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October 2012 Drifter’s Newsletter

P . O . B O X 1 9 7

P O M O N A , C A 9 1 7 6 9

President

Patrick Fay

Vice President

David Meyer

Secretary

Chris Rose

Treasurer Denise Williams

State Delegate

Joey Morrison

Editor

David Meyer

Minutes 1-2

Party Flyer 3

Presidents Corner 4

Treasurers Report 5

Trip Report(s) 6-8

Trail Bosses 9-10

Calendar(s) of Events 11-13

Items For Sale 14-19

Business Listings 20

Inside this issue:

Meeting Minutes The 608th meeting of the Drifters Jeep Club was called to order at 7:35 p.m. on Thursday, October 4th, 2012 by Club President Patrick Fay. The meeting was held at Sergio's, 657 W. Foothill Blvd. Upland.

The flag salute was by Arnold Taffoya.

Roll call was taken by David Meyer. There were 17 members, 0 qualifying member, and 0 guests present.

The minutes from the September meeting were read by Chris Rose, and approved.

Treasurer’s report was read by President Patrick Fay.

See Treasurer’s report for details.

New bills presented. Three bills presented: One for $305.30 (Bob )for the Air Tank at the 50th Anniversary Raffle, one for $86.40 (Joey) for a plaque, and one for $27.56 (Mark) for party decorations for the 50th Anni-versary. A motion was made to pay the bill and it was second.

Conservation report was given Bob Bissell.

Adopt a trail meeting is November 28th in Corona at Sizzler.

There is a meeting regarding OHV for the San Bernardino Forest. The meeting is 10/23/12 at 10:00 AM at the Forest Supervi-sors Office on Tippecanoe.

Delegates report was given by Joey Morri-son.

The next meeting is October the 27th in Poway.

Old Business: Patrick Fay said they are requesting prize donations for Panamint Valley Days which is November 9-11, 2012. Patrick made a mo-tion to donate (2) $50.00 cash prizes. Dave Peifer second the motion. The motion was carried.

September Run...............

Trail Bosses are Fred Valdepena, Forrest Cornell, Dave Almond, and Rick Buckley Jr.

CA4WDC South District Meeting

Sat, January 05, 2013, 9am – 3pm

Location: To be Determined

All delegates and members are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Contact Kerrie at [email protected] for more in-formation

Minutes Continued None of the Trail Bosses were present, and Joey Morrison gave a report. Joey said there 5 Jeeps from the Drifters. They ran Holcomb Creek Trail. There was another Jeep club running the same trail. Everyone had a good time, and no one broke down.

New Business: Dave Peifer turned in $25.00 for the sales of plaques and DVD's.

Diana Kimpton turned in $20.00 that was not used for party decorations for the 50 Anniversary.

Patrick Fay announced that the Dues are due and will overdue in January.

Patrick Fay said the Drifter's Christmas Party will be at the Sturdevants residence on December 8th at 4p.m. There was a discussion about doing a taco cart and hiring a cater-er for the party to do the food. The price will depend on the number of individuals attending. RVSP to Jennifer Sturde-vant or Patrick Fay so they can get a head count. Patrick and Jennifer had contacted caterers, and the prices varied between $377.00 and $425.00. Patrick said he would be more inclinded to go to the caterer that Jennifer mentioned because they are close...Wrightwood. There was a motion by Jeannie Bragman and second by Dave Peifer to pay for the catering service to do the taco cart. The motion carried. There was talk about a margarita cart.

Dave Peifer turned in $25.00 for the sales of plaques and DVD's.

Diana Kimpton turned in $20.00 that was not used for party decorations for the 50 Anniversary.

Patrick Fay announced that the Dues are due and will overdue in January.

Patrick Fay said the Drifter's Christmas Party will be at the Sturdevants residence on December 8th at 4p.m. There was a discussion about doing a taco cart and hiring a cater-er for the party to do the food. The price will depend on the number of individuals attending. RVSP to Jennifer Sturde-vant or Patrick Fay so they can get a head count. Patrick and Jennifer had contacted caterers, and the prices varied

between $377.00 and $425.00. Patrick said he would be more inclinded to go to the caterer that Jennifer mentioned because they are close...Wrightwood. There was a motion by Jeannie Bragman and second by Dave Peifer to pay for the catering service to do the taco cart. The motion carried. There was talk about a margarita cart.

