[tcb] Re: Coming in on a wing and a prayer
- From: wuzmop@xxxxxxx
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:43:50 -0400
Good luck, Denis. I heard when you're up north like that, all you have to do
is point it south and it'll roll down as far as you need to go. Maybe even all
the way to Texas.
-----Original Message-----
From: singlecabboy <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 11:03 pm
Subject: [tcb] Re: Coming in on a wing and a prayer
Hang in there ... When you get home safe and sound ..
I'll tell you about why some one(or something ) told
me not to go to BANNTA.. and I also Moved one
interveiw up to Cooperstown .
--- coocoo@xxxxxxx wrote:
> So, I tied up with a bunch of locals that were at
> Psycoblooie and went to Busses Nowhere Near The
> Arch. This is my second year and it is in the top 5
> on my calendar. Like T@P it is a true not-a-show
> campout. And truly hilarious, lots of laughing. The
> biggest contingent seems to be from Wisconsin. No
> one knows why. Lots of brats.
>
> So, on the way up, we are driving through Norman
> Rockwell beautiful family values American small town
> with a soda fountain and I look at my rear view and
> see nothing but white. I am laying huge thick
> billows of white blue smoke. The cheerleaders and
> the Music Man band people are falling in the street
> with their arms over their faces. Not really, but it
> was a cute little town and I did blanket it..
>
> Anyway, I think, "There's a blown engine", but I
> still have throttle, and when I give it the gas, the
> smoke stops. So, of course, there are about 100 VW
> mechanics there and the consensus was that I have a
> "burnt piston , or a cracked ring. They offered to
> build be a new engine until they found out that it
> was a 1914 and that I needed machined 88s. None of
> those parts on Labor day weekend.
>
> So, I am burning two quarts of oil per tank and am
> learning to drive with a constant pedal, because if
> I don't it looks like I'm spraying for misquitos. We
> are sleeping in a KOA in Springfield, MO tonight and
> tomorrow we will nurse Murray the rest of the way
> home.
>
> Like a WW2 bomber trying to get home after hitting
> Tokyo, I am pretty shot up and far from home, but I
> got the karma.
>
> More tomorrow.
>
> By the way Julie made about a hundred CDs for us for
> Psycoblooie and I brought them here. They were quite
> the hit.
>
> There were 81 busses there. A lot of really cool
> Vanagons
>
>
>
Paul Smith
www.23window.com/thezone
T.C.B.
H.B.B.
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