dunefreak

Hell yeah, Dave's coming! the DDR BBQ'er!

haha...I meant the races, not the trucks jacka$$. Sorry, I'm not into the whole roundy round racing.

We're gonna hear that for the rest of our lives now ever since you said that on that one dune trip!

Jon, what's so funny? He isn't joking. These tickets are pretty much free to everyone. You just need to go to certain places and buy certain items and wolla...free tickets to some crappy truck races.

I too have 2 general admission tickets if anyone wants them. FREE! Just come get em :freakin_nuts:

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:freakin_nuts: ha haaaaaaa

yeah really! :freakin_nuts: buff it and glue it while your at it! :freakin_nuts:

:freakin_nuts: :freakin_nuts: and the flashing antenna ears too! That might work.....along with making us look like complete lunatics! :freakin_nuts:

:freakin_nuts: I hear that! How about everyone post up what they are gonna bring so we don't get too much of one thing? I'll bring a bunch of corn on the cob for the grill (that was delish at Coral Pink :freakin_nuts:) and some hot dogs/ brats and buns.

Okay so any ideas? Carne Asada? Burgers and dogs? Chicken? all the above? Who is interested in bringing something out to help make another one happen? :freakin_nuts:

He used other words which were a bit politically incorrect. I changed it to that cause that's all that fit at the time.

Gen chat works for me. I wish I knew about this earlier. I have plans Saturday, but I'll try and change em. I definitely want to make it. :freakin_nuts: Any additional details about this event, Roy?

:freakin_nuts: :freakin_nuts: or maybe some shiney blinking lights or maybe if we all wore DuneBuggy.com hats everyone would know we were their friends :freakin_nuts:

Did I mention I was jealous? Well I'm not..... okay maybe a little. :freakin_nuts: :freakin_nuts: That sticker matches pretty good, Tony! Sweet sticker! :freakin_nuts:

exactly You can take a sandcar to the desert if you are extremely careful and easy on it, but anyone who has ever sat beind the wheel of a sandcar and slammed gears through the dunes knows that is IN-FRIGGIN-POSSIBLE...no way. :no_no: :freakin_nuts: :freakin_nuts: :freakin_nuts:

Wow, nice page you have going there. That's awesome! I can appraciate that. It looks like ALOT of work. :freakin_nuts: :freakin_nuts: Things were pretty hectic for us all weekend, Jon. Too bad we never got to meet up for a beer, but I'm sure there is always next time. :freakin_nuts:

I didn't necessarily mean ideas for this year's booth. I meant next year's booth. We were kinda new to the whole FoDD thing and didn't really know what help was needed. I think the sand in the buckets were a great idea. It attracted many poeple over to the booth. After seeing and experiencing working in the booth, we talked about it afterwards and decided ways to maybe help make it work even better for next year. I'd say keep the buckets of sand. It helped get people to come over with the whole idea of "which is Glamis? which is Dumont?". That was great. I think maybe have more stickers and things such like that to give away that have FoDD on them. Look how fast the DDR stickers went. People love free stuff, especially stickers. You can get small ones made for a cheap enough cost, that would be a great way to get the FoDD organization name known. Another thing that would help, which you added already though, is to have the FoDD banner more noticeable. I understand this wasn't any more possible this year since the booth was shared, but it was definitely hard for some to see from what I have heard. The photos were great. Presentation is everything. Maybe having some pictures blown up or printed as a large poster would help attract people as well. The one thing I noticed was people's eyes and where they were most focused on...the pics and the sand. A signup table making it easier to sign up would probably help too. I know there is a membership app. in the tri-fold flyer, but it seemed kind of a pain for some to quickly and easily sign up. Maybe if a table with chairs was setup with lots of pens was there, it would be more inviting for people to come on in and fill out a membership. Just a thought. These are all ideas from what I noticed at this year's SSSS. As I said earlier, I have never worked a booth before and didn't know what to expect or would be needed. Like you said before, "We have a year to come up with a plan" and I completely agree and am sure together we can help make it better than ever. It's just like the clean-ups at Dumont. Every year it get's bigger and better and more and more people help out and come together. :freakin_nuts:

The road isn't THAT bad. There are a couple small potholes and some "whoops" in the road :freakin_nuts: , but they as long as you aren't towing over 75-80 :freakin_nuts: :freakin_nuts: then you'll be just fine. I go Tecopa every time and it shaves off quite a bit of time. I tow a big trailer and have no problems. You can even dump in the campground at the Tecopa hotsprings for 5 bucks. The only NASTY grade is Mt Potisi (aka Mt Springs). It isn't that long though, so once you get up over it it's smooth sailing.

I thought we'd start a topic of it's own since there might be some helpful ideas to add for next year and talk about this year's booth at the show. (I didn't want to stray way off topis over in the other thread ) I may have an idea...DDR and FoDD team up next year.... Some of us DDR peeps were already talking about doing a DumontDuneRiders booth for next year for the site. We'd sell DDR shirts, stickers, hats etc at a discounted rate with every new FoDD membership. For example: DDR shirt= $15....OR...$5 with signing up for a FoDD membership which is $24/ year. ($29 total). This helps DDR with exposure for the site which has valuable info for Dumont on it such as Closure threats, etc and helps FoDD too. Maybe if FoDD and DDR teamed up together to chip in on the cost of the booth, we could REALLY represent Dumont next year. Anna and I have many ideas to make the booth better, Vicki. Maybe we can help make it even more successful next year. We'll talk about it more later.

Nope, they are wayyy up in South Jordon, UT! No SSC dealers here either. Josey at SST is a great guy. He put together my car from a SSC rolling chassis. He still makes time for peeps like me to do custom fab work and repairs. I'd buy one of his cars just because that! :shocked2: Larry and Nannette (SSC) have been great to me, but they are pretty far so it makes things hard.

Looks like you had a good time, Gerald! Great pics!

I agree. There didn't seem to be any deals on gear, parts, etc this year. Hell, even the turbo paddle tires for 2 wheelers were 30 bucks. That is an ok price, but I remember last year they were 20 at the same place. Same goes for the gloves I bought. 10 bucks last year....19 bucks this year. Oh well. The only thing I really spent money on this year was a 2" SuperStrapp, a pair of Fox gloves, Dunesafe contribution, buggy raffle, and a few expensive a$$ beers. I usually only go the SSSS every year for a good time. If I see a good deal, I snatch it up. Otherwise, there's always cool stuff to look at every year that I will never be able to afford...so that's always fun. I also like to stop in and say hi to some peeps at the show that I rarely get to see in person too.

Yeah, it's the red car on the current header pic of the forum. There's a few more pics in the gallery here. Some things I like more about my ShortSandCar, but some things I'd do different too. SickSandTravel beefs up parts of the frame and suspension in some areas a little more than SSC. There's always pros and cons to some things though.

It looked like the same setup as his sand cars to me. They are both very nice cars. They would both do great in the desert. It just depends on how much you want to beat it up. They are both very good cars, although I'd have to say the SSC would do better in the desert. I say this not because I own one, but they seem like they are a bit bigger than a Drakart. Unless the car is beefed up like Josey's in the pics, be very carefull. The mini-rails are very light-weight and are pretty much just for the sand. You could wade one up real quick in the desert if you started havin a lil fun if ya know what I mean. :shocked2: