been opening on Friday nights for Test and Tune night.
Chad and I have been out 3 times in the last month or so with a group of late model Mustangers. The Orange mobile has seen a few
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“THE PONY EXPRESS”April 2006
-Published by Mustangs of East TexasP.O. Box 8970 Tyler, Texas 75711
trips down the track even, with a respectable 14.77 best ET running a stock automatic and a few bolt-ons. Chad has seen a best ET of 13.9. One Friday night was coooold, it was in the 40’s but the cars loved it! This last Friday night was in the 70’s and humid, so our times were a little slower.
I have a few pictures with some of our MOET people in them that I will share.
2006 RAFFLE CAR
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At the end of the East Texas Crisis Center Auto Show a brand new Raffle Car was unveiled!! This year Tyler Ford had donated a 2006 Mustang Convertible, brand new!! Very nice. No tickets available yet, but I will get with Carrie and we will get some. Last year’s 2005 Coupe sold record numbers of tickets, a convertible should sell even more!! Everybody needs to help out, with a donated car every penny goes directly to the East Texas Crisis Center and their operations there.
CLUB DECALS
Are you wearing your Mustangs of East Texas sticker? I have a supply of them with me at each meeting. If you are a member of Mustangs of
East Texas, place one of these on your Mustang so everybody knows you are part of us!!
MONTHLY CLUB MEETINGS
Our monthly club meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month at Traditions on South Broadway, Tyler, just down the street from Lowe’s and Best Buy on the other side of Broadway. The meetings are open to all club members, friends, family, and other interested parties. If you have not been attending meetings, you owe it to yourself to come and join us. This is the place to come for help with your Mustang or to suggest and help us plan club events. If the weather is good we like to cruise up Broadway and back down to the parking lot at Broadway and Rice Rd. If you are unable to make the meeting and have something of importance, please call one of the club officers listed on the back of this newsletter.
OUR NEXT MEETING IS SET FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 2006. COME AT 6:30 TO EAT, THE MEETING STARTS AT 7:00 PM. BRING YOUR MUSTANG AND CRUISE WITH US!
I would like to wish the following people a Happy Birthday for the month of April:
4 Darin Turner5 Steve Harms12 Steve Wegmet13 Maureen Christopherson22 Karen Hartt26 Don Joslin
Lu Wegmet
CLUB DUES ARE DUE
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If you have not paid your club dues for 2006, they are due now. You can fill in the information on the back page of the newsletter and mail it in to the MOET address listed OR you can just come to the meeting and hand me $20 and fill out a form. Either way, we need your dues. Dues help pay for the room we enjoy at Traditions, events, and of course, your monthly newsletter. Please check and see if you have paid yours, if not, please take care of it this month. -Harold Phillips, Editor
UNITED STANGS
There is now a new Mustang Club in East Texas, it is called United Stangs. It is mostly late models, we are centered around a website www.unitedstangs.com. So far we have a pretty impressive bunch of people to be so new. We have had a couple of Get Togethers and several thrown together cruises.
Several of our members from Mustangs of East Texas have joined, and we are having lots of fun. This is in no way designed to take away from Mustangs of East Texas, and David Hartsell and I are planning to pull the clubs together for events, so everybody benefits. If you love your late model and enjoy cruising and having fun, check us out on the net. Caution, the website can be a little bit addictive.
We interact with the whole group statewide on the web page and get to know people from the Houston and San Antonio Chapters and are planning some statewide meets this summer. Come join us!!
COMING EVENTS
Lufkin, TX, Apr 8th, the Downtown Hoedown Parade and Car Show, parade starts at 10:00, Preregistered participants only.
Palestine, TX/Rusk, TX April 21-22, 2006, the third annual Bullitt/Mach 1 Shootout, host hotel in Palestine, the car show and racing will be held at the Cherokee County Motorsports Park in Rusk, for info http://pages.sbcglobal.net/deegreen/3rdTexasShootout/index.htm
Fort Worth, TX, Apr 27-30, 2006, the 34th
annual Pate Swap Meet, on the paved surface
outside Texas Motor Speedway, for info: www.pateswapmeet.com.
Tulsa, OK, Jun 8-11, 2006, the 32nd annual Mid America Ford Performance and Shelby Meet, www.midamericafordmeet.com, for info email [email protected].
Rusk, TX, Saturday July 1, 2006, the 2nd annual Phil Clark Stampede and Car Show in downtown Rusk. For more info contact [email protected] or Holly Clark [email protected].
CLASSIFIEDS
The ads below are placed free of charge to all members of Mustangs of East Texas. These ads can be items for sale or items you wish to purchase, or ads for assistance or services. All ads will run for two months unless otherwise noted. If you would like to place and ad, please call Harold Phillips at 903-509-8212, or 903-714-9677 cellular before the 20th of each month for ads to be included in the next month’s newsletter. Or you can write to me at: Harold Phillips, 729 Joel Dr, Tyler, TX 75703 or email [email protected].
FOR SALE: 1995 Mustang GT, Dark Green with new Harwood hood, new Saleen front bumper, Steeda springs, 18 X 9-18 x10.5 Saleen wheels with new 295/35R-18 BFG’s on the rear, 5.0 w/CAI, TB, UDP’s, BBK headers, O/R X-pipe, new Auto trans w/shift kit, 3:73 gears, B & M hammer shifter. Asking $6500, Call Wes at 903-724-2835.
FOR SALE: 1968 Mustang GT Pony, Springtime Yellow, black Stripe, black interior. Fully Restored, it has been at the Whataburger Cruise Nights quite a bit. Call Teresa at 903-565-4381.
FOR SALE: 5.0 intake and wiring harness from a 1988 Mustang. More parts may be availaboe if needed, but $50 for the intake + harness. Jason Land 903-352-0269.
FOR SALE: Polished Aluminum Intake with new injectors for $600 firm, Aluminum Edelbrock 4 barrel intake for 351M or 400 for $75, Factory Ford aluminum 4 barrel intake for small block 302 $125 firm. Todd Sullivan 903-881-0558.
FOR SALE: Mustang Parts: Mac Lowering Springs, 1.5” drop $150, 2001 Saleen Throttle body $75, 2000 GT Throttle body (stock) $50, 1998 GT Throttle body (stock) $50, 2000 GT intake plenum $50, 8” NEW Audiobon Subwoofer,
Dual Voice Coil $20, 2005 Mustang Front Bumper $100, Nitrous Carb System, everything except bottle $100, Brand new Original Equipment Ford Motorcraft 2Bbl Carb $150, 19” Brand New Electric Fan, Unopened box $50, Ford Racing Lowering “C” Springs, 2”drop $125, 89 LX Spoiler $25, Tubular K member and lower control arms for 87-93 $400, Rear Panhandle bar 87-93 $300, Factory 01 Saleen Grille $25, Factory GT Grille $20, 1967 Parts Car – quarters, trunk, doors, windows, wheels, etc $400, 01 Cobra wheels, 17 X 8 highly polished with 245/45 Goodyear Eagles $800, 2 Ford 9” rearends $150 each, 69 Short Wheelbase Ranger Truck $500, 65-70 Mustang Trailer Hitch $20, 428 Super Cobra Jet Side Winder 428 aluminum intake Rare $400, Factory
Ford CD/Tape player $100, Brand New Delta Air Compressor, 80 Gallon, 175 psi, 6.5 HP $500, 200 Stall Converter 87-93 Automatic $100, 87-93 Saleen Decals Sides and Windshield $100, 65 Mustang Trunk Lid $40, Mustang GT Drive Shaft $50, 87-93 Saleen Side Skirts $150, w 12” CS Designs Subwoofers & Box $150, 15” X 12” Weld Racing Wheels Chevy Pickup, fits up to 44” Tire $400. Paul Chamberlain 903-253-6878.
WANT TO BUY: 68 Mustang fastback project car, no motor or trans needed. Clay Carter 903-721-9363.
2006 MUSTANGS OF EAST TEXAS OFFICERS
President – David Hartsell 903-597-3896Vice President – Robert Owens 903-566-0078Secretary – Lu Wegmet 903-586-5114Treasurer – Donna Alexander, CPA 904-509-4680Newsletter Editor – Harold Phillips 903-509-8212
YEARLY CLUB MEMBERSHIP DUES FOR 2006 - DUE JANUARY 2006 - $20.00(Mail to: Mustangs of East Texas, P.O. Box 8970, Tyler, Texas 75711)Name: ______________________________________ Birthday: _____________Spouse’s Name: _______________________________ Birthday: _____________Address: _____________________________________ (Month and Day only) _____________________________________Telephone Number: ____________________________ Number of Children: _________Work Number: ________________________________ Ages: ______________________Occupation: __________________________________E-Mail Address: _______________________________ E-Mail Newsletter Yes or No
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Please list number and types of Mustangs owned. Ownership is not required to be a club member. Number of Mustangs: ______
Car #1 Car #2 Car #3 Car #4Year: ________________ ________________ ________________ _______________Bodystyle: ____________ ________________ ________________ _______________Color: _______________ ________________ ________________ _______________ Engine: ______________ ________________ ________________ _______________
(Feel free to use the back to list any special features of any cars or additional cars.)
