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Jake de Villiers Samba Member
Joined: October 24, 2007 Posts: 5911 Location: Tsawwassen, BC
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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Staunton, Virginia, eh? The North American distributor for the Innovation Double Bass Strings that I distribute through Long & McQuade in Canada is in Staunton! Fretwell Bass.
My two worlds colliding! _________________ '84 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX
'86 Westy Weekender Poptop/2.5 Subaru/5 Speed Posi/Audi Front Brakes/16 x 7 Mercedes Wheels - answers to 'Dixie'
@jakedevilliersmusic1
http://sites.google.com/site/subyjake/mydixiedarlin%27
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
www.thebassspa.com |
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J Charlton Samba Member
Joined: August 24, 2007 Posts: 1544 Location: The True North Strong and Free
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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valleywestys wrote: |
LOOKING GOOD!
Travel safe!
And keep that snow up North, where it belongs. We have NONE |
So- should I bring swim suit, can I get a tan?? _________________ NAHT hightop availability May 18 2023 -
Bend Oregon - for Oregon, California- (7 tot , 3 available), Kennewick Wa (6 tot, 3 available), Small Car Performance Fife Wa. (7 tot 5 avail ), Fairbanks Alaska (1 tot 0 avail)
Future availability TBD : Springfield Mass. Staunton Va, Florida, Colorado, Grand Junction Co., SLC probably late 2023 |
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campism Samba Member
Joined: September 07, 2007 Posts: 4485 Location: Richmond VA
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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We had flurries today and it is supposed to be 7F on Sunday morning in Richmond, so likely even cooler then in Staunton. Suit up! _________________ '87 Westy in Wolfram Grey Metallic |
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Signalocity Samba Member
Joined: February 13, 2012 Posts: 573
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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J Charlton wrote: |
valleywestys wrote: |
LOOKING GOOD!
Travel safe!
And keep that snow up North, where it belongs. We have NONE |
So- should I bring swim suit, can I get a tan?? |
It was T-Shirt weather here in the NC last weekend Good journey to you! |
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valleywestys Samba Member
Joined: June 17, 2009 Posts: 71 Location: Staunton, Virginia
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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Jake- I pass Fretwell Bass on my way to work every morning. Right down the street from my house. AND, we just got a Bus from the Bass player for Nettles! Worlds colliding everywhere.
John- a little early for swim suit. Calling for a high of 18 on Sunday. Foglights might be a good idea. Could be some F O G rolling in about the time you get here.... |
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J Charlton Samba Member
Joined: August 24, 2007 Posts: 1544 Location: The True North Strong and Free
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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valleywestys wrote: |
Jake- I pass Fretwell Bass on my way to work every morning. Right down the street from my house. AND, we just got a Bus from the Bass player for Nettles! Worlds colliding everywhere.
Geez - and Andrew Libby is aBass player and i use an old Bass string for a dipstick in my AHU conversion
John- a little early for swim suit. Calling for a high of 18 on Sunday. Foglights might be a good idea. Could be some F O G rolling in about the time you get here.... |
Aw geez - those FOG guys - if they're there I'm just gonna forget about turning right around and heading home - isn't too cold to sit around and play guitars, sing and drink beer all day??? _________________ NAHT hightop availability May 18 2023 -
Bend Oregon - for Oregon, California- (7 tot , 3 available), Kennewick Wa (6 tot, 3 available), Small Car Performance Fife Wa. (7 tot 5 avail ), Fairbanks Alaska (1 tot 0 avail)
Future availability TBD : Springfield Mass. Staunton Va, Florida, Colorado, Grand Junction Co., SLC probably late 2023 |
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valleywestys Samba Member
Joined: June 17, 2009 Posts: 71 Location: Staunton, Virginia
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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Downright chilly outside. Comfy inside. Stove in the living room going 24/7.
Trying to gather the F O G, on short notice, for Sunday.
2 new Brewpubs in town, since you were here last. Total of 3 downtown now.
