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May / June, 2015
Mustang Tales
Newsletter of the Reno Mustang Car Club
RMCC Event Reminder
(Next Three Months)
In This Issue
RMCC Events
1
President Message
2
Mustang Cop Car
3
Restomods Flyer
5
Members for Life
6
April Coffee Clutch
7
High Five Tour 2015 8
Collector Car Theft
9
May Coffee Clutch 10
RMCC Officers
11
Advertising
12
Classified Ads
15
Membership Ap
Last
June 2
Tuesday
June Board meeting. Details to follow.
nd
6:00, LP Insurance, 300 East 2 Street Suite 1300
June 5-7
Fri-Sun
Restomods in Reno car show
Peppermill Hotel/Casino, Reno.
June 21
Sunday
Wounded Warrior Family Support High Five Tour
car show. 11:00 PM - Summit Racing, 960 East Glendale,
Sparks.
June 22
Monday
Wounded Warrior event at the A&W restaurant, Plumb and
Virginia Streets, Reno beginning at 5:00 PM.
July 4
Saturday
“Truckee Moments” parade in Truckee, California. BBQ
at the Saturday home of Al and Sue Salas.
July 9
Thursday
July Board meeting.
nd
6:00, LP Insurance, 300 East 2 Street Suite 1300
July 14
Tuesday
RMCC General Meeting
6;30 pm, 1186 Telegraph St., Reno.
Aug 4-9
Tue-Sun
Hot August Nights
Reno’s Annual celebration of classic cars.
Aug 5
Mustangs on the Green
Wednesday 5:00, A&W Restaurant Kietzke & Plumb, Reno
Aug 6
Thursday
Hot August Nights Cruise Control Parking Support
Downtown Reno
Aug 10
Monday
.
Aug 11
Tuesday
August Board Meeting
nd
6:00, LP Insurance, 300 East 2 Street Suite 1300
RMCC General Meeting
6;30 pm, 1186 Telegraph St., Reno.
Mustang Tales is the newsletter of the Reno
Mustang Car Club and is published bimonthly in
Reno, Nevada by its Editor, Sid Gesh:
[email protected] 775-852-2126
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President’s Message
Joe Wyatt, RMCC President
at http://www.restomodsinreno.com and click
***OPEN*** and follow the instructions. If
you’re like Ed and don’t have a computer, RDW
has paper applications on hand or give me a call
and I’ll help you out. You can also register at the
show. PAINLESS!!!! Ready - set - GO! So
what happens after you register (or even before
you register)? You contact Bonnie Moffett and
ask what you can do to assist with the show. I
can’t wait to see and work with ALL of you at
Restomods 2015.
As you read this, we are just a few days away
from Restomods in Reno at the Peppermill. We
are again looking forward to another great show
with our fellow RMCC members and our out of
town friends. I’d like to thank everyone who has
worked so hard to produce this show, especially
our show chairman Chris Waddle and everyone
on the show committee. The Peppermill is a
fantastic venue and we’ll have a wonderful time!
On another note, wow, the car show season is
really upon us. As I write this, we’ve got Hot
August Nights Spring Fever and the Cops and
Burgers show coming up the weekend before
Restomods in Reno. I hope you had a chance to
enjoy one or both of these great shows. Keep
those collector cars shined up - there will be
plenty to do in the coming months and we’ll see
you out there!
What????? You haven't registered yet? So what's
the hold up? Let's do this!!! Go online to register
renomustangcarclub
www.renomustangcarclub.com
Stay informed of Club news and activities on the Internet
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What Do Ya Mean It’s a Cop Car?
Contributed by: Brent Hume
The hardest part of writing about yourself is getting started. So I’ll just start without too much in the
way of preliminaries.
Carol and I moved here from Kailua, Hawaii, where I retired from the Honolulu Police Department in
2008. The most interesting part of my career to car enthusiasts like our Club is how HPD officers
patrolled. After we got a little seniority, we had the option of purchasing our own vehicles from a list
approved by the department. (Sorry, no Corvettes or other super performance cars or trucks). During
my career, I drove an ’86 Monte Carlo SS (the only GM), an ’88 Ford T-Bird, a ’90 T-Bird SC, two
different ’93 Taurus SHOs, a ’98 Mustang Cobra, and a 2000 Crown Vic police package sedan.
My favorite of them all was the ’98 Cobra. It wasn’t subtle. Laser red with a tan interior. Strap a blue
light on the roof and it attracted attention. I found it interesting that with all the other cars, I had the
occasional violator who would try to evade. Especially with the Tauruses. But nobody ever tried to run
from the Cobra, even at night.
Since it was my personal vehicle, we used it for our regular household transportation. (The blue light
was removable). Carol was parking at the local Costco one day when she was approached by a
gentleman with the same recruiting style as our own Bonnie Moffet. He had chased her down and
wanted us to join the Aloha Mustang and Shelby Club of Hawaii. We eventually did, and I eventually
served as vice president and president of the club before we moved to the Reno area.
The Aloha Mustang and Shelby Club of Hawaii had approximately 120 members and maybe 80 cars.
Ownership was not required and less people in Hawaii own multiple cars. The majority of our Mustangs
were daily drivers. We were sponsored by a Ford dealer who took good care of us and provided the
venue for many of our events. We held parties for the unveiling of the Ford GT (GT-40) and other
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significant models. The dealership owner was a racer from the 60s, and was personal friends with racers
from that era such as Saleen, Shelby, Gurney, and Parnelli Jones. Saleen and Shelby made personal
appearances at our annual car show. Our biggest challenge was the location for our monthly meetings.
Be sure and thank Ron and Diana for their hospitality each month.
When we decided to move here after retirement, I had already retired my Cobra from police service, and
traded it for the Saleen I have now. I intended to pick up a Fox body after we moved, but when a low
mileage ’89 GT convertible became available, I couldn’t resist. So when we made the move, we
shipped Carol’s car over, then later shipped the two Mustangs. We picked up the Mustangs at LAX then
drove them here. It was a great road trip for a family who had been stuck on a rock for 26 years.
For general info, we live in Fernley where I drive a truck part time and Carol is lifeguarding and
teaching water fitness at the Fernley pool. When we picked out our house, the 4 car garage was a prime
motivator in the selection. That’s something you rarely see in Hawaii. We attend as many Mustang
club functions as possible.
Isn’t it fitting that this picture
of a former cop would include a
donut . . .
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Members for Life
An interview with Dave Thompson and Shirley Thompson
Among our longest standing members of the RMCC are Dave Thompson and Shirley Hopkins. Dave and Shirley
joined the Club in 1990 after moving to the Reno area from Virginia. To say that this couple of 38 years are car
enthusiasts is an understatement. Shirley, a pharmacist at Walgreens, was drawn to cars through Dave, a
professional car mechanic. Dave worked many years as a dealership mechanic, then moved into performance
mechanics with the Yuill Brothers. After the brothers closed their business, Dave ran his own shop full time until
he retired four years ago.
In 1995 Shirley purchased a 1967 Mustang coupe
from a club member to use as a daily driver. The car
was equipped with a 351 Windsor engine, fivespeed transmission, and had been set up for racing
with a fuel cell, roll bar, and racing tires. Dave toned
the car down and made it suitable for Shirley to use
as a daily driver. The Mustang can still be found on
their property - but is now awaiting new paint, power
steering, and an engine rebuild.
In addition to their Mustang, Dave has owned a 427
Cobra for thirty years. The 427 side-oiler engine in
the ERA kit car is a NASCAR engine capable of
pumping out 520 hp. Dave began collecting parts
for his dream car before he and Shirley met. They
worked on it together and finished it just before the
move to Nevada. Two favorite memories were when
the Cobra won the Nevada Bell award at Hot August
Nights in 1998, and when Carroll Shelby signed the
car at a SAAC convention at the Sonoma racetrack
in 2000.
Two years ago Shirley went shopping for a new car. After a lot of looking around, she spotted a 2013 Mustang
Boss 302 at Jones West Ford. After sitting in the car and drooling over it, Shirley convinced the dealership to let
her take the Boss out for a test drive (test drives had not been allowed prior to this). Shirley was impressed with
the car’s power, handling, and smooth ride. That’s all it took. The red Boss with black interior and six-speed
tranny has now replaced the ’67 Mustang as Shirley’s daily driver.
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Dave and Shirley have always been very active in the RMCC. Dave has served as Club President, Vice President,
Chief Judge, and Sergeant at Arms. Shirley has served as Activities Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, VicePresident, Publicity Chairman, and has been Chief Judge since 2012. As Shirley puts it, the RMCC has become
family to them. They like getting together with other car enthusiasts, meeting new people, making new friends, and
participating in Club activities.
Dave and Shirley have interests other than their Mustangs. Both are avid fans of NASCAR. They have attended
many NASCAR races including Daytona, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Martinsville, and Sonoma. They not only have
attended the races, but they have visited the pits, and toured NASCAR team shops. Dave relaxes building 700
scale model WW2 warships. Shirley enjoys cooking and gardening.
