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Category Archives: 4wheeling

Mud 4 Blood videos

Saturday, May 10th was the GBR 4WD Club’s annual Mud 4 Blood event in conjunction with LifeSouth and other Atlanta area 4WD clubs.

We had a great event this year, and here are a couple of video clips from the event.

This first clip is the Georgia Rock Rods setting up one of their several parking set-ups. Through-out the day, they re-arranged their rigs in different stacking combinations. The crowd seemed to enjoy the setting up as much as the vehicles once they were in formation.

One of the fans of the stacked Jeeps was my son Garrett. He thought it was terribly cool. He was asking why we didn’t have our minivan parked on top of the dually and project Commando at home…

There will be a video compilation of the sights of Mud 4 Blood coming soon… And save a day in early May for next year’s event.

GBR Mud 4 Blood Drive

Justin's Taco ToyIf you are a blood donor in the Atlanta area… or if you want to be, the GBR 4WD Club is hosting its 5th Annual Mud 4 Blood Drive on May 10th at Bass Pro Shops.  M4B has worked its way up to being one of LifeSouth‘s biggest one day drives of the year, and this year will be no exception.

The GBR hosts this event each year in conjunction with almost all of the 4WD clubs in the Atlanta area.  In addition to the blood drive, the event features a GIANT raffle.  Area restaurants donate food certificates and 4WD vendors donate all sorts of cool products.  In 2007, the raffle and donor goodie bags delivered $4000 in prizes and thank you’s.  This year’s event looks to eclipse that.  Pit Bull Tires is giving away a set of 37″ tires, 4WD Parts/Performance is giving away a winch.  Sonic Drive-Ins is giving away 90 hamburgers.  And that is just the tip of the iceberg.  Here is a fairly complete list.

TStock and... nothere is also a silent auction of cool prizes and parts.  This year’s silent auction will be benefiting Rescue Tellico.   In previous years there has been ferocious bidding for some incredible cheesecakes…  Don’t miss those.

Of course, there are kid’s games and plenty to see.  New this year is a live band.  Serene will be playing throughout the day.

And then there is the truck show.  No polishing cloths.  Not a wax mitt in sight.  These are hardcore trail rigs.  Mud and chunks can come off.  Some look like a little league team took batting practice on them, others are incredibly stock looking, but with owners that seem oblivious to the damage they could do to their vehicles.

Of course there are sponsor and crowd favorite awards given out, but the ones everyone waits for are the “unique” awards.  They happen on the fly, and could be for things like “The Most Interesting Use of a Windshield Wiper Arm.”

So, come out to Bass Pro Shops at Discover Mills in Gwinnett County, On Sugarloaf Parkway at I-85.  The event will run from 9:00 to 5:00, and the truck show will be from 10:00 to 3:00.  For more information, feel free to visit Mud4Blood.org.

GarageHomesUSA is a sponsor, and I will be on-site all day long.  Any of the GBR folks will know where to find me.  They will be in blue GBR T-shirts for the event.  Stop by, say hello… give some blood.

Just a couple of old favorites

I could say that I was feeling nostalgic, but the truth is that I have a couple of big projects going and got behind… So I had to drag a couple of videos out of the favorites folder. So, here they are:


I hope that you had fun with those.

I’ll try to get something more fresh for next week.

Do you do del.icio.us?

if you aren’t already familiar, del.icio.us is a “Social Bookmarking” site.  I ran across it last year, bookmarked it (how appropriate…) and then just kind of left it alone.  At the same time I downloaded a plug-in for FireFox… and left it alone.  I thought it was cool, but got sidetracked with running a business and building my website and logo.

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Are you NOT in a car club?

If you are an enthusiast, you should be…Curtis and Jay at Beasley Knob

I posted a few days ago offering a free rotating banner on my website for any local car club (or local chapter of a national club).  I would love to have as many clubs as possible showing themselves so that people coming to Atlanta can find them.

But, what if you are an auto enthusiast and aren’t in a car club?

You really should be.  There are several great reasons to join a club of like minded enthusiasts.  To start with, there are the friends.  If you have a GTO, and join a group of other GTO owners, you all have a similar interest.  You will probably find that your fellow members are like-minded in a lot of ways.  So, it’s fun to hang out after the meetings and compare experiences and trade tips.  Of course, there are the great technical resources.  You can bet that the other folks in the Porsche Club know exactly who should and should not service their cars.  And they are quite willing to share that info.  Instead of finding out the hard way that the independent shop around the corner isn’t really that good, get 50 personal referrals for a great shop.  And then there are the deals. Mud for Blood 2 Almost every club I have been involved in has had a member or three just want to make sure that some parts or cars found a good home.  In some cases, they were parts that were tough to find.  In other cases, it was a cheap price because the seller wanted to make sure that someone was going to car for the toy.  Finally, by joining together with other enthusiasts, you can accomplish great things.  Oddly, nobody talks about it, but every car club, 4wd club and motorcycle club I have ever come across seems to have adopted some charity or cause.  Usually it is because a member has had some connection at some time.  And, these groups of enthusiasts band together and promote the cause.  Toy drives at Christmas, Charity Runs, Blood Drives and all sorts of other events raise money and awareness.

So, if you are just about any kind of auto enthusiast, find a good club and join up.  Participate.  You’ll have a great time, meet great people, and maybe even accomplish some great things.

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