August 9th Marjorie Post Park, Unqua Road, Massapequa, 7pm (business meeting). Refreshments will be served. (click for map)
August 18th Hauppauge Palace Diner, 7pm. Located at the corner of Rt. #111 and eastbound side of Rt 347 in Hauppauge. (click for map)
Upcoming events:
Saturday, August 14th The Beach Hut Cruise Night at Cedar Beach, Ocean Parkway (Fire Island), Babylon, NY Cruise night starts at 5:00 PM and goes until sunset. Club members will meet at Cedar Beach. Information on the cruise can be found at www.thebeachhuts.com. This is another great way to spend a summer evening at the beach. There will be live entertainment, food and drinks available. There is no cutoff date for the cars at this cruise.
Sunday, August 15th Nassau County Cruise To The Show Parade & Car Show Those members wishing to participate in the parade will meet at 8:00AM at the Nassau County Supreme Court House, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY. The parade will leave from that location to head for the car show at Eisenhower Park at 9:00AM. If you want to participate in the car show only it begins at 11:00AM at Eisenhower Park and you can meet up with the club parade participants there. Rain date is Sunday, August 22, 2010. Early registration, by August 1, 2010 is $10.00. Day of show registration is $30.00. You can get more information at www.cruisetotheshow.com.
Saturday, August 21, 2010 Woodward Dream Cruise The wait is over! We are off to cruise legendary Woodward Avenue with 30,000 other car nuts and over one million spectators. Club members will be displaying their cars as part of the Ford sponsored display of 600 Mustangs known as MUSTANG ALLEY. We have also been lucky enough to be chosen to participate in a day at the Ford Proving Track where we will take a parade lap around the track with our personal cars, get to take high speed laps with Ford's professional test drivers in anything from a Shelby GT500 to a 750 HP Ford GT and also drive Ford's vehicles on the Vehicle Dynamics Course. It's going to be a great weekend and it's still not too late to join us and make the trip to Detroit for this event. You can check out this event at www.woodwarddreamcruise.com.
Sunday, August 28th Annual Mustang event at Port Jefferson Village Center Open to ALL club members and their cars. Park and display your car at the Village Center and enjoy the amenities of the "Village on the Sound". 12 noon-8:00PM Please R.S.V.P. Contact Rich Carlsen / 631.988.0988 cell
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Past events:
Sunday, July 18th Cruise to the LI Thunderbird Club Show at Syosset Ford A group of cars met up at the Syosset Library to cruise to the show. More members met up with the cruising group at the show for a total of 15 members. Many of the attending member cars won trophies!
Monday, July 12th Annual MSCLI BBQ Around 75 members and their families turned out for our annual BBQ during the monthly business meeting at Marjorie Post Park in Massapequa. Food and drinks were be provided by the club, cooked and served by your board members. All on hand had a good time!
Friday, July 9th The Beach Hut Classic Car Cruise Night, Meschutt Beach, Hampton Bays, NY A small group braved the threatening weather and made the trip out to The Beach Hut in Hampton Bays. It was a fun time until the skies opened!
Monday, July 5th Port Jefferson Independence Day parade Port Jefferson, NY 15 cars came out to show the club's colors in the Port Jefferson Independence Day parade. Thanks to all who braved the heat!
Sunday, June 27th Sunday morning cruise-in, OBI Parking Lot, Ocean Parkway A weekly destination for many of our club members is the Sunday morning cruise to OBI.
Sunday, June 13th MSCLI / Lucas Ford Mustang and Steeda Stampede MSCLI's first show of the season saw 127 cars brave some early morning showers to attend the Fourth Annual Lucas Ford Mustang and Steeda Stampede. Thanks to member and club sponsor Howie Lucas for being a gracious host, as usual. Thanks also to the many volunteers who helped to make the show a success. Next time we are going to have great weather and 200 cars!
Sunday, June 13th Crusin' to the Stampede 52 cars total cruised to the 4th annual Lucas Ford Mustang and Steeda Stampede. 24 cars met up at the Park and Ride at exit 49 and cruised out to exit 63 where 28 more cars joined the cruise out to Southold. What a great turnout!
Sunday, May 16th Cruise to Car-B-Que 15 members cruised to the car show sponsored by the LI GTO club at Crab Meadow Beach in Northport, NY. We had 12 trophy winners!!!
Sunday, April 18th Spring Dust-off Cruise We headed off island to the Spring 2010 Show & Swap Meet at Englishtown (Raceway Park) in Englishtown, New Jersey.
