NC Roll Call and Meet Up

[airshac]

[jcolbyc]

[alebauer]

Hey y'all! New westy owner here in Greensboro.
Just picked this bad boy up last weekend.

I flew into Newark, NJ, the seller picked me up at the airport, drove me an hour out towards his house, dropped me off at the Super 8 for the night.
Woke up next morning for breakfast at 7:30 and personal inspection of the van at 8am.

We drove it around, went over all the details and then headed to the Bank, then spent 90 min at the NJ DMV so I could get a temporary plate.

I drove through the beautiful NJ and PA countryside on my way to Richmond, VA, where I camped out in a friends back yard. It took a lot longer than expected based on google maps, the van is not really that slow and I enjoyed everymoment.

I stopped to get some food for the morning and a 6 pack. As I was loading the fridge, one of the cans rolled on the floor and started spraying beer everywhere.

the van didn't miss a beat all the way home, except when I ran out of gas coming off a huge bridge on my way out of Richmond, VA. I was headed to the gas station anyway and noticed it started to struggle as I was approaching the apex of the bridge.

Luckily at the bottom of the hill was an exit with a gas station.

I made it off the exit ramp and coasted to a stop in the middle of an intersection 100 yards from the gas station! Got a push from a few generous folks.

Needle was still on 1/2 tank, instructions were to fill up at 1/4 tank!
I underestimated the accuracy of the gas gauge.

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[wcdennis]

biminyrd,

Welcome to the club! If you are interested, and don't mind driving to Winston-Salem, I will let you know when we have our next semi-regular local get-together.

W. Cameron Dennis

[alebauer]

That would be awesome. Thanks!

[Herr Motorspiele]

Welcome,
Glad that van ended up working out for you. Look forward to seeing it in person.

[jfu057]

[ericstickrath]

[alebauer]

Thanks Heir Mostorspiele!

I'm looking forward to meeting up sometime soon.
Ericstickrath I live in sunset hills. There are a few westy's in the neighborhood. Is ypurs one of them?

[TeamSpatula]

time for a 2017 bump to this thread...and I admit I have a bit of an ulterior motive. I'm close to Hickory, and have an 86 Weekender I've been trying to get back on the road for months now, and am struggling with the idle. I am hoping there's someone with a smooth-running 2.1 who might be willing to meet up and let me try swapping a few parts back and forth, so I'm not just blindly throwing money at it buying one expen$ive thing after another. Bonus points if you actually have a grasp of Digifant operations (because I sure don't) and can give me some pointers. Otherwise in general I always enjoy getting together with Volks and sharing laughs and cries about our rides.

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[Herr Motorspiele]

I agree it's time for a GTG. Unfortunately summer is pretty busy for me but I'm happy to try to organize something in the Winston area. There are a couple non-Samba folks around here I can recruit too.
Been thinking about maybe a Saturday or Sunday afternoon at the following:
-Foothills tasting room or Wise Man, often have food trucks, maybe live music, and a big parking lot.
-There are several city parks that might be a good spot to gather and maybe bbq such as Miller park which is right off I-40 so that would be convenient for out of towners.
-Another thought is somewhere farther out like Tanglewood, Yadkin park, Hanging Rock, Donnaha, Horizon's park, Triad Park, etc.
Anybody else feel free to throw out suggestions.


TeamSpatula,
If you can make it to Winston there are several folks that can probably help you at the GTG. Also have you read the Protraining manual available on the Vanagonauts page? It's a 66 page pdf.

Does anyone know if they are having Sunshine Daydream this year at Jomeokee?

[kaeferman]

Here's a WNC shout out. There is a small growing crew of. Outlying vanagon types that meets and does vw stuff together up here in Jackson County. If anyone makes it up this way this summer reach out. I keep up an email list to forward stuff around to everybody. Most of us are always down for catching a beer and meeting new V Dub pilots. We do several events each year in addition to irregular meet ups in town; CTS, High Country Bus Fest, Maggie Valley puts on an all vw show and we wrench together from time to time on our own rides and some vanagon projects we have underway.

Ps got my engine swapped out and running pretty good finally, no more rollbacks (knock on wood)
B

[Herr Motorspiele]

Next meet:
Sunday October 1st at 2pm
Wise Man Brewing in Winston-Salem
http://www.wisemanbrewing.com/

Be there or be square

[Steve M.]

[Herr Motorspiele]

Bump for the Sunday GTG. Tell your friends!

[wcdennis]

[wcdennis]

We had a great turn-out today at Wiseman Brewing, 12 Vans showed up. Great to meet some Greensboro folks and catch up with locals I haven't seen in a while. All great people.

[Herr Motorspiele]

Great turnout on Sunday, thanks to all that attended! Weather was perfect and we need to do it again sooner than later!
Maybe next time we'll hit 20+

[dprendergast]

Great to meet everybody! Always nice to meet some new people and have a beer and what a beautiful day for it too.
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David Prendergast
Greensboro, NC

[Herr Motorspiele]

You too David!

Looking at Cameron's pics I need to penetrol my roof.