The Starting Line. September Newsletter for Cowtown Mopars Performance Team

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1 September The Starting Line Newsletter for Cowtown Mopars Performance Team Pictures taken at Dallas Mopars Southwest Mini-Nats 9/3/05 The President s Desk Hey Cowtown Mopars Performance Team it has been a busy month and we will have a lot more activities real soon. The Mopar Nationals was a lot of fun! I got to see CJ Roy run his 65 Belvedere in the Super Stock Class at the Nationals. I got to see Ron Arbelius show his 70 R/T Charger at the Nationals. I got to see Bernie, Sandie, Bryan, Joe, Marty, Rick and many others in action selling their stuff in the swap meet area. It was a great time all the way around. It is such an unusual and cool feeling being overwhelmed by MOPAR stuff. Well done everyone! CONGRATULATIONS to all the CMPT members that participated in the Dallas Mopar Mini Nats this year. The winners will be listed below. We had 20 members show their vehicles and 6 participate in the swap meet. I tried to give everyone a shirt, but if you didn't get yours please let me know. Well done everyone! YEEHAW it is time to go race again! I got new axles in my race car and I'm going to try and do a burnout shifting gears at Kennedale September 18th. If you want to see someone try and make a fool out of themself, be there and bring a video camera. Maybe someone will play it at the meeting. I have challenged Mike Miller at the Kennedale race. The first one to go out will have to conduct the September meeting. Good luck Mike! I will be asking everyone for your shirt size at Kennedale and then order them the following Monday. The first weekend of October will begin with the Good Guys Show at TMS and on October 2nd we will have Mopars at the State Fair of Texas. Please contact Ken and Lesa Key or Dave Mandato or me if you want to show your car at the fair this year. If you plan to go the Good Guys show please contact Steve Wiggin. Both shows are a lot of fun. I hope you can participate. The rest of October will be very busy with the last 2 TMCCC races, a club picnic and the Lone Star Shoot Out in Houston. I look forward to seeing everyone many times in the next few weeks. At the Dallas Mopar Mini Nats CMPT was present and accounted for - 20 show participants and 6 swap meet participants Award winners Terry Lewis and Bob Graham A body mod class winners Rich Lemmon A body stock winner Jimmy Box B body mod winner Phin Holmes and Mark Buchanan B body stock class winners David Baures B body street class winner Peggy Woodrell C body class winner and Galen's choice award Richard West, Danny Henslee and Lesa Key E body stock class winners (that is right Lesa not Ken) John Morawski E body mod Winner Alan Spry custom class winner and Bronze winner order of the penstar Ken Angyal Dakota winner Sorry if I missed anyone or made an error. CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE!!! Everyone is well aware of the hurricane tragedy. As a club we want to do our part. We will be taking donations at the upcoming club events. In the near future we will make a club donation to the Ft Worth Salvation Army. Please help out, be a part and let's work together, and make a difference. THANK YOU! I have mailed a club shirt and ed David Ussery who is serving our Country in Iraq. I'm sure he would love to hear some encouraging words from you as well. ddrussery@sbcglobal.net Please take the time to show your support. THANK YOU David! See ya soon! Beep Beep! Mark Buchanan, Cowtown Mopars President

2 Page 2 From the Vice President Look out folks!... fall is just around the corner! It is getting time to go back outdoors and enjoy the weather. It has been below 100 for a week now!!! September is going to be a very busy month. We had 20 members at the Dallas Mopar Club Mini Nats, there are several members going to the Monster Mopar Weekend in Saint Louis, We have a TMCCC race at Texas raceway coming up and before you know it, October will be here and that brings our fall picnic, two TMCCC races, the Lone Star Shootout in Houston... Wash the cars and Gas 'em up. OK... lets get real here. At the price of gas, choose one or two events and go to them... you can share a ride to the rest! We all know about the hurricane that destroyed a lot of homes and businesses in Louisiana and Mississippi. The club is joining in to help out the victims buy collecting donations. The money will be taken to the Salvation Army and will help at least a few people on the road to recovery. Donations can be made at our cruise night, club meeting ot the TMCCC race or you can just give the money to any of the board members. We also have collection jars at several local resturants. We will accept donations until September 19, then we will collect them all and deliver them to the Salvation Army. Mike Miller, Owner M.P.A.R. A CMPT Club roster will be circulated at the October Club Meeting if you Do Not want to be published, or need corrections, please contact Bernie Powell, Membership Director.