Saturday, January 29th Karts Indoor Raceway Our annual return to Karts. Seven members plus friends and family enjoyed close quarters cart racing. Mark this on your calendar for next year - it's a blast!
Saturday, January 9th Annual Holiday Dinner Party at Milleridge Inn, Jericho, NY 60+ attended the annual formal dinner. The food was fantastic, the Inn was fully decked out for the holidays and all had a great time. Join us next year!
Sunday, November 8 Cruise to Montauk The final cruise of the season to "The End" saw over 30 cars (and their owners) meet up at the California Diner in Patchogue for breakfast and then head out to the lighthouse. It was a glorious November day; it was best weather we have ever had for the Montauk cruise! It was great to end the cruising season on such a high note after all the problems we had with rain this year.
Sunday, October 25 Second Annual MSCLI Poker Run 27 "players" in 21 cars joined in on a spectacular late October day. Stop one was Caliber Collision where Andy provided bagels and coffee. Stop two was L & B Lincoln Mercury. Stop three was Appel Auto Service where Kevin and Kathy provided coffee and awesome homemade cookies in the shapes of diamonds, hearts, clubs and spades. Stop four was Mike G's Perfection Auto Body where there was more coffee and donuts. Nobody was falling asleep at the wheel today! Stop five was Lucas Ford where we had a nice lunch an awards ceremony and everybody left with a pumpkin courtesy of Howie Lucas. Tommy @ T.J.'s Auto Body could not participate as a stop at the Poker Run but graciously donated two $50.00 gift cards.
The winners were: First place ($135) - Eric Crespolini with a flush Second place ($50 gas card from T.J.'s Auto Body ) - Zachary Zwerin with three Aces Third place ("needs resto" Boss 302 diecast donated by Mike G's Perfection Auto Body ) - Ken Walsh with three deuces
Wild card winners: Rick Wertz - L&B donated "rebate card" Carl Vosen - $50 gas card from T.J.'s Auto body Mike Basile - Appel Auto Service oil change gift certificate
High Count - Rob Crespolini (69 Shelby diecast donated by Mike G's Perfection Auto body ) and Steve Applebaum (L&B "rebate card")
Low Count - Mike Walsh (Appel oil change gift certificate)
Most money spent with Lucas Ford in the last 24 months - Mark Zwerin (Appel oil change gift certificate )
Sunday, October 18 MSCLI cruise to the OBI
Sunday, October 4th L & B Lincoln Mercury MSCLI Mustang Show West Babylon, NY 60 plus cars came out on a glorious October day after the show was moved to the October 4 rain date. Thanks to all who attended, a big thanks to L&B Lincoln Mercury and thanks to all the volunteers who make these shows work.
Sunday, September 13th MSCLI Display at the Port Jefferson Village Center 53 cars were on display celebrating the introduction of the Mustang, the New York World's Fair and the opening of Shea Stadium. It was a beautiful day on the harbor in Port Jefferson. Thanks to all members who participated.
Saturday, August 22nd Annual MSCLI B-B-Q Lake Grove, NY Annual MSCLI B-B-Q hosted by club president, Carl Vosen. Members and their families brought their cars and their appetites to enjoy friendship and food!
Saturday, August 15th MSCLI Cruise to The Beach Hut at Cedar Beach Babylon, NY MSCLI cruise to the Beach Hut at Cedar Beach
Sunday, August 2nd MSCLI Cruise to Jamesport Vineyards Jamesport, NY MSCLI cruised to Jamesport Vineyards. Ten members met at the 7-11 at the LIE and Route 112 and cruised together to the Riverhead meeting location where we met up with the other participating club members. A final group of 23 cars (22 Mustangs and one Galaxy 500) made the short cruise to the vineyard from Riverhead. The rain held off all afternoon and it proved to be a very enjoyable and relaxing day with the members enjoying each other's company, the winery tour and wine tasting provided by the vineyard and lunch provided by the club. Unfortunately the trip home proved to be a wet one as everyone heading west ran into the rain at about exit 68 of the LIE. But a good time was had by all! (click here to view photo gallery)
Friday, July 24th MSCLI Cruise to The Beach Hut at Meschuett Beach Hampton Bays, NY MSCLI's Annual trip to the cruise night at Meschutt Beach in Hampton Bays, NY.
Tuesday, June 23rd MSCLI Cruise to Bald Hill Cruise Night Farmingville, NY
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