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Jon Site Admin
Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Posts: 2421 Location: Bishop GA
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:53 pm Post subject: Kubel Treffen 2011 is coming to Georgia!!! |
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Just read this on the Samba. I can't wait. Maybe Keith will lead a drive thru the mountains.
It is being held in Hiawassee.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=450349 _________________ 73 Typ481
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Mountain Power House
Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 879 Location: Aircooled Heaven USA
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Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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AWESOME!!!
BUT I don't think they want Keith to lead a cruise.. Last time that happened the outcome wasn't too good.. he and I loved sliding around on the sleet and ice covered roads of blood mountain!
That was 1999, the last time I drove my 181! _________________ Jake Raby
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kleinert
Joined: 25 Oct 2009 Posts: 3 Location: baldwin, georgia
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:03 am Post subject: ice in the mountains |
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Everytime I lead a drive, people complain about getting their vw 181's a little dirty!!! Everyone complains that is, except Jake Raby & we both just have a good time. I think vw things should be driven like the field tested vehicle they were meant to be, not some overrestored Sunday afternoon cruiser.... |
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Mountain Power House
Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 879 Location: Aircooled Heaven USA
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:04 am Post subject: Re: ice in the mountains |
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kleinert wrote: | Everytime I lead a drive, people complain about getting their vw 181's a little dirty!!! Everyone complains that is, except Jake Raby & we both just have a good time. I think vw things should be driven like the field tested vehicle they were meant to be, not some overrestored Sunday afternoon cruiser.... |
I could not agree more... The only problem is we both share the same USMC definition of "the field".
I wonder what those pansies would have thought about my escapade through the wild flower conservation area?? What I would have given to see the looks on their faces if they'd been in my 181 the day that you were when we stood it up on it's side 85 degrees and damn near put it on it's lid!
Keith, I say lets do our own run through those forest service roads at Neal's Gap and go all the way into North carolina.. I can have the Pinzgauer as a chase vehicle in case we submerge a 181 over it's doors in the river at a fording point :-) _________________ Jake Raby
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Jon Site Admin
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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We need to plan the 'alternate' cruise. I want to drive the unpaved-unknown roads. Leave the sissy boys behind. At the end of the day, we will be the ones with tales to tell.
Maybe we should take a poll on the Samba and see how much interest there is in REALLY driving in the mountains. _________________ 73 Typ481
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Mountain Power House
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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Don't even bother with a poll.. We'll bust off from the rest of the crowd and disappear like Keith does and have our own drive.. Then come back with 181s that look like they've been through combat! _________________ Jake Raby
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kleinert
Joined: 25 Oct 2009 Posts: 3 Location: baldwin, georgia
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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:02 am Post subject: rolling through the marigolds... |
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I still get a chuckle when I think of Jake straightening out the turn on US 64 in Franklin, NC right through the flower patch in the cloverleaf!!! His orange VW 181 Kuebel trailed bright red marigolds, poppies, or some sort of DOT approved flowers most of the way back to N Georgia from our time with the gentle folks at Kuebel Treffen East....those DOT boys are still trying to figure out what plowed up those ruts in their little roadside flower garden!!!
But my favorite was when the split window bus group came from Asheville to pick up the '66 Westfalen camper Jake hung on me back a couple of years ago.... "Would you like a ride through the bottoms in the thing before you head back to the mtns," Jake asked the camper enthusiasts. I was all over that, 'cause I knew we were in for a mud slinging good time... Rip Roaring, I tell you!!! We were within a knat's ass of putting that roll bar to use as we hung on 2 wheels for what seemed like an eternity, faces turning white in the process!!! I've never seen a group so happy to climb back in their type 2's and head for the hills...
Back when we had those winter drives in January, we just weren't happy unless we had some ice & snow and at least one Thing on the end of a tow cable... |
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Mountain Power House
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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 10:36 am Post subject: |
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Thats the closest I've ever come to rolling a vehicle when it didn't actually end up on its lid..
The flower bed probably flourished from my "aeration" :-) _________________ Jake Raby
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Jon Site Admin
Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Posts: 2421 Location: Bishop GA
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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The Kubel Treffen is only a month away. Rooms are still available at the discount rate and there is still time to pre-register.
http://kubeltreffeneast.homestead.com/KTE2002.html
I've got my room and registration is in the mail. _________________ 73 Typ481
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Jon Site Admin
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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It is this weekend! I've almost got the Thing ready and with any luck I'll be towing my new trailer with my camping gear in it.
Anyone else from Athens going to be there? _________________ 73 Typ481
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Mountain Power House
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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We return from Florida on Saturday.. The Iltis is ready to head out for Sunday.. When are you heading up there. Dean is also taking his 481. _________________ Jake Raby
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Jon Site Admin
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:12 am Post subject: |
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I'll be heading up sometime Friday afternoon. Clyde will be vending and he is coming Friday afternoon/evening. _________________ 73 Typ481
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Clyde
Joined: 03 Jun 2006 Posts: 855 Location: Athens
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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I'm bringing my fishin stuff. _________________ '69 Bug, 1776, dual kadrons, Web 111 cam
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Jon Site Admin
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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Clyde wrote: | I'm bringing my fishin stuff. |
Clyde's hooked. _________________ 73 Typ481
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Jon Site Admin
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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Got here this evening in time for the cruise to DQ. There are at least 40 Things here already. It's pretty freakn awesome! _________________ 73 Typ481
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