Heart of the South Cruisers - December 2015 newsletter

December 2015

Calendar Events Next Monthly Meeting: January 9th 9:00 a.m.

Bill Penney Toyota

Next Meet-n-eat: January 28th, Location TBD

Heart of the South Cruisers purpose statement:

HOT South Cruisers is a growing group with a positive attitude and desires to have fun as we help one another in skills and projects.

Officers

Next Meeting Agenda

President: Michael Blake

Treasurer Nominations and

Vice President: “Big Al� Vanderwerff

Financial Report

Secretary: Chris Davis

TLCA Rep: Brian Nichols

Planning for 2016

Trail Boss: Jason Braswell

Presidents Corner Gentlemen, Cruiser Heads and Fellow LC believers, With the holiday season fading and the new year beginning, it comes with a fresh set of opportunities and hope. My desire for all of you is that the new year will be blessed and prosperous.

Full of family, fellowship and success. Both personally and professionally. For our little club I hope it will be the best year yet.

Thanks for everything you did last year and everything you will do in the new year!

As always I look forward to seeing all of you on Saturday.

See you soon, Michael B. <><

Admin Junk!!

(The Fun Stuff is Over There

Put it in 4 Lo! )

Minutes of Last Two Meetings: November 14th: We had 11 in attendance and welcomed two new members, Brian Lucas and Ken Holderfield.

We arranged to have the care package sent to Steve Lawrence and the rest of the guys in Kuwait. We voted to establish the position of Club Treasurer.

We discussed a need for a club financial report to be given at the January meeting. We also discussed the club website and planned to talk with Jason Thompson of Cedar Hills Media about it.

This also prompted some talk about whether we need somebody to be a media director for us to help manage our online presence, especially once the website is up. We also began a discussion on providing a raffle item or two for Mardi Krawl. TLCA is in need of Trails content from the east coast clubsâ&#x20AC;Śany ideas?

December 12th: We had nine members in attendance. We voted unanimously for Cedar Hills to begin website development after the first of the year.

Also talked about joining the Huntsville Christmas parade again next year and whether we should have a club Christmas party in 2016.

Skyline WMA Exploration: Deer season ends January 31st at Skyline. We should pick a weekend in February to go explore this area before Turkey season starts in March. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll discuss at the meeting.

March 11-13: Will have an opportunity to help the LLK group at Hawk Pride as they prepare for Mardi Krawl. Park info is here: http://www.hawkpridemountainoffroad .com/ April 7-10: Mardi Krawl! Event info is here: http://lalandkrewesers.com/pages/mar di-krawl-event.php May: HOT South Cruisers Camping Trip?

Will discuss at meeting.

The following club members have annual membership renewal due in the amount of $20.00; September

October

Tucker Brown

Michael Blake

Tommy Hughes

Greg Miller

Kyle Massengale Gary Schiffner Ryan Schiffner November

December

Josh Adsit

Chris Davis

Jason Braswell

Kenneth Ellis

Jay Scherer

Stan Hudson

Roma Scosyrev

Joe Parrott Lowell Skidmore Bret Whisenhant

Please remember we are now able to accept checks. Contact the club secretary for instructions.

One More Thing…..

I want to apologize for the missing November newsletter. Turns out the motherboard is toast on my HP Envy. It also turns out that HP customer service is terrible, but I’ll have a new computer under warranty eventually. At least DTM was able to recover my hard-drive so I could put the December edition together.

Oh, and Santa brought me a GoPro for Christmas! Here’s a video from mine and Jason’s trip to Choccolocco Mtn. ORV park last weekend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axrHHBr NEZY

Swap Shop Parts for Sale

Troll Hole dizzy for sale, $150 – Contact Jason Braswell http://forum.ih8mud.com/media/albu ms/parts-for-sale.4233/ - Contact Kyle Massengale

What did you do with your Toyota 4X4 this Month???

Kind of light on Cruiser Pics this Time Around. But here are a few good ones, Michaels' new to him 12HT is in and well along the path to being installed!

Check out his build thread on IH8MUD for the latest: http://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/my-78-barn-find-fj45.805406/

What did you do with your Toyota 4X4 this Month???

Kind of light on Cruiser Pics this Time Around. Here’s a few from my Thanksgiving Trip to Florida. How would you like this truck for you’re first vehicle? Belongs to one of my in-laws and is set up for running dogs. Also my brother picked up the white FJ60 with a V8 swap. He’ll be bringing it to Mardi Krawl later this year.

What did you do with your Toyota 4X4 this Month???

Fj45 For Sale in B-ham, this ones been advertised in the back of Toyota Trails, but if you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen itâ&#x20AC;Ś..

Per Greg K., this is 1965 FJ45 Shorty. A classic rare vehicle. Have title history from original purchase. Rebuilt 2F and drivetrain from a '78 or 79FJ. ARB's front & rear, new interior, power brake booster, front disc axle, rear disc brakes, mini-truck PS, Warn 9K, custom bumpers, extra set steel 1/2 doors from late model FJ, like new 36 TSL SX, extremely rare original rear split window (sliding windows on each side) Literally a boatload of parts both new and used, mainly from FJ40s, shackle reversal, rear HD 1 1/2 lift springs. Saved virtually everything from the orig vehicle except the block. Early research indicated that maybe only about 265 of this particular style were imported to the US. $27,500. Contact gkenn@ix.netcom.com if interested.