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Vol 02 | No. 5 International Stars Section May, 2011 Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, the National MBCA and the Concours d’Elegance of America cordially invite all MBCA members and their immediate family to a joint event at the Inn at St. John’s in Plymouth, Michigan July 31, 2011. Friday, April 29, the National MBCA board of directors unanimously approved the special national event. This includes funding and support by the MBCA national business office as well as the board of directors. This will be a once in a lifetime event. We will be able to park on the St. John’s Inn golf course in a special parking area next to both the Mercedes-Benz Financial Services (MBFS) employee parking and the Concours d’Elegance show field. At the present moment, we are negotiating with the MBFS group to have them provide our entry tickets and lunch. MBFS expects 300 plus employee driven clean 2011 Mercedes-Benz vehicles to be on the fairway. They expect around 500 employees and their families. Our best cars will be placed in a unique parking area for our “fun concours” to show the employees some of our historical Mercedes-Benz cars. MBCA will have a tent on the show field across from the Concours d’Elegance grouping of 125 years of Mercedes-Benz. We will be the ambassadors for our club. Our hope is that by having a large presence on the field and with MBFS that we will gain some new members. We will do this by giving each MBFS employee a copy of the July-August STAR and encourage them to sign up. In addition, we will be giving the STAR to those who sign up to be members. We will be having a video media presentation through out the day. This will consist of MBCA video as well as MBUSA videos. MBFS’s CEO has approved their family day event. All that remains is approval by their Operating Committee (10 top MBFS executives). We are confident that they will approve the joint event. However, if they do not, we do have a very solid plan “B”. All together the national MBCA will fund $6,200. Plus, locally, we are pledging $1,000 from our treasury. The national MBCA budget is below… • $2,000 for a 60% off price for a tent on the Concours show field to showcase MBCA and other cool stuff • $1,200 to sponsor the "Most significant Mercedes-Benz" trophy • $1,500 for Social Media and on line advertising - to be done by the National MBCA • $1,500 for a publication over-run of the July- August Star to insert into goodie bags for MBFS employees and the rest for distribution to folks who sign up to be members (@ ~ $2.00 each = 750 magazines) We requested that MBCA provide the following support: Support of the national board to run this as a special national event; public relations and media articles in local papers; use of MBCA flags, banners, tent, & etc.; (see next page) BIG DUAL REGIONAL AND NATIONAL MBCA EVENTS HERE : JULY 30 & 31 New International Stars Web Site is here (under construction – partially functional) pg 3. STARS News A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EVENT ! Mercedes-Benz 125 th Anniversary, July 31 A Concours d’Elegance Event at the Inn at St. John’s with Mercedes-Benz Financial Services
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Vol 02 | No. 5 International Stars Section May, 2011
Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, the National MBCA and the Concours d’Elegance of America cordially invite all MBCA members and their immediate family to a joint event at the Inn at St. John’s in Plymouth, Michigan July 31, 2011. Friday, April 29, the National MBCA board of directors unanimously approved the special national event. This includes funding and support by the MBCA national business office as well as the board of directors. This will be a once in a lifetime event. We will be able to park on the St. John’s Inn golf course in a special parking area next to both the Mercedes-Benz Financial Services (MBFS) employee parking and the Concours d’Elegance show field. At the present moment, we are negotiating with the MBFS group to have them provide our entry tickets and lunch. MBFS expects 300 plus employee driven clean 2011 Mercedes-Benz vehicles to be on the fairway. They expect around 500 employees and their families. Our best cars will be placed in a unique parking area for our “fun concours” to show the employees some of our historical Mercedes-Benz cars. MBCA will have a tent on the show field across
from the Concours d’Elegance grouping of 125 years of Mercedes-Benz. We will be the ambassadors for our club. Our hope is that by having a large presence on the field and with MBFS that we will gain some new members. We will do this by giving each MBFS employee a copy of the July-August STAR and encourage them to sign up. In addition, we will be giving the STAR to those who sign up to be members. We will be having a video media presentation through out the day. This will consist of MBCA video as well as MBUSA videos. MBFS’s CEO has approved their family day event. All that remains is approval by their Operating Committee (10 top MBFS executives). We are confident that they will approve the joint event. However, if they do not, we do have a very solid plan “B”. All together the national MBCA will fund $6,200. Plus, locally, we are pledging $1,000 from our treasury. The national MBCA budget is below…
• $2,000 for a 60% off price for a tent on the Concours show field to showcase MBCA and other cool stuff
• $1,200 to sponsor the "Most significant Mercedes-Benz" trophy
• $1,500 for Social Media and on line advertising - to be done by the National MBCA
• $1,500 for a publication over-run of the July-August Star to insert into goodie bags for MBFS employees and the rest for distribution to folks who sign up to be members (@ ~ $2.00 each = 750 magazines)
We requested that MBCA provide the following support: Support of the national board to run this as a special national event; public relations and media articles in local papers; use of MBCA flags, banners, tent, & etc.; (see next page)
BIG DUAL REGIONAL AND NATIONAL MBCA EVENTS HERE : JULY 30 & 31
New International Stars Web Site is here (under construction – partially functional) pg 3.
STARS News
A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EVENT !
Mercedes-Benz 125th Anniversary, July 31
A Concours d’Elegance Event at the Inn at St. John’s with
Mercedes-Benz Financial Services
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Use of MBCA National Business Office (NBO)
Personnel; Door hang tags for MBFS cars; 3 email
blasts – May, June, July to all national MBCA
members with email addresses; NBO marketing to our
members; Ad in the STAR magazine; sponsor the
“Most Significant Mercedes-Benz Award”; and more.
Our International Stars section will negotiate with
MBFS to provide lunch for our members, entry tickets,
a professional photographer to capture the event and
other items as they come up.
This is a BIG deal! Plan to be there! Many of our
national MBCA board members as well as MBCA
members from across the country will be there to
celebrate with us.
What do you have to do right now?… It would be
very helpful if you would contact Pete Williams and tell
him that you will be coming to the show. Use the
attached application form to sign up for the event.
We spoke earlier about a Plan “B”: We would still
have all the MBCA sponsored part of the event,
however parking, admission, and lunch would be
different. In the event that we have to do a Plan “B”
we would contact you well in advance and let you
know what the fees would be. It would still be a
whopper of an event, but the MBFS component would
be different or nonexistent.
MBCA members with non Mercedes-Benz vehicles
will not be able to park with us. Non MB vehicles will
park with the general public and we will have to make
other admission arrangements which might cost the
member some money. MBCA members with rusty,
shabby, or dilapidated MB vehicles will not be able to
park in the MBCA show area. We believe that MBFS
will want them to park at the rear of the MBFS parking
area. MBFS is paying for use of the fairway to park
cars and desires “Only the BEST”… We can stretch
things a little, but it’s their set of rules.
Fill out the attached form and send it to Pete
Williams at the indicated address. RSVP no later than
July 11, 2011. (This date may change.)
We should know by next week what the MBFS
portion of the event will look like. We would like to co-
locate and rub shoulders with them. Perhaps we can
even encourage some of their employees to become
members... which would indeed be very sweet!
Continued next column.
This will be a golden opportunity to gain new members from the MBFS family. MBCA National views this as a great opportunity to gain the friendship of MBFS as well as a new member opportunity. This will also be a phenomenal show at a new venue. Are we excited? You bet! Can we do it? Well with your help and participation it will be an excellent event. Check out these web sites: http://www.mbca.org/event/2011-07-30/mbca-conjunction-concours-america-st-johns http://www.stjohnsgolfconference.com/ http://concoursusa.org/
We will be hosting a Regional Defensive Driving and Autocross event Saturday, July 30, 2011 at the Compuware Arena parking lot at 14900 North Beck Road, Plymouth, MI 48170-2413. This is just down the road from the Inn at St. John’s. For those of you who would like to sharpen your skills, educate your teenage driver, and compete in a driving event this is the event for you.
Here is the day’s schedule: � 8:00 a.m. Gates open for check-in and on-site
registration � 8:30 a.m. Tech Inspection � 9:00 a.m. Participants meeting / defensive driving
classroom � 9:45 a.m. Defensive driving begins (car show
judges in first group) � noon Lunch break (part of your fee) � 12:45 p.m. Autocross classroom / course walk � 1:00 p.m. Autocross � 4:30 p.m. Depart for group dinner / awards
presentation (dinner self pay) The schedule is a only a guide. If we have enough drivers, we may decide to run Defensive Driving and Autocross at the same time on two courses. (The parking lot is huge.)
You may bring either your daily driver or your Mercedes-Benz. Please see the three attached sheets (Schedule, FAQ’s, and Application Form) The cost will be $30 per person by July 22, 2011. We will have several loaner helmets for your use. Per our Regional Director, Frank Cozza, you don’t need any special training to do this. They can train you in a very short period of time. We need people to help time, tabulate and set and re-set cones. Go to this web site: Maps, site plans FAQ’s, Application form for Defensive Driving. http://www.mbca.org/event/2011-07-30/defensive-driving-auto-cross-and-fun-concours-july-30-31-2011-regional-event
Defensive Driving & Autocross July 30
We need VOLUNTEERS to HELP with this event!!!
NEW WEB SITE for INTERNATIONAL STARS Thanks to Adam Lumsden,the new web site for our section is working. It houses recent past issues of STARS News and The Benz Scene. Starting with this edition, we will post our STARS News and Benz Scene to this web site. Your email notice will include
the link. http://internationalstars.mbca.org/
In order to get to the newsletters you must go to the bottom of the page and click on “Newsletters”. All of the features are not functional yet as it is under construction.
Officers President: Peter Williams [email protected],
Vice President: Adam Lumsden [email protected] Treasurer: Steve Mahac [email protected] ,
Secretary: OPEN, Benz Scene Editor: Mike Salemi [email protected]
Hospitality: Mike & Mary Ann Mountain [email protected]
Parliamentarian: Charles Hiller [email protected] Membership: John Briggs [email protected]
This issue’s content was provided by Pete Williams. Want to participate?
Send your article to [email protected]. Want to help? We need a Secretary. Drop Pete an email…
Coming Events – Past Events
• January 29: Tour Eastern Market and Lunch at Roma Café – Dining with the STARS
• February 28: Antique show – Southfield Pavilion with food
• March: Just the regular meeting March 1 • April 17 SUNDAY: Crank Up Tour the Dick Kuhn
private collection – 4 buildings (Livonia area) see the flyer
• May 14: BTL- Breakfast, Tech, Lunch Event – See flyer – Novi, then Manchester, Mi.After lunch drive to; MB-SCS Spring Value Day Open Haus. Bring your M-B and Park at their Used Car showroom.
• June 12: Car Show Participation (Cars R Stars).
• M-B 125th Anniversary (see articles)
July 30-31 MBCA National and Regional Event 2 days in Plymouth area July 30: Regional Defensive Driving / Auto Cross, - See the article July 31: National MBCA Special Event with Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Concours D’ Elegance of America (formerly Meadow Brook) at the new location. See the article.
• August 13: Eastern Market Summer Tour • August 20: Woodward Dream Cruise • September 18: Show / Shine / New Members party
at the Shooting Club – Auburn Hills • October: Pumpkin Color Tour with other car clubs • November: Date TBD National Board Meeting,
tours and parties; Pre Thanksgiving Pot Luck • December: Progressive Holiday Party
If you have any event ideas, let us know.
International Stars Section MEMBERSHIP
MEETINGS Go to this link: http://www.mbca.org/section/international-stars The monthly board and membership meetings are usually held at 6:30 PM the first Tuesday of every month at the Crash Landing Restaurant., 2011: May 3, Jun 7, Jul 12*, Aug 2, Sep 13*, Oct 4, Nov 1, Dec 6. ( * = 2
nd
Tuesday Meeting) Please forward any agenda items to: Pete Williams, President, MBCA International Stars: via email, phone or by mail: 1-586-293-0935 or 15561 Sherwood, Fraser, Mi. 48026 Location: Crash Landing Restaurant - 26620 Dequindre Rd, Warren, MI 48091-3938, 586-751-4444 (Just North of 696) Any current, new or prospective member is welcome to attend. We usually have a business meeting which is interrupted by a short dinner. We have always had a policy which allowed our attending members to either order – or not – a meal at our monthly board / general meeting.
National Events:
There are two MBCA National Events that are close by and warrant your attention. Go to the link on the MBCA website to read about the events.
Gemutlichkeit 2011- May 20 – 24
Western Ohio – Just next door http://www.mbca.org/event/2011-05-21/gemutlichkeit-2011-
may-21-24 See the article below.
http://benzclub.org/info/gemutlichkeit-2011/gemutlichkeit-2011-registration/
The Circle Lake Huron Tour Sept. 24 – 30, 2011 You are invited to join fellow MBCA members in the second Great Lake Mille, a tour around Lake Huron. Registration $235. There are many things to see and do on the tour. See the flyer below.
Come out and join us in our outstanding
activities. Play a little, get a lot out of it.
April Dust-Off / Crank-Up Auto CollectionTour
Sunday, April 17, 2011 was a great day. It was a little chilly and then ended up with a drizzle. We were invited to tour the Richard (Dick) Kughn auto collection. Mr. Kughn is a pre-eminent collector of a variety of classic cars. Four car clubs were present. (Buick, T-Bird, VMCCA and MBCA) The Cadillac-LaSalle club also asked to join us, but with over 125 attendees we were already past our maximum. Sadly, we had to turn them away. We visited four of Mr. Kughn’s warehouses. Each was accessorized with automotive signs and collectables. Each of his buildings contained beautiful cars most of which, in our humble opinion, could be shown in a Concours event… and some of them have been. There was one sad note in that our host, Mr. Kughn had a health issue and could not be present to accept the appreciation plaque. His staff took over and stood in for him. We understand that he is now fine. Check out the pictures to see a sample of what was there. If you missed the event, you really missed a wonderful event. We closed out the day with a meal at Thomas’s Restaurant on Plymouth Rd. There were 28 MBCA members who signed up for the event. Our newest member, Salig Sharma, unfortunately had a distributor issue with his car and could not continue to our final warehouse. He had to be towed home. Check out some of the cars in the parking lot. Sometimes they are as interesting as what’s inside. Many thanks to Ruth Cheshire, Don Sommers and the Kughn staff for this wonderful opportunity.
Click on this: http://www.mbca.org/event/2011-05-14/may-btl-event-breakfast-restoration-shop-tour-lunch
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Kick-off Dinner St Clair Inn
View Great Lakes Freighters
Visit the Wills-St Claire Museum
Reception Benmiller Lodge and Spa
Visit Canada’s “Prettiest Little Town”
Chi-Cheemaun Ferry to Manitoulin Island
Orientation to Manitoulin Island at Gordon’s Lodge
Elk Viewing, Wine Tasting,
Gourmet Dinner Thunder Bay
Resort, Hillmand
Tour concludes with German
Buffet in Frankenmuth
INVITATION
You are invited to join fellow MBCA
members in the second Great Lake Mille, a
tour around Lake Huron including the Bruce
Peninsula and Georgian Bay. You may apply
for participation with an interesting car of
any marque as long as you are, or become,
and MBCA member.
Registration fee of $235 includes Kick-off
Dinner, Reception at Benmiller, Ferry to
Manitoulin Island, concluding German
buffet, tour binder with driving suggestions,
and commemorative vest.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE
AUGUST 15, 2011
REQUEST FOR REGISTRATION MATERIALS
Name:__________________________________
Street Address:___________________________
City: _____________________ State __ Zip _______
Email: _____________________________________
Phone: ___________ Cell: _________________
Car for tour: ______________________________
Number participating: ______________________
Mail or Scan this form to :
Ron Harshman, Tourmeister
33 W Delaware Apt 10J
Chicago, IL 60610
218-213-4967
See www.mbca.org for these event sheets, site maps and directions.