Everyone is to bring a dessert for the party. It was decided to have a white elephant. If you want to join in on the White Elephant you need to bring a gift around $20.00.

Patrick Fay talked about the Drifter adopting a needy family for Christmas. Patrick will have more information at the next meeting. Suggestions helpful.

October Run ….

Trail Bosses are Frank Cattern, David Meyer, Tom Free-man, and Patrick Fay.

Patrick said he would help with run and they will be leaving the campground in 29 Palms at 9 am.

November Run ….

Trail Bosses are Steve Sturdevant, Mike Elliot, Dave Gothard, Don Rybarczyk.

Patrick said he spoke to Steve Sturdevant and the Novem-ber run will be over Thanksgiving, and the place will be Mammoth Wash. On Friday the 23rd there will be a Poker Run.

December Run ….

Trail Bosses are Mark Bargman, Jason Williams, and Dave Peifer

The December Run is still in the planning stages.

The 50/50 was won by Mark Phelps for $ 42.00. Congrats !

The next club meeting will be on Thursday, November 1st meeting will be at Sergio's Mexican Restaurant in Upland.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 pm.

Chris

October 2012

October 2012

Well, we had a very productive September meeting. We discussed the Christmas party which the Sturdevant family will be hosting on December 8th. The party will be getting underway early to mid afternoon. Details will follow soon. The membership has agreed to pay , from the party fund, for a taco vendor which will enable all of us to have fun without worrying about dinner. Please bring a dessert of your choice to share. The party will be BYOB . We plan on having a gift exchange for the grown ups. Here's how that works. Bring a guy or girl gift and you will get a gift. If you choose not to participate don't bring a gift. Suggested cost is $15 to $20. We will issue raffle tickets for the participants and when your number is called you pick whatever gift is available. Kinda white elephant gift exchange which means you can take someone elses gift if you like theirs better than the one you have. But we will limit that to a one time gift "theft". Also being that Christmas time is intended for the kids we will have a very special guest and the kids will receive something as well. Unfortunately I failed to begin working on the charity or needy family project sooner. I have put out a few feelers to find out how we could help but have not come up with any real families or charities to help. That is clearly an oversight by me and I encourage any future officers to begin that process in July or August. Dues are due now. And overdue in January. Please pay the treasurer at the next meeting or send your payment to the PO box A reminder to trail bosses. Please get your maps and run info to the membership as early as you can before your run. 60 days notice would be nice since everyone is very busy and needs to plan ahead. November meeting on the 1st at Segios restaurant in Upland. November run over the Thanks-giving weekend at Mammoth wash. Poker run is rumored. December run TBD. December meet-ing at Segios restaurant on December 6th. January run TBD January meeting at Sergios restau-rant on January 3rd.

Sincerely, Patrick Fay Standing on a hill of my mountain of dreams. Telling myself it's not as hard as it seems

