MEMBER OF THE MONTH: BECKY FIELD

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1 September 2014 MEMBER OF THE MONTH: BECKY FIELD 2014 OFFICERS PRESIDENT JOANN MARTORANO VICE PRESIDENT Chris Valentino SECRETARY Alyce Ancell TREASURER Ethel Marques SGT. AT ARMS Gerald Young Pending

2 COPPERSTATE INFORMATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dan Martorano Tom Martin Becky Field Greg Nelson Drew Peterson Phyllis Petrone BOARD ALTERNATES None CHIEF JUDGE Chris Valentino WELCOMING COMMITTEE Becky Field AZ AUTOMOBILE HOBBYIST COUNCIL Tom Martin NEWSLETTER EDITOR Chris Valentino CLASSIFIED and EVENTS Open Position WEBMASTER Greg Nelson MCA REPRESENTATIVE Tim Francis CLUB MERCHANDISE Becky Field PARADE COORDINATOR Fabian Pugliese CLUB PHOTOGRAPHER Greg Nelson CLUB WEBSITE The Mustang Mirror is a monthly publication of the Copperstate Mustang Club, Inc. Submission deadline is the 2nd Wednesday of every month and can be sent to the club PO Box 50309, Phoenix AZ Be sure to contact an officer or board member for the many benefits of belonging to The Copperstate Mustang Club!

3 MEETING MINUTES Board Meeting - 08/07/2014 Greg Okalita spoke to the board regarding Ride 430 A 430 mile ride around the state of Arizona to benefit veterans in need. President JoAnn Martorano called the meeting to order All officers and board members were present with the exception of Alyce Ancell who was excused. Treasurer Ethel marques gave the treasurer s report. Chris Valentino checked with Chase Bank regarding having our October meeting in their parking lot and it was oked for us to meet there on October 12 th at the Chase Bank located at 44 th Street and Camelback. JoAnn will be taking the memorial plaque to have the names of some of our deceased members added to the plaque. Lunar Golf at Superstition Springs Mall September 13 th at 4 pm. $10 per person. Route 55 Car Show September 5 th through 7 thsaleen Show September 20th and Queen Mary Show September 21 st Mustangs by the Bay in San Diego October 5 th, Copperstate Great Pumpkin Car Show October 25 th at Holiday Inn located at US 60 and Country Club in Mesa. Deadline for articles for the newsletter due on September 20 th. Meeting adjourned. General Meeting - 08/10/2014 President JoAnn Martorano called the meeting to order at 1:05 pm. All officers and board members were present with the exception of Alyce Ansell, Phyllis Petrone and Gerald Young who were excused. A guest named Ike introduced and spoke of his three Mustangs. Treasurer Ethel Marques gave a treasurer s report. Tom Martin reported for AAHC that the Toll Road issue will come back after the election. Member of the Month for July was presented to Gary Ellsworth. Member of the month for August Dory McAlister Buch was not available and the award was collected by her mother Becky Field. JoAnn has several issues of the color newsletter printed by Greg Nelson to give a better view of the pictures taken at Tonto Natural Bridge and That Brewery. Gary Ellsworth was at car show in Newport, Oregon. There were about 90 cars but no Mustangs. Lunar Golf at Superstions Springs Mall on September 13 th at 4pm $10 per person. JoAnn spoke about Ride 430 in honor of our wounded heroes. Go to to donate in support of our contact at Berge Ford Greg Okalita. Smokey Bear was 70 yesterday. October 12 th general meeting will be held in the parking lot of Chase bank located at 44 th street and Camelback in celebration of Copperstate Mustang Club s 35 th anniversary. Copperstate Mustang Club Great Pumpkin Car Show is October 25 th see application in this newsletter. Annual Pizza Party is November 8 th at La Famiglia located on Dobson and Guadalupe in Mesa. Park at 6:30 Pizza at 7pm. Irene Gramza talked about a Mustang Club in Virginia that her son joined. Dan would like to have 100 items to put in goody bags. He has coupons for Harbor Freight where you can go in and get one free item every day. Please help. 50/50 drawing was won by JoAnn Martorano Phyllis Petrone volunteered to bring refreshments in September. JoAnn will check to see if she is still able to do this. Meeting adjourned at 2:05 pm.

