[tcb] Re: What's the long lost history of your bus?
- From: "Shelby Shook" <sloweyefasthand@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:55:28 -0500
HAHAHA wow, great story Denis!
On 8/28/07, Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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 <ozarkcycleworks@xxxxxxxxx>
> *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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