October 2009 Rooster by Paul Kastle

Our baby girl and the newest club member, Allison Heather Kastle, was born on Sunday September 20th at 7:56 AM weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces and 20 inches long. As I write this the day after both Melissa and Allison are doing great. Allison is on my lap next to the keyboard, and probably dreaming about going to the dunes, We can’t wait for everybody to meet her, and she’ll be at the picnic on October 3rd! -Paul Kastle

weekend before Halloween. This is  The picnic is almost here! This a desert event which has been lots of year’s sand season kickoff picnic fun the last few years. will be Saturday, October 3rd at Shamel Park in Riverside. It is just 1  Glamis season is very close, with block West of the 91 freeway at trips planned for Halloween and Arlington. Make your plans now to Thanksgiving following soon after. join us for lunch and the raffle. See If you plan to stay the week at more info on page 2. Thanksgiving, let us know and maybe some members will do back  Once again a group of members is to back weekends. planning on attending the Spooktacular run at the Salton Sea the

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October 3rd: Club Picnic!

The club picnic is coming very soon, and will be:

October 14th: Club Meeting October 18th: Pomona Swap meet, contact P.J. for info about selling. October 23-25th: Spooktacular Run at the Salton Sea. Join the many members for some desert riding.

Saturday, October 3rd at Shamel Park in Riverside, from 10:00 AM till 2:00 PM The club will provide sandwiches, so bring your pot-luck side dishes and drinks. Keep in mind that alcoholic beverages are prohibited in the park. We will have our annual raffle, with lots of great items from club members and sponsor businesses. It is also a great time to renew your memberships, just in time for the upcoming dune season.

October 30th-November 1st: Halloween at Glamis. November 11th: Club Meeting November ? - 29th: Thanksgiving at Glamis. Some members may arrive earlier, with many arriving on the 25th. S

From the North, Exit the 91 freeway at Arlington. The off ramp drops you on to Riverside Ave, and the first signal is Arlington. Make a right, and then the first signal is Shamel Park, where you will make a left. From the South, exit the 91 freeway at Arlington. The off ramp drops you off at a signal on Indiana. Make a left, and stay in the left lanes for a left turn at the next signal, which is Arlington. Then cross under the freeway, and the second signal is Shamel Park, where you will make a left.

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Can’t Go Duning—By Walt Fisher I’m sure the group that meets on Tuesday nights are thinking that I’m watching TV with my feet propped up in the A/C, because I haven’t been going down. Well, not even, I’ve been having a lot of Tuesday’s, everyday, now that I’m back from the Coral Pink trip. Since I have a new buggy now, I wanted to get “Wet & Dirty” ready to sell. (I sure beat it up over the years) I completely striped all of the parts off, and stated sanding and priming, sanding and priming and sanding and priming some more. There was a lot more work then I had anticipated. !!!!!!!!! As of today, 9/02, it’s painted, so now I can start putting all those parts back on, then I can start cleaning my newly yellow painted garage and floor. When I go out for a shake down trip, take some pictures, I’ll have a look at the NEW DUNE ACCESS ROAD. I did take a couple of days off in August, for the Annual River Trip. Have to give a big Thank You to Don and Shirley for organizing everything so well and to Bob, Laurie and Karisa for putting up with me. It was a great trip, with Dave and Pete finding a nice cove to hang out in for the day. It gave us time to find where the leak was in Gary’s boat. He fixed it, and Young didn’t have to bail water any more. (ha ha ha) It sure is strange not having PJ and Melissa on these outings. Missed you guys. Well, this break is over, back to the grindstone. Looking forward to seeing everybody at the Club Picnic. -Walt

The 2009-2010 Glamis Season passes are available! You can get them from the ASA for $90 (the same price as last year) and the ASA gets 10%. Be aware that if you wait and purchase your permit at the dunes, it will cost more. The annual permits are $120 on site, and a week is $40, so if you plan to go more than two weekends, the annual is probably worth it. You can order them directly from the ASA website at: www.americansandassociation.org/

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Note: Jim found this article that he wrote for the Newsletter back in 1997. It talks of a Coral Pink trip where all but one of the cars in camp were worked on at the workbench, and how Jim wants a long travel car. It is fun to look back and see how the cars in the club have evolved over the years. Also, note that we have reservations for our 16th annual trip July 15th-24th, 2010, so make your plans now. -P.J.

Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Utah July 12-20 1997 The third annual Inland Empire Coral Pink Sand Dunes trip has come and gone, and a good time was had by all. P.J. and I left Big Bear Thursday morning with his car on the new buggy rack Kenny Skiba just custom built for us, and our new to us Toy House in tow and took care of several items in San Bernardino before heading off for Mesquite and Players Island (now renamed Casablanca). We arrived about 10:00 P.M. and had to wait to check in as the computers were down. This is very typical of the way the resort has changed with its recent acquisition by the owners of the Virgin River, a large, cheap hotel in Mesquite. Some of you may remember my raving about Players Island after the last Coral Pink trip, it WAS a great place, with the best buffet I have ever seen. It is no longer special, and the buffet is barely average. Next year we’ll try another RV park. We awoke Friday and did some last minute shopping in Mesquite, which remains one of our favorite small towns. We even were able to find a few things we forgot for the new trailer. Brenda and three generations of Bill Stemwells (Bill’s dad, Bill, and son Will) and Kylie arrived around 4:00 P.M. We expected the Hoveys at any time, but due to some tire troubles they didn’t arrive until Saturday morning. When they did, we immediately opened the trailer door to peek at their new sandrail. It is beautiful! Don at Sand Cars built a state of the art, super long travel, extra wide 4 seater, and Dean added custom painted side panels. I REALLY love that car. Jim Cosentino arrived and after waiting a few minutes for the Bakers to arrive for Las Vegas, the four rigs headed towards Coral Pink. We made a stop at the Kanab Airport and purchased about 150 gallons of av gas, and drove the last 20 miles to the state park. As soon as we drove into the campground we saw Alan Rice, Jim, and Timmy and Marty as they went straight to the Park, skipping Friday night at Mesquite. The park was expecting us and we were soon set up in the assigned spaces. Later that afternoon, we went for an introductory ride. The Hovey’s new car was spectacular, and Dean enjoyed testing its suspension over some whoops and some mild jumps. We had the first of the week’s many many mechanical problems, as P.J.’s brakes failed. We then realized we forgot to load our spare brake parts in the new rig. After some head scratching, we realized Danny Burns had probably not left yet, and that Nancy was home. We made a quick call to Nancy, described the missing parts, and waited while she looked through my messy garage to find them. I then asked her to call Danny, and see if he’d left pick up the parts as he drove through Victorville. Nancy got a hold of Danny and found he would be going through Victorville at 4:00 A.M. Sunday morning! Being one of the world’s great wives, Nancy agreed to get up at 3:00 and meet with Danny to get us spare parts which by this time, we didn’t absolutely have to have. I owe her big time! Late Saturday night, the Baker group, Bruce, Barry, Brad, and friends Tyson, Greg and Trina arrived, having spent lots of time thrashing to get Barry’s car finished. Sunday morning, we pitched in to finish some last minute details on Barry’s car. The new engine sounded bad, with a valve type noise we couldn’t adjust out. We all went for a ride, but Barry turned back for further fine tuning. On the ride, Brenda spun a hub, requiring a tow back to camp. Dean’s new car was elected to do the honors, but due to the extremely soft sand, needed help. (Continued on page 5)

