[tcb] Re: Tulsa
- From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 07:06:58 -0700 (PDT)
Sorry about the flat Denis. I had two flats on my trip to Eureka as well as a
broken windshield. One flat on the tow truck and one on the trailer. Also a
broken windshield on the Chevy tow truck. Unusual broken windshield; driving
down the highway in northeast TX, no vehicles in front and no vehicles
approaching; one highway worker on one side of the road running a weedeater and
another on the other side. Just as I passed them, wham, a rock hits the
windshield and I now have a 4 foot crack running across the windshield. Glad
you got home OK. Question: How come you can't mount your stock wheel on the
studs and use your lug nuts? If the lug nuts you have won't work on the studs
you can buy some that will. In fact, if the studs you have use a 14mmX1.50
thread I have some that I will give you. They may be 12mmX1.50 and if so you
can buy some lug nuts that will work.
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From: Denis <coocoo@xxxxxxx>
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 8:24 AM
Subject: [tcb] Re: Tulsa
I got a flat tire on my way home from Tulsa. I impressed myself that I had
everything to put on the spare and get home. One of those things that you don’t
think about until it happens. I hadn’t even SEEN my spare for, at least, six
years, but there it was and it even had air in it. Since my wheels now are the
five spoke mag type, I have to take out the studs and go back to the stock lug.
and there they were! They were in a plastic bag that I tied to the spare
wheel!
There was a nice Oklahoma state trooper who waited until I was safely on my
way. It was a little annoying that he wanted to talk about my bus and tell his
VW stories while I worked, but he didn’t keep it up too long and went and
waited
in his car.
Nice show, great weather, good people. Only drawback is they do the thing
where they show the picture of the winners on a video screen, but I have only
seen that work successfully when Tyler does it. We couldn’t wait until it
worked
and had to leave.
From: sammie smith
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 12:30 AM
To: tcb
Subject: [tcb] Tulsa
I just rolled in from Tulsa (yeah I know it's midnight). Just wanted
to let everyone know that Denis and Brad Tripp both won trophies for their
busses. They may not even know this yet since they left early.
(Tina has your trophies by the way guys). Brad won first in a stock
bus class and Denis took a third in a modified bus class (heck, I didn't even
know Murray had ever been modified). I got a few pictures that I will
share when I have time to upload them: Some of both Brad and Denis and got
a few very good ones of Howie (that's Denis' hound dog). I'm not sure if
the ones of Brad and Denis are any good or not, I'll let you be the judge.
But the ones of Howie are good. May have something to do with the subject
matter.
I'm bushed, I'm going to bed.
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