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Once again we are planning on aweek for Spring Break at Gordon’sWell in Late March and EarlyApril. This is still a few weeksbefore Easter, but is when membershad the time off. Even if you don’thave much extra time off, you canstill plan on back to back weekendsat the dunes and know that therewill be people to watch your stuffin between their trips into Yuma.

Janece is looking into having clubflags made, and hopefully weshould have samples soon.

Dave Huggard has been lookinginto screen printing, and we arecomparing quotes on a new batch ofclub shirts.

Lets go to Dumont in April! Weare planning a 2 day Dumont tripfor the weekend of April 17-19th.

Weekend Valentine – by Janece(to the Theme of Gilligan’s Island)

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,A tail of a Valentine Glamis tripThat started from our favorite washFavorite wash number six. (Ok four)

The club is a mightily Glamis group.Our ride leaders brave and sure.Lots of buggies set out that dayFor a three hour tour, a three hour tour.

The sand dunes started getting rough,All of the buggies were getting tossedIf not for the courage of the fearless repaircrewThe broken buggies would be lost, the buggies would be lost

All the buggies made it back to the dirt of our uncharted wash fourWith JimAnd Nancy too,Steve and his wife,The repair crew (the movie star)

Our Reporter and MelissaHere at Glamis wash number four(The song starts again)

So this is a tale of the Glamis groupThey’re here for a long, long timeThey’ll have to make the best of things,It’s a fun filled uphill dune climb.

Every one will do their bestTo make them selves comfortable,In our Valentine Day Glamis nest.

With cell phones, lights and sand rail carsAnd Flowers, cake and other luxuriesLike any other Valentine weekendIt’s was lovely as can be

So join us each trip my friends,You’re sure to get a smile,From the Inland Empire Offroad AssociationHere at Glamis wash four isle.

Glamis Valentine By Janece(To the tune of Gilligan’s Island)

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March 6-8th:

Quick two day weekend

trip to Glamis, Wash 6.

March 11th:

Club meeting at Denny’s

on Alabama in Redlands, 7 PM.

March 27th-April 5th:

Spring Break week at

Gordon’s Well.

April 8th:

Club meeting at Denny’s

on Alabama in Redlands, 7 PM.

April 17-19th:

Weekend at Dumont.

Plan on coming out for a nice off

weekend at Dumont, the week-

end after Easter.

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For at least the sixth year in a row, Inland Empire Offroad spent a week atthe dunes over Presidents day. This year we decided to head out for Presi-dents day weekend and stay the following week. With the increasing num-ber of retirees in the club, the crowd who could stay all week has grown aswell. This year Walt, Nancy Kastle, The Tranthams, and The Porters spentthe week with Don and Shirley Ford. Some of the rest of us who still had tomake it look like we were working during the week left on Monday and re-turned later in the week, including Jim Kastle, Steve and Janice Tharp, Johnand Scott Cole, Melissa, and me. On the first weekend we were joined bylots of other club members, including the Huggards, Olivers, Martines,Stuttes, Grossmanns (including Janece, the club’s official poet), DeanCarver, and more. It was a pretty big camp. Fortunately everybody was ableto make it to the camp at Wash 4, even with the new railroad fence. Forthose of you who haven’t seen it, the Union Pacific Railroad has decided tofence off their right of way, which includes the wash road. Later this yeartheir plan is to close off access to it com-pletely. Fortunately the BLM has gradeda road next to the fence to wash 7 sowe’ll be able to get in, but it could bemore crowded if people can’t get to thefurther washes.

There were again some new toys outfor Presidents week, with the Tranthamsmaking their second trip with their beau-tiful new Northstar powered mid-enginecar. Don Ford brought out his V-8 frontengine car for its second trip as well, andhe has it running very well. It had theopportunity to tow Scott Cole a couple of times and did a great job of it.There is video of his roost posted on the website. Sharon Porter has a newPolaris RZR that she enjoyed cruising around in, and the Martines broughtout their new to them Rhino instead of the sandrail for the first weekend, and

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Jerry and Don’s new V8s

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seemed to have fun with it. Now they have that all too common problem oftrying to decide which toys to make room for in the trailer. Maybe the answeris a bigger trailer?