April Coffee Clutch
Club Members met at Rounds Bakery Saturday, April 25 to pickup the monthly coffee clutches. In spite of inclement weather,
29 members came out to partake of hot beverages, pastries, and conversation.
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Collector Car Theft
Contributed by: Darold Roy and Sid Gesh
One of the goals of our newsletter is to provide information about Ford collector cars. This article was written to
inform our members how to protect their collector from car theft. The article relates not only to car theft, but also
how thieves can gain entry to your home through your garage. Many household garages are equipped with electric,
roll-up doors. Some enterprising thieves have developed a way to break into a residential home with this type of
garage door in six minutes or less. This is how they do it:
The thief inserts a wooden wedge between the
garage header and the upper door panel. This
provides a ¼ to ½ gap between the top of the
garage door and the house.
Using a straightened metal clothes hanger the thief
makes a rod with a curved end. The rod is then
pushed through the gap at the top of the garage
door just created with the wedge.
Using the hanger-rod, the thief hooks handle of pull
rope attached to the emergency pull lever and pulls
to disengage the door arm from the rail. This
process is only made easier when breaking in to
garages with transparent upper door panels in that
the thief can see what he is doing.
There are a couple of simple ways to thwart thieves from
opening your garage door using this method. The first is
to just remove the handle from the rope attached to the
emergency release lever, and leave only the rope
hanging from the release lever. To further protect the
garage door opener, you may be able to secure it using a
cable tie. On some garage door openers, you can use a
plastic cable tie to tie the emergency release lever to the
carriage assembly. The emergency release lever always
has a hole in it (to attach the release cord) and some
carriage assemblies have holes where you can run the
cable tie. If yours doesn’t, you can drill a hole in the
carriage assembly yourself. The idea is that you just
need to make it virtually impossible for a flimsy coat
hanger to be able to pull the emergency release lever
down while, at the same time, allowing you to cut or
remove your simple lock from inside the garage. While
this will prevent the theft technique described above, the
safety pull handle can still be yanked hard to break the
zip ties in an emergency. I found an excellent video on
the Internet that describes both the break-in procedure
and how to prevent it at:
www.corporatetravelsafety.com/safety-tips/category/homesecurity/tip/how-thieves-break-into-homes-by-the-garage-door
Need tires and/or wheels for your
ride? Check out the new classified ad
on page 15.
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Rain or Shine
Twenty seven members and guests braved the rain and came out for the May coffee clutch at Dough
Boys donuts on Saturday, May 23. In spite of a relentless rain and miserable conditions, the group
huddled around umbrella-clad tables and hiding under the building eaves to enjoy their beverages and
pastries and converse with each other. The group picture below is a testimonial to the Club’s
commitment to this monthly event – no matter what the weather.
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2015 RMCC OFFICERS
( * Indicates elected positions )
POSITION
NAME
CONTACT INFORMATION
*
President
Joe Wyatt
775-851-1932, [email protected]
*
Vice President
John Shields
775-772-0555, [email protected]
*
Secretary
Barbara Stapleton
775-745-6974, [email protected]
*
Treasurer
Fran Wyatt
775-851-1932, [email protected]
*
Sergeant at Arms
Raul Caceres
410-507-2038, [email protected]
Past President
Ron Wheeler
775 -323-1362, [email protected]
Membership
Bonnie Moffett
775-424-3546,
[email protected]
Newsletter
Sid Gesh
775-852-0437, [email protected]
Apparel
Judi Gesh
775-852-2126, [email protected]
Activities
Terry Mulcahy
775-843-8269, [email protected]
Webmaster
David Ramsey
775-852-0847, [email protected]
Publicity Chairman
Cindy Lavan
775- 356-0123, [email protected]
Historian
Gary Wittmuss
775-338-5118, [email protected]
Car Show Committee
Chris Waddle
775-772-7880, [email protected]
Sunshine Chairman
Maya Roy
775-852-0693, [email protected]
Charter Members
Ron & Dianna Wheeler
775 -323-1362, [email protected]
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Shop at the RMCC Store
Located in the offices of RDW Automotive
1186 Telegraph St., Reno, NV
Coffee Mugs
Beer Mugs
Wine Glasses
Folding Chairs
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CLASSIFIED ADS
For Sale
Wheels and Tires. Four wheels and tires from a 1989 Mustang GT. Good shape. Includes tires, Michelin
XGT V4, P225/60R15 95V M&S. Includes center caps. Fits most 4 lug Fords from that era. $200.
Contact: Brent Hume, [email protected], (775) 622-5998.