Inside this Issue

FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK

New Members 2

Birthdays & Anniversaries

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Coming Your Way

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Meeting Minutes 4

My First Race Car!

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Sponsor Pages 15

Club Application

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Club Badge Ordering Form

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Featured Pony In the GCCM Corral

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20 Surprising Things Everyone

Forgets About The Ford

Mustang #18

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Tulsa, OK March 2019

Founded 1980

Greetings fellow Mustang enthusiasts!! Thanks to Roger Bymun and the 29 GCCM show entries we had another successful and fun time at the annual Darryl Starbird’s National Rod & Custom Car Show in February. We had old, current and new members join us this year! Having the club trailer on site was a huge benefit. See page 3 for Roger’s article… I don’t want to give any spoilers!! Roger will be informing us soon regarding the annual Tulsa Auto Show in April. The show falls on the week of the 55th Mustang Anniversary. Our friends in the OKC club tell me there are two Mustang caravans that will be in the OKC area that week passing through Oklahoma south of Tulsa on Interstate 40 on their way to the Mustang Owner’s Museum in Concord NC. The MOM group will be in Yukon OK on the 12th meeting at the local A&W Root Beer establishment from 5pm-8pm. A&W is celebrating their 100th anniversary. The other group known as the GAPD55 group will be meeting for dinner at the Belle Isle Brewery in OKC the same evening at 7pm. There is rumor one of these groups may come through Tulsa to visit us at the Expo during the Tul-sa Auto Show. OMC has created a t-shirt for the 2019 April 17th if anyone is interested. Don’t forget, if you need a new club badge or don’t have one yet… you can order via the form on page 19 of this newsletter or go-online at gccmustangs.com via our Merchandise link on the left side of the page. If you are aware of news… events, projects community opportunities… get the details to your newsletter editor and or any board member. If we don’t know about it… neither will the rest of the membership. We are still looking for the “Featured Pony in the GCCM Cor-ral” articles. Don’t miss the one we have this month on page 8. Our club Hallett track expert and driver instructor has provided an additional article for this month’s issue. Read what Jerry has to share on page 9. See you at a meeting or an event soon!! Mustangs Rule! John Hemby

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New Members

Frank & Jana Chastain

Broken Arrow OK

‘18 Black Ecoboost

‘94 Red GT

‘70 Fastback

Timothy & Leah Berry

Tulsa OK

‘95 Black on black “Gold”

GT Conver,ble

Ward Harris

Faye/eville AR

‘67 Clearwater Aqua Coupe

Jim & Becky Barnhart

Liberty KS

‘65 Blue Fastback

‘19 Blue GT Vert

Rahim Awe II

Tulsa OK

'14 Black GT

03/03 - Millie Ramsey 03/08 - Paula Frerichs 03/10 - Bob Miller 03/11 - Art & Paula Frerichs 03/12 - John Eaton 03/12 - Melody Ecklar 03/13 - Alan Stretesky 03/14 - Lauren Fritz 03/15 - Andrew Harlan 03/15 - James & Sarah Rahi 03/19 - Justin Laird 03/23 - Richard Herrmann 03/29 - Jim & Jan Massey 03/30 - Larry Love

