Carroll Shelby tours the Mid-America Ford & Team Shelby Nationals Car Show where MCOH members Pete & Sharon Sigwardt displayed their 1970 Bright Yellow Boss 302 as a part of the 2008 Boss Reunion. The June 11-15, 2008 Tulsa Oklahoma event featured Open Track  time at the Hallett Motor Racing Circuit, a Sonic Cruise-In in Tulsa, Drag Racing At Tulsa Raceway Park , and the All Ford Super Car Show at the host Marriott Hotel. Carroll Shelby was the honoree at the Saturday Night Banquet. Additional Pictures ( CLICK HERE)

MCOH members Ed Hockaday and Steve Forristall were invited to display their classic Mustangs at the  2008 Classy Chassis show Sunday June 8, 2008 held at Reliant Stadium. This is an annual invitational show of over 100 concourse/thoroughbred quality classic autos and race cars that benefits the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation of the Greater Houston area. The picture above was taken as the doors opened for the show Sunday 10 AM.

MCOH May 17, 2008 Cruise Nite to Otto's BBQ at the Fountains was well attended. We had about 15 cars at Freeway Ford start and 6 additional MCOH cars when we got to Otto's for group dinner. Some attendees drove back to join us from the Car Show in Beaumont at Kinsel Ford put on by the Wild Horse Mustang Club ! Thanks to all for attending .

MCOH member Pete Sigwardt points at first production Shelby GT500KR sold at the January 2008 Barrett-Jackson Auction for $550,000 with proceeds going to the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation

MCOH members attended the Woodlands Car Club "Old World Venice" afternoon/evening car show on Saturday November 1, 2008 held at the Portofino Shopping Center. MCOH participants included John Grimm, Ray Coe, Robert Vitols, and Phil Thweatt. A group dinner was arranged by Rashann Fontenot at the Buca di Beppo Italian restaurant. Fun evening !

MCOH members Robert & Rita Helmer attended the Motor Met Car Show held Saturday October 4, 2008 at the Houston Metropolitan Baptist Church. Rita's 2008 Grabber Orange Mustang was a CLASS WINNER. Congrats !

MCOH members Curt Clark, Ray Coe, John Grimm, Tracy & Ellis Stern, and Pete & Sharon Sigwardt attended the Wallis Fine Rides Autofest held Saturday October 4, 2008 in Wallis, Texas. It was a fine day to be out to Wallis !

MCOH PICTURES

Bluebonnet Cruise April 6, 2008  CLICK HERE

Spring MCOH Open Car Show CLICK HERE

Mid-America Ford & Team Shelby CLICK HERE

November 2007 AutoRama

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Ford Racing Mustang Challenge
Joins 45th Anniversary Party at Barber

The turnout for Indoor Cart Racing on Saturday August 16, 2008  was great ! We had 23 for a group dinner at Los Cucos after racing ! We had 12 CART RACERS  all "par excellent." MCOH President Les Blankenship took home the MEN'S GOLD MEDAL FAST TIME at 24.070 seconds. Carla Blankenship got the WOMEN'S GOLD  MEDAL at 26.630. FIRST TIMER GOLD MEDALS went to Robert Vitols at 25.310, and to Keith Howard at 25.377 seconds. All attendees went home smiling after a fun evening.............In the above photo, Samantha Vitols displays the participant medal given to all attendees

MCOH members attended the St. Dunstan's Classic Car Show sponsored by the North Houston Krewzers' on Saturday October 25, 2008. Eleven MCOH entries were shown by our members on a beautiful Fall Saturday. See additional pictures courtesy Bill Wright (CLICK HERE).

MCOH members attended the VFW Post 6378 Car show at Dickinson, Texas on Saturday August 9, 2008. Tracy & Ellis Stern took their Diggy-La and Diggy -Lo Red & White 2006 GT's. Matt Bleakley entered his 2007 Shelby GT and John Dearing had his Flaming Special 65 Fastback. Thanks Matt for the pictures........

MCOH Cruise Nite on July 19, 2008 to see our friends at Niftee 50ees made for a fun evening. 9 cars left Freeway Ford with us and by the time we counted all our member and visitor cars at the Niftee 50ees Classic Drive-in, there were over 20 cars; so we had a great turnout parked in the specially designated Mustang Corral. Dinner at "On the Border" saw about 30 attendees. Our club's appreciation was expressed to Niftee 50ees leaders Randy & Molly personally and was accompanied by cash donations from MCOH club members to help them defray expenses associated with this weekly classic cruise-in. Special thanks to Ted & Rashann Fontenot for their collaboration with Randy & Molly to have Mustang Club of Houston specially welcomed at this week's cruise-in. Also, thanks to all the MCOH members and visitors for joining us for a good time at Niftee 50ees. Additional pictures and photo prints are available from Steve Morris at Star Images web site (CLICK HERE)

MCOH member Sherri Leicht drove her 2008 Shelby GT500 Convertible to Tulsa to participate in the Mid-America Ford & Team Shelby Nationals June 2008.

