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Morning Folks.
It’s been 5 years since we migrated our group off of yahoo groups over here to?开云体育.
To give you a short history, we migrated in 2019 and have run off of membership funding since that time.
Our group uses more than the allotted 1 gig of photo/attachment/files storage which is available for a free group.
A poll/vote was held in November of 2020 wherein members voted to maintain all of our content and fund the group.
The next step up from free is the Premium Group which is how we roll.
Our group fee of USD $220.00 is due on Thursday, December 5, 2024 for the next twelve months. ?We still have $176 left over from last years donations. ?So - we’re hoping to get $44 this year.
In years past I asked for donations to be made directly to me as I am ultimately responsible for the payment to?开云体育.
But now, I’ve configured the group to allow donations/sponsorships through a newly available built-in function.
I believe this will make things easier on you, the supporting member and I will not be tempted to abscond with funds to support another year in sunny Mexico!!
There’s a minimum sponsorship amount of $5.00 USD. ?
I’ll track the sponsorship activity/amount and once we reach our goal I’ll send another notification to you all and disable the sponsorship link.
Wondering how to sponsor us?
Go to the home page at?/g/SubaruVanagon/
Click on the “+ Sponsor This Group: button.
Or, if you want to save a step, browse directly to?/g/SubaruVanagon/sponsor
Fill out the form fields to complete your sponsor donation via PayPal or Credit Card.? Depending on where you live in the world, there may be additional payment methods available to you.
Thanks very much for your continued support of the SubaruVanagon group. Your shared knowledge, conversion support posts, and sponsorship, are very much appreciated.?
Best,
Brent Weide - moderator
(and Mr. Tom Shiels- moderator)
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Put me down for $50 - on my way to sponsor link - love what this site has given me.?
Happy Thanksgiving!
Bob
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On Nov 22, 2024, at 5:52?AM, Group Moderator <[email protected]> wrote:
? Morning Folks.
It’s been 5 years since we migrated our group off of yahoo groups over here to?开云体育.
To give you a short history, we migrated in 2019 and have run off of membership funding since that time.
Our group uses more than the allotted 1 gig of photo/attachment/files storage which is available for a free group.
A poll/vote was held in November of 2020 wherein members voted to maintain all of our content and fund the group.
The next step up from free is the Premium Group which is how we roll.
Our group fee of USD $220.00 is due on Thursday, December 5, 2024 for the next twelve months. ?We still have $176 left over from last years donations. ?So - we’re hoping to get $44 this year.
In years past I asked for donations to be made directly to me as I am ultimately responsible for the payment to?开云体育.
But now, I’ve configured the group to allow donations/sponsorships through a newly available built-in function.
I believe this will make things easier on you, the supporting member and I will not be tempted to abscond with funds to support another year in sunny Mexico!!
There’s a minimum sponsorship amount of $5.00 USD. ?
I’ll track the sponsorship activity/amount and once we reach our goal I’ll send another notification to you all and disable the sponsorship link.
Wondering how to sponsor us?
Go to the home page at?/g/SubaruVanagon/
Click on the “+ Sponsor This Group: button.
Or, if you want to save a step, browse directly to?/g/SubaruVanagon/sponsor
Fill out the form fields to complete your sponsor donation via PayPal or Credit Card.? Depending on where you live in the world, there may be additional payment methods available to you.
Thanks very much for your continued support of the SubaruVanagon group. Your shared knowledge, conversion support posts, and sponsorship, are very much appreciated.?
Best,
Brent Weide - moderator
(and Mr. Tom Shiels- moderator)
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We've met and exceeded our goal again folks.? Took all of 2 hours or so.
Thanks again for your support.? It's much appreciated.
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I'll send out a final tally in a bit.
Best,
Brent
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I know you don’t need it, per se, but I’m in for $25 a bit later this morning. Question/curiosity - how many “members” do we have in this group??
Thx
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On Nov 22, 2024, at 8:00?AM, Group Moderator <[email protected]> wrote:
? We've met and exceeded our goal again folks.? Took all of 2 hours or so.
Thanks again for your support.? It's much appreciated.
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I'll send out a final tally in a bit.
Best,
Brent
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Thanks for your donation Terry.
We currently have 5586 members.
Best,
Brent
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thank Brent - I "think" I just contributed, but not 100% sure it went through!
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if not let me know, otherwise....onward! Great group, I learn daily!
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Terry
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Hey gang.
Just wanted to give you a financial tally of our fund-raising efforts today.
In a period of roughly 7 hours we received donations of $299.??
Because of the generosity of donating parties last year, we still had $176 in the coffers.
So, we're going forward with $475 in the bank.? $220 will be deducted for subscription fees on December 5th and we'll have already covered next years subscription fees as well with a $255 overage.
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Thanks to every one of you for submitting your knowledge and support via our messages and for your donations.
Keep those vanagons alive!!!
Best,
Brent
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Appreciate that, thanks, but I’m determined to figure out the payment thing. It’s the principle at this point ?:)
Glad we’re covered for the year!?
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On Nov 22, 2024, at 3:47?PM, Group Moderator <[email protected]> wrote:
? Hey gang.
Just wanted to give you a financial tally of our fund-raising efforts today.
In a period of roughly 7 hours we received donations of $299.??
