[tcb] Re: What's the long lost history of your bus?
- From: "Denis Dodson" <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:42:57 -0500
It was listed in the paper and I visited it 4 times before I talked to the PO
on the phone. I negotiated the price and pick up over the phone. Jan and I
drove our Montero to Denton to get it. It was chugging at an idle when I got
there. The PO was about 7 feet tall and had frizzy red hair past his shoulders.
His name was Murray (the rule in my family sometimes is , your used car's name
is the PO's first name or the first name you find in the glove compartment). I
started to pay him and that was when I noticed that the title he had was not
his name and was for a '76. That knocked $200 off. So, since he as running I
got in him and, pumping wildly on the brakes, we went to the gas station. I
filled him up and now it was dark and all the lights were yellow dim and
getting worse. We hit the freeway, I-35 to Dallas. He ran about 3/4 of a mile
and died.
Long story short, it took two different tow trucks, a bucket of fried chicken,
three bottles of cheap champagne and 7 hours to get him 40 miles to our house.
----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Brannan
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:04 PM
Subject: [tcb] Re: What's the long lost history of your bus?
Hey Dennis, you've got a neat story about when you first got Murray. Let's
hear it.
Shelby Shook <sloweyefasthand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
YAY I made a neat thread! I had a feeling it would be good and couldn't
wait to post it, so I used a school computer and had to dodge my teacher so I
wouldn't get caught.
On 8/28/07, Stephen Brannan <ozarkcycleworks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah, this is definitely one of the neatest threads.
Shelby Shook < sloweyefasthand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That's so cool that you know everything about it, expecially since it
came all the way from Germany. That's a really neat story man.
On 8/28/07, Ronnie Hughes <fracdogii@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:
Flash - my silver Vanagon doesn't have a long history since it is
only 20 years old. However, I do know it's history from the beginning.
Flash was purchased by a member of the Canadian air force. He and
his wife took the European delivery and picked the van in Germany. They
traveled the countryside for a while then had it shipped to Canada. Since he
an old military guy, he had the entire underside and engine compartment coated
with cosmoline (army guys used to coat their guns so they wouldn't rust when
they were crossing rivers, etc.) before it was put on the boat.
Fast forward to October 29, 1993. The old miltary couple was having
breakfast at a resturant in Maine and happened to sit next to a couple from New
Hampshire, Lewis Royal and wife. Lewis overheard them discussing selling their
van and buying an RV. The deal was made on the spot and the van never went
back to Canada. Just stayed in the States and was never legally imported.
26,775 miles - 4,465 miles/year.
The next 12 years Flash made a summer trip each year and then was
parked in the garage in the summer home of the Royals in New Hampshire.
November 18, 2005 - 42,919 later or 3,577 miles/year, I bought Flash,
had it serviced and drove back to Houston from Concord, NH.
Today, Flash has 101,250 miles on it. 31,556 miles in less than two
years - 18,000 miles/year. Two trips to California, a trip to Illinois, the
trip home from New Hampshire, Oklahoma, various weekend adventures.
To this day there is not one spot of rust anywhere on the body or
undercarriage. I still have to scrap the cosmoline off fittings & bolts to
work on the van.
As far as music, I have XM radio and let the DJ pick the music.
Normally set on Channel 7 - the seventies, or Watercolors - smooth jazz or
XMU/Starbucks station - new age & Indie.
I know more info than you wanted.
Ronnie
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