June 2013

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE FORDS UNLIMITED CAR CLUB

14 FLAGSTONE LANE, ST. PETERS MO 63376-1528

2013 Board of Directors

Syl Biermann 636-394-5003

Bill Giese-314-849-0368

Jack Greiwe-636-300-1221

Dan Kelly-314-276-2288

Bob Layton 636-397-4487

Secretary-Cindy Ahrens

Editor Bob Layton 636-397-4487

e-mail mickie6t6@hotmail.com

Publisher-Bill & Barb Giese

Web Master-Scott Lewis

www.fordsunlimited.com

OOOO n May 4th, our club headed to Cooper County Missouri to

tour the Warm Springs Ranch, the breeding home of the Bud-weiser Clydesdales. It is in a beautiful part of Missouri - over 350 acres of rolling hills and miles of white fence. In the distance you could see some of the yearlings. We were greeted warmly by the staff and each given a rubber wrist band that we could keep. Then we drove our cars down to the barns. Warm Spring Ranch is amazing from the moment you arrive at the gate.

It is a beautiful country setting right off interstate 70,

so is was very easy to find. All the guides and ranch staff are very knowledge-able and per-sonable. The Clydesdales are all very friendly and seem to like the attention from visitors. Even the foals came to the fence line so we could pet them and take pictures. The ranch is the cleanest working ranch you will ever visit and the landscaping is beautiful. The tour took just over an hour. It is a very easy walking tour with level sur-

faces. The tour guide explained the breed-ing and transport-ing proc-esses for t h e h o r s e s . The ba-bies stay at Warm Springs for two years. They are used to being han-dled a lot and also

used to seeing lots of people

On site they have some of the semi trailers that travel with the horses. One trailer is for the equipment - just one of the harness, halter etc can be worth $100,000!

As usual there is an of-fer of Budweiser beer at the conclusion of the tour, of which we did partake. We also had additional time to take pic-tures with the horses.

Since it was going to be difficult to find a restaurant on a Saturday afternoon to ac-commodate over 60 people, we all headed to various res-taurants in Boonville or Co-lumbia for lunch.

The weather was cool but the rain stayed away, and the tour was a great way to spend a day.

Special thanks go out to Bill and Barb Giese for set-ting up our very successful tour.

Photo’s on page 2

On May 5th, members of our club participated

in the Valley of Flowers Parade in Florissant

Missouri. We must have been blessed as the

rain stopped about 10 minutes before the pa-

rade started and did not start again until the

parade was over. We were only allowed six vehi-

cles and the rain kept two away. Members

and family participating included Dan Kelly and

grandkids, Jake Turnipseed and Jo Ann, Ed and

Julie Mauzy and kids with the bubble machine,

and Donna and Bob Layton. Carrying the club

banner ahead of our vehicles were Linda and

Jeff Dickson, daughter and son-in-law of Dan.

We thank Dan Kelly for setting up this event.

(Photo’s by Dan Kelly)

OOOO ur month will start with the Show-Me Mustang Club Car Show that will

be held on June 1st. The event location has been changed to Pundmann Ford in St. Charles. We will meet at the QT located just north on First Capitol Drive from Highway 70, on the right. (exit 228). This is a judged show. We will meet at 8:30 am and be leaving by 8:45 am. On June 8th, we will at-tend the Mustang Club of St. Louis Car Show that will be held at the Museum of Transportation on Barrett Station Road. We will meet at the Sugar Creek Park at 9 am and we will be leaving at 9:15 pm. The park is located at Dougherty Ferry Road and Des Peres Road. Exit Highway 270, west to the intersection at the traffic light. Turn right to entrance. This will also be a judged show. On June 15th, we will be trying something different. How about a morning cruise? Be-tween 8:15 and 10:15 am, we will attend the Coffee and Cars Cruise that will be held at the Starbuck’s located at Manches-ter and McKnight Road. Just feast on some ex-pensive coffee and talk some car talk and you still have the rest of your day.

We will also be doing a evening cruise. On June 22nd, we will attend the Culver’s Cruise located at Richardson Road just off Highway 55. Club members Paul Arca will DJ and Don Hricko organized this event. The cruise starts at 5 pm. Come and go as you like but our best chance to park together would be to be there by 5 pm. All of these events are eligible for club points.

TTTT he Mid America Ford Nationals will be held June 12th-16th in Tulsa Oklahoma. This is a club event as we normally have

members who attend. Unfortunately, from what we have heard, is that if you don’t have hotel reservations by now, you probably won’t be able to get them.

BBBB esides being the major sponsor of our car show, Dave Sinclair Ford has offered our club an incentive plan. For each car or

truck sold by Sinclair and referred by our club, we will receive a $50 check to go towards our car show. Through our club, we can offer additional savings on the purchase of a new car at their dealership.

