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dobryan Samba Member
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newfisher Samba Member
Joined: January 05, 2012 Posts: 1764 Location: The wet spot--Oregon
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 8:18 am Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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Awesome! You two look like fun times! |
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gears Samba Member
Joined: October 28, 2002 Posts: 4391 Location: Tamarack, Bend, Kailua
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 8:18 am Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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Back in the day when I wanted to impress a girl .. stuff an 8" adjustable wrench down my pants ;^) _________________ aka Pablo, Geary
9.36 @ 146 in '86 Hot & Sticky
'90 Syncro Westy SVX
'87 Syncro GL 2.5
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E1 Samba Member
Joined: January 21, 2013 Posts: 6585 Location: Westfalia, Earth
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 8:18 am Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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Except that was yesterday. _________________ ‘84 Westy, 2.1L with Digijet, 5.43 R+P, GT Gears
"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
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Tobias Duncan Samba Member
Joined: January 15, 2013 Posts: 1391 Location: Taos NM
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 6:37 pm Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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update? |
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jkallo Samba Member
Joined: July 26, 2016 Posts: 208 Location: Chicago
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 7:53 pm Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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E1 wrote: |
From the totally-useless files...
Our buses are brothers.
And I just bought a used shirt at the outdoor exchange place -- in Pagosa -- that is your EXACT shirt (all my clothes match our bus).
< End useless information > |
FWIW I also color coordinate my wardrobe with my bus which is also a member of the assuan brown brother/sisterhood. We really ought to start a club.
On topic: this thread is very heartwarming. I have noticed that somehow every little trip in the van with my SO (of 21 years) feels pretty first dateish. Bus magic, I suppose! _________________ I'm Joe
The bus is Gus, the 1982 Westy Diesel 1.6na |
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AZ Landshaper Samba Member
Joined: February 08, 2009 Posts: 1698 Location: The Old Pueblo
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 8:33 pm Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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Assuan Browns unite!
Good date bro. Glad no tow truck involved. _________________ Support Small Business.
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85 Weekender w/ EJ22
Previously
64, 71, 72, 73, 76, 81, 84, 85 & 87 Campmobiles and Westfalias
and a 67 bug. |
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E1 Samba Member
Joined: January 21, 2013 Posts: 6585 Location: Westfalia, Earth
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Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2017 8:40 pm Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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I'm there, Fellow Assuanonians!
Jkallo, we're sick, Man, sick! I've got a whole scheme of Assuaninities, all the way down to having a Yeti from a special-run in Texas Longhorn colors... replete with a white lid.
Read it and weep... but if your Frisbee is orange, and your towels, and your chairs, and your bedding, and your awning, and your camp stools, and your sunglasses, and your cigar tube are all decorated in the delicate-yet-Hulk-inspiring Performance Burnt Orange, you might have what it takes -- after careful review!!! -- to be ABC's Chief ASSuan.
Signed,
Curator, Assuan Bus Club _________________ ‘84 Westy, 2.1L with Digijet, 5.43 R+P, GT Gears
"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
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jkallo Samba Member
Joined: July 26, 2016 Posts: 208 Location: Chicago
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:02 am Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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E1 wrote: |
Jkallo, we're sick, Man, sick! I've got a whole scheme of Assuaninities, all the way down to having a Yeti from a special-run in Texas Longhorn colors... replete with a white lid.b |
Yeah that cooler makes me green, er orange, with envy. That said, last time I was in Cabelas I noticed they have a new yeti-knockoff that's a decent shade of orange. My wife took one look at it and said "we don't need another cooler."
Imagine the sight of an assuan van meetup. Dozens in one place. Brings a tear to me eye. _________________ I'm Joe
The bus is Gus, the 1982 Westy Diesel 1.6na |
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E1 Samba Member
Joined: January 21, 2013 Posts: 6585 Location: Westfalia, Earth
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:26 am Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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jkallo wrote: |
Imagine the sight of an assuan van meetup. Dozens in one place. Brings a tear to me eye. |
You just blew my mind.
Can't you see I'm totally burnt-oranged out? _________________ ‘84 Westy, 2.1L with Digijet, 5.43 R+P, GT Gears
"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
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ALIKA T3 Samba Member
Joined: July 30, 2009 Posts: 6361 Location: Honolulu,Hawaii and France
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 2:43 pm Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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Cheeee-hoooo!
Ruined the camping in a tent= goal reached
I think since I have a van, 15 years, I slept in a tent 2 nights, bc it was on an island, off a boat. If I cannot sleep in the van, I don't even bother trying to find a tent, I sleep on the ground, no tent to take care of (weather permitting, not too hard here).
Congrats gentleman! _________________ Silicone Steering Boots and 930 Cv boots for sale in the classifieds.
Syncro transmission upgrade parts in the Classifieds.
Subaru EJ22+UN1 5 speed transmission
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=416343
Syncro http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4...num+gadget |
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vwwestyman Samba Member
Joined: April 24, 2004 Posts: 5688 Location: Manhattan, Kansas, USA
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E1 Samba Member
Joined: January 21, 2013 Posts: 6585 Location: Westfalia, Earth
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:38 pm Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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Used to use a tarp for canyon backpacks.
Once in Coyote Gulch, Utah, we used it by a waterfall.
Had a Kangaroo rat on my belly so took a few minutes outside.
Twenty feet away was a medicine ball-sized thicket of Daddy longlegs.
Tent next time.
The End. _________________ ‘84 Westy, 2.1L with Digijet, 5.43 R+P, GT Gears
"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
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Macwesty Samba Member
Joined: September 23, 2013 Posts: 109 Location: Chambersburg, PA
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:57 pm Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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A cool thread and thanks for sharing! Fingers crossed for a second date!
Scott _________________ '82 Vanagon Westfalia
Subaru SVX power! |
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physast Samba Member
Joined: December 30, 2005 Posts: 675 Location: DC
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 5:45 pm Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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I got lucky and my van accepts my wife! _________________ 1967 L633 VW beetle (currently being restored...slowly)
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E1 Samba Member
Joined: January 21, 2013 Posts: 6585 Location: Westfalia, Earth
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Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2017 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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Ohhhhhh, that's Uge.
Congrats! _________________ ‘84 Westy, 2.1L with Digijet, 5.43 R+P, GT Gears
"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
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Multiman mv Samba Member
Joined: January 24, 2017 Posts: 987 Location: Martha's Vineyard, Ma
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Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2017 11:42 pm Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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I know my advice is a little late but in case it happens again Here's what you do. You drive on the highway for a few hours and then suddenly surge your foot up and down on the gas pedal and secretly make the van buck like a wild horse. Then you say,"oh crap, we've got a serious problem." You tell her it's going to be ok and say, "just give me a little time, I'll figure this out." You pull off the highway to a safe location and tell her to sit back for a bit. You go back the where the engine is and light off a smoke bomb under the back of the van. You then help her get out of the van and you both watch from a safe distance until the smoke has cleared and say, "wow, it's worse than I thought." You then go back with a couple of open ended wrenches and start banging around inside the engine hatch (making sure to get grease all over your hands.) After a few minutes, you say, "well, I think I've figured this out, it was the main bearing to the flux capacitor that gave way but we should be all set now." Get back into the van and drive along your way. She'll be hooked.
All right, never mind all that crap. just be yourself and you'll be fine. |
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msinabottle Samba Member
Joined: September 20, 2005 Posts: 3492 Location: Denver Area, Colorado
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 8:03 pm Post subject: Lost Girl, Kept Van |
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My ex-girlfriend, who had many fine and admirable qualities...
and...
... more than once expressed a desire to, er... 'claim' Winston for her own...
For some reason that never happened, possibly due to issues with cleaning his new SewFine upholstery, or the difficulty today in getting rubberized sheets.
Events ran their course, and we are no longer together. But I am still sleeping with Winston.
Best! _________________ 'Winston,' '84 1.9 WBX Westy
Vanagon Poet Laureate: "I have suffered in
many ways, but never, never, never in silence." |
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dobryan Samba Member
Joined: March 24, 2006 Posts: 16508 Location: Brookeville, MD
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msinabottle Samba Member
Joined: September 20, 2005 Posts: 3492 Location: Denver Area, Colorado
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 1:56 pm Post subject: Re: Trying to impress a girl - Pagosa Springs CO cool ideas request |
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Hmmm, Rob, sounds like Winston has some stories to tell... |
He probably does, from his days in Arizona and the runs with his previous owner, the rock climber. I'm boring as blazes, and have pretty much told you all all that is interesting in my time with Winston.
Best! _________________ 'Winston,' '84 1.9 WBX Westy
Vanagon Poet Laureate: "I have suffered in
many ways, but never, never, never in silence." |
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