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Chevy Avalanche Fan Cult?

carndt

carndt

SM 2004
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I Chnge might relate to this story.

My old ride was a 22 year old Datsun King Cab. It got me to work and back, and hauled firewood and stuff from Home Depot, and that was about it. I washed it maybe once a year. Had it for 18 years.

Cut to my Av. Found CAFCNA the week I was looking at Avs to replace the Datsun. I've learned a lot. Became an SM. Printed out the brochures to tag other Avs with. Started modding a little (amber DRLs, Maglite, Snakeeyes, and running boards are about my limit for now.) I now know about detailing.

I check into the website a couple of times a day... etc.

A few days ago, half in jest (?) my wife told me that she had never seen me so wrapped up in something and had decided that the club was really a cult.

Whoa, whoa, whoa... waitaminnit...

Lessee here. She's involved with a group of people that wear funny hats, clothes that look alike, and special shoes. The kitchen counter is littered with magazines and catalogs for her "religion". They meet early in the morning several days a week and travel far in the pursuit of their "religion". Depending on the "worship" of the day, she has 2 different expensive, er, "thrones" from which to chose. They drink special potions.

Right now, one of the "high priests" she follows is on a great quest in France. She watches his travails on OLN every day.

That's right, she's a bike rider, road and mountain...

And she has the nerve to say that CAFCNA, my Avy, and me are a cult. Sheesh...

BTW, I parlayed her bike obsession into a 42" plasma TV with a little patience...


 
carndt said:
A few days ago, half in jest (?) my wife told me that she had never seen me so wrapped up in something and had decided that the club was really a cult.
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Hold up a minute...

You mean you haven't made your sacriice of a FORD to the all mighty AV ala'?

How dare you! How dare you speak !!!


LOL
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carndt said:
Right now, one of the "high priests" she follows is on a great quest in France. She watches his travails on OLN every day.
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I was wondering if anyone was actually watching that or not. It's not my thing, but I don't fault anyone for wanting to follow it, but geez man, can't they show it on Lifetime or HGTV? I realize it's done "outdoors" so OLN sorta makes sense but c'mon........I miss it being "The Killing Channel". :E:

 
You should be okay until Cliff teaches you the Secret Hand Shake & Avalanche Wave/Nod.

Give her a few days, she'll get over it. Or she'll go psychotic. (A good line from MIB)

Have you found SuperMobile?s Avalanche Songs yet. You'll have to sing at least 2 at your first GTG. Just so we know you're not a Lurker or Shadow Member.

We've got to keep the riff raff out you know. :B:
 
Maybe if they fell off a mountain once in a while,.......

My wife has been pretty good about the AV, I only thought about modding it some for almost 3 years and then found the cult,.....er club. I traded up on AVs but can't help but think about both my new one and first one. :B:
 
Ditch said:
Hold up a minute...

You mean you haven't made your sacriice of a FORD to the all mighty AV ala'?

How dare you! How dare you speak !!!


LOL
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I do my penance every day at work. I have to drive an Exploder. Then I reap the reward of piloting the Avy home...
 
Flint4x4 said:
Maybe if they fell off a mountain once in a while,.......

My wife has been pretty good about the AV, I only thought about modding it some for almost 3 years and then found the cult,.....er club. I traded up on AVs but can't help but think about both my new one and first one. :B:
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Be careful Flint4x4,

If she does leave and takes the truck, you might miss something.

That could be a dilemma.
 
carndt said:
I Chnge might relate to this story.
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Well...yes and no...
carndt and I have exchanged emails recently...and yes there are 2 passions in our household...biking and the Av...or should I have said the Av and biking? Biking and the modification thereof has long been a passion of mine as well as some Semi-Pro racing within age group...this has been going on for years and I/we still follow and participate on a regular basis.
That said, yes...we found CAFCNA prior to the purchase and delivery of our Av...and have become addicted since...BUT...both passions are equally held in reverence by Mrs. I CHNGE and I.
The fortunate aspect is that Mrs. I CHNGE and I actively participate in both and when it comes to modding the Av...she has "pulled the trigger" on some mods earlier than they had been bugeted for (how sweet is that?)
So our romance for biking and the Av is mutual...and for the past 3 days...CAFCNA remains on the monitor while Le Tour remains on the big screen...
(y) (y)
 
Intimidatoruag said:
if we are a cult, do we get our own cult drink?

