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The Texas StarJuly /August

2020Mercedes-Benz Club of America - North Texas Section

Section Leadership

Craig Halverson, PresidentRon Seifert, Vice PresidentCarolee Seifert, SecretaryGayle Brewer, TreasurerEd Nahas, MembershipBrett Jurick, Webmaster, NewsletterTom Strohm, Technical ChairMaurice Nahas, Events ChairmanBrett Jurick, Regional DirectorGene Jurick, Past National PresidentRamzi Baransi, Park Place Motorcars LiaisonLarry Reeg, Mercedes-Benz of McKinney LiaisonTaylor Wilson, Mercedes-Benz of Plano Liaison

Inside This Issue:N. Texas Wine Drive & Vineyard Adventure..................................1President’s Message/Welcome...................................3 Tour of Texas Rangers Baseball Stadium.....................................4Granbury Drive & Brewery Tour/Dinner & Theatre.......................5NTX Oktoberfest/MBCA NTX Fall Day at the Range...............7New & Returning Members.......8Mercedes-Benz News...............9Membership Application..........10Upcoming Events....................12

Our Sponsors:Mercedes-Benz of Plano..........2 Colwell Creative Content..........3Park Place Motorcars................6Mercedes-Benz of McKinney..11

Event Report (First MBCA Event Since COVID-19!)

McKinney Texas QT * June 20, 2020

North Texas Wine Drive & Vineyard Adventure

After the spring lock down for the COVID-19 virus 22 members of the North Texas Section met on a beautiful Texas Morning at the McKinney Texas QT for a drive and wine tasting event. Texas has developed into a major source of wine vineyards and North Texas has some excellent wineries. The first stop after a great back roads drive was at the Square Cloud Winery. The Andersons, who are the owners of the vineyard, gave a great presentation on the wine industry which was followed by a sampling of their wines. After the tasting the group met on the veranda of the winery for snacks and fellowship. The next stop after a beautiful drive was to the Eden Hill Winery and Vineyard. The group enjoyed more fellowship and sampling of Texas wines. What great fun and Mel and Eve Kym were the hosts for this fun adventure.

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July/August 2020President’s Message

Welcome!

We’ve just completed our private group tour of the brand-new Globe Life Field, home of the Texas Rangers baseball club. On Saturday, June 27th thirty-two North Texas section members and guests registered for our behind the scenes guided tour.

On May 20th, 2016 the Rangers announced that they would vacate Globe Life Park in Arlington and construct a new home with a retractable roof to be named Globe Life Field. The Rangers had cited weather as the reason attendances at Globe Life Park were lower than in other baseball stadiums in major metropolitan areas, since it was prone to high temperatures and rain delays.

Globe Life Field was originally scheduled to open March 23, 2020, but opened instead for high school graduations on May 29, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic delaying the baseball season. Globe Life Field has a capacity of 40,300 and cost 1.2 billion dollars.

The North Texas Section of the Mercedes-Benz Club of America (MBCA) is dedicated to enhancing the ownership experience of the finest automobiles in the world. We engage in a variety of activities throughout the year that hopefully appeal to a broad section of our membership.

Currently our membership totals almost 1000 members who are committed to furthering their experience and enjoyment of their cars. Whether you’re a gear head, performance driver, rally enthusiast, cultural maven or social mingler, the MBCA North Texas Section had an upcoming event for you. Check out the Events section to see what’s coming up during the year, and for details on events that are just over the horizon.

Unfortunately, negative local newspaper publicity 6/27/20 concerning coronavirus outbreaks at Globe Life Field limited our actual attendance to 20 members and guests.

Scheduling and planning member activities in light of the COVID-19 pandemic is and will continue to be challenging, but our recent experience illustrates that our members are eager to participate in safe activities. Due to the statewide mandates that limit group size will necessarily determine that we postpone membership lunches and possibly our annual picnic. In July we have another events planning meeting and I’m sure we’ll be looking at all of the options. If you have any suggestions, please let us know.

Mel Kym organized and coordinated a well-attended driving event 6/20/20 the weekend just before our Globe Life Field tour. Mel’s events are always fun and entertaining and indeed registration had to be curtailed to prevent crowding. If you have a chance to register for one of Mel’s driving opportunities, I suggest you jump on it. Mel has been threatening to leave north Texas for retirement in Mexico. He will be missed!

As always, we welcome your suggestions to make our club better and more relevant to you and your lifestyle. We have a different world ahead of us, but hopefully not everything will be virtual as we zoom to the future.

