Mar - Thunderbird Circle of Orange County
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Mar - Thunderbird Circle of Orange County
BIRDS-EYE-VIEW March, 2012 CHAPTER 78 OF CLASSIC THUNDERBIRD CLUB INTERNATIONAL Volume 39, Number 3 Second Year Recipient OUR NEW WEBSITE IS UP AND RUNNING, SEE PAGE 2 FOR MORE INFO Founded August 4, 1973 WWW.THUNDERBIRDCIRCLE.COM BOB’S TWO BITS President’s message The new calendar year is speeding by! Our club has already had two board meetings and two official club functions. Can you name them? If you can, I say you are staying involved. If not, you are missing out on a lot of fun. Most recently we had a function entitled “The Amazing Race”. It was masterfully coordinated by Dave Natali and Nancy Robins. What a blast!! Although the number of members who participated was limited, smiles and laughs abounded for those who did. You can read all the details about it in the accompanying pages of this newsletter. The other recently completed function was the installation of club officers’ dinner, which was held at the Claim Jumper Restaurant in Huntington Beach. That event was highlighted in the clubs February newsletter and was another fun get together! Since we don’t want you to feel left out, at our recent Board of Directors’ meeting we have been finalizing some new club events. I want to bring to your attention our next upcoming “don’t miss” opportunity. We will be having a club dinner on March 10th at Citrus Café (Redhill and Edinger Roads) in Tustin. The dinner will begin at 5:00 p.m. Lynne Rupp has made the arrangements and we should be able to order off the restaurant’s regular (delicious) menu. Also, please feel free to drive your classic cars, as we will be providing a car guard to assure our Thunderbirds are safe and SAVE THESE sound. Now, turn the pages of this newsletter to the calendar section (page 10). Check out the fantastic events lurking on the horizon. WOW… “Fun, fun, fun and daddy isn’t going to take our Tbird away”! There is something for everyone. So, mark your calendars and set a personal goal for yourself to get involved the year. You will be happy you did!! Thanks for reading this edition or YOUR “BirdsEye-View Newsletter” and let’s make this year a fabulous one for our “Thunderbird Circle” car and social club. Bob Gaebel, President DATES Saturday, March 10th, Club Dinner, Citrus Café 1481 Tustin Ave. Irvine, Start time 5:00PM Contact Lynne Rupp at 714-572-9647or email [email protected] . For more information go to: www.citruscafe.com See page 12 Saturday, April 22nd, Fabulous Fords Forever, Knott’s Berry Farm www.fabulousfordsforever.org 80th Anniversary of the '32 Ford, 50th Anniversary of the Cobra, & 45th Anniversary of the Mercury Cougar! See page 8 & 9 Page 1 Contacts for Events for Next Month Date March 10th Lynne Rupp April 22nd Tom Peluso President: Bob Gaebel 949-586-2955 [email protected] Vice President: Chris Pond 949-273-8647 [email protected] Secretary: Lynne Rupp 714-572-9647 [email protected] Treasurer: Pete DePaola 714-637-7486 [email protected] CTCI Representative: Tom Peluso 949-888-5057 [email protected] Director at Large: Nancy Robins 949-249-2082 [email protected] Director at Large: Dave Natali 949-494-5632 [email protected] Editor: Bob DePaola 714-974-9334 [email protected] Advertising Chairman Bob DePaola 714-974-9334 [email protected] Web-Master OPEN POSITION [email protected] Tech-Tips Interim: Bob DePaola 714-974-9334 [email protected] Sunshine Chairperson: Nancy Still 949-643-8505 [email protected] Contact Event Club Dinner Fabulous Fords Forever Board Meeting The monthly board meetings are normally scheduled for the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM. The next meeting will be on March 14, 2012 at the home of Pete DePaola. If you would like to be a part of the meeting or just want to attend, please give any board member a call and we will make sure there is room for you. All members are always invited and are encouraged to attend the board meetings. Attention Birds-Eye-Viewers Attention The Birds-Eye-View is published monthly for the benefit of the members of the Thunderbird Circle of Orange County and its advertisers. All members are welcome to submit articles for publication at any time. Articles must not be copy protected, if so the copy right must accompany the article. Send all articles to the editor via e-mail to: [email protected] or to the editor’s home address via snail mail. The editor, with the approval of the president has the right to edit any article submitted for