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yondermtn
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Post by yondermtn » Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:43 am

They sold pieces of the Berlin Wall.
1977 Westy 2.0FI
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Post by chitwnvw » Fri Sep 25, 2009 11:52 am

Sean, is one of those buses the splittie that you were restoring? Did you document the process online? I'd like to check it out.

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Post by Sean Gallagher » Fri Sep 25, 2009 2:22 pm

chitwnvw wrote:Sean, is one of those buses the splittie that you were restoring? Did you document the process online? I'd like to check it out.
Yes. You can follow my comedic efforts on the LEAKOIL websites.

The first part is on the old LEAKOIL site that is still on-line here: http://www.odinpowersailors.com/leakoil ... .php?t=529

The second part is on the new LEAKOIL site here: http://www.leakoil.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=235

Taken with a crappy cell camera, but here's the bus. I'm happy I had Colin drive it. As usual, he gave me a few insightful pointers. I think he actually enjoyed the non-synchronized first gear!

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Post by Oregon72 » Fri Sep 25, 2009 4:49 pm

yondermtn wrote:They sold pieces of the Berlin Wall.
This is a piece of concrete my brother gave me from the WTC. He put a couple chunks in his pocket which he found blocks away from ground zero - a little piece of history to talk with my kids about. It's amazing how little it weighs.

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Sean, you've really done a super nice job with your bus. I'm drooling =D>
-'72 Westy-

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Post by Cindy » Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:21 pm

Sean, that bus is so shiny. Nice interior too. Very cozy.

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Or you don't.” ― Stephen King, The Stand

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Post by chitwnvw » Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:22 pm

Yes, that bus has come a long way. It'll take me a while to go through those threads, but so far very inspirational.

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Post by chitwnvw » Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:24 pm

chitwnvw wrote:Troy, do you think we can melt down The Road Warrior and make IAC rings out of it. How cool would that be?
Oregon72 wrote:This is a piece of concrete my brother gave me from the WTC. He put a couple chunks in his pocket which he found blocks away from ground zero - a little piece of history to talk with my kids about. It's amazing how little it weighs.

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So you'll get your work to do the rings?!!?

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Post by Amskeptic » Sat Sep 26, 2009 6:50 am

chitwnvw wrote:
I can see it in a movie, all of us getting together years from now and reassembling The Road Warrior. It'll be a teary moment and we'll all remember The Itinerant and the steed that carried him through so many adventures...cut to montage.
See the expression in your avatar? That's what the movie reviewer's would look like. "What? What? What have I just been subjected to?"
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Post by Amskeptic » Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:21 am

Sean, thank you for your hospitality, as ever, top-drawer. Your bus definitely has spirit and will be even more spirited with a correct clutch adjustment, thanks for not mentioning how I missed my double-clutch into first gear pulling into the restaurant parking lot.

I wanted (badly) to collar you and rope you into a discussion of the current American landscape with our Constitutional Scholar President and the latest decisions of the Supreme Court, but we had more of a VW enthusiast gathering, didn't we?

Don, here's to 50 :clock: may we enjoy the exquisite freedom that comes with hard-won experience.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Post by glasseye » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:05 am

Amskeptic wrote: may we enjoy the exquisite freedom that comes with hard-won experience.
Colin
More friggin' brilliant quotes. When's the book coming out, huh?

One day, if you buy me a beer(s) I'll tell you about my 50th birthday in the Winnemucca Hotel. :cheers: It was a loooooong time ago. :pale:
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Post by satchmo » Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:17 am

glasseye wrote:
Amskeptic wrote: may we enjoy the exquisite freedom that comes with hard-won experience.
Colin
More friggin' brilliant quotes. When's the book coming out, huh?

One day, if you buy me a beer(s) I'll tell you about my 50th birthday in the Winnemucca Hotel. :cheers: It was a loooooong time ago. :pale:
I know this story. It is worth a least a couple of beers. Probably more. :drunken:

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First, by reflection, which is noblest;
second, by immitation, which is easiest;
and third, by experience, which is bitterest. -Confucius

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Post by Amskeptic » Mon Sep 28, 2009 6:23 am

glasseye wrote:
One day, if you buy me a beer(s) I'll tell you about my 50th birthday in the Winnemucca Hotel. :cheers: It was a loooooong time ago. :pale:
Anything like my 21st birthday, trapped in Stoneham Massachusetts with a blurry drunk real-estate lady stuffed into a pants suit with predatory designs slurring too many times, "If I'da known it waszzzh your BIRTHday I wooda baked yoowa CAAAKE." ??
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(lessee, my bus and I were one year, two months, fifteen days into our thirty year association)
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Post by werksberg » Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:05 am

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Post by zblair » Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:39 am

Sean your bus is gorgeous. Thank you for taking the time and energy to do it right! :flower:

I remember seeing that bus as a work in progress a few years ago (two years ago if memory serves!) and it was already drool-inducing then.
PLUS we got to share food and drink with your lovely wife and son among good friends. Good times! *happysigh*
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