The COWTOWN MOPARS PERFORMANCE TEAM is a Mopar enthusiast organization with it’s own elected officers and operating treasury. Membership is open to ALL Mopar enthusiasts and owners. You do not need to own a Mopar to join or participate. Our club address is: Cowtown Mopars Performance Team P.O. Box 162413 Fort Worth, Texas 76161-2413 Our Web Page is: http://www.cowtownmopars.org or http://clubs.hemmings.com/cowtownmopars/ Our Club Meetings: The Cowtown Mopars Performance Team holds it’s monthly club meeting on the 3rd Sunday of each month at 4 pm. Meetings are held at: Spring Creek BBQ 1509 Airport Freeway Bedford, Texas (817) 545-0184 (corner of Forest Ridge & 183 Airport Freeway) Cruise Night at Scotty’s (820 & Beach) 2nd Saturday of each month at 7 pm GUESTS are always welcome to join us.

Club Information

June 2003

M O P A R O R N O C A R

President: Mark Buchanan (972) 617-2068 bbuchanan8@juno.com Vice President: Mike Miller (817) 656-3218 greybeard360@yahoo.com Secretary: Ken Angyal (817) 465-4344 KVJA54@aol.com Treasurer: Rick Brownell (972) 263-0307 stumpy383@hotmail.com Membership Director: Bernie Powell (817) 246-1600 coyotedst@aol.com Activities Director: Kelly Hilla (972) 434-2288 kelly.hilla@huffines.net Newsletter Editor: Dan Robinson (817) 428-8858 derob@charter.net Webmaster: Mike Miller (817) 656-3218 greybeard360@yahoo.com

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Cowtown Mopar Officers

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President’s Desk 2

Resignation 2

Meeting Minuets 3

Web Site Info 3

New Members 3

Classifieds 4

Power Tour 5

Business Cards 5

Spring Picnic 6 & 7

TDC Charger Meet Report 8 & 9

Events, Shows, Activities 9

Race Team Info 10

Mopar of the Month 11

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Hello Mopar Friends, I am sad to report that Marc Wadley has resigned as President of our club, his resignation is enclosed. In the last 2 years plus under Marc's leadership Cowtown Mopars has grown consid-erably as a group. We have become more active in many ways (show team, race team...), picnics... , I could go on. The bottom line is I would like to thank Marc and his family for all of their time and efforts, they are GREATLY appreciated. THANK YOU MARC, RONDA and MARCUS for everything you have done! We had another good time at the picnic/poker run/meeting the 3rd Sunday in May. If you missed it you missed a great time. Don't worry we will have another one later this year. Thanks to Ken and Willie for cooking! Thanks to Mike for mapping the poker run! Thanks to Kelly for securing the park for us! Thanks to Marc and Bernie for getting the food and drinks! And thanks to everyone for being there so we could all have a great time! We always have room for more, join us when you can. Sunday June 1st we had the TMCCC race in Oklahoma at the Thunder Valley raceway. We do not have the final numbers yet, but we did GREAT. Thanks to everyone who made the trip

and shared some cake with me. It was a good day for Cowtown Racers. We had a lot of support from our Oklahoma Mopar friends (THANK YOU for your support). We had 5 finals winners, 5 runners up and 3 semi finalists. That is some goooood racing. I hope we do it again June 29th at Red Line (rain-out

date). There is not going to be as many events on the calendar in the next 2 month, so I hope to see ya at Scotty's, club meetings, racing or some of the local car shows. Let's support the Oklahoma Mopar club Saturday the 21st of June. Dan Robinson and I plan to go. Give one of us a call if you would like to caravan up there. I would like to welcome Mike Miller as the new Vice President and Sandi Powell as our new fashion coordinator. Thank you both for helping out. I'm not the treasurer, but I believe I count 10 thank, thanks or thank you's in my first Presi-dents column. As you can tell I'm very thank-ful!! See ya soon Beep Beep! Mark Buchanan Cowtown Mopars President

I feel like this is the greatest car club in the state. I would like to see it continue to grow. Lots of people in this club have worked very hard, so our club could be brought up to the 21st Century. I will always continue to be there for the club in any way in which I could help. If there is anything I can do for anyone,

please email me or drop me a line. I have made lots of good friends in the club and hope to make many more. Respectfully Your Former President Marc Wadley

Hello Club Members This is one of the hardest things that I have ever had to write. I have to let all club mem-bers know that I resigned as President of Cowtown Mopars as of June 10, 2003. I hope this does not cause any ill feelings with the club. I will still continue to be a club member. But due to circumstances of con-troversy in the Board, I have resigned. The way that my time is right now with job & fam-ily, I do not have enough time to put up with prob-lems of controversy and family also. I would never do anything to embarrass the club or its members. But at this time I don't feel like I can conduct myself as President in a calm manner in which the club deserves.

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From The President’s Desk

Resignation

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A clear, warm, day greeted the Cow-town Mopars membership at the Elm Grove pavilion in River Legacy park in Arlington for their annual spring picnic and poker run held on May 18th. Web blaster Mike Miller set up and monitored the scenic poker run with which ended around noon, just in time for burgers and hot dogs fresh off the fire with all the extra goodies and dishes brought by the members. While the club members were spending some down time enjoying the eats and drinks, on-lookers enjoyed and admired the selection of cars parked in the lot. Vice President Mark

Buchanan called a brief meeting at 2:05 pm. Upcoming schedules and events were announced, car show results and poker run results were read to the membership. door prizes were given away and the 50/50 pot was also announced. The meet-ing was then adjourned at 2:40 pm where so-longs and see you next time were

heard. See you next time......Ken Respectfully submitted by: Ken Angyal, Secretary Cowtown Mopars

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New Members & Club Dues

Meeting Minutes

New members may feel free to contact any of the club officers at the phone number or email address on the first page of the newsletter. Bernie Powell Membership Director

We would like to welcome the following new and returning members to Cowtown Mopars. Robert Spence, Steve Knight, Les Ad-ams, Randy Buntyn, Mark Faught, Scott Chandler, Chuck Harper, Phillip Taylor, Mike Hanson, Jon Ireland, Christopher & Diana Foster, & Keith & Alethea Laxson. **NOTICE** "It is time to renew your club membership if you haven't yet. You won't want to miss out on any of the club activities or getting your newsletter.

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Hello Mopar fanatics, freaks, geeks or admirers..... We have been having some problems with one of our domain names not working, www.cowtownmopars.org . I have been in contact with Hem-mings and it is being worked on to find the problem. You can still visit the site at: http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/cowtownmopars/ or www.cowtownmopars.com .

It is going to be a long hot summer so I may be spending a lot of time at the keyboard. If any of you club members have anything to add to the web site just let me know!

Mike Miller AKA MasterBlaster

Cowtown Mopars Web Site Info

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• 66-78 Dodge Chargers & Parts - FW/DAL Area. Register with The Dodge Charger Registry at no charge or join and get a newsletter , parts lists, car lists. Event lists. Call Morris (817) 545-7783 or (817) 980-9411 03/02 See you at the next charger event.

• 1969 Dart 2dr ht, V-8, Auto, PS, Factory A/c. $2300 1963 Plymouth Savoy 2 dr post $3000 For Sale with Savoy ONLY, big block K-Frame, Max Wedge Hood scoop, Max Wedge heads and cross rams, big block push button torqueflight, coated under car headers. 1986 Dodge LWB pickup, 360, A/C, PS, PB, Complete, Trans Bad, body kinda rough, $650 452 heads, 906 heads, headers & intakes much mopar, big & small block, Call with request. BRAND NEW Dana 60 for 94-2001 Dodge pickup. Call Gene Quick - Day 817-838-6933 Eve. 817-838-8138

• Big Block purple shaft hyd. 280-480 run 30 min. lifters indexed $75., 3:23 ring & pinion good condition 489 case $40., 833 4 speed & hurst shifter from a 69 383 roadrunner good condition $350., B&M Pro Ratchet auto shifter complete $85., Systematic 175 Amp MIG welder complete Used 3 times since 1998 $900. Call Bob Graham 817-346-0414

• 1965 Dodge Dart GT, 273 Automatic, body and interior in good shape Runs good $4,000.00 Contact: Bob Icard 817-491-2650 e-mail: rjicard@yahoo.com

• For Sale: 1988 Dakota Reg Cab, Short Bed, Black Exterior, might want to paint. Body Very Good. Has 15" Weld Super Lites w/ new tires all around. Has non original 318 ci and 727 Auto, engine is bone stock except for Edelbrock Performer intake, 750 Holley, Unilite Dis-tributor. Stock original rear end. It starts, runs, drives good. Exhaust will need to be finished, it currently has Exhaust Manifolds, header pipes w/ cross over and pipe back to where Catalytic Convertor starts, nothing else. New Catalytic Convertor goes with truck. Has after-market floor shifter, gauges, tach and electric fan motor. Make nice street truck or drag truck. Asking $ 4500. o.b.o. Also for sale: 18' New Wood bed, Raised Floor, dove tail car hauler trailer, brakes, $ 1395.00 Bill Boon (817) 312-0143 or email txtrlrman@aol.com

• Numerous Mopar diecast (lots), models, patches, and pins. most are mint in packages. Also Franklin mint Richard petty cars and knife, along with some other memorabilia. Dave Casperson. 940-648-0485 or caspersond@aol.com

• For Sale 1963 Plymouth Fury Convertible 383 4 speed, project car $1800.00 Call Marc (817) 692-4814

• For sale 2 69 coronet 2 door hardtops parts cars, contact Mark 972-617-2068, email bbuchanan8@juno.

