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Sidbus Samba Member
Joined: January 12, 2011 Posts: 731 Location: Miami
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Hokie87 Samba Member
Joined: May 27, 2010 Posts: 280 Location: Richmond, VA
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Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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Helping with the install
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zozo Samba Member
Joined: October 15, 2005 Posts: 5217 Location: South of Ol' San Antonio
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Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2014 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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My grand daughters in my bus when I was playing with available light pics in the garage. Didn't use a tripod. Dammit.
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G-wood Todd Samba Member
Joined: January 11, 2005 Posts: 1047 Location: Colorado
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This one is my favorite. 10 months old.
Now at 2. Every bus she see's is "daddys bus"
_________________ and take the kids for instance "Are we going in the Volkswagen bus?" and they say "Yay!" and clap their hands and if it's a glorious day you can slide the sunroof back and let a little of the glory in and all of a sudden, it stops looking funny.
-Volkswagen ad |
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bubba Samba Member
Joined: May 09, 2004 Posts: 2531 Location: Florida
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My little girl about three months ago.. she never sits still.. hard to get her in anypictures.. shes always just a blur! _________________ ***WANTED***
SO-23 Cargo net hooks...
for sale
curtain Bungee cords for SO23, 22, 33 ,34 ,35
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1587591 |
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FritzCP Samba Member
Joined: October 23, 2005 Posts: 463 Location: Wisconsin
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my 2 boys. 6 and 2 in my 66 standard _________________ Fritz Custom Products
Fritz 10 - Tin Screw Torquer
Fritz 124 - Crank Pulley Puller
Fritz 70 - 6306 Bearing Puller
Fritz 44 - Dizzy Puller |
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Abscate Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2014 Posts: 22568 Location: NYC/Upstate/ROW
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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Best thread ever!!! _________________ .ssS! |
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Brokenbus Samba Member
Joined: May 04, 2005 Posts: 272 Location: Balibago
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While I don't have any pictures of my kids during this trip I would like to share this story written by my then 16 year old son. Newly divorced and having my two boys for the weekend, I dragged them along as I purchased a 1967 Westy that needed it's fair share of TLC. After arriving home in Texas from our drive home from Colorado I asked Matthew if he could write a one page paper of our trip while the experience was still fresh. That 16 year old is now 24 and graduated from college this weekend. What he wrote brings me joy every time I read it. I hope you enjoy it as it means the world to me.
So this Saturday I went on a "wonderful" trip to Denver, Colorado with my dearest dad. The first thing that happened was that I didn’t have to wake up after getting only a few hours of sleep [always a plus]. After eventually dragging myself out of bed I took a shower and got ready for the day. I put on my usual pants, shirt, and stupid long sleeve collared shirt. After a short drive to the airport we walked around looking for our gate. After a while of looking, my dad deduced from the huge amount of people crowding those gates [and the huge amount of people in front of us on the Stand-by list] that we weren’t going to catch our flight. However the thought of dragging his kids around with him to places that they would rather not go to compelled him to think quickly and get us on a flight to Colorado Springs. I’ve been there once.. It was for a Boy Scout summer camp. We were starved, ran like dogs, and few of us even got a single merit badge from the whole ordeal. I’ve had bad luck with Colorado all together; in fact I had to drive home with my family in a VW bus from that state back home before. So when we finally get up to Denver my dad had problems navigating through the last few streets to the place we were trying to get to. In my father’s wisdom we tried to turn left against the traffic and through a median. However, when we finally made it through that we got to the place where the VW bus was. Now, normally the prize at the end of the tunnel should be worth it, it should be worth all the trouble and strife. This was a rather nice exception to that rule. Now, when I heard that we were driving that thing back to Texas, well my thoughts ran along these lines ‘what the hell?’ ‘Why can’t anything be easy?’ The thoughts ran off while apparently so did the condition of the bus. While it took my dad a while and a new pair of pants to get the thing working, me and my brother just made random insults at each other, since there was nothing better to do. So we were off, after returning the rental car we started off in the vehicle that was slowly starting to fall apart. For the most part it was smooth sailing until we got into Texas. There the bus really showed that it was truly worth the money that was put out for it. We started to get rained on. First a few leaks on the front window... Nothing much a few drops onto my shoe. Then through the little ventilation system in front. Soon as we knew it, we were being rained on while my brother enjoyed a nice little dry spot of the bed and was wrapped in a nice warm blanket. I was able to amuse myself with seeing how long the last sliver of battery on my I-Pod could last, and text messaging since I wasn’t able to really call anyone since the noise the bus gives off makes communication hard, then add in the fact my cell phone isn’t of high quality and you have just a small portion of why the trip wasn’t fun. So what did I do to occupy the remaining 2-4 hours of the trip? Well since music couldn’t exist in the bus, my phone was slowly dying, and to top it all off, I couldn’t read my books or study since the water from outside was leaking in more and more. So I had to avoid getting fined a hundred dollars or so by the high school. So, as the disaster of a trip was coming to a close I quickly started contacting friends and started planning. I didn’t want my weekend to be totally ruined by my dad’s junk collecting craze. So, we were finally entering Keller and what a great feeling that was. The water had stopped pouring into the bus and I the fresh Keller air was coming into the bus. When we finally got home, we had to wait for dad to get the keys to the garage out of his backpack. Because the garage door opener was in the car that we drove to the airport in. Which will raise the following question: How the heck would one get the car back? Since it would take a car to get there, and a car going back. Unless one gets another driver to drive you there, it is nearly impossible. One could always pull a Multiple Man and defy physics by being in two places at once, but how often does an actual mutant ‘X’ gene occur in real life? However, that was my "wonderful" trip to and from the "great" state of Colorado. |
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sleeperspirit1 Samba Member
Joined: March 22, 2013 Posts: 21 Location: allentown pa
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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First post here on the forums , Hello! heres my 8 year old daughter looking in the mirror The day we bought our 87 weekender.
