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PostPosted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 10:15 am    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

the white bumpers dress it up nicely. cool bus with a cool interior. maybe put a pinstripe on it? digging pinstripes recently Smile
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 1:32 pm    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

Maybe I’ll do a mango pinstripe, so I can keep the mango emblem. Smile
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 1:54 pm    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

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I got my dented, rattling, twisted rear bumper back from the bumper repair wizard over in Yuma and reinstalled it. So then I rattle canned the front bumper white. The black bumpers had kinda grown on me actually

Now I need to find someone with a nice OG white emblem that wants a beautifully patinaed OG mango one.

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I have a really nice OG paint white emblem I might trade for the right Mango emblem (is the sea gull grey stripe still visible?). DM me some pics if interested:

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 3:10 pm    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

Sent. And a few pics for anyone else that may be interested


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 8:42 pm    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

When I’d got through mopping up the last of the corner on the War Pony,
I decided to continue the War on Bondo on the rear cargo door of my 65 Westy. I knew some enemy Bondo was encamped there.

How much Bondo would you think is hiding on the other side of this cargo door?


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Once the fighting started, at first I felt like Custer back at the Alamo....the Bondo was much more numerically superior than intel reports first suggested


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But finally got it all out....


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And pounded and pulled on the door , which wasn’t that bad. No idea why so much Bondo had been slathered on.


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Primered it until I can fix it better.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 1:33 am    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

“Custer at the Alamo”....too funny.

Kind of like when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor Very Happy
George Armstrong Custer was born 1839, 3 years after the Battle at the Alamo and died in Montana in 1876.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 7:32 pm    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

Did some further bumping out of the dent in the door and covered the primer up. Not perfect, but will do until I can get some paint mixed up.


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 7:20 pm    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

Pulled the bed and such out today to get access to the inside of the long panel to try and finish bumping out the wide, shallow dent in it. According to previous owner, an encounter with a cow in NM had caused it. A few hours of rubber hammer/lumber/3 foot level work and it came out pretty straight looking. I had already took a stab at it back in June which helped, but I thought maybe I could get it a bit better.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 7:27 pm    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

Damn! That long panel turned out good!!! Applause
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 8:22 pm    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

oakman wrote:
Damn! That long panel turned out good!!! Applause


About the only thing I couldn’t get out is two dimples in the belt line where the outer panel is spot welded to the pillar. If you look along the belt line in the pic below you’ll see it. Same thing down low where the floor, pillar and outer panel all join. It still came out better than I ever thought it would.




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PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 6:10 am    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

great job on the long panel
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 08, 2018 1:13 pm    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

No more having to lay under my bus and pump gear oil into the tranny on road trips, or have gear oil spots on the rear bumper and hatch. I finally got tired of waiting on the leaking/whining tranny that was in the bus to croak. I bought a new center section from Chirco (4:12 ring/ pinion) and once the tranny was out Chirco rebuilt the RGB’s and put them on the new center section. I decided against 3:88 gears on this one as I plan to be up in the mountains with it.

My bus, which is my main daily driver, was down almost a month, but it was all worth it. The pics were after driving around about 30 miles including on the free way at 65. No leakage so far! Oh and I needed something to haul the tranny home from Chirco so my 65 Westy has a 65 C10 to cuddle with now.


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 08, 2018 6:38 pm    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

So nice now but isn't that the worst feeling wondering if it's going to leak.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 08, 2018 7:13 pm    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

Oh, I’m sure it will eventually:)

ironically I’ve been running around in that old Chevy I picked up, which I haven’t spent more than $15-20 on (radiator cap and radiator patch kit), and it doesn’t leak a drop of oil anywhere. Actually, I don’t remember checking the oil on it yet, I better do that....
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 6:41 am    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

Longrifle wrote:
“Custer at the Alamo”....too funny.

Kind of like when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor Very Happy
George Armstrong Custer was born 1839, 3 years after the Battle at the Alamo and died in Montana in 1876.


Nice Animal House reference !
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 5:00 pm    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

I had some annual leave to burn, a mild case of wanderlust, and an almost empty wallet from getting my Greenbrier going....so what to do? A spur of the moment, el cheapo road trip in my bus, of course. I thought about California, but I’ve been all over there before, so decided on the VW Mecca of Taos, NM. I’d never been up in those parts, and wanted to find a spot along the Rio Grande I’d seen in an old pic on another thread here, and thought it would be fun to find John Muir's house/shop in Taos if it was still there. Long story short, didn’t see another air cooled VW in 3 days in Santa Fe and Taos. Talked to numerous Taos people, not one had ever heard of Muir, the book “How to keep your VW alive”, or seemed to realize there were other auto marques before Subaru’s existed.


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Vista view just outside of Hatch, NM.



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Snow showers north and west of Albuquerque


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On the way back, passing through El Malpais National Monument...highly recommendable drive in a bus! No gas for a long, long way, but a starkly beautiful, very remote area.


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I came back through Quemado, Springerville and Show Low and the White Mountains. These pics are there and in the Salt River Gorge. Hard to believe but some of this is only about 2 hours out of Phoenix.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:00 pm    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

Great pictures!! Looks like it was a great trip, thanks for sharing it!
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 7:53 pm    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

oakman wrote:
Great pictures!! Looks like it was a great trip, thanks for sharing it!



The silvery looking cloud up ahead in this pic turned out to be a big blob of snow being dumped, with 40-50 kt winds and lightning when I drove through it later. I wish I’d taken a pic out the left side window, the sky was pretty much black that direction. The little spot of blue sky peeking through to the right is deceptive. About halfway on the drive through El Malpais I started to regret it. Thunder snow, 40+ kts head winds and less than 20 degrees OAT, no jug of extra gas, no matches, nor adequate winter survival stuff with me. Even a simple tire change or broke belt would have been bad. Luckily for my dumb self, the Westy ran like a little turbine engine back there and I still had almost 3 gallons in the tank when I hit civilization


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 11:24 am    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

Radical; it's like a snow squall. Did you take the 60 home from there?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 12:19 pm    Post subject: Re: The Good Karma bus.....1965 Velvet Green Westy Reply with quote

Yes, 60 to 77 if I recall correctly. The drive down from Show Low through the Salt River Gorge is spectacular. I don’t think I’d want to drive UP it in a bus though.
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