MCOH member Rick McCommon was a Class Winner for his 1967 Shelby GT500 at the Mid-America Ford & Team Shelby Nationals Car Show June, 2008.

MCOH members Tracy & Ellis Stern, Pete & Sharon Sigwardt and John Hirasaki attended the American Legion "Summer Jam" Car Show on Sunday June 7, 2009 in Rosenberg. The show had a great turnout of about 140 entries.

 

 

 

July 14,  2007 Cruise to Kemah with dinner at Sudies Seafood on the way . A number of visitors to MCOH joined us and we were hosted at Kemah by our friends at Space City Cruisers. Fun night !

MCOH Cruise May 20, 2007 to Brenham Texas - "Photo Op" at the Blue Bell Creamery 

MCOH attendees to the Bayway Muscle Car Collection open-house express their great appreciation to owners Darryl and Linda Wischnewsky for a superb tour on Saturday September 27, 2008. We had over 20 Mustangs and 38 people attend the tour. FUN TIME !

MCOH members were invited to provide "pace cars" for a special invitation-only MONSTER TRUCK SHOW held Saturday July 26, 2008 at the Houston Motorsports Park. Eight MCOH Mustangs were able to attend. Thanks to Tracy & Ellis Stern for making the opportunity available and to Keith & Becky Howard for the pictures ! Ray  & Karen Webb's 64 1/2 Mustang  was awarded "Best of Show." Congrats to all that were able to attend the show.

Mustang Club of Houston was well-represented at the 28th Annual Mustang Owners Club of Austin car show on Saturday August 2, 2008 with a total of eight member cars. The show benefited the MOCA SafePlace charity. The weather was hot-hot but the turnout of great Mustangs was impressive, and MCOH attendees were able to find some nice shade trees to hang out under. MCOH attendees were awarded a total of 8 awards: 3 CLASS WINNERS, 2 CLASS AWARDS, BEST ENGINE COMPARTMENT, BEST INTERIOR, and the SAFEPLACE CHARITY CHOICE AWARD. More pictures are are provided by Matt Bleakley. (CLICK HERE). Thanks to all who were able to join MCOH for the trip to Austin! Thanks Matt for the pictures.

MCOH board members attended the Wednesday August 27, 2008 Great Day Houston - Debra Duncan  TV show broadcast on KHOU Channel 11 from 9AM - 10AM. President Les Blankenship and Vice President Pete Sigwardt introduced 9 MCOH Mustangs on a show about how the Ford Mustang fits into "the 50 Biggest and Best" in Houston.

A number of MCOH members took their Mustangs out Saturday October 11, 2008 for an informal group run to the Brenham Art Show and the Chappel Hill Scare Crow Festival. Later that evening we met at Niftee 50ees to hand out MCOH Car Show Flyers. It was a fun day.

Jim Swenke accepts the Mac Haik Ford  Choice Award from Mac Haik General New Car Sales Manager Greg Jones for his  "Icon Ford Muscle Car" 1969 Boss 429  - April 4, 2009 MCOH Car Show

SUPER SHOW ! We had a huge turnout of nearly 180 registered and display-only participants in the Spring 2009 MCOH Special Mustang 45th Anniversary All Ford Car Show held at Mac Haik Ford! We prepared the parking lot for about 125 participants on Friday evening. By Saturday at 9:30 am the lot area we had cleared and marked was full and we had to ask our hosts at Mac Haik Ford to clear more of the new car inventory off their lot to accommodate the tremendous turnout for this show. By noon cutoff of registration we had parked entries all over the Mac Haik Ford new car lot ! The entire Mac Haik Ford host team lead by General Manager Bob Zweig, General Sales Manager Greg Jones and Sales Manager Ron Roeder did a tremendous job helping us host the multi-hundreds of participants during the day. Greg Jones lead the complimentary lunch-for-all cooking team and kept the BBQ going from about 10 am on until everyone had lunch. The burgers were outstanding - complimented with fresh garnishes, chips and soft drinks and water for all. General Manager Bob Zweig cut the official Mustang 45th Anniversary cake at 1:30 pm after which it was served to our participants in time to allow us to start trophy/awards  presentations at 3:30 pm. It was a great day !

MCOH SPRING CAR SHOW PICTURES - CLICK HERE

MCOH  members and participants from the AMERICAN PONY DRIVE 2009 met for dinner in Houston on April 22, 2009 at Larry's BBQ. The Pony Drive is an organized tour of the USA with a stopover at the MCA Mustang 45th Celebration. It is organized by David Turnbull. Information is available at www.ponydrive.us.

MCOH members participated in the 2009 AEROS & AUTOS car show at Ellington Field.  Member Charles Alexander was awarded BEST OF SHOW for his 1967 Mustang GTA convertible "P-51 Stallion." Congrats !

 

 

Some Stories from MCA Mustang 45th

MCOH member Tom Patterson completed the reinstallation of his rebuilt 390 cid engine in his 1967 Mustang on Saturday June 13th. Attending Tom Patterson's  ENGINE INSTALL PARTY at Keith Howard's warehouse were MCOH INSTALL TEAM members Les Blankenship (suffered wrench bashing to his hard head), Ed Hockaday, Keith Howard, Mike Brend, Mike Young, Don & Tim Francis, Greg Miles, and Greg White. Becky Howard, Robyn Brend and Rosemary Patterson kept things on track for a record setting efficient 390 re-install ......... ENGINE RUNS SUPER ...GREAT JOB TEAM !

MCOH members attended the Saturday AM June 6, 2009  Coffee & Cars held near Post Oak Blvd Houston. Nice turnout of cars on a beautiful morning.

MUSTANG CLUB OF HOUSTON RECEIVES MCA PRESIDENT'S AWARD

Mustang Club of America President Steven McCarley and MCA National Board Member Ed Hockaday presented the MCA PRESIDENT'S AWARD to the Mustang Club of Houston for outstanding achievement and devotion to the Mustang hobby and service to the community for the year of 2008 during the May 17, 2009 MCOH Monthly Meeting.

 

MCOH members Tracy & Ellis Stern attended the Beaumont Bringin back Memories Car Show benefiting the local Humane Society on Saturday June 13, 2009. Tracy and Ellis were both Award Wnners.

 Celebration

 Vaughn Gitten Drifting VIDEO

Mustangs Across America Cruise

Original Mustang Owners

69 BOSS 302 Originally Purchased by Chrysler

Barber Motorsports Museum

1966 Hertz after 20 Years Idle

 

MCOH Members attended the Kinsel Ford Wildhorse Mustang Club Car Show on May 16, 2009 in Beaumont, Texas

MCOH Members attended the Budweiser Classic car show on May 2, 2009.

 

MCOH member Matt Bleakley attended the Houston Astros car Show on May 26, 2009 at MinuteMaid  Park.

MCOH members attended the Still Creek Boys & Girls Ranch Fundraiser/informal car show and auction on Saturday May 16th near Bryan-College Station. 15 of 75 total entries in the first car show at the ranch were MCOH members. The event was very successful as a fund raiser &  was the first car show held at the ranch for the boys and girls. The Trophies were hand-made by the boys in their woodshop.   CLICK HERE FOR STILL CREEK PICTURES

MCOH attendees at the MCA Mustang 45th Anniversary Celebration in Birmingham, Alabama had a great time. We are sharing pictures using the link below. Birmingham Pictures Posted . Additional pictures from attendees welcome. New member Louis Zamudio's 2008 Shelby GT is shown above at Barber Motorsports Park.

Barber Motorsports Park On-track time........VIDEO EXAMPLE - CLICK HERE

 

 

 

 

2009 MCOH BLUEBONNET CRUISE TO BRENHAM TEXAS

Thanks to all who had a chance to join for for our fun March 22 Bluebonnet Cruise to Brenham Texas. We had over 90 attendees (plus two dogs) in 45 Mustangs and 3 other vehicles ! We enjoyed the picnic lunch together at Fireman's Park with time to visit and introduce everyone. Special thanks to our MCOH members Johnnie & Marilyn Schroeder who reserved the park for us and provided attendees with BLUEBELL ICE CREAM for dessert.  Also, thanks to Tom Mallette for doing a super job leading the cruise in his vintage 1989 Texas DPS Special Service Mustang. Also, thanks to Rashann Fontenot for the pop-quiz on Mustangs/MCOH members trivia. More pictures will be posted ( CLICK HERE).

 

MCOH Attends Coffee & Cars - March 7, 2009

Dyno Day Results - February 21, 2009

Wow ! What a great turnout Saturday.

Our sincere Thanks go to STRICTLY PERFORMANCE - 8127 Easthaven, Houston, TX 77034 (713) 910-0111. We got 17 cars on their DynoJet Chassis Dyno ranging from 1965 Mustangs to 2007 late models . We had 1st generation Mustangs, Fox bodies, late models, a Shelby GT, and even a 68 Mustang Cobra Jet big block. We ran from about 9 a.m. until about 3 p.m. The overall Rear Wheel Horsepower range of the 17 participants was 147 hp to 448 hp. The winner of the hp/torque guessing game pool was William Cesak.

Ed Hockaday is on the MCA National Board of Directors. 

MCOH members Roman Collins  (L) and Tom Mallette (R) were Special Service Mustang Class Award Winners at the Wild Horse Mustang Club Car Show in Beaumont on May 17, 2008.

MCOH member Roman Collins held the Joe P. Collins Memorial Car Show on May 3, 2008 in Lufkin in memory of his father. Proceeds from the show went to the Hospice in the Pines. The event was well attended and MCOH members Tom Mallette and Pete & Sharon Sigwardt participated. Tom Mallete's Special Service 1989 Mustang took a Class Winner Trophy. Pete & Sharon Sigwardt's 2005 Mustang GT received a Class Award.

Niftee 50ees Cruise Nite turnout on Saturday March 15, 2008 was great. We had  25 cars and about 60 attendees.