4 Mustang Club Outing MUSTANGERS GET CLUBBED CMC members will be swinging clubs at that little white ball when we get together to play miniature golf on Saturday, September 13 th at Superstition Mall in Mesa. Golf will be inside the air conditioned Mall beginning at 4:00 PM for unlimited play. Lunar Golf charges $10 per person ($8 per senior citizen) and refreshments will be served. Superstition Mall is located on US 60 at Power Road in Mesa. Enter the Mall at it s north end next to Sears on the lower level. This will be a fun, non driving event for all ages and necessary equipment will be provided. Come out and enjoy the company of fellow CMC members. More info? Call Bob Ancell (480)

5 Pizza Party - November 8th, 2014 PIZZA PARTY AT LA FAMIGLIA Saturday November 8 at 6:00 PM 1859 W Guadalupe Suite 101 ( S E Corner Dobson/ Guadalupe Mesa) (480) Park Mustangs for display at 6pm, Pizza served at 6:30pm Pizza & Soda FREE for Club Members so WEAR your Badges La Famiglia is an Italian Family Owned & Run Restaurant with wonderful pizza. We will set it up buffet style indoors this year in a large private room. There is also access to an outdoor patio but that is not exclusive for us. We will arrange reserved parking for our Mustangs around the room (there are big windows all around) & need some volunteers to help with parking. For more info contact Chevie Neeper (602)

6 Cruisin Woodward 2014 As some of you may or may not know, for the past four years now, my dad and I have flown up to Detroit the third weekend in August to attend the Woodward Dream Cruise. It is much like the cruise on central a lot larger. About 40,000 cars can be seen in one day driving up and down Woodward Ave and some are parked on the side. This year was the 20th Anniversary of the show and the weather could not have been more perfect. It was partly sunny most of the days with highs in the low to mid 80 s and lows in 60 s. The number of people who walked around has not been released yet but over a million attended last year. Any year, make and model could be seen from new and classic Corvettes, Mustang, Camaros, Challengers, Packards, Vipers, Fiats, customs, hot rods, and more (including the new Challenger Hellcat). Like last year when there were several 2014 Corvettes running around before they were available for the public, there were about Mustangs that were being driven around. They were test vehicles as they had a test decal on the windshield. On Saturday the city of Ferndale held there annual Mustang Alley Car show where there were over 100 Mustangs on display. They had Mustangs on display including from what I could gather a Pre Production 2015 Anniversary Model as the dash plate was stamped PP07 / I hope one day some more members of the club could attend this event as a bucket list item. Enjoy some of the pics I took.

7 Cruisin Woodward 2014

8 Greg Okolita s Ride430 Event For the past six years, the Free Wheel Foundation s RIDE430 team has ridden 430 miles in 4 days to raise donations for our wounded heroes. Many of these veterans have come home to only face new challenges. In six years the RIDE430 team has raised over $2,000,000 for our injured heroes. Today I would like to kindly ask for your support by sharing our RIDE430 mission with your associates. This year we have partnered with Jared Allen s HOMES FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS Foundation. The Free Wheel Foundation has allocated $100,000 to assist them as they build Army Ranger 1st Class Cory Remsburg a new home here in Gilbert, Arizona. In addition, our donations also help support the several other charities. The KNIGHTS of HEROES charity empowers children who have lost a parent during military service by providing positive adult mentorship, character development, and lasting friendships forged during an annual wilderness adventure camp. The MARSOC Foundation provides support to active duty and medically retired MARSOC personnel and their families, as well as to the families of Marines who have lost their lives in service to our nation. The foundation handles needs unmet by the government with an emphasis on building personal and family resilience and supporting the full reintegration of MARSOC Marines and Sailors following wounds, injuries and extended deployments. For more information about how you can help, please click on to my fundraising page Greg430 Thank you so much for your support, Gregory Okolita RIDE430 TEAMMATE

9 Greg Okolita s Ride430 Event

10 Fall Car Show Help ATTENTION!! Copperstate s Fall Car Show is NEXT MONTH!!! In order for the show to be a success we need your help. There are several different areas that you can assist in. From setup, to tear down, registration, judging, and getting companies to donate items for goodie bags. We are asking for your help if you can in order to make this show the best in order to honor the Mustang s 50th Birthday and the Club s 35th Anniversary as well. If you can help, please contact a board member with the area you would like to assist in. For those that would like to judge please contact me, Chris Valentino. I will be setting up some judging classes to go over some key points. And don t worry we will not be judging the undercarriage of the cars. Thank you!

