Fox interview with Steven McCarley, president of the MCA on left behind the interviewer. The interview is online for a year on Fox TVs website for those who want to see it.

If you wonder, where this Terlingua "08" numbered car went after the show, yes, it went abroad. Patrick Bouthoorn bought it on site for his wife Astrid, as she fell in love with it last year and Patrick had given a base V6 Mustang to be converted by the Tasca Shelby Mod shop as #1 with the Terlingua Performance Package. It has been shown meanwhile in the Netherlands on the 13th. June, yet not licenced due to the luxury tax, that applies in NL, but Patrick will have it on the road for Astrid within June 2009.

Shelby Terlingua Racing Team V6 modified with the Performance package by Tasca #1.

Final custom work is done on Astrid Bouthoorns Terlingua racer on Sunday before it went out for export to the Netherlands/Europe.

..until it came to the geographical questions about Europe.

In a nation where the Discovery Channel is the best known source for foreign nations information, the media guys can't know it all although they try to use wikipedia more often these days:). Well, this is not a serious writing anyway, so don't take any offense in what is said here. A good dose of humour is requested.

It was quite funny - what happened - since my dutch colleagues made all that effort to be that well represented in the 45th with 110 members staying at the Marriott HQ hotel and then they had to answer that little question that nobody expected, but first  follow along these lines.

I found Martin Hajkens from the Team Mustang Center Nederland at the gates on the 16th. early morning and followed them along to a small crowd gathering in front of the Barber Motorsports park museum. Well, there was a set-up of a Mustang Challenge race car and a mobile TV camera car which turned out to be from Fox TV reporting on line on the 45th the very first minutes on the 16th. of April to attract more local visitors to the show.

Racedriver Joe (yup, I forgot his name, sorry) and Steven McCarley, president from the MCA were there and we shook hands and they did their interviews in front of the camera. The questioning went around the international character of the show, reason for the interviewer to pull my dutch friends - waiting close to the driver -  to the car and asking them about Mustang enthusiasm in other countries, as obviously there were so many of them around, even the first day.

Well they talked about their huge club - actually they have about 1100+ members and are probably the second biggest group in Europe right after the Swedish club with 2000 plus members (all model years of Mustangs) and the interviewer was really interested ....
but then closed the interview with the infamous question: 

"Where the hell are THE NETHERLANDS?

My mates looked at their feets and after a while -  half smiling squeezed out just 3 words "Next to Germany" - what an embarrassment for some, but at the same time putting a smile in my face and hopefully - as sort of a dutch-german insider running joke -  in my mates face. As you can see in the below picture the question was good for a final laugh, since we were only 20 people from Germany at the 45th and then this question!
  
Never mind, Martin, we see us at the 45th. Event from the Team Mustang Center Nederlands 45th. show mid of June in NL/Europe. Steven McCarley from the MCA unfortunately had to cancel his flight early June, having been invited as a guest speaker. Bad luck for the TMCN, but they can stand it for sure. It is one of the most active clubs in Europe next to the french and swedish.

 Author: Wolfgang Kohrn