Glamis old school buggy reunion

[SummitKarl]

anyone know about this thing, I think it goes on in March but not sure and I can't find anything about it

 

[EmpirE231]

anyone know about this thing, I think it goes on in March but not sure and I can't find anything about it

I’ve never heard of it... but sounds like something to make me bring the old school cool out

 

[RiverDave]

anyone know about this thing, I think it goes on in March but not sure and I can't find anything about it

Never heard of it.. but I wouldn’t mind going to that!

 

[Wayn-o]

wonder what ever happend with Blue Thunder or Volvo George from back in the early 90's.

 

[SummitKarl]

Never heard of it.. but I wouldn’t mind going to that!

old man is driving me crazy trying to find out about it.....HAS TO GO TO IT!!!!!.. LOL. I asked Todd Taylor...oh yea it's huge..well do you know anything then...Nope!!

 

[coolchange]

Wonder if this is replacing the pismo reunion or an extension of it.

 

[77charger]

I saw dates posted on fb i believe march again but as it gets closer it will get more attention

 

[Nanu/Nanu]

I’ve never heard of it... but sounds like something to make me bring the old school cool out
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Where would a guy find a rail like this for sale? I'm not in the market but I sure would like to find out more about these.

 

[Melloyellovector]

It’s called - old school round up. Usually couple events a year
glamis event is usually March
Go follow - oldschoolsandcars on IG for dates and meet ups or follow #oldschoolroundup
On FB old school round up, I think they create new every year. Pretty good times and usually a mix of bad ass old school and holy shit you drive that Lol

edit: they used to meet up at swingset, but cars would break down getting out there, or small tanks set up for drag couldn't make it. moving it closer made it available for more to get there, and more spectators for easier access off the highway to stop and see With out needing a ride into the dunes

 

[Tooned Up]

wonder what ever happend with Blue Thunder or Volvo George from back in the early 90's.

Blue Thunder, Flashpoint, Heavy Metal, Top Dog…. Those were all such iconic cars back in the day!!

 

[Pebo]

anyone know about this thing, I think it goes on in March but not sure and I can't find anything about it

Old School Round Up 2022

Event in California by Old school roundup on Saturday, March 5 2022 with 728 people interested and 284 people going.

www.facebook.com

 

[Backlash]

I need another hobby as much as I need another hole in my head. But man I'd sure like to have a clean Mazzone rail! Some day......

 

[69hondo]

If you follow some of the old school buggy pages on instagram Blue Thunder was found year before last I think in a shop and complete. Little dusty but complete.

I will try to find the link.

Dumont has been doing the buggy round up for years. Second weekend in December is the "buggy roundup" which is all and any buggies and in march its the "old school buggy roundup"

 

[69hondo]

Blue thunder link

Sandcar Basics on Instagram: "..Thunder🤘 S O U N D O N #Oldschoolsandcars 🇺🇸"

2,397 likes, 31 comments - sandcarbasics on May 5, 2021: "..Thunder🤘 S O U N D O N #Oldschoolsandcars 🇺🇸"

www.instagram.com

 

[69hondo]

if you got time to burn lots of cool old school buggiess and jeeps on that page.

 

[EmpirE231]

Where would a guy find a rail like this for sale? I'm not in the market but I sure would like to find out more about these.

The Instagram link posted below is probably the best spot... also you will find them here and there on Craigslist or racedessert classifieds.

 

[Bigbore500r]

Not a buggy....but we camped with a Glamis Icon out at Cal City last week.

Anyone recognize this bad boy?

 

[SummitKarl]

It’s called - old school round up. Usually couple events a year
glamis event is usually March
Go follow - oldschoolsandcars on IG for dates and meet ups or follow #oldschoolroundup
On FB old school round up, I think they create new every year. Pretty good times and usually a mix of bad ass old school and holy shit you drive that Lol

edit: they used to meet up at swingset, but cars would break down getting out there, or small tanks set up for drag couldn't make it. moving it closer made it available for more to get there, and more spectators for easier access off the highway to stop and see With out needing a ride into the dunes

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thank you so much........my sanity is saved now...lol

 

[69hondo]

Not a buggy....but we camped with a Glamis Icon out at Cal City last week.

Anyone recognize this bad boy?

oh yeah I do, You know what I havent see in a long time is the Glamis boat.

