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Dogberry
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Location: Northern Thailand and Central Oregon
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 Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:46 pm Post subject: Illuminated cupholders... |
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Illuminating my cupholders.
Total cost around $75,000 give or take a lot. NOTE: Your costs may differ.
For the short story go to the end and look at the pic. Cool eh?
For the long story…
I need to include a little background, and on this account I apologize if I go too far but it is important to my story. If you embark on this same path let this serve you well as the definitive how-to guidebook. I did it AND SO CAN YOU. You may well be asking what my credentials are to be writing this important how-to on TheSamba. Well, Ladies and Gentleman, I almost burnt my school down by lighting a pile of paint rags on fire when I was 10!
Uh-hum… So, this next part is important because if you miss this then your costs may be totally different. Get married and have a son and spend huge amounts of money buying him flying lessons from age 14 so that he gets a pilot job in Sanford, Florida (Delta Airlines).
Next, retire from your job as… yup… a fireman! Make sure you are living in Oregon or your costs will be totally DIFFERENT!
Discover a nifty 1991 Westfalia for sale in… you’re kidding, right?…. Sanford FL! It MUST be an automatic (you want an automatic). If it is not an automatic then skip this and go look at the pic at the end. Cool, eh?
Have your son go look at it, bla bla bla. It’s nice dad! Fly free to Florida (Delta family flies free) Buy van. Drive it home (not flying free may affect your total cost).
BTW your new Westy will be astonishingly clean. 180,000 on the ODO but un-molested and always garaged… it’s just excellent!
Enjoy your van while spending large amounts of money at GoWesty and Van Cafe and such upgrading all the usual upgrade essentials while awaiting the day the engine will go. At 220k arrange engine failure necessitating a rebuild and while you’re at it decide to do a conversion. Oh yeah rebuild automatic transaxle too.
Make a great choice by going with BOSTIG. You will love it! But the automatic? What WERE you thinking! Duh. So…
Buy manual donor van and strip parts. Have transaxle from donor rebuilt while you are at it (grrrr). Get a new gear reduction starter and the stuff from Bostig to switch from auto to manual (easy squezzy).
Bla, bla,bla… work work work… almost there…
… remember those two little LEDs that came out of the auto shifter box?
Cool, eh?
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IdahoDoug
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Location: N. Idaho
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Hah - looks great and it would be hard to spend $75K in a way that would be more fun/hour of use you are and will be enjoying. Especially if the figure includes your current trip to Thailand as well as a sweet adventure mobile!
DougM
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ShultzRoadHouse
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Location: Caldwell, ID
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Nice, it's sounds like the VW bug bit you late, I for one applaud you, why am I doing this so young. 
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HoustonPhotog
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johnnygreenham
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Farfrumwork
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As a Westy owner and father of 2 boys I FULLY appreciate the story. (my boys are younger, 4 & 11, but the $$ is there already...  )
Sweet cupholders too!
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Dogberry
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Location: Northern Thailand and Central Oregon
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As a Westy owner and father of 2 boys I FULLY appreciate the story. (my boys are younger, 4 & 11, but the $$ is there already... |
You would think it would end someday but somehow I always end up parting with my wallet when the kids are around. Thanks Dad! haha
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dhaavers
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Great story - great little project!
Cool? YES! 
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Dogberry
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| dhaavers wrote: |
Great story - great little project!
Cool? YES! |
Thank you sir!
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TequilaSunSet
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No hula girl on the dash or fuzzy dice on the mirror? You were robbed!
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Dogberry
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| TequilaSunSet wrote: |
No hula girl on the dash or fuzzy dice on the mirror? You were robbed!
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The original owners I bought it from left their fuzzy dice spirit instead. And she, in her mid-seventies would have rocked a hula skirt (and no doubt the van) back in the day...
The rear cabinet was covered in those little travel memento stickers from all over the USA and Canada. Awwwsome.
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