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From the President’s Desk
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Cooly Rocks
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June Club Run
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Upcoming Club Runs
Other non-club Events
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Bits and Pieces from the Editor
BOP Mustang Owners Club. July 2019
From the President’s Desk
Hi Everyone,
Well after a month away I guess I am supposed to say its great
to be back home. I have
got to be honest after leaving LA and temperatures in the high
20s and 30s and spend-
ing a month having a blast travelling from LA to Chicago and
back on Route 66 we did
not want to come home. We set off from LA to Chicago with 3
Camaros, 13 Eco Boost
Mustangs and 1 V8 Mustang. Wendy and I were delayed getting our
car from Hertz and
by the time we got there all they had left was a V8! I did not
complain. I had the oppor-
tunity to give both cars, the Eco Boost and the V8 a good blast
out on the freeways and I
have to say I was pretty impressed with the Eco Boost.
Performance wise it matched the
V8 in pick up to the Ton but the V8 pulled away after about
120MPH. On one of the long
straights leading into Bonneville I gave the V8 a bit of a burst
up to 145MPH but it
started to float a little in the rear end so I backed off. The
Eco Boost being a lot lighter
handled a lot better, if only they could make it sound like the
V8 they would be on to a
winner. The whole trip was amazing and would recommend it to
all. Noddy Watts and
his partner Andrea were great tour guides and had every detail
covered. All the cars
were set up with pre programmed GPS's, covered in silver ferns
and Kiwis on Tour stick-
ers, and good Hotels were waiting for us at the end of a hard
days drive. Every morning
we would gather to receive our run sheet for the day. The run
sheet laid out recom-
mended highlights and stops for lunch on the way, also covered
possible speed traps
and driving/traffic tips. The whole tour was 29 days and covered
close to 6000 miles.
During that time we met some amazing people and had some awesome
experiences.
Here are some of the highlights - smoking the Mustang at
Bonneville Salt Flats, standing
on the corner in Winslow Arizona with the whole tour group
singing Take it Easy by the
Eagles at the top of our voices, snow at Mount Rushmore,
partying in Fremont Street
Los Vegas, three members of our group got Route 66 tattoo's—I
was not one, Chicago
Jazz band sung Mustang Sally to 50 drunken Kiwi's, Mormon
Tabernacle Choir rehearsal
in Salt Lake City, drag races at Chicago and baseball,watching
the Chicago White Sox, a
day spent at the LA roadster show, over 1000 roadsters and a
kilometer square of car
swaps, cars for sale and stalls, hot laps at the Shelby factory
in Las Vegas and many
many more.
Thanks to our newly formed run committee sounds like the Ten Pin
Bowling run was a
great success and I am looking forward to the July Waihi Beach
RSA quiz and meal run.
Finally, what did the Camaro owner do once he had finished
beating the Mustang?
Turned off his XBox and went to bed.
Cheers Darrell
See the next page for a few pics from Darrell and Wendy’s
trip.
Extreme Automotive Parts
2 Korimiko St Tauranga
Tauranga
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Cooly Rocks
Thanks to Dave and Julie Flett
Cooly Rocks On This is a festival to celebrate every thing there
is to like about the 50’s 60’s and 70’s. mu-sic, cars, dancing,
nostalgia and lots of fun, even a vintage bake off. This is the 9th
year it has been held at Coolangatta on the Gold Coast and is
Australia’s largest rock n roll and nostalgia festival. Along with
the expected car cruises, show and shine, and beauty pageants,
there were some new surprises for me like the Indian Motorcycle
club display and parade, the gogo-mobil’s (the gogomobil dart was
produced in Australia), poodle parade, retro badge de-sign and
making, to name just a few. We spent one day looking at the
hundreds of trade tents and retro market stalls spread along the
beach front and stopping to listen to the bands and watch the
dancing at all the stages spread the length of the beach front.