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Brendel20 Samba Member
Joined: October 21, 2010 Posts: 300 Location: Troy, IL
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Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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6 week old Owen chilln in the daddy's flipseat.....many more memories to come
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Breckskier Samba Member
Joined: December 16, 2002 Posts: 239 Location: Grand Rapids, MI
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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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Some local kids were helpful to push start the bus.
Our son is bus & car crazy...
He loves playing "driver"
Our girls enjoy it too.
Our son wants to play all the time inside the bus.
The kids have friends over and say, "can we all go in the bus?"
Of course our adult friends want to hangout in the bus too. "Beers in the Bus" is a common occurrence. _________________ BreckSkier
67 13w Deluxe-"St. Pete" the Airport Jet Bus
65 13w Deluxe-"St. Nikolas"
67 912(911.5 Outlaw build spring 2015), 90 C4Cab. Formerly: 59 DD, 78 SuperB, 81 911Cab, 82Vanagon, 81Vana & other German / US stuff.. |
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TimmyH79 Samba Member
Joined: June 18, 2013 Posts: 88 Location: Houston, TX
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wife isn't the biggest fan of the bus because she thinks it isn't "safe" ... BUT she couldn't deny it was arguably the best christmas card prop in the history of mankind - first picture was our family card with the caption:
"Oh What Fun it is to Ride - Happy Holidays 2014"
Now if only I can convince her to let me take the kids on a ride outside of our neighborhood... all in time I suppose _________________ '66 SO-42
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'67 21-Window Dual-Slider
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srfndoc Samba Member
Joined: August 21, 2010 Posts: 3270 Location: SoCal
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Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:09 am Post subject: |
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Great photos. I convinced my wife to let them ride in the bus by making sure I had seat belts for all of them and they only sat in the back. _________________ RPM=(MPH*336* (R&P*4th*1.26))/Tire Diameter in inches |
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jjjjack Samba Member
Joined: August 08, 2005 Posts: 1013 Location: Gainesville, FL
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Great photos. I convinced my wife to let them ride in the bus by making sure I had seat belts for all of them and they only sat in the back. |
Ditto here in a '67 21 window just like that! And no wife is more paranoid than mine _________________ Jack Stenner
1959 Mango Westfalia SO-23
1953 Porsche 356 Coupe
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BulliBill Samba Member
Joined: July 09, 2004 Posts: 4561 Location: St Charles, MO
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Brendel20 wrote: |
6 week old Owen chilln in the daddy's flipseat.....many more memories to come
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Great photo of Owen! I sure hope he had some super absorbent diapers on for that photo shoot, just in case. Good lookin' future wrench handler...
Bill _________________ I'm looking for these license plate frames for my fleet:
Coeur D'Alene - Lake Shore Volkswagen
Mission VW - San Fernando
Thornton VW - Stockton
Thanks for any help! |
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Brendel20 Samba Member
Joined: October 21, 2010 Posts: 300 Location: Troy, IL
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Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 7:17 am Post subject: |
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BulliBill wrote: |
Brendel20 wrote: |
6 week old Owen chilln in the daddy's flipseat.....many more memories to come
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Great photo of Owen! I sure hope he had some super absorbent diapers on for that photo shoot, just in case. Good lookin' future wrench handler...
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Thanks Bill ! Ha, yeah...I'm hoping to have him welding sometime here soon |
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SkooobaSteve Samba Member
Joined: March 23, 2005 Posts: 3152 Location: Dothan Alabama
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madriding1 Samba Member
Joined: April 18, 2014 Posts: 24 Location: Colorado Springs, CO
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Breckskier Samba Member
Joined: December 16, 2002 Posts: 239 Location: Grand Rapids, MI
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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Cool Bus, and that Mailbox is awesome! _________________ BreckSkier
67 13w Deluxe-"St. Pete" the Airport Jet Bus
65 13w Deluxe-"St. Nikolas"
67 912(911.5 Outlaw build spring 2015), 90 C4Cab. Formerly: 59 DD, 78 SuperB, 81 911Cab, 82Vanagon, 81Vana & other German / US stuff.. |
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BusJunky Samba Member
Joined: February 27, 2009 Posts: 568 Location: Norwalk, ohio
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