If you, family or friends are interested in a new Ford, please contact Ron Schodroski or any board of directors member. If you go directly to the dealership, please ask for Charlie Foster.

IIII f you are planning on attending our Marceline Tour that will be held on August 24-25, you will need to reserve you room at the Super 8

in Macon. Their phone number is 660-385-5788. Tell them that you are with Fords Unlimited. The rate is $55 if we book 5 rooms and $50 if we re-serve 10 or more. We have found that not only is there going to be a demolition derby, there will also be a car show to view that afternoon. If you have any questions, please contact Dan Kelly.

AAAA new event for our club this year was the Salute to the Troops Car Show to benefit Veterans that was held at the VFW Post 5077 in O’Fallon, Missouri. Several of our members took home trophies including Jake Turnipseed who won 3rd in stock, Duck Steavenson who

took 2nd in stock, Kenny Simms who took 2nd in Best Custom and 1st in Modified, and Scott Lewis who took the Soldiers Choice trophy with his American Spirit Mustang. The big winner was Bill Bufka who won $148 in the 50-50. Sadly, we had a control arm go out on Jack Greiwe’s Ford just as we approached the show. Jack made it to the show but his car didn’t. Our club had a great turnout with 19 cars and trucks and Jack’s car there in spirit only. Club members, Scott and Lynette Lewis chaired the show with help from Kenny and Gwen Simms and Mark and Sandy Carey. Gwen Simms and Sandy Carey

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Scott Craig Steve Dennis Ken Farrar and Sharon Duck Steavenson

Bart McNail Jake Turnipseed Bill Bauer Ed and Julie Mauzy

Steve Hendricks Syl Biermann Donna Layton Jim Biermann

Ron and Sharon Schodroski Bill Bufka John Sullivan

Dan Kelly

Kenny and Gwen Simms

Scott and Lynette Lewis

Ken Farrar

Mark and Sandy Carey

TTTT he best news for this month is that Dave Sinclair

Ford will again be the major sponsor of our July 28th car show. Club member Ron Schodroski, had worked very hard on this sponsorship and we are very thankful to Ron and Sinclair Ford for their participation in our car show. We will be ordering a limited amount of car show shirts. If you want to be assured that you will have a shirt, please contact Cindy Ahrens or any board of directors member. Our 50-50 winner for May was Sandy Carey who won half of our $48 pot. She promptly donated the $24 to our December Toy Drive. Thank you Sandy.

June 1st. Show-Me Mustang Club Car Show

June 5th Board of Director’s Meeting

@Sybergs-7pm

June 8th Mustang Club of St. Louis Car Show

June 12th Membership Meeting @ Sports Café

7pm

June 12th-16th The Mid America Ford Nationals

Held in Tulsa Oklahoma

June 15th Coffee and Cars Cruise @ Starbucks

June 22nd Car Cruise @ Culver’s located at Hwy. 55

and Richardson Road-5pm

IIII f all goes well, we may have the new antenna flags available by our

membership meeting this month. The flags will be blue with our logo in white. The cost will be fifteen dollars per flag. We have only ordered fifty flags, so it will be first come, first served. If more are needed, we will order more.

On the same note, we still have several sets of our club door magnets available. If inter-ested, please contact Bill Giese to purchase the magnets.

LLLL isted to the right are the points totals

as of our May membership meet-ing. Please note that these totals do not include car show sponsor points that will be added later and that will radically change the stand-ings.

1. Jim Biermann-220

2. Kenny Simms-165

3. Cindy Ahrens-150

Bart McNail-150

4. Ken Farrar-140

5. Mark Carey-125

Bill Bufka-125

6. Jerry Grimmer-120

7. Terry Koch-105

8. Jake Turnipseed-100

9. Rich Sutorius-90

John Sullivan-90

10. Barb Dennis-80

Gwen Simms-80

Jeff Hohl-80

Mark Lazzareshi-80

Paula Goodrich-80

Ron Schodroski-80

Our monthly membership

meetings are held on the 2nd Wednes-

day of each month except January at

Sports Cafe, 3579 Pennridge Drive,

Bridgeton, MO 63044. Their phone

numbers is (314) 298-1631. Please call Sports Cafe to

check on weather related meeting cancellations.

Our board of directors meet-

ings are held the first Wednesday of

each month at Sybergs which is lo-

cated at the NE corner of Highway

270 and Dorsett Road. Check with any

board member on weather related can-

cellations. All meetings start at 7 pm.

OPEN TO ALL FACTORY FORD POWERED,

FORD BODIED VEHICLES

(INCLUDES REPLICA’S)

INCLUDES FCA MINI-MEET

48 CLASSES

HELD RAIN OR SHINE

FOR INFORMATION CALL

JIM BIERMANN-314-608-3103

CINDY AHRENS-618-447-6754

DAY OF SHOW PHONE

314-608-3103 or 618-447-6754

1970 Thunderbird. All original, good restoreable condi-tion. Was running and driving when I set it up 7-8 years ago. Straight body, little to no rust. Lots of extra parts. $8,500 OBO. danp1279@gmail.com or 956-564-1849.

For Sale. Factory replacement fit '86--'93 5.0 Mustang MAC "Shorty " ceramic coated headers complete with high flow catalytic converters X pipe. Very effective upgrade for stock or mildly modified engine. Excellent condition. Jerry @ 314 739 7491

For Sale. 03 Marauder Aluminum Driveshaft, $150. 03 Marauder stainless Megs tailpipe tips, $40. Fox taillight housings, $25 each. Fox 86 GT steering wheel w/collar, $40. 67 NOS Mustang standard outside mirror, $40. 67 stock 289 heads, $100. Smallblock bell housing (small starter pattern), $75. Smallblock bell housing & flywheel (large starter pattern), $125. FE oil pan, $50. FE timing cover, $45. 8 inch pumpkin, 2.79 open differential, $50. Gary @ 636-575-3376.

For Sale. P235 50 ZR 18 Pirelli P ZERO NERO's Off 2010 Mustang GT Priem. 17,140 miles, Good tread wear $200 for set. Steve Hendricks @ 636-248-8204

Parts Wanted. 1970 Mustang 14x7 styled steel wheels. 1969 Mercury Marauder wheels. Gary @ 636-575-3376.

Parts Wanted. We are trying to restore a 1964 Mercury Monterey convertible 25th anniversary edition and was wondering if anyone could give us any insight as to where

to find parts for this car. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance from two Ford guys in Louisville, Kentucky. Please contact us at dmowen502@gmail.com

Parts Wanted. 1957 Ford NOS small baby hub caps, B7A-1130-C. White painted center. 1957 Ford Factory VR-57 Paxton Supercharger setup or parts. EDB-D hears, EDB intake, EDB Holly carb, air cleaner. Also 14”x5” and 14”x5 1/2” Ford SOLID faced steel rims. Any quantity ok. Jack @ 314-703-7053.

Cars & Coffee. Bring your car and gather with other like-minded people to talk cars and enjoy a morning brew. The events will be held May 18th, June 15th, July 20th, August 17th, September 21st and October 19th and held at the Starbucks located at 9616 Manchester in the Rock Hill Plaza.

Memories Car Club Cruises. April 5th, May 3rd, June 7th, July 5th, August 2nd, September 6th, October 4th. Cruises held at the Life Christian School located at 13001 Gravois Road in Sunset Hills. 1979 and older only.

St. Charles County Heritage Museum Car Shows. Shows will be held on the first Saturday of each month, April through September. The shows will be held at the museum which is located at 1630 Heritage Landing in St. Peters, MO, right near where the Page Extension inter-sects with Hwy. 94 in St. Charles. Info 636-949-7535x7634.

Culver’s Car Cruise. 2nd Saturday of each month, April

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SERVICE HOURS

Monday through Friday

7 am to 8 pm

Saturday

8 am to Noon for Parts

Always check with the sponsors of the show/cruise/swap meet

to assure that the event has not be cancelled or rescheduled.

13th-October 12th. Music by Paul Arca. Attendance prizes, 50-50 drawing. Located at 4140 Rusty Road in South County by Costco. Presented by the Stang Gang. Info 314-845-0964.

Culver’s Car Cruise. 4th Saturday of each month, April 27th-October 26th. Music by Paul Arca. Attendance prizes, 50-50 drawing. Located at 123 Richardson Crossing in Arnold Missouri. Presented by the Stang Gang. Info 636-467-9955

Murphysboro Cruise Nights. 1st Saturday, April-September. Info 618-528-1043.

JJ’s of St. Charles Car Cruises. Cruises held on April, 13th, May 11th, June 8th, July 13th, August 10th, Septem-ber 14th, and October 12th and 26th. Located at 1215 South Duchene in St. Charles. Info 636-946-3500.

June 1st. Show-Me Mustang Club’s Mustang and Ford Show will be held at Pundmann Ford in St. Charles. De-tails on page 4. Club event.

June 2nd. SLICK Car Show to be held at the Harvester Lions Club located 4835 Central School Road, just off Mid-Rivers Drive in St. Peters. Info 314-220-6055.