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We hooked my MID-ENGINE to the front of Dean’s car and were making progress until I made a wrong turn and ended up going up an 8 foot wall. I made it, Dean made it, but Brenda’s car didn’t, and the towing eye we were using pulled out. After this, we managed to get back to camp, but Dean’s exhaust sounded funny. Tightening the exhaust bolts did no good. Upon closer examination, it turned out the exhaust pipe had been crushed and ripped open by the towing eye. Dean’s car spent time at the workbench while we fabricated a repair. We were all disappointed at hurting the new car until we thought about all that could have happened. It was decided we were lucky the only damage was to the exhaust, and no one nor anything else on the car was hurt. We decided the best way to repair the Stemwell’s car was to use our spare set of brakes which Nancy had delivered to Danny. This necessitated an axle change to our long spare axle. The axle was swapped, and we waited for Danny to arrive with parts. The Burns’ family arrived Monday morning, and Diana Goodrich later Monday. Diana’s first words were, “Where’s Robert? He was ahead of me in Saint George.” After some concern, we speculated that he took a wrong turn, probably heading towards the tunnel in Zion. A few hours later, Robert arrived with a story about taking a wrong turn in Hurricane towards Zion. In looking back, we went for lots of rides, and at one time or another every car in camp, with the exception of Bruce’s, was repaired. No one was real concerned, however, we just kept fixing things and going for more rides. Brad Baker deserves special mention, as he surprised us all with his 1600 cc buggy’s ability to go anywhere, despite repeated trouble with his sticky throttle and sand in his points. He was initiated properly into buggy ownership when he discovered that the paddles he borrowed from Barry hit his frame. He decided to replace his short axles with long ones. He made the 200 mile round trip to St. George for long axles and spent most of a day working on them, only to have the new ones leak profusely until some impromptu sealing methods worked. Other special mention needs to go to Bill Stemwell, who installed the brakes when Danny arrived, only to have our spare axle break the next day, requiring a trip to Saint George for more spares. He installed another axle, and ran well until Saturday when an errant log wiped out his push rod tubes, ending riding a day early. I also need to make further mention of Dean Hovey’s car. As he became more and more used to it, he began launching it off the top of dunes. It landed smoothly every time. It is a fantastic duner, and he was using it! On one of Danny’s full speed, anything goes, pass whomever you can, rides, I couldn’t pass Dean. ( But Dean couldn’t pass P.J., either.) I’m so impressed I have decided to try and sell my sandrail and build a long travel car! Thanks a lot, Dean! An extra attraction for the single guys in camp were the girls from Utah who wanted to go for buggy rides, and became a normal feature on our rides, and a real bright spot of the trip. Staci Nielson and her mom, Lisa; Staci’s friend, Meghan Romney; and Sally Griffiths all joined us on rides and added to our trip. Good job, guys! Phone numbers were exchanged, and we hope to see them all next year. Speaking of next year, our fourth annual Coral Pink trip will be Saturday, July 18 through Sunday, July 26, 1998. Reservations for individual sites may be made as early as March 20, 1998. We hope to see even more of you there. Everyone I spoke to really loved this year’s trip, and most are looking forward to next year and fewer mechanical problems. I love this club! -Jim Kastle For Sale: Jim Kastle’s one season old SandSprite VI sandrail. Available in any stage of completion, from the frame, suspension, steering, 4 Marvin Shaw shocks, floor panels, etc. for $2500 obo, to the complete turnkey car for $12,500.

Snake Safe Training On Sept. 11th. we took our dog Tara to a Snake Safe Training class. Number one, we live in the desert and number 2 there are Rattlesnake at Coral Pink, Utah. They used real Rattlesnakes. It's a course of 3 things, Sound, Sight and Smell. They put a shock collar on the dog and put the dog on a long leash. They have the owner do all of the 3 courses. Imagine getting up close and personal with a rattlesnake. Hmmmmm. They said they were de fanged. They also had a collar and leash on the snakes and the snakes were staked to the ground. The first one was Sound, they had us walk up to snake, if the dog went up to sniff the snake they gave the dog a shock, they want the dog to recognize the sound of a rattle. They asked us to walk almost on top of the snake and each time the dog went close to the snake they would shock them. Next was sight, same thing, if they see a snake they know it's not a good thing. Third was smell. They had a snake in a bag with fan blowing on the bag, we had to walk by the bag and see if the dog could smell it. They had the rattlers it's rattlers taped so the snake couldn't make noise. Yep, she could smell it. She wanted out of there in the worse way. It worked beautiful. I hope it stays with her. They said, every year we can come back and see if it still works, if not they would have us do the training over for free. -Shirley, Don and Tara

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P.J. and Melissa have a Yamaha Golf Cart For Sale: 1996 G14 Gas golf cart with lift. Floor sits 24 inches above the ground. Stock motor, runs well. $2000 obo Contact P.J. Kastle: (951) 285-8459 pkastle@msn.com

Don and Shirley have their Fiberglass Dune Buggy For Sale: 1600cc dual port engine, street legal, beautiful paint job, must see to appreciate. $6500 Contact Don or Shirley Ford: (928) 680-0657 Home (928) 846-2304 Cell

Cindy Huggard 10/2 Bob Goodrich 10/7 Lavon Oliver 10/12

The Hagens have two childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helmets for sale: Both were purchased at Chaparral, 3 years ago. Both are full face with visors. Exterior is in good shape, minor 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/Linda at 760-4510845

Nina Nass 10/21 Jeremy Grossmann 10/22 Susan Carver 10/26

This month we would like to thank Walt Fisher, Don and Shirley Ford, and Jim Kastle for submitting articles. We prepared this newsletter ahead of time in mid September while we were waiting for the baby, so that we could add the cover story ASAP and get the newsletter mailed. We hope you enjoyed it, and we are looking forward to introducing Allison to all of you. - P.J. and Melissa Kastle

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