 

[coolchange]

Wheres

Not a buggy....but we camped with a Glamis Icon out at Cal City last week.

Anyone recognize this bad boy?

Where’s the Dunaboat?

 

[coolchange]

Any one got a pan laying around they don’t want? I see these and it makes me want to build a tunnel buggy.

 

[KMH]

There is a guy in Yuma that has Mazzone jigs and is very into these old school cars. If someone is interested PM me and I can send you his contact. He was a very good friend of Mike's

 

[stonehenge]

This round up was a ton of fun last year in Glamis, not just buggies, lots of rustic rigs, (in search of another term)

No silly masks

No drama

No cops

Just fun old school goodness.

 

[Lavey5150]

Damn I miss the old school Glamis days of Maxima 927 aroma filled air, Buzzing Vdub's duking it out for
hill supremacy.War Wagon showing up on point and on time.Gone are the days of abled tool handling folks who actually GAF about the Dez
their stuff and others.

 

[Bigbore500r]

Wheres
Where’s the Dunaboat?

I haven't been to Glamis in forever. Was happy to see the Caddy in the desert though!
No longer running a 500 caddy motor, now its a 6.2 LS with 4L80

 

[69hondo]

Damn I miss the old school Glamis days of Maxima 927 aroma filled air, Buzzing Vdub's duking it out for
hill supremacy.War Wagon showing up on point and on time.Gone are the days of abled tool handling folks who actually GAF about the Dez
their stuff and others.

I still run 927 in all 6 of our 2smokers. even have a few VW still in our group. Step dad still runs my first buggy, old Johnys speed and chrome 2 seater but yes the good old days out there are gone.

 

[69hondo]

I haven't been to Glamis in forever. Was happy to see the Caddy in the desert though!
No longer running a 500 caddy motor, now its a 6.2 LS with 4L80

Didnt it used to be blue?

 

[Lavey5150]

I still run 927 in all 6 of our 2smokers. even have a few VW still in our group. Step dad still runs my first buggy, old Johnys speed and chrome 2 seater but yes the good old days out there are gone.

I run 927 in My Bahner 225 Merc Outboard, so the nostalgia is still there. Although I miss my CR 500 dearly, the CRF450R is great,but not the same,We had a Johnny's Speed and Chrome dialed rail when I was a kid, dual Webbers 2285.Thing was legit.

 

[Bigbore500r]

Didnt it used to be blue?

Not sure, its been that gold color for at least 12-15 years i think. Don't remember it blue

 

[Meaney77]

I still run 927 in all 6 of our 2smokers.

Best smell ever!

 

[69hondo]

Not sure, its been that gold color for at least 12-15 years i think. Don't remember it blue

I'm probably wrong then. Lol

 

[coolchange]

I haven't been to Glamis in forever. Was happy to see the Caddy in the desert though!
No longer running a 500 caddy motor, now its a 6.2 LS with 4L80

We’ll that’s sad but I guess he over revved the caddy to 4200 1 to many times, so I guess the LS was the probable choice.

 

[cofooter]

I run 927 in My Bahner 225 Merc Outboard, so the nostalgia is still there. Although I miss my CR 500 dearly, the CRF450R is great,but not the same,We had a Johnny's Speed and Chrome dialed rail when I was a kid, dual Webbers 2285.Thing was legit.

Johnny's Speed and Chrome - Old School Cool! You guys are making me want to go out and work on the buggy!

 

[Nanu/Nanu]

That's what I tell my 2 stroke using 927.

 

[Flyinbowtie]

Love it. Wish I could have kept mine. I would love to know where it wound up, but it is probably better I don't know. I can't drive it, which is why I sold it...but man that thing was a labor of love...

 

[Nanu/Nanu]

Love it. Wish I could have kept mine. I would love to know where it wound up, but it is probably better I don't know. I can't drive it, which is why I sold it...but man that thing was a labor of love...

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Is this a twisted car? That's really nice!

 

[retaocleg]

i love vw buggies.......last i was involved, exotic was anything watercooled dad had a 2180 that domnated 29 palms, it;d be the pit cruiser now

 

[Meaney77]

Anyone remember San Fernando Buggy Supply before they were acquired/rebranded by Prowlers?

