Thank you for your interest in the Moon Car Club and your interest in learning more about our club. Let me start with why would you want to become a member of the Moon Car Club?
1) You will be part of the ONLY car club devoted entirely to the cars made by the Moon Motor Car Company of St. Louis, MO USA.
2) You will receive the quarterly Moon Car Club newsletter, “The Silver Shell”. These newsletters will have interesting articles about members’ cars, tech talk, upcoming meetings, meets and shows, including local shows where members will be showing their Moons.
3) You will receive our Membership Roster with all the membership contact information, thus allowing free contact with other Moon owners and enthusiasts who share your interest in these cars. And until your information is published in the next roster, your membership information will be distributed to the other club members via email so others can contact you.
4) You will be able to place free “Want ads” and “For Sale ads” in the newsletter and on our website.
5) You will be invited to attend our annual Moon Car Club meet (our next meet will be in May 2022 in Houston, TX. I can send you details if you are joining our club.
6) You will get emails and other notices about upcoming events where our club and our members will have their cars.
7) You will have the opportunity to be in on group purchases of items that need to be custom made for the Moon cars.
8) You will be part of a group of Moon owners that will develop a list of favorite suppliers of critical parts for the Moons and for restoration shops that rebuild critical parts for the Moons.
9) You will be part of a group of people that “holds as its aim, the encouragement of members to acquire, restore, preserve and exhibit any vehicle produced by the Moon Motor Car Company of Saint Louis, Missouri USA.”
I am sure there are more reasons to join and be a part of what we believe is a GREAT car club as witnessed at the Moon Meets we have held throughout the years. But whether you can ever attend one of our club meets or just stay connected via our newsletters, emails and website (www.mooncarclub.com), know that all of our interests are with the cars made by The Moon Motor Car Company – “Favorably known the world over”.
Email us at Mooncarclub@gmail.com to request a membership application for your consideration. The application has the mailing address so you can send your form back along with the $25/yr dues (International dues are slightly higher). Regardless, you will get the back issues of this year’s newsletters plus the current club membership roster when you join. Listed below is a sampling of some of the articles from our past newsletter.
If you have any other questions please let us know at Mooncarclub@gmail.com. Thank you and we hope to see or hear from you soon!
Finally, regardless of whether you join our club or not, please let us know if you buy or sell any Moon/Diana/Windsor/Ruxton cars or ever hear of someone else that has one of these vehicles. We would like to keep a listing of all of the cars made by The Moon Motor Car Company, so stay in touch!
11 Year Index of Tech Talk Articles
2011-2021
Here is a list of the Tech articles we have in the previous newsletters. We keep a copy of the those newsletters in the “Members Only” section of our website. The instructions to access these articles are given to current club members.
Year Vol Issue Tech Talk
2011 1 1 Jun Hydraulic Brakes
2011 1 2 Sep Casting Small Parts
2011 1 3 Dec Restoring Wood-spoked Wheels
2012 2 1 Mar Reproducing Control Levers
2012 2 2 Jun Fixing a Broken Pressure Plate
2012 2 3 Sep Relining External Brake Shoes
2012 2 4 Dec Fixing A Flywheel
2013 3 1 Mar Replacing a Diana Distributor
2013 3 2 Jun Restoring a Wiper Motor
2013 3 3 Sep Servicing the Series A
2013 3 4 Dec Servicing the Series A- Engine
2014 4 1 Mar Servicing the Series A- Chassis
2014 4 3 Sep Servicing the Series A- Transmission/Rear Axle
2014 4 4 Dec Servicing the Series A- Brakes
2015 5 1 Mar Servicing the Series A- Steering
2015 5 2 Jun Making Moon Hubcaps
2015 5 3 Sep Rear Axle Ring Gear
2016 6 1 Mar 6-40 Engines 6Y vs 7U
2016 6 3 Sep Safety Alert for 6-40/ Series U/Newport Owners
2016 6 3 Sep Installing an Oil Check Valve
2016 6 4 Dec Installing the Moon Mat
2017 7 1 Mar List of member restorations
2017 7 3 Sep 6V USB Charge Port for your Moon
2017 7 3 Sep License Plate Restoration
2018 8 1 Mar Finding Bearings for Moons
2018 8 3 Sep Safety Alert for Split Rims/Hub Cracks & Brake Drums Wear
2018 8 4 Dec Restoring Brake Drums
2019 9 1 Mar Moon Mat Installed/New Top & Upholstery
2019 9 3 Sep Spanish Grain Leather
2020 10 2 Jun Making Parts using CAD system
2020 10 2 Jun Bearings on EBay
2020 10 3 Sep Replacing a Radiator Core
2020 10 4 Dec Vacuum Tank Repair
2021 11 2 Jun Moon Tool Kit
2021 11 3 Sep Moon Emblems from 1920’s
11 Year Index of Other Articles
2011-2021
Here is a list of some of the other articles from previous newsletters.
Year Vol Issue Featured Articles
2011 1 1 Jun Phases of the Moon-1910
2011 1 2 Sep Phases of the Moon-1925
2011 1 3 Dec Moon’s Early competition
2012 2 1 Mar Beamed Bright in the 20’s
2012 2 2 Jun Tale of a Moon Buggy
2012 2 3 Sep Early St. Louis Automobile History
2012 2 4 Dec Moon & Diana Styling
2013 3 1 Mar Moons in Forest Park
2013 3 3 Sep Franke Moon Motors
2013 3 4 Dec The Worth of the Moon Name
2014 4 1 Mar Iowa to Iola with a Ruxton
2014 4 4 Dec Walt Disney Moon
2015 5 1 Mar Moon History
2015 5 1 Mar Walt Disney Follow-up
2015 5 2 Jun Biltmore classics
2015 5 3 Sep Warren’s Mini-Moon
2015 5 4 Dec The Lost Moons
2016 6 1 Mar Moon in the Movies
2016 6 2 Jun Visiting Jay Leno’s Shop
2016 6 4 Dec English Spy owns a Moon
2017 7 1 Mar International Vintage Car Concours – India
2018 8 1 Mar 1917 6-36 Moon Profile
2018 8 2 Jun Continental Motors Book Review
2018 8 3 Sep Continental Motors Part 2
2019 9 3 Sep Auto Review-Defence of the Assembled Car
2019 9 4 Dec Once in a Blue Moon –
Interview with a Moon Employee
2020 10 1 Mar Moon Six World Traveler- Fake News
2020 10 3 Sep Continental Motors Part 2
2020 10 3 Sep Diana Motor Car Term Paper
2020 10 4 Dec Windsor Do-Dad King
2021 11 1 Mar Windsor Follow-up
Other on-going articles each year include our annual Moon Meet pictures, the Moon Mailbag, Pictures of Events with club members Moons/Dianas/Windsors and Ruxtons and then the occasional item of interest to our membership.
Finally, there are dozens of member profiles in previous newsletters and we are always looking for MORE member profiles and/or Tech articles from our membership.
Join our club and you will have access to all of our past newsletters with these articles.
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