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The Montana 500 Newsletter

Volume 62, Number 1 February 24, 2022

2022 Endurance Run at Glendive, Montana

Dates of the Endurance Run:

Inspection Sunday, June 12, 2022
Run dates are Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday following Inspection.

Motel:

Yellowstone River Inn (YRI). 1903 North Merrill, Glendive, Montana.

Motel Reservations:

Call 406-377-4433 before March 30^th, 2022. Or use this link:
Yellowstone River Inn Glendive MT Motel

Room Costs (including taxes*):

* $65.80 / 1 queen or king bed, *$70.40 /2 queen beds.

Organization for this:

Montana Cross Country “T” Association MT-500.

Block Dates:

Arrival Saturday, June 11th, departure Thursday June 16th.

Motel Location:

I-94, Exit 215, then left over interstate bridge on Merril St.

Trailer Parking:

Plenty.

Camper-RV Parking:

Green Valley Campground, 124 Green Valley Ln, Glendive, MT 59330, (406) 377-1944, or use http://www.greenvalleyrvcamp.com/ Reserve before March 30^th, 2022.

Inspection:

Sunday at noon at the YRI under canopy.
Remember to remove your old seals and seal wire before inspection.

Eateries:There are many places to eat in Glendive, but not much for fast food.

Map to Yellowstone River Inn, Glendive, Montana.

The President's Message

Rick Bonebright, President 2021-2022 rcbonebright@gmail.com

Please volunteer or bring volunteers to the Endurance Run, to help with the following Endurance Run duties. If you can volunteer, please call me or text me at 406-273-3509 as soon as you can.

Trouble truck drivers pulling trailers
Timers & Flaggers,
Computer Data Entry, (Excel Spreadsheet).
Radar Gun Operators.

If you volunteer your vehicle to help with the above duties, the MCCTA will pay the gasoline (diesel fuel) expenses for the vehicles used performing the above 4 duties. Keep receipts and give them to Janet for reimbursement.

The Glendive Chamber of Commerce helped with the motel selection, being that we need additional parking room for trucks, trailers, and our Model T Fords.

Things to consider while in Glendive:

Glendive Dinosaur & Fossil Museum.
Frontier Gateway Museum
Makoshika State Park

Big Thank you’s:

Thanks to Mike Kosser for contributing to the banquet expenses. Kosser has been a contributor for lots of years now and most of us are using his ECCT coil Tester. Mike designed, manufactured, and sells his electronics, ECCT, E-timer, and I-Timer, through https://modeltecct.com/

Thanks to Don Snyder, III, of Snyder’s Antique Auto Parts, for sending us a new gasket kit for our use in assembling the tore down car. Don sells us the parts we need to keep our Model T’s running and on the road. Thanks again Don, much appreciated.Vintage Ford Parts Distributor | Snyder's Antique Auto Parts (snydersantiqueauto.com)

Thanks to our timers, Heather Robison, Mike Robison, Megan and Aaron Teates, Kathleen and Gary Ebbert. Thanks to trailer drivers Stan and Willy Langel, Conrad and Mike Wendland, Dave Warhank. Thanks to Levi Dyckman for entering timing data into the program and providing printouts, and to all others who helped the Endurance Run event.

Come and expect to have fun,

Rick Bonebright, President, 2021-2022.

Montana Cross Country “T” Association

A Schedule S nonprofit Montana Corporation

Founded in 1961

Background:

The Ford Model T was voted the “Car of the Century” which was an international award given to the world's most influential car of the 20th century. The election process was overseen by the Global Automotive Elections Foundation with a narrowed field of 200 cars. The winner, the Ford Model T, was announced at an awards gala on December 18, 1999 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The Montana Cross Country “T” Assn. is dedicated to rebuilding, refurbishing, preserving, and proving stock Ford Model T’s. In some cases, members fully restore these cars to a “new car status” in most every aspect.

The Assn. also allows the above Model T’s that meet written safely requirements to be endurance-tested at their annual runs. The Montana 500 is sort of a proving ground for the owner, engine builder, chassis builder, electrical systems builder, and parts suppliers.

We highly recommend that you get yourself a Model T and join these endurance runs. Expect to have some old school (or new school) fun. The membership provides a friendly helpful atmosphere.

Membership Information:

Active Membership includes all the privileges of the Association including issues of the Montana 500 Newsletter. Annual dues are $10 and entitle the member one vote at meetings.

Touring & Endurance class: $35.00/Run.

Current members and those wanting to become members should send a check to:

Attn. Treasurer, Janet Cerovski

1004 Sioux Road, Helena, Montana. 59602

Montana 500 Web Information:

https://themontana500.wordpress.com

https://facebook.com/Montanafivehundred

http://montana500.com

Executive Officers:

President: Rick Bonebright Florence, MT

Vice Pres: Brandon Langel Whitefish, MT

Treasurer: Janet Cerovski Helena, MT