• 1966 coronet conv. 383 4bbl, 7272 trans with stage 2 shift kit-no rust-new carpet and door panels-no dents needs paint-runs and drives-4500 obo. 1970 cuda clone prostreet project-straight body-has been tubbed w/17 inches of clearencse-have all rally options, rally dash,hood steering column,slap stick auto w/console-good seat frames and seat backs-2500 firm contact jason fischer at 817 847 6143 or jacorfis@aol.com

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• Dodge Chargers and/or parts for 66-78, Charger owners for The Dodge Charger Registry. FREE Get a newsletter, parts list, car lists, events list for 66-87 Chargers. Call Morris (817)545-7783 or (817)980-9411

• Wanted 71 road runner, 4 speed car; 69 coronet/super bee passenger fender, bench seat for 68-70 b body, contact Mark 972-617-2068, email bbuchanan8@juno.com

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Hot Rod Power Tour Club members Bob Graham and Gary Powell just returned from the Hot Rod Magazine Power Tour. They both made the Long Haul driving their HEMI cars from start to finish. Bob said he was having a little problem with the car running a little rich and some of the Mopars guys jumped in and with a metering rod change got the car running right and his mileage went from 9 or 10 to 15 mpg......awesome for a HEMI! He said they were tired but had a blast. We talked to a lot of the Mopar folks and found out that many of them have gone on the tour several times. One car that was along for the long haul was an Australian built Chrysler "UTE" powered by the Baby Hemi, a variant of the 225 slant six that is 265 CID , has a 4 bbl carb and headers. It looked like a Dodge Dart that had been made into a pickup....really neat! Rumor has it that the power tour will start in Ft. Worth next year and end up in Reno, Nevada. Might be an opportunity for a few more of our members to join in on the fun. Visit the web site and look at some of the photos I took. Mike Miller

Bob Graham Gary Powell

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Cowtown Mopars Spring Picnic For those of you who did not come out for the picnic missed some great weather and great fun. Attendance was down a little from previous picnics but we did have a good turnout. The board members got together and voted for the top 7 cars in attendance with Ken and Lesa Key getting the most votes. The WebBlaster set up a poker run for the picnic and we all had fun driving thru the countryside, enjoying the weather and collecting various items along the way. Each entrant had to answer some questions when they re-turned and collect a few things for bonus points. It is amazing how many people think Black Eyed Susan's are baby sunflowers! Danny Henslee had the best poker hand...three Queens... and won $50.00 for his efforts. Kelly Hilla won $26.00 for his three 9's. Dan Robinson and Gary Bradshaw tied for the points on the questionnaire and both received a nice door prize. Mike Miller Enjoy the following Photos.

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Cowtown Mopar Spring Picnic

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Dodge Charger Meet At Ardmore OK. Cowtown Mopar members were tops at the 15th Annual Dodge Charger Meet for Region 4. Most cars & owners were from Texas & by my count, FW/Dal area. Cowtown Team #1 again. Steve & Kassie Knight moved from Kansas a couple of years ago, glad you are here now. Royce & Clydette Kidd from Boyd are at Boerne or other car meets, but this year brought a bright red w/white vinyl top, 3rd genera-tion nice Charger. Thanks for all the other members. Jim McCutcheon found some parts for his 68 and we might see it next year at Boerne 04. We had 96 Chargers at beautiful Pecan Grove Park at Lake Murray, Ardmore Ok. Beautiful weather and lots of visitors from camp-ing, cruises, other events. We had a good time and meet new people from 9 states and Canada. Carl (Cam) Cameron and Susan were with us all around. Carl designed the 66-67 Charger and a list of other Chrysler products we all admire and love. He told 2 hours of stories on how a product develops and is planned, designed, engineered, and produced. He worked at Chrysler over 30 years. Still going back frequently to advise (good). He said he did not think this many 1st generation chargers still existed. Carl is going to most Charger Meets this year. Be there if you can. He had drawings for sale and exhibit on early 60's cars. We had to cut his Saturday night story short at 9PM so over 30 Chargers and local Mopars could cruise to and take over the local Sonic Drive-In. What a fun time. Some went street racing (uncool), got caught, got lucky, Mr. Wayne Wooten got'em out of hot water. Some of us including Carl, Susan, Wayne & Donna Wooten, listened to C&W singer, train engineer, '69 RT/SE owner of most desirable Charger, in the lobby of hotel, Red Kilbee, assisted by his wife with water & coffee, for hoarseness. Just think, Red sings better hoarse than some do clear. He could quit his day job. I saw pics of his fresh resto of "Babe" the most wanted, desirable Charger. The South Dakota region director Jerry Moore had a limelight '70 RT in an enclosed trailer with TDC Logo. Real nice car, trailer, & Dodge Cummins all the way from Rapid City South Dakota. Most trailered cars were pulled by the most dependable, desirable, lasting trucks DODGE of course. The Sun-day awards were just great with over 70 Chargers still there. Hope your next Mopar or 2nd one is a Charger. Thanks and have fun and keep Charging safely. Mopar 2 U Morris Counts Mopar Only Upcoming Charger Meets: July 11-13 Carlisle PA Wayne Wooten 434-223-1305 August 16 Whidbey Island, Washington Jim Morgan 206-306-0581 September 5-7 Rapid City, South Dakota Jerry Moore 605-484-0343