There were, as usual, some technical challenges during the week as well, butas is common with the club we overcame them. Most notable was probablyScott’s clutch and then transmissions, which found it difficult to hold up to hisV8. He sheared a woodruff key and stripped the splines on the CV cups thefirst weekend, and lost a clutch disk and a ring and pinion the second weekend.Most importantly though, he drove it in the trailer at the end of the weekend.We did have a club first when on Saturday’s night ride we ended up replacingthe transmission in the dunes. We were 3.6 miles from camp near the bigbowls, and since it was only about 9:30 PM we decided that some of us wouldrun back to camp to get the spare while John and Scott removed the brokentrans. Once we got there with the spare we had the car running in 45 minutes and were back in camp by 12:30AM. Notbad for a field fix. We also installed power steering on Don Ford’s car, which using the Char Lynn style unit he got wasreally pretty neat. It is a single unit that hooks to the pump and installs in line in the steering shaft. No additional ram isneeded, since the unit generates torque to steer the rack and resist feedback in the wheel. Don says it feel like it made asmuch difference as power steering does on a regular street car.

With two weekends a row at the dunes, that meant we got to have pizza at MamaJeannie’s two Saturdays in a row. The food was great as always, and Inland Empire had thelargest group in the restaurant on both weekends.With only one more Glamis trip planned this season,we gotta get in our pizza while we can.

We had 9 cars out there for the second weekend,which is pretty good for an off weekend a week aftera holiday. There were lots of great rides during both

weekends of the trip. and apparently some good ones during the week too, in-cluding those into Yuma to get food and buggy parts. Lots of members are look-ing forward to the Gordon’s Well trip just because Yuma is even closer, allowingfor lots of great meals, maybe even every night…

Overall it was a great dune trip, andI look forward to hearing more aboutit, especially from those lucky enough to spend more time out there than wedid. I really appreciate the opportunity to leave the stuff set up out there forback to back weekends, since it saves quite a bit in fuel and storage costs, notto mention allowing for two fun weekends in a row. Thanks to everyone whohelped to continue this Inland Empire Offroad tradition.-P.J.

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A club first:Trans replacement in the dunes

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This month we would like to thank Janece Grossmann for her second poetic effort in a newsletter article.We would also like to encourage everyone once again to write content for the newsletter. More contentmakes them more interesting for everybody. Personally, we would like to express our gratitude for all thecongratulations we have received from club members in regards to our upcoming addition to our family, andwe can’t wait until the three of us are out in the dunes. -P.J. and Melissa Kastle

Sharon Porter 3/01Gary Stump 3/05

Bruno Kolbrek 3/09Jerry Trantham 3/14

Don Ford 3/22Darrell Harju 3/23

AJ Bacon 3/24Breauna Rhodes 3/25

Trevor Rhodes 3/28Brianna Cole 3/30

The Hagens have two child’shelmets for sale:Both were purchased atChaparral, 3 years ago. Bothare full face with visors. Exte-rior is in good shape, minorscratches. Inside is in perfectshape, foam intact, no tears.Black one is a child Small andthe Yellow one is a child Me-dium. $50 each. ContactPete/Linda at 760-451-0845

Dean Schellinger has a BuickV-8 Mid Engine Buggy ForSale:Bought from Acacia RV. I'vehad it for two years and havenot touched it and I feel it is ashame for it to just sit there.Includes two extra solid rimsand bearings for front wheels.Great buggy I just don't havethe time anymore.$5500Contact Dean Schellinger:(909) 987-1880 work(909) 887-8945 home

Jeff Oliver has a set offour Ford F-250 Wheels:One piece aluminumwheels. Tires have beensold but wheels areavailable.$100 for the set of 4.Contact Jeff Oliver:(760) 774-1991jeffoliver74@yahoo.com

P.J. and Melissa have aYamaha Golf Cart ForSale:Late 1990’s G14 Gasgolf cart with lift. Floorsits 24 inches above theground. Stock motor,runs well.$2000 oboContact P.J. Kastle:(951) 285-8459pkastle@msn.com

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