June 8th. Mustang Club of St. Louis all Ford car show to be held at the Museum of Transportation. Details on page 4. Club event. June 8th. NAACP car & motorcycle show. Info 314-943-9318.

June 8th. Crestwood Elks annual charity car show. Regis-ter at 1 pm, show at 4 pm. Show held at 10261 Bauer Road. Info 314-223-8082.

June 12th-16th The Mid America Ford Nationals held in Tulsa Oklahoma. Club event.

June 14th-16th. 41st annual Rods and Relics Rod Run to be held in beautiful Branson, Missouri located at the Out-back on East Highway 76. Info 417-334-7200.

June 15h. 1st annual car and bike show. Dash plaques for the 1st 100 entrees. Attendance prizes, 50-50 drawing. Benefits MDA. Location 3500 Lemay Ferry Road. Info 314-287-1367.

June 15th. “Drivin’ Out Hunger” car show sponsored by the Knights of Columbus to be held at the Festus Airport. Info 636-933-7008.

June 15th-16th. Laurie Swap Meet held at the Laurie Fair-grounds. Info 573-374-8776.

June 16th. Fathers Day festival and car show to be held at Sioux Passage Park located at 17930 Old Jamestown Road in Florissant, MO. Info 314-368-6902.

June 16th. Route 66 & St. Clair Elks Club Car Show to be held at Orchard Park in St. Clair, Missouri. Info 636-629-6314.

June 16th. Father’s Day Car Show hosted by the Horse-less Carriage Club to be held at the Museum of Transport. Show held 11am till 3:30pm. Info 314-615-8212.

June 23rd. Spirit of the Midwest Ride for Guides, Car and Motorcycle show to benefit Guide Dogs of America. Show to be held at IAM Dist.-9 Machinist Hall, 12365 St. Charles Rock Road, Bridgeton, MO. Info 651-231-3605..

June 28th-30th. The Car Craft Street Machine Nationals to be held at the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds. Info FamilyEvents.com

July 7th. The Patriots in the Park Car Show to be held in Wilson Park in Granite City, Illinois. The show features 29 classes for stock and modified by decades. Lots of shade for this judges show. Info Joe @ 618-210-8108.

July 7th. CIA Car Club Car Show to be held at the Ameri-can Legion Post 365 in Collinsville IL. Info 618-975-1372 or www.catsupbottlefestival.com

July 13th. Southern Illinois Mustang Associations Mus-tang and Ford show to be held at Roberts Ford in Alton, Illinois. Club event.

July 19th-21st. Fun Ford Weekend at Gateway. Club event.

July 20th. Car Show & BBQ supporting The BackStop-pers to be held at Oakville Middle School, 5950 Telegraph Road. Info 314-287-1367.

July 27th. Fords Unlimited’s pre-show BBQ to be held at J.S. MacDonnell Park. Details to follow. Club event. July 28th, Fords Unlimited’s 27th annual all Ford Car Show to be held at McDonnell Park. A flyer is available on our website. www.fordsunlimited.com Club event.

August 11th. 3rd Annual Show off Auto Show to be held at 12365 St. Charles Rock Road. Info 314-368-6902.

August 17th. Veterans Charity Car Show to be held at Purina Farms in Gray Summit, Missouri. Info www.v1541carshow.org or314-406-2260.

August 17th. Arnold Historical Society Summer Fund-raiser Car Show. Arnold City Park in Arnold, Missouri.

August 18th. Hooters Car & Bike Show supporting the Military to be held at the Hooters at 7517 South Lindberg. Info 314—287-1367.

August 24th-25th. Fords Unlimited’s cruise to Marceline, Missouri. Club event.

August 31st. Troy First Baptist Church Car Show to be held in Troy Missouri. Free entry and concessions. Details to follow. Club event.

September 8th. Wheels in Motion Day at Westport Plaza to benefit The National Children’s Cancer Society. Details to follow. Club Event.

September 14th. Elks Lodge #2587 Car Cruise held 9am to 4 pm located at 1163 Tom Ginnever Blvd. in O’Fallon, MO. Registration is free. A portion of the proceeds s go to the Wounded Warriors. Info 314-267-8583.

Gravois Auto Radiator is St. Louis only radiator repair and

distribution center all under one roof. We can restore your origi-nal radiator so you can keep the OEM stamping & logos. We also restore gas tanks, heater cores & a/c condensers. We have been in business for over three gen-

erations and are currently located at 4040 Gravois.

Phone 314-776-6677—gravoisautoradiator@gmail.com

Our hours of operations are Monday thru Friday 7:30 to 5:00 and Saturday 8:00 to 12:00.

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Fords Unlimited Car Show Sponsor

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