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Liz Hass along with her husband of 28 years, Rob Luthman have vanned together for many years as members of the Colorado Van Association |
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Crickett was a member of Rocky Mountain Vans of Colorado, and Three Trails Vans of Kansas City. Crickett also founded "Vanner's in Cyberspace".
Sept-2017 Crickett – I met her and vanning friends at her clubs camp site at the American 25th Truckin’ nationals at La Plata, Maryland and she and I spoke of van stuff, she was wearing a patch over one eye and was heavily involved in the internet of vanning and gave me a T shirt screen to bring home and still have it, has a side shot of a yellow ’71 Ford Econoline with logo and some months after my return to New Zealand I learnt of her passing and felt sad of her loss in our global family of vanners. Kind regards, Guy Partridge of New Zealand. |
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Rick Smith has been Vanning sinse the 80s, He and his wife Sherry are members of Pikes Peak Van Association, Colorado Springs Colorado.
Rick taught me a lot of things. Some of them are not to be shared in mixed company. But seriously, one of them being not to limit myself to a select few people but to be open to the next potential friend that might walk into my life. If you are reading this, you are one of those valued friends. Thanks and may God bless you & keep you close. With all of my love, Sherry Smith aka Tank's Wife : ~ ) |
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We all knew Skip as the Vanner that would do anything for you, even giving you his last joint. |
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Clint was a member of the Colorado Van Association. |
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Pete was an Independent vanner. |
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Laura was a member of the Colorado Mountain Riders Van Club. |
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Raoul was a member of Rocky Mountain Vans and also the "HAVES" gang.
Sept-2017 My first chat with Raoul was by phone as back in ’97 I was the global rep of New Zealand and Raoul was attending our NZ van nationals in ’97 and we had many chats, he wore his jacket covered in van club patches and had long hair to his butt, he enjoyed our way of vanning in the deep south pacific and returned home to Patti and his 2 sons. We made friends and arranged my journey to attend the American Truckin’ nationals, the 25th Truckin’ nationals in La Plata, Maryland and I started my criss cross journey of America with vanners starting with my stay with Raoul, viewing Denver by day and traveling and living out of his Chevy van, no AC to use a bin full of ice with towels to chill down, big cups of mellow dew to keep awake, visit interesting places alike the ST Louis arch, a wall mart, truck stops of our 3 day road trip to the nationals in July of ’97 and after the event Raoul wanted me to travel back to Colorado but as I’d pre planned my journey I gave this magic vanner a big man hug and brought home the 2 issues of his van books of vanning and we kept in contact by phone and later by email and since his passing I’ve phoned Patti to also say my respects of his loss, a neat guy with a huge heart, a sadly missed vanning mate. Kind regards, Guy Partridge of New Zealand. |
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Larry (and his wife Janet) were members of Black Sheep Vans. |
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Vince Carley was an early member of Rocky Mountain Vans. |
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Chuckles was a member of Rocky Mtn Vans and later was a founding member of the Land Yacht Pirates Van Club. Chuckles was a regular at almost all of Colorado's vanning events from the early 80 thru the late 90s |
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Tony was one of our original Vanners in Colorado way back in the 1970s, he left the Vanning scene for a number of years before returning in the 1990s. He was always fun to be around and was always joking that his wife was "after" him. He was very proud of his Van and loved to talk about it. Tony was a regular at both Colorado & some National Vanning events until he left for his next Truck-inn in HeaVAN. He will be missed! |
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Charlie was a member of the Colorado Mountain Riders Van Club. |
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Rick was a member of the Colorado Mountain Riders Van Club. |
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Kat was a 2nd Generation Independent Vanner, she left us WAY to soon. |