11 Fall Car Show

12 Fall Car Show

13 Member of the Month Cont. Since this is Copperstate Mustang Club s 35 th Anniversary, it was suggested that we do some cars of the past to help celebrate. While I no longer have this car as it was sold in 1998, I will give you some background besides what is in the article from Mustang Magazine from I had a car accident in 1985 and sustained multiple injuries. One of those was a broken knee and subsequent difficulty driving a stick shift. This car is an automatic and it was love at first sight for me. It had a 351 Cleveland engine and the car was perfect as far as I was concerned. It was big and heavy enough to give me protection, small enough to maneuver and had the power to get me out of the way if something was coming at me. I miss it to this day.

14 Tech Talk - One Piece Headliner For those of you that have replaced or need to replace your headliner in your Mustang there is a new alternative. TMI, the interior people that provide us with upholstery for our seats, new consoles and door panels have designed a new one piece fiberglass headliner. These new headliners come in fabric covered, or vinyl covered. The beauty of this product is that you don t have to remove/re-install the front and rear windshields like you have to do with the old style factory headliner. The unit is one-piece fits into place being held up by the visor bracket/screws and mirror mount/screws in the front and clothes hook bracket/screws and rear window trim molding in the rear. You install wind lace around the sides and bring the rubber windshield gaskets over the front and rear of the new one-piece headliner. These one piece units do not look like the originals (at this time) and do not have the bow lines stitching going from left to right. This finish is either vinyl textured material, or a cloth like material that resemble a felt finish. Using this headliner gives you an additional inch, or so more head room. (Something the taller or vertically extreme people like to hear). This unit allows for installation of 3 point seatbelts. The cost for this unit is higher than the conventional unit, but installation cost is substantially less, and the fact that you gain that extra head room will appeal to some. These units are available for most year coupes/fastbacks on the early models. A great addition if your considering doing a custom or restomod interior. If you have any questions, please give me a call. Dan M. (Next month upgrading exterior lighting)

15 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Sep 5-7 Sep 11 Sep 11 Sep 13 Sep 14 Sep th Annual Route 66 Days Charity Car Show. Location: Historic Downtown Flagstaff. Registration $40.00 Car Show is Saturday 6 th. For more information go to Copperstate Mustang Club Board Meeting: Copperstate Mustang Club will be having its monthly Board Meeting at Berge Ford at 6:30pm. All are welcome to come out and participate. Help make our club successful. ******Tentative to Change****** Ride430 Event: Boondocks Patio & Grill, Old Town Scottsdale. Come support a great cause and help Greg Okolita raise funds. Locatedat 4341 N 75th St Scottsdale, AZ Lunar Golf inside Superstition Mall (located at Southern and Power Rd) $10 per person to play. Located at North end of mall on lower level. Time reserved for 4pm contact Bob Ancell if attending Copperstate Mustang Club Monthly Meeting: 1:00 pm at the Community Hall of the Mount of Olives Church; 3546 E Thomas Rd, Phx; we will have snacks/deserts to enjoy during the meeting. We meet the second Sunday of each month at this location. Come out and enjoy yourself. Queen Mary Car show: Go to for registration information Oct 5 Oct 9 Oct 12 Mustangs by the Bay San Diego: Show is next to Sea Port Village in the park. Go to to register for the show and additional information. Cost $35.00 for show. Copperstate Mustang Club Board Meeting: Copperstate Mustang Club will be having its monthly Board Meeting at Berge Ford at 6:30pm. All are welcome to come out and participate. Help make our club successful. CLUB MEETING WILL BE HELD AT 44ST AND CAMELBACK- CHASE BANK PARK- ING LOT. This is place it all started 35 years ago. Time: 1pm refreshments will be serviced. Oct 25 Nov 8 Dec 14 Copperstate Fall Car Show: CMC Great Pumpkin Car Show and Banquet to be held at the Holiday Inn, (Country Club and US60) Mesa. Car registration is $ Free t-shirt and poster to first 100 cars. Go to for more details Copperstate Mustang Club Pizza party: Pizza Night. This will be free to club members. Will be held at LaFaniglia pasta at 1859 W. Guadalupe Rd, Mesa. Please contact Chevie Neeper is planning to attend Club Christmas Party at Holiday Inn, 44st and McDowell more details to follow.

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