You should plan to stay Sunday. Wander home Monday... |
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J Charlton Samba Member
Joined: August 24, 2007 Posts: 1544 Location: The True North Strong and Free
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Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:39 pm Post subject: hightops Staunton Va |
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Just got back from a 1200 mile roundtrip dropping hightops of for the guys at Valley Westy.
I took 4 tops down on my trailer, 2 of them had deposits on them and i figured on leaving 2 there for future sales in the area. However, before the day was out, 1 more was sold, leaving only 1 there. Guess I should have taken another one or two down.
Hindsight is always 20/20
It was great meeting up with the FOG reprobates again and Keith and Paul were their usual calm selves - well, Keith anyways.
The Valley Westy group now has a spankin' new full service automotive service facility and their clientele has grown with the facility to near capacity- great to see.
Thanks again to Paul and Daria - great people.
Next delivery run will be at the end of March/ beginning April when the guys from Arkansas and west will get their tops. _________________ NAHT hightop availability May 18 2023 -
Bend Oregon - for Oregon, California- (7 tot , 3 available), Kennewick Wa (6 tot, 3 available), Small Car Performance Fife Wa. (7 tot 5 avail ), Fairbanks Alaska (1 tot 0 avail)
Future availability TBD : Springfield Mass. Staunton Va, Florida, Colorado, Grand Junction Co., SLC probably late 2023 |
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J Charlton Samba Member
Joined: August 24, 2007 Posts: 1544 Location: The True North Strong and Free
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:36 am Post subject: another hightop on the road |
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Another one hits the road. Conversion of the McIntyre van by Justin Hall, Vancouver Wa.
More pics and interior pics to follow _________________ NAHT hightop availability May 18 2023 -
Bend Oregon - for Oregon, California- (7 tot , 3 available), Kennewick Wa (6 tot, 3 available), Small Car Performance Fife Wa. (7 tot 5 avail ), Fairbanks Alaska (1 tot 0 avail)
Future availability TBD : Springfield Mass. Staunton Va, Florida, Colorado, Grand Junction Co., SLC probably late 2023 |
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J Charlton Samba Member
Joined: August 24, 2007 Posts: 1544 Location: The True North Strong and Free
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 5:19 am Post subject: Appropriately dirty syncro hightop |
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Appropriately muddy
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Bend Oregon - for Oregon, California- (7 tot , 3 available), Kennewick Wa (6 tot, 3 available), Small Car Performance Fife Wa. (7 tot 5 avail ), Fairbanks Alaska (1 tot 0 avail)
Future availability TBD : Springfield Mass. Staunton Va, Florida, Colorado, Grand Junction Co., SLC probably late 2023 |
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J Charlton Samba Member
Joined: August 24, 2007 Posts: 1544 Location: The True North Strong and Free
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Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 6:53 am Post subject: hightop van winter |
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Another warm comfortable winter base camp
_________________ NAHT hightop availability May 18 2023 -
Bend Oregon - for Oregon, California- (7 tot , 3 available), Kennewick Wa (6 tot, 3 available), Small Car Performance Fife Wa. (7 tot 5 avail ), Fairbanks Alaska (1 tot 0 avail)
Future availability TBD : Springfield Mass. Staunton Va, Florida, Colorado, Grand Junction Co., SLC probably late 2023 |
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J Charlton Samba Member
Joined: August 24, 2007 Posts: 1544 Location: The True North Strong and Free
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 7:31 am Post subject: hightop et al conversion |
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Very nice report and write up of the reworking of a touring van at http://liveworkwander.com/our-vw-vanagon-build/ _________________ NAHT hightop availability May 18 2023 -
Bend Oregon - for Oregon, California- (7 tot , 3 available), Kennewick Wa (6 tot, 3 available), Small Car Performance Fife Wa. (7 tot 5 avail ), Fairbanks Alaska (1 tot 0 avail)
Future availability TBD : Springfield Mass. Staunton Va, Florida, Colorado, Grand Junction Co., SLC probably late 2023 |
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J Charlton Samba Member
Joined: August 24, 2007 Posts: 1544 Location: The True North Strong and Free
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Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:46 pm Post subject: northamericanhightops |
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I've been doing some work on the http://northamericanhightops.com website. Re-organizing the material around the installers in particular but not finished this section yet.
I also posted some information re. preliminary distribution numbers by regions as well as details WRT to post production pricing which will be in effect after the end of March.
http://northamericanhightops.com _________________ NAHT hightop availability May 18 2023 -
Bend Oregon - for Oregon, California- (7 tot , 3 available), Kennewick Wa (6 tot, 3 available), Small Car Performance Fife Wa. (7 tot 5 avail ), Fairbanks Alaska (1 tot 0 avail)
Future availability TBD : Springfield Mass. Staunton Va, Florida, Colorado, Grand Junction Co., SLC probably late 2023 |
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J Charlton Samba Member
Joined: August 24, 2007 Posts: 1544 Location: The True North Strong and Free
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:05 am Post subject: southward bound |
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I'm so fed up with this never ending snow, cold and miserable winter that my sons and I are heading south to the Keys. My wife will join later.
Last few days I've been feeling like Sam McGee - for those of you unfamiliar with Sam - here's his poem by Robert Service
The Cremation Of Sam McGee
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows.
Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows.
He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell;
Though he'd often say in his homely way that he'd "sooner live in hell".
On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail.
Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail.
If our eyes we'd close, then the lashes froze till sometimes we couldn't see;
It wasn't much fun, but the only one to whimper was Sam McGee.
And that very night, as we lay packed tight in our robes beneath the snow,
And the dogs were fed, and the stars o'erhead were dancing heel and toe,
He turned to me, and "Cap," says he, "I'll cash in this trip, I guess;
And if I do, I'm asking that you won't refuse my last request."
Well, he seemed so low that I couldn't say no; then he says with a sort of moan:
"It's the cursed cold, and it's got right hold till I'm chilled clean through to the bone.
Yet 'tain't being dead -- it's my awful dread of the icy grave that pains;
So I want you to swear that, foul or fair, you'll cremate my last remains."
A pal's last need is a thing to heed, so I swore I would not fail;
And we started on at the streak of dawn; but God! he looked ghastly pale.
He crouched on the sleigh, and he raved all day of his home in Tennessee;
And before nightfall a corpse was all that was left of Sam McGee.
There wasn't a breath in that land of death, and I hurried, horror-driven,
With a corpse half hid that I couldn't get rid, because of a promise given;
It was lashed to the sleigh, and it seemed to say:
"You may tax your brawn and brains,
But you promised true, and it's up to you to cremate those last remains."
Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.
In the days to come, though my lips were dumb, in my heart how I cursed that load.
In the long, long night, by the lone firelight, while the huskies, round in a ring,
Howled out their woes to the homeless snows -- O God! how I loathed the thing.
And every day that quiet clay seemed to heavy and heavier grow;
And on I went, though the dogs were spent and the grub was getting low;
The trail was bad, and I felt half mad, but I swore I would not give in;
And I'd often sing to the hateful thing, and it hearkened with a grin.
Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay;
It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May".
And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum;
Then "Here," said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."
Some planks I tore from the cabin floor, and I lit the boiler fire;
Some coal I found that was lying around, and I heaped the fuel higher;
The flames just soared, and the furnace roared -- such a blaze you seldom see;
And I burrowed a hole in the glowing coal, and I stuffed in Sam McGee.
Then I made a hike, for I didn't like to hear him sizzle so;
And the heavens scowled, and the huskies howled, and the wind began to blow.
It was icy cold, but the hot sweat rolled down my cheeks, and I don't know why;
And the greasy smoke in an inky cloak went streaking down the sky.
I do not know how long in the snow I wrestled with grisly fear;
But the stars came out and they danced about ere again I ventured near;
I was sick with dread, but I bravely said: "I'll just take a peep inside.
I guess he's cooked, and it's time I looked"; . . . then the door I opened wide.
And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar;
And he wore a smile you could see a mile, and he said: "Please close that door.
It's fine in here, but I greatly fear you'll let in the cold and storm --
Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it's the first time I've been warm."
