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SkooobaSteve
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Skim
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Nice work and love your dog!
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Samba since before the towers collapsed. Still here.
1953 Kabriolet
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1959 Lowlight Ghia vert
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SkooobaSteve
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DubStyle
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If you were closer to me, I'd store it for free.  I have space to store it covered.
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Burlyhammer
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| Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 11:41 am Post subject: Re: The Tuskegee Airmen deluxe |
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| I just read all 13 pages of this thread. I love the bus, and it is so interesting seeing the project evolve over the years. The whole time I was reading, I was hoping you were able to hold on to it. Keep up the great work. You've given me some insight of what to do with my project. Subscribed! |
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SkooobaSteve
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&Dan
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2018 3:29 pm Post subject: Re: The Tuskegee Airmen deluxe |
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From Sunday 8 April Washington Post:
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World War II in Europe was over, the celebrations had ebbed, and peace was on the horizon. But from her apartment in Harlem on June 5, 1945, Phyllis C. Dickson wrote a plaintive letter to the War Department about her missing husband.
Capt. Lawrence E. Dickson, 24, a black fighter pilot who had trained at the Tuskegee Army Flying School, had gone down over Italy, it was thought, on Dec. 23, 1944.
Months had passed since she’d heard any word. “Please believe me when I say I have been greatly distressed,” she wrote. “I have tried to be brave (but) it has really been an effort.”
“I meet the mailman daily hoping & praying for some news but so far none,” she wrote.
Seventy-three years later, the Defense Department may finally have some.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is investigating the possibility that human remains and other items recovered from a wartime crash site in Austria this past summer may be those of Dickson. |
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/...1c150f0cf3 |
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SkooobaSteve
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| Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2019 9:30 am Post subject: Re: The Tuskegee Airmen deluxe |
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Well its been a while, but things are coming together. We got a new house with a shop, so no more one car garage to work out of. Had lots stuff to do around the house though. Had to build a chicken coop, remove a wall in the shop, and rewire the entire thing. Built a shed and got a new compressor, put it in the shed and piped it into the shop.
Now you can talk while its running and don't have to wait for it to pump up lol. Only a few things left to do and its on to the bus.
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Romans 6:13
WTB 67 beetle rear seat belts.
59 Euro ragtop build with my dad
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=493553&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
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SkooobaSteve
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SkooobaSteve
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malik
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| Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 4:19 pm Post subject: Re: The Tuskegee Airmen deluxe |
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Just giving you a heads up there’s a license plate frame on the eBay item number 362540390632. The reason I’m telling you it goes with your bus. It says Tuskegee airmen .
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BulliBill
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:36 am Post subject: Re: The Tuskegee Airmen deluxe |
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Hell, that's cool and cheap too. Even if you never mount it on the Deluxe, it'll look good on your shop wall!
Bill
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IFVandal
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| Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:03 am Post subject: Re: The Tuskegee Airmen deluxe |
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Very Cool Thread! Enjoyed the read.
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SkooobaSteve
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SkooobaSteve
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SkooobaSteve
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Had a side job to do then did some work on the bus. I love having a shop now even though its small.
Made the inner support for the corner, sure beats paying 85 bucks for it.
After spending a ton of time and making adjustments to the corner I got it all welded up.
I came out really nice, still have to do some work to it but its done for now. Next on to the drivers rocker, a nice straight long piece of metal that I really don't want to warp...
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Romans 6:13
WTB 67 beetle rear seat belts.
59 Euro ragtop build with my dad
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=493553&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
65 dlx Slow build
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EmpiGT
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| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 2:39 pm Post subject: Re: The Tuskegee Airmen deluxe |
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| Are you a rural mail carrier? Or just have a DJ-5 for the fun of it? Not sure why anyone would want a DJ-5 for the fun of them though. Biggest worn out pieces of falling apart crap. I drove one to deliver mail and had do use vacation all the time to keep it going for the next week. Spent so much keeping it running I could have made payments on a new car to deliver out of. |
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SkooobaSteve
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