Because of the generosity of donating parties last year, we still had $176 in the coffers.
So, we're going forward with $475 in the bank.? $220 will be deducted for subscription fees on December 5th and we'll have already covered next years subscription fees as well with a $255 overage.
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Thanks to every one of you for submitting your knowledge and support via our messages and for your donations.
Keep those vanagons alive!!!
Best,
Brent
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Exactly, Terry, it's the principle.
Thank you so much to everybody who contributes to the knowledge base here, especially Brent and Tom.
Tithe paid.
Appreciate that, thanks, but I’m determined to figure out the payment thing. It’s the principle at this point ?:)
Glad we’re covered for the year!?
Terry ? Hey gang.
Just wanted to give you a financial tally of our fund-raising efforts today.
In a period of roughly 7 hours we received donations of $299.??
Because of the generosity of donating parties last year, we still had $176 in the coffers.
So, we're going forward with $475 in the bank.? $220 will be deducted for subscription fees on December 5th and we'll have already covered next years subscription fees as well with a $255 overage.
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Thanks to every one of you for submitting your knowledge and support via our messages and for your donations.
Keep those vanagons alive!!!
Best,
Brent
-- Jake
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Crescent Beach, BC
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1984 GL 1.9 WBX
1986 Westy Weekender with 2000 2.5 SOHC Subaru, 5 speed transaxle & PosiTrac Differential
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Just sent my contribution. If to late for this year apply to next time around. I WANT THIS GROUP TO STAY AHEAD OF THE GAME.?
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Cool story, I might have told it.? I was just sitting there one time, about 2007.? At Busses by the Bridge, Lake Havasu.? A very tall man walked right up to my Tintop Vanagon, with homebuilt camper setup inside.? He was about 6'5" or so.? He sprawled himself right into my van, checked it out.? He said, "Hey, I like this, it's nice."? We talked a little more, he said he knew about Subaru conversions, something I had been thinking about.? He said they are pretty good.? I asked him his name.? He said, "Warren Chapman".
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Mmm, that’s perfect, Richard.? Jake
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Crescent Beach, BC
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1984 GL 1.9 WBX
1986 Westy Weekender with 2000 2.5 SOHC Subaru, 5 speed transaxle & PosiTrac Differential
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 6:47?PM RICHARD KOERNER via <rjkinpb= [email protected]> wrote:
Cool story, I might have told it.? I was just sitting there one time, about 2007.? At Busses by the Bridge, Lake Havasu.? A very tall man walked right up to my Tintop Vanagon, with homebuilt camper setup inside.? He was about 6'5" or so.? He sprawled himself right into my van, checked it out.? He said, "Hey, I like this, it's nice."? We talked a little more, he said he knew about Subaru conversions, something I had been thinking about.? He said they are pretty good.? I asked him his name.? He said, "Warren Chapman".
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If you never met the man: last SDM before passing:
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 7:11?PM Jake de Villiers via <subyjake= [email protected]> wrote: Mmm, that’s perfect, Richard.? Jake
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Crescent Beach, BC
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1984 GL 1.9 WBX
1986 Westy Weekender with 2000 2.5 SOHC Subaru, 5 speed transaxle & PosiTrac Differential
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 6:47?PM RICHARD KOERNER via <rjkinpb= [email protected]> wrote:
Cool story, I might have told it.? I was just sitting there one time, about 2007.? At Busses by the Bridge, Lake Havasu.? A very tall man walked right up to my Tintop Vanagon, with homebuilt camper setup inside.? He was about 6'5" or so.? He sprawled himself right into my van, checked it out.? He said, "Hey, I like this, it's nice."? We talked a little more, he said he knew about Subaru conversions, something I had been thinking about.? He said they are pretty good.? I asked him his name.? He said, "Warren Chapman".
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On Nov 22, 2024, at 7:15?PM, joelvanderkwaak via groups.io <joelvanderkwaak@...> wrote:
? If you never met the man: last SDM before passing:
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 7:11?PM Jake de Villiers via <subyjake= [email protected]> wrote: Mmm, that’s perfect, Richard.? Jake
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Crescent Beach, BC
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1984 GL 1.9 WBX
1986 Westy Weekender with 2000 2.5 SOHC Subaru, 5 speed transaxle & PosiTrac Differential
On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 6:47?PM RICHARD KOERNER via <rjkinpb= [email protected]> wrote:
Cool story, I might have told it.? I was just sitting there one time, about 2007.? At Busses by the Bridge, Lake Havasu.? A very tall man walked right up to my Tintop Vanagon, with homebuilt camper setup inside.? He was about 6'5" or so.? He sprawled himself right into my van, checked it out.? He said, "Hey, I like this, it's nice."? We talked a little more, he said he knew about Subaru conversions, something I had been thinking about.? He said they are pretty good.? I asked him his name.? He said, "Warren Chapman".
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Hey gang. Now that the dust has settled from our sponsorship drive I wanted to report the outcome.?
Due to the generosity of our members we raised $404 USD!! Here’s the ledger:
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$176. ? ? ?Leftover from 2023
$404. ? ? Donations 2024
$580. ? ? TOTAL
-220. ? ? ?December 2024 groups.io fees
$360. ? ? ?Leftover for 2026 and then some
Thanks again for your support!! You guys made it easy.?
best,
Brent
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Terry Cline