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Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:26 pm

The bus movie is so last month :roll:
Oh, sorry Luka :wink:
Working nights this weekend to pay the visa bill for my second set of BFG's this year. This time, for the SCab. Entered a show later thus month at Salishan Lodge, Oregon Coast Exotic Car Show.
www.ocecs.com

Come join us at the beach.
Discounted rooms available!

Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:20 pm

carterzest wrote: The bus movie is so last month :roll:
Oh, sorry Luka :wink:
Working nights this weekend to pay the visa bill for my second set of BFG's this year. This time, for the SCab. Entered a show later thus month at Salishan Lodge, Oregon Coast Exotic Car Show.
www.ocecs.com

Come join us at the beach.
Discounted rooms available!

Living on Cape Cod is sort of like living in "last month"...

I'll look for the movie somewhere online.. or something.

Sat Jun 16, 2012 5:26 am

I'll squeeze in her for a minute to ask if anybody has a set of front seats with arm rests. My DoKa came with good old plain seats with no place to rest your arms. They don't have to be in good shape. I'll have to re-skin them to match the cloth I have now on my old seats.
Now back to the Bus Movie.
http://www.busmovie.com/screenings/

Sat Jun 16, 2012 6:38 am

Chris Forrest in Scotland UK is selling this Atlantic.
If it could float across the Atlantic I would buy it. :)

Sat Jun 16, 2012 3:18 pm

91Transporter16" wrote: I'll squeeze in her for a minute to ask if anybody has a set of front seats with arm rests. My DoKa came with good old plain seats with no place to rest your arms. They don't have to be in good shape. I'll have to re-skin them to match the cloth I have now on my old seats.

:shock:

:lol:

I would buy a matching set of new Recarro's for that beauty if I were you and never look back. Subsidize the shipping of the new, very expensive but worth it Recarro's, with the money made selling yours on CL locally. Start out by buying one and find a local armrest one for the passenger. Eric has a Recarro seat on his Jadgwagen that you could test out. I think North-Westy and GoWesty sell the seats, but, you may be able to save quite a bit shopping around for used if you want to recover them anyway.
Just my two cents from someone who will forever lust for a Syncro16"Doka.
Jeffrey

Sat Jun 16, 2012 6:32 pm

Guys

Throwing this out here for you first if someone needs it.

http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/pts/3082679551.html

Cheers

Josh

Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:01 pm

Tony, I have your seats in my shed, several sets. I collect them for my UK buddy, I can spare a pair.

Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:03 pm

Thanks Eric,
Let me know when I can stop by. I'll be getting ready to do the seats soon.
The DoKa is coming along. I should be able to test drive it in about a month.
Tony

Sun Jun 24, 2012 7:22 pm

Headed to Salishan Lodge this weekend for the Oregon Coast Exotic Car Show, www.ocecs.com , or, www.facebook.com/ocecs , and I decided to put some new meats on the '57 Scab. Would love it if some more of you could come down this Saturday to cheer me on, maybe even enter the show with a Vanagon Westy(mine is nowhere near ready for such an event, yet). Dustin, Jahbah~D, and his wife are coming down for the day, possibly night. I am staying at Salishan and being a pampered lush for the weekend. This is the first car show that my wife agreed to go to, so, I had to get a room :lol: Rooms are discounted at $119 a night +tax = $131. Lots of great cars to look at and an absolutely stunning location. Come join us!

Here are some pics of Floyd with his new shoes for your viewing pleasure as some of you guys do not frequent the split bus forum. For the record, there are vanagon reflections in the paint of the SCab :lol:
They are as quiet as the tires I had on there before....Really cannot notice any difference in the interior sound, I do have yet to drive on the freeway though... The tires are really soft rubber, super grippy and that may be why they are so quiet.
New Shoes. I just love these things! Stock Nazi's gonna hate on me, but, so be it :P

WOOOOOOT!
8)

Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:48 am

anybody looking for an awning.there's one on craigslist for reasonable price.

Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:10 pm

Well hello there. I remember meeting some of you last year, December I think it was. I am the person that bought the blue Westy for $500.00. I would love to meet up with you folks again. Name the time and place.

Regards,

Mike

Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:16 pm

My big@$$ vacation request got approved (Aug 4th-Sept 3rd), so I'll be going from MN -> PDX -> Vancouver -> MN if I can swing it.

That does mean I should be able to make to Mogfest, and be around PDX from roughly Aug 13 to Aug 19 or 20. Can't get more specific than that yet, but I'll be around :)

Look for a trip planning thread in the next day or two!

Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:49 pm

BitterBeerFace wrote: My big@$$ vacation request got approved (Aug 4th-Sept 3rd), so I'll be going from MN -> PDX -> Vancouver -> MN if I can swing it.

That does mean I should be able to make to Mogfest, and be around PDX from roughly Aug 13 to Aug 19 or 20. Can't get more specific than that yet, but I'll be around :)

Look for a trip planning thread in the next day or two! Standing by. Woot. We will hook you up bitter beer face. :wink:

Mike, soon. You're welcome to come to Samiehan this weekend? See my post above. If not, I'm game for next Sunday, 1400 hrs, Lucky Lab NW Quimby

Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:00 pm

carterzest wrote: BitterBeerFace wrote: My big@$$ vacation request got approved (Aug 4th-Sept 3rd), so I'll be going from MN -> PDX -> Vancouver -> MN if I can swing it.

That does mean I should be able to make to Mogfest, and be around PDX from roughly Aug 13 to Aug 19 or 20. Can't get more specific than that yet, but I'll be around :)

Look for a trip planning thread in the next day or two! Standing by. Woot. We will hook you up bitter beer face. :wink:

Mike, soon. You're welcome to come to Salishan this weekend? See my post above. If not, I'm game for next Sunday, 1400 hrs, Lucky Lab NW Quimby
It was a great show, a bit rainy for 2 1 hour periods, but, the warmth of the fine autos was more than enough to make up for a little rain.

We need to represent with a couple Syncro's and Westfalia's next year. It is a great event for the whole family and there were just two VW's at the entire event.

Tue Jul 03, 2012 9:05 pm

rcook52459 wrote: anybody looking for an awning.there's one on craigslist for reasonable price. http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/pts/3101451067.html

This is what I love about the samba and our PDX crew....
I saw this post at 7am, sent email to the CL ad and spoke to John...

It was ClimberJohn's ad! I was very pleased to meet another member and John was glad to see it go to another Westy owner.

I have a good friend at Dometic, and he got me the correct awning brackets so I didn't have to drill into the van. Very pleased with it. Here's some good shots for your Tuesday evening pleasure. Cheers

the rag is too soak up some cleaner I had on it.

Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:28 am

congrat's.they are sure great to have.

Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:11 am

rcook52459 wrote: congrat's.they are sure great to have. x2, congrats. I cannot wait to get another awning. Gonna have Kirk bring me one down so I can join the club too.

Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:02 pm

Welchmaster,

Wowzer, that looks great! I am glad you got the right brackets. I wish you many shady campspots with that awning.

Congrats,
CJ

Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:23 am

Hey there PDX'ers!

So I've finally got my act togeather, its summer the vans running like a top and there is some free time. Lets do a get togeather! I've been brainstorming about getting a group togeather in Mcminnville where I live. I want to start it off with a BANG! I would like to have anyone interested to come on down to Dundee to Argyle winery (where I work) and taste some wine or (drink some beer) and tour the winery(if interested). We make bubbly and still wine so there is some cool stuff to see and learn, PLUS I'm thinking I can get 20+ vans and buses down here. We have a core crew of seven from down here and I wanted to invite the surly PDX crew down to kick it off! I'm thinking the 22st of july for burgers and dogs plus pot luck amendments for lunch time, hang out, winery walk around. More details to come, but set aside the afternoon and comedown and hangout. Maybe you y'all can figure out a group parade down? Cheers WHO-HOO! :lol:

Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:46 am

went to lunch sat at lucky lab with my daughter and her friend(who works near there) and they have fenced half the parking lot off.the other half i think it said leagacy parking only,but everybody parked there.don't know if for a few parking spaces or all of parking lot.