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First, Thank you to all GCCM members who participated in or contributed to our Club Display in this year's Starbird Custom & Rod Show. The Starbird family has thanked us for our continued support and acknowledged the importance of Club groups in their event. The addition of our Club trailer added extra ap-peal to our display and expedited set up and tear down too. Thank you to Jamie and Franca for managing the trailer, not a simple task. I wish to list the participants, not in particular order and not to minimize the support of unmentioned spouses. We had 29 final entries registered... myself, Derek Fritz, Jamie and Franca Johnson, Mel Little, David Bringaze, Doug Goggans, John Brawley, Charles Overgard (2), Bill Brewer, Bob Huntsinger, Rachel Granado, Ward Harris, Melvin Little, Todd Little, Gabriel Rossainz, Billy Jenkins, John Hemby, George Walker, Mike and LeNora Bean, Jim Barnhart, Scott Cool, Troy and Cary Rushing, Bob Eck-land, Tim Berry, Joe Berkley and Jenn Barnette, and David and Sherry Johnson. Jerry and Cheri Bergeron and Steve and Rita Young registered but were unable to attend. We missed them there. We had a plan going in and set up went fast and pretty smoothly. Everyone arrived on time and lined up in good order. Again, Thank you. The banners on our new trailer added a new dimension and we had a nice gathering area with water and snacks... and Bob brought the "Big Chair". The Club gained some new members and our new brochures were distributed to the public. I believe classifications have been opened up some because we had several winners in multiple classes John may have a separate posting of individuals and placement but we had an impressive showing of 15 plaque recipi-ents ranging 1st to 3rd and a 2nd place Best Club Display. The Tulsa Chevy Classics took a 3rd . We were only bested by "Trailer Trash" (their words, not mine). A group of vintage trailers and tow vehicles that did have a new and appealing display. We thoroughly enjoyed seeing Horny Mike of Counts Kustoms, Gene Winfield, and car celebrities pro-vided by Starbird Productions as well as Transformer "BumbleBee". Many photos and signatures resulted. The Counts 77 band played Friday night with Danny of Counts Kustoms as well. There are more stories so ask your friends who were there. I'm sure I can't recount them all. I appreciate the Club and Board for my involvement in this event. Twenty years in this show now and I still anticipate the next. Thank you all. See pages 13 & 14 for pictures of participant Mustangs. Roger Bymun

March 2nd - Lunch Cruise to Arnold’s Hamburgers 5th - GCCM General Meeting - Oklahoma Joe’s BBQ 61st & Sheridan 6:30pm 16th - Car Show @ Tulsa Air & Space Museum 26th - GCCM Board Meeting - Oklahoma Joe’s BBQ 61st & Sheridan 6:30pm 29th - Sprint Racing - Port City Raceway 29th/31st - Mustangs Take Flight Nationals

April 2nd - GCCM General Meeting - Oklahoma Joe’s BBQ 61st & Sheridan 6:30pm 5th/6th - HST (HPDE) Hallett 12th/14th - The Tulsa Auto Show 19th/20th - Tulsa Swap Meet @ Creek County Fairgrounds 23rd - GCCM Board Meeting - Oklahoma Joe’s BBQ 61st & Sheridan 6:30pm 26th/28th - HST (HPDE) Hallett

2019 GCCM Starbird Rod & Custom Show!!

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Green Country Classic Mustangs General Meeting February 5, 2019

OK Joe’s BBQ Restaurant

Opening - John Hemby opened the meeting at 6:31pm w/ 42 in attendance Welcome - • Sponsors - Mustang1; The Magnusson Team and Matthews Ford (a new Bullitt arrived today • New members - The Berry’s and Faith’s joined us tonight • Guests - Joe, Jenn and Savanah and Cecil Burger Congratulations to member Shelby Siegman… is now a licensed Aircraft Mechanic! Treasurer Report - Mary gave treasurer report on club account Secretary Report - Minutes approved and accepted as written. Insurance quote was presented without follow up questions. Waiting on additional quotes VP Report - • 3/16 TASM Free Show - 10-2 Free Admission to museum. There will be one award presented at

1pm, and @ 2pm pictures of cars with plane. Open to ALL MUSTANGS. They will have a hospi-tality room available to us.

• Round up Show - Mabee center possibility, also in talks with Mid-America to possibly combine show with Shelby week! Father’s Day weekend 6/16/19. Track events will be early Saturday evening, next year talking about moving show to Saturday morning.

Current Business • Appointed positions - Membership - Jim Miller; Historian - Ken Calvert; Christmas Party - Still

open! No Director = No Party! • Sponsorship - Mel Little asked everyone to think of places you eat, hang out, etc, businesses

with large parking lots like QT, Smitty’s Garage, etc, those can be possible show & shine loca-tions. Every dollar helps to raise more money for Charity of Choice!!! Sponsorship form is on table and on website. Better potential for MCA National show in future. Sponsorship year is from January 1 to December 31 year they initially sponsor. Hand out our business cards to po-tential sponsors, remember they don’t have to sign up with the most expensive package at the beginning, but with everyone’s help we should be able to bring in all kinds of sponsors! Feel free to mention to potential sponsors our charity LLH, what they do and who they provide ser-vices for. Franca will create a flyer and get them to us with more information. DON’T FORGET IT COSTS MONEY TO HAVE FUN! MORE MONEY MORE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• John will be redoing our business cards with all our information on it, with a follow up on the different social media sites listed.

• Starbird - Roger talked with Christy and they agreed we have 31 cars our & trailer. Joe B is sign-ing up tomorrow along with Sherry & David Johnson. We won’t know until Monday night when our move in day is, Roger to send email. Mel suggested Roger remind Christy the size of our group giving us early entry access. Roger said they really appreciate us coming out in force eve-ry year. Move in day please line up 64½ -19. Meet North side of building, bring your letter with you. Will need exhibitor sticker to get in. Please everyone stay until we are all set up. If you can’t stay, please give your keys to someone that can move your car around if needed.

• Gas tanks ¼ full limit, taped up gas tank, and unhook battery. Never heard of anyone having issue, Electric not available - Late models, not worried on tanks that automatically lock. Bob will have big red chair. Roger & Jamie to hang banners on trailer. Will email closer to time of show.

Track News - nothing to report MCA & Parade News - Ron Watkins/Mel Little/Billy Henson • Met last Thurs to talk about National show with Randy from Mid America. Talks progressed to

merging our annual show with Mid-America, where they handle all track events and we would handle registration and show. Where Mid-America Sunday show resides now will not work for 4-day show. National show requires 2-yr advance for MCA show approval.

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• Steve Armstrong - Website for Shelby meet per website MCA driving event. Work together for 2 years. Hotel for Mid America has room for over 300 cars.

• Troy - No on Casino’s - could not get dates needed. • Houston National - cruise Friday night to boardwalk, here will be over 300 going to NASA dinner. New Business • Newsletter - John reminded everyone he needs articles. Todd Little replied he had one. John to

grab after meeting. • New Club Brochure - 500 color tri-fold to be at Starbird, these can also be used for sponsorship

opportunities. Big thanks to Troy for getting them printed at a reduced price. • Social Media - Attract new members, we have Facebook, pushing Snapchat, YouTube & Insta-

Gram. Just around the Bend February • 14th Valentine’s Day • 14th-17th Starbird • 23rd Bowling @ Andy B’s with OPF, please call OPF to make reservations • 26th Board Meeting March • 2nd Last Chance to eat Arnold’s • 5th General Meeting • 16th TASM • 26th Board Meeting • 29th Sprint Racing - Port City • 29th-31st National show Houston Open Floor Prize Drawings • $10.00 Dinner - Melvin Little • 50/50 - Keith Faith Meeting Adjourned at 7:38 pm by John Hemby

Green Country Classic Mustangs Board Meeting February 26, 2019

OK Joe’s BBQ Restaurant

Opening - The Board Meeting was called to order at 6:30 by John Hemby Present - 10 Board Members (Ron Magnusson ill) & 2 guests. Melvin suggested we have a second annual club picnic in September in lieu of the annual Round-Up. John reminded everyone Steve Young is still our Pastoral Care Director and manages the club badg-es. Treasurer report - Mary reported the current status of the club account. In addition she reported we are losing money on the club badges due to low monthly requests and high handling and mail-ing expenses. Roger will check with a local vendor. We will either find someone local or have to raise the badge price to cover the cost at the March Board meeting. Secretary report - Cary reported we are waiting on a couple of quotes including Heacock for our liability insurance needs

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VP Report - • We reviewed replies of questions submitted to Mid-America team. Meeting with them to follow

up is being scheduled. • Stang Thang show - Show date is 3/16 10 am -2 pm. Waiting on flyer from Museum Current Business • Starbird - 29 cars + trailer. Everything went well considering circumstances beyond our con-

trol. Club activity good for the show, they are extremely happy that we continue to go back each year. We came in 2nd for club participation, 1st place was a club of trailers, so out of clubs with actual cars, we were #1!

