FORT WAYNE, IN – Have you ever bumped into some friends that you haven’t seen in a long while and decided it was time to make some plans to meet up again and hang out together? Well, that’s pretty much how Ford Performance Club Connect wound up setting up a Meet & Greet on-site at Ivy Tech Community College in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for the Old Fort Mustangers annual show this past July.
We’d crossed paths with some Old Fort Mustang club members earlier this year at one of the several cruise-in events held each summer at the Gale Halderman Mustang Barn Museum in Tipp City, Ohio, about 30 minutes north of Dayton off I-75. It was after talking with them that we realized it’d been quite some time since we last attended the yearly Mustang show in Fort Wayne, so when they invited us to return, we checked our travel schedule for the Club Connect Transit van. Lo and behold, we discovered a rare opening on our club event-support calendar, so we accepted.
A few emails later and it was all worked out. We drove down to the show in mid-July to set up our Club Connect display tent and talk Mustangs for the day as well as give away Mustang posters and hatpins and the new (Brittany Blue!) Ford Performance wristbands. As you might expect, the club’s 42nd annual show had all the requisite attractions, including free admission, door prizes, raffle items and 50/50 drawings. (Proceeds from the event go to help fund a scholarship that is awarded to an Ivy Tech Automotive Technology student every year – how cool!)
Of course there were lots of great Mustangs of all eras at this Ford-powered-only show as well as many nice classic Fords that were up for participant judging (even the children had their own car-voting session). You couldn’t go wrong with free registration and dash plaques for the first 150 cars, but for us it was reconnecting with so many old friends and making new ones that really made our day. And yes, we walked the show field with our camera to share our favorite photos with you in the gallery below. Enjoy!
FORD PERFORMANCE PHOTOS / COURTESY JOHN CLOR