publication. Questionable language will be omitted. All articles must be received on or before the 20th of each month to be placed in the following month’s issue. All articles submitted become the property of the Thunderbird Circle of Orange County. Editorial A New Year normally means new resolutions and sometimes new changelings and even new things. This year will be nothing different than in the past. I have made my New Year’s resolutions and have already broken them. But your club has not. We told you we wanted you to see your club in a different light. So your officers have put together what we consider some very good outings and meetings for the coming year. All you have to do is go to page 10 to see what we have proposed for our outing and enjoyment. Some of the dates are still open, but we will be filling in the blanks later on and with your help we may even add a few. We always include items of interest for you, so if you choose to partake of them you can. Additionally, we have revamped our website. Our new webmaster has completely re-did its look and added a little pizazz. If you go to the website and click on the “Recent Tours” you will be taken to a new page that has a list at the top of our past tours and outing. The most current or the last one will be in the middle of the page. Make sure your speakers are on and the volume is turned up, then click on it, sit back and enjoy the show. So just go to www.thunderbirdcircle.com March, 2012/ page 2 Griffin iffin Financial, inancial LLC F I N A N C I A L S E R V I C E • Is The Beneficiary of Your IRA the IRS? • Do You Have A Strategy to Protect Your Principal During Times of Market Volatility? • Are You Happy With The Level Of Service Your Current Investment Representative Or Bank Provides You? My name is Betty E. 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Hopefully we shall soon see her driving around tooting her horn in her T-Bird with a big smile on her face. Our condolences go to Juanita Bigelow, on the loss of her mother. Please keep the Bigelow’s in your thoughts and prays To all members: Please keep me advised of any Sunshine information. Nancy Still: Sunshine Chairman Phone: 949-643-8505 Email: [email protected] 3rd 8th 11th 10th 13th 16th 24th George Haslinger Ecke Fitzer Billy Hall Mike Bigelow Lee Jones Pat DeLeone JoAn Barnett If we missed your birthday, please let the editor know Please take a moment and if possible, we would like to ask you to please wish a Happy Anniversary to the following couples who are celebrating another wonderful year together. 3rd Alan & Patty White If we missed your anniversary, please let the editor know March, 2012/ page 3 by Chris Pond In the January newsletter I gave a little introduction about how I came to own my project ’57 Tbird but the story has just begun… Our Tbird found itself making its first trip to the West Coast in August, just about the time that I finished my MBA from Pepperdine. I was wondering what I would do with all the free time now that my nights and weekends were not going to be spent in class or group meetings. Before I could get bored the Tbird arrived at my doorstep thanks to an enclosed car hauler. In fact, our ’57 got to make the trip out West with a 1930’s Mercedes that Jay Leno had just purchased. We thought it was fine company indeed for the old “Personal Car”. It wasn’t too long before I started to dive in and see what I was faced with to get our Bird back on the road. For two reasons I started the restoration work with repairing the floors. The first reason was because it would afford me some good practice using the welder on areas that wouldn’t be seen. The other reason was because I wanted to make sure the body was properly secured to the frame before I got it running and driving because I knew I would want to drive it (of course). I think the car was parked on an incline because the passenger side rocker panel and floors were as holey as Swiss cheese but the driver side was mostly solid. It appears the floor braces started to trap water and rusted the inner rocker panel, floor braces, and floor boards directly above the braces. The good news was the rust was only on the flat portions of the floor so I could avoid a full floor pan patch and make my own out of some 18 gauge sheet metal. It was quite a sight to have a work light under the car and not be able to see the light shine through the floor. I guess I like to find pleasure in the small things! Once the floors were all in place I moved on to cutting out the old floor braces and welding in some new ones