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licensepl8s
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I have the Memorial Plaque I made ready to mail to Owen. Will be on its way soon.
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FASTBACKDON
The other insensitive jerk like Neil
Joined: October 08, 2004
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Location: TORRANCE CALIF
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| Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| boxonwheel wrote: |
Sounds like alot of little cruises are in the works to get to the services on Saturday. Maybe somebody could get a hold of Hot VWs and maybe some of the local newspapers? I'm not to good at stuff like that. Sounds like after the services, and once we are all gathered, it is going to be one massive cruise to Owens pad. I have room for 9 in my Deluxe and, I am sure there will be plenty of VWs, if any friends or family wants to drive out to Chino Hills in style  I"m working until 0600 Saturday and soooooooo ready for this year to be over. Still missing you bun boy but thanks for ALL the great times! |
Henry and all,
I did just that when you suggested it and contacted Hot VW's Magazine. Today I received the e-mail below. Knowing up front I am no writer and there are so many friends that can contribute I figure it is better to post thoughts here and maybe I can put them together.
Don,
If you could write-up a short memorial, and perhaps supply a photo of Brad, we'll try to get it into our FYI section. Reading all the postings on The Samba, he certainly was a great guy, and quite the VW enthusiast.
Please send the information to [email protected].
Thank you,
Bruce Simurda
Editor, Hot VWs magazine
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boxonwheel
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Joined: August 05, 2004
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Location: LA-ish area, CA
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I'm going to stop by Owens on my way back up the hill. I have some stickers and some funds from BBB to drop off. Auslander and some Baja folk went by Saturday to work on B-rads Baja. Think there might be some off road adventure being planned in the future. I'm with J-phrrrrr, bljones is very eloquent and would do a great job on a wright up. BBB was great and the memorial service we did for him was filled with great time and greater memories of the little bun boy. A month to the day and the emotions catch me at some odd times. Yeah, I still miss HBB everyday!
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auslander
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It was just Owen and myself on Saturday got alot done though. Owen has been busy on the car, changed the roll cage up a bit and added to the design as well. He has been busy patching up areas that were cut for the cage and he is also adding a third seat we mocked it up. I wrote a list of what needs to be done (mostly tedious patch welding) and a list of what is needed for the car. So here is rough idea of what is planned: A campout 30 Apr-2 May at Afton Canyon, which is about 45 miles above Barstow. This was B-Rads favorite offroad spot, we'll be taking his baja out there we'll have a little memorial for him as this is a spot he wanted his ash's spread, more to come
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FASTBACKDON
The other insensitive jerk like Neil
Joined: October 08, 2004
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Location: TORRANCE CALIF
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| bljones could do it, he is an excellent writer and good friends with Brad. |
Jennifer,
I believe that bljones would do much better than I would at writing the story also.
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jill
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| A month to the day and the emotions catch me at some odd times. Yeah, I still miss HBB everyday! |
I find myself reading old texts and emails from him all the time. I know this conversation will come up frequently, especially in this first year without him. Miss you Brad.
So, close to 400 stickers were cut and sent out. Four frickin hundred, isn't that awesome?! I've been trying to collect all the pictures and keep them in one place. I took some at the memorial, EZ took some at BBB and the ones that have been posted here. I need a little help ID'ing everyone. So when you get your sticker in place...post it up. HBB is crusing all over this country.
http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f19/jillgrins/HBB%20rides%20along/
All stickers have gone out so if you didn't get one, its a good possibility that your IM was buried. There was about a week where it was hard to keep track. So just send me a nudge and I'll get one out to you.
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bljones
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I'd be honoured to scrawl Brad's HVW Memorial.
But, I won't do it alone.
I want to hear from everyone- your thoughts, your memories, and your brad stories. Let's keep it confidential- send me a pm, and we'll do this bitch up right.
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Glenn
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neill in the uk
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wow...
not been on here for a long time.
RIP HBB
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so-calvwdude
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I dont post much here. Im a VW nut yes, but i mostly lurk. So i really never talked to him on here. I did read alot of his posts and conversations in various threads. And yes, he talked a little crap on some of my rides (but im a dumb kid who doesnt talk crap on my rides!) But he seemed like a great guy. Even though i didnt know him personally, i got goosebumps reading some of the stories people posted in this thread, and the pictures posted here. Even though i didnt know him he was family, VW family.
RIP Bro....
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capedave
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Wow what to say, Brad you will be missed!
As a long time vw fan that has been away from it for awhile, I came upon this thread late last night. God damn the good go young:(
How many different thing did Brad put on that rabbits head?
Safe riding you will be remembered! Your words will forever be here.
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boxonwheel
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xenSzMQfaug
This has been one of my favorite songs lately. Miss ya B-rad! See ya when I see ya little brother!
work comp didn't allow me to upload pics I took today of the HBB Memorial sticker I put on my bug. Try when I get home next week. Anybody else have sticker pics?? I think some folks are going over to Owens on Saturday to clinker with some VWs. Trying to go if this cold will move on. Auslander I'll holla at ya......
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auslander
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Sounds good Box, also the campout/offroad adventure has been changed to the 23-25 Apr in Afton Canyon. I post some pics of the work we get done this weekend
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Das Dragon
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Here's my '59 SC and '61 Westy.
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Roamingwesty
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RIP, Hamburger Brad.
(I've just found out since yesterday. Found this thread after I checked other forums after the split bus forum. After posting in the thread that Al (Hella Bro) started. Still not sure what else to say about the losses of Sambanistas. Shocked.) |
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vwfan4life
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Wow....it's always sad to hear of a passing in the VW world, especially a life so young. I still can't believe Brad was only a year older than me (25 to my 24).
Can't recall if i've ever met Brad; i know i didn't in person, but i can't remember if he was an admin over on Aircooled VWAddiction.
RIP HBB; cancer is a damned hellspawn, and i hope we find the cure someday.
Can i still get one of those HBB memorial stickers?
And which issue of Hot VW's was his memorial in?
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auslander
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I posted some progress of the work done on B-Rads baja in his thread view the link for an update:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=365734&highlight=
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