SAAC_ACTION Spring '14

Charlie Smith
Published on October 16, 2014

Published Quarterly by Indiana SAAC, Ltd, for it’s members Website www.insaac.org Board of Directors  PRESIDENT Doug Scott  VICE PRES Ray Koetter  TREAS Dave Groeninger  SEC Lisa Alexander  EDITOR Dan Aiken  Brent Alexander  Lori Aiken  Jo Groeninger  Peggy Koetter  Will Marten  Arna Rice  Mike Rice  Ellen Scott  Jason Smith Indiana SAAC Ltd 714 Fairview St. Boonville, IN 47601 - 1390 Membership Information Annual dues $25//$35 Lisa Alexander 714 Fairview St. Boonville, IN 47601 - 1390 Newsletter Dan Aiken, Editor INSAACeditor@gmail.com Website www.insaac.org Webmaster: Charlie Smith bigblockgt@twc.com I’m re -writing this greeting after receiving some bad news. As most of you know by now, Donald Farr is no longer the editor of Mustang Monthly magazine. Donald had become a friend over the years. Lori and I look forward to spending some time with him on our yearly trip to the NPD show in Florida, and he had become an inspiration for me to take on this role with INSAAC. I realize print media is dying. The internet and things like the Kindle are slowly chipping away at print media like CD’s did to albums and Netflix is doing to DVD’s. I get it. But I have to believe there will always be a place for magazines. Maybe I’m old fashioned. Good luck Donald. You are, and always will be, KING of the Mustang Hobby. I’m sure the hobby hasn’t heard the last of you! Now, on a good note, Lori and I are looking forward to the trip in our ’79 Pace Car to Charlotte for the 50th. The idea of over 3000 examples of the car we love all gathered in one place boggles the mind! One thing I know we’re both looking forward to is meeting people from all around the world who share our passion with Ford’s pony car. I think I heard that at least 25 different countries are going to be represented. How amazing is that! I doubt the Camry club can boast that kind of enthusiasm! Our year started out as it has for over a decade now, with a trip to Ocala Florida and INSAAC sponsor National Parts Depot’s Mustang and Ford Roundup. This is a great show in a great park setting similar to our Spring Fling. Car counts number in the hundreds and have surpassed 1000 a few times, but as I nearly always say, it’s the people that keep us coming back. Old friends like former Mustang Monthly editor and long time Spring Fling supporter Jeff Ford, NPD co-owner and INSAAC sponsor, Rick Schmidt, and all the other vendors, magazine editors and show participants. If you haven’t thought about attending this show, I highly recommend it. Plus, what a great reason to get out of the cold, snowy Midwest and head to Florida in January. Of all the cars I saw in Ocala, four that really got me excited were, of all things, Mustang II’s! Two of them were terrific ‘78 King Cobra survivors, and another was a meticulously resorted ‘75 Ghia 2.3, which had won an MCA Concours Prestige award! But the icing on the cake was one of the feature cars on stage and seen here in this edition of SAAC Action. Tom Tate’s restoration of “Mustang Joe” Ruggirello’s “Sudden Death”. Someone asked me during my drooling over the car why anyone would put 505CI of V8 monster in a Mustang II? My answer; “Why not? Because you can!” Of course, of the 600 cars in Ocala this year, there were numerous other great cars. Shelby’s, Mach’s, Boss’s, race cars, brass cars, trucks, you name it. If you don't find something at this show that tickles you, you just aren’t looking. You also get a chance to tour Jim and Rick Schmidt’s unique and historical collection. This edition also contains our 37th Spring Fling registration form. I can’t impress enough on people to get your registration in early. Pre-registrations determine classes. It also helps us order the proper amount of t-shirts, etc., so please get them in soon. One other change you’ll notice is that there is no planned Road Rally for Sunday. With participation dwindling in the past few years, and participation at only 11 cars last year, the board didn’t see the return on the investment in time and work it takes to set up the rally. We do have plans to make the Friday Pony Trail more exciting than ever. There might even be a possibility of putting a Sunday breakfast cruise together at the last minute if folks want to drive somewhere as a group and get together one last time. I’ll close by again saying, please participate in this newsletter. Have an idea for a story? Let me know. Know of a cool car that others might be interested in reading about? Send it in to insaaceditor@gmail.com. There will be only a few weeks until the 37th Spring Fling by the time this newsletter hits your mailbox. I’m looing forward to catching up with old friends and making new ones! See you then! Dan