October 2012

President’s Corner

Treasurer’s Report October 2012

September Trip Report Holcomb Creek Trail

October 2012

Leaving the 90 + temperatures down the hill, I arrived at camp early Friday afternoon. After setting up, I grabbed my fishing gear and walked 50 yards to the private beach on Big Bear Lake and within an hour I had a nice stinger of fish. Back to camp I went to and prepared for a peaceful evening. That fresh fish fry was out of this world. I sat around the campfire, overlook-ing the lake that evening and retired early. I awoke Saturday morning to find that Bob Bissell had arrived and assisted him in setting up his camp site. Shortly before 9:00 A.M., we headed over to the Discovery Center and met up with RD and Dennice Weddell. After a short delay, while Joey disconnected his Flat Fender and put in the drive shaft, we headed to the trail head. Unfortunately when we arrived we found that 40 Jeeps, from Inland Empire Jeep Club, were in front of us. I went to Plan B and we doubled back and raced to a cut off that would hopefully put us in front of this group. We traveled a short distance on the cutoff and came upon a very challenging rock section. Arnold and Maria decided not to risk damage to their beautiful new Jeep and said they would meet us at the end of Holcomb Creek Trail. It was a wise choice as Steve did experience some damage to his new TJ. We continued up the bypass and finally ar-rived at the intersection only to find that we didn't beat the Inland Empire group so we headed east on Holcomb Creek Trail. We manuvered through 3 challenging sections and only once did we have to pull out the tow straps to assist RD. Great job on his part getting through the other sections on his own. We then headed out to catch up with Arnold and Maria. As we arrived at the trails end, the original group was just exiting the Rock Garden. We watched for nearly an hour as several highly modified Jeeps attacked this section with more than 1 requiring winching to get them through. We headed back to RD's cabin, in Fawnskin, to air up and eventually end-ed up at a great pizza parlor in Big Bear City. After some "socializing" we split up and Bob and I went back to camp. A quiet evening around a camp fire was a perfect ending to a won-derful weekend. Thanks to all that shared this great weekend with me. Be safe and hopefully we will see you on the trail. Participants: Bob Bissell Dennice Weddell RD Steve, Nichole and JD Kennedy Joey Morrison Arnold and Maria Taffoya Report by Forest

October Trip Report Old Dale Mining District

October 2012

I had to work all day Friday and got a little later start than I wanted to. However traffic was light and I had no issues driving through Lucerne valley. Made it from driveway, if I had one, to the 29 Palms RV and golf resort in 1 hour and 55 minutes. I found a few Drifters al-ready set up and socializing. The camp fire was getting lit and it seemed so were the rest of us. My timing was perfect. Bob Bissell had left camp to attend a Big Horn sheep seminar complete with multiple margaritas which he enjoyed by the stories he told us later. Apparently the perfect woman does exist. But she might be a goat/sheep lover too. Ask Bob, he'll explain. After hang-ing out at the fire for some time, more than was healthy, it was time for bed. I slept outside thinking I was going to enjoy the great outdoors while everybody else was in their motorhome or cabin. It was a beautiful night. But after numerous drinks the night before, the early sunshine greeted me harshly. Saturday morning started the usual way. Bloody Marys and "are we really leaving at 9:00" questions. Which of course we didn't. But most were pretty close to leaving at nine. So my ruse worked.So we left camp around ten and headed to our trail head. After briefly getting lost and not being able to find my way out of the RV park I lost the confidence of all involved. That might be a new record. We did get out and went down HWY 62 to the trailhead. Worked our way up a little wash to a good place to air down. Jason Williams graciously brought some of his USMC maps of the area and led us cross country to a road that we eventually did find that took us to a mine to explore. Some people walked up to the mine and a couple of us remem-bered we owned jeeps and drove to it. It was a nice little road to the mine plateau and I'm glad I drove rather than hiked. I even picked up my passenger, Bob, on the way down. We left there and went in search of Supply mine. Which conveniently coincided with lunch time. We had a great view and some ruins to explore during our lunch break. After lunch I decided to head up a road that I was told had a TJ that had rolled. If you looked in the right place you would see it. The road/trail started out innocently enough but continued to get more and more steep and less and less wide. The loose rocks didn't help much either. In other words we were doing what we came to do. We were jeeping. The drivers needed to keep to the left and the poor passengers had a clear view of the drop off and the TJ at the bottom. A few heart rates were accelerated and palms got sweaty. At one point I got out and walked ahead to make sure we could continue. Thankfully we could much to the chagrin of my rider/navigater who asked me more than once if I was crazy. Rather than answer him I just kept going and confirmed his suspi-cions. The trail did open and we regrouped for a few minutes to let everybodies nerves settle a little Between where we had lunch and now were we had a 1300 foot elevation increase. Pret-ty cool but we had some more to go. One map that Jason had, showed the road we were on circled around and the GPS showed it was a dead end. I believed the map. So we kept going up and kept jeeping. Eventually the trail was getting pretty washed out and soft with deep ruts and big rocks as obstacles. I called on the radio for the group to wait while checked to see if we could get through. Nope it was a dead end. (See next page)