Come on Yak! ... I'll be you can mix us up something ... :2: :eek:
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you NAME the drugs required, and I'll have a CONCOCTION MADE for the NEXT NIAGARA GTG !! :0: ;)
 
I would say in the last 2 months I have spent more time reading this site then working on my lawn or around the house (its starting to show, lawn is brown opps).... I think they put something in the threads to keep us coming back, its the mods that I can not afford. I have a list a mile long (Cowl hood, Snake eyes, new grille, etc) that I want. Whenever I say to my wife "Oh honey look at what I can do to the Avalanche.." I am cut off and told NO, not this year.. :C:

I would say though this site is the best thing around, I learned about Zanio and many other wonderful products / things to do that I would NEVER have thought of. So this is a good cult at least. :B:
 
03Lanche said:
I would say in the last 2 months I have spent more time reading this site then working on my lawn or around the house (its starting to show, lawn is brown opps).... I think they put something in the threads to keep us coming back, its the mods that I can not afford. I have a list a mile long (Cowl hood, Snake eyes, new grille, etc) that I want. Whenever I say to my wife "Oh honey look at what I can do to the Avalanche.." I am cut off and told NO, not this year.. :C:

I would say though this site is the best thing around, I learned about Zanio and many other wonderful products / things to do that I would NEVER have thought of. So this is a good cult at least. :B:
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Let's see, the lawn suffers, house maintenance declines, the kids are hungry, and you have not been tending to your brides daily driver.

Not a bad trade off for sitting around and doing the YakMan Pant & Drool all over the key board while looking at all the mods one could do.

I'm sure some thought the world was going to end when the Sears Catalog first appeared and all the men spent most of their free time in the Out House.
 
Intimidatoruag said:
if we are a cult, do we get our own cult drink?

Come on Yak! ... I'll be you can mix us up something ... :2: :eek:
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No need to invent one... I googled on "Avalanche recipe" (Google knows everything...) and got this for the first hit:

http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink961.html
 
carndt said:
Intimidatoruag said:
if we are a cult, do we get our own cult drink?

Come on Yak! ... I'll be you can mix us up something ... :2: :eek:
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No need to invent one... I googled on "Avalanche recipe" (Google knows everything...) and got this for the first hit:

http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink961.html
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I used my favorite mixer site webtender and got 2 avalanche drinks :)

Avalanche Drinks
 
Yakmar said:
Great story!! I love your power of bargaining too!!
TEACH ME OH MASTER-SAN!! (y)
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Her first bike was a hardtail mountain bike (no suspension) from a local sporting goods store. Then she got sufficiently hooked that she needed a road bike. Not just _any_ road bike, but a Trek, "like Lance rides". (Lance being Lance Armstrong.)

That was status quo for a while. Then she announced that she as going to start saving her pennies because she really needed a soft tail mountain bike because the the hard tail was too hard on her body. (I can understand that.)

Her bike shop could get a deal on a Santa Cruz frame in a closeout color, and hold onto it until she was ready to have the bike built.

A week or two later she announced that we were doing well enough in the checkbook and savings account that she was going to go ahead and have the Santa Cruz built.

"That's fine, honey. You deserve it." (She does. Her cult has lasted for a couple of years now and they ride together 3-4 times a week. I can see how that hard tail bike would get old...)

Wait for it...

A couple of days goes by. We're sitting in the living room one evening, and I look over at her and say," So, how much is this new bike going to cost us?"

She looks back kinda sheepish, and says, "I wondered when you were going to ask that." Pause... "When it's all done and outfitted with everything I want, er need, it will be around... $3500."

Pause....

"I guess this means I can get that new plasma TV I've been wanting, huh."

Deer-in-the-headlights look... "Yup. I guess so."

BINGO! Off to the Internet to find the plasma of my dreams. And she watches "my" new TV way more than I ride her bike...

 
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carndt said:
BINGO! Off to the Internet to find the plasma of my dreams. And she watches "my" new TV way more than I ride her bike...
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I love it!!!! Carndt you need to join the SOM Nation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
cz3cqg said:
I love it!!!! Carndt you need to join the SOM Nation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Huh? Whaddami missing here? I drive a DGM (as, apparently, you do as well), and belong to the DGM Nation.

Do _they_ allow our kind in the SOM Nation?
 
cigarman said:
i bow to you oh yakkerstien...can we have our fruit punch now? time to make the donuts...must have av!
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As long as the "fruit punch" is a zinger and sufficiently alcoholic. BTW - what would it be called? YAK-MAN DEW?? ;D
 
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