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♦ The sand show weekend has just passed, so that means the dune season is almost here. Members will start things off with some hard desert events in October, and then some will be spending a week at Glamis leading up to Halloween.

♦ In lieu of the usual sand season kickoff picnic, let’s have a pizza dinner on Saturday, October 15th at the Shakey’s pizza in Redlands at 3:00 PM. This will give everyone a chance to meet and hang out before heading to the dunes. See page 4 for more information.

♦ November trips are already on the calendar, and it looks like members will be spending even more time in the dunes this year by arriving early and staying late.

♦ The 2011-2012 Glamis passes are now available. You can order them online from the American Sand Association or a number of other vendors. Remember that the passes are cheaper if you buy them ahead of time rather than waiting to get one at the dunes. For more information, see page 3.

Havasu 2011 by Walt Jim, Nancy, Gary, Young and I were sitting around enjoying Don And Shirley's hospitality Fri-day afternoon, when a phone call came in. It seamed that Pete was having some issues with get-ting his boat motor to run. It was discussed that Justin had diagnosed it as a fuel pump, and that it was in everyone best interest to have Chuck and Justin tow them to Cattail Cove. Now

how would we get the Hagens and Huggards with all the puppies back to Havasu? Jim agreed to tow the boat trailer, I went with Don in his car, with Gary and Young in their truck, we headed to the Islander to get Pete's trailer, but this place is harder to get into then Fort Knox. Not for the IEOR crew-- Gary knows a resi-dent there,Jim and Bambi, that lives next to the guard shack, and within minutes we were hooked up and on our way to rescue the stranded boaters. Don and I worked up the story to convince the Ranger at the Park interance to let use all in, without having to pay the camp site fee. As we pull up, the Ranger greets use with -brake something, did ya? Don and I guessed that Pete had told him we were on our way, but that wasn't the case, he was just a

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September 30-October 2nd: Search and Rescue De-

sert Run at Johnson Valley.

October 15th: 3:00 Club Pizza Party at

Shakey’s in Redlands, see pg. 4

October 21-24th: Spooktacular Run at the

Salton Sea.

October 28 (or earlier)-30th: Halloween at Glamis,

Wash 6. The first Glamis week-

end of the year!

November 11th-13th: Veterans Day weekend,

potential Glamis trip.

November 18th - 28th: Thanksgiving at Glamis,

Wash 6. Many members will be

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good guesser. It was decided that we would take the boat to Don and Shirley's. While the Hagens and Huggurds were getting ready for dinner, Shirley took a picture of Pete's boat with a 4 Sale sign on it and sent it to him on his phone. (they are always playing jokes on each other like that) And after all of the events of the day, everybody went to din-ner Friday night, at the Chinese Buffet. Saturday morning, after breakfast, (some that Kris over-cooked) we waited for Pete. He had to wait for the boat shop to open, and soon arrived with the new parts. Some problems reared their ugly head, but with all the mechanics and supervisors on the pit crew, they were quickly solved , and we we ready to hit the water. Many, many thanx to Bob and Lauri for putting the boat on the water too. The group had a lot of boats this trip, with Jim and Nancy's, Gary and Young's, Pete and Linda's, and Scott and Sandy's. Bob and Lauri loaded Don and Shirley, Kris and Doug, Jim and I and went to the London Bridge. We went around the Island, that was new for me, I'd never been. We left Scott and his group, and headed back to Havasu, so we could get showers and get ready for dinner. When we got back to Don and Shirley's, we found that PJ, Melissa, and Alli had made it their safely too, and had spent the day swimming in the pool. Sunday, after breakfast, we just hung out around the pool and relaxed for the day. Pete and fam-ily got back on the water, and looking at the pictures, Jer-emy and Karissa had a good time. Kris and Doug were the first to leave, and head for home. PJ and Melissa let Alli stay so she could go have Mexican food. Monday morning I headed home, and want to thank everyone for a great out-ing. -Walt

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I would to thank someone for writing about us in the orchids section in our newspaper, Havasu's Today's News-Herald. That was so kind of you. It's a section of our newspaper that you can write good things and bad things. The article was thanking us for having the Havasu Outing at our house. We enjoy it so much and having everyone here is a blast. I hope you guys continue coming. Now, how did they know I read that section every day? Hmmmmmmmm.

