Newsletter published monthly for

MUSTANGS & FORDS OF THE

DAKOTAS car club.

Meetings are held 4th Sunday of the

month, 7 p.m. Unless noted in the

newsletter!

Acting President: Mike Conmy

224-0169

Vice President: Open

Treasurer: Patty Owens - 391-9158

3042 Deerlodge Drive, Bismarck, ND

58504

Email: patiosjunk@hotmail.com

Editor: Dave Owens 701-527-2063

Email: dpowens@bis.midco.net

Club Sponsor:

January

2014

Editors Message

As some of you are aware our club President Ken Lammers was offered and accepted a new job in Rapid City. Ken and Linda have for years been at the helm of this club and leave big shoes for our club to fill. Hopefully they will be able to attend the Christmas party on the 25th where we can thank them in person for their guidance & leadership as well as wish them goodbye. Our Vice President Mike Conmy has agreed to assume the President position until a permanent replacement is made. Now’s your chance to step up and assume a leadership position. I am always looking for members rides and other things to include in the newsletter. Get your information to me. This is your newsletter so get your information in. Dave Upcoming Events

The annual Christmas party will be held Saturday

January 25 at Midway Lanes. Doors open at 5pm for

setup and people are needed to help get the room

ready.

Dinner is at 6pm and on the menu is Chicken. Potluck

dishes such as salads and desserts are needed.

There will be a gift exchange. Gifts for guys or gals is

recommended to be in the $15-$20 range.

Our monthly club meeting will take place after dinner.

Lanes have been reserved for those who would like to

stay and bowl after the party.

Check This Out Ford Mustang Movie – Need For

Speed

http://www.needforspeed.com/movie

MFD on Facebook!

Search for Mustangs

& Fords of the

Dakotas.

You can check out

member's pictures,

and club information

Classifieds

Free to members.

Contact Dave Owens

At dpowens@bis.midco.net

2014 Calendars

For Sale:

8BA Flathead Ford Rebuilt Offenhauser 4 Barrel Intake Offenhauser Heads - Long Block No carb, generator, starter or water pumps. Contact Mel Gutknecht at 701-880-0703 FOR SALE:

Sweetheart Cottage Thomas Kincade Battery Clock Evening of Swan Brooke Cottage Flower Vase, 4in high Thomas Kincade Both in perfect shape. Both $25.00 Call Arlene at 701-782-6272 I believe we have sold all our calendars

with exception of a 2nd round being sold in

Washburn.

January 2014

MFD Website Check out the website that Bryan

Reinhardt put together! Go to:

http://clubs.hemmings.com/mfd

Members Rides/Profiles

Those who would like to submit a members

Ride/Profile, Please submit to Dave my address

is 3042 Deer Lodge Dr, Bismarck, ND 58504

The forms are available, ask.

Or Email: dpowens@bis.midco.net

If anyone wants to purchase clothing,

contact Patty Owens at

patiosjunk@hotmail.com or 701-391-9158.

MFD Clothing

Capital A'Fair Show Shirts ($10) MFD Polo Shirts ($17)

New Members

Please welcome our new members Emil &

Donna Lapp of Bismarck. They have a

1968 Torino GT.

Look out Joe they might want to race!

Storage Tip – Mice

Mice love to nest in stored vehicles. Here are few tips to keep problems from developing. Place Poison bait such as “D-Con” in the car or close to it. Mice will seek water after eating thus leaving the car before they perish. Place bounce fabric sheets under the hood, seats, dash, truck. Mice avoid these areas as the scent from the sheets disrupts their sense of smell. Plug the exhaust pipe with a tennis ball or other. Many an engine has been ruined by rodents building nests even as far in as the cylinder heads.

