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richparker Samba Member
Joined: November 24, 2011 Posts: 6936 Location: Durango, CO
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 9:20 am Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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@ImAddicted
She was, but now she’s nice and clean again. Even rebuilt the passenger wheel bearing after burying that tire during the trip. She’s all ready for this weekend’s adventure! _________________ __________
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Xevin Samba Member
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 10:26 am Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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ImAddicted wrote: |
Peryl is dirty girl, I love it
Robbie is probably having a nervous breakdown lol. |
And Stuartzickfoose is envious
Looked like a good time. _________________ Keep on Busin'
67rustavenger wrote: |
GFY's Xevin and VW_Jimbo! |
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Damn that Xevin... |
skills@eurocarsplus wrote: |
I respect Xevin and he's a turd |
SGKent wrote: |
My God! Xevin and I 100% agree |
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richparker Samba Member
Joined: November 24, 2011 Posts: 6936 Location: Durango, CO
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richparker Samba Member
Joined: November 24, 2011 Posts: 6936 Location: Durango, CO
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 11:27 am Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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All loaded up and ready for this weekend’s adventure. We are headed to Ridgeway, Co to vend at the Ridgeway Rendezvous, which is a juried art show. It’s been a while since we last vended, seeing how COVID canceled everything. We are stoked to get back at it!!!
We are sitting fat and sagging like a champ!
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Cap10323 Samba Member
Joined: July 24, 2016 Posts: 604 Location: Ohio
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 1:05 pm Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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Love to see a bus working hard! _________________ -Ian
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71whitewesty Samba Member
Joined: February 25, 2010 Posts: 1538 Location: oregon
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 1:33 pm Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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Looked like a fun trip and nice variety of campers doing it! These buses are great on back roads. _________________ 71 Westy 1600 DP, all stock Bus 1
1970's Snow Trac 1600 SP (sold 12/2016)
1968 Tucker sno cat, sold 2021
1969 Tucker Sno cat 542
2017 VW Alltrac
71 tin top stock 1600 DP (project but runs)
Twin 71 White Westy, Bus 2, that I pulled from a 15 year slumber in a dry eastern WA field in 2015.
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richparker Samba Member
Joined: November 24, 2011 Posts: 6936 Location: Durango, CO
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 4:38 pm Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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71whitewesty wrote: |
Looked like a fun trip and nice variety of campers doing it! These buses are great on back roads. |
Thanks, it was a blast! I love the 4 wheel independent suspension of a bus off road. _________________ __________
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richparker Samba Member
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2021 4:45 pm Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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Cap10323 wrote: |
Love to see a bus working hard! |
Totally! But, I have to say besides the heavy load the engine didn’t work that hard. It crushed the drive.
We drove 100 miles over 3 mountain passes, topping out at 11,017’. We used no oil and about 1/3 a tank of fuel. We saw a high oil temp of 240* climbing the first pass. That quickly dropped to 180* while descending that pass. After that the highest we saw was 220*. Highest head temp was 378* and the lowest was 199*. Even though we were loaded to the max, we still had plenty of power to climb the passes.
We were able to secure a camp site in vendor camping in town right next to the event. Looks like we’ll be riding bikes around town all weekend, holla! _________________ __________
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richparker Samba Member
Joined: November 24, 2011 Posts: 6936 Location: Durango, CO
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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2021 7:17 pm Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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We made it home safely. Wifeys booth did excellent, she had her best single day sales ever on Saturday and she did great today too. We’ll definitely be doing this event again and again. The bus was a pleasure to drive, sleep in, hang out in and it absolutely dominated the mountain passes.
Total miles: 170
Gas: 3/4 of a tank
Oil consumption: 0
Repairs: 0
Mountain passes crossed: 6
Highest elevation: 11,017’
Wifeys booth
Vendor camping wasn’t glorious, but we were right next to the event and got to ride bikes all weekend.
Next adventure starts on Friday. That one should be around 900 miles round trip. _________________ __________
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NoBudgetVWGarage Samba Member
Joined: November 27, 2008 Posts: 755 Location: Quartz Hill,CA
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2021 8:32 am Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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Thanks for these. Assembling my second Bus now (had lotsa fun with the first one) and needed the inspiration. _________________ 1969 Transporter
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richparker Samba Member
Joined: November 24, 2011 Posts: 6936 Location: Durango, CO
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2021 5:00 am Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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Packed and on the road. We are headed Greeley, Co 400 miles away in the north east corner of the state for a family reunion. We’re planning on stopping in Denver for lunch and to do some school shopping for Miles.
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Manfred58sc Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2009 Posts: 3374
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2021 7:25 am Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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Safe travels!!! _________________ Fat chick owner/operator |
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richparker Samba Member
Joined: November 24, 2011 Posts: 6936 Location: Durango, CO
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2021 12:30 pm Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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Thanks Manfred!
