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1 As of now, the sand season has officially started, and mem- bers are in the dunes for the long Halloween week. The yellow buggy box has been hauled down to Glamis Dunes Storage, and will once again be in camp for the season to help with all sorts of interesting repairs. Some members had been considering a November 11-14th trip to Glamis for Veterans Day, but Jim and Nancy Kastle have decided to wait one week and go out on November 18th to start a nine day Thanksgiving trip. Jim and Nancy Kastle are the latest club members to move to Arizona. Their escrow closed on October 14th on a home in Golden Valley, AZ which is between Kingman and Bull- head City. More importantly it is reasonably close to Glamis and the river, and they can drive a side by side into town. They just finished painting the Big Bear house, and will list it for sale soon to complete their escape from Cali- fornia. During the Thanksgiving trip we will once again be having a pot luck Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, November 24th. We will have Turkey, Ham, and all the fixins that people bring to share. Breaking News: Glamis, CA: These are the first pictures posted of the 2011-2012 Glamis Season. This newsletter was finished while the first trip of the season was under way, and these are pictures that they posted for the rest of us who weren’t lucky enough to get to be in the sand quite so soon. That’s ok though, Thanks- giving is right around the corner. We’re all looking forward to more complete coverage of the Halloween Week trip and the Spook Run in next month’s edition of The Rooster.

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In this edition of The Rooster we have a preview of the fun from Halloween with a few pictures, and cover the Morongo Basin Search and Rescue Desert Run a,d the club's pre-season pizza party.

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♦ As of now, the sand season has officially started, and mem-bers are in the dunes for the long Halloween week. The yellow buggy box has been hauled down to Glamis Dunes Storage, and will once again be in camp for the season to help with all sorts of interesting repairs.

♦ Some members had been considering a November 11-14th trip to Glamis for Veterans Day, but Jim and Nancy Kastle have decided to wait one week and go out on November 18th to start a nine day Thanksgiving trip.

♦ Jim and Nancy Kastle are the latest club members to move to Arizona. Their escrow closed on October 14th on a home

in Golden Valley, AZ which is between Kingman and Bull-head City. More importantly it is reasonably close to Glamis and the river, and they can drive a side by side into town. They just finished painting the Big Bear house, and will list it for sale soon to complete their escape from Cali-fornia.

♦ During the Thanksgiving trip we will once again be having a pot luck Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, November 24th. We will have Turkey, Ham, and all the fixins that people bring to share.

Breaking News: Glamis, CA: These are the first pictures posted of the 2011-2012 Glamis Season. This newsletter was finished while the first trip of the season was under way, and these are pictures that they posted for the rest of us who weren’t lucky enough to get to be in the sand quite so soon. That’s ok though, Thanks-giving is right around the corner. We’re all looking forward to more complete coverage of the Halloween Week trip and the Spook Run in next month’s edition of The Rooster.

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November 18th - 28th: Thanksgiving at Glamis,

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extending the trip to nine days!

December 24th—January 2nd: Christmas / New Years

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This year, instead of the club picnic, we decided to have a pizza lunch get together to provide a chance for members to meet up before the dune season starts. We had over thirty people attend at the Shakey’s in Redlands, and the food, conversation, and company were all great. It was neat to see many members, and Lake Havasu was well represented by Don and Shirley

Ford and Bob Kierns. Bob was also joined by his Dad, who it was great to get to see again. An interesting aspect of the event was that it turned into an impromptu Apple tech support session, with a number of iPhones and a couple of iPads. This season I imagine we will be seeing lots of electronic devices around the campfire. Perhaps we can look forward to getting e-mails, photos, and Facebook status updates

from the dunes this year. Ahh, technology!