Ken & Linda Lammers Hello Everyone from Rapid City. Well I officially started my new job on Jan 1 2014. So far so good!! I got a real good group of people down here so they are making my transition pretty easy. We have been very busy the last couple of months trying to get the relocation details handled. We found the perfect house in Rapid City and we are hoping to get this deal closed the first week of February. We sold our house in Bismarck really quick. Our realtor told us that the average house in Bismarck takes 82 days to sell so we took his advice and put it on the market early. We sold it in 6 hours. Talk about a quick sell. Our original plans were to live in Bismarck until the end of May but now it looks like we will be moving the end of March as our house is closing on March 31. You just have to go with the flow and hope everything turns out. I am hoping to be down for our Annual Party on January 25 as long as the weather cooperates. I hope to see everyone at the party. Mike Conmy is taking over as President for the interim but under the circumstances we will be looking for someone to take over as President. If you are interested in taking over the gavel, please come to the party on January 25 so we can vote you in. It has been my pleasure to be your President over the last years. I hope that the clubs continues to grow by recruiting new members and continuing the traditions that we have.

This move is not easy but it is the right decision for me and my family’s future. Once I get re established in Rapid City I am going to consider starting a South Dakota Chapter of Mustangs and Fords of the Dakotas. First I have to see if I find some members that are as passionate with their cars as we are. Time will tell. Again thank you all for your support and help that you have provided to me and my family and I wish you all the best. If you are ever in Rapid City, give me a call. My new cell number is 605-939-8793. Sincerely, Ken Lammers

Members Rides Dave & Patty Owens 1958 Ford “Hide-Away Hardtop”

After 5 years and 2 floods, Patty & I hope to get the retractable on the road this summer. If things go well we will show it at Buggies & Blues, the IFRC Nationals in St. Louis, Car Craft Summer Nationals in St. Paul and Our MFD show.

Hey Steve! Did you take up golfing?

I received these pictures of a 1959 Ford Skyliner retractable hard top that was involved in an accident with an 18 wheeler in Tacoma Washington.

Crusher is the big winner at Lende Collection sale

Not that anyone was keeping score, but the crusher contracted to provide cleanup after the

sale defeated the preservationists at the Lende Collection Auction held Nov. 2 in Walum,

N.D. The sale, presented by VanDerBrink Auctions, offered 122 vehicles, including four

vintage tractors. Unfortunately, 66 of those, or 54 percent, received no offer greater than the

opening $325 crush bid and were relegated to be squashed.

After the sale, a visibly frustrated Yvette VanDerBrink, head of VanDerBrink Auctions,

speculated that much of the reluctance by bidders to make offers on the vehicles stemmed

from pre-sale rumors that the three Lende brothers were not in agreement on which brother

actually owned the vehicles being auctioned, and that sales might be invalidated due to this

family infighting. The three brothers’ collection involves a former salvage operation, and the

122 vehicles in the auction were only a small portion of this overall collection.

After the first 11 vehicles auctioned received no bids exceeding crush rate, VanDerBrink

temporarily halted the auction to assure the gathered bidders that she had secured a court

order mandating that all sales of the 122 vehicles would be legal and binding.

The top five sales reflected continued bidder reluctance, with a 1959 Chevrolet Impala

Nomad station wagon, in No. 4 condition being the top seller at $2,400. It was followed by a

’59 Chevy Bel Air four-door sedan at $1,150, ’57 Ford Country Sedan station wagon at

$1,050, ’63 Chevy C10 longbox pickup at $825 and ’64 Chevy Biscayne station wagon at

$600.

Two noteworthy bargains were both in No. 4 condition: a 1967 Chevy Chevelle 300 four-door

sedan, six-cylinder-powered, that sold for $330, and a ’61 Ford Fairlane four-door sedan, V-8

powered, that sold for $350.

Among noteworthy vehicles not receiving bids and sent to the crusher were a foursome of

1959 Plymouths: Fury, Belvedere and Savoy four-door sedans and a Plaza two-door sedan

— all loaded with donor-quality parts; a rust-free ’59 Studebaker Lark two-door sedan;

complete ’55 Nash Ambassador Super four-door sedan; complete ’58 Opel Rekord two-door

sedan; and a trio of ’66 Ford F-100 pickups, each also containing many donor-quality parts.

The auction also included the sale of a select number of parts, including prewar headlamps

and body panels and postwar hubcaps.

This solid, six-cylinder-powered 1967 Chevrolet

Chevelle 300 sedan was one of the many bargains

of the Lende Collection Auction held in Walum,

N.D., selling for $330.

One of four 1959 Plymouths offered at the Lende

Collection Auction in Walum, N.D., this Fury sedan

received no offers, nor did its three counterparts,

and all were relegated to the crusher.