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Mon Jul 21, 2025 8:55 am

Attended a cars & coffee event Sat morning out in the Valley put on by The Frose Brothers. Some really nice rides and met a good bunch of people. It was a beautiful drive out and back and met up with and tucked in behind a Super Beetle on the way there and a nice Splitty on the way back.

Mon Jul 21, 2025 9:07 am

looks like a great turnout, db, in a beautiful spot.

i assume the white ragtop is a kit car, or am i just showing my ignorance?

Mon Jul 21, 2025 9:18 am

Wow awesome turnout! Nice!

Mon Jul 21, 2025 10:43 am

dodger tom wrote: looks like a great turnout, db, in a beautiful spot.

i assume the white ragtop is a kit car, or am i just showing my ignorance?

Thanks Tom & soissisc.

The white convertible is based on a Puma GT from Brazil I believe. I don't know much about it other than it's a fiberglass shell on some sort of VW frame.

Mon Jul 21, 2025 10:55 am

Lots of variety there, a brazilia and a puma too

Mon Jul 21, 2025 3:03 pm

Uh, can you use the "Flux-Capacitor" here and return back to last weekend and focus on the HEB in the background of this pic?

I wonder if that's a legit HEB?
That thing would have taken up some of my time at the show! 8)

Mon Jul 21, 2025 3:39 pm

really nice sharing, thank you.

Mon Jul 21, 2025 4:16 pm

67rustavenger wrote:
Uh, can you use the "Flux-Capacitor" here and return back to last weekend and focus on the HEB in the background of this pic?

I wonder if that's a legit HEB?
That thing would have taken up some of my time at the show! 8)

Here's a screen shot side view. We have a lot more pics and I will try to download a couple more that my daughter and son took of "Hebby".

Wed Jul 23, 2025 1:02 pm

After the Cars & Coffee event Sat morning we headed to Spanish Banks to watch the Blue Angels fly patterns over English Bay and Downtown Vancouver for 30 mins and then stayed to watch the Celebration Of Light fireworks competition that ended around 10:40 PM.

Blue Angels

Celebration of Light

Mon Jul 28, 2025 9:08 am

Dropped my son at the airport and stopped by Iona Park. It was a SE wind so the planes were coming in off the water.

Nice sky colour later in the evening.

No Bays on the Way, Vanagons, Bugs, etc seen on the roads this weekend.

Mon Jul 28, 2025 9:21 am

nice, as usual, db.

Tue Aug 05, 2025 8:07 pm

Thanks, Tom.

Headed to The BC Interior camping for a few days. About 600 miles round trip over the Coquihalla to 5A to Kamloops, and Hwy 1 to Chase and then on to Anglemont and surrounding area. We had great weather and the Bus ran flawlessly.

Out in the canoe on Sunday. Paddled about an hour East along Shuswap Lake to a Marine Park and spent most of the day there.

Some wildlife across the road from the lot that we were camping in.

We had full days combining hikes with paddling or went for a hike before/after paddling.

Paddled across to the island and spent most of the day there and stopped for dinner at the Hub Pub.

Stopped in Merritt for lunch on the way back - Home Restaurant

No Bays on the Way but saw a few Vanagons, a couple Eurovans, a Bug, and a Ghia.

Tue Aug 05, 2025 8:43 pm

a 956-km travel.

cool.

the ‘78 ce2 is getting ready for the next 17 years of travels.

Wed Aug 06, 2025 9:25 am

dodger tom wrote: a 956-km travel.

cool.

the ‘78 ce2 is getting ready for the next 17 years of travels.

Tom, your Bus is in great shape so I can't imagine much needs to be done to continue taking you wherever the road leads.

That's a nice Early Bay Tin Top in the pic!. I like the colour. Did you buy another Bus?

Wed Aug 06, 2025 10:46 am

Shonandb wrote: dodger tom wrote: a 956-km travel.

cool.

the ‘78 ce2 is getting ready for the next 17 years of travels.

Tom, your Bus is in great shape so I can't imagine much needs to be done to continue taking you wherever the road leads.

That's a nice Early Bay Tin Top in the pic!. I like the colour. Did you buy another Bus?
thanks for the compliment on the ce2, db. mechanical needs are being addressed,

that’s robbie’s (airschooled) bus. and, you’re right, it’s a beaut.

he’s lending me a hand, literally, with the mechanical stuff.

one of the stories i’ll bore you with someday over coupla beers.

Mon Aug 11, 2025 5:26 pm

Lunchtime companion. Deer was eating apples from a tree along side the road we stopped on.
Going to the Great Canadian show this weekend? In Tsawwassen Mills center. May decide to have my bus up for sale.

Mon Aug 11, 2025 5:57 pm

pittwagen wrote:

Lunchtime companion. Deer was eating apples from a tree along side the road we stopped on.
Going to the Great Canadian show this weekend? In Tsawwassen Mills center. May decide to have my bus up for sale.

Hi pittwagen

Yes, planning to be at The Great Canadian VW Show on Sunday. I'll look for your Bus there and stop by to say hello.

Tue Aug 12, 2025 5:01 pm

Finally finished off my A/C dual zone project in my Bus. Had a 1 evaporator design ready to install last year but decided to make it a dual zone and modified and added a 2nd heater core and A/C evaporator unit from a friends Subaru swap project between the seats last year. The heat works great in the winter and now the A/C is working well too.

We had outside temps in the low 30C (high 80s F) today and took the Bus for a 40 minute drive on the hwy out further in the valley where the temps were a bit higher and the temp inside the Bus hovered around 25C (77F) and was comfortable. I should have closed all the curtains in the back too, to see if I could bring it down to 22-23C (~75F) but could notice the drop in humidity inside the Bus.

Happy that it has all come together. I used everything from my 2000 Subaru Legacy donor including the heater - A/C control as well as the original compressor, just had new lines made up with tee junctions and bought and installed a new dryer. We reused all the original fittings.

Had 1 hiccup when I decided to wire in the condenser fans into the regular circuit due to time constraints and blew a fuse when I tried to start and run everything at once. I could have upped the fuse to 25 Amps but decided to take the time and ran a new direct #10 gauge fused power source to the fans so that the regular circuit operates as normal, without the extra load.

Wed Aug 13, 2025 8:23 am

dodger tom wrote: Shonandb wrote: dodger tom wrote: a 956-km travel.

cool.

the ‘78 ce2 is getting ready for the next 17 years of travels.

Tom, your Bus is in great shape so I can't imagine much needs to be done to continue taking you wherever the road leads.

That's a nice Early Bay Tin Top in the pic!. I like the colour. Did you buy another Bus?
thanks for the compliment on the ce2, db. mechanical needs are being addressed,

that’s robbie’s (airschooled) bus. and, you’re right, it’s a beaut.

he’s lending me a hand, literally, with the mechanical stuff.

one of the stories i’ll bore you with someday over coupla beers.

I still remember Robbie at my shop with the bike on the top, *SMACK* didnt realize the garage door wasnt quite open enough :lol:

No harm done, lots of fixes to the bus and still going great.

The dual zone AC sounds nice, it will be almost 100 today and I'm just putting around with the windows down suffering 8)

Wed Aug 13, 2025 9:11 am

Shonandb wrote: Finally finished off my A/C dual zone project in my Bus. Had a 1 evaporator design ready to install last year but decided to make it a dual zone and modified and added a 2nd heater core and A/C evaporator unit from a friends Subaru swap project between the seats last year. The heat works great in the winter and now the A/C is working well too.

db, the bus is more and more becoming a rolling luxury resort.

when do you install the kegerator?

(insert smiley face here.)

amazing work.