Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 23:14:34 -0400
Reply-To: Todd Olson <thatbusguy@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Todd Olson <thatbusguy@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: michigan vintage vw show reminder
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Hi Jonce,
I just saw your post on the Vanagon.com news group. You should come join us
at Buses By the Beach.com in Grand Rapids and then cruise over the MVVC show
with us. Or maybe just hook up with us on the road. The cara-bus is going to
be lead by Lynn Anderson from Hot VW Magazine who is going to be writing a
feature article about our event and the cara-bus. We are going to be leaving
GR 7:00am Sunday morning and traveling on 96 to 23. Let me know if you want
to hook up. We should have about 50 buses in our caravan. The following is a
email message I sent out to our Buses By the Beach.com news group.
Wishing you many miles of smiles in your 71 Sunroof Bus!
Todd Olson Rockford, MI
todd.olson@charter.net
www.busesbythebeach.com
1987 Westy (Scarlet Begonia)
1970 Westy (Stella Blue)
Hello fellow Volk Folks!
We are getting close to the Spring Campout and Car Show. We have had an
overwhelming response and it looks like we are going to have another great
turn out for the May 21-23 event. If you have not made your reservations yet
please call Tom at Grand Rogue Campground in Belmont, MI (Grand Rapids Area)
at 616-361-1053 make sure you tell them that you are with the Buses By the
Beach Group so we can keep everyone together.
We are going to have a great weekend. No one is going to go home empty
handed. We have lots of VW related items that have been donated for our fund
raising raffle by Volkswagen of America, GoWesty, Bus Depot, and many, many
other thoughtful Volk Folks. If you have a VW related item that you would
like to donate to the raffle we welcome others to participate.
For those that are new to Buses By the Beach.com we are an organization with
the goal in mind of raising money for the Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors
and the Spectrum Health Burn Care Unit. We do this through the campground
donating $5 per night per site to the event. We will also be selling
t-shirts and stickers and on Saturday night we are having Smoked BBQ Ribs.
All the money we raise is applied to a matching grant foundation that will
match what we raise for our charities. The car show on Saturday is a
separate event put on by different people but it is also a fund raiser for
the same cause. There is going to be over 500 cars there. The cars will
mostly be American Iron. Last year we were the hit of the show. We arrived
late in true VW style like a herd of angry bumble bees all lined up. There
were pretty buses, rusty buses and sticker buses all together celebrating
the vehicles we love and the fun we have with them. This year our goal is to
beat the Mustang club for the most cars present. We will be caravanning to
the show lead by the Plainfield Fire Department Fire Truck.
On Sunday we are cara-busing (caravanning) to the Michigan Vintage
Volkswagen Club annual Car Show. This is one of the countries premier events
with both Hot VW and VW Trends magazines present. MVVC is one of our major
supporters and have donated a generous sum of money to our cause. They have
invited our group to be an official participant in the show and would like
us to talk a little about what we do over the loud speaker.
We can not wait to be together again with our friends and we are looking
forward to meeting new ones.
If anyone has mechanical troubles while on the way to the event please feel
free to call Todd Olson on his cell phone at (616) 443-6475 for road side
assistance in the Michigan area. Anyone arriving early is also welcome to
camp for free at Todd’s house on Sunfish Lake.
Wishing you many miles of smiles!
Your Friends at Buses By the Beach.com
www.busesbythebeach.com
>From: Jonce Fancher <strtbug@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
>Reply-To: Jonce Fancher <strtbug@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: michigan vintage vw show reminder
>Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 20:41:01 -0400
>
>this sunday is the MVVC show just as a reminder. you can get all the
>info you need from <www.mvvc.net>. hope to see you all there. i will be
>driving the 71 sunroof bus with vanagon hub caps, surfboard rear view
>mirror and a fresh install of a 1835cc with dual kadrons. runs great
>and can accel going up hill gotta love it. as for the not a vw club
>since this is a very local show from Ann Arbor we will just meet there.
>but if some of you sickos need to meet somewhere shot me a e-mail and
>you can come over the night before or morning of and you can follow me
>in. if anyone needs a place to stay for the night give me a shout. if
>all you need is a hook up to plug in i got it. if you need more just
>let me know. i will do what i can. saturday i wont be around until
>later but should be home after 6:30 or so. dan in lansing may run a
>caravan if anyone can keep up with his notch or bug. if anyone is
>coming up from toledo they can check with dawn in her vanagon to
>caravan (if she can make it). hope to see you all there. looks to be a
>great show. if it half of what it was last year then you will not be
>dissapointed. c-ya Jonce
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