I purchased from Larry’s Thunderbird. They were a single piece design but needed a little attention with the hammer and dolly before installation. With the inner rocker out of the car the floor braces slid into place with relative ease. I drilled some ¼” holes so I could rosette weld the braces to the now repaired floor pans. It was quite a treat to get in the car with the new braces installed and the body bolted to the frame. The floor didn’t budge when I sat and stood on it so I guess I did a pretty good job! Again, pleasure in small things I suppose. Keep up with the latest progress at: http://riseofthethunderbird.wordpress.com March, 2012, page 4 (aka Mystery Tour) Some members were quicker than others to figure out the answer (The Atlantic Charter) and when they answered it correctly, they got their next clue. by David Natali It was a cool and crisp Saturday morning when the members descended upon Carl’s Jr. in Tustin to begin the Amazing Race. What a sight to see the little birds in the parking lot awaiting the start of the race. At 9:15 the racers opened their first clue and were “off and running” to the Great Park in Irvine. There they encountered Nancy Robins and their first detour, needing to answer the question, “what happened on August 14, 1941?” The Great Park has a walkway which has an historical timeline noting many important milestones in our history. Their next destination was Fashion Island in Newport Beach with the assignment to find the wind chime mural, created in 1967. Now the techies in the race quickly goggled the artwork to discover it was near Robinsons Department Store. One problem, Robinsons left Fashion Island years ago, so unless they remembered where it one was, they were left to their own hunting skills to find the mural. With Stephanie Williamson and Glenn Still dispensing the clues, the racers managed to find them. Once they found it, their next clue had them taking the Balboa Ferry from Balboa Island to Balboa Peninsula. see Amazing Race, continued on page 6 March, 2012/ page 5 would find our club President Bob Gaebel with a detour and clue. continued from page 5 Now if you have to ask what is with the red tape between the cars is for, it is obvious you were not there. Just suffice to say, DON’T ASK. Now that they were on Balboa Peninsula, they had to find Mr. Balboa’s Barbershop. Mr. Balboa is the late Wayne Moses, one of our long standing members in the club. Many of the members used to get their haircut there and the barbershop is still run by Wayne’s wife Linda and her companion Tony. Our club Secretary Lynne Rupp was there to work the clue box. With no time for a shave and a haircut, the racers were now headed to Laguna Hills Mall to find their next clue. Somewhere in the mall they The detour had them finding Ruby’s Diner and determining the number of airplanes hanging from the track in the ceiling. Once they had that answer (8 airplanes), it was on to Fuddruckers and the finish line. The order of finish was Jon Tabasim and his son Jordan, Chris and Katie Pond, and Denny and Katie Pike (all in the non-early bird category), then followed by Ed and Irene Zaleski, Tom and Joyce Peluso, and Ron Barnett. After a great lunch at Fuddruckers, the gas card prizes were given to John Tabasim and the Zaleski’s. see Amazing Race, continued on page 12 March, 2012/ page 6 FOR SALE Memphis, Tennessee August 21-25, 2012 Cook Convention Center On behalf of the Memphis Classic Thunderbird Club, I’d like to extend an invitation to the 2012 CTCI International Convention in Memphis, TN. The event will be held at the Cook Convention Center in Downtown Memphis, August 21st – 25th, 2012. The Concourse will be indoors at the Convention Center, and Beale Street, the Mississippi River, Sun Studio, Graceland, and World Famous BBQ are all on the agenda! Because response has already been so strong, we now have multiple hotels available. More information is also available at: http://memphisthunderbirds.com/2012convention/reservationsandregistration.html Rick Miller 2012 CTCI Convention Chairman 901-861-2387 2005 Thunderbird Must sell due to relocation 50th Year Anniversary edition California car Red with red hard top Black leather interior in excellent condition Well maintained only 20,086 miles Extended warranty until 12/2012 Removable hard top with storage stand Includes bra Asking $27,500 OBO Joe & Criss Rodriguez 760-977-7922 March, 2012/ page 7 27th ANNUAL FABULOUS FORDS FOREVER! THE MOST GIGANTIC CAR SHOW EVER FORD MOTOR COMPANY FORD CAR CLUBS –WESTERN REGION EXTENDS AN INVITATION TO FABULOUS FORDS FOREVER An exhibition of Fantastic Fords from 1903 to 2012 52 classes 2,000 ENTRIES EXPECTED SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 2012 Knott’s Berry Farm, Buena Park, California www.fabulousfordsforever.org March, 2012, page 8 March, 2012, page 9 2012 CLUB EVENTS AND OTHER FUNCTIONS OF INTEREST Date Event Club Event Contact January 20 Installation Dinner, Claim Jumper, 18050 Brookhurst St. Fountain Valley http://www.claimjumper.com/ Yes Ron Barnett February 4 Amazing Race/Mystery Tour Yes Dave Natali February 11 Dr. George Car Show, Palm Springs www.palmspringscruisinassociation.com/ DrGeorgeCarShow.htm Yes Mike Bigelow February 18 Yanks Air Museum, Chino, www.yanksair.com Yes See Flyer March 10 Club Dinner, Citrus Café 5:00PM www.citruscafe.com Yes Lynn Rupp April 22 Fabulous Fords Forever, Knott’s Berry Farm www.fabulousfordsforever.org Yes Tom Peluso May 5-6 Palm Springs Tramway http://www.pstramway.com/ Yes Tom Peluso May 12 Free “All Ford Year’s Swap Meet”, 3855 E. La Palma, Anaheim. 7:00 AM to 2:00 PM. www.socalefv8.org No Pete DePaola Tom Peluso June 2 Hollywood Forever Cemetery Tour http://cemeterytour.com/ Yes Tom Peluso June 2 Huntington Beach Concourse http://hbconcours.org/ No July 4 …..Day Anaheim Hills Parade Yes Pete DePaola or http://occommunitynetwork.com/blog/2011/06/08/anaheimhills-fourth-of-july-celebration-activities-on-july-4/ July 4 ….Day Lake Forest 4th Parade Yes Bob Gaebel http://www.lakeforestca.gov/4thjuly/default.asp July 4 ….Evening July 4 Bar B Que Yes Bob Gaebel August 15 Del Mar Horse Races, Del Mar http://www.dmtc.com/racinginfo/ Yes Ron Barnett September TBD Nethercutt Museum, 15151 Bledsoe Street Sylmar, CA 91342 http://www.nethercuttcollection.org/ Yes Chris Pond October 7 All Ford Picnic and Car Show, Anaheim, CA www.socalefv8.org Yes Pete DePaola October TBD Oktoberfest Yes Dan and Chris Jurenka November TBD Dinner and Election Yes Chris Pond November TBD Yes Chris Pond Peterson Auto Museum www. http://petersen.org/ December TBD Christmas Dinner Yes Bob Gaebel December 8 Yes Tom Peluso Laguna Niguel Christmas Parade www.lagunaniguelparade.com March, 2012, page 10 EASY-LIFTER TOP REMOVER Be Cool with the Easy-Lifter Top Removal System Attach it, Lift it, and Store it, in minutes For all 55-57 Thunderbirds and 56-60 Corvettes Patent #7,568,678 The 6 pound Easy-Lifter safely locks into the car’s original locking pins built into the top. When the Easy-Lifter is mounted, the top is completely balanced and extremely easy to maneuver. Instead of your garage floor, your hardtop is safely stored high and out of the way. It’s a breeze from covered to convertible, now you can truly enjoy your car’s versatility. The Easy-Lifter comes complete with: ●Electric Hoist with Remote Control ● Easy-Lifter lifting Bracket ●Top Lifting Tool ● Step by step illustrated instructions show you everything you need to remove your top in 5-10 minutes. Everything Listed above $399.95 Complete FREE SHIPPING! (In the continental U.S.) L.R. Hammond Company To Order: Call (951) 684-1361 or Order Online Come view our video online to see just how easy this is to use. Visit us at www.EasyLifter.net Try the Easy-Lifter for 6 months, if you are not happy with it, we will buy it back! March, 2012, page 11 continued from page 6 Once we had the formalities out of the way, who came in first, second etc., etc., we than had a great lunch at Fuddruckers. As you can see in the following pictures, we all had a great time discussing the trials and tribulations of the day’s race. Our club will be doing what we do best; we are going to have another wonderful dinner party. This one was planned by our very own Lynne Rupp. She has selected a fantastic location. This dinner is at the Citrus Café, 1481 Tustin Ave. Irvine. Citrus Café is a bustling neighbourhood restaurant in the commercial district of Tustin at the corner of Redhill and Edinger. Our planned start time is 5:00PM We will have a room to ourselves and will be able to order off the menu. The Citrus Cafe has great choices of appetizers, burgers, sandwiches, pizza, salads, pasta and entrées. Wine and beer is also available for purchase. A car guard will be provided, so bring your Thunderbirds. There is plenty of parking. R.S.V.P. by Wednesday, March 8th to Lynne Rupp. For more information go to their website at: www.citruscafe.com. For more information contact Lynne at 714-572-9647 or email her at [email protected]. Now is the time of year we all need to get ready for that spring clean and what better way