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TequilaSunSet
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Joined: May 30, 2012
Posts: 2109
Location: Philippines
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| ClarksuperVan wrote: |
| BenT Syncro wrote: |
Ps: Jeremy, I need permission to repost your pics to an album for centralized viewing. |
Feel free to use any of my pics Ben. Thanks. |
Thanks, Jeremy. If you're on Facebook, larger versions of the same pics on the photo link above will be available. Under the 'nom de plume' of Van O Rama |
Never did get to meet you ben, and if I did I am idiot for not remembering! I did get to see your ladder... very solid looking! Now if I can make up my mind what I want to do to my van... thats the hard part.
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1985 Hightower Vanagon 1.8T- Gone
1972 Panel Bus- Gone
1967 Bug- Gone
1964 Euro Sunroof Bug- Gone
1969/72/63 Sunroof Bug- Gone
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BenT Syncro
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Joined: January 07, 2005
Posts: 1085
Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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| TequilaSunSet wrote: |
Never did get to meet you ben, and if I did I am idiot for not remembering! I did get to see your ladder... very solid looking! Now if I can make up my mind what I want to do to my van... thats the hard part. |
You probably didn't wear your Samba name tag.😉
Seriously, I spoke to over 100 people yesterday and probably saw your van. I saw a couple of white ones with 1.8T's but the Stephan Autohaus gang was there with a bunch of converted vans. I want sure which was whose because therr usually wasn't anyone around the vans when I was taking pics. And with several hundred beach goers dropping in to see why all these VW vans were there, I'm surprised I even remember my name at the end of the day. Knowing your real name would have helped. Very few went around saying I'm so and so from the Samba.
Anyway, the white van with the ladder from South Africa belonged to Josh Preston out of Redwood City. He's got his own shop there. He was the first to receive the ladder and did an admirable job installing it. I saw several people yanking hard on that poor thing, including yours truly. Exaggerating but it sure felt like you could tow the van with it. It's not technically my ladder. It's made by an outfit called Desert Fox (no, they are not online yet). I just arrange the group purchases to bring these goodies from South Africa.
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syncrodoka
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Joined: December 27, 2005
Posts: 12005
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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| The problem with Samba is members rarely use their real names. We get out there in the real world and it's hard to identify who's who. It was difficult enough to remember everybody you meet in such a day but to sort it out by Samba user name was near impossible. The madspaniard was easy to spot. |
I am pretty sure that guy is a urban myth. I have known about him for years and we live in bay area, been at the same events a few times and even sold him something but never met him. 
I was there for a few hours. |
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TequilaSunSet
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Joined: May 30, 2012
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Location: Philippines
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^^ wanted to thank him for buying shirts n crap from me... I just sat near my van and wondered, hung out with Stephan and the gang. My prob is I am kind of shy in making first intro's (after that I won't shut up  )
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1985 Hightower Vanagon 1.8T- Gone
1972 Panel Bus- Gone
1967 Bug- Gone
1964 Euro Sunroof Bug- Gone
1969/72/63 Sunroof Bug- Gone
1975 Brazilian Bug in the Philippines 🇵🇭- New to me |
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BenT Syncro
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Joined: January 07, 2005
Posts: 1085
Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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Then you guys missed out. The madspaniard was out there giving away free European spec T3 parts. I think there were envelops with cookies and a few old pesetas too. 😉
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madspaniard
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Joined: August 18, 2008
Posts: 3795
Location: Alameda, CA
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This is hilarious! You guys made my day.
Not a big fan of putting my mugshot out there but since people think I don't really exist, here is a great pic circa Sept 2008 at the Berkeley Marina after returning from an epic windsurfing trip to Baja California after owning the van for just a couple of weeks.
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j_dirge
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Joined: August 08, 2007
Posts: 4641
Location: Twain Harte, CA
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| BenT Syncro wrote: |
| The problem with Samba is members rarely use their real names. We get out there in the real world and it's hard to identify who's who. It was difficult enough to remember everybody you meet in such a day but to sort it out by Samba user name was near impossible. The madspaniard was easy to spot. |
I am pretty sure that guy is a urban myth. I have known about him for years and we live in bay area, been at the same events a few times and even sold him something but never met him.
I was there for a few hours. |
Nope.. He is an urban LEGEND.
Or his van is.. Yeah that's it.. His VAN is an urban legend.
I swear I saw it one day.. parked right in front of my house.
And then it was gone..
..just like that.
Gone.
But if you keep real still.. real quiet.. you can still hear it.. off in the distance.. sounds like... Baja...
