Should the wording of Standing Rule Section 1 be changed from

"The regular monthly business meeting shall be held at 6:30 p.m. on the third Saturday of each month at Maggie Mae’s Restaurant, 2405 East Pikes Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs, Colorado."

To read

"The regular monthly business meeting shall be held at 6:30 p.m. on the third Saturday of each month"

Should the Rocky Mountain Mustangers pay $50 in order to have an 8-car entry in the Old Colorado City St. Patrick’s Day Parade?

Ross’s Rants and Raves

Here it is the month of February already and things are right with the world! The Broncos win back to back superbowls, a FORD powered Dyson R and S CanAm car wins the Rolex 24 Hours of Dayton outright, and last but not least a MUSTANG placed 28th overall winning GTT class. Good stuff. Football season is over and racing season start.

For those of you who don’t know me allow me to introduce myself. I’m a certifiable car nut. I have been since was 2 and could tell the difference between a ’49 and a ’50 Ford. I’m true to the Blue Oval due to the fact that there has been a Ford of one form or another in my family since right after WWI. I must admit that I have owned a few of the General’s cars in my life though. My Mustangs are fulfilling a dream that I had when I was 16. I’m a bit of a departure from the norm for the club since I am the first president that owns a ‘late model’ as my only Mustang.

Have you ever had this happen to you? My ‘83 convertible is rather rare. While in Salida last fall I saw another ‘83 GT convertible so I found the driver in the restaurant and tried to talk to her about the car. Seems it was her daughter’s and her husband was the Mustang nut of the family. I gave her my name and address and never heard from them. Please remember that when people ask about your car it’s because they are interested in it. After all we do drive a legend.

Did you know that if your car has spent time in Colorado that you can have a title search done? Contact the Department of Motor Vehicle Division, 140 W. Sixth Street Denver CO 80204. 303-572-5607 is the phone number. The cost is $6.60 per owner in the history of the title. $6.60! How does the state come up with these figures? Thanks to the So. Co. Mopars for this tip.

For those of you who missed it the inter-car club bowling challenge you missed a real fun time. The Pikes Peak AMC club edged us out by a couple of people but we had some good close bowling. RMM averaged 121 for the 3 games to 106 for the PPAMC. Thanks to all of you who showed up. I hope to see more of you this month on the 27th. Good thing for me that points were not given for style or I would have been in the hole. I would like to thank the PPAMC also.

As you may have seen in the paper. Cheyenne Mountain is no longer having tours. I guess they don’t want us to see how our tax dollars are really being spent. So I say how ‘bout meeting at Gunther Toodie’s on Wednesday February 24th for a club burger night?

I will have Round up registration forms and shirts at the meeting. I have 6 large T shirts, 6 X-large T shirts, 1 large sweat shirt, 1 X-large sweat shirt, 1 large denim shirt, and 1 X-large denim shirt. The prices are $15 for T-shirts, $25 for sweatshirts, and $35 for the denim shirts. So bring your checkbook.

Speaking of the Round up this year’s event is shaping up to be one of the biggest and best ever. We have already sold out our block of rooms at the host hotel.

Ford’s SVT division is bringing more things this year and 2 registries - the SVO and Boss 302 have made this a national event! We have even had a club from Texas call stating that they were coming with 20 cars!

Looking to the future there several things that the board and I discussed to do for club events such as going to the Royal Gorge, the Shelby museum, a trip to Denver to the drive in movie. We would like your input on what you want to do. As I said in my little speech last month I believe in driving my cars so I want to do lots of cruising type things. See upcoming events for things coming up.

I’m hoping that this year will be a fun and productive one for you and the club. To that end I will work hard to see that we have fun events to partake in. Remember this is your club. You are the one that pays $20 to join. You are the one that can come up with things that you would like to do. Participation in events is the best way to have fun and to get to know your fellow club members.

I hope to see you at the meeting… Ross