[tcb] Re: ...now I got my Magic Bus! Trip report (long) without weird code symbols this time
- From: Will Wood <evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 19:06:35 -0500
With that last PIC it reminds me of a movie..
Wait, I can hear the Banjos now...
"I don't wanna squeel like a pig!"
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 16:52 -0700, James Dwan wrote:
> It is if you have long hair, you hippie
>
> James
> '59 23 Window Deluxe
> '73/'77 Westfakia
> '78 Super Vert
>
> wuzmop@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I thought it was illegal just to be in Oklahoma?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will Wood
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tue, 29 May 2007 10:56 am
> Subject: [tcb] Re: ...now I got my Magic Bus! Trip report
> (long) without weird code symbols this time
>
> Sounds like a bunch'o reprobates if you ask
> me.
>
> Oh yeah, nothing wrong here. Three guys in a rental car with lots of
> cash
> flying through Oklahoma, at night.
>
> One of them with no positive ID..
>
> Humm, sounds fishy to me.
>
> I would have stopped at the trooper's office on the way back and
> yelled out "Dee
> Dee Dee."
>
> Nice find James, good luck with it.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: James Dwan <james_dwan_2000@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: May 29, 2007 10:47 AM
> >To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [tcb] ...now I got my Magic Bus!
> Trip report (long) without weird code symbols this time > >Trip Report - >
> >It was a rainy Friday night as I picked up Billy and Larry around 8. By then
> I had already driven 4 hrs through Memorial Day
> let’s-get-outta-town-in-the-rain-traffic from downtown Dallas to my house in
> Garland, out near Lake Ray Hubbard, to Love Field
> to get the rental car to New Hope, East of Mckinney. Got a nice
> Impala with XM and a trunk big enough for 2 dead hookers. >Found out on the
> way that Larry had an expired license so he wouldn’t be driving. Billy took
> the wheel in Oklahoma and got pulled over around 11ish. I love how they
> always ask, “Do you know why I pulled you over?” I mean why do they do that?
> Are they hoping someone is gonna confess to having just knocked over a bank
> and hauling dead hookers to Kansas? Anyway Billy figured he was speeding and
> she agreed. Took his license and my rental agreement. She came back on my
> side and asked for my license. As we waited we noticed another cop pull up,
> then a third then a sinking feeling came over me as I was told by the drug
> dog handler in the flack jacket to roll up our windows as he led the German
> Shepard around the car. Not good. >Of course we didn’t have anything on us we
> didn’t even gave a cooler of beer! We did have a little bottle of Jameson
> for medicinal puposes that had been opened for some medical
> emergency earlier in the day. But other than that all we had was a briefcase
> with alot of cash, long hair and a one way rental car with Texas plates
> close to midnight on a Friday night speeding through Oky-land on “Zero
> Tolerance” weekend. > >Larry was told to get outta the car first by one of
> Oklahoma’s finset. A rolly polly 5 ft, 350 lb no neck goon with something to
> prove. Then I was told to get out then Billy. They seperated us then told us
> to empty out all our pockets. I was waiting for them to ask us for consent
> to search the vehicle - they never did. I would have said no and waited for
> the search warrant to arrive. They obviously thought they had something and
> weren’t gonna be inconveinienced by laws about illegal searches or civil
> rights or profiling. Then the fat one popped the runk and announced he
> smelled marijuana. And grabbed my briefcase from the trunk. “What’s in it?
> he asked me.
> “Money” I said “How much?” “Alot” “How much is alot?” I told him
> and he told me to open it. >At this point I was getting a pissed and told him
> no. I had nothing to hide and was getting tired of this. I was imediately
> cuffed. They brought the dog over to the case and told him to sniff it, he
> did and did not bark or do anything, they told him again and pointed at the
> case, again nothing, after three more times the dog put his paw on it then
> it was like “Good boy!” > >I was then told by the fatman to open or he would
> open it for me. I had to give him the combo and it took him a while with
> those sausages to work the locks. He opened it and it appeared empty. “Where
> is the money?” he asked with a smart ass tone in his voice. In the pocket I
> said. Then they took out the envelopes and smelled the money! By this time
> they had removed the spare tire and my bag unrolled my socks, looked under
> the seats and I swear they tried taking the seats out but didn’t
> probably because it was a rental. > >I figured this was about to go
> very badly and told the cop who was going through my bag why we were going
> to Missouri and that I could prove the money was mine by showing them the
> cancelled check. I also showed him the M-codes I had printed out from the
> Samba. I told him how much these buses were worth when restored and that was
> why I had that cash and they had no choice - they then let us go. If I
> didn’t have my checkbook I doubt I would have made it to Missouri to get
> that bus! > >We got to the hotel around 2:00, woke up at 6:30 and ate
> breakfast at the Boss cafe in Clinton around 10:00. >Picked up the Uhaul and
> met the owner around 11:00. We crawled under the Bus with a drop light,
> looked at the cancerous rust hole in one of the belly pans.
> Billy picked at it and pulled out some rat hair and dirt. There are
> probably a
> couple of rodents still sitting in the bus as I type this, hanging
> out between
> the
> belly pans and the floor.
> >
> >So I tried to noc off some off the price and he met me halfway. The
> rest of the
> Bus is in good shape for sitting in shed with a dirt floor since
> 1971. He even
> draine the tank. The engine turns by hand! I gave them the money and
> Momma and
> the family friend took the money and a Colt revolver to the bank
> while we
> figured out how to get the Bus out of the shed it had sat in for 36
> years. The
> wheels wouldn’t turn so we hooked it up to the tractor and they
> turned! He
> rolled outta the shed and the rest went pretty smooth except when
> Larry was
> guiding the Bus onto the skids and fell backward onto the transport
> while the
> Bus was rolling onto it!
> >
> >The guy I bought it from, Virgil, was the 3rd owner. The second
> owner, Virgil’s
> brother-in-law, blew the engine on the way back from Kansas City and
> sold it to
> Virgil. Virgil blew the new motor it before he found out that the
> valves needed
>
> adjusting on a regular basis.
> >He built the new motor and drove it 50 miles before he parked it in
> ‘71. It
> didn’t move again until Saturday May 26th, 2007. Evidently Virgil
> liked the free
> company truck he just got in ‘71 and by the time he thought about
> driving the
> Bus again, years later the rag top had been ruined so he left it
> where it was.
> Virgil was the only guy in the area that would work on VWs back in
> the day. He
> has a rusted out 58 Panel sitting next to a Super and a Notchback.
> He’s got lots
> of other parts wich he tried selling to us but I told him politely I
> was only
> intyerested in the Bus. If I were going to make a movie about a VW
> barn find of
> a lifetime I would cast all the people the same right down to the
> waitress who
> brought me the biggest chiken fried steak breakfast I have ever eaten.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/354833.jpg
> > http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/354832.jpg
> > http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/354806.jpg
> > http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/354820.jpg
> > http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/354800.jpg
> > http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/354822.jpg
> > http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/354817.jpg
> > http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/354831.jpg
> > http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/354824.jpg
> > http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/354830.jpg
> > http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/354807.jpg > > > >James
> >DAC >'59 23 Window Deluxe >'73/'77 Westfakia >'78 Super Vert > >
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