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those are straight line runs with light weight race cars for only 1/4mile at a time..
not pushing a loaded brick up a mountain pass with a family of 4+ inside expecting to have an event free vacation..
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syncrodoka
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Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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BAJA
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infoforjt
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Joined: September 24, 2014
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Location: Oakland, CA
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This was the first van meet up for my wife and I (4 month old westfalia owners) and we just wanted to say it was great meeting other van owners. We met a lot of people and I'm sure a few of you are on here. We're looking forward to the next event.
As an aside, we got to see just how practical the fridge door installed in the back closet is so if anyone has an extra grey door they're looking to sell...
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SyncroChrick
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Joined: January 10, 2005
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Location: San Francisco, CA
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 12:34 am Post subject: |
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| BenT Syncro wrote: |
| The problem with Samba is members rarely use their real names. We get out there in the real world and it's hard to identify who's who. It was difficult enough to remember everybody you meet in such a day but to sort it out by Samba user name was near impossible. The madspaniard was easy to spot. |
I am pretty sure that guy is a urban myth. I have known about him for years and we live in bay area, been at the same events a few times and even sold him something but never met him.
I was there for a few hours. |
I second that. Although I did buy something from him online but that could be a set-up too. |
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Royb
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Joined: May 24, 2008
Posts: 228
Location: Sierra Foothills
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I drove by with my wife and napping kids in the Pilota mid-afternoon. It was glorious to see all those westies with their sails up! What a turnout!
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16CVs 
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Joined: February 22, 2004
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Location: Redwood City, California
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I enjoyed the show as always. A couple of ladies came up to me and asked if my van had a name, I replied that naming vans is silly ,but if it did have a name it would be "BITCH" .
Unsure if she found the humor in it ,but what the hell .
Stacy
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Keep Your van running and upkept tastefully for the love of the hobby.
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eurekabilly
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Joined: September 24, 2012
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Location: Eureka, CA
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| Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:10 pm Post subject: Re: bURNINGvAN 2015 San Francisco Ocean Beach January 25, 20 |
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| So, did a couple of searches and couldn't find anything on 2016. Would love to do this again. Anyone know the scoop? |
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BenT Syncro
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Joined: January 07, 2005
Posts: 1085
Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:19 pm Post subject: Re: bURNINGvAN 2015 San Francisco Ocean Beach January 25, 20 |
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| So, did a couple of searches and couldn't find anything on 2016. Would love to do this again. Anyone know the scoop? |
We are just getting disorganized for 2016. It looks like it will be:
January 24, 2016
That's a Sunday. First announcement was just made today at Vanagon Owners group on Facebook and mentioned on the Vanagon List.
PM, if you need more information.
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cmayna
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Joined: August 18, 2014
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| Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 6:09 pm Post subject: Re: bURNINGvAN 2015 San Francisco Ocean Beach January 25, 20 |
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Looking forward to being there.
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If I'm not working on the camper or my '50 Chebbie truck, I'm either fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
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BenT Syncro
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 8:03 am Post subject: Re: bURNINGvAN, San Francisco Ocean Beach: January 24, 2016 |
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Event reminder. We are 22 days away. I see the date is one day off on the 'event schedule'. I'm assuming mods can fix that. The correct are is 01/24/16 as the subjectline suggests. The event calendar has the 25th which is the wrong date:
bURNINGvAN
Where: Ocean Beach
San Francisco, California
(parking lot on the Great Highway - Highway 1
across the street from the Beach Chalet restaurant)
Date: 01/24/16 Sunday
Time: 12pm - ???
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warmblood58
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Joined: March 22, 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 12:36 pm Post subject: Re: bURNINGvAN, San Francisco Ocean Beach: January 24, 2016 |
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| Thank you for the correction and update Ben! |
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BenT Syncro
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 1:14 pm Post subject: Re: bURNINGvAN, San Francisco Ocean Beach: January 24, 2016 |
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| Thank you for the correction and update Ben! |
No worries! Hope to see you there.
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cmayna
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| Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 7:29 pm Post subject: Re: bURNINGvAN, San Francisco Ocean Beach: January 24, 2016 |
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See you all there. Don't forget to bring me some yummy food 
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If I'm not working on the camper or my '50 Chebbie truck, I'm either fishing with the wife or smoking Salmon.
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digthemlows
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Location: Sacramento, CA
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| Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 8:24 pm Post subject: Re: bURNINGvAN, San Francisco Ocean Beach: January 24, 2016 |
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