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1 The Texas Star
MBCA Regional Driving Event - Le Mans at COTA
Mercedes-Benz Club of America — North Texas Section
2016
June/July
The Texas Star
Section Leadership
Brett Jurick, President
Lee Ewing, Vice President
Gayle Brewer, Secretary
Craig Halverson, Treasurer
Thomas Lovell, Membership
Brett Jurick, Webmaster,
Newsletter
Darrell Booker, Technical Chair
Jose De La Garza, Events
Chairman
Thomas Charles Mako,
Ex-Officio
Tom Manion, Board Member
Ron Seifert, Board Member
Maurice Nahas, Board Member
Gene Jurick, Regional Director
Ramzi Baransi, Park Place
Motorcars Liaison
Larry Reeg, Mercedes-Benz of
Plano
Inside this issue:
Le Mans at COTA Event 1
President‟s Message / Welcome
3
Witherspoon Distillery Tour Date / North Texas Elections
4
Starfest 2016 5
Louden DIY Tech Session/ 2016 Election
6
2016 MBCA European Trips 7
New & Returning Members 8
Mercedes-Benz May Sales 9
Membership Application 10
Our Sponsors: Park Place 2
Pangea Natural Stone 3
Hagerty 6
Mercedes-Benz of Plano 11
MBCA South Central Region‟s Fall Driving
Event is going to the Lone Star Le Mans for
a Track experience and Racing at Circuit of
the Americas Track, Austin a month prior to
the Formula 1 American Grand Prix. All ten
MBCA Sections are invited to Austin for up
to 3 days of Trackside Racing excitement at
COTA as Special Guests with Car Corral
tickets @ $139 and $119.
The “Corral Ticket” offers “come and go
parking” in Lot C at the Grand Plaza
Entrance with exclusive Mercedes parking
for Tailgating, socializing and trading stories
about these fabulous automobiles and your
Austin discoveries between races. Your
Corral ticket entitles you to premium
multi-turn seating all 3 days in the Main
Grand-stand, Turn 1 and T15, a parade lap,
open Paddock, Swag Bag and Corral Guest
Tent access at Turn 15. You‟ll also get to
take your car for a drive on the track Friday
night. We will be in the thick of it with Audi,
BMW, Ferrari, Lambo, Mustang, Porche,
Corvette and others. September 15-17,
2016.
Get your Mercedes Corral tickets before
they are sold out at this link:
http://www.circuitoftheamericas.com/
2016-lslm/ car-corrals
Register with your MBCA Home Section or as a guest on the North Texas Section website via PayPal link for your Race
Commitment of $15 per person. This will
fund bottled water, ice and refreshments
at the LSLM Mercedes Car Corral Honors
Tent on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
for MBCA Members. Remember to bring
ear protection, sunscreen, hat, long
sleeves, sunglasses, fanny pack,
wineskin or canteen, your trunk monkey
cooler and camp chair for you and a
tailgating guest.
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President’s Message
June/July
I am hoping we are nearing
the end of the rainy season!
Mercedes-Benz Club of
America, North Texas
Section has a great year
planned for all of our valued
members. This is our 40th
Anniversary Year!
Our membership continues
to grow. Driven by the
vibrant economy and friendly environment in
Texas. We see folks flocking to our state from all
over the country. Our members also renew at a
fantastic pace due to the variety of events we have,
the focus on these great cars and open
communication we have with our membership
through our weekly email alerts, our website and
this newsletter.
Please join our now just over 1,000 North Texas
Members at an upcoming event to take advantage
of the great local benefits of your membership. We
have coming up Monthly Membership Meetings,
Christmas Party, Tech Sessions, plus many more
fun events planned.
REMINDER, if we do not have your email
address, you are missing out on the majority of
the communications from the Club. Please go
to www.mbca.org, log in, and update your info
to stay in contact with all we have going on.
Brett Jurick
President, North Texas Section
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 over 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.
Welcome!
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Are you ready for Father‟s Day? No? We at the
MB Club of North Texas are! And we would like
you to join us in celebrating yourself, and/or your
Dad on June 18 (so he can sleep late on Sunday;
it‟s his day, after all!)
So, forget the tie, or the golf club, and sign up for
a nice drive to a cool, Lewisville, TX landmark!
We have reserved limited spaces for a tour of a
place we are sure you‟re going to like - The
Witherspoon Distillery! Come see how they make
their own Rum, Bourbon and Single Malt Scotch,
and get the opportunity to taste a true spirit of
Texas!
We are planning to get together at the parking lot
next to La Madeleine at the Vista Ridge Mall,
2417 Stemmons Fwy #100, Lewisville, TX 75067
at 12:00 and depart, as a group, to the distillery
at 12:30 for the tour at 1:00pm. The tour lasts
about 1 hour and 30 minutes.
A note from the distillery:
All tour guests must be 21 years of age or older.
Valid, government issued ID required for all
guests. No pets allowed. Service animals allowed
in all areas of distillery. Due to the flammability of
products within the production facility, no
smoking allowed on distillery property.
The event will be $12 per person.
Witherspoon Distillery Tour Date
North Texas Elections Open Call for MBCA NTX Section 2017 Officer Nominations Now
Open and continues through September 17th. Contact the
Nominations Committee Melbourne Kym ([email protected]) or
Robert Brewer ([email protected]) with your Nominee
and a one or two paragraph introduction. Must be a MBCA Member
in good standing. Several of our current officers will term limit out
this time so there are several spots to fill.
Saturday, June 18, 2016
12:00pm
Lewisville, Texas
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The next edition of the ever popular DIY Tech Session is
confirmed. Louden Motorcars has offered to host us for this
session. I encourage everyone to be on their best behavior and
remember that we are guests and Louden is generous enough to
open their doors to us for the 26th year in a row!
You will have the opportunity to put your car on a lift and do some of the jobs that are space limited
in your garage. We encourage you to attempt work that can be completed in the allotted time.
There is limited lift space to everyone will stage in the order they
registered via the PayPal link below. We will do our best to
accommodate everyone during the morning.
DIY Tech Session - Louden Motorcars
Saturday, July 9, 2016
8:00 am to 12:00 pm
Dallas Texas
2016 National Election
Featured Event
Mercedes-Benz Club of America will conduct a National Election this year to select four Directors
at Large and six Regional Directors. The Directors at Large whose terms expire in 2016 are: Cliff
Reyle, William Hopper, Josie Lesler and Frank Cozza. Regional Directors in the six even-
numbered Regions will also be elected this year. Affected regions include: Mid-Atlantic Region (2) ,
South Central Region (4) , Southwest Region (6) , Great Lakes Region (8) , Southeast Region (10)
and the Eastern Region (12).
Active members interested in running for office are encouraged to go online for information and
petition forms: 1) Go to www.mbca.org; 2) click the „Login‟ button at the top right corner of the home
page and follow the log-in instructions; 3) click on the navigation tab titled “Community” then click
on the drop down titled “MBCA Resources.” The printable petition forms are under the “Election”
sec-tion. Completed nomination petitions are due at the NBO by May 16, 2016.
If you need assistance, please call the NBO at 800.637.2360, 8am-4:30pm MT (M-T) 8am-4pm MT
(F). The deadline for submitting valid petitions is close of business Monday, May 16, 2016.
This year will be the first year for on-line voting. Please update your email address with the club! The
new online voting will be streamlined and save the club funds if we do not need to send out a paper
ballot. Please call or email us with your new or corrected email address.
Steve Ross
2016 Election Committee Chair
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2016 MBCA European Trips THREE EXCEPTIONAL TRIPS. Wish you could experience a first-class European vacation but don‟t want
the hassle of arranging it? Let MBCA take you on the trip of a lifetime and leave the planning to us
SUMMER STUTTGART, GERMANY TOUR | June 20th - June 26th 2016
“The MBCA trip to Germany is one of the best benefits offered to Club Members. Whether you are a lifelong
Mercedes-Benz enthusiast or have recently acquired your first Mercedes, you will simply be „WOWED‟ by the
experience. I have taken this trip four times! That speaks for itself.” Cliff Reyle, MBCA Central Regional
Director & Member, Memphis Section
Take MBCA‟s guided trip through the Stuttgart Region and experience the rich heritage of Mercedes-Benz
first-hand. Enjoy VIP destinations, accommodations and five-star cuisine. No worries, just “WOW!” on this
command-performance excursion for Members, families and friends. Repeat travelers give these trips two
BIG thumbs up!
FALL STUTTGART, GERMANY TOUR | September 19th - 25th, 2016
"Trip of a lifetime! The experience was totally unique and special, giving us a much greater appreciation for
everything Mercedes-Benz. " Laura and Richard Simonds, Past National Vice President and Past National
President, respectively & Members, San Francisco Bay Area Section
Hundreds of MBCA Members and guests have traveled to Stuttgart with us in the autumn; and many have
joined us multiple times. See for yourself why this trip is consistently voted “Nummer Eins” (“Number One”) by
discriminating travelers.
Enjoy captivating guided tours of the Carl Benz Museum in Ladenburg; the Daimler Workshop in
Bad Cannstatt; the AMG facilities in Affalterbach; the Mercedes-Benz Museum and Brand Center
in Unterturkheim; the Technical Museum in Sinsheim; the Bad Cannstatt Engine Assembly Plant; the Classic
Center in Fellbach and the Sindelfingen assembly plant that covers more ground that the entire principality of
Monaco. And that‟s just for starters!
FALL G-WAGEN OWNERS' ADVENTURE THROUGH AUSTRIA & HUNGARY October 2016
Did you know the G-Wagen is the longest-produced Mercedes-Benz in Daimler‟s history, with a span of 32
years?
You and a spouse/guest will spend 8 days and 7 nights as the guests of Daimler AG on this unique trip through parts of Austria and Hungary. Enjoy a special Welcome Dinner your first evening and participate in any number of suggested activities throughout the week.
During your stay, you will be personally escorted on an all-day tour of the G-Wagen factory in Graz, Austria. Drive on the factory‟s on-site test track — a heart-pounding 5,000-foot elevation mountaintop (or let
someone do the driving for you)! PLUS, you may be one of the first Americans to witness the production of the all new Mercedes-Benz 2016 CLA sedan and GLA SUV in Hungary!
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Claudia Andersen
Linsey Barnes
Erik Buteyn
Raul Cervantes
Thomas Clark
Sheri Crosby Wheeler
Davis Deadman
Frank Emebo
Elizabeth Frizell
Rhonda Green
Jefferey Hammond
Michelle Hopper
Ghada Koudsi
Peter Mailandt
Chad Mingo
Susan Morgan
Whitney Nelson
Hussein Odeh
Kausalya Palavesam
Mary Pearle
Mazi Robinson
Thomas Rochte
Greg Rumsey
Syed Saeed
Paul Stott
James Tucker
Lide Vandiver
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Welcome 31 New Members!
June/July
Steve Villalpando
Angelino Villanueva
Ayesha Wilson
Many Thanks to Our 75 Renewing Members! Joe Equigua-Garcia
Jaime Galvan
Richard Gannett
Carlos Garcia
Phillip Gregory
Michael Hagle
Christopher Hand
Brian Heitman
Jerry Hill
Fed Yao-Chung Hu
Denny Hunt
Nawal Ibrahim
Earl Jenkins
Steve Jones
Gosby King
Chuck Kleuser
Clarence Knighten
John Lakose
Pg Legg
Thomas Long
Daniel Maher
Gary Mangold
Vic Mauk
Tony Mazraani
Ken Mingle
Joseph Mynatti
Marek Nagiel
Louise Oeri
Donald Paull
Ann Pletta
Bill Reiter
Carolyn Roberson
Hugh Rucker
Matthew Russell
Marwan Saker
Carl Sapaugh
Suzanne Short
John Skaras
David Smither
Walter Stokes
Gregory Tabron
Theophilos Theophilou
William Thomas
Sharon Thompson
Austin Tse
David Turbeville
Elizabeth Valdez
Gayle Voth
James Warren
Timothy West
Doug Wofford
Janice Wright
Esther Yang
Cesar Zea
Edward Zotz
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Mercedes-Benz USA Reports May Sales of 32,567 Units Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) today reported May sales of 29,299 vehicles, down 1.0% for the
month. Mercedes-Benz Vans reported 2,848 units, and smart reported 420 units for the month,
bringing MBUSA grand total to 32,567 vehicles for the month and 149,167 sold year-to-date.
“Sales continue at a steady pace in the second quarter,” said Dietmar Exler, president and CEO of
MBUSA. “Excitement is building as we look toward the coming months with the launch of three new
dream cars, including the S-Class Cabriolet, SL and SLC Roadsters and the all-new E-Class
Sedan.”
Mercedes-Benz volume leaders in May included the C-Class, GLC and GLE model lines. The C-
Class took the lead at 6,954, followed by the GLC at 4,183. The GLE rounded out the top three with
4,003 units sold.
Mercedes-AMG high-performance models sold 1,616 units in May, up 34.6% from last year (1,201).
Separately, Mercedes-Benz Certified Pre-Owned (MBCPO) models recorded sales of 11,327. On a
year-to-date basis, MBCPO sold 50,626 vehicles, an increase of 1.0%.
About Mercedes-Benz USA Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA), headquartered in Atlanta, is responsible
for the distribution, marketing and customer service for all Mercedes-Benz products in the United
States. MBUSA offers drivers the most diverse lineup in the luxury segment with 15 model lines
ranging from the sporty CLA-Class four-door coupe to the flagship S-Class and the Mercedes-AMG
GT S.
MBUSA is also responsible for Mercedes-Benz Vans and smart
products in the U.S. More information on MBUSA and its products
can be found at www.mbusa.com, www.mbsprinterusa.com and
www.smartusa.com.
June Membership Meeting
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Mercedes-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)
New U.S. Membership Rates
$55.00 for one year
$107.00 for two years
$157.00 for three years
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
Calling All Members...
We are always looking for new folks who are
interested in participating in Club activities.
Whether through events, driving, etc. Please
contact Brett Jurick at [email protected] 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 Jose De La
Garza at [email protected].
Help!
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Date Event
June 18, 2016 Witherspoon Distillery Tour
July 9, 2016 DIY Tech Session—Louden Motorcars
September 3, 2016 September Membership Meeting
September 10, 2016 40th Anniversary Membership Appreciation Picnic
September 15-18, 2016 Regional Driving Event, LeMans at COTA
September 24, 2016 DIY Tech Session - Mercedes-Benz of Plano
October 6, 2016 MBCA NTX Oktoberfest—Bavarian Grill, Plano
November 5, 2016 November Membership Meeting
November 12, 2016 MBCA NTX Ladies drive to Waco
Mercedes–Benz Club of America—North Texas Section June/July 2016
Event dates, times and locations are subject to change. Please check out our
website at http://ntx.mbca.org for the most updated information.
Have you visited our new
website?
www.ntx.mbca.org/ www.facebook.com/mbcantx
2024 Palace Way
Allen, TX 75013