350 miles, 6 1/2 hours and 5 mountain passes later we made it to Denver and we got 20 MPG!!!! The bus ran nice and cool and absolutely crushed the drive. I think this was the longest single day drive we’ve taken with this bus. Peryl is an absolute pleasure to drive. It’s smooth, quite (for a bus), has great heat, great stereo, drives straight, shifts smooth, gets great gas mileage and has a ton of power!!!!!
We hit 220* on a few climbs, but the temp quickly fell back to 180*. This is how the gauges looked most of the time.
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Clementine79 Samba Member
Joined: May 14, 2019 Posts: 308 Location: WA
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2021 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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Nice looks like some fun travels! _________________ 1979 VW BUS
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richparker Samba Member
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Jeff Geisen Samba Chaplain
Joined: December 21, 2004 Posts: 1880 Location: N.W. Georgia
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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2021 4:11 pm Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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Looks to me the Parkers are living large. _________________ I Corinthians 4: 1 thru 5
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SGKent Samba Member
Joined: October 30, 2007 Posts: 41031 Location: Citrus Heights CA (Near Sacramento)
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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2021 6:12 pm Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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richparker wrote: |
Thanks Manfred!
350 miles, 6 1/2 hours and 5 mountain passes later we made it to Denver and we got 20 MPG!!!! The bus ran nice and cool and absolutely crushed the drive. I think this was the longest single day drive we’ve taken with this bus. Peryl is an absolute pleasure to drive. It’s smooth, quite (for a bus), has great heat, great stereo, drives straight, shifts smooth, gets great gas mileage and has a ton of power!!!!!
We hit 220* on a few climbs, but the temp quickly fell back to 180*. This is how the gauges looked most of the time.
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had a 1971 dual port and that is what makes it so nice driving them. They just go and go and go. Then the next rebuild only takes a fraction of the time compared to rebuilding a T4. Not a lot of smog gear. I'll take those numbers all day long in a T1 bus. _________________ “Most people don’t know what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.” - George Carlin |
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panel Samba Member
Joined: December 02, 2001 Posts: 1090 Location: Victoria B.C. Canada
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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2021 7:30 pm Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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When you said fully loaded you weren't joking _________________ My '65-Subaru EJ20 Turbo conversion |
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richparker Samba Member
Joined: November 24, 2011 Posts: 6936 Location: Durango, CO
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2021 8:51 pm Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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Made it home, that was a long drive. Drove up on Friday, spent 2 nights camping on Uncle Cliffs farm and hightailed it back today. Uncle Cliffs farm use to be a Christmas tree farm, now it’s a hemp farm. Our campsite was right next to 3 acres of hemp. The CDB company Charlotte‘s Web leases his land to grow all their experimental strains. It was pretty cool!
The drive today was great, besides the head wind for 200 miles. The bus did great, the head wind did raise my oil temp some but it was still within reason. We were able to fill up in Conifer at the Supermarket gas station and paid $3.04 a gallon for 91 with our reward points. That was the cheapest I’ve paid in a long time. Way better then the $4.65 in Telluride. We stopped in Salida and had lunch at The Boathouse, the food was excellent.
Trip stats:
Total millage: 817
Oil consumption: none
Mpg: 19 (head wind the whole way home)
Oil temps: 160*-230*
Head temps: 180*-390*
Repairs: 0
Mountain passes crossed: 10
Acres of hemp: 3
Family reunion: excellent!
View of the hemp field from the bus
Salida, Co
Next adventure in 10 days. We will be vending at the Four Corners Folk Fest in Pagosa Springs. Gonna be 6 days and 5 nights, festival!!! _________________ __________
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richparker Samba Member
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 9:20 pm Post subject: Re: Adventures in Peryl, a ‘71 Westy |
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Great day at the graveyard. Mtnbus and I cruised over to Cortez and had lunch before we went to the yard. Once we got there we walked around to see what was there. He was there to get some parts for a ‘71 deluxe he’s building and I was there to look at a car. We spent 3 hours there and ended up with a nice score. Mtnbus got pretty much all the stuff on his list and I bought a ‘65 Beetle. The owner of the yard never let anyone pick off this car and it is unmolested with all the parts. Everything but an engine that is. The interior is all there, but it needs to be reupholstered, new carpet and the head liner. But, all the knobs and levers are all there. I also got OG beetle heat exchangers, OG beetle exhaust and all the OG dual port tin I need for an engine build. Think I’m gonna clean up the paint a bit and run the patina, redo the interior, redo the brakes, new wheel bearings and stab a 2109cc in it. I’ll start a build thread in the beetle forum. I will be delivered to me on Sunday!
Mtnbus ‘64 square back and Peryl
Mtnbus
Flipped the odometer on Peryl during our adventure
The ‘65 patina monster!!!!! 👹
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