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SOEC BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH AND SWEEPSTAKES GIVE-A-WAYS

This October, Saleen Owners and Enthusiasts Club (SOEC) is proud to participate in National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is one of the most common kinds of cancer in women after skin cancer. About 1 in 8 women born today in the United States will get breast cancer at some point.

This month, the SOEC will be honoring and featuring the women of Saleen. In their honor and to highlight the importance of awareness, prevention, and early detection, we will be holding several sweepstakes throughout October. The SOEC will be giving away (for free) Saleen posters, SOEC Club decals, and a 2019 Saleen Open House & Car Show registrant bag. Look for our featured woman of Saleen, which will begin a new sweepstakes.

We hope that you get involved and make a donation to one of the registered 501(c)(3), breast cancer charities.

Rules of Sweepstakes:

  • Sweepstakes will take place on https://www.facebook.com/groups/saleenclub/
  • The entry of sweepstakes will be a photo of your Saleen vehicle, tribute Saleen vehicle, Saleen merchandise/memorabilia/part, or pink ribbon. One entry per sweepstakes. A participant’s posting in the currently active sweepstakes will be the participant’s entry number.
  • Winners will be selected utilizing Google’s random number generator (RNG). Minimum and Maximum will be set according to the number of entrants.
  • A special guest judge may also be used, but not an addition to the RNG, to select winning entries based upon a photo’s creativity and originality.
  • Winners will be required to submit a shipping address to receive prize
  • Entrants may only win one (1) poster or one (1) Team Saleen bag and not both. Decals are unlimited.
  • SOEC will not be responsible for items lost or damaged by USPS.
  • All items were donated to SOEC and there are no replacements in physical or monetary value.
  • International entrants are welcome however duty and customs fees and taxes (if) incurred will be paid for by the entrant.
  • This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Facebook.

Click here to participate in the discussion.

[Source: Saleen Owners and Enthusiasts Club]

GENUINE FORD PEOPLE: JOHN McCAULEY

JOHN McCAULEY
JOHN McCAULEY

By: BOB McCLURG on June, 1993
Original Article: MUSTANG ILLUSTRATED AND HIGH PERFORMANCE FORD

JOHN McCAULEY

When John McCauley purchased his Saleen Mustang in 1990, he was like many other Saleen buyers – interested in high performance! John had owned two Mustang GTs in, and although both were fine cars, he openly admits that he wasn’t quite ready for “the Saleen Experience”.

A self-titled “old-fart-throwback” from the Sixties musclecar era, John began a life-long association, or “life-long commitment,” to cars with the purchase of an MGA roadster which promptly broke down five miles from the dealership. McCauley feels the MG experience was “a young man’s fantasy gone astray over the needs of an automobile.” By the time he sold the car to trade up to a more practical “family” car, he had the little import running like a fine Swiss watch.

However, John’s idea of a family car was anything but your typical station wagon. A special order 1967 Chevy Nova two door with 275 hp/327, 4-speed, Posi rear and front disc brakes was what John McCauley thought a family car should be. He fondly remembers both drag racing and slaloming the car while stationed with the US. Navy in Pensacola, Florida. It was there that John got his first taste of what a “real” car – namely a Ford Mustang – was all about. “I remember I was always coming up short against this one Mustang at the local Corvette Club slaloms. I sold the Nova to a friend for far more than what it was worth, and purchased my first Mustang, a 1969 Mach-1. “Man that thing flat flew”!

John’s conversion to Ford products firmly took hold. With a growing family, his next car was a 1971 Gran Torino. That would be his last high-performance car for a while, that is, until 1984 when he purchased his first Mustang GT. McCauley drove the GT until 1988, and then passed it on to his daughter with the arrival of an even newer GT. John soon learned that the feeling a late-model Mustang gives you is, “like no other, stopping short of the standard reference to sex”, and he found himself continuously testing his the prowess of every “bowtie” he ran up against.

With Saleen ownership came the desire to join some type of Saleen enthusiast’s organization. Answering an advertisement for the Saleen Registry in a magazine, McCauley soon found himself becoming extremely involved in the club, to the extent that he was eventually elected to the office of Vice President. Unfortunately, the Registry was underfunded and politically constricted leaving McCauley looking for something else. “As it (the club) was on its way out in 1991, I called Saleen, and decided to express my interest in forming a national club.” The Saleens were skeptical, and Steve basically told John “don’t tell me, show me!”

With the gauntlet thrown down, John organized the first Saleen outing to the Ford Motorsport Nationals (Maple Grove, Pennsylvania) followed by yet another at the US. Ford Nationals at National Trails Raceway in Columbus, Ohio. Similar meetings were also staged at the Saleen Performance Parts “Cruisin’ the Queen” car show in Long Beach, California, and at Watkins Glen, New York. It was at the ‘Glen that McCauley again met with the Saleens, and was given their official blessing. Hence the Saleen Owner’s and Enthusiast’s Club (SOEC) was born.

“Our long term goals are to establish a comprehensive registry of our Saleens, maintain sources for “obsolete” Saleen parts, provide sponsorship for show and track events, and to promote ownership of our vehicles. Our deepest hope is that we can document the history of these cars and trucks while the information is still current instead of having to resurrect it some twenty years later!” Go to it John!