My first sand car was a Sand Sprite IV with a fuel injected turbo 2110 SCAT Motor with 10lbs of boost. It was an absolute white knuckles rocket on the straights, way to much power for a 100" mid engine frame.

I remember Saturdays and making a day out of buying buggy parts- we would first stop at San Fernando Buggy and get tabs and parts and whatever we needed to fab up something on our cars, then we would keep on keeping on down the 210 and would stop at Pacific Customs- at the tine that was an adult toy store, they had the most bad ass buggy parts around.

 

[Flyinbowtie]

Is this a twisted car? That's really nice!

A friend and I biuilt it from scratch, starting with a pile of tubing.
Over the space of about 8 years we built 6 of them, I had one like this before, that was the second proof of concept car, then this one was the last. hours upon hours in it.

A pic of the floors...they were stainless steel, about 500 holes drilled between the two sides, countersunk. Went through half a coffee can of cheap bits and about 4 evenings after work.

 

[Nanu/Nanu]

Good coil overs up front.

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That's a nice clean car.

 

[Flyinbowtie]

That's a nice clean car.

It was a labor of love. I polished the transmission case while out with a broken foot. I would put my cast in a hefty trash bag, tape it to my jeans, and hobble out to the shop. Took me a week. I got down to detailing it with with a dremel tool. Did all the wiring through the chassis, took two years to build. 368 Chevy w/Dart 220 Spread Port heads, 12.8 to 1, Crower solid roller with roller lifters, rev kit, girdles, etc. Brasweel Carb on Brodix HVH intake.
She'd run, sounded awesome wound up and going up the face of sand mountain.

 

[Bigbore500r]

Love it. Wish I could have kept mine. I would love to know where it wound up, but it is probably better I don't know. I can't drive it, which is why I sold it...but man that thing was a labor of love...

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I swear I used to see this car in Glamis in the mid 90's......were you out there with this?

 

[coolchange]

I swear I used to see this car in Glamis in the mid 90's......were you out there with this?

I think he helped me hi centered off a ridge in glamis in my pos pismo car. Aside from the 425 set up ( I’d thought about this for a long time) I remember seeing Chevy? And asking no BPOE? Then he gave me the run down on the rig. Still a bad ass set up by any days standard. Arrrghh all this buggy talk.

 

[Ziggy]

Best smell ever!

Like smelling a cox motor running

 

[Flyinbowtie]

I took the predecessor to this car to Glamis for New Years 94, but the chassis wasn't like this one, and it was a solid fire engine red, this one was a fmetallic red powdercoat. If you were out there New Years 94 it could have been me with the first one I built...but not this one.
I think I sold this one 2003, I heard through the rumor mill that the guy who bought it scared the hell out of himself with it at Sand Mountain the first time out and I was told he sold it to someone on the north coast.

The trans is a Turbo 325, not 425. We built 2 of them with that trans. IT was a lot heavier than the 325, but it was a lot stouter too. If my pal, who was the guy who thought this up didn't own a trans shop I don't think we could have made the 325 live. He did a lot of stuff inside it and found all the very best pieces to help it. The 325 was only built from 79 to 82 as I recall, and the best clutch drums were in the units they put behind diesels. We did a ton of research on this stuff...mostly because we couldn't afford the B&J two speed, which was what other guys were running behind high HP set ups back then, and even those guys were breaking parts.
We had a lot of fun with them.

 

[coolchange]

Anyone remember San Fernando Buggy Supply before they were acquired/rebranded by Prowlers?

My first sand car was a Sand Sprite IV with a fuel injected turbo 2110 SCAT Motor with 10lbs of boost. It was an absolute white knuckles rocket on the straights, way to much power for a 100" mid engine frame.

I remember Saturdays and making a day out of buying buggy parts- we would first stop at San Fernando Buggy and get tabs and parts and whatever we needed to fab up something on our cars, then we would keep on keeping on down the 210 and would stop at Pacific Customs- at the tine that was an adult toy store, they had the most bad ass buggy parts around.

You forgot swinging by IMS for a stick of
1 1/2 .095

 

[Meaney77]

You forgot swinging by IMS for a stick of
1 1/2 .095

Yep you are right!

 

[MPHSystems]

Hopefully my builder gets my engine built by then