[tcb] Re: My Classic Experience

  • From: singlecabboy <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:15:30 -0700 (PDT)

"Heard" a funny story today" no pun intended. lol



--- On Thu, 6/17/10, atx <atx_bus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: atx <atx_bus@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Re: My Classic Experience
To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 9:50 PM



Well atleast it was greed over personal injury.  The least of those 2 evils. 


I'd love to go to the west coast show swing.  When I was in Huntington beach in 
Jan, my head was VW spinning.  


Heard a funny story out of LA today.  Current Lakers repoter's first car was an 
A/C bug.  He retraced OJ famous freeway ride through SoCal with friends in the 
bug just after he got his drivers license.  Not bus related but it also 
happened June 17th.  OJ's famous cruise.  Fortunately OJ finally is where he 
belongs.

Jeff


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On Jun 17, 2010, at 9:31 PM, sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:






I don't really know what ended SOTO.  Think you would have to ask some old 
timers that started OCTO for the full story.  But I think after awhile it 
became apparent David Heard was running SOTO and everything about it for the 
benefit of David Heard and he finally pissed enough people off that the powers 
that be in the bus community in southern CA simply ran him off.





From: atx <atx_bus@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, June 17, 2010 7:00:59 PM
Subject: [tcb] Re: My Classic Experience


Looks and sounds like fun!  Chuck, your golf game is getting in the way of your 
bus fun.


 Id like to know what ended SOTO. Please share, names not necessary.

Jeff 


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On Jun 17, 2010, at 6:54 PM, "chuck" <sukchew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





Dang ,Julie you get to have all the fun.You got to go to the big show and I got 
to go to town.
oleblue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: julie.hey.ho.lets.go@xxxxxxxxx 
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 11:25 PM
Subject: [tcb] My Classic Experience

I flew out to California on Wednesday.  My first stop was Wolfsburg West.  I 
got a full tour.  It was cool to meet the folks that I have spoken to oh so 
many times over the phone.  It was better than being in Willy Wonka's Chocolate 
Factory even if there were no Umpa Lumpas.

And then I was off to the Blackstar Campout that was hosted by VTO.  And that 
night I got to go to a private party at a VW big wig's house, I met some neat 
people and saw lots of neat stuff.    

Thursday was just a chill out day for me at the campground. This year, for the 
first time, it was held at Prado Regional Park.  It is beautiful there.  The 
VTO people were very friendly.  At night they made rounds to introduce 
themselves to everybody.  I joined with them on their rounds and passed out 
cookies.  It was like we were Christmas caroling but without the singing. 

On Friday many of the VW businesses had open houses.  I went to one at VeeDub 
Unlimited but it was crazy crowded so I fled to the beach for a few hours.  It 
was a very Bay Watchian experience.  The waves were good size so I got to see 
surfers surf.  And then one got himself into a bit of trouble and I got to see 
a skinny young male lifeguard swim out and then pull the surfer back to shore.  
There was no mouth-to-mouth so it wasn't that exciting, but I was impressed 
with the strength and speed of the lifeguard, that's for sure.  And then the 
teenagers that were sitting right next to me started to get in a fight with 
some other teenagers.  I thought it wouldn't go too far because there were 
parents there but then a dad, who is a hulk of a man, started to chest bump one 
of the young guys from the opposing side.  And then the brewhaha fizzled out.  

Friday evening I went to Nick's.  It is just a hamburger place but it gets 
invaded by VWs-a-plenty.  The overflow spills into the parking lot across the 
street.  People were jaywalking and the cops were handing out tickets, so 
folks, if you ever go to California, don't jaywalk!  

After Nick's I went over to Angel Stadium where my friend was helping to set up 
for OCTO.  When I returned to the campground Walter was there!  He started life 
in the Air Force and now he is the world's largest Spilt Window Bus.  Here 
check him out: www.walterthebus.org

Saturday morning at 5am the airhorns were set off to wake us all for the cruise 
to OCTO.  I was planning on riding on the top of Walter to OCTO but being the 
goofball that I am I lost the keys to my friend's Bus and then finally found 
them when it was too late, Walter had already taken off.  I hopped into a 23 
Window and figured that we would stay right at the tail end of the cruise but 
heck no!  The driver drove that Bus all kinds of fast and we dashed to the 
front and then fell to the back and then back up to the front again.  It was a 
blast!

OCTO had about 315 Split Window Buses present.  What a wonderful site!

Back at the campground after OCTO there was a Dutch oven cook off and I had the 
honor of being one of the judges, and then there was a band who performed and 
then a raffle where I won a laptop.  Does it get any better than that?

And of course The Classic was on Sunday.  If you check out my photos, you will 
see that I really didn't take very many, just a handful to show just how dang 
big the show is and then some of a schwimmwagen.  I mostly looked and shopped 
and talked, rather than messing with the cameras.  And then I once again got to 
go to a private party at another VW big wig's house.  I am a lucky, lucky lady.

And then Monday back to reality.   

So here is some of what I saw:

At the campout:

http://picasaweb.google.com/impishwhatevers/BlackstarCampout?authkey=Gv1sRgCLW_zMC2iJjsBw#

At Nick's:

http://picasaweb.google.com/impishwhatevers/NickS?authkey=Gv1sRgCK6Fm5HGqLXOEA#

On the cruise to OCTO:

http://picasaweb.google.com/impishwhatevers/CruiseToOCTO?authkey=Gv1sRgCMn1qPvAw7rlLw#

At OCTO:

http://picasaweb.google.com/impishwhatevers/OCTO?authkey=Gv1sRgCMLdgdzp27Hm6gE#

At The Classic:

http://picasaweb.google.com/impishwhatevers/TheClassic?authkey=Gv1sRgCKGdpZXu_pmeFg#

And some other VWs I saw during the week:

http://picasaweb.google.com/impishwhatevers/OtherPhotosFromTheWeek?authkey=Gv1sRgCM2NzoLL98bhpAE#
 




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