October Trip Report Old Dale Mining District

October 2012

But, Steve Kennedy does not have a club radio and followed me down. At one point I thought that might be good if I needed a strap, but not good if we had two jeeps stuck. However after getting turned around we did get back out without any problems. At the end of the trail was a very involved mine. The entrances were concrete and Bob and I saw numerous ladders that we could have used to explore. It would have been nice if we had time to take a look. But we had to get back to camp before it got much later. We regfrouped again and it was decided that we would go the way we came and get back to camp around 4. Going back down the narrow steep loose trail was easier that going up. I think it may be because we knew what to expect. This time the drivers got to see the rollover. We found a sand dune, go figure, and a few Drift-ers played in the sand. We headed for the highway and a few people said there goodbyes and went home. The rest of us went to the RV park for dinner and socializing. We partied be-fore dinner at Robert and Cathys spot. One note to a fellow member, Bob Bissell, some people have wine WITH dinner not FOR dinner. But a good time was had by all and there were no ve-hicle issues. So no boner flag will be given. I would like to thank Jason Williams for coming out and bringing his maps. That was very useful. Also Bob Bissell was a helpful navigater when his eyes were open. The people that ran the RV park could not have been any nicer or more helpful. When we com-mandeered any empty spot for our fire ring, thanks Norm and Karyn, they didn't say a word. In fact they came by several times and asked if we needed anything. I also heard the people with motorhomes got a reduced rate. I think we only scratched the surface of the jeeping in the Old Dale mine area and would like to go back. ATTENDEES Gaither and Charlotte Vaugh. Silver Jeep Norm and Karyn Gerwien. Red Jeep Mark and Jeanne Bargman. Silver Jeep. Jason and Lindsey Williams. Red jeep Eldon and Julie Dekenga. Silver Jeep. Qualifying member John and Denise Williams. Red Jeep. Jim and Chery Morrison. Silver Jeep Robert and Cathy Smith. Red Jeep. Steve, Joanne, Jessica and Nicole Kennedy. Gun metal grey Jeep Patrick Fay. White Jeep. Bob Bissell. No jeep How did those last three guys get in without the proper color vehicle

Sincerely, Patrick Standing on a hill of my mountain of dreams. Telling myself it's not as hard as it seems

October 2012

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November 2012

Meeting Location - Sergio’s Mexican 657 W. Foothill Blvd, Upland 909-931-7701

Club Run Location - Mammoth Wash, Niland

Trail Bosses - Steve Sturdevant; Mike Elliot; Dave Gothard; Don Rybarczk

Board Meeting Location - Contact Patrick Fay (909) -532-2017

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November Run - Mammoth Wash

October 2012

Meeting Location - Sergio’s Mexican 657 W. Foothill Blvd, Upland 909-931-7701

Club Run Location - Location to be Announced

Trail Bosses - Mark Bargman, Jason Williams, Dave Peifer

Board Meeting Location - Contact Patrick Fay (909) -532-2017

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December 2012

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1996 Allegro Bus 34ft. 28,000 miles, wide body chassis. Fully self contained, 7000w Onan generator, just had major service in July 2010 with very low hours. Central ducted heating and air (2 air condition units), double Corian sink and counter top, upgraded fixtures, stove, oven, microwave and convection oven. Front and rear TV. Huge Basement storage, hydraulic leveling jacks with driver’s side door and controls. Gas Ford engine with Banks Power Pack. Transmission, differential, all brakes ser-viced 500 miles ago, tires are perfect. Roof resealed this year. No dogs, cats or smoking ev-er. This coach is in great condition! We’re asking $21,000 OBO. If you need any more info or pictures let me know. You can contact me anytime by email @ [email protected] or cell @ 626-824-4982.