3 Page 3 CMPT Board of Directors CMPT Club Meetings CMPT holds its monthly club meetings on the 3rd Sunday of each month at 5:00pm. Meetings are currently held at: BILLY BOB S TEXAS 2520 Rodeo Plaza Fort Worth, Texas (in the Historic Stockyards!) October 16th, :00 pm November 20th, :00 pm December 18th, :00 pm Cruise Night September 10th, 2005 At MPAR Miller Performance Auto Repair 5520 Midway Road, Suite 107 Haltom City, TX GUESTS, including Non-MOPARS, are always welcome to join us! President: Mark Buchanan bbuchanan8@juno.com Vice President: Mike Miller greybeard360@yahoo.com Secretary: Ken Angyal KVJA54@aol.com Treasurer: Dan Robinson derob@charter.net Membership: Bernie Powell coyote440@sbcglobal.net Activities: Gary Bradshaw wedge65@charter.net Newsletter: Steve Wiggin wigginfam@sbcglobal.net Webmaster: Mike Miller greybeard360@yahoo.com CMPT Club Information COWTOWN MOPARS PERFORMANCE TEAM is a Mopar enthusiast organization, with its own elected officers & operating treasury. Membership is open to ALL Mopar enthusiasts and owners. You do NOT need to own a Mopar to join or participate. We are based in the Fort Worth area of North Central Texas, U.S.A. Currently, we have members from all around the area, even reaching into AUSTRALIA! Our Club Address is: COWTOWN MOPARS PERFORMANCE TEAM P.O.Box Fort Worth, Texas

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5 Page 5 Membership Here are our newest Members! Welcome!!!! Scott Chandler Allen Ramsey Sammy Roberts jr. Kelly & Michelle Molinar Got A Minute? Craig & Liz McClister The August general membership meeting of Larry Brownlee the Cowtown Mopars Performance Team was held on We can t thank everyone enough for renewing the 21st at Billy Bob's Texas in Ft. Worth. President with the Club & celebrating our 20th year together! Mark Buchannan called the meeting to order at 5:30 pm. Guests and new members were recognized. A sign-up You make us Strong! Contact me anytime! sheet for monthly birthday cakes and shirts sizes was passed around. For recently new members this cake Bernie Powell, CMPT Membership Director tradition was a past favorite years ago and is being reborn...and you guessed it...jeanne Bradshaw brought this month's cake for those members celebrating a birthday in August. Items of discussion were: members health issues; the cancelled August cruise night; members who attended the Mopar Nationals with individual reports, Texas Muscle Car Club, thoughts, comments, and results; upcoming car shows, and the fall picnic in October. New club jackets will go on sale at the September meeting. These jackets will have the new 20th Anniversary embroidery on them. The annual Cowtown Mopars Toy Drive will be the second Saturday of December. We will meet and display our cars there from 9 am to 12 noon, where we will then caravan to Billy Bob's, meet and gather with some members already there for a similar drive, then all drive to the Salvation Army in Ft. Worth in one huge caravan. Next month's meeting will still be here at Billy Bob's but across the hall from our normal meeting room. Please make note of this. At the October meeting a club roster will be distributed. If you wish some of your information ( address or phone number ) not be made open to your club membership please contact a board member ASAP. The parts for sale and cars for sale or wanted went on the program next,with the 50/50 pot being won by Kirk Maisenbacher. Other door prizes were won by various members. ALL MEMBERS PLEASE NOTE : With the Katrina situation going on, many planned shows and meetings are being cancelled or postponed. Please log on to our website and watch for any last minute changes or updates. With gas prices the way they are now, you don't want or need to make any unnecessary travel. And finally, at the time of this writing, our club had 20 car show entries, and many set-up for swap meet there also. A list of club members who won trophies will be listed in this newsletter. Good show Cowtown Mopars at the Dallas Mini-Nats in Garland on Labor Day weekend. Submitted by Ken Angyal, Sec.