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
Robert William Service _________________ NAHT hightop availability May 18 2023 -
Bend Oregon - for Oregon, California- (7 tot , 3 available), Kennewick Wa (6 tot, 3 available), Small Car Performance Fife Wa. (7 tot 5 avail ), Fairbanks Alaska (1 tot 0 avail)
Future availability TBD : Springfield Mass. Staunton Va, Florida, Colorado, Grand Junction Co., SLC probably late 2023 |
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danfromsyr Samba Member
Joined: March 01, 2004 Posts: 15129 Location: Syracuse, NY
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:59 am Post subject: |
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Cold sucks.
how it gets old.
how it makes you(me) old.
how it sucks to be cold
here's the poem read by Johnny Cash
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Jake de Villiers Samba Member
Joined: October 24, 2007 Posts: 5911 Location: Tsawwassen, BC
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 9:32 am Post subject: |
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danfromsyr wrote: |
Cold sucks.
how it gets old.
how it makes you(me) old.
how it sucks to be cold
here's the poem read by Johnny Cash
Link
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Awesome Dan - thanks! Though I'm not in agreement with his changing "moil" to "toil". Grrr. _________________ '84 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX
'86 Westy Weekender Poptop/2.5 Subaru/5 Speed Posi/Audi Front Brakes/16 x 7 Mercedes Wheels - answers to 'Dixie'
@jakedevilliersmusic1
http://sites.google.com/site/subyjake/mydixiedarlin%27
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
www.thebassspa.com |
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J Charlton Samba Member
Joined: August 24, 2007 Posts: 1544 Location: The True North Strong and Free
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 2:50 pm Post subject: sam |
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Just so we have some vanagon content - obviously Sam would have been far more comfortable in a nicely insulated hightopped syncro on the Dawson trail
BTW - Johnny Cash does a nice job with the poem - but both of my kids say that I do it better - but then, I've been doing it since elementary school. _________________ NAHT hightop availability May 18 2023 -
Bend Oregon - for Oregon, California- (7 tot , 3 available), Kennewick Wa (6 tot, 3 available), Small Car Performance Fife Wa. (7 tot 5 avail ), Fairbanks Alaska (1 tot 0 avail)
Future availability TBD : Springfield Mass. Staunton Va, Florida, Colorado, Grand Junction Co., SLC probably late 2023 |
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Jake de Villiers Samba Member
Joined: October 24, 2007 Posts: 5911 Location: Tsawwassen, BC
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 4:46 pm Post subject: Re: sam |
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J Charlton wrote: |
Just so we have some vanagon content - obviously Sam would have been far more comfortable in a nicely insulated hightopped syncro on the Dawson trail
BTW - Johnny Cash does a nice job with the poem - but both of my kids say that I do it better - but then, I've been doing it since elementary school. |
Yeah - and they're *your* kids. Ask them when they're sixteen!!! _________________ '84 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX
'86 Westy Weekender Poptop/2.5 Subaru/5 Speed Posi/Audi Front Brakes/16 x 7 Mercedes Wheels - answers to 'Dixie'
@jakedevilliersmusic1
http://sites.google.com/site/subyjake/mydixiedarlin%27
www.crescentbeachguitar.com
www.thebassspa.com |
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Yukon Syncro Samba Member
Joined: June 28, 2012 Posts: 110 Location: Yukon, Canada
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 12:03 am Post subject: Re: sam |
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J Charlton wrote: |
obviously Sam would have been far more comfortable in a nicely insulated hightopped syncro on the Dawson trail |
That's my plan John once I get my top on, and I happen to live on the marge of Lake Lebarge, so maybe one cold night when the northern lights are dancing Sam will come for a drive! Your welcome to come along too! _________________ 1987 1.6 TD (JX) 1.9 TD (AAZ) Syncro Transporter Tintop with front and back lockers - Escorial Green. Got a North American High Top buried in snow waiting for a spring, summer when-oh-when-lord install. |
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valleywestys Samba Member
Joined: June 17, 2009 Posts: 71 Location: Staunton, Virginia
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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John,
You heading down I-81, or I-95, to Florida?
If I-81, I know a town you should stop in.... |
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