[tcb] Re: Murray update and PSYCOBLOOIE!
- From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:17:15 -0700 (PDT)
Denis: You need to read A Bus Will Take You There. John Lago has resurrected
his bus from the dead so many times.....Have Murray fixed by the MAN. He
sounds like he would do you a good job. Don't give up on Murray just yet.
Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote: I winched Murray on to his
trailer yesterday and took him out to Wayout Salvage. Derrick and Danny
inspected him carefully and kinda declared him DOA. We figured that we would
have to, basically, cut off everything from under the roof to the B pillar, and
were looking at $5K, pretty much as Will said. I looked at a '67 that I could
gut completely and transfer all the mechanicals from Murray. Really, build a
new bus that wouldn't be Murray.
Interesting concept, at what point does a repair make him no longer Murray?
The engine and running gear or the body? Where is the soul of a bus?
Anyway, as I was getting increasingly depressed, Derrick sent me to a guy in
Berryville who has a reputation for pulling and straightening cars that are
beyond saving. He looked at it and pronounced that he could fix this, but that
it could take more than two day's work. I personally saw a notch that was
really destroyed in an accident and that I thought had died, but was put back
on the road. Now, I find that this was the guy that did it.
So, I am to call him today and see if he can start on Murray tomorrow and I
get to watch. Let's all cross our fingers and toes.
PSYCOBLOOIE!!! Julie is, apparently, this year's dynamite jockey. She will be
transporting the fireworks. Pray for her. Dan and Kat have finally confirmed
that they will be here, probably Friday, stylin' in a 2008 Jetta to show us how
the upper crust live. Brown Bus Mike is coming on Wednesday to take all the
best spots. Steve and Sharon and Dennis and Claudia and maybe Mike say Friday,
Paul and corn on Saturday. Where is Shirley? Somebody get to Shirley. Robb and
his entourage have said "Maybe". If I have not mentioned any of you that are
coming just chalk it up to my mental state.
All you that are coming need to shame and cajole the ones who say no or on
the fence. If you can't make it, we still love you, but you will forever be the
Ones Who Weren't Here. And nobody wants that, do they? No.
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