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wayoflife

wayoflife

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NO WAY!!! Justin Hyde of Yahoo Autos MOTORAMIC published this article last night - check it out!!

Jeep forum auctions tricked-out Wrangler to benefit cancer victim’s family
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Car forums can be angry places, or so devoted to their chosen topic that there's no daylight for much else. Which is why it's noteworthy that after one Jeep forum lost a key leader to cancer, the board banded together to trick out his Jeep Wrangler into a show truck and sell it for his children's college fund. Jeep owners do know about putting things right side up.

Project-JK.com and its forum Wayalife ranks among the largest Jeep forums on the Internet, and no one posted more over the past several years than Ken Offerbeck, known as HappyCurmudgeon. In the final stages of cancer a year ago, forum editors Edwin and Cindy Oh agreed to buy Ken's own 2007 Wranger Sahara, customize it and then sell the truck online with the proceeds going to Offerbeck's daughter...

See whole article here...
http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motora...wrangler-benefit-cancer-victim-172433465.html
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Also, it looks like YNN News in Niagara did a piece too...

Jeep enthusiasts rally around Niagara County family
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NIAGARA COUNTY, N.Y. --- Ken Offerbeck had three loves in his life; His wife April, his daughter Mackenzie and his Jeep.

"He had fun," April Offerbeck said. "He loved Jeeping and he had so much fun working on it, doing new things to it, adding to it," she said.

Offerbeck loved his Jeep so much, when he wasn't with it, he was talking about it. He moderated an online forum about Jeeps.

"They trade parts," his wife said. "They help each other fix things. They buy new things. They tell each other problems about whatever Jeep they have."

But one day he shocked his online friends when he started a thread titled 'I don't have good news to share.' Offerbeck told them he had found a lump on his thigh. He had cancer...

See the whole article here:
http://buffalo.ynn.com/content/621681/jeep-enthusiasts-rally-around-niagara-county-family/
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mjbjw

mjbjw

New member
Awesome....maybe it shall provide the extra coverage to push toward a 100k I hope & pray
 
MTG

MTG

Caught the Bug
That's awesome!

Everyone should be fortunate enough to have friends like you two!

Edit: I just sent the link to a bunch of friends. Maybe with more page clicks it will get more publicity!
 
JKAnimal

JKAnimal

Caught the Bug
That is an awesome that these guys picked that up! I just shared both stories on my facebook page and told everyone to go bid! I bid a couple times yesterday and pushed it to $39,000.00 I didn't figure I'd win but It would be cool! I hope it goes for more than that for sure!
 
Tackerdown

Tackerdown

Banned
What a cool thing to be able to watch something unfold with such selflessness. its nice to see that people who can actually do.
 
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