• Mustangs 55th celebration - Mustang Owners Museum (MOM) in North Carolina - 2 groups driv-ing thru Tulsa around same time of Tulsa Auto show. Trying to put something together where we can meet up with them at the Expo and hang out for a few hours. We should know more closer to time for this event. In the meantime, they are meeting in Yukon and OKC on April 12th prior to heading east.

• Trailer - getting quotes together to get the Trailer wrapped with GCCM. Franca getting those together and will present when she gets enough information from quotes.

• Steve Armstrong reported a cruise in/ show & shine in Stillwater 4/13/19 is in the works. Will have more information closer to event.

• Christmas Director - thanks to John Brawley who has accepted the position • Sponsorship form - did a final review… Mel had a couple of questions regarding participation

and goody bag packages. Want to understand for educational purposes New Business • Matthew’s Ford Show n Shine tentatively scheduled for 5/4. • M6A national show on 5/4 in Dallas for interested V6 owners. • John brought copies of new business cards voted as favorite of four submitted; motion to ac-

cept & approve passed. John to get new cards printed. Should have them soon. • Farewell to Arnold’s is this Saturday. We are going to try to get there early, since they have

been extremely busy since the closure announcement was made. Troy to submit email • Mary & Franca found us some awesome little keychains with GCCM on them. Will be giving

them out to new members. • Reviewed newly written SOP for New Member Processing procedure; approved and signed off. • Roger looking into venue for pending Bingo/Chili night Adjournment - Meeting was adjourned at 7:54 by John Hemby

Oklahoma family asks for birthday cards for WWII veteran with cancer… A family in Marlow Ok is asking people to send birthday cards to a World War II vet. KSWO reports that Recil Troxel, who lives in Marlow, is turning 93 on April 17… the birthday of the Ford Mus-tang. “He sits here in this chair looking out the window every day,” his daughter Liz Anderson said. “When the mail is here, he’s like the mail is here, we better go get the mail.” The WWII vet is under-going cancer treatment, and his family is looking for a way to make him happy. “At that age, if you get something in the mail, you’re just excited because at that age you don’t get bills anymore,” she said. “So, it’s just something exciting for him.” Anyone who would like to send him a card can mail it to 2684 North Highway 81 Marlow, Oklahoma 73055.

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Source: Hotcars.com

20 Surprising Things Everyone Forgets

About The Ford Mustang

#17 - Super Snake

Hearing the words “custom built” is a car lover's dream. Something that's

completely original and designed for the owner's specific needs and desires is a

guaranteed head-turner on the streets.

There have been many custom Mustangs through the years, but none are as

valuable as the 1967 Shelby GT500 Super Snake.

The car was one of a kind, and sold for $1.3 million in 2013. Don McCain, a

Shelby sales exec, had a conversa3on with Carroll Shelby and suggested a highly

-tuned Mustang that could compete with the supercars of its day. The result

was the gorgeous and high-speed Super Snake, that achieved 170 miles per

hour on the track.

Source: Hotcars.com

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"The Green Machine" is a 1965 Mustang Fastback that was built by my daughter,

Lyndsey Li8le. Lyndsey designed this sen3mental, one of a kind Mustang when she was

only twelve years old. I promised Lyndsey that when she turned fourteen years old she

would be able to rebuild her own car under the condi3ons that she did two things: raise

money herself to purchase the vehicle and rebuild it herself.

Lyndsey surfed through the world wide web to find the car of her dreams. She found

a picture of a neon green with black stripes 1965 Shelby GT 350 Clone. I was a li8le

overwhelmed with the contrast of colors and how unique it appeared, but it definitely

reflected my daughter's personality.

