{"id":16,"date":"2025-08-30T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/?p=16"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:09:15","slug":"mati-2025-in-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/30\/mati-2025-in-the-books\/","title":{"rendered":"MATI 2025 in the books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"162\" src=\"http:\/\/hellfyr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MATI-Logo-Final-2025_edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>We traveled down to Welch Minnesota this past weekend to the Mustangs At The Island (MATI) event hosted by Treasure Island Casino and run\/planned\/managed by the Lake Country Mustang Club.  As always a great show with a large turnout (nearly 300 mustangs spanning all years).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This 3 day event has everything from scenic cruises, a poker run, group meals, bowling, gambling, a comedy show and a guest speaker (Ralph Arning from Ford Engineering was this year)&#8230; and of course the car show itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No hardware obtained, but met up with a lot of friends we hadn&#8217;t seen in quite awhile from all over the mid-west.  Between BS-ing about cars, showing off the new GT500, and just plain catching-up,  the time flew by and before we knew it we were headed home again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those considering this event, it is an oddly voted show.  You are parked based on the order you arrive with no consideration to year \/ trim of mustang you bring.  Which means parking with friends is EASY and encouraged.  But&#8230; be aware&#8230; when voted on, the votes are based on the row you are parked in (again, year \/ trim make no difference)&#8230; so if parked with friends, they are likely the ones you are competing against along with anyone else in your row.  3 awards for each row.   We nestled in with several of the classics Mustangs in our row&#8230; and they of course dominated our rows voting.  It is also a &#8220;must be present to win&#8221; set of awards and if someone is missing the awards drop down a level.  PARTICIPANT voted, along with several choice awards by event sponsors.  It is a good time and a well run, organized and <strong>secure <\/strong>event.  Would highly recommend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" data-id=\"19\" src=\"https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4536-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4536-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4536-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4536-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4536-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4536-2048x1279.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>No other pictures this time, left camera at home, so you have to stare at the Code Orange&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We traveled down to Welch Minnesota this past weekend to the Mustangs At The Island (MATI) event hosted by Treasure Island Casino and run\/planned\/managed by the Lake Country Mustang Club. As always a great show with a large turnout (nearly 300 mustangs spanning all years). This 3 day event has everything from scenic cruises, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellfyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}