Some 15+ bands were on the program for Saturday alone. The show n
shine was a big draw card on Saturday with 1000’s of ve-hicles
parked up, some weird and wonderful and some rare and racey. The
Queensland police even had their new pursuit vehicle ( Kia Stinger)
on display all decked out with the latest technology. To do justice
to this show you probably need to allow at least 2 days to see this
5 day event. The highlight for me was meeting and talking with Jim
Richards who was on the Shan-non’s display with the first racing
Mustang, celebrating 55 years of Mustang racing. What a great event
to attend a bit like a mini “Hot August Nights”. Great time of the
year on the Gold Coast perfect temperature and no crowds and cheap
accommodation. I thor-oughly recommend you add it to your must see
car shows. Dave & Julie Flett
See the next page for more pics from this
cool event.
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June Club Run
10 Pin Bowling
June Club Run
On a beautiful but very crisp morning the Tauranga contingent
met at Tauranga Crossing
to head out to Rotorua where we met up with the Rotorua
contingent in the Bunnings
carpark. After the requisite chit chat, Pauline and Grahame led
the group of around 20
cars out of town on our way through some spectacular countryside
to The Landing Cafe
on the shores of Lake Tarawera.
With the cars all lined up backing onto the lake and looking
fabulous, we headed in to
satisfy the inner man or woman as the case may be. Food was very
good and company
was great as always. After more chit chat and with a little bit
of time up our sleeves,
Pauline and Grahame again led us back to town via the scenic
route.
We stopped at the Look Out for the Green and Blue Lakes, and
then carried on around
the Okareka Loop Road – a little spot of New Zealand that was
new to me and quintes-
sential NZ scenery – just gorgeous.
Then it was into town for the annual 10 Pin Bowling Shake Down
with all the usual highs
and lows. Our top scorer, Bryan Ashe, managed to get at least 4
strikes in a row and was
pretty unassailable after that with a final score of 163. The
bottom end we will not talk
about – least said, soonest forgotten!
After the bowling action there was only the awards to give out
and these went to:
Best presented car as selected buy the staff at The Landing Cafe
went to Julie Flett.
Their comment was that it was a very classy car.
Dipstick award went to John for a small misdemeanour around
using the Exit as an
Entrance at Tauranga Crossing. There was another contender but
it was generally
agreed that getting a little smoke action on your tyres is just
part of having a Mus-
tang!
Bryan Ashe took out the bowling award, but unfortunately we
didn’t have it with us
so it is coming to you Bryan.
The raffle lucky draw went to Dave Corrin.
See all the evidence on the next few pages.
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Upcoming Events
Club Runs
15 July— We’ll be heading to Waihi Beach for a quiz and lunch.
More to come via email on this one. Start swatting up on your quiz
facts! There is also a shed raid en route.
19 Aug— Plans are to have a run with a guest speaker
Other non Club Events
7 July—Mitre 10 Columbus Café Rotorua Breakfast, 1542 Amohau St,
Rotorua, 8am till 11am
7 July—Eastern Bay of Plenty Breakfast, Red Barn, 237 Thornton
Rd, Whakatane, 8am
20-21 July—CRC Speed Show, ASB Showgrounds, Greenlane,
Auckland
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Some Bits and Pieces from the Editor
The Committee is currently working on the All USA Day which will
be held on 17 November. Please mark this date in your diaries. At
some stage we will be asking for volunteers as usual.
Convention looms. If you have not already both registered and
booked your accom-modation it would be a good idea to attend to
these now as both are limited. The theme for Sunday night is
Western and we are in the process of organizing a venue to hold a
meeting for those attending so we can sort out our dress up for
which we are now renowned. Please start to get your thinking caps
on so we can uphold our reputation for being stand out and unique.
An email will be sent out once we have the venue tied down.
I am always on the hunt for items for the newsletter so if you
know of something that would interest our club members, please
write a few lines about it and send it through to me with a pic or
two and I will happily include it. [email protected]
And this popped up in Facebook recently and thought it would be
a good thing to include here:
