[tcb] Re: Spare engine?
- From: Neil McGlothin <nbmdude@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:17:24 -0800 (PST)
I carried a spare engine when I was makin' twice
monthly trips from Irving to Destin, FL a few years
back...never needed it, though...
I've got a longblock I'm gonna complete for my next
'spare'...Only THIS time I'll carry along a floor
jack, too!
--- Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think that everyone who ever started in the whole
> Volkswagen hobby/disease has said that they are
> going to carry a spare engine. I know I did. And you
> know what? No body ever did.
>
> Here I will tell a story that I have told before, so
> if you have heard it, well, just shut up.
>
> Back in the olden days, when I was in College (U of
> Oregon, Class of Never) me and another guy were
> driving Jason, a 1960 non-pop-up Westie camper that
> 5 of us shared ownership of (everybody's car,
> nobody's responsibility). From L.A. back to Eugene,
> OR. Now back in these olden days, these busses were
> just old cars, not collectors items. Anyway we
> sucked a valve on I-5 and got off the freeway at
> Buttonwillow, near Bakersfield. We landed in a
> Safeway parking lot. We found a "Thrifty Nickel", or
> "Greensheet" kinda paper and found a motor for $100.
> We called the guy and he can with the engine in the
> back of his pickup.
>
> Now, in those days when you bought an engine, it
> came with EVERYTHING, Carb, coil, tin, complete. We
> may have swapped some parts, I don't remember. But
> we took out our broken engine and put in the "new"
> engine, negotiated down to $80 with the exchange and
> went on home.
>
> It cost us $80 and 4 hours.
>
> Ah, the olden days, when men were men and the women
> didn't wear bras. And you could tell.
>
> Anyway, I don't know anybody who carries a spare
> engine.
>
> Also, Brian is already talking schedule and times to
> make it to the Classic, three months away? He will
> actually have three months to come up with a list of
> reasons he won't be there. Weddings, job, sick,
> broke bus... You know the Electric Rolling DooDoo (
> or whatever he calls it, won't be ready. Blue smoke
> or bad dizzy, or defective sidewalls, something.
>
> Try for the Nac show, Brian. It will be a test un.
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