She immediately began work at our local restora3on shop when she was not at

school to save up the money to afford her dream car. The next two years she worked

extremely hard and started to learn valuable informa3on about classic Mustangs while

raising money.

Two months a>er she turned fourteen she found the Mustang she was going to

restore. The vehicle's price reflected it's quality, three-hundred dollars. She found the car

rus3ng away in a field in Silom Springs, Arkansas and could not have been happier to see

the challenge ahead of her. Lyndsey and I travelled to Siloam Springs, picked up her dream

car, and began our journey home.

We finally made it home and she started on the car immediately. She stripped the

car of every bolt it had and prepared it for the blas3ng and sheet metal specialists.

~Todd Li8le

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My First Race Car: (Part 7) by Jerry Bergeron I love Mustangs! I love running Mustangs on a road course. However Mustangs are expensive to track. Car & track modifications were $60,000. Tires are $1800 a set and I go through 2 to 3 sets a year. Front brake rotors are $800 per set (2 sets per year) and rear rotors are $98 per set (1 set per year). Brake pads are $425 per set (2 sets per year). Oil & filter change $200 twice per year. Nut & bolt after each event $200 plus miscellaneous repairs that vary from $1000 to $3000 per year. As you can see it is “NOT” priceless as the credit card commercial says! Note, the Boss302 is not a “Race Car” but just an HPDE track car. So why did I buy a 1991 SM Miata to race when Mustangs are my first love? Purchase 1991 SM Miata race car $12,500 (ready to race) including 4 sets of wheels & tires, spare hood, extra race seat & a bunch of spare parts. Tires cost $920 per set (1 set per season). Front and rear brake rotors $25 each which last all season. Brake pads are $300 per set (1 set per season). Oils & filter $75 twice per year. Nut & bolt I do myself. Now that makes racing affordable! So how can you have fun in a 110 horsepower car after running 500 to 600 horsepower cars for over ten years? Well, you may have time to read a book going down the straight-a-way in the Miata but surprisingly the Miata is nearly as fast as the Mustang in the corners. Yes, the lateral G-Force and speed at the apex is close between the 2 cars. The Miata has no ABS, no power steering or electrics to compensate for you lack of ability as a driver. You truly are the “Wheel Man” in a Miata! The Mustang is a very powerful car with lots of horsepower & torque. You can use the Mustang’s pow-er to make up for driving mistakes, assuming you are still on track and not mowing the grass in one of the turns. On the other hand the Miata is known as a momentum car. A momentum car is one which is lacking in horsepower & torque so it is of extreme importance you maintain your speed in corners. Mess up a corner in the Miata and you will never catch up. Mess up in the Mustang & just apply more gas down the straight. What’s the key to being fast in a momentum car? Well, I’m still working on it. First you have to learn the track. Knowing the driving line is at the top of the list. Remember the terms turn in, apex and track out? Along with the driving line you need to read the track surface such as asphalt patches, pavement camber and elevation changes. As an instructor we teach students what is considered the “Race Line” which happens to be the safe line. The truth is each race car driver must find the “Race Line” that works best for their car & driving style. Starting out as a novice it can be a long road. I can easily run 1:25 laps in the Boss302 but in my first Miata race I only managed 1:39 laps. Several Legend cars lapped me twice in a 12 lap race. I am not use to being the slowest car on the track so my first race was kind of lonely at the back. Cherie asked the track photographer to get some pictures of me racing other cars. Tim just laughed and said Jerry is going to have to catch one first! I new I had to change my driving style to get faster. The Boss302 hits about 120 mph on the straight in 4th gear, brake hard, turn in and gently apply the gas until you are past the apex then go full throttle. In turn 1 you are looking @ 65-70 mph and a lat-eral G force of 1.2. In the Miata I reach about 85 mph in 4th, no brake just breath the throttle and gas pedal to the floor after you turn the wheel! You are still around 65 mph & 1.2 G’s. It took me about half the season to get use to “No Brake Just Breath the Throttle”. By the way, I don’t recommend “No Brake” style in a Mustang! I slowly improved a second each race so by the end of the season I was running 1:32.5 laps which is only 1 ½ second slower than the leaders. And it took 11 laps for the Leg-end car to catch me. I finished 5th for the season out of 16 SM drivers. I had several concerns about racing and not having a pit crew to help fix the car and strap me in to race. Well I have said this many times “Hallett is like one big family” and there is no shortage of help. A special thanks to Jamie & Franca Jackson for all of their help & support. P.S. Tim did get some pictures of me racing other cars! (See next page)