Shirley, Don and

It is that time of the year again, time to get your season passes for the Imperial Sand Dunes for the 2011-2012 season. Once again the prices are the same as last year, with an annual pass costing $90 when purchased ahead of time away from the dunes, or $125 if you wait and get it at the dunes. For those who won’t make enough trips to justify an annual pass, weekly permits are $25 if pur-chased ahead of time, and $40 if purchased at the dunes, so again it pays to purchase ahead of time. Many of us will be buying our passes ahead of time at the Sand Show. Keep in mind that the ven-dor who sells the pass gets to keep a percentage of the profit, so buying your pass from the ASA is one way of supporting them that won’t cost you any extra. No matter who you buy it from though it seems once again that you want to get the passes off site because of the substantial savings over pur-chasing them at the dunes.

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The temperatures are cooling down, the days are getting shorter, the sand toys are calling your name, and it is time to go to the dunes! If you are looking to share your excitement about the coming dune season with others who understand, and the people at work are looking at you funny or are just plain tired of hearing about when your first dune trip will be, come out and hang out with others who understand and feel the same way. Let’s get together for a pizza party at the Shakey’s in Redlands on Saturday, October 15th at 3:00 PM. It is lo-cated at: 836 West Colton Avenue, Redlands, CA which is just East of where we used to have club meetings. Bring yourselves, your family, and your stories about the summer and the dune trips you’re looking forward to for the upcoming season!

The following article is from the ASA Newsletter. For more information about our dunes, visit: www.asasand.org

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Hello my adoring fans, its me, Allison. For only the second time ever, I got to go se the sand show with my Daddy and Grandpas. There are lots of neat toys at a sand show, kind of like a Toys R Us for Daddies. There were lots of pretty dune buggies there, and about half of them were side by sides. Like last year, one building just had boats in it, and some of them were pretty nice too. I rode around in my stroller in the morning, and after we got to the radio booth and Daddy started talking all dorky I fell asleep. Daddy can tell you more about what he saw after that, because by the time I woke up we had already gone through both big buildings. The ASA was there selling items like T shirts and stickers to raise money to keep the dunes open. They also were selling the papers that you hang from the mirror in the truck to keep from getting a ticket at Glamis. Ninety dollars for a piece of paper seemed really expensive, but I heard that a ticket is a smaller piece of paper that costs even more. The ASA was also giving away a big black dune buggy that we saw at Glamis last season. I heard John Stevenson from Scottsdale, Arizona won it, which is too bad because I thought at least one of my Grandpas was going to win it and then I could go for a ride. Oh well, it is a good thing I can ride in Daddy’s car. On the East side of the show, across from the two big buildings I slept through, there were two motorcycle parts places that had clothes and goggles and stuff, and

it must have been neat stuff be-cause they kept it inside of fences to keep it from getting away. There were also some booths that Daddy liked that were selling parts and pieces for building your own car, like tabs and metal and stuff. There was also the world’s largest street legal 4x4 there, or as I called it, “ Big Blue Truck”. We got to see lots of our friends at the show, which I guess makes sense because most of our friends like dune buggies too. Right after the big truck we saw Dave and Leona with Pam and Mario. I’ve heard that Pam and Mario go to the dunes too, but I don’t remember seeing them there. Hopefully they will come play this season. Daddy said that he saw more friends when him and Grandpa went on Friday, includ-

ing Rick and Melanie Alonso, who also have a dune buggy with three seats. I like dune buggies with three seats now. Something new at the show this year was they had a race track set up East of the buildings where they raced motorcycles and go carts around cones and hay bales. It seemed kind of silly to me to race dirt motorcycles in a parking lot, but they were loud and fast, so people (especially the Boys) liked them. Besides the motorcycle parts and boats, the area they called “The Span” between

the two East buildings also had a bunch of new or slightly used side by sides for sale. I thought Daddy should get one, but I guess he didn’t bring enough money. He kept looking for a rear view mirror for our buggy, but every place wanted almost $100 for one, and we had already bought our mirror hanger paper for the truck so we didn’t want to spend that much on the mirror for the buggy. There was a pretty green car there that everybody liked, but I’ll let him tell you about it. I was ready to walk myself, so we did the large open building on the north side of the show, and I got a buried treasure map. Daddy said it was a poster, but it was all rolled up, so it had to be a treasure map just like I see pirates use on TV. I also got a sticker, which was fun to chew on. People kind of look at you funny when you chew on a sticker, but that’s ok, I was having fun. After all the buildings, we looked at the booths people had set up outside on the North West corner of the show. My favorite thing there was the RC race cars! They had a track set up, and they were racing the little cars around and sometimes they even crashed. I really liked watching them, and Daddy says it is genetic. I guess other people like playing with little cars at the dunes too.

