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| North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
It's that time a year again folks where we start to plan for our annual North America G-Treffen!
This event has been going on in various locations and formats since 2003. The dates as with the past many years land across Father's Day Weekend. Father's day is June 17 this year.
The event is organized by Lumos Vineyard, and Clubgwagen.com
We have a special add-on off-road adventure event at the Oregon National Dunes Recreation Area on Friday. We meet Thursday night and stay there first, have adventure and tour Friday, and then leave there to head to the Crisp family farm/Lumos Vineyard in Philomath, OR. That drive will take a few hours landing us there for dinner and in time to setup camp hopefully before dark.
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clubgwagen.com
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| Re: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
stay tuned for more details on the Clubgwagen.com forum Events Section
It will all be posted to www.clubgwagen.com/treffen
which IS a link that anyone can go to.
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clubgwagen.com
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| Re: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
Many updates have been made with details, maps of the rally, and prep lists... please get your RSVPs in
We have no cap on attendees, we can take as many as wish to join us... but you must RSVP
www.clubgwagen.com/treffen
See you at the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area... America's last "coastal frontier"
and after that for the annual gathering and camp out at the Crisp family farm and Lumos Vineyard
Edited by clubgwagen.com 5/10/2012 10:27 PM
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stevegsmith
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| Re: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
More updates, more coming. http://www.clubgwagen.com/treffen/
Date is fixed so please come.
Exact meeting place for Thurs nite/Friday Oregon Dunes rally yet to be posted.
Getting close!
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stevegsmith
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| Re: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
Another update:
http://www.clubgwagen.com/treffen/index.php?option=com_content&view... |
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stevegsmith
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| Re: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
So now it's just right around the corner. We have a pretty good line-up for the rally and a great group assembling at the farm. Looks like we even have Guido dropping in from the fatherland. He just might get the coveted "furthest traveled" award.
Not too late to jump in so please come if you can.
Hope to see you, if not this year, maybe next!
Sincerely,
steve
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| RE: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
wish I could make this run  maybe next year. Hope you guys take lots of pics or maybe have a Gopro!
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stevegsmith
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| RE: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
Well, another epic adventure topped off with a great social event at the farm.
More pics and vids coming.
Here's a taster from Eric D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx4bmHKSEH0
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Jonathan Joseph
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| RE: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
A great time was had by all! Thanks to Dai and PK, Serpe, Steve Smith and everyone else who put in so much effort! Only one mechanical failure, Minh's 350 burned up some electrical parts and was stranded for a while but we were able to bring parts in from Portland and Minh and Guido were able to get it back together and rejoin the gang quickly the next morning.
Thanks to Guido for coming all the way from Germany, it was great to meet him!
Beautiful scenery, great driving, and great people! Can't wait til next time, I hope I can drive my own G out.
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stevegsmith
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| RE: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
Jonathan Joseph - 6/20/2012 7:33 AM
A great time was had by all! Thanks to Dai and PK, Serpe, Steve Smith and everyone else who put in so much effort! Only one mechanical failure, Minh's 350 burned up some electrical parts and was stranded for a while but we were able to bring parts in from Portland and Minh and Guido were able to get it back together and rejoin the gang quickly the next morning.
Thanks to Guido for coming all the way from Germany, it was great to meet him!
Beautiful scenery, great driving, and great people! Can't wait til next time, I hope I can drive my own G out.
Jonathan
Jonathan, so great that you made the trip. I hope you're able to do it again. Keep it up!
Minh's truck ended up with a bit of water (from fording) underneath the glow plug relay cap which shorted it out. I was told the starter issue may have been coincidental. Maybe one of those guys will fill in the blanks. So cool that it was diagnosed before you guys left Portland and you were able to bring the goods. The truck was left Thursday nite about 20 miles north of camp. Minh and Guido left camp with parts and tools around 7AM Friday morning and were able to install and get back just after we all left. Once we landed on the beach for the group shot above, they were only 10 minutes behind us.