Very sincerely,Craig HalversonPresident, North Texas Section

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On May 27, the North Texas Section had a private group tour of the brand-new Globe Life Field, the new home of the Texas Rangers baseball club. Twenty North Texas section members and guests attended the behind the scenes guided tour.

Globe Life Field was originally scheduled to open March 23, 2020 but opened instead for high school graduations on May 29, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic delaying the baseball season. Globe Life Field has a capacity of 40,300 and cost 1.2 billion dollars. A truly impressive place to play baseball.

Globe Life Field * June 27, 2020 * Arlington, TX

Tour of Texas Rangers Baseball Stadium

Event Reports

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Let’s go to dinner and the theatre!! The Events Committee of the North Texas section has planned another dinner and theatre night event! Come join us for an evening of food, fellowship, and fun on Saturday evening, August 8, 2020, with a dinner and then a theatre production. Put it on your calendar now!!

Club members will meet at Dos Banderos, 614 Main Street, Garland, TX at 5:00pm where we will enjoy individual Mexican food selections from the menu. Members will then drive for about 5 minutes over to the Garland Civic Theatre at the Granville Arts Center, 300 North Fifth Street, by 7:30pm for Robert Brewer to pick up tickets at Will Call.

Tickets are $20 each for reserved seats. We will see the Pulitzer Prize winning play, You Can’t Take It with You, a hilarious comedy, written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman in 1937. Our own member, Gayle Brewer, will be playing the brief role of Gay Wellington, who has a drinking problem!

Upcoming Event

You Can’t Take It with You * August 8, 2020 * Garland, TX

MBCA NTX Dinner & Theater

MBCA NTX Granbury Drive & Brewery Tour

September 26, 2020 * Granbury, TX

Join us for a fun day in Granbury, TX. We will visit Revolver Brewing Company to sample some of their fine beers, listen to a brewery presentation and enjoy live entertainment. Prior to stopping at Revolver, we will enjoy lunch at The Rib Shack. This is a really great BBQ place located close to the brewery. After the brewery visit, we will proceed to Granbury’s famous square for some antique shopping. If you don’t want to shop, there are several great restaurants and bars located on the square, too!

The Revolver Brewing $10 admission fee includes 4, 8oz pours of beer, a Revolver souvenir beer glass, the brewery presentation, and live entertainment. Pay your own admission. The brewery has plenty of picnic tables, but it’ll be prudent to bring lawn chairs just in case.

Lunch will be at the Rib Shack. This is a great BBQ place where we will grab lunch and arrive at the brewery with a full stomach.

Upcoming Event

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Bavarian Grill has again invited us to join them for our annual Oktoberfest Dinner.

We will start at 6:00pm. Great German food and beer will be available for order. Join us for a fun and entertaining dinner at this great German establishment.

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NTX Oktoberfest

Upcoming Events

Thursday, October 8, 2020 * Plano, TX

MBCA NTX Fall Day at the Range

We are bringing back the popular Day at the Range!

We will again visit Armarillo Guns in Nevada TX. They have a great outdoor shooting range that includes a 25 yard Handgun range, a 50, 100 & 150 yard Rifle range and a new tactical range.

We will start with a safety briefing then go out for about 90 minutes of shooting and finish with a short competition.

After a relaxing morning at the range we will go over to Soulman’s for awesome BBQ! If you are a fan of shooting and BBQ, you do not want to miss this event!

November 21, 2020 * Nevada, TX

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Thanks to Our 53 Renewing Members between 5/1 – 6/30!

Clara AnumuduGary BarronKathy BoopJonnita BrownFitzgerald CalingacionDinesh ChandiramaniChristopher ColeDihan FernandoKrishna GanguPatrick HarrahDenise Kirkman

Daniel MaherSilus MotamarryPhil NeelyFarah Pierre-LouisDonald RileyKenney RodriguezLucina StuckiTJ Van BemmelCourtney WeirAlex Whitman

Dell Cannon 1999

Ivan Contreras 2012

Lewis Cook 2012

Stephen Copeland 1999

Homer Corn 2011

Kyle Crews 2010

Dan Cupp 2013

Rebecca Czapanskiy 2017

Mark Dickman 2010

Debra DiGiacomo 2010

David Gross 2012

Michael Hagle 2013

Christopher Hand 2011

Jerry Hill 2014

Mahmoud Homayoun 2019

Fred Yao-Chung Hu 2003

Palitha Jayasinghe 2018

Rosylin Johnson 2016

Robert Kilpatrick 2010

Manie Le Roux 2019

Timothy Lehmann 2016

Tim Lyons 1994

Jennifer Mellet 2012

William Mitchell 2010

Louis Morris 2019

Scott Myers 2014

Charles O’Neil 1991

Douglas Pierce 2015

Allen Pryor 2019

Kathryn Rafter 2014

Krishna Rao 2016

Cory Richards 2019

Willie Roberts 2019

Sheila Robinson 2013

Ernesto Sarmiento 2019

Andrew Schildcrout 2015

Liaquat Sheikh 2010

Peter Smith 2017

David Sterner 2011

Jimmy Strickland 2019

Mark Trosper 2018

Doug Wofford 2001

Duck Yang 2009

Phillip Yarbrough 2019

Edward Zotz 2013

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Welcome 21 New Members between 5/1 – 6/30!

