As you know by now one of our 
members, Aaron Strange passed away. I don't know 
know how many of you guys up here in the desert 
knew Aaron or how well you knew him but I just 
wanted to relate to you some of the things that 
make him someone that I will miss very much.  
Aaron was someone that was very devoted to this 
club and all its chapters. He was someone that 
truly loved the sport of mini-trucking and his 
love for it came through in willingness to go to 
every show every event and every council 
meeting.  He was someone that would always want 
to meet new people and get to know them, someone 
that would always when he saw you come up to say 
hello and engage you in a conversation.  Someone 
that was the first to show up for anything 
whether it was a meeting, a show, and I swear 
that man must have been the first one to council 
every month cause I swear his truck was always 
there whenever I showed up.  He was a man that 
was always interested in what you were doing to 
fix up your car and always had a good idea that 
you hadn't thought of, he was a soft spoken man 
who I never heard raise his voice except to 
laugh at something funny that someone would do.  
Aaron was someone that loved going to runs and 
he was someone that was great to go to runs with 
cause I swear he had this sense of some sort 
that always knew where the hot girls were, and 
he always happened to have his camera ready when 
they started to get naked (LOL).  Aaron loved 
being involved with the club and the council 
serving as Historian for both Sunset Whittier 
and for the council for as far back as I can 
remember.  I remember when I bought my old 
Toyota pick-up the first thing Aaron said was that 
he had a set of wheels that would look great on 
it which spoke of his generous nature cause I 
know that he could have gotten a better price 
for them from someone else but sold them to me 
cause he knew how good they would look on my 
truck.  I remember the river run when we waited 
so long for our food that he made a joke at me 
and I poured the ice from my glass down his 
shirt, and all he did was laugh.  I remember 
when I won my first show trophy and he took a 
picture of it that went up on the Whittier 
website.  I remember having conversations with 
him at Office Depot on Whittier Blvd. and at 
Daniels Tire before meetings. I remember being 
in caravan with him going to cruise night and 
hanging out with him at cruise nights.  I 
remember applauding the night he got his five 
year award and feeling proud to get my award the 
same night as him.  There is so much that I 
could go on about talking about Aaron.
SunSet is a family for me, and I 
love all you guys like my family. I feel today 
that I have truly lost a brother and comrade in 
arms, I'm sorry for getting off track from 
telling you about Aaron to relate some of my 
experiences and feelings about him. Its just 
that sitting here writing about it so many 
things come rushing back to memory and I couldn't 
help but share some of the experiences that make 
Aaron Strange someone I will miss, and not just 
me cause I know that all of us that knew Aaron 
will say at a show or an event or at council or 
at a club party or anything, that Aaron would 
have gotten such a kick out of it and that there 
would be a great pic to remember it by. I'm 
going to stop now or I never will, thank you for 
reading this and letting me express all these 
things to you.