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Ritter
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| FlametopFred, Who was your insurance provider at that time? |
Today must be thread resurrection day.  |
Hey, at least he used the search function! 
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EZ Gruv
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:49 am Post subject: Re: Good Insurance Company |
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| FlametopFred, Who was your insurance provider at that time? |
Today must be thread resurrection day.
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Photographer for HotVWs, VolksWorld, AirMighty, VW Camper & Commercial, Hayburner, and more.
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knwrnr
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:57 am Post subject: Good Insurance Company |
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| FlametopFred, Who was your insurance provider at that time? |
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FlametopFred
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Location: down at the wave ranch dressing in Vancouver
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| Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:11 am Post subject: Not made anymore .... |
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Amskeptic
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bretski
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Location: On the road...
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What's up with that bumper? Are those supposed to be brush-guards or something? |
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Nica
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JEJEJE
The other day I realized i was driving around for weeks,even to the Panama Canal,with the hose...to the regulator...DISCONNECTED!!! I must be one of the luckiest people on earth! |
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zabo
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dwill49965
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Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Krusty the Klown was advertising for the "Canyonero" SUV:
"Top of the line for utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts,
Canyonero!"
Except these fires aren't "unexplained".
There really should be a burning bus gallery.
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zabo
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PJameson
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I've driven with enough oil smoke to completely blind me from what's behind me.  Thank God those days are over.
Anyone ever had a "EVERYBODY is flashing their brights, there couldn't be THAT many cops on the road..." revelation moment? |
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pyrOman
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That's ^^^^ what I'm talking about! 
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cree
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This is reminding me that I have a 79 in storage in the back of my garage. It probably has not run for 4 yrs. I have no idea how much gas is in the tank. I better drain all the gas from it. Never thought that it might leak and burn it all down. Better do it today or very soon.
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zabo
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dwill49965
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There really should be a section in the Gallery for pictures like these, so people can see a large collection of them at once. It would serve as a good warning, and its morbidly fascinating.
There was a post a while ago about the "Burning Man" festival - how about a "Burning Van" gallery?
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visibleink
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This thread sucks without more pictures like this:
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Turn your bus into a project basket case in just MINUTES!!!!!
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pyrOman
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This thread sucks without more pictures like this:
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visibleink
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Scotty, we're climbing a hill...we need more power...we're only doing 17 mph!!
17 mph???? I'm glad I was able to give 'er that much captain! Any more and she'll catch on fire! |
Oh my, that was great.
And some of my aircooleds have smoked some over the years, but it's just minor smoke from leaking oil being burned.....nothing major. 
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gmag69
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| Yes I repainted the outside and the engine comp. and yes the rear engine hatch, the removable panel behind the engine, and the rear panels on the sides are obviously warped from the heat. The engine comp was nothing but rusted metal when I 1st got my bus....not a spec of paint, it was all burned off. |
I looks awesome in your pics. Congrats on saving that bus and the job you did on fixing it up.
Geno 
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FlametopFred
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:59 am Post subject: well . |
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In my experience, yes, that is unusual in a VW bus. |
Sense of humor.
Grain of salt.
Poetic license.
I was joking mostly ... at least around our town there are hundreds of VW buses in various states of use ... some are "award winning, show-room" quality works ... others are smokey-swisscheese-bar-be-ques on wheels.
Smoke coming out of some old VW vans (and bugs) is not unusual ... in the sense of those times when owners don't have all the time and/or money to replace leaking gaskets..... and I myself have driven once or twice when "all hell broke loose and there was oil smoke enough to fill an intersection"
If you haven't driven a rotting, smoking, rusting VW of some kind in your life, well .. you just haven't lived ... to be sworn at by truck drivers, to be leared at by families on vacation .... all part of the llifestyle ~ for a few years, for a certain portion of VW owners seeking cheap, reliable transportaion (ha ha). Then things turn around and you figure out how to repair that gasket yourself, or come up with a little more money.
Sometimes the girlfriend in the relationship winds up with the bug. The boyfriend has always done the work ... after the breakup the girl is poor and can't afford mechanical luxuries .... so smoke happens.
That's part of the VW lore ... bug and bus alike. They are (or used to be) dirt-cheap rides favoured by the Hippie Generation. because of this, a few bugs and buses became rusty smoke machines on wheels.
So smoke coming out the back is not that unusual for a VW ....
I was in stop-and-go, rush-hour traffic all queing up for the bridge. Sometimes the old van (as some old vans do) would backfire, stall and puff out smoke ... I was going to get the carbs done that very week. The bang was a little different than a backfire ... the smoke was a little blacker than normal. The stall was final and ominous.
I wanted to start the van and pull over ... but the guy behind let me know that the van was on fire .... and that kind of changed everything  |
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