I had a mechanical failure about 8 miles shy of the farm. The outermost top bolt of my alternator sheared in half. Was able to extract the stud and install a grade 8 bolt that we found in the bottom of Kenny's tool box. Thanks Kenny! I had brought extra bolts but they were metric of course. I had forgotten that the hardware on my aftermarket high amp Delco alternator was standard. Nice to have an all standard Hummer on the trip. Comes in handy. The sheared bolt was grade 5. Slight blunder on my part.
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stevegsmith
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| Re: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
I recently posted a link here to more treffen pics on clubG. That link has been removed. I've been informed by Admin that clubG links are not available to some P3 members. ClubG requires no membership to view pics so I'm a little alarmed/confused to hear that some of you can not view them. Please PM me if this is the case for you.
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AlanMcR
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| RE: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
I remember seeing the link and I don't see it now. Perhaps the moderators know what happened to it?
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Otiswesty
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| Re: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
Some of the moderators here are "banned" from CGW, that may be a contributory factor |
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autonovice
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| Re: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
stevegsmith - 6/20/2012 5:49 PM
I recently posted a link here to more treffen pics on clubG. That link has been removed. I've been informed by Admin that clubG links are not available to some P3 members. ClubG requires no membership to view pics so I'm a little alarmed/confused to hear that some of you can not view them.
Grrr ... sad to see this sh*t still linger.
Steve, you have admin on clubg and can check/enable access to the "admin" or see the "black list".
This should confirm any suspicion.
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autonovice
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| RE: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
stevegsmith - 6/20/2012 9:14 AM
Jonathan Joseph - 6/20/2012 7:33 AM
A great time was had by all! Thanks to Dai and PK, Serpe, Steve Smith and everyone else who put in so much effort! Only one mechanical failure, Minh's 350 burned up some electrical parts and was stranded for a while but we were able to bring parts in from Portland and Minh and Guido were able to get it back together and rejoin the gang quickly the next morning.
Thanks to Guido for coming all the way from Germany, it was great to meet him!
Beautiful scenery, great driving, and great people! Can't wait til next time, I hope I can drive my own G out.
Jonathan
Jonathan, so great that you made the trip. I hope you're able to do it again. Keep it up!
Minh's truck ended up with a bit of water (from fording ) underneath the glow plug relay cap which shorted it out. I was told the starter issue may have been coincidental. Maybe one of those guys will fill in the blanks. So cool that it was diagnosed before you guys left Portland and you were able to bring the goods. The truck was left Thursday nite about 20 miles north of camp. Minh and Guido left camp with parts and tools around 7AM Friday morning and were able to install and get back just after we all left. Once we landed on the beach for the group shot above, they were only 10 minutes behind us.
I had a mechanical failure about 8 miles shy of the farm. The outermost top bolt of my alternator sheared in half. Was able to extract the stud and install a grade 8 bolt that we found in the bottom of Kenny's tool box. Thanks Kenny! I had brought extra bolts but they were metric of course. I had forgotten that the hardware on my aftermarket high amp Delco alternator was standard. Nice to have an all standard Hummer on the trip. Comes in handy. The sheared bolt was grade 5. Slight blunder on my part.
:boink:
Not sure what happened. The designated driver denied any wrongdoing! But the slideshow revealed the clues how much *fun* he had before
the breakdown.
All is well in the end. Jeremy and his bro came thru w/ the parts even though Dr Chris & Dr Serpe called in at 5:30PM w/ the
CORRECT prognosis -- very late.
There has been symptoms with the glow plug timer light intermittently lit every now and then and Karl replaced the Odyssey
battery after the starter refused to kick on few occasions. The starter cable connecting bolt broke off. Once can only assume rust
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stevegsmith
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| Re: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
Here's a link that should be viewable by anyone. More pics can be found there. More to come here. Cheers!!
http://www.clubgwagen.com/treffen/
Thanks Minh. I'm not totally savvy with regard to the admin conventions at ClubG but will take a look. There is always a reason though. We shall see.
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stevegsmith
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| RE: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
oregon lineup
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4x4abc
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| RE: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
too bad I could not make it this year
had to get my house ready for the hurricane season
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| Re: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
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| RE: North America G-Treffen Announced for June 14-17 2012
stevegsmith - 6/21/2012 5:25 PM
oregon lineup
And these were just the ones that did the dune run prior to the farm. There were more at the farm.
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