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7 Page 7 Car of the Month August 2005 Frank Smith s 1962 Dodge Dart Draggin Wagon While planning a trip to New Mexico to purchase a semi-basket case '68 Charger ( I bought a new one in '68 for less money than the wrecking yard model ) Gary Bradshaw said I should take a look at a Dodge over in Irving, also in a wrecking yard. Being a big fan of wagons in the Super Stock wars it didn't take long to make the deal. Besides, I drove a '62 Dart to the senior prom. It wasn't exactly a basket case but it did have about 2 wheel barrow loads of Oklahoma sand in any part that still had a bottom to it. When I got called to the tower for dumping dirt at the starting line at Red Line I told them it was traction compound. Ten months after its arrival at MPAR it was on the track, and at thirteen months it had a bright shiny new paint job. The power plant is a very conservative 440 pump gas motor engineered to go round after round with near zero maintenance, topped off with a Carter AFB an performer intake, exhausted through Hedman headers into 3 inch tubing with x-pipe and really small mufflers. The power takes to the pavement through a 4.56 spool and M/T slicks with Weld wheels on all 4 corners. Best E.T. to date is in the 1/4 and 7.97 in the 1/8 th. Not a bad way to start. This project would not have been this successful with out the help of these special friends- Mike Miller for eliminating the rust and giving the body man a great place to start and all the add-ons through the building process, Les Adams for another stout transmission, ad a tough, reliable power plant; my sponsers Express Collision Repair and TaylorMade Graphics and Signs, and Gary Bradshaw for leading me to the wagon and finding the right parts to make this a fun and enjoyable ride. Who says ugly cars can't be pretty. Frank Smith, Owner

8 Car of the Month September 2005 Jim Buatte s 1965 Dodge Coronet I am a new member of the Cowtown Mopars Performance Team, having moved here from Maine roughly 5 months ago. I now reside in Keller, Texas. My car is a 1965 Dodge Coronet. I drove this car to prom unfortunately it was several years ago. The car has a 400 CID engine out of a 72 Plymouth Road Runner. My uncle, cousin and I recently went through the top half of the motor. They, too, are part of the Mopar family (1978 Lil' Red Express, 1967 GTX, 1968 Road Runner). The Paint on the car is a basecoat / clearcoat, and barely 16 years old! See you at the meeting! Thanks Jim Buatte

9 Page 9 September 2005 Activities 18th TMCCC, Texas Raceway, Kennedale, TX 8am CMPT Meeting, Billy Bobs, 5pm 30th TMS, Ft Worth, TX (thru Oct.2nd) October th CMPT Fall Picnic, River Legacy Park, Arlington, TX, 4:30 pm 15-16th Lonestar Shootout Houston Raceway Park, Houston, TX 16th TMCCC, TX Motorplex, Ennis, TX 8am CMPT Meeting, Billy Bobs, 5pm 30th TMCCC, Redline Raceway, Caddo Mills, TX, 8am November th CMPT Meeting Billy Bobs, 5pm December th Toy Drive / Car Show Huffines(9-Noon)/Billy Bobs(1-4pm)/ & the Salvation Army caravan 18th CMPT CHRISTMAS PARTY- Billy Bobs, 5pm, $10 gift exchange! The New Club Online Store is Here!!! Shop & Support The Club At cowtownmopars/ For Sale & Wanted WANTED road runner, call Mark Buchanan or bbuchanan8@juno.com Dodge Charger Owners for the Charger Registry (FREE) Join for $25 and get a newsletter, parts list, car list, event list. Morris Counts or See you at the next Charger Event. This Space For Free to members! wigginfam@sbcglobal.net All ads will run for 2 months unless notified to cancel or renewed. Editor CMPT Cars of the Year 2005 KEEP THEM COMING!! Please submit a brief description and pictures in jpeg format or a good 5 x 7 printed format to: Steve Wiggin c/o CMPT P.O. BOX Ft. Worth, Texas at a club meeting,

10 MOPARS Cruisin into FALL 2005 Picnic & Shows!!! ************************************* Sept.30th-Oct.2nd Oct.2nd TMS! Oct. 8th River Legacy Park 4:30pm till Oct. 15th-16th 16th LoneStar Shootout Houston Raceway Park October 16th CMPT Meeting, Billy Bob s Texas, 5:00pm We re the Car Club for Mopars, Food, Fun, & Friends! Cowtown Mopars Performance Team P.O. Box Fort Worth, Texas Place Postage Here SEPTEMBER 2005 Rush to: