[tcb] Re: side bar on trip report
- From: "j duncan" <whocanduncan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 21:35:24 -0500
This is what makes life worth living.
First dibs on the book, Sammie.
Duncan
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From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [tcb] side bar on trip report
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 16:02:09 -0700 (PDT)
Went to the Mtn View show. Saw the greatest bus ever, even better than
Murray. Sorry that everyone on the TCB list did not get to see this bus.
Driver/owner John Lago from Oshkosh WI. Quote from sign on windshield.
"Daily Driver for 40+ years. Totaled twice, on fire 3 times, and dropped
through the ice once. How many miles? Only the Shadow knows. From Florida
to the Yukon, and close to both coasts. Been through 2 trannys, many
motors. Recently a 2000 mile two-week trip to Georgia. Before that, a
5,000 mile ride to Newfoundland. Was there ever trouble? Sometimes you're
the bug and sometimes you are the windshield."
The bus is a 62 Kombi that the owner bought as a youngster in 1966. He
has modified this bus for roughing it in the Yukon and ice fishing in
Wisconsin. It has a wood stove made from stainless steel to heat the
interior and cooking when camping. It has a stainless steel trap door in
the cargo floor for drilling through the ice and ice fishing. There is no
interior in the rear except for a home made bunk along the left rear wall of
the bus. Front seats, driver and passenger, are aluminum and web lawn
chairs. Interior toilet is a hardwood seat with hole that holds a zip lock
baggy. Fishing rods are mounted on the interior roof. Roof rack for
carrying canoe. No front bumper cept for spare tire that hangs on the nose.
Rear bumper home made from heavy steel. Rope pull start mounted on crank
pulley of engine as taken from a 4 cylinder snow mobile. Works like a charm
and starts on first pull as demonstrated by the owner. Every nook and
cranny of the interior of the
bus is designed to hold something useful for the owner who takes extended
trips and literally lives out of the bus and off of the land.
Owner has also written a book about the bus, philosophy of life, and
whatever else came to mind. Read it completely at almost one sitting. If
you are interested it is $15 and available at Lunchbreak Press, PO Box 703,
Oshkosh WI 54903. Appears to be a self published book and has no ISBN on
the book. Worth the read for guys who like busses. Not sure about the
gals. Book written under name of John Bock. According to John, because
that's his favorite beer.
He is supposed to be at the Funfest in Effington IL in a couple of weeks
if anyone on the list is going and want to catch some interesting
conversation with John, buy his book and look at his bus. Should have his
traveling companion with him, very large brown Collie mix dog.
Meeting John and the bus made the trip, even without all of the other
things that you normally get traveling a long way in a VW and though the
mountains of hillbilly hollow AR to a VW show.
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