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Compared to past years, prices were definitely down. This 560hp car with a Mendeola was

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Don Ford found this article in a stack of old drag racing papers he was given. It turns out that Steve Porter is shown in the foreground racing against Don Garlits. It is fascinating to hear Steve’s stories, and see that he was there in the for-mative years of drag racing.

Besides the little cars, we saw some big trucks. There were the usual RVs and Toyboxes opened up for people to walk in, but there were also a couple of giant “Tow-Ter Home” trucks that I liked. One of them was four wheel drive and had a bed big enough to park a four door jeep in. Another looked more like a regular small semi truck, but it had a slide out and nice couches inside, and it was Red! I think I like big trucks, which is funny

since I’m still a little person. I think that’s about it for the show. After we left we all went and had In-n-Out cheeseburgers, which are my favorite. Did you know they have stickers there? They are fun to play with, and the French fries are yummy too. Anyway, until next time, keep your paper hanging on your mir-ror, your toys all shined up and ready to go, and your bellies full of cheeseburgers. -Allie

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Like Allison mentioned last month, my summer project has been lengthen-ing my sandrail. It started, like many Tuesday night projects do, with John and a Sawzall in his hands. I had planned it out (imagine that) and the cutting went pretty well. One issue was that as we cut it, we noticed that one front wheel was higher than the other, but we ended up finding that one of my front shock bodies was shorter than the other, and it has been that way for at least a year. It seems we got the wrong shock body as a replacement part at some point, and we never noticed it. Oh well, it helps prove our theory that you probably won’t notice it in the sand. Once we had the car cut in half, the next step was to remove the roof bars that we would be completely replacing, as well as any other tabs and brackets (like for the old radiator) that would no longer be needed. After a night of cutting and grinding, (and lots of help from my Dad) the excess material was removed, and we then decided to focus on changing the motor. After over eight years as my sandrail motor, my shortstar had developed quite a noise that we believe to be a rod knock. We had procured an engine from a car listed on Craigslist, so I had it in the garage and ready to swap in, and what would be a better time than when the front half of the car was out of the way? We used the forklift to lift out the old motor, and in one night we were able to make the swap. With the new engine in place, and not wanting to take two half cars out to the dunes, it was time to put the halves together. After a

lot of measuring and thought (and analysis), we decided on adding 12 inches to the middle of the car. This will leave plenty of room for Allie’s car seat and an additional 7 inches for the possible future addition of a V8, without increasing the wheelbase to anything too crazy. The new wheelbase will be 136 inches, which is longer than Scott’s, but just shorter than Barry’s car. We were able to use 1.25 inch sleeve material for each of the 6 joints on the lower part of the car, and the roof bars were replaced completely with new tubing so no

sleeve was necessary. It was amazing how well the two halves slid together, and we used ratchet straps to finish the job and pull all the pieces tight. It is neat that on the four main frame bars the sleeve material extends continuously through the added material, so it truly will be stronger than it was before at the welded joints. Speaking of the car’s strength, at work I had an original com-puter finite element model of the car that I modified by stretch-ing it the same way, and with the roof X and floor bracing that we are adding, it turns out to be stiffer than the original frame. Running the same torsional loading, the displacement of the new frame is 75% of the original displacement, indicating that the frame is significantly stiffer than it was originally. Since joining the halves together, we have added an X to the roof and added quite a bit of additional tubing to stiffen the frame and to create a platform for Allie’s seat to mount to. Thanks to Dean Carver, most of the welding is done now and there is just some minor fabrication work left before we move on to secondary details like aluminum work and then paint. I should be able to take the car home from the shop early in Oc-tober, and then I will finish up the details and have it ready for Thanksgiving. I am looking forward to seeing how the changes affect the car, and to having Allie’s company on some of the rides. I’d also like to thank John and Scott for having the car in the shop for over a month, and all the Tuesday night guys for their help. -P.J.

Finite element analysis model of the stretched frame under torsional loading. This shows an exaggerated displacement

plot, where the maximum deflection was 0.0715 in.

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This month we’d like to thank Walt Fisher and Don and Shirley Ford for writing articles. The dune season is here, and by the end of the month we'll be in Glamis! If you have any plans for upcoming trips that we don’t have listed let us know so we can put them on the calendar and on the website. We’re also always looking for newsletter content so please send in whatever you can come up with. -PJ, Melissa and of course Allison

Doors on a sandrail? Yup, Funco had cars there with opening doors, which is great if you can’t climb over the side bars...

How big are yours?

Boats? Yeah, boats...

Grandpas and a little RZR...Hmm