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July/August 2020Spectacular Drone Flight Through the Mercedes-Benz MuseumCoinciding with the reopening in mid May 2020 the Mercedes Benz Museum presents a new drone video Alongside downright magical installations, the highly dynamic clip casts a spell of enchantment on the viewer with flight sequences that top anything seen to date The videos were created with the help of mini drones, weighing less than 100 grams and carrying high resolution 4 K cameras with them. The drones, just the size of the palm of one’s hand, can hover through small openings whilst filming including through open doors and into the interiors of classic Mercedes Benz vehicles Further information https://youtu.be/LT0_SzhY4W8

Experience the Mercedes-Benz Museum and Mercedes-Benz Classic Digitally

160 vehicles and a total of 1,500 exhibits in a building which has received much architectonic renown: This is the Mercedes-Benz Museum – a crowd-puller with more than 800,000 visitors from all over the world every year. Thanks to digital formats, it is also possible to explore it from afar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnnpjtES_Fc&list=PL0ORtgsuktfm1-yUtcy2ejtj2y-QYj8YV&index=2

“Mercedes”: The Brand Name That Shines Out for Over 120 Years

A good brand name has international appeal. “Mercedes” is one of the most famous and most traditional: from 1900 onwards, it was used to brand the innovative passenger cars made by Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft, and, together with its outstanding vehicle and engine technology, it gave the company worldwide recognition and thus shaped personal mobility as a whole. In 1926, the brand was extended to produce Mercedes-Benz – while its significance on all continents remained unchanged. For the oldest luxury car brand in the world, its name is both the basis and incentive to carry this outstanding tradition into the future.

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July/August 2020Mercedes-Benz Club of America Membership Application

Please call the National Office at 800-637-2360 to join by phone or go to www.mbca.org/ to join online.

Full Name ____________________________________________________________________

Associate Member’s Name ______________________________________________________

Street Address ________________________________________________________________

City _____________________________________ State _______ Zip ___________________

Home Phone ( ) ____________________ Business ( ) ____________________

Email address ________________________________________________________________

Member’s Occupation __________________________________________________________

Mercedes Cars Now Owned _________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________(list year(s) and model(s))

I hereby apply for membership in the Mercedes-Benz Club of America.

_______________________________________ Date _______________

(Signature)

$55.00 for one year $107.00 for two years

$157.00 for three yearsCalling All Members...

We are always looking for new folks who are interested in participating in Club activities. Whether through events, driving, etc. Please contact Ron Seifert at rseifert@grandecom.net to learn more.

New Ideas Wanted We’re always looking for new ideas for events, get-togethers, drives, overnight tours, etc. If there’s a particular type of event you would like us to host, let us know. Contact Maurice Nahas at maurice@mnahas.com.

New U.S. Membership Rates Help!

New Canada & Int’l Rates

$65.00 for one year $127.00 for two years

$187.00 for three years

Annual dues include six issues of “The Star” each year, plus your local section’s newsletter. Make your check payable to MBCA, and mail it along with the application to:

Mercedes-Benz Club of America, Inc. National Business Office

1907 Lelaray Street Colorado Springs, CO 80909

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Mercedes-Benz Club of America North Texas Section

17202 Hidden Glen Drive Dallas, TX 75248

Have you visited our new website?

www.ntx.mbca.orgwww.facebook.com/mbcantx

August 8 Dinner & TheaterSeptember 5 DIY Tech Session

September 12 NTX Member Appreciation PicnicSeptember 26 Granbury Drive & Brewery Tour

October 8 NTX OktoberfestOctober 24 Autumn Trails Parade & Drive

November 7 Dallas Classic Mercedes Car ShowNovember 21 Fall Day at the Range

December 5 Mercedes Club NTX Christmas Party

More to Come!Event dates, times and locations are subject to change. Please check out our website

at http://ntx.mbca.org for the most updated information.

Upcoming Events in 2020

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