TheSamba.com :: View topic - thank you quebecers!! all VW lovers (little story)

Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:54 am

i don't know who they were but i was on a fishing trip 8 hours from home, in another province where i don't speek the language very well and when i pulled over to wait for my friend to get gas 2 busses pulled over to make sure i was ok!!!
the front bus was late 70's with an older bearded guy and his bus was covered with stickers and flowers and behind me was a gorgeous young girl (about my age!) in a late 60's early 70's green transporter i think (looking more at the girl)
anyway from what i could understand they saw oil on the ground back on the high way and they wanted to make sure it wasn't me! i couldn't believe it!!
he had a CB and radio'd some other people, there was some sort of VW camping weekend and he let them know where he was and that i was ok LOL
VW owners are awesome!!! i passed about 6 more that day, all smiling and waving!
THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING AWESOME! ; ) :D

Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:20 pm

quebec has a massive bus scene. one if their clubs, leswests, is surely one of, if not THE the largest bus club in north america.

http://www.leswests.qc.ca/

the fact that there is a significant language barrier means there's not much crossover between quebec bus owners and others, but that seems to be changing a bit. they also have nice forum site, monwest.com.

Sat Sep 13, 2008 4:54 am

By your description it sounds to be Dansub and his daugther Isabelle! It was probably the first weekend of september coming back or going to our meeting in Lac St-Jean!

Sat Sep 13, 2008 10:11 am

I was labourday long weekend and i was in lac st maurice, about 2 hours north of trois riviere......there was 6 of us on a fishing trip, but i was the only VW.

Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:45 am

My PO had all the necessities to help someone on the other people under the seat, so I do, carrying on the spirit.

I've stopped to help about three people so far :D

Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:26 am

That's it ! We were in Chambord, north from you!

Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:13 pm

Hi Mox !
Sorry because i'm not speaking your language very well , It was me in the green bus...By the way, it's a 68 !!
Tanks a lot for the good words like '' gorgeous '' and '' young girl ''... About your age ? ! Well ! Are you sure ?!!

My father told me in our C.B. that your bus was not the one who loosing oil on the road :D

Isabelle and her Jeppeto68

Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:22 pm

izzi wrote: Hi Mox !
Sorry because i'm not speaking your language very well

ce n'est pas mal, man.

Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:32 pm

yann,
cool avatar. where did you get it? It looks just like the logo for a website I write for: www.hackaday.com

sorry to go off topic guys.

Tue Sep 16, 2008 2:34 pm

Pics or it didn't happen!

Tue Sep 16, 2008 3:56 pm

THAT HACkaday site is crazy.!!

Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:16 pm

I enjoy it!. don't want to steal this thread though.

Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:56 am

c4l3b, it's a design I stole somewhere on the internet years ago, it's my itenerant mechanic logo, click on link under my signature (it's in french) This summer I painted it on the front of my bus!

Izzy, welcome to the samba, are you coming to Sutton this week-end?

Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:34 am

Yann wrote: That's it ! We were in Chambord, north from you!
what were you guys doing, i saww about 6 busses go by when i was getting gas accross fom lac normand/ st maurice.
i also saw one stuck in traffic through the construction
and then of course izzi and her dad on the side of the rd with me ; )

is there an annual bus weekend or somthing?

Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:40 am

Yann,
that's awesome, I had thought of putting the same logo on front of mine. got any pics of the whole bus where I can see the logo? I'm sure my buddies would get a kick out of it.

Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:46 am

Yes we have 7 official meeting each year, there's two left, this coming week-end, we have à meeting at the Sutton Ski resort, 1h30 east of Montreal, and another one on the long week-end in october in L'iles Aux Coudre, an 1h30 north of Quebec City! We usually meet the 40 to 60 buses goal!

Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:04 am

wow thats awesome, i was going to put mine away shortly for the winter....i don't run any heat so it's gettin chilli but maybe next year i could hit some of your events!!ill have to polish up on my french! lol

Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:31 am

Well almost everybody from southern Qubec speak at least a little english, plus we used to have some guys from ON coming to each event, do you know Cory from Cornwall who now work and live in Manotick? His friend Todd who now is in Belleville?

Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:44 am

Yann wrote: do you know Cory from Cornwall who now work and live in Manotick? His friend Todd who now is in Belleville?

i know cory pretty well. todd a little bit.

cory is a true VW dude. awesome mechanic and all-around cool guy. great guy to have a camp-out, good for some funny stories and he'll never refuse a beer.

Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:47 am

Quote: he'll never refuse a beer

That's for sure, this spring I bought his 85 Vanagon for my rental company, I remember those two guys coming to our meeting in Tadoussac early may in 2000, Cory with his Splitty and Todd with his red Squareback!