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T-Shirts: $ 10.00 each (Red - 1 - 6/8, 1 - 14/16, 1 - Med, 2 - Large; Grey - 2 Sm, 3 - Med, 2 - Large)

Polo Shirts: $ 20.00 each (Red: 1 - Med, 1 Large, 1 XL, 1 XXL)

Womens Tank Tops: $ 10.00 each (Red - 1 Large; White - 1 - Sm, 1 - Med)

Snow Cap: $ 10.00 each (Red - 1 only)

Please contact Forest Cornell (909) 957-1679 to order.

1944 Jeep military trailer. Rare Willys-Overland brand, not a Bantam.

Excellent condition $1,200.

Black Jeep hardtop, fits 2004-2006 Jeep Unlimited $800.

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The jeep is a fair weather vehicle because it has no top, nor will one fit in its current configuration. The cage is the only thing that would be rebuilt, so that a soft top could be installed and accept doors. Truthfully I did not rebuild it myself because it was my first jeep and I really expected to roll it a few times and didn’t want to replace a already functional cage. I did add to it and modify it from the original owner several years ago. It’s just not the cool-est cage by any means, though as I mentioned , it is functional with a cool feature of Ceiling fans! Yep, I installed fans to keep the air moving on the trail while crawling.

The jeep does need to have the cage continued to the front bumper though. I’ll explain, to get more travel the original owner notched the frame for the reverse shackles to swing into. This theo-ry was to get as much flex with the lowest center of gravity utiliz-ing a leaf spring suspension. I have modified the front mount and made new leaves to gain an additional 6” of travel from the original set up. The frame does have some additional support welded in from long ago and has started to show the wear and tear of the trails. The Jeep has 48” of articulation and uses all of it on the trails. Because of this attribute, the frame has flexed enough over the years to begin to sag. This is why the cage, new or existing needs the additional frame work/cage to the front.

No other work needed. I may replace the cage myself if I keep it and possibly freshen the whole thing up? Not sure. I have alot on my plate, hence the idea of selling it. I may have mentioned that I have a new 2 seat Procomp chassis project that I have to finish and need messily 30k to do so……..LOL. Here is a list of items on the 92 YJ Jeep

+ 4.0 HO engine/ AX-15 5 speed manual transmission + Atlas II 4:3:1 transfercase + Tom Woods 1350 long travel drive lines with double cardan joints for the front and rear. Additionally thick wall tubing, not normal & very strong. + Front axle; Custom build around a 9" housing by Sun Ray: MONSTER 1550 cv's held in by custom 1 1/8" bent C's, 35 spline axles/stubs, Detroit with 5.38 gears + Rear axle; Dana 60 semi floater, Superior Chromoly axles, Lincoln locker, 5.38 gears + Wheels; custom 3 piece double beedlock 8 lug 16.5, with Mick-ey Thomson Baja Claw 16/38.5-16.5 tires, also have 2 unused spares. One is mounted on a stock 16.5 wheel. + Power Premier Welder with the 195 amp alt, 2- 75' long weld-ing leads. + Kilby 10 CFM air compressor (can run air tools!), reserve air tank, oil/air separator, manifold, regulator, auto shutoff, rear & front universal connects. + 3/16" steel under armor belly pan that's level with the frame rails from the oil pan to the T-case. + 48" of articulation, 106" wb

+ 2 Warn winches; 9.5 high speed in front and a 8000 in the back + Heated Best Top seats, 4 point Crow harnes’, the heater works very good too. + Howe steering assist ram & a modified steering box with cross bracing + 1" lifted engine mounts + new aluminum radiator + Fuel tank located behind seats in custom 16ga shielding, top access panel doubles as a holding tray to bungee stuff in..

+ Lots of Halogen lighting everywhere, managed by a custom dash mounted 12 switch panel on the dash using resettable breakers.

+ 2 battery tray

+ all grade 8 bolts throughout. + Smogged and registered.

This project comes complete as shown, ready to hit the trail, which would include: all 6 Dirt Bags tool bags, d rings, air hose coil, 2 winch controls, well fortified First Aid Kit, 2 dry fire extinguishers, quick removable mud flaps to get to & from the trail head.

Asking $10,300.00 & Contact Guy Dougherty 909-208-5087



Asking $10,300.00 Contact Guy Dougherty 909-208-5087

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