Carl “Cam” Cameron

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2nd Saturday of the month. N. Beach street 1/4 mile south of N Loop 820, 7-9 pm • Christian Classic Cruisers June 21 • Sonic Drive-In June 28 on Davis Blvd. North Richland Hills 5-9 PM • COMA Mopar Show June 21 at Midwest City, OK • Texas Raceway June 21 ESPN will be there. • 1st Annual All MOPAR Car/Truck Show June 29 9am – 6pm Preston Chrysler/Jeep 2920

I-35E Carrollton, TX $10 Entry Fee includes FREE EVENT T-SHIRT!!! For info contact: Ron Jackson 972-629-4300

• TMCCC Race Schedule Posted In The Race Section Check the website EVENTS for additional events.

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Charger Meet Continued Register for FREE 1966-87 Chargers or parts cars with TDC and or become a member. Contact: Morris Counts FW/DAL area 817-545-7783 Wes & Geri Pieper Boerne area 830-981-5383 Wayne Wooten TDC 434-223-1305 dodgechargerregistry.com

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Cowtown Mopars Performance Racing Team Welcome Racers and Race Fans

It’s RACE TIME!! See Ya at Races

Go Cowtown Mopars TMCCC 2003 Race Schedule June 29 Sunday CHALLENGE REDLINE Redline Raceway (Rescheduled) Gates open at 8am Entry Fee $25.00 Sept. 14 Sunday CHALLENGE WEST FALL Texas Raceway Kennedale, Texas Ph. 817-483-0356 Gates open at 9am Entry Fee $20.00 Oct. 26 Sunday TEXAS MUSCLECAR CLUB CHALLENGE Texas Motorplex Ennis, Texas Ph. 972-878-2641 Gates open at 8am Entry Fee $30.00 Nov. 2 Sunday CHALLENGE REDLINE Redline Raceway Gates open at 8am Entry $25.00 Nov. 15 AWARDS BANQUET AER Mfg. Addison, Texas 6:30 pm HEY MOPAR BUDDIES, We had a GREAT day at the track today!! Almost 30 racers, over 20 from Cowtown (I know I'm vague, but I'm not sure of the numbers) I do have this info though. Stock 1st Kelly Hilla 2nd Heather Hilla Semi Steven Barton Street 2nd Gary Futrell Factory 1st Marc Sallee semi David Huffman King 1st Curtis Hanson 2nd Grady Hientz Pro 1st Tony Reeser 2nd Pete Kratky Semi Eddie Hinkle Elec 1st David Drake 2nd Kim Humphrey How about 5 1st, 5 2nd and 3 semi. 7 out of 13 are Cowtown members the others are our OK brothers. We should be proud to have them race with us any time. They really helped us out today in a big way!!! . Mark B.

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I had wanted a Neon R/T (with stripes) ever since I saw my first one In 1997. Then in 2001 Kelly brought home a RAM SS/T (with stripes). I was jealous and about 2 months later as we headed to Fort Worth down hwy 377 there it was same color same stripes. Gotta have it! The rest is history. She’s been with me ever since. This 1998 Dodge Neon R/T 2.0 DOHC has been fitted with 8mm Wires , K&N Cold Air System , Mopar Performance Header , B&M Short Throw Shifter , and a Borla Muffler to antagonize the imports. Hopefully in the near future I will own a Neon SRT/4. Heather Hilla

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COWTOWN MOPAR OF THE MONTH Heather Hilla’s 1998 Dodge Neon R/T

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