than to start by gathering up all those old parts you don’t need any longer and box them up. Rather than giving them away, how about you bring them to the next FORD swap meet. Yes you heard me correctly; we will be participating in the great ALL FORD parts swap meet. May 12th, 7:00AM to 2:00PM 3855 E. La Palma Ave, Anaheim So until next time race fans! Enjoy your Thunderbirds and we will see you at the next Great Race or Mystery Tour or whatever. Free to all buyers, spectators, lookie-loos or just plain loafers. Sellers: Free to V8 Club members, non-members only $5.00 per 8’ X 12’ space, (parking space). If you wish to reserve a space to sell please call Joe Lipuma at 714-961-8468. No household items allowed. This is for car and related stuff!! Coffee & donuts will be on sale. Editor’s note: I will be there and I got both Tbird and V8 Stuff. March, 2012/ page 12 THUNDERBIRD CIRCLE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD MEETING February 8, 2012 Meeting was called to order by outgoing president Bob Gaebel at 7:00 pm. Board members attending were Bob Gaebel, Bob Gaebel, Chris Pond, Pete DePaola, Lynne Rupp, Bob DePaola, Tom Peluso, Dave Natali and Nancy Robins. Guest present Ron Barnett. President's Report: Bob Gaebel discussed club activities for the 2012 year. Vice President Report: Chris Pond needs board members CTCI numbers. Please send the information to Chris if not already sent Swap Meet. There is a $5.00 charge if you wish to sell your wares. May also brings a trip to Palm Springs and June the Hollywood Forever Cemetery tour for all the ghouls. Ron Barnett is working on a trip to the Del Mar Race Track for August. For July Bob and Chris are looking at parades for the 4th of July. Also, a BBQ was talked about for after the parade, looking for a location. Pageant of the Thunderbirds was also recommended as a nice TBOC activity. Next board meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 14th, 7pm at Pete DePaola's home. Address is 4343 Addington Drive, Anaheim 92807. Telephone number is (714) 637-7486. Meeting adjourned at 8:50PM by Bob Gaebel. Respectfully submitted, Lynne Rupp, Secretary Treasurer's Report: Pete DePaola is working on getting the bank signature cards updated. Secretary's Report: Lynne Rupp; Since the minutes were printed in the Bird's Eye View and the board members reported they had read the minutes and there were no changes or corrections, they approved as printed. Sunshine Report: Nancy Still was not at the board meeting, no report. Newsletter Editor Report: Bob DePaola requested members to send articles, stories, pictures, etc... Anything of interest for club members is appreciated. All articles need to be submitted by the 20th of the month. Avertising Report: Bob DePaola reported that he has received renewal from some of the advertisers, one advertiser did not renew. Old Business: Bob DePaola gave the board members a sneak preview of the website. There was some discussion on some various changes, but for the most part the web site looked pretty good. Bob will get back to the web master regarding changes. Everyone who attended the Amazing Race on February 4th had a terrific time. A great big thank you to Dave and Nancy for all the hard work required for the event. New Business: Activities were discussed. The March dinner meeting will be held at the Citrus Cafe in Tustin. Directions and information is printed in this newsletter. For April the Fabulous Ford show, May 12th is the Early V-8 Power Ford & Lincoln, in the Tustin Auto Center has set aside a day for the Ford family. On Saturday, March 10th from 10:00AM – 2:00PM, Power Ford, which is located at 2 Auto Center Drive, Tustin, 714-832-3300, will cordon off their front display lot just for us. Yes we will be allowed to show off our classic Ford cars for all the world to see and if that is not enough for you to bring out you Thunderbird, They will be offering lunch too. So dust off that Ford of yours and bring it out. This is a good time for us to show off our cars and maybe even get some interest in our club at the same time. Oh your Thunderbird is not ready to be seen yet, well that’s OK. Do you have a classic Mustang? Or maybe that Retro Thunderbird you have been hiding. Well that’s OK too, bring it out. We want you to participate also. Come one come all. This will be a day to tell all about our club and how great we are. For more Information just call Tom Peluso. See you there. March, 2012/page 13 Stamp Birds-Eye-View Bob DePaola 5933 E. 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