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Our new club double-sided tri-fold brochure… in color! We are excited

about our new brochure. For years we’ve had brochures… yet they were

in black and white and really only useful at the Starbird show at our

display. It quickly became obsolete due to the limited calendar events.

We’ve removed the calendar events in order for the brochure to be of

use year-round! If you have a business or know of a business that would

allow promo3on of the club, be sure to grab some at the next mee3ng.

We’ve ordered 500 so we have plenty to go around. Might even look

good under a poten3al members windshield wiper!!

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Member Jason Granado is selling 2019 Mustang Ecoboost take off wheels and 3res. 500

miles. Goodyear Eagle 235/50R18. $1200. 918.638.1180

Dinner Cruise February 21st.

Awesome 3me at the Green Coun-

try Classic Mustangs dinner cruise

to Los Mariachi's in Jenks!

It was great to see and enjoy dinner

with everyone. Looking forward to

next month's event.

Thanks to John Hemby for making

tonight's arrangements. Have a

great weekend everyone!

Mel Li8le

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Bill Brewer Troy & Cary Rushing Billy Jenkins

Jamie & Franca Jackson Sco8 & Jan Cool George Walker

Melvin Li8le David & Suzy Bringaze Joe Berkley / Jenn Barne8

David Johnson Jim & Becky Barnhart Chuck Overgard

Sherry Johnson Ward Harris Mike Bean

2019 GCCM Starbird Rod & Custom Show Par3cipants

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Lyndsey Li8le Roger Bymun Bob Huntsinger

Derek Fritz Tim & Leah Berry Gabriel Rossainzz

Doug Goggans Bob & Vicki Ecklund John Brawley

LaNora Bean Rachael Granado Chuck Overgard

Mel Li8le John Hemby

2019 GCCM Starbird Rod & Custom Show Par3cipants

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Club Badges—Order Yours Today $10 Each

Order On-Line at http://http://www.gccmustangs.com/clubbadge.html

or Complete this form and mail it to

GCCM

PO Box 471361 Tulsa, OK 74147-1361

or

Complete this form and bring it to a club meeting

You have two lines of text available after your name

See samples below

Name First _________________________________ Last _______________________________________ First Line Text _____________________________________________________________________ Second Line Text ___________________________________________________________________ Cash ____ Check#_______________ CC_____ Today’s Date_______________________________

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GREENCOUNTRYCLASSICMUSTANGS-WhereallMustangsareClassics

...a non-proit regional group of the Mustang Club of America, is an organization dedicated to the preservation and enjoyment of the Mustang

Automobile and the fellowship that goes hand in hand.

First Class

President

John Hemby

(918) 639-8152

Vice-President

Troy Rushing

(918) 991-3862

Secretary

Cary Rushing

(918) 991-3838

Treasurer

Mary Calvert

(918) 313-0181

Board of Directors

Roger Bymun

(Former President Posi3on)

Melvin Li8le (2020)

Jamie Jackson (2020)

Ron Magnusson (2020)

Ken Calvert (2019)

Mel Li8le (2019)

Ron Watkins (2019)

(MCA Regional Director)

Visit us online @ http://gccmustangs.com

Green Country Classic Mustangs

P.O. Box 471361

Tulsa, OK 74147-1361

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