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It was a small but distinguished group (Pete Hagen, Janice, me & Foxy) and at least one was sur-prised to find you really can have a blast off roading with no (Zip, Nada) red cars. Who'da thunk it? This really was a hoot in Janice's new RZRS & all in attendance agreed that we need to get more IEOA representation next year. –Steve Tharp

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Hello my adoring fans, it’s me, Allison. I know it has been a long time since I saw some of you, since I turned a whole year older. It was neat to see lots of my friends at pizza, but I was hoping it was going to be pizza at Mama Jeannie’s, because I really like her grilled cheese. Also it is fun to play in the sand there. Daddy says we are going to the dunes soon, but now that Grandpa and Grandma are retired, they get to go to the dunes even sooner. My other Grandpa and Grandma say that sounds like fun, and I agree. Someday maybe we’ll all be retired and we can play in the dunes together. I’d miss work though, because I have lots to do there, since I do puzzles and play with my colors and show GiGi and my Aunt Lolo how to use their iPads. I guess I’ll just have to keep working for a while. Anyway, Daddy wanted me to write this to talk about the off roading I have been doing since my birthday. Now that I am two, they decided I needed my own Jeep. My friends Kris and Doug got a Jeep, and lots of my friends have Rangers and RZRs, so it was time that I get a

little side by side to drive myself. For my birthday, GiGi and LoLo got be my very own little Power Wheels Jeep. It is smaller than the big one that Daddy plays with, and this one has pretty flowers on it. At first I was kind of scared of it because it goes really fast, and all by itself, so I just wanted my Daddy to push me around in it. That way it went nice and slow, just like my Cozy Coupe car I ride in the house. Eventually though Daddy showed me where to put my foot to make it go, and I realized on my own that it can be really fun. I like taking my favorite doll Belle with me and we have the greatest adventures exploring the vast wilderness of my front yard. I don’t drive in the back yard because of the presents that Diesel leaves me back there, and nobody wants to clean that off of my pretty blue Jeep. I like to stop and take breaks, and pretend to eat pancakes (or cup-cakes, or pretty much any kind of cake…) while I sit on the front planter with my stuffed animals. Then we all get back

in the Jeep and drive some more. I even fix it with a screwdriver, just like the big toys. Daddy helps out with the steering, because like to drive with no hands. That way I can wave to every-body! Sometimes I get stuck in a fence or a tree, but then I just push the buttons to make it go backwards. I drive like Mater, just as fast backwards as forwards! Well, that’s about all I can think of for this month. I am looking forward to seeing everybody at the dunes and getting to play. I should even get to go on some big dune buggy rides now that I have my special seat in Daddy’s dune buggy, but we’ll see what Mom has to say about that. I might not get to go on the fastest ones until I’m a couple months older, but we’ll see. Until next time, keep your bellies full of cake, your Jeep unstuck, and your best friends nearby. -Allison

I need a screwdriver, to fix it!

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

ASA ISDRA RAMP Update

We mentioned in the last newsletter that Glamis Season and Weekly passes are considerably cheaper if you pre-purchase them before arriving at the dunes. If you haven’t got yours yet and you’re otherwise ready to head for the dunes, don’t worry, you can still save some cash. According to www.imperialsanddunes.net, the website for the pass vendor, offsite passes are available 24 hours a day at the Arco Travel center next to the Travertine Grill in Salton City and at the Shell Station at 300 West Main St. in West-morland. It would be worth a stop at either of these gas stations on your way to the dunes to avoid the higher on site prices. Remember, off site annual passes are $90 com-pared to $120 at the dunes, and weekly permits are $25 off site and $40 at the dunes.

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This year’s ASA Raffle has a couple of interesting twists. First of all, the grand prize is a Sand Limo Truck, and secondly, you have the chance to win a Polaris RZR XP 900 as second prize. Tickets are again just $20 each. Check out their ad below:

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Since I haven’t been to the desert this month, but I have been spending a majority of my spare time working toward that goal, I figured I’d share my progress on the car in the last month. I was able to take the car home from the Elevator shop on Tuesday October 4th after Dean spent a long night finishing up all of the welding, including adding Dzus tabs for the extended side panels and new roof. I was happy that the new engine fired right up with my old computer and wiring harness, which basically menat that we didn’t break anything in the engine swap process. John had been bringing Matts car down on my flatbed on Tuesdays while my car was in the shop, so we used the forklift and switched places between the two cars. I was able to drive mine on the trailer, which was its first voyage in the new “extended format”. Once I got the car home, I began working on prepping it for paint. Since the car is painted with spray paint it doesn’t have to be a huge production, but masking always takes quite a while. I didn’t want to completely disas-semble the car, so I only removed the parts necessary to get access to the new middle section of the frame that needed to get painted white. I also primed the entire roll cage in white, because the fluorescent green paint doesn’t cover well at all, and a lot of the cage tubing (including the new roof X) was new as well. I also began working

on aluminum panels, which was a nice con-trast to the paint work. For the roof, I trimmed a sheet to just smaller than the out-side of the tubes that form the roof, and then marked and drilled the holes for the Dzus fasteners. Once they were in place, I just used a dead blow hammer to round the edges. It is loud, but a great way to take out the day’s aggression. Then I moved on to creating the sidepanel extensions, and they followed basically the same process. I cut off the back of my original panels, and used that piece as a template for the new pieces, I

just added 12 inches to the length of them. I cut all of the aluminum using a fine blade on a handheld sabersaw / jig saw, and I kept the blade lubricated with WD40. Once I had the outline and holes in the panel extensions, I rounded the edges and took them back

to the shop where we bead rolled a step in the where they will slide under the existing front panel. After finishing the paint on the car and sidepanels, I began work on an aluminum panel to separate Allie’s seat from the engine. This was another product of protective parent engineering, as Allie’s Grandpas and I didn’t want there to be any way for her to reach the belt on the motor, and wanted her to be somewhat shielded from the engine in case a hose came off or something came apart. This firewall would be made out of alumi-num, and stretch the full width of the inside of the car just behind Allie’s seat. John happened to be coming by the house one Saturday, and we ended up working on the firewall. We first made a cardboard template, then trimmed out the aluminum and finally bent it around a bar with one of us standing on top of the aluminum and the other beating it with a dead blow. I wish I had pictures of the process, but it worked out well and cre-ated a nice gentile curve in the top lip of the panel. Now all that’s left is a little cleanup and reassembly, and I’ll do that over the next few weekends before heading to the dunes for Thanksgiving. -P.J.

At this point Steve Tharp dared me to paint it red...

This aluminum panel was planed by Grandpas to keep the toddler and the engine separated.

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Two child’s hel-mets for sale: Both were pur-chased at Chap-arral, 3 years ago. Both are full face with visors. Exterior is in good shape, mi-nor scratches. Inside is in perfect shape, foam intact, no tears. Black one is a child Small and the Yellow one is a child Medium. $50 each Contact Pete Hagen at: (760) 451-0845

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This month we’d like to thank Steve for posting about the Morongo Basin trip and encourage more of you to write articles and send them in. We know people get tired of reading the same things each month, and do not want the newsletter to be from one person’s perspective. Hopefully the start of the season means there will be lots for EVERYBODY to write about. 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 always looking for newsletter con-tent so please send in whatever you can come up with. -PJ, Melissa and of course Allison

In searching the web for interesting content, I found the following For Sale Ad: Anyone looking to spend $3.8 million on a storage business, with only a lease on the land? It will be interesting to see if there are any takers.

Glamis Dunes Storage, an RV storage and service center with approximately 900 (nine hundred) 30-70 foot recreational vehicles sites, is the only facility within several miles with a gas station, propane station, race gas, diesel, fresh water and disposable septic stations. GDS, still in its development and economic infancy, is only 1/3 built-out with seventeen (17) of the site's 49.64 acres devel-oped. Opened in 2007 with quality improvements including asphalt paving, 100% perimeter fencing, security systems, numerous 8x40 completely enclosed storage containers, and amenity/service facilities designed for RV and sand sport enthusiasts, GDS has shown consistent strong growth. In 2007-08, 242 spaces were rented; in 2008-09, 580 spaces (a 140% gain year-to-year); 2009-10, 740 spaces (27.5% gain); 2010-11, 840 spaces (13.5%). There is significant potential revenue growth via further development of the site. Located at the gateway of the renowned Glamis Dunes (part of Imperial Sand Dunes Recreational Area administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management). According to the BLM, as many as 150,000 recreational users come to the legendary dunes on winter weekends. Interest to be conveyed is leasehold interest, and business operations. Current net income of over $375K is from rentals and business operations from the 17 developed acres. The existing on-site management team could continue on post sale. Obtain more information at www.glamisdunesstorage.com or contact Tim Good CA DRE #00400456