MAFCA website offers new feature to MAFCA members

[DougVieyra]

The latest issue of the MAFCA RESTORER Magizine mentions a new feature on their website (www.mafca.com) for 'Members Only'. I gave it a test spin today, and found it to be promising, and well worth a look for you MAFCA members.

This latest effort by MAFCA to enhance benefits to their members, serves to remind me of the great benefit to all, when there is COMPETITION !.

While the MAFCA website had been generally recognized as being superior to the MARC website, I see that MARC has now up-graded their website to bring it up to much higher value than it had previously. And now the MAFCA website moves forward with yet another value to their members.

With the recent discussion on Ford Barn about the merging of the two clubs, I find the idea of COMPETITION a great thing - both for capitalism AND for Model A Ford clubs.

- Doug Vieyra, MAFCA member 1965-2015 ; MARC member 1965-2000

[newshirt]

What are the 'members only' features?

[Tiny]

Originally Posted by newshirt

What are the 'members only' features?

You have to be a member to find out

[Mikeinnj]

Originally Posted by newshirt

What are the 'members only' features?

"In the future, we will add more to this part of the MAFCA website to include clip art and articles on fashion and technical issues for Chapter Newsletter Editors!"....... just what we need, more articles on fashion.

[MikeK]

Originally Posted by Mikeinnj

..... just what we need, more articles on fashion.

Yes, we do need more articles on fashion. Especially men's fashions during the era. You may have no interest in presenting the complete picture by being appropriately dressed in a Model A, but others do!

[modelAsteve]

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When they accept F.A.S.T. back in as a Special Interest Group I might be interested!

[DougVieyra]

I suspect F.A.S.T. may represent a noticeable and significant departure from the core reason for the formation of MAFCA - the restoration of the Ford Model A. Lots of room in the definition of 'restoration' - but I suspect that F.A.S.T. reaches beyond the accepted norm.

“If it does not look like a duck, walk like a duck, talk like a duck – it probably is not a duck.” - W.C. Fields

- Doug Vieyra

[DougVieyra]

newshirt (post # 2): "What are the 'members only' features?"
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While some of the site's information is highly classified and must by cleared by both the CIA and the FBI, I can share with you at least some of the new site's features:
- Technical Articles
- Technical Q. & A.
- Technical Drawings
- Technical Utube Videos
- Seminar Handouts
- MAFCA Member's Email, Sorted by both Location and Last Name
(that is - for those members who chose to release the information)

These are just SOME of the new features available to MAFCA members; there are more that I have not mentioned, and as has been mentioned before, there are more coming.

- Doug Vieyra, Eureka, CAlif

Disclaimer: (I own no stock or have any financial interest in this organization). - I am just a passer-by-er, passing on gossip.

[boomerusmc]

Can't wait to check it out...as soon as my Restorer gets here

[modelAsteve]

Doug you are right! But, the next thread may just be "WHY AREN'T ANY YOUNG PEOPLE JOINING THE CLUB?" I can give you a few ideas! When I go to a meet I draw a much bigger crowd of young people than the cars being judged. When I go to regional and national meets there were many more people at the Performance forum vs the Fashion seminar. I love driving my Model A Fords and I hope you do also! Please come over to our FAST Hill Climb in Auburn on April 25th- I got a class for you!

[DougVieyra]

F.A.S.T and Ford Model A are different.

I recognize that "FAST" stands for exhilaration, speed, thrills (and spills).
All of which equals = YOUTH !

"Model A" stands for old people who bask and reflect in nostalgia and the warm glow of a tranquil world of times past = OLD

Yes, I recognize that there is a difference - in product and in market place.

Unfortunately, it is a very tricky thing to merge the two without sacrificing the core values of each.

And in MY youth, I did spend time racing Model T's up Signal Hill in Long Beach, and trying to keep my '31 Roadster on par with Ed Archer's T Speedster on the Hayward-Oakland 580 Freeway. And in my past (long past) I owned both a Miller-Shofield and a Cragar OHV engine, with close friends who had Christies, Two-stick Hals, 2 & 4 Port Rileys, etc. I grew up with Dirt Track racers, like Curley Wells, Bob Owens, Clem & Vic Sala & Carl Schmit.

I thoroughly enjoyed my youth - but I also am thoroughly enjoying my 'golden years', with the tranquility of a Stock Model A. (Of course, I STILL have a suped-up 4-banger 'Driver' for my required 60 MPH highway speeds - but it looks completely stock on the outside, and mostly so on under the hood)

- Doug Vieyra

[mshmodela]

Originally Posted by MikeK

Yes, we do need more articles on fashion. Especially men's fashions during the era. You may have no interest in presenting the complete picture by being appropriately dressed in a Model A, but others do!

I was thinking of getting a straw hat and blue overalls for driving my A...

[MikeK]

Originally Posted by mshmodela

I was thinking of getting a straw hat and blue overalls for driving my A...

Excellent. Then you may wish to look through the numerous books and guides to era fashion. There's a BIG difference between details of '29 and much later overalls. Stitching and fasteners on overalls have changed drastically over the years. Same with the hat and everything else you wear. Nothing looks as trashy and detracts from a model A as much as making an appearance dressed like it's '59!

[fiddlybits]

I just wear my 1886 cowboy apparel and take the spurs off. (ok, I leave the Colt 45's off also)

[modelAsteve]

Doug: I kinda suspected you were one of us! I was I the LB Model T Club from 64 till about 90. I finally got a speedster running and that was the year they canceled the climb.
Have a great one! Steve
Come over to our hill climb in Auburn on April 25th!