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How I spent my summer vacation 7

My First Race 8

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Tulsa, OK November 2017

Founded 1980

Greetings to all members and friends, Amazingly we are nearing the end of another year and finally have cooler weather. Last month we had very nice days for the Mounds Car Show with many Club Members receiving awards. Good showing GCCM! Some mem-bers attended the Nut House Festival in Claremore and many of us attend-ed the Fred Harlan Ford Show and Shine in Okmulgee. We had a nice group of 25 cars supporting this sponsored event and we talked to poten-tial new members. A Chili Fest was in full swing and we sampled up to 18 chili entree's. A couple of Hippies crashed our group in their newly painted 67 Mustang. [ I won't tell who but their last name is Bean], Thanks for the great turnout everyone! Your Board has met and we reviewed activities, Show budgets, sponsorship forms and Club charities. By the next meeting John Hemby and I will have met Rachel or an officer at The Little Lighthouse to present a check for $1500 to help support their worthwhile community efforts. This was partly made possible by Troy's organization of our Annual Round Up Show. Thank you Troy! This also made possible a $525 contribution to the Gatesway Foundation for their worthy efforts. You should be proud as a Club. Many of you will remember Chili Bingo. We are looking at the possibility of holding this event again in future months. If any of you have candies left over after Halloween, Steve Young will be glad to relieve you of this temp-tation to use in his Ministry. Please bring to the next meeting if you will. As we near December we have an excellent Christmas Party planned as well as the Christmas Toy Run. Also, elections are looming so be thinking of who you want to nominate for Club leadership and consider the offices yourselves. President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Three Board positions are all to be considered. At the next meeting we can dis-cuss responsibilities and required Chairmanships for each position. We will hold elections in December. Your leadership is only as good as the Club membership so please be involved. Hope you all have a fine Thanksgiving with family and friends later this month. See you soon.

Respectfully, Roger Bymun

11/07 - Geneva Eaton 11/10 - Sam DeWitt 11/11 - Bill McGhee 11/15 - Alan & Crystal Stretesky 11/16 - Frank & Mary Lou Robinson 11/17 - Richard Murray 11/18 - Troy & Cary Rushing 11/20 - Bob Crocker 11/20 - Brad Long 11/20 - Jan Massey 11/23 - Donnie & Gina Moseby 11/25 - Jim Massey 11/27 - Deann King 11/28 - Jerry Bergeron 11/28 - Kevin Keith 11/30 - Art Frerichs

November

5th - Daylight Saving Time Ends

7th - GCCM General Meeting @ Speedy's 7pm - Officer Nominations!!

11th - Veteran's Day

18th - Bixby Library Car Show

23rd - Thanksgiving Day

28th - GCCM Board Meeting @ Speedy's 7pm

28th/29th - HST at Hallett

December

2nd - GCCM's 9th Annual Toy Run!

5th - GCCM General Meeting @ Speedy's 7pm - Officer Elections!!

9th - GCCM Christmas Party at Oklahoma Joe's BBQ

11th - Track Event - High Performance Driving Event

19th - GCCM Board Meeting @ Speedy's 7pm

25th - Christmas Day!

31st - New Year's Eve!

Green Country Classic Mustangs General Meeting October 3, 2017

Speedy Gonzales Restaurant Open Meeting – The meeting was called to order at 7PM by Roger Bynum. Present: ?? Meeting started at 7:02 by Roger Bynum New guest- Katie - Sam’s girlfriend. Treasurer report - Mary Calvert Sponsors Preent - Melvin Little, Bud Jessee, Kevin Keith, Jon Lane • Jimmy & Dena Cook 31st Anniversary 10/4/17

• Mel Jr. 55th Birthday 10/4/17 • Minutes from last meeting approved. • Barbara & Helen - Square Dance Club -2008 Mustang Raffle $10 a book - April drawing VP Report - Troy Rushing

• Applause for Round-up

• Location-good

• Weather - good except for balloon

• Highest show registry in years

• Unique Trophy

• Sept 24 1st Baptist Church show

• Friday Sept 29- Donation check to Gatesway- 30-35 Gatesway got to ride in about 6 cars. It was pretty awesome, they would go from car to car, and the smiles on their faces is why we do what we do. One man was in a wheel-chair, and was the first to go for a ride, so Troy took him, and when they got back, he was in tears saying that that just made his whole life. Needless to say, there were a few tears from us GCCM folks that were close to him.

• Franca- said clients were very excited.

• Show Budget- still fine tuning/ sponsor $ to come in still.

• $525 to Gatesway, $1300 minimum to LLH

• Tentative figures

• $6826 Income

• $5163 Expenses

• $1600 Profit

• Claremore Lake show 9/30/17 308 cars Ron Magnusson won best Ford award

• John adds details on club calendar

• Rolling Thunder - Claremore - 10/7

• Heritage United Methodist- 10/14 10-2 Dick Cast $0 entry

• Owasso VFW 10/7 11AM

• Mounds Car Show - 10/t 8-10 Police Chief Antonio

• Tulsa Raceway Rods versus Rods 10/7

• Fred Harlan Ford $1000 sponsor 10/21 at the old dealership in Okmulgee

• Chili Fest 1-6 pm 20 cars 11-3pm meet at Glenpool Walmart

• Nut House - Claremore - 10/21 10-6 Free lunch

• Okmulgee Tech - 10/10 Tuesday, career, Free Dinner Christmas Party

• Option 1- Ok Joes 61st & Sheridan, min $1000 Dec 9th Two or three meat dinner order next month

• Option 2- Gatesway Gym

• Vote 100% for Ok Joe’s

• Steve Young to call and reserve

• Ornament exchange - yes - 1 ornament per person per player. • Elections during November General meeting - must be present for nominations

Race Report George Wallker

• 10/28-30 Hallet- last event

• 10/15- Stroud- Solo Event

• Survived Indy last week. 980 Cars. Qualified last day- met w/ N American Pres Mon, Tues, changed motor Thurs 8am Raced Sat morning, finished 12th.

Brad Long • 10/7 Mods vs Rods- 1st Place $200 MCA Report - Ron Watkins • 11/11- Owasso Veterans Parade Table Sales $10 Calendar, Dash Plaques, T-shirts, 2016 $1.00 Calendars, flyers for MCA show in McAllen Jon Lane has 2017 Magnetic w/blue stripes Mustang in the parking lot this evening. Melvin said Troy needs walkie-talkie instructions 50/50 $10 Dinner - Rob Winters 50/50 $69 - Millie Ramsey T-shirt winner - Jamie Jackson - donated by Bud Meeting adjourned at 7:51pm THANK YOU TO STAFF FOR ROUND-UP SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Green Country Classic Mustangs Board Meeting October 24, 2017

Speedy Gonzales Restaurant

Opening - The Board Meeting was called to order at 6:45 by Roger Bynum. Present - 8 of 11 Board Members, 3 visitors Roger • Harlan review - 25 cars showed

• Nut House - unsure who went

• BA Homecoming -

• Will Rogers B-Day parade- 4 conv requested.

• Bixby Library Car Show - Veterans Memorial - 11/18

• Hot Rod Garage is having an open house 10/28 in Sand Springs

• Brought up possibility of Chili Bingo coming back with white elephant gifts. $1 per card after 1 free card, and the last 2 bingo’s will get $

• Board went over differences between show and club sponsors, and the difference each sponsorship gets.

• We need to get a sponsorship committee together to redo forms and process.

• Show budget, will be ok’d by next meeting, still have sponsor questions as far as money still to come in.

• OK’d $1500 check to LLH from show profits.

• Checked By-Laws, as of September 2016, it states 50% of profits go to charity of choice.

• Ron Watkins said that we will need show insurance - liability insurance

• We also raised the possibility of purchasing a trailer and giving up mini storage again.

• Halloween candy to go to Steve Young for his ministry please.

• Election nominations - November 7th

• Newly elected officers and board members to attend December 19th Board meeting. Meeting adjourned 7:30pm

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How I spent my summer vacation ( and a whole lot of money) by Steve Armstrong

Don’t ever believe that car shows are about the cars. It is about the people that love their cars and the camaraderie that follows their mutual goals. Kirk, Don-na, Sally and I drove to Tulsa Thursday evening in order to join everyone for the KC convoy. After a few minor miscues, everyone was soon in sync and purring along. (Note to Franca: Always plan at least twice the potty breaks you think you need.) We got there just in time for a great lunch at Joe’s BBQ and headed for the hotels. Not unusual, Kirk did not hear to join everyone at 4:00 to go as a group. Sal-ly then decreed that we had to be near Kirk and Donna so that was that. Then I was turned away for forgetting my fire extinguisher. So off to Wal-Mart and out of line. Then things got busy. Trying to get started on cleaning until the heat won. Then took Donna’s place at the Tailgate party. Had some really good eating, and then dashed out to the cars for an hour of prep in the cooler dusk air. In the morning, it was a bright and early start. Kirk and I worked on our cars until the judges meeting. Then it was out on the field after two hours of instructions and bringing everyone up to date on the newer rules. I was elated to find myself with a pair of great guys from Iowa that really knew their stuff. Not so elated that half of my assigned cars were club members. Luckily, our gang knows their stuff and we faired really good. After the judging was over, all the judges met for discussion of some upcoming changes. Among the topics, was the issue that Daily Drivers are handicapped by the current system. Be-cause of the method used, the range of points to trophy is less than ideal. For example, while the Oc-casional Driven classes are 0-2 pts Gold, 3-6 pts Sil-ver, and 7-10 pts Bronze, the DDs are 0-1pts Gold, 2-4 pts Silver, and 5-7 pts Bronze. The solution sug-gested will be put to the next board meeting. And a lot more proposals for most of the classes were pre-sented by groups to the late hours. Then first thing in the morning, everyone was back at new topics. One thing of note is that for the past few years, MCA has been building a data bank of information that is making the meets more efficient. We are finding when is the best time to have the volunteers so that there are not too few or too many. And vari-ous other new ideas, like having some classes doing day before judging. It will be a part of future na-tionals and may spread to other events. Over the next months and years, changes are coming to im-prove the owner’s experiences. It is going to be a great time for us, but we will have to make efforts to keep up with the changes.

MY FIRST RACE By Jerry L. Bergeron

Saturday, October 21, 2017 was my first World Racing League 8-hour endruo race followed by a second 8-hour race on Sunday. My one word description of my first race, would be “SCARY”! We were racing door to door with 44 cars wanting to use the same piece of real estate. Our GP4 car was the lowest horsepower of the 4 classes. I was off track more in 2 hours of racing than over the past 10 years in HST. Ten years of High Speed touring did not prepare me for the adrenaline rush.

How did I end up in a 1990 Spec Miata race car “Herbie”? When you have really good friends you get talked into doing crazy things. I was completely sober when Eric ap-proached me with his idea of putting an endruo race team together. Of course I said yes, but in the back of my mind I figured the chance of finding teo other fools was slim. Man was I wrong! Apparently there is an unlimited supply of men who are foolish. A month lat-er Eric has the car and four other men lined up for the team.

I could not be happier with the team Eric assembled. It was awesome being part of the “No Lift Racing” team. Don’t tell the rest of the team, but I did lift a couple of times. It was a situation of lift or go in early to change my race suit. The only team member with true racing experience was Bill. Eric, Mike and I were “novice racers”. We had additional help from Jessie, a friend of Eric’s, and our fireman, Bill’s son Erik. Not to mention our team mom, Cherie. Cherie made sure we hydrated, ate, rested and all that mom stuff.

Our only goal was to finish both 8-hour races and get a WRL racing license. We exceeded our goals. Saturday we ran the full eight hours and placed P5 in our class of 7 and overall placed P27 of 44. If you do the math we beat 10 cars in a higher class. We lost the 3rd gear synchro Saturday and decided to put thicker oil in the transmission and hope for the best Sunday. Sunday, Herbie held up for the entire eight hours. No Lift Rac-ing finished P4 of 7 and P18 overall of 37 cars. We did not get a podium finish or a trophy but were given special recognition. The pit crew next to us left their stall unmanned. Their driver pulled in with his car on fire five feet from their fuel supply. Erik grabbed our fire ex-tinguisher and had the fire out quickly. At the trophy presentation Erik was awarded the “We’ve got your 6” award.

I cannot thank my team enough, Eric, Mike, Bill, Jessie, Erik and Cherie. This was truly a grand experience I will cherish for the rest of my life. A special thanks to Eric Las-ner the heart & soul of the team. Looking forward to doing it all again!

Members. As promised I met today (10/27/17) with the Little Lighthouse representatives Jean, Rachel and Lindsay. GCCM presented them with a $1500 donation as s result of our 2017 Roundup. They were very appreciative and asked me to convey their gratitude to our membership. Members are always invit-ed to a monthly luncheon and tour of their facility and classrooms. You can call for dates. They help many children enter society that might otherwise be severely